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Shot fired mile from campus Suspect steals laptop from Ball State victim, police find shell in area STAFF REPORTS | news@bsudaily.com A shot was fired at the intersection of University Avenue and Reserve Street during an attempted robbery, according to a Ball State emergency alert.

The robber and victim, who met

as part of an exchange to sell personal items, both had guns, the notification said. The victim fired a shot into the air.

Tori Ash and Chad Gordon, Muncie residents who were waiting at a nearby laundromat, said they heard a shot fired at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday.

“We were sitting here and all of the sudden we hear a pop, and I turned around and said, ‘Chad, is that a gun?’” Ash said. “And then we saw the people running.”

They said they saw a man chasing another man.

“We had a baby five days ago, so I’m telling [Ash], ‘Get away from the window. You’re a new mommy,’” Gordon said.

Police said the victim had a laptop stolen from him near a Phillips 66 at the corner. A shell was found in the gas station’s parking lot.

Multiple police units searched the area and the suspect is still at large at the time of publication.

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This was the first of two armed robberies Tuesday within two miles of campus. The second occurred when a Pizza Hut delivery driver was robbed near the 700 block of North Jefferson Street.

The emergency notification said students should use caution when arranging sales and trades with people they haven’t met.

On Aug. 20, another report of shots fired occurred at the same corner, which is less than a mile from campus.

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Andrew Pizzano shows his injury Tuesday after being stabbed during an attempted robbery Saturday night in a parking lot near Worthen Arena. Pizzano said the robber took his wallet and phone, but dropped both before fleeing.

Student talks of stabbing, offers advice on safety

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Ball State student calls friend to take him to hospital after attack RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu

University officials say number may not be whole story, bias-based incidents may not meet criteria

Three days and nine stitches later, a Ball State student still cannot believe he was stabbed on campus.

On Saturday night, Andrew Pizzano walked alone in the Worthen Arena parking lot when a man in a hoodie approached him and told him to give him everything he had.

The suspect was described as a white man wearing a tan or brown hoodie, according to a university email.

Pizzano threw his wallet and phone at his offender, and when the man saw he only had a dollar, he was attacked.

“He lunged at me, and I stepped forward to wrestle, and we were pushing each other, [I was] trying to get away,” he said.

The attacker hit him in his left arm, looked at the arm, then dropped Pizzano’s things and ran.

Pizzano just felt pain and didn’t know it was a stab wound until he lifted up his sleeve and saw blood.

“So I was like, ‘Oh, wow, I think I just got stabbed,’” he said.

He immediately called his mom and then Betsy Stein, his friend and his resident assistant. His call log said it was 11:30 p.m. when he made the calls.

“I turned my arm to look at it, and when I did, it popped open and blood started really coming out of it,” he said. “So my friend took me to the hospital.”

Stein drove him to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, where he was checked in at midnight.

University Police Department officers were already there for another situation, and they were informed of the stabbing.

The university sent one email notifying students of the stabbing nearly two hours after the stabbing, at around 1 a.m. from Joan Todd, executive director of public relations.

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niversity officials said it is unclear whether or not the reported zero hate crimes on campus is an accurate representation of Ball State’s diversity climate.

The 2012 Campus Security Report showed that no hate crimes took place in 2010, 2011 or 2012, but it is only required to report hate crimes that occur on universitycontrolled property.

“The ‘no hate crimes’ on this report simply indicates we have no reports of crimes that meet the definition, that show evidence of bias in the categories of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability or sexual orientation,” Michael Gillilan, director of student rights and community standards, said in an email.

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THE CRIMES OF THEFT, SIMPLE ASSAULT, INTIMIDATION OR VANDALISM, OR ANY OTHER CRIME INVOLVING BODILY INJURY WHICH WAS MOTIVATED BY BIAS AGAINST ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS, OR THE PROPERTY OF ANY PERSON OR GROUP OF PERSONS BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTUAL OR SUPPOSED • ETHNICITY • RACE • NATIONAL ORIGIN • RELIGION • GENDER • SEXUAL ORIENTATION • DISABILITY

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2013 SEASON BEGINS WITH EXHIBITION

Top 5 players return from last season’s Sweet 16 berth team DAKOTA CRAWFORD CHIEF REPORTER | @DakotaCrawford_

Ball State women’s basketball coach Brady Sallee said he thinks the 2013-14 team has all the key pieces and sees a world of potential heading into this season.

Ball State is set to play in its exhibition game, a season opener, against Oakland City University tonight.

The team returns five starters that reached the Sweet 16 in last year’s National Invitational Tournament and brings in a deep recruiting class.

Senior point guard Brandy Woody is the core of the team, or as Sallee calls her, the “head of the snake.” This season is Woody’s fourth as a starter.

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with these girls,” Woody said. “My first two years here, the team was divided. Then last year, it was kind of the same thing. This year, we’re one team and we’re in it together.”

