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Josh Yeager, an Indianapolis resident, lugs debris from one pile to the next as volunteers attempt to sort and gather the remains of a house that was on East Ricketts Street on Monday in Kokomo, Ind. Phyllis Rawlins owns the house that her husband built as their first home about eight years ago. She mentioned to volunteers that all she is worried about finding is her wedding ring. About three dozen people were injured in storms in the city Sunday, according to The Associated Press.
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2-11 early deficit brings Majok into game after initial benching EVAN BARNUM-STEGGERDA CHIEF REPORTER | @Slice_of_Evan This men’s basketball team will go as far as the seniors carry it, head coach James Whitford has said. After the second half performance against Southeast Missouri, that could be further than most expected. Seniors Jesse Berry, Majok Majok and Chris Bond combined for 32 of Ball State’s 47 second half points and helped cap an 87-83 win. SENIORS IMPACT “We won this game because of [the se- IN SECOND HALF niors], no question,” CHRIS BOND, Whitford said. “We’ve A SENIOR FORWARD got a long road ahead • 12 points of us ... but I’m tell- • 2 boards ing you, we’re getting better, and if we stay JESSE BERRY, on this path, we’re A SENIOR GUARD going to be a team • 13 points nobody wants to play MAJOK MAJOK, in February.” After a slow start, A SENIOR FORWARD which he likened to • 7 points the dismal perfor- • 7 boards mance against Mar- • 1 assist ian University in the exhibition game, Ball State quickly found itself down 2-11, shooting just 1-of-9 from the field and committing four turnovers. The Cardinals looked flat early without all-conference big man Majok in the starting lineup after missing a class this week. Majok and Berry were held scoreless until just six minutes were left in the first half. Whitford went to his bench for the spark, specifically his youth. The lineup of four freshmen: Zavier Turner, Mark Alstork, Quinten Payne and Franko House and sophomore Bo Calhoun ignited a 12-2 run midway through the half and regrouped the Cardinals. “Just calming down was it,” said Turner, who hit two three-pointers and found Alstork for a dunk in the run. “Once we calmed down, everything took care of itself with us just playing our game.” Ball State held onto the lead until late in the second half, finding success against a variety of match-up zones and man-to-man defenses employed by Southeast Missouri.
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TRUSTEES LOOK OVER FIRMS IN SEARCH FOR NEXT PRESIDENT
The Board of Trustees met Friday to begin looking over nine search firms before selecting one to use to find a successor for President Jo Ann Gora, who announced her retirement for the end of June. Firms had until Nov. 11 to respond to the university’s request, which went out Nov. 1. The board is expecting to choose a firm by Dec. 13 and begin the closed search for a new university president. Trustees hope to select a candidate by July 1. A closed search will mean the identities of potential candidates will not be released. Hollis Hughes, president of the Board of Trustees, said during a press conference Oct. 28 that the board is not looking for short-term leadership. He said they are hoping to find a candidate without needing an interim president. The hiring process to select Gora in 2004 also was private. That was the first time the board did not introduce the applicants to anyone on campus, but used a search firm and committee to select the president. “Just about every one of the finalists were sitting chancellors or presidents,” Gora said during the same press conference. “So that leads to a closed search. ... “In the end, you want the best candidate pool possible, and a closed search is ultimately the best way to get that. In the end, it is the Board of Trustees who select the president, so their opinion is what matters.” Hughes said they will discuss the situation more during the December meeting.
A car settles in the foundation of the house that was on East Ricketts Street in Kokomo, Ind. The car had pinned a woman underneath it until rescue workers were able to free her, following the storm Sunday. The woman was released from the hospital with bruises, according to volunteers on the scene. Phyllis Rawlins, 59, owns the house that the storm destroyed. Before the storm hit, her daughter-in-law and four friends took shelter in the basement, said Loren Sitzes, a family friend.
