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NO CHARGES AGAINST WILSON Grand jury in Ferguson case decides against indictment of police officer in killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown

Americans and police. Within minutes of the announcement by St. Louis County’s top prosecutor, crowds began pouring into Ferguson streets to protest the decision. Some taunted police, shattered windows and vandalized cars. Several gunshots were also heard. Officers released smoke and pepper spray to disperse the gatherings. Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch said the jury of nine whites and three blacks met on 25 separate days, hearing more than 70 hours of testimony from about 60 witnesses, including three medical examiners and experts on blood, toxicology and firearms.

| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FERGUSON, Mo. — A grand jury declined Monday to indict white police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests and inflamed deep racial tensions between many African-

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« I don’t believe that it’s good for police

« If people aren’t saying the same thing,

officers to have the first instinct to shoot to kill rather than shoot to injure or shoot to disarm.

then I guess there is no reason to charge him. They have the facts, so facts overrule anyone’s opinion anyways.

ASHLEY JOHNSON, a freshman Spanish major

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STUDENTS REQUEST Ninety-seven of 100 students want emergency notice of recent armed burglary attempt CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS CRIME REPORTER

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Two weeks after armed men came into a student’s home near campus, shooting one in the leg, many students are still learning about the incident and calling for more university alerts on crime. Amie Cipolla, a junior residential property major, lives less than a block away from the West Rex Street residence where three men with guns burst into the house that three students live in an apparent burglary attempt. Even though she can see the house from her window she didn’t learn about the event until a friend posted the story to Facebook late last week. Rumors had been floating around that something had happened, Cipolla said, but without an alert from the university she was hesitant to believe anything she heard. “Anyone that lives close to campus should be aware that something had happened,” she said. University Spokesperson Joan Todd said an emergency alert wasn’t sent out because “the situation was con-

Ball State received $975,000 in guarantee payouts last season DAKOTA CRAWFORD ENTERPRISE REPORTER | @DakotaCrawford_

Victory is just a consolation prize in some NCAA football games. Ball State has little shot at defeating Texas A&M when the teams play next September. The Southeastern Conference opponent is bigger, faster and historically competes at a higher level than the Cardinals. To help offset 1-2-1 APPROACH the lopsided odds, the AgWHAT gies’ athletic • One game against a power conference team for department will guaranteed income dish out $1.2 • Two games against FBS million in comopponents for pure competition pensation. The • One game against an FCS payout is called opponent that’s winnable a guarantee. BENEFITS Big schools pay • Plays toward bowl eligibility smaller schools • Pumps extra money into the athletic budget every year to play in games that may not even be competitive. Ball State could be in line to get its hands on more valuable guarantee games when the NCAA votes to adopt new legislation at its January convention. In August, the NCAA granted autonomy to the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference, referred to as the Power 5 conferences.

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tained, and there was no need to send one out.” She said the university wasn’t made aware of the situation until at least an hour after the shooting took place. Ball State offers students an option to sign up to receive alerts of campus emergencies to their cell phones. Also, every student and staff member automatically receives emails to their university accounts when the university sends out an alert. Todd said the university doesn’t send an alert unless they believe students need to take immediate action to stay safe or should have a heightened sense of awareness because of an increase in crime. Cipolla is far from the only student upset that Ball State didn’t send out an alert. In a poll of campus, 97 out of 100 students asked said they would have liked to receive an alert, even if it was an hour or more after the event took place.

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The Ball State Alert Twitter has been inactive since Oct. 14, despite incidences on campus that might have warranted its use. The tweet in October was a test, and the last actual tweet was posted on June 13.

“… the decision between waking a bunch of people unnecessarily or having even one person get hurt or killed is really a no-brainer.”

MARK BRUHN, IU’s associate vice president for public safety and institutional assurance

Senior Day emotional for running back Edwards broke school record for career carries in 45-30 win Saturday ROBBY GENERAL STAFF REPORTER | @THE_GeNeReX6 There are few things more emotional than having to say goodbye to something you love. Starting senior running back Jahwan Edwards said goodbye to Scheumann Stadium as he played his final home game as a Ball State Cardinal on Saturday. There is no doubt Edwards will be remembered at Ball State, as he now owns almost every career rushing record in school history, after surpassing former running back Marcus Merriweather for most career carries. “I’m just so thankful,” Edwards

said. “I didn’t know I was going to cry this much... I’m just thankful for the opportunity and trying to make the best of it, and I feel like I did on and off the field.” Edwards became a part of the Ball State football family in 2011 as a true freshman and played every game that season. After recording 786 yards and 11 touchdowns in his first year, his career went on to explode. He marked at least 1,000 yards and 10 touchdowns each of his next three seasons. On Saturday against Eastern Michigan, Edwards played a signature game, running for 131 yards on only 19 attempts. Even though it has been a tough season for the Cardinals, they came away with a dominant 45-30 victory on Senior Day.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday he is stepping down, leaving under pressure following a rocky tenure in which he struggled to break through the White House’s insular team of national security advisers. During a White House ceremony, Obama said he and Hagel determined it was an “appropriate time for him to complete his service.” Hagel is the first senior Obama adviser to leave the administration following the sweeping losses for the president’s party in the midterm elections. The resignation also comes as the president’s national security team has been battered by crises, including the rise of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and Russia’s provocations in Ukraine. The president praised Hagel, a Republican who grew close to Obama while they both served in the Senate, as an “exemplary defense secretary” who forged a strong bond with troops stationed around the world.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland officer was less than 10 feet away when he fatally shot a 12-year-old boy carrying a pellet gun near a playground, and a video of the shooting is clear about what happened, police said Monday. The boy was confronted Saturday by officers responding to a 911 call about a male who appeared to be pulling a gun in and out of his pants. The 911 caller said the gun was “probably fake,” then added, “I don’t know if

it’s real or not.” Deputy Chief Edward Tomba said Monday that he didn’t know whether a dispatcher shared that information with responding officers. The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolman’s Association said the officers weren’t told the caller thought the gun might be fake. “Our officers at times are required to make critical decisions in a split second,” Chief Calvin Williams said. “Unfortunately this is one of those times.”