Woody led the team in minutes played, assists and steals last season. Sallee said Ball State would not be the same team without her in the locker room.

Sophomore Nathalie Fontaine led the team in scoring last season, and Sallee said she’s in the best shape of her career.

On Tuesday, Fontaine was named to the All-Mid-American Conference West Division Preseason Team. More honors for the 6-foot2 forward from Sweden may not be out of the question.

“She’s playing as good as I’ve ever seen her play,” Sallee said. “She’s somebody that I look to have a really special year this year, if she continues to practice the way she is.”

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‘HEALTHCARE.GOV IS FIXABLE’ Healthcare website launches with flaws, lawmakers unhappy

| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — As the public face of President Barack Obama’s signature health care program, Kathleen Sebelius has become the target for attacks over its botched rollout. Republicans want her to resign and even some Democrats — while not mentioning Sebelius — said someone should be fired.

The secretary of Health and Human Services has been lampooned on late-night comedy shows, from “The Daily Show” to “Saturday Night Live,” in which a stand-in Sebelius last week offered tips to people having trouble signing into the new health care website: restart your computer, send a postcard to Wash-

ington with the word “help” or buy an airline ticket to Canada.

For months, Sebelius had projected steady confidence that the online health insurance markets would open Oct. 1 as scheduled in all 50 states and that a website that’s the key to public enrollments would be ready. How much she knew about the website’s problems, and when, are key questions she’ll face today at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

So far she appears to have Obama’s backing. Officials sat Sebelius, one of his longestserving Cabinet secretaries, in the front row of the audience at a Rose Garden health care event last week — a symbolic signal that she remains a central part of the president’s team. She also is helped by Obama’s general reluctance to fire people quickly, particularly in the face of political pressure.

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Summarizing a week’s worth of intensive diagnostics, the administration acknowledged Friday the site has dozens of complex problems and tapped a private company to oversee fixes.

Jeffrey Zients, a management consultant brought in by the White House to assess the extent of problems, told reporters his review found dozens of issues across the entire system. The site is made up of layers of components that are meant to interact in real time with consumers, government agencies and insurance company computers.

It will take a lot of work, but “HealthCare.gov is fixable,” Zients declared.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As states open insurance marketplaces amid uncertainty about whether they’re a solution for health care, Vermont is eyeing a bigger goal, one that more fully embraces a governmentfunded model.

The state has a planned 2017 launch of the nation’s first universal health care system, a sort of modified Medicarefor-all that has long been a dream for many liberals.

The plan is especially ambitious in the current atmosphere surrounding health care in the United States. Republicans in Congress balk at the federal health overhaul years after it was signed into law. States are still negotiating their terms for implementing it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Move over, website woes. Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health care problem — a wave of cancellation notices hitting individuals and small businesses who buy their own insurance.

At the same time, the federal official closest to the website apologized for its dysfunction in new sign-ups and asserted things are getting better by the day.

Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner said it’s not the administration but insurers who are responsible for cancellation letters now reaching many of the estimated 14 million people who buy individual policies. And, officials said, people who get cancellation notices will be able to find better replacement plans, in some cases for less.

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Campus master plan moves to ‘analysis’ Consultants return to create new future for university campus RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu Campus master plan consultants returned to campus Tuesday afternoon in order to begin the “analysis phase” of the nearly $500,000 project. The new phase focuses on aspects of the physical campus, including student mobility and the structure of open spaces.

Michael Johnson, urban designer for consulting firm SmithGroupJJR, said in an open-house presentation in the Atrium that the group is looking at the data compiled during the previous discovery phase

and asking new questions about what Ball State needs to do to improve.

“We hope to take a deeper dive on some of those questions,” he said. “We are beginning to learn the implications, so when we come back we can share some alternative futures for what Ball State may look like 20-30 years in the future and paths to get there.”

Bernie Hannon, associate vice president of business affairs, said the total cost for the campus master plan is $484,500, which will come out of the general fund.

Johnson pointed out issues on campus like competition on McKinley Avenue between pedestrians, bikers and vehicles as well as undefined spaces on campus like the area between Noyer Complex and the

Whitinger Business Building.

Bridging the gap between the Muncie and Ball State communities was another point discussed at the meeting.

“Muncie, as an industrial city, was here first, and Ball State was planted away from the industrial side of town,” Johnson said. “Now, 100 years later, we are asking how to link that better. The goals are the same [as for campus]: we’re talking about improvement, preventing brain drain, neighborhoods, hospitals and schools, sustainability and culture.”

University architect Gregory Graham said the consultants will meet with Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler to better understand the connection.

Johnson said sustainability will be “integral to the plan” and outlined Ball State’s goal of

being carbon neutral by 2050 and the university’s ongoing geothermal project.