Volunteers clean up Kokomo, Ind., damage following 2 tornadoes
Volunteers and residents continue to shovel debris and gather anything salvageable from one of several destroyed homes near Home Avenue in Kokomo, Ind. Volunteers on scene were using face masks and eye protection to avoid injury from the particles of insulation being shoveled from the wreckage. Kokomo resident Loren Sitzes said most of the volunteers came from the A construction payloader assists with cleanup as dozens of volunteers continue to pile the debris. The two-story house on the property was left in pieces with just the roof remaining intact. Water flooded where the kitchen once church that the home’s owner, Phyllis Rawlins, attends. About was until it was shut off in the late afternoon. Volunteers will continue to clean up the property this week. 30 volunteers helped clean up the property Monday.
Evidence refutes claims of tornado myth 3 tornadoes hit Muncie over span of 15 years, proving fable untrue KAITLIN LANGE AND SAM HOYT | news@bsudailynews.com Muncie’s supposed lack of tornadoes has been attributed to Indian roots and luck, but some experts explain Delaware County is no exception to twisters. Cailin Murray, an associate professor of anthropology, said she heard the myth that Chief Munsee blessed
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the area to keep severe weather away when she first came to Muncie. “I was very concerned about tornados coming from the Pacific Northwest,” she said. “And so when I got here I would ask people, ‘Do tornadoes ever hit Muncie?’ They would say, ‘Well, you work with Native Americans and you should know this, that there’s this old myth about Chief Munsee.’” Murray said what’s truly funny about the myth is how widespread it is. “People have this story all over the Midwest, that [tornadoes] will hit everywhere else, but they will never
hit our town because of some sort of ancient Indian belief,” she said. Muncie may not be as safe as the fables suggest, though. Almost 20 tornadoes have been reported in Delaware County since 1950, including three in Muncie in the last 15 years — in 2002, 2003 and 2010. A Facebook page, “I survived the BSU Tornado 2010,” gathered more than 2,000 likes after a storm in October 2010 with the description, “Bad Weather Redefined.” Another myth about tornadoes in Muncie is that the White River diverts severe weather be-
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•M yths can help comfort people, such as the safety connotation of the Muncie tornado myth • Myths can convey valuable information in an interesting way • Myths kept old ideas alive before written communication became popular SOURCE: Chris Shea, a professor of classics
cause of its path, but this has been busted, too. “A small bend in a river isn’t significant compared to the scale of a tornado,” David Call, an assistant professor of geography, said.
From a very young age, Sherita Campbell began tapping into her intuition
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In the article “Ball State braves storm intact,” the Daily News reported Monday that three people were killed in Indiana from Sunday’s storms. This is incorrect; no one died in Indiana because of tornadoes. The Daily News regrets this error.
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last month. Authorities said 92 people subsequently died of dehydration, most of them women and children. Amadou said the suspects included police officers as well as others who had taken money to help migrants travel to Europe. The area just south of the vast Sahara Desert has been used by smugglers for decades.
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Indiana sees damage after 11 tornadoes Storm in Kokomo worst, fastest winds since twister in ’65 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KOKOMO, Ind. — The buzz of chainsaws cut through the chill Monday as shaken Indiana residents began cleaning up from at least 11 tornadoes that carved an angry path of destruction across 12 counties, injuring dozens but miraculously sparing lives. Gov. Mike Pence toured several storm-tossed communities as state officials began assessing the damage to determine whether to seek federal disaster aid. “I haven’t seen such devastation in a long, long time,” Pence said in hard-hit Kokomo, where at least 32 people were injured and about 50 homes were destroyed. The storms that hit Indiana on Sunday were part of a wave of severe weather that cut across the Midwest, killing six people in Illinois and two in Michigan. The National Weather Service said its preliminary findings indicate that at least six EF2 tornadoes packing wind speeds of 111 to 135 mph struck Indiana. They included one of the
ground for 10 miles that hit Kokomo, a 12-mile tornado in nearby Grant County and one in southwestern Indiana’s Knox County that traveled 19 miles. Tornadoes also were reported in two other southern Indiana counties and in Jasper County to the north. The storms cut power to thousands, tore off roofs, damaged schools and left mountains of debris where homes once stood. About 30,000 homes and businesses, mostly in northern and central Indiana, remained without power Monday. Several school districts canceled or delayed classes because of power issues or damage. Damage ranged from a 110-year-old post office in the historic Indianapolis community of Irvington to grain silos, houses, factories and a coffee shop in places including Lafayette, Lebanon, Washington and Vincennes. The storm that hit Kokomo was the worst to hit the city since a deadly tornado on Palm Sunday in 1965, the Kokomo Tribune reported. “In my lifetime, this is the worst tornado we’ve ever experienced,” said Mayor Greg Goodnight, who was born a few days after the 1965 twister.
