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Ball State braves storm intact Several tornadoes hit, power lines downed, no damage on campus

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At least three people in Indiana died from Sunday’s storms while Ball State remained relatively unscathed. No students or faculty reported injuries

and no campus buildings were damaged.

A storm that caused roughly 65 tornadoes across the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service, passed over Muncie around 4 p.m. There was no reported damage, said a Delaware County Emergency Management official, except a few downed power lines at 3 p.m., which caused roughly 1,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers to lose electricity.

Tracy Warner, a spokesper-

son for IMP, said the company worked to fix hazardous situations and restore power after resolving potentially dangerous situations. He said nearly 78,000 people were out of power Sunday night system wide, including Fort Wayne, Ind., and southern Michigan. The worst cases were further north.

Students in several residence halls were escorted or told to head to the lowest floor of their hall to wait out the storm after the weather service issued a tornado

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warning for Delaware County.

The service lifted the tornado warning around 4:45 p.m., though Ball State sent a text emergency alert around 4 p.m. to inform students of a tornado warning until 5:15 p.m.

Maddie Penney, a Park Hall desk worker, said official protocol for a tornado warning involves resident assistants telling students to head to the first floor or basement while staff monitor the situation.

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University Police Department officer David Huff goes to cross the perimeter around the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. After a report of an armed assailant in the building Friday, police tape and officers cordoned off the area between North McKinley and West Neely avenues around the complex for roughly three hours.

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Police interview and search evacuees from the building as fellow officers worked to secure the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

Police searched evacuees to eliminate the possibility of the possible armed person slipping out of the building during the evacuations.

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Three shouts of “gun” began three hours of at least six different police departments searching about 500,000 square feet in four buildings, evacuating an unknown number of occupants, finding zero suspects or threats.

Students were locked down in the facility as the University Police Department, the Muncie Police Department, the Delaware County Sheriff ’s Office, Indiana State Police, Homeland Security and Delaware County Emergency Management secured the perimeter and searched the area.

The university began using its Twitter emergency alert account, @ballstate_alert, to tweet and also posted to its website nearly every 5 to 8 minutes,

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then down to every 10 to 15 minutes after activity slowed.

Police tape closed off the intersection of McKinley and Neely avenues as police secured the Lewellen Aquatic Center, the Health and Physical Activity Building, Worthen Arena and the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

People who police evacuated to the Architecture Building were startled when an officer’s gun went off by accident, alarming police when it fired into the ground. According to The Star Press, the gun belonged to an Eaton, Ind., officer.

Those evacuated were then lightly searched and released as police conducted a second, more thorough search of the buildings before issuing an “all-clear.”

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« We kept seeing figures run past, but we really did not know much about what was going on — just stories that people were telling. »

« Even if it wasn’t an over reaction, I was glad for the police presence that was there. »

« Unless if you can totally respond in a few minutes, as a parent, there’s nothing you can do, anyway. »

LAYNE FULK, a sophomore marketing major

ELLEN FORTHOFER, a junior architecture major

KEVIN ENOS, a student’s father

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University makes statement against marriage bill Gora says diversity, inclusion, tolerance are Ball State values PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | RACHEL rmpodnar@bsu.edu Ball State President Jo Ann Gora spoke against House Joint Resolution 6 for both moral and economic reasons, saying the university will reaf-

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HJR-6 would write Indiana’s law banning same-sex marriage into the state constitution, also jeopardizing civil unions and domestic partnerships.

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said in her statement. “But as the resolution states, they are also sound business practices. ... I believe Ball State is doing the right and moral thing by expressing opposition to HJR-6, but it is also sound policy that is consistent with our core values.”

Gora’s statement was made after input from the uni-

versity governance system. The Faculty Council and University Senate both passed recommendations to the administration to take a stance against HJR-6.

On Oct. 31, Provost Terry King made a statement to the Faculty Council, encouraging university governance to address HJR-6.

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members, students and staff,” King’s statement said.

The Student Government Association also was involved, passing a resolution to the University Senate after reaching out to about 1,000 students for input. The resolution carried 324 student sponsors, a number the SGA pro tempore said he has never seen.

“I would say there was a much larger number of sponsors due

to the controversial topic,” Jack Hesser said. “I’ve never seen more than 20 sponsors on a resolution, which is typically a respectful amount.”