The plan will address sustainable storm-water techniques but, Johnson said to be on the cutting edge, Ball State also would have to reuse the rainwater.

Megan Bright, a sophomore fashion design major, was the only student in attendance for the first of two presentations Tuesday.

She said she wasn’t aware before the meeting about the breadth of issues the plan will try to repair and is glad to see sustainability and conservation efforts at the forefront of the group’s plan.

“I hope they alter [the] meal plan system,” Bright said. “I feel like the way we pay for food affects how much food we waste because we feel

compelled to spend so much money. I’m glad I could be there to voice my opinion.”

Graham said the previous discovery phase, which asked students to give their opinions on possible university improvements, went well and thinks the consulting firm can get to the “root” of what the university wants to achieve.

“The process has gone very well so far,” Graham said. “It is a complex task to gather information from such a large group of constituents and to distill that information for us to be able to utilize in our decision on the future development of Ball State University.”

A secondary consulting group, Brailsford and Dunlavey, is responsible for recommendations for dining and residence halls. Students can respond to

a survey geared toward these issues sent out by Randy Howard, vice president of business affairs, until Thursday.

The consultants will return to campus in December to present preliminary recommendations, refine them before Spring Break and present the final recommendations for the master plan in April 2014.

Messner said. “Something pops out of someone’s mouth, and they don’t realize they are engaging in hate speech.

Hate crimes require intent and are more serious.”

Bryan Byers, a criminal justice professor, said hate crimes are particularly devastating to victims.

“Hate crimes are a very different experience because they are being victimized because of who they are that they can’t help,” said Byers, who has published material on hate crimes.

“These are crimes that strike to the core of who a person is and their social identity.”

The FBI reported there were 6,222 incidents in 2011 in their yearly Hate Crime Statistics.

Data from 2012 will be released in December 2013.

Schools and colleges are the third most common location for hate crimes, according to that report, 9.3 percent of hate crimes occurred at schools or colleges.

Only 1.6 percent of total hate crimes in the United States were reported in Indiana.

Often, the perpetrator is anonymous to the victim, which deters victims from reporting, Byers said.

“If someone is driving by a group of people walking, and they yell out a nasty epithet, you can report it, but you won’t have the information needed for anyone to be held responsible,” Byers said. “Victims tend to look at those and think it won’t lead anywhere.”

Gene Burton, University Police Department police chief, outlined fear of retaliation as another deterrent to reporting, but he does not think underreporting is an issue at Ball State.

“I know there is a fear that sometimes a victim of a hate crime will not report it for fear of retaliation,” he said in an email. “I do not have a sense that hate crimes are underreported at Ball State.”

the students with water from a large water gun.

That incident, Slabaugh said, prompted the students to approach the Office of Student Affairs and question where they could report this incident because it was not technically a “crime.”

Because of those students, Slabaugh and others established the Bias Response Team to bring together already existing university services to aid students affected by hate or bias.

Students can report a hate crime or bias incidents using the bias incident report form on bsu.edu. The report asks to describe the nature of the incident, where it occurred, what the motivation may have been and gives responders the option to remain anonymous.

Slabaugh said when she receives a report, she helps students decide if they want to file a police report or a report with the Office of Student Rights and Community Standards, and can direct them to counseling or help them if they have been ab-

sent from classes.

“I want students to know the institution does care and does want to respond,” she said. “Their say-so isn’t taken away from them. The university isn’t going to commandeer their life like an emergency response team.”

If the activity is classified as a hate crime and the student wants to report, UPD will handle it.

According to the Student Code, consequences for harassment based on bias can range from an official reprimand to expulsion depending on the severity of the incident and prior conduct.

Slabaugh encouraged students to report because this is the only time in their lives when so many resources will be available for help.

“Once you graduate and enter the world, you may have a human resources department to talk to,” she said. “But the university is a distinct time when you are a member of a community [that is] inclusive and supportive of one another.”

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Beyond hate crimes, students may experience bias, which is when someone is targeted because of a prejudice against them, but it is not considered a crime. These incidents do not appear on the report.

“I think we may not have had hate crimes on campus, and that is very encouraging that we did not get to that level where it is classified as a hate crime,” said Ro-Anne Royer, director of the Multicultural Center. “But I don’t know [if that is] contrary to the real campus climate.”

Beth Messner, a communications associate professor, said she thinks bias incidents occur more frequently than actual hate crimes. She conducted an immersive learning project through the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry on hate speech in Indiana and created a website with discussion material for students.

“I would imagine an act of hate [bias incident] is more prevalent because acts are committed without thought,”

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IU-Bloomington reported three hate crimes in 2012. All three were acts of vandalism and were motivated by race or ethnicity.

Purdue reported in its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2013 that 11 hate crimes in 2012, including simple assault and vandalism, motivated by race, sexual orientation and religion.

LACK OF REPORTING

Byers said data on hate crimes, like any crime, depends on citizens’ willingness to report.