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• At least six people were killed • One of the worst-hit areas was Washington, a town of 16,000 about 140 miles west of Chicago • The National Weather Service said the tornado had a preliminary rating of EF4, with wind speeds of 170 to 190 mph • About 250 to 500 homes had been damaged or destroyed MICHIGAN
• 620,000 homes and businesses lost power • The Red Cross opened five emergency shelters Monday to help those without power • At least two people were killed • More than 100 schools in the Detroit area canceled classes • High winds forced officials to close the 5- mile Mackinac Bridge to semi-trucks and trailers OHIO DN PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP
Volunteers and residents continue to shovel debris and gather anything salvageable from one of several destroyed homes near Home Avenue in Kokomo, Ind.
Even so, many residents counted their blessings as they searched for belongings amid the wreckage. Phyllis Rawlins, 59, said losing the two-story Victorian-style house she and her late husband built about eight years ago was
hard, especially since the storm came about a year after her husband’s death. “This is a severe loss, after losing him,” she said. But she was grateful that her granddaughter, Chelsea, and friends from church survived.
They were in the house when the storm struck and got to the basement just before the tornado lifted the house, moving it 100 feet away onto train tracks. Chelsea suffered a broken ankle, Rawlins said, and the others had broken bones and cuts.
Avenue and McGalliard Road. Panda Express is expected to open in January, near Walmart off McGalliard Road. Donati said he hopes that the Dick’s development will retrieve and draw in new business to the community. Chick-fil-A opened on McGalliard Road in late August. “Thankfully, Muncie was incredibly gracious and welcome to us — it has gone very well,” owner Craig Sample said. “There wasn’t any sort of buildup, it was just boom and off and running. We have had lots of regulars, which is very cool.”
Sample said he has seen a consistent flow of customers and a set of regulars since then. Donati said he has seen a similarly grateful response since the announcement of Dick’s in a new development coming to Muncie. “The number of people I’ve talked to are just grateful that there is a Dick’s Sporting Goods coming to town because they immediately said, ‘I have to drive 40 miles north or south to go to a Dick’s Sporting Goods,” he said. “That money leaves our community. “I’ve talked to 30 or 40 people and they’ve said to me,
‘Hey, I’m really glad you’re bringing Dick’s here. We’ve a long time for that.’” Sample said despite being a corporation, almost all Chickfil-A businesses are independently owned, including the one here in Muncie, keeping revenue in the county. The new franchise owner of Culver’s, Rayme Swan, said his business won’t bring in employees at new stores, but rather hire locally as to not harm local business. “I think that there is good population here in Muncie that allows for a diversity in busi-
• Tens of thousands were left without power • The National Weather Service confirmed Monday that two tornadoes touched down in the northwest part of the state, although no significant injuries were reported • Winds toppled a drive-in movie screen at a theater in the Toledo suburb of Oregon SOURCE: The Associated Press
Dick’s Sporting Goods to join corporations in Muncie Culver’s to initiate construction Friday following ceremony ALAN HOVORKA STAFF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu Dick’s Sporting Goods, Panda Express and Culver’s are a few big names that will be coming to Muncie. Todd Donati, president of Delaware County Commissioners, said these businesses bring healthy competition to the city. “I’ve always said competition
is a healthy situation because it forces people that are in the business to do better and to provide more,” he said. “And if they are not willing to step up to the plate and be a better performer, then they are going to fall.” A few weeks ago, Dick’s Sporting Goods announced it will join a multi-million dollar development in the Village as the third sporting goods store in the area. The development also will bring four or five stores to the Muncie area. Culver’s is planning on a ground-breaking ceremony Friday on the corner of Wheeling
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A bullet hole on Neely Avenue outside of the Student Recreation and Wellness Center resulted from an officer’s accidental discharge during the search for a reported armed assailant Friday. No one was injured.
INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY TO FIND SOURCE OF POLICE GUN DISCHARGE
An Eaton, Ind., police officer said the department is investigating the accidental firing of a gun into Neely Avenue on Friday during a search for a potential armed person in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. “There was an Eaton police officer there, and we had a negligent discharge of a weapon,” the officer said. He said other than confirming an investigation, there is no other information to release at time of publication. Eaton police were unable to comment on what repercussions, if any, the officer would face had he failed to take proper care of his firearm. State Police Lt. Thomas Dujmovich, said the investigation will probably remain inside the department. “I can’t speak on how that agency will deal with it,” he said. “We [each] have our own policies and procedures.” –
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A group that includes Indiana clergy members spoke at the Indiana Statehouse against House Joint Resolution 6 on Monday afternoon. The Interfaith Coalition on NonDiscrimination is a Hoosier group that works for justice for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community and includes faith communities. ICON, along with Ball State, stand with Freedom Indiana, a bipartisan organization formed to oppose the resolution that would define marriage as between a man and a woman in the state’s constitution. Ball State’s University Senate expressed support of Freedom Indiana’s goals in the statement passed at its meeting Thursday. ICON delivered a letter to the representatives, expressing reasons for opposing HJR-6 and cited religious liberty and civil rights. “Our views on marriage differ,” the letter said. “But we speak with one voice to oppose amending the Indiana Constitution to define marriage. Each of our faith traditions emphasizes justice. For our society to be just, the civil rights of all people, even those with whom we may disagree, must be protected.” The letter expressed the group’s view that discrimination should not be written into the state constitution. It was signed by more than 300 faith leaders across the state. – STAFF REPORTS
MYTH: Geology professor says Muncie is generally small target for large storms | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 He led the Ball State Storm Chasers, an immersive learning class that trains students to monitor and predicts storms. Overall, Call believes the tornadoes don’t avoid Muncie as much as the city is a small target. “I think we don’t really tend to conceive how big the target area is that tornados can hit,” he said. “It’s like throwing darts at a board, and Muncie’s a relative-
ly small target. ... That doesn’t mean it won’t get hit, but that means it should have a fairly long period without getting hit.” Murray also agrees that the blessing of Chief Munsee is a just a myth, but for different reasons. “My feeling on it is that people want to tell those kinds of stories because of the ongoing concerns settler societies have with colonialism and their relationship with Native Americans and Indian removal,” she said. “Maybe people would like to be-
lieve that the Native Americans who were removed from here liked them enough to do that for them, but hard to believe.” Even the man in the myth has been called into question. Karen M. Vincent, the director of collections at the Minnetrista Cultural Center, said the fabled Native American never existed in her blog post from Aug. 22, “There Wasn’t a Chief Munsee. Really, There Wasn’t.” When it comes down to it, these experts agree — myth busted.
ness,” Swan said. Although three newest businesses are fast food, Donati said he doesn’t think economic status plays into the popularity of fast food in Muncie. “I think people go for convenience, it’s a timing factor,” he said. “If they [have] 20 minutes to get something to eat, they’re going to go to a fast food restaurant. If they’ve got an hour and some time, they are going to go to some place and sit down and be catered to by somebody who is going to bring the food to them and sit around and talk.”
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WEDNESDAY Brittany Carter brings the women’s basketball team up against Evansville for another non-conference game.