The three recommendations were taken to the University Senate meeting Thursday, where the group voted 51 to 9 with one abstention that the administration should publicly oppose HJR-6.

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As a part of the Miller College of Business Distinguished Speaker series, Larry Riley, senior vice president of the Northern Trust Company will speak at 3 p.m. in the Whitinger Business Building Room 144. Riley specializes in financial planning and has helped many people meet their financial investment goals, according to a press release. The session is open to the public. There will be a question and answer session after the presentation.

Excellence in Leadership will host a workshop titled “Finding Your Passion” from 7-9 p.m. in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Cardinal Hall.

Odell Bizzell will present ways to find a role in life and to become better equipped to handle successes in life, according to a press release. Bizzell, an entrepreneur, often speaks on how leaders can influence their members into a positive behavior change. Preregistration is required for the event for everyone except Excellence in Leadership students and can be completed online.

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“A NIGHT TO REMEMBER” BENEFIT SHOW

A group from a telecommunications course will present “A Night to Remember,” a benefit show, to bring the Music & Memory Initiative to a Muncie nursing home. The variety show is at 7 p.m. at Pruis Hall and will have 11 student acts.

Music & Memory is a nonprofit organization with a goal to bring iPods and digital music devices to residents in nursing homes with cognitive challenges. Admission is $3 or a donation of a gently used iPod. All proceeds will be used to bring personalized music players to the residents of The Woodlands nursing home in Muncie.

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TUESDAY FORUM ON JUVENILE DETENTION ALTERNATIVES

Indiana Youth Institute will host a forum in Delaware County to talk about a state model offering alternatives to juvenile detention. Michelle Tennell, the Indiana coordinator for the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, will present from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts. The forum is free, but reservations are required by noon today.

“THE LENAPE ON THE WAPAHANI RIVER” SHORT FILM PRESENTATION

Christopher Flook, an instructor of telecommunications, along with student filmmakers Kayla Eiler and Alina Beteringhe will present their short film, “The Lenape on the Wapahani River,” at 7:30 p.m. in Bracken Library Room 104. This session is a part of the Friends of Alexander M. Bracken Library program and is free to students.

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Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food for families at its Tailgate Program from 9-11 a.m. at Borg Warner in the parking lot on the north side of State Road 32, West Kilgore Avenue. Food will be distributed while supplies last, and there is a limit of three families per vehicle. Volunteers are encouraged and can contact Second Harvest and ask for Joe Fox to help at the event.

UPB’S RESERVED SCREENING OF “CATCHING FIRE”

University Program Board reserved a showing of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” the second installment of the series, at 11 p.m. at AMC Showplace 12 near the Muncie Mall. The showing is for Ball State students who purchased tickets from the office. Shuttles will leave at 9:45 p.m. at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center or students can meet UPB at the theater no later than 10:30 p.m.

CARDINAL LANES OFFERS CHANCE AT FREE BOWLING

Cardinal Lanes will host a Thanksgiving event from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. to give students a chance to bowl for a free game. If students bowl a “turkey,” or three strikes in a row, the game will be free. The event will be at Cardinal Lanes in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.

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Sitting underneath his desk in the darkness, Dan Tracy listened to every noise outside of his office in the Health and Physical Activity Building.

“Every step or shuffle of feet, it could be a guy out there with a gun,” he said.

His worry began at about 4:30 p.m. Friday when the graduate assistant in sports administration heard a male voice yell “Gun!” The shouts echoed from what he thinks was a stairwell more than 100 feet away.

Tracy turned off the lights, locked the door and went back to his desk, scouring for more information on what was happening on his computer. He scrolled across a tweet that said police were gathered in front of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Tracy then knew, “this is probably going down here.”

Within 15 minutes after the first shout came another, bearing the same alarming call: “Gun.” Tracy thought to himself, “The person yelling must be in plain sight of the gun.”

Suddenly, he realized if someone stood in front of the office door with a gun and fired, he would be in the bullet’s path.

So, he ducked under the desk and waited.

“I had no idea whether there was a gun or not — whether the building is safe or not,” he said.

Though the sounds of walkie-talkies echoed into the office, Tracy didn’t feel secure to leave. He prepared himself for someone to knock on the door.

He decided he would ask them the Muncie police phone number to test if they were a killer or an officer.