“With any reported crime, there is a sizable hidden figure,” he said. “There are hate crimes on college campuses, but we really don’t know how many may be here because of the lack of reporting.”

Ball State’s Title IX deputy coordinator Katie Slabaugh said in the last decade since she has received these reports, sometimes a semester will go by without a single report coming through.

BSUDM MOBILIZES TO REACH 10,000 GAME ATTENDANCE

With a week to go, Ball State Dance Marathon has mobilized social media fliers and more to get 10,000 students to the football game against Central Michigan University.

The athletic department will give the group $10,000 if they can get 10,000 students to the Wednesday game.

Zach Brown, BSUDM director of media relations, said he still thinks the group will achieve its goal.

“It’s definitely surfacing,” he said. “We’ve definitely made some waves. We’ve made some noise. I’ve heard people talking about it, so at least we are doing something right.”

BSUDM posted a video titled “They Need You” to its Facebook and Twitter pages featuring its executives telling students to go to the game to help out Riley Hospital for Children.

The group also installed a large sign in North Quad and put up fliers to advertise the event.

Over the course of the week, BSUDM members will go to different groups to pitch the project in an effort to get more DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEK The student section cheers during the Illinois State game on Aug. 29 at students to attend.

BSUDM is not asking stu- Scheumann Stadium. Ball State Athletics promised to pledge $10,000 to dents to pledge to attend the Dance Marathon if 10,000 students attend the Nov. 6 football game. game, but it is still planning to have a walk from the North PROJECT 10,000 Quad to the stadium.

THE BET THE GAME The Ball State athletic depart- • If 10,000 fans attend, athletics • 8 p.m. kickoff ment also will try to boost atwill donate $10,000 to BSUDM • Nov. 6 • Against Central Michigan tendance by giving out prizes • I f more than 5,000 students University and hosting a greek night on the attend, athletics will donate $1 per student SOURCE: bsudancemarathon.com night of the game.

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About 10 years ago, a group of students were walking down McKinley Avenue when passengers in a car shouted racial insults at them and sprayed

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Police say a weekend confrontation during which an Indiana University student was cut by a meat cleaver was caused by a fight over a woman.

Court documents say 18-year-old Zesen Shen argued with a 20-year-old man during several phone calls after Shen’s girlfriend returned to her apartment building with him four hours later than expected early Sunday.

The Herald-Times reports police say Shen got the meat cleaver and had a friend go with him as the other man and four others arrived to confront him at the Tulip Tree apartments. The 20-year-old injured man was treated at a hospital for cuts, the worst being a 4-inch gash on his lower back.

Shen faces felony charges of battery and intimidation. It isn’t clear whether he has an attorney.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University isn’t taking sides in the fight over a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.

One day after Indiana University announced it has joined a bipartisan campaign fighting the proposed amendment, Purdue on Tuesday said it would remain neutral on the issue.

Spokeswoman Julie Griffith tells the Journal & Courier that Purdue traditionally has declined to comment on social issues.

The General Assembly approved the proposed ban in 2011, but the current Legislature would need to approve it again before it would go to voters in a statewide referendum. Indiana law already bars same-sex marriage, but backers say it would provide an impediment that would overturn the state law.

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THURSDAY Before Halloween, get a sneak peak into the cast of the annual tradition known as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

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Ready to step into the Funhouse? Spectrum will host its next drag show where kings and queens will strut their stuff.

MONDAY Architecture students are known for practically living in the CAP building. Find out what goes on during late work nights.

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Men, step away from the overused pirate costume. Ladies, steer clear of the perpetual trap of being the stereotypical “sexy fill-in-the-blank.” Sequined devil horns aside, here’s the best of 2013’s costumes, from Ball State trademarks to meth cooks. These easy and low-cost DIY costumes will get you some kudos for not raiding Wal-Mart in a last ditch effort.

‘Orange is the New Black’

‘House of Cards’

Level: Easy U.S. Representative Frank Underwood may just look like any Caucasian male on Capitol Hill with his trademark side-part, black suit and blue tie. At first, people may be unsure of your costume, until you begin narrating your snarky inner thoughts about them in a Southern, South Carolina drawl.

‘Grand Theft Auto 5’

Level: Easy The latest violence-packed video game installment of “Grand Theft Auto” leaves choices when it comes to characters: Michael De Santa in his grey suit jacket, Franklin Clinton dressed in a blue polo and white long-sleeved shirt and the battered, dirty, white shirt clad Trevor Philips. While the clothes’ descriptions don’t seem too out of the ordinary, it’s all about the heat you’re packing and the attitude. Strap yourself with an absurd amount of squirt guns and NERF guns — and use them liberally.

Macklemore

Level: Easy This may be the cheapest route to go — just be wary of anything advertised at 99 cents. Copy the music artist’s frosty hair and raid Goodwill for the fuzziest animal print jacket you can find. Add the element of footie pajamas and you’re ready to pop some tags.