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In victory, senior bags career-high points Second-half boost provides offense, new life for team DAVID K. JONES STAFF REPORTER | @dkjones_BSU As Ball State beat Southeast Missouri 87-83 Monday, seniors Chris Bond and Jesse Berry achieved new personal bests as they led their team to a 2-1 record on the year. Bond, who was last year’s MidAmerican Conference leader in steals, scored a career-high 20 points, grabbed three rebounds and handed out an assist and as he carried his team to victory. “I was just playing throughout our offense, trying to stay in attack mode and crashing the offensive boards,” Bond said about his performance. Bond picked up his offense at the 3:51 mark of the second half with a put-back dunk off a missed three-point attempt from Berry, which had the entire crowd of 2,765 on their feet. The Gary, Ind., native then scored the next seven points for the Cardinals, capping it off with a fast break alley-oop dunk from freshman Zavier Turner, which led to a Southeast Missouri timeout. “It’s been in the back pocket,” Turner said about creating the play. “I saw him in the first half,
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Senior forward Chris Bond attempts the layup against Southeast Missouri on Monday at Worthen Arena. Bond scored a career-high 20 points in the win.
but I kind of missed him — I was a little iffy on the pass from half court.” Turner said he has talked about throwing lobs to Bond all season. Bond was relatively quiet going into Monday’s game, part of the reason being the strong play of Turner. In the season opener, Bond scored just seven points against an Indiana State team, only to add eight points in the blowout win against Taylor. In the first half of Monday’s game, Bond had a quiet eight
points before heading to the locker room. That changed in the second half after a series of tough contested layups for the 6-foot-4 forward. Bond finished 6-of-11 from the field with 8-of10 from the foul line. Berry moved up in the record books as he passed up Peyton Stovall for No. 3 in Ball State school history of three-pointers made with 165. Berry finished with 19 points on 5-14 shooting and 3-11 from distance. Berry tied his fellow Lafayette Jefferson High School alumnus
at the 6:45 mark of the second half with a three to put his team up by two. Berry would then pass Stovall at the 3:14 mark off an assist from Turner. “It’s feels good, just hard work, getting my shots up and doing what I do every day.” Berry said. “It’s an honor to be in that category.” Berry and Bond combined to score 39 points to go along with fellow senior Majok Majok’s 11. Tyler Koch was the only senior to not score Monday night.
plenty of experience and know how to elevate their game when it matters most. “You’ve got an extra gear and if you don’t, you have to find it somewhere,” Baker said. “This is it and you get a feeling that says ‘OK, it’s time to turn it up one or two notches.’” Seidel shared the sentiment. The team’s starting setter said there’s an urgency that exists only in the postseason, knowing that if they lose, there’s no walking back onto the court again. It’s a feeling she said before the season began that she never wants to feel again. Ball State was swept out of the tournament last season by Ohio, an emotional end to an injuryplagued season. Ball State’s players may have stepped up their intensity against Ohio, but the injuries
had already taken their toll. “We understand that this is our only chance and everybody had to play at a higher level,” Seidel said. “We have to flip the switch and play better than we ever have before.” There’s extra incentive for Seidel and Baker to win this season, as they will graduate. If they don’t win the MAC championship now, it’ll never happen. The duo has never competed in the tournament together. Last season, Baker missed the lone game due to a back injury. In 2012, Seidel had torn her ACL in early November and was out for the rest of the season. This time, they will take the court together. They both understand what’s at stake. Their team is the third seed in the tournament, which is the highest since 2011 when the team
entered as the first seed. “The demeanor changes, everything is a little more serious and driven, focused,” Baker said. “We’ve got one common goal, and everything we’ve worked on so far leads up to this.” Ball State has played through much of the season smiling during matches, laughing and being lighthearted. It’s helped the Cardinals to a 24-7 overall record and share of the MAC West title. Although Baker said she expects that to continue, she also anticipates her team to recognize the gravity of the situation and adjust play accordingly. “For the MAC Tournament, it’s important to be way more serious than a normal match is,” Baker said. “But it’s important to keep that loose control, otherwise, you’ll end up with stage fright.”