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Tracy texted his dad that he was safe and tried to make as little movement as possible.

“If it was a crazed killer, if he heard even slight movement, you never know,” he said. “Honestly, I was prepared for the worst, if this was a Virginia Tech situation.”

Meanwhile, a few floors down from his office, flashing lights and officers toting firearms met students. Kurtis Castrodale, a senior sales major, was working at the rec center when people were evacuated into the equipment room.

“I was wondering what was going on at the start because they said ‘lockdown,’ but I really didn’t know what it was,” Castrodale said. “Once I realized that everyone was locked in here and they brought like 30 people in here, we saw these police with M16s. I felt safe, I never felt hesitant about the whole situation while we were in the room.”

Jordan VanWinkle, a junior exercise major, was warming up at swim practice when the students were told they were on lockdown and needed to evacuate to the locker room. She said no one really knew what was going on and relied on Twitter and emergency text messages from the university.

She said the swim coach was trying to keep them calm, saying it was “probably just a drill, no big deal.”

“Then we saw the Twitter updates and everything and I had no idea what to think,” VanWinkle said. “My first thought was, ‘I need to call my mom,

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and I need to call my dad and my sister.’ And that’s what I did. I just kind of kept them updated through it, and they were freaking out, so I probably shouldn’t have called them until it was all over. But I wanted to tell them I loved them before, if anything happened.”

The group VanWinkle was in was one of the last groups to be escorted from the building.

Layne Fulk, a sophomore marketing major, was on the basketball courts playing with her friends, as they usually do each Friday.

“One of the staff members runs out onto the court, and she’s just screaming her head off, and we could tell she is freaked out,” Fulk said. “She says, ‘Everyone, we need to get into a safe place right now. Grab your stuff and follow me.’ And we all just look at each other and take off and get all of our stuff. We all went into the equipment room, and they locked it up. They told us just to sit tight, they don’t know what’s going on right now, but they just told us it would be a few minutes, nothing big. But apparently that changed.”

From there, Fulk said the situation got more and more intense. At first, students were relaxed and joking. Then tweets and texts flooded phones with photos of police cars lining the rec center.

The lights were turned off, and they sat in the dark.

They put their phones on silent. The stories about what could be happening around them grew. There were talks of a hostage situation and an

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The text message line pilot, about a alert popped up gunman on camANNA ORTIZ FEATURES EDITOR | features@bsudailynews.com on Muncie Mayor pus. He dropped Dennis Tyler’s what he was doing phone. He read and went into the was greeted with relief. the words “alleged gunman,” “I got home from my friend’s terminal to call her. By the time and began to worry, as several and my roommates were like, he finally reached her, she was students, professors and par- ‘Carrie, you’re alive,’ and I was locked in her dorm room. ents did Friday evening when like, ‘Yeah,’” Harris said. “And “I was very upset because they became aware that there they were like, ‘Get in the house I didn’t know what was gomight danger. quick. There is someone out ing on, and I was trying find “Of course, I’m always con- there with a gun.’ ‘What? OK.’” some news outlet that said cerned,” Tyler said. “If someHarris, her roommates and what was going on,” he said. thing’s going on that’s a truly friends sat in the living room “The only thing I could do dangerous circumstance, and listened as helicopters was go online.” you don’t know where it will hummed overhead. They wonHe said his daughter knew end up.” dered if the possible armed how to handle the situation beTyler kept in contact with person was nearby as the heli- cause his wife is a schoolteacher Steven Stewart, Muncie’s copters sounded closer. A room- who is knowledgeable about police chief, as the situation mate read tweets and emails out lockdown drills, and his daughprogressed, hoping that bad loud from the university regard- ter knows how to react in a situnews wouldn’t reach his ears. ing the situation. ation like this.

Tyler said the authorities did Like many other parents, he Then they looked out of the everything they could to keep window and saw a man park his couldn’t physically be there for people safe. car in front of their neighbor’s his daughter and had to trust Though no harm came from house and walk toward them. she would keep herself safe. the situation, universities have “Unless you can totally re“We saw somebody walkbeen the target of shootings ing up towards my neighbors spond in a few minutes, as a in the past — the question re- house,” Harris said. “And he was parent, there’s nothing you can mains whether it puts the city in wearing a dark coat, and he was do, anyway,” he said. “At some more potential for danger. carrying a bag — a black bag — point, your children grow up “I don’t think so — we’re all and we were like, ‘Oh no, I think and move away, and they have citizens here, the students are that’s him.’ And then we realized to start acting responsibly as citizens in Muncie,” Tyler said. it was the pizza guy.” adults themselves.”