‘Duck Dynasty’

Level: Easy The cast is diverse, so fans of the original Netflix series can mimic a character without having to fit into a cookie cutter look. Be Piper Chapman, Alex Vause, Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren and Daya Diaz by grabbing a pair of tan scrubs and a long, grey or whitesleeved shirt for layering.

Complete it with characters’ trademarks, like Suzanne’s multiknotted hairstyle or Alex’s pink rose tattoo and black frames.

The theme isn’t just for the ladies: complete the costume by having your very own George Mendez, the crooked corrections officer with a prominent ‘stache.

Retired President Jo Ann Gora

Level: Easy After a decade of service to the university, Gora has recently announced she’s retiring. Impersonate the university president’s polished, professional look with the side-parted blonde style and a skirt suit. Then add a Hawaiian lei and sun glasses — the prez deserves to sit back and relax.

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Happy Friday!

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‘What does the fox say?’

Level: Moderate This one is a no-brainer if you’ve got the smarts of Walter White and a sidekick like Jesse Pinkman.

While hazardous material suits may not be available at your local Wal-Mart, get your hands on a yellow-hooded track suit.

Complete the look with a pair of blue rubber gloves and chunky goggles and tah-dah, you’re Emmywinning meth cooks. Who’s Jesse and who gets to be Walt is between you and your pal depending on I.Q. levels and the amount of facial hair.

Yeah science!

Level: Expert Bring a little Friday to Halloween night by mimicking Ball State’s favorite (OK, only) blue morph suit-wearing superhero on a scooter. Morph suits are available at a wide array of stores such as Party City and Halloween City along with a red helmet and red shorts. Add goggles, a yellow T-shirt on top and finally the blue cape. Then scooter your way through the streets of trick-or-treaters and party-goers proclaiming your enthusiasm for Friday.

‘Game of Thrones’

Level: Easy The beard is the essence of the costume. Make sure the beard matches the man. Snap on a salt and pepper beard to transform into Si, Phil or Mountain Man and use an auburncolored beard if you’re going to be a younger Robertson, like Jase, Willie or Jep. As for the family’s fashion sense, stick with a trucker hat and camouflage head to toe.

Level: Moderate This one is good if you have to take a younger sibling trickor-treating this year, because they can serve as your very own Tyrion Lannister. To complete the sibling look, women can wear an elaborate, royal gown and jewelry and be the icy Cersei Lannister.

However, the Lannister House isn’t the only family worth mimicking. Women can be Daenerys Targaryen by rocking whiteblonde strands, a sword and a warrior princess outfit. For men, adapt the cloak, fur and longhaired look of the Stark family.

And yes, winter is in fact coming.

Level: Moderate This most likely will have the creepiest, unsettling effect among all of the costumes. One only has to rewind to MTV’s Video Music Awards from this year to get the full brunt of the uncomfortable affair that was a performance gone wrong for the once-Disney star. Wear a romper close to your skin tone and knot your hair into two twists on your head. Top it off with a foam finger and creepy facial expressions and you’re “just being Miley.”

Level: Expert Slip on red fur head to toe in a suit, or go the easy way out and wear leggings and a long-sleeved shirt. Either way, get the black nose and white snout down pat and a pair of tall ears. Next, grab a group of flamboyant, willing friends. Have your back-up dancers wear white T-shirts, black ties and fuzzy fox ears. And then frakkaka-kaka-kow! You’ve got one weird but catchy costume.

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Meet author who found ‘The Butler’ Man worked with 8 presidents while White House butler LINDSEY RILEY STAFF REPORTER | lnriley@bsu.edu

It took 57 phone calls for journalist Wil Haygood to find Eugene Allen, a butler who worked at the White House during eight different presidencies. In 2008, Haygood found him and his wife just in time and interviewed them days before she died in her sleep. Two years later, Allen died at age 90.

Haygood shared Allen’s story in a Washington Post article in 2008, and it became a worldwide hit in newspapers.

In 2013, it made its way on the big screen over the summer with director Lee Daniels’ version of the story.

Haygood will speak about his book, leadership,

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Wil Haygood will speak on campus today. Haygood will discuss his book “The Butler: A Witness to History,” and the movie it inspired.

civil rights and the idea that all can lead through service at 7 tonight at Pruis Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Haygood also will sign books following his presentation, and the Ball State Bookstore will sell books at the event for $14.50.

Reporter Lindsey Riley asked Haygood questions about his life in journalism and “The Butler” story.

Q: How did you become interested in journalism?