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When the lights turn on in the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, the Ball State women’s volleyball team can’t afford to make mistakes. Not when one error could make the difference between a Mid-American Conference championship and leaving empty handed. As the pressure builds, so does the energy that seniors Jacqui Seidel and Kylee Baker play with. Now in their final tournament, the pair said they have
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The Ball State women’s volleyball team shouldn’t worry if its trailing Western Michigan late in a set. That’s because the Broncos can’t close a set out, and the team proved it in both of its matches against the Cardinals. Whether it’s a mental collapse, lack of experience or Ball State’s play, Western Michigan has lost six sets to Ball State this season. In four of them, Western Michigan held a lead late but couldn’t put the set away. Saturday night, Western Michigan was leading 17-14 in the first set, Ball State went on a 11-4 run to steal it away. Five Broncos errors helped that cause as the team stumbled and bumbled away a chance to take the first set on senior night, losing momentum and handing Ball State a regular season closing victory. Not long after, Western Michigan led 21-20 in the second set until an attack error tied the match. A minute later, Ball State fell behind but tied the match again, this time off a blocking error from Gillian Asque. Ball State went on to win the set. The problem appears to be apparent to Western Michigan head coach Colleen Munson, as well. Earlier in the season, her team blew two late leads to Ball State
at Worthen Arena before being blown out of the third set. Western Michigan looked broken during the final set. After it ended, Munson spent nearly 45 minutes saying who knows what to her players in the locker room. It couldn’t have been positives. Four girls emerged crying, and Munson was very short with the media afterward, making it clear that she didn’t want to talk. That’s not the look of a mentally sound team, not the look of one that has the fortitude to match Ball State blow-for-blow late in a close set. When head coach Steve Shondell’s team take the court Friday in Geneva, Ohio, at the Mid-American Conference Tournament, there will be no reason to fear the Broncos. Whether it’s a win or loss, his team hasn’t panicked during matches. The players have kept their composure, an important factor in the tournament. When a set is decided by just a few points, Ball State has done well all season with coming out on top. The team from Kalamazoo, Mich., has done nothing to prove that it can beat Ball State when the set is on the line. The team has, however, proven that it can beat itself. Against the Broncos, the Car-
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Leads Western Michigan has blown to Ball State OCT. 11: • Set 2: Western Michigan leads 19-14 Ball State wins 25-23 • Set 3: Western Michigan leads 24-21 Ball State wins 25-23 NOV. 16: • Set 2: Western Michigan leads 19-14 Ball State wins 25-23 • Set 3: Western Michigan leads 24-21 Ball State wins 25-23 dinals simply have to make sure the players don’t try to do too much. By staying calm, the Cardinals automatically have an advantage over the opponent. Western Michigan’s players looked frayed and frazzled as they were blowing late leads to Ball State, rather than keeping their cool. By winning the mental fight, Ball State has already won half the battle. When alerted that they would play Western Michigan in the first game of the tournament, Ball State’s Alex Fuelling and Hayley Benson smiled and chuckled. There’s no sense of fear of Western Michigan from them. Hard to blame them either.
SATURDAY Coming off a win against Southern Missouri, the men’s basketball team battles Butler at Worthen Arena.
BASKETBALL: Forward steals win away in final minutes | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 But when the Redhawks switched to a 1-2-2 fullcourt press, the Cardinals looked rattled, taken out of their sets that had been successful in transition and in the half court. With 7:08 remaining, Ball State trailed 61-62 for the first time in more than 20 minutes of game time. That’s when the seniors took over. “It was a big win, collectively,” said Berry, who passed Peyton Stovall for No. 3 alltime in Ball State history for three-pointers made with 165. “A lot of guys stepped up and a lot of guys made plays.” No play was bigger than Bond’s put-back dunk off a free throw miss from Berry that put Ball State up 72-71, a lead the Cardinals would not relinquish again, for two of his career-high 20 points. “I saw nobody crashed,” Bond said with a smile, recounting two of his seven points in the last four minutes. “I thought [Berry] was going to hit it, but I still just crashed, and I got it — it was just off instinct.” Turner knocked down four straight foul shots with less than a minute left to ice the game for Ball State. The clutch free throws gave Turner 19 points for the game and made him the first Ball State freshman to score at least 17 points in three straight games since Jim Fields in 1975-76.