“Threats are always out there.

However, he said he didn’t beWhile Harris said her parents I don’t think Ball State being a were unaware of the situation lieve all of the students handled part of the community puts us while it was happening, other the situation as well by taking more at risk.” students’ parents called and risks and joking.

Carrie Harris, a junior hu- texted their sons and daughters “I was physically shaken,” man resource major, lives in the incessantly. he said. “You think the worse. neighborhood behind LaFollette Cori Enos, a freshman tele- That’s why I was kind of surComplex. Driving to a friend’s communications major, said prised some of the other stuhouse that night, she saw police her father, Kevin, was getting dents didn’t take it seriously.” cars had swarmed on campus. ready to repair an aircraft. She Daily News staff contributed to When she went back home, she sent a text to her dad, an air- this story

armed assailant right above where the group sat.

“Then we saw the picture of the guy in the red sweatshirt with his hands up and that was directly above where we were, because we were in the equipment room downstairs, and so that kind of freaked us out, too,” Fulk said. “We could see figures running — we had two small window slits that we could just see light. We kept seeing figures run past, but we really did not know much about what was going on — just stories that people were telling.”

Eventually, police officers came into the room and everyone was divided up and quickly searched. Then an officer led them out of the building.

“He said, ‘OK, everyone, follow me,’” Fulk said. “We were going pretty fast, almost running speed, out of the building [and] across the street. The last time we had been outside, it was light out like mid-afternoon. So we got out there, and it’s just completely dark — cop lights are everywhere, helicopters were circling around, and we were just like ‘Oh my God.’” Tracy returned to the office Saturday afternoon, more aware of his surroundings than he was before the incident.

Looking back, Tracy realized he didn’t have anything to defend himself except for pens and scissors. As a coach, Tracy had CPR training, but he wasn’t trained for anything like this. Eventually, police escorted him and a group of coworkers to safety.

“I was praying no one would get hurt,” Tracy said. “I don’t know if it will happen again. I’m sure it will because that’s just the way the world works.”

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From the fourth floor of the Architecture Building, junior architecture majors Maya Bird-Murphy and Ellen Forthofer gathered against a wall of windows to watch the flurry of police across the street.

At first, the students didn’t know what was going on.

They watched state police and sheriffs join the University Police Department around the rec center for about 15 minutes before they received a university alert.

That’s when Bird-Murphy said she realized it was serious.

“I feel like nothing that exciting ever happens in Muncie,” she said. “So they all got here pretty fast.”

Police officers were stopping the students from leaving through the front doors as a crowd of onlookers gathered in the parking lot between the Architecture Building and Noyer Complex, just beyond the perimeter the police were maintaining.

Forthofer said while they waited, they listened to police scanners, watched the news and some followed Twitter.

“I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t a big deal, with everything that just happened with the stabbing that turned out to be not a thing,” Forthofer said. “Even if it was an overreaction, I was glad for the police presence that was there.”

On her way back from Wal-Mart, freshman geology major Macy Whitacre first

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noticed the scene around the complex at about 5:30 p.m.

The driver announced that the bus was not able to turn down McKinley Avenue and dropped the passengers off at the north bus shelter on campus.

Whitacre said she saw police cars down the street, but she did not think anything of it. She only realized something was amiss when she found the doors to LaFollette Complex’s Brayton/Clevenger locked.

Someone inside, whom Whitacre thinks was a hall director, let her through.

She said resident assistants informed everyone about the situation and told them to turn off the lights and shut the blinds to make the rooms appear unoccupied from outside.

It was not until she was locked in her room, watching the news, that she received the university’s emergency notification.

“We turned on the news, and it became more real once we saw the buildings,” Whitacre said. “I was like ‘Oh! That’s my college.’”

To Forthofer, the accuracy of the university notifications made up for the lag between when she first saw a police response and the first notification.

“I could be a little bit naïve, but I’ve never felt unsafe on campus,” she said. “It was a scary situation, and I’m just glad that everything turned out OK.”