A: I had no idea I was going to go into writing. When I came out of college, I majored in urban planning, I had three or four small jobs in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio — one of them at a newspaper. I went to New York City to spread my wings and went through an executive training program at Macy’s. I was fired from the job [because I] wasn’t very good at retail and had to focus my vision on what I wanted to anchor myself to in life. I looked back over my life, asked myself what I liked and that was writing. I made the determination to get back into journalism and started writing newspaper editors around the country. I heard back from one with the Charleston, W.Va., Gazette, and I started there as a copy editor in 1982.

Q: “The Butler: A Witness to History” is such an amazing story. What inspired you to write it?

A: I was working on the [President Barack] Obama campaign trail for the Washington Post in 2008, and the plane landed in North Carolina for a big rally.

After the rally, I walked outside and saw some young ladies crying. I asked them why they were crying, and they said that their fathers didn’t want them to support this African-American

candidate. These three young white women were obviously standing up to their fathers’ stereotypes, and I thought it was a very powerful movement and heroic of them. Right then and there, I thought that then-Sen. Obama would win the race. I wanted to find someone from the era of segregation who not worked in Washington, but the White House itself. I wanted to find a figure from the backstages of history. I was just determined to search every part of the country because I knew there was someone who worked in the White House before you could even dream that there would be an African-American president in the Oval Office.

Q: How did you find Eugene Allen and his empowering journey?

A: I started making a bunch of phone calls and found the name of Eugene Allen. The person who told me about him was in Tampa, [Fla.], and said that he had worked for three presidents.

They had it wrong, of course, because he actually worked for eight presidents. I called him, and he happened to live in Washington, D.C., with his wife of 65 years. The original article was published on Nov. 7, 2008, on the front page of The Washington Post and it was called “A Butler Well Served by this Election.”

Q: What did you learn from Allen and his story?

A: I learned that there’s great heroism and power in consistency. Eugene never missed a day of work in over 34 years at the White House. He loved his country even when his country’s laws were not on his side.

I think that is a very powerful definition of being a true patriot. I also learned how good the world can be because the story

‘THE BUTLER’ WHO

Wil Haygood, author and associate producer of his book’s film adaptation WHAT

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7 tonight

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Pruis Hall Free and open to the public Ball State bookstore will sell his book for $14.50 at the event For more information on the event, contact Excellence In Leadership or visit facebook.com/bsueil was reprinted in newspapers all over the world, and Eugene received sacks full of letters from people worldwide, and they were so taken back by his story and thanked him for his service to his country. The letters would come to my newspaper desk and once a week, I would take the letters to him and we would read them together. It was very touching as a journalist.

Q: What advice do you have for student journalists who hope to have as successful of a career?

A: I think that it is important for the young journalists just starting out to find a story that means a lot to them on an emotional level. There will be stories that you are assigned to by editors, but there will also be stories that you want to come up with, the ones that you want to create your own road to get to. “The Butler” was an idea I came up with and thankfully, my editor liked the idea. When you come up with your own story ideas, it seems like you run a little bit harder at that story.

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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION LOOKS AT SCHOOL GRADING A - F system to look at score progress, not focus on ISTEP | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — The State Board of Education is getting recommendations that Indiana’s A-F school rating system be changed to account for improvement by individual students on tests and for the addition of state tests to four more grades.

The recommendations come from an advisory panel made up mostly of educators that was appointed after concerns emerged about the grading formula used last year under former state school Superintendent Tony Bennett.

The current formula has schools’ grades based mostly on the percentage of students who pass the state’s standardized ISTEP test, not on test score improvement.

Changes would put more emphasis on how much progress students make toward a passing score on ISTEP math and language arts tests. Other factors to be included are high school graduation and college and career readiness rates, and reading test performance.

Committee co-chairman Steve Yager, superintendent of the

Northwest Allen County Schools, said the proposed system is more transparent and simpler with more evaluation points. “It’s easily measured, easily understood and easy to then enact the changes that we need for instruction or curriculum,�

Yager said.

Students currently take ISTEP tests are in third through eighth grades and in 10th grade. The panel recommends new state tests for the first, second, ninth and 11th grades. State schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz said those would replace local testing at those levels.

Ritz and Yager are expected to present the recommendations on Nov. 8 to the State Board of Education, which is expected to consider adopting a new A-F grading model next month.

The fate of the changes is unclear as Ritz, a Democrat, has been at odds with the Republican-dominated board. Ritz filed a lawsuit last week over the board’s request to top GOP lawmakers that legislative analysts calculate the new A-F grades instead of her department.

Bennett, a Republican, resigned as Florida’s schools chief in August after The Associated Press published emails showing he altered Indiana’s school grading system last year after a charter school founded by a top GOP donor received a low grade.

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RUNDOWN WHO

State Board of Education Members WHAT

Took recommendations from an advisory panel to make changes to Indiana’s grading formula WHY

The changes took place after The Associated Press reported former state school Superintendent Tony Bennett was responsible for illegally changing a charter school’s grade.