FRESHMAN IMPACT IN FIRST HALF FRANKO HOUSE, A FORWARD • 2 points • 2 rebounds • 5 assists QUINTEN PAYNE, A GUARD • 2 points • 2 rebounds • 5 assists MARK ALSTORK, A GUARD/FORWARD • 7 points • 1 rebounds ZAVIER TURNER, A GUARD • 9 points • 4 rebounds • 2 assists • Turner became the first Ball State player with 17 points and 4 assists in the first three games since Larry Bullington in 197374. • Turner also became the first freshman with at least 17 points in the first three games since Jim Fields in 1975-76.
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Senior outside hitter Kylee Baker hits the ball over the net against the University of Toledo on Nov. 7 at Worthen Arena. Ball State will play Western Michigan University on Friday in the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
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SUCCESSFUL SEASON WON’T BE DIMINISHED MAT MIKESELL MIKED UP Pete Lembo said it perfectly following Ball State’s loss to Northern Illinois. “Ball State, I think, has had two teams maybe in 90 years to win 10 or more games,” the head coach said. “We have a chance to do that in this next game. We have plenty to play for. We know if we get this next win, it’s going to enhance our chances to get into a nice postseason bowl game.” He was on the money, twice in Ball State history has a team won 10 or more games. The most recent was in 2008 and the first time it was done was in 1978 when the team went 10-1. Ball State will have to wait until Nov. 29 to host Miami, but that gives the team more time to regroup from Northern Illinois and get healthy. The time off also allows the Cardinals to prepare for the RedHawks and set its sights on making program history. Losing to Northern Illinois hurts, as a win would have clinched a berth in the Mid-American Conference title game Dec. 6. But like Lembo said, there’s still plenty to play for. A win against Miami will lock Ball State in a MAC tie-in bowl game. The likely destination is the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl in Detroit on
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Dec. 26, ironically the same venue as the MAC championship game. But if Northern Illinois can crack into a Bowl Championship Series bowl game again, Ball State could make a trip to the GoDaddy.com Bowl, usually reserved for the No. 1 MAC team. Regardless of where the team lands, the goal is still to get the first bowl win in program history. Ball State is 0-6 in bowl games with the most recent loss 17-38 in last December’s Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl. But a bowl game isn’t on Ball State’s mind right now. It’s preparing for Miami and making sure a senior class that includes Keith Wenning, Jamill Smith and Zane Fakes get a win in their final game at Scheumann Stadium. A win also will give Ball State a perfect record at home on the season, something that hasn’t been done since 2008, as well. Ball State was pushed out of the conference title picture, but there’s no reason to forget about this team. Like Lembo said, there’s still plenty to play for. And possibly some history to be made.