« Mneed y first thought was, ‘I need to call my mom, and I to call my dad and my sister.’ And that’s what I did. ... I wanted to tell them I loved them before, if anything happened. » JORDAN VANWINKLE, a junior exercise major

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Muncie police officer Ryan Trissel tells evacuated students how they can leave the area after being searched outside of the Architecture Building. Police began to search people from the Student Recreation and Wellness Center in order to eliminate possible suspects.

« We were going pretty fast, almost running speed, out of the building [and] across the street. The last time we had been outside it was light out, like mid-afternoon. So we got out there, and it’s just completely dark - cop lights everywhere, helicopters were circling around, and we were just like, ‘Oh my God.’

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Police cars line the street outside of the Robert Bell Building after the report of an armed assailant Friday at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

Officers from the University Police Department, the Muncie Police Department, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Delaware County Emergency Management, Indiana State Police and Homeland Security all responded to the scene.

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A woman talks on the phone as police secure the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The university used its emergency Twitter account, @ballstate_alert, and its website to get information about the situation to people. The alert Twitter account grew from 10 followers to more than 4,000 followers after its first emergency use.

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Aric Fickert, a sophomore exercise science major, holds his hands up to speak to police. Police briefly pointed their guns at Fickert after an officer’s gun discharged into the ground on Neely Avenue. After the accidental shot, police asked people to put their hands up until they found the source of the shot. No one was injured.

An officer with the Indiana State Police jumps down after putting up crime scene tape to secure the area around the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Police searched the Health and Physical Activity Building, the Lewellen Aquatic Center, Worthen Arena and the rec center for about three hours after a report of an armed assailant.

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EMENS DIRECTOR LIVES DREAM WHEN GAFFIGAN TOOK STAGE For six years, the director of John R. Emens Auditorium has tried to get comedian Jim Gaffigan to campus. “[Gaffigan] has a limited tour schedule, he’s been too expensive or dates have not been available,� Rob- ONLINE ert Myers said. “It’s been many years in the making that I’ve been working to get Jim Gaffigan here.�

As a fan of the fellow Hoosier, Myers said it took until late August for his luck to turn around. For full story, Nitelite Promotions reached bit.ly/1ecSwjF out to Emens to get Gaffigan to Muncie while he was on tour in Indiana. “It just worked out this time,� Myers said. “I have to say, it was a certain amount of luck. And I believe that success happens when opportunity meets preparation.�

The act was rumored to be derailed early Friday evening with reports of a person with a gun in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.

The show still went on as planned since the auditorium was determined to be outside the secured area.

Dina Byrnes, the event manager for Emens, said Gaffigan’s show received normal attendance. “Gaffigan graciously started the show 20 minutes late to allow others to arrive,� Byrnes said. “He also tweeted out to his fans that he would perform and would wait as long as he needed to in order to do so.�

Gaffigan attempted to lighten the mood on campus after the partial lockdown, joking that the gun that was spotted was candy. “It was a chocolate gun,� he tweeted. “And it was delicious.� – LAUREN CHAPMAN

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A performer plays a traditional Chinese stringed-instrument during the fashion show Thursday in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center as part of the Amazing Taste. In addition to food, students also could see cultural presentations from multicultural groups

CULTURES AND FOODS FOR SAMPLE AT THE AMAZING TASTE The line stretched from the Tally Food Court cash registers, around the dining room, past the computer lab and nearly to the door. Once meal swipes switched to dinner at 4:30 p.m., the queue began to move.

Foreign food was just one part of the event. Each floor of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center hosted a different region of the world, complete with dishes, cultural booths and activities.

The basement was reserved for the Americas, with Vancouver Nanaimo bars served out of a truck bed and Mexican soda Jarritos.

Upstairs, Mohammad Bashiri and three other Afghans demonstrated the Attan, the national dance of their home country.

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ONLINE “What I like is the idea of all the countries coming together and having a booth about their country,� he said. “There are representatives who can explain their culture. This stuff you can barely find on the Internet. For video and These are some authentic cul- the full story, bit.ly/HYLi7E tural ideas that they perform.�

The food presented at the event was clearly marked as vegetarian or vegan when applicable and also contained a list of potential allergens.

Lines were long for French Êclairs, Japanese sushi and Afghan kadu, a pumpkin dip served with bread. – JEREMY ERVIN

When news broke of a possible armed assailant Friday evening, the Ball State women’s basketball team was at practice inside Worthen Arena.