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That school, which Bennett routinely cited as a top-performer, received an A under the revised formula. Other schools also saw improvements.

Advisory committee member Cheryl Ramsey, principal at Beveridge Elementary School in Gary, said the panel focused on making the grading system, which has given her school an F several years in a row, more equitable. “We’ll be able to explain to teachers, to parents, all stakeholders what we have to do to change our score,� she said.

The Republican-controlled Legislature ordered the state board to devise a new A-F system in April, after complaints from parents, teachers and school officials that the current model, which debuted in 2012.

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STABBING: UPD will continue reviewing footage, investigating, victim says | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Pizzano said he does not know how the university could have responded differently, but he knows many students did not see the email until the next day. “I think if they were going to do just an email, they should have done it sooner,� he said. “Who knows what he could have done if he was wandering around for two hours.�

Pizzano said he would press

charges if his attacker was discovered. He met with UPD on Tuesday afternoon and was told they will review surveillance footage and continue to investigate.

Pizzano’s mother posted on his Facebook on Sunday, saying she was woken up to a call from her son saying he had been stabbed. “Hug your loved ones, life can change in an instant! I’m SO — feeling blessed,� she wrote in the post.

The attack won’t stop him from going out on the weekends, he said, but he will avoid walking alone in the future and encourages other students to do the same. “The only thing that kind of freaks me out about it [is] it could be a Ball State student, so he could be around me right now,� Pizzano said. “He could be around other people, and no one that knows he did it. I would hate for that to happen to someone else.�

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TODAY Ball State women’s basketball will open its season with an exhibition game at 7 p.m. at Worthen Arena.

THURSDAY The Ball State women’s soccer team will play its final regular season match for 2013 at 3 p.m.

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Sophomore setter played at outside in 2012 due to injuries POLASKI ASST. SPORTS EDITOR | DAVID @DavidPolaski It had been 11 months since Jenna Spadafora lined up at outside hitter.

The sophomore setter had her game plan turned upside down Friday when freshman Mackenzie Kitchel injured her left calf.

With the offense struggling, Ball State volleyball head coach Steve Shondell made a switch to try to create offense.

“It was weird, it’s been a long time since I’ve been out there,” Spadafora said. “After a while, a little bit came back to me, and I started feeling more comfortable.”

Despite being a setter, she spent last season at outside hitter because of team injuries.

Even without it being her natural position, she thrived. The Fort Wayne, Ind., native was named to the Mid-American Conference All-Freshman Team and racked up 148 kills.

But the sudden change was a shock to Spadafora, who hasn’t played outside hitter all season and hasn’t taken a rep at that position in practice all year.

“I thought she played pretty well considering the circumstances,” Shondell said. “We couldn’t have asked her to do much more.”

Her experience in 2012 prevented Spadafora from becoming rattled, saying that having a history as an outside hitter allowed the transition to be smoother than most.

Senior Jacqui Seidel, the team’s starting setter, said after Friday’s match that she thinks Spadafora was one of the best outside hitters in the MAC last season.

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Sophomore setter Jenna Spadafora lines up her kill attempt against the Bowling Green State University wall on Friday.

Spadafora has returned to play after Mackenzie Kitchel’s injury.

Against Bowling Green State University, the emergency outside hitter finished with eight kills in four sets, although she only played the final two as a hitter.

The next day, Spadafora helped lead her team to a win against Miami University with six kills as the team deferred the offense to the middle blockers.

“She stepped up to the occasion, we all knew she would,” Seidel said. “She’s only going to get better as she gets more reps.”

She has seen those reps in practice this week. With Kitchel and sophomore outside hitter Alex Fuelling sidelined, Spadafora has prepared for the possible situation where she would be starting at outside hitter this weekend.

The extra time allows Spadafora to concentrate on bringing

herself to the level of comfort she had last season in the position. She said although she’s had success in the position, she feels more comfortable as a setter because there’s more potential to grow.

Having extra time to think didn’t help her much last weekend. Between the Bowling Green and Miami games, Spadafora had too much time to think about lining up in a position that she hadn’t seen all season.

“Being thrown in there against Bowling Green, I just had to play as hard as I could,” she said. “With Miami, I had 24 hours to prepare mentally, but overthinking it could have made things worse. ...I never truly got comfortable with it.”

Spadafora may not have much time as an outside hitter as previously thought because Shon-

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148 kills, 60 errors, .197 attack percentage AGAINST BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY, 2013

8 kills, 4 errors, .222 attack percentage

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6 kills, 6 errors, .000 attack percentage

dell said he hopes Kitchel will be ready to play this weekend.

In either case, Spadafora will work off the rust. The difference between upcoming Friday’s match against Central Michigan University and Saturday’s match against Miami is just six days.

That’s a lot less than 11 months.

Practice is different for this year’s team as a whole. Last season’s roster included just 11 players, this year that number has grown to 13.