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She knows things are going to happen before they do. Sherita Campbell said there is no fanfare to these visions — no trumpets or angels heralding — just a matter of fact knowledge that these events she has seen must come to pass. Campbell operates in an unnamed office in downtown Muncie, offering people a range of psychic services, including tarot readings, group meditation and a palm healing method called “Reiki.” She said she first became aware of her gift as a child. When she first “saw” what was going to happen in the future, she didn’t realize she had a gift at first. She was perplexed when people reacted with amazement at her predictions. “I thought, ‘Well, how could you not know this was going to happen?’” Campbell said. It wasn’t until the age of 9 or 10 when an older cousin recognized her ability, she said. It was then when she received her first set of tarot cards and started on her path to helping people with her abilities. Campbell speculated her enhanced intuition resulted from a Native American background, where she said many of her ancestors possessed psychic-like abilities. She recounted memories of her grandmother who read tea leaves. “I remember whenever there was a crisis, grandma’s friend would come to the door carrying her own teapot and a sack of leaves saying, ‘I just knew something was wrong today, so I’ve come to help you,’” Campbell said. “They never called each other.” While she acknowledged her proclivity for predicting future events, she does not see herself as a complete anomaly. “I believe that everybody has intuition and psychic ability, and I think you just have to tap into it,” she said. “I was taught always follow your hunches, which is a form of psychic ability.” Kristen Ritchey, a Ball State associate professor of psychological science, said there was no single definition of intuition, but defined it as “a gut feeling that you probably don’t know how it developed or what information it was based on.” Ritchey said hunches and in-
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tuition are legitimate decision making strategies and can even go so far as to help humans predict the future. “As humans, we perceive and process information without realizing it,” she said. “So when we have a hunch, that hunch is probably influenced by many experiences or pieces of information we’ve gathered over time. [Humans] try to predict events and plan for them all the time. In our conscious thinking, our daydreams and our dreams, we play out hypothetical scenarios. So just by chance, I think it’s likely that we will sometimes be able to predict future events.” Ritchey said she tries to keep an open mind to the possibility that humans possess strong perceptual or cognitive abilities like Campbell’s, which she believes technology will eventually have the ability to measure. But Ritchey said she doesn’t see any scientific evidence for psychic abilities just yet. Campbell has conducted readings in Muncie for a little more than 20 years. She counsels customers on problems ranging from affairs of the heart to medical issues. “I have regular customers,” she said. “I have people that come when there’s a crisis like my grandmother and her friend with the teapot and the tea leaves. I have people I see once and never again for a problem, and I have people that come out of curiosity.” When asked whether she ever attempts to read people in her daily life, Campbell said the practice is forbidden in the psychic world. “People have to come to you and ask because you would upset them too much,” she said. “Now, if I know somebody very well — and it’s very pronounced and they’re a friend — I may call and try to get them to tell me something and then explain to them what I saw.” Campbell said psychics like Theresa Caputo from the TLC show “Long Island Medium,” who conducts impromptu readings on the street, may do this and that is OK, but she has done so at parties and mass readings only. Campbell offers up her services for special events and parties. She said while she likes to be accurate at mass readings, she attempts to
avoid tidings of death. “As my friend who sends people to me says, I have a way of telling people they’re going to die, and they’re real happy about it,” She said. “I don’t often tell people that they’re going to kick the bucket because I think that puts their mind in a stage that will make them die.” If Campbell senses death or a serious medical problem, she recommends the person seek medical attention in the form of a doctor or get Reiki. Reiki is hands on healing based on chakras in the body, she said. She identifies herself a Reiki master. She places her hands in a certain position and puts them on the body part that most needs healing. Her hands then produce a heat that facilitates the healing. Campbell does not recommend Reiki in replacement of professional medical attention, but said it helps a person inflicted with an incurable disease to calm down, perhaps allowing them to receive the prescribed medication they need to help them. Kendra Zenisek, a Ball State physical education instructor and licensed massage therapist, said she was trained to know about Eastern medicine practices, such as Reiki, and believes it can be beneficial for individuals experiencing pain. She said the relief from pain could be a mixture of a psychological response and, to an extent, an actual physical removal of pain. Another service Campbell offers is tarot card readings. Each card has a meaning subscribed to it that you must memorize, she said. “That’s the first thing you learn,” she said. “And the second thing you learn is to forget it.” Although all the card’s basic meanings remain the same, she said, identical combinations of cards entail different significance for different people. “You steal, at least I do, from the person,” Campbell said. “I see their aura and I see the visions and I see things, and then the cards tell me. Am I always right? Probably not.” She said her interpretations should possess a closeness to right at the very least. “I may not say, ‘Oh, your
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SHERITA CAMPBELL, a Muncie psychic
GET YOUR READ ON Campbell accepts appointments via her home phone number, 765289-9767, but does not give directions to her office unless she determines the caller is serious. left finger is going to break in a week,’ but I will be able to tell that there’s going to be something to go wrong,” she said. “I think that the most important thing about being a reader is telling the truth, no matter how appalling.”
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