ONLINE “A couple policemen came out and said, ‘Coach, you need to get your team in the locker room and lock the doors,’� head coach For full story, Brady Sallee said. bit.ly/1aAss0f Sallee said he told the team to text their parents and families, but they were quiet at first. “Then they started talking amongst themselves a little bit,� Sallee said. “A couple of them were on their iPads, shopping. They got a little bit comfortable. I think they felt very safe at that point, waiting on the police.“ The locker room has a television in it, so the team was watching the news for updates.

Sallee thought highly of the work done by the police officers Friday. “I’m at an age where I distinctly remember the Columbines and the Virginia Techs,� Sallee said. “That kind of stuff is real. ... I didn’t see anyone at all ever in a panic because I think the police had it so under control — right from the get-go.�

The team’s next practice was 7 a.m.

Saturday. “I think [the players] felt good to get back out there and return to normalcy a little bit,� he said. –

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HJR-6: Gora takes stance, hopes legislature listens | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Both the recommendation passed by University Senate and Gora’s statement addressed Ball State’s need to attract talented faculty — HJR-6, if passed by the legislature and by voters in November 2014, would make Ball State less attractive.

The statement passed by University Senate said Ball State “supports the goals of the Freedom Indiana organization.”

In her statement, Gora did not mention Freedom Indiana, which is a statewide coalition dedicated to defeating HJR-6. The group is made up of business and faith leaders, community organizations and individuals.

Call to Action, an on-campus educational and awareness group for political issues in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, was one of the first to sponsor the SGA resolution.

Secretary AJ Owens said he thinks Gora’s statement backs up Ball State’s commitment to diversity.

“I think its important for the

LGBT community to feel that we are students that also matter to them,” Owens said. “This was the next step to Ball State making campus a really inclusive place.”

Owens said he was slightly surprised to see the vote because he thought Ball State wouldn’t want to make a political statement.

After the University Senate meeting Thursday, Gora said there was some concern of an official stance negatively affecting the university.

“I would certainly hope that taking a principle stance would not be used against the university [in funding, etc.],” she said.

Gora also said she hopes the legislature will consider the statements made by Ball State, Indiana University, DePauw University, Wabash College, Eli Lilly, Cummins and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

“I think it’s important for legislators to realize that in many parts of the state, there is a strong feeling that this is not the right way to go forward,” she said.

PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT “We know that the issues involved in HJR-6 are highly charged and that people on both sides of the issue have strongly held beliefs. That is why we felt it was important to engage the University Senate and to hear from the campus community.

I agree with the senate’s resolution. Diversity, inclusion and tolerance are core values of the university. But as the resolution states, they are also sound business practices. We have seen major Hoosier employers such as Cummins and Eli Lilly express concern that the bill will hamper the state’s ability to attract businesses and talented employees, and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce agrees.

I believe Ball State is doing the right and moral thing by expressing opposition to HJR-6, but it is also sound policy that is consistent with our core values. We will continue to reaffirm our commitment to diversity and tolerance.”

STORMS: Some surprised by weather late in tornado season, officials say

| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Gov. Mike Pence said 12 Indiana counties reported either tornados or damage Sunday during the storms according, to The Associated Press. Pence plans to tour the cities of Kokomo, Washington and Lafayette to asses the most hard-hit areas.

Kokomo declared a state of emergency and asked people to stay inside their homes, according to the AP. The Kokomo Police Department posted several photos to Twitter of buildings that had roofs torn off and a destroyed bank.

Kokomo Mayor Greg Goodnight said Sunday’s storm is

the worst he has seen in the 48 years he has lived in the city.

“The whole neighborhood’s gone,” Michael Perdun, a Washington, Ind., resident said in an AP article. “The wall of my fireplace is all that is left of my house. ... All of a sudden, I could see daylight up the stairway and my house was gone.”

By nightfall, the storm had killed three in the city as police received reports of looting taking place.

Officials have said the unusually powerful storm hit late in the severe storm season, which led some to be surprised when the tornadoes touched down, according to the AP.

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“People can fall into complacency because they don’t see severe weather and tornadoes,” Matt Friedlein, a weather service meteorologist, said. “But we do stress that they should keep a vigilant eye on the weather and have a means to hear a tornado warning because things can change very quickly.”

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