Sallee said it gives the team the ability to do drills that weren’t even possible with last year’s numbers. Woody said it’s been easier on her because she’s not constantly on the floor — something she was familiar with in practice last season.

The incoming freshmen will add size, athleticism and shooting, in addition to the all-important depth. Sallee said guard Calyn Hosea has shown a mature understanding of the team’s system and is playing well in practice.

Freshman Jill Morrison, who averaged 27.8 points per game in high school, will add a shooting presence to this year’s team.

“Morrison can flat out make shots, and that’s something we needed,” Sallee said.

“So that’s going to be great for us.”

The freshman guard from Winchester, Ind., said she is excited to join a program on the “upward swing” and hopes to contribute as the season progresses.

“I feel pretty confident,” Morrison said. “I just I hope I can [help] us reach the goals we have for this season. I think I can help with my shooting.”

Freshmen Haley Richardson, Shelby Merder and Renee Bennett bring size that Sallee will use both offensively and defensively with 6-foot-2, 6-foot-3 and 6-foot-5, respectively.

The tallest of last season’s team was Fontaine who is 6-foot-2.

The young players have meshed well with starters that they will ultimately compete against for playing time this season. The veterans’ ability to bring them in reflects well on their maturity, Sallee said.

“They’ve bought in, and they don’t really care,” he said.

It’s just another aspect of this team that Sallee said is so special.

“In my 10 years as a head coach, this is maybe the second time I’ve returned all five starters from such a successful team,” he said. “You take that along with the recruiting class we brought in the door ... and you could see why we’re a little bit optimistic about what’s about to happen.”

STARTERS’ STATS BRANDY WOODY, SENIOR GUARD • FG percentage: 31.4 PER GAME:

• Minutes: 34.6 • Rebounds: 5.8 • Assists: 3.79 • Turnovers: 3 • Points: 10.9

BRITTANY CARTER, JUNIOR GUARD • FG percentage: 32.7 PER GAME:

• Minutes: 31.5 • Rebounds: 3.9 • Assists: 2.52 • Turnovers: 2.12 • Points: 9.8

SHELBIE JUSTICE, SENIOR GUARD • FG percentage: 35.6 PER GAME:

• Minutes: 33.9 • Rebounds: 3.6 • Assists: 2.03 • Turnovers: 1.91 • Points: 7.9

KATIE MURPHY, SENIOR FORWARD • FG percentage: 40.2 PER GAME:

• Minutes: 23.7 • Rebounds: 6.2 • Assists: .47 • Turnovers: 1.66 • Points: 7

NATHALIE FONTAINE, SOPHOMORE FORWARD • FG percentage: 47.1 PER GAME:

• Minutes: 33.3 • Rebounds: 6.6 • Assists: .88 • Turnovers: 3.5 • Points: 13.2 SOURCE: ballstatesports.com

PLAYER RETURNS AS COACH After graduating, Morrison returns to team as assistant

AARON MAXEY STAFF REPORTER | acmaxey@bsu.edu

For years, Cliff Morrison was just another one of the guys — listening and obeying men’s tennis head coach Bill Richards’ instructions.

Now, his former teammates could hear those instructions from a different voice.

Morrison played for the team from 2008-13 before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in actuarial science. This season, he returned as a graduate assistant coach.

“I spoke to coach Richards a couple years ago, actually, about who was going to be the grad assistant this year, and he didn’t have anyone lined up,” he said.

“So I kind of booked it really early in my playing career.”

Morrison said he was more

than happy to come back to Ball State and begin earning his master’s.

“To get my master’s was always something I wanted to do, and then getting it helped paid for by the school being the grad assistant is one of the benefits,” he said.

Richards said the decision to bring Morrison back wasn’t a difficult one.

“As far as what I’m looking for in a graduate assistant, you want someone that’s going to be very loyal, very responsible, very hardworking,” he said. “[You want] someone that understands the game, and Cliff fits all of those categories without hesitation.”

Richards said his relationship with Morrison has remained the same, but there is a difference in what they communicate about.

“The one thing that is different is we’re now talking about what we’re going to do in practice,” he said. “[We’re] talking about each of the players on

our team and what they need to improve on and how we’re going to go about that, as well as recruiting.”

While it may be different to see Morrison on the other side of the coach-player dynamic, his former teammates have welcomed him back.

“It’s good to have Cliff back,” junior Patrick Elliott said. “It’s good to have a coach that has been through what we’ve been through, so he can see things through our eyes at times that maybe another coach couldn’t.”

Senior Austin Smith echoed similar sentiments about Morrison. After three seasons of playing together, Smith said Morrison is one of his “really close teammates.”

“I’ve always really looked up to him as a leader, so having him as a coach, I definitely have a lot of respect for him and his knowledge for the game,” Smith said.

While the student is now the teacher for Morrison, he still just seems like one of the guys.

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