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — The conventional wisdom in the Republican Party is changing. Less than two years ago, party leaders solemnly declared after an exhaustive study that the GOP “must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform.” But as President Obama issued a sweeping immigration order last week, some of the Republican Party’s most prominent governors described immigration reform as little

more than an afterthought. “This issue is probably not in the top 10 of most voters in America,” Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is considering a 2016 White House bid, said alongside nodding colleagues at the Republican Governors Association’s annual conference in Florida. Walker dismissed the Democratic president’s order that shields as many as five million immigrants from deportation as a trap designed to divert attention “from the real issues in this country.”

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2. IRANIAN NUCLEAR TALKS EXTENDED TO JULY VIENNA (AP) — Still facing significant differences between the U.S. and Iran, negotiators gave up on last-minute efforts to get a nuclear deal by the deadline Monday and extended their talks for seven more months. The move gives both sides breathing space to work out an agreement but may be badly received by skeptics in the United States, since it extends more than a decade of diplomatic efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear prowess.

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International negotiators are worried that Iran is using its nuclear development program as a cover for developing nuclear weapons, and they have imposed economic sanctions on Tehran. Iran denies the charge, saying it is only interested in peaceful nuclear programs like producing power. “Our logic has gotten closer, many gaps have been eliminated,” Rouhani said in a statement. At the same time, he said the sides were “still some distance” from sealing a deal.

5. ISRAEL RAZES HOMES TO PUNISH ATTACKERS JERUSALEM (AP) — Enas Shalodi, a Palestinian mother of six, has been severely punished by Israel for something she didn’t do. The demolition came a month after her oldest son, 21-year-old Abdel Rahman, drove a car into a crowd waiting for a train in Jerusalem, killing a 3-month-old girl and an Ecuadorean tourist before being shot

and killed at the scene. Israel has given house demolition notices to families of six Jerusalem assailants, including the Shalodi’s and the relatives of two cousins who killed five people in a synagogue last week. Government spokesman Mark Regev said Israel’s security services now “firmly believe that this can be an effective deterrent.”

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Fraternity stands 24 hours for homeless fundraiser Campaign to collect clothes, canned food for Muncie Mission KARA BERG CHIEF REPORTER | knberg2@bsu.edu

Even with 26 mph winds a few hours in and chances of rain, the men of Phi Beta Sigma still decided to stand at the Scramble Light for 24 hours. The fraternity is standing to raise money for the homeless from 8 a.m. Monday to 8 a.m. Tuesday. “We’re doing this to be able to give back to the homeless community,” said Chris Clifton, the vice president of the fraternity. “Also it humbles you to actually stay out for 24 hours. Even though it’s just a day, you’re experiencing somewhat of what that’s like.” They are collecting canned goods, monetary donations and gently used clothing to benefit Muncie Mission, and to raise awareness about what it’s like to be homeless. Phi Beta Sigma has been doing the campaign for about 30 years, but Clifton said this would be the first year it isn’t projected to be cold. “The Muncie residents are usually more monetary, Ball State students, they’ll bring old clothing, old jackets they can no longer fit into,” said A.J. Burks, the chapter adviser. “It’s important to know that we’ll collect all clothes, even though Muncie mission

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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “It doesn’t matter if it came out the next day, the next morning they should have told students,” Cipolla said. “Yeah they should have just let people know it happened, knowing that it was under control it would make people know that it happened [and that students were safe].” Although Ball State hasn’t sent out a single emergency alert so far this school year, an email was sent out to all students last week warning of an increase in burglaries on and near campus. The email didn’t specifically mention any crimes. More than half the students polled said they did not know about the armed attempted burglary and would have liked to know. “[The email] did make me aware but it didn’t seem as serious as it should have been,” Cipolla said. “Burglaries just sound like a small thing.” Indiana University, in contrast with Ball State, has been accused of sending out too many alerts to students. In one recent event several convenience stores near the Bloomington campus were robbed at gunpoint, and at one location the perpetrator shot a gun at officers, according to Mark Bruhn, IU’s associate vice president for public safety and institutional assurance on the IUPD’s website. The university sent out several alerts beginning around 1 a.m. “… the decision between waking a bunch of people unnecessarily or having even one person get hurt or killed is really a no-brainer even though we know the alerts can be inconvenient,” Bruhn wrote on the department’s blog. The university recently instituted a mandatory review process to look at every crime that occurs near campus and, as a committee, determine whether the best choice was made if an alert was sent or not. “In situations where the danger is known, and the risk to campus is known, the decisions are easier,” he wrote. “In cases where there are unknowns — well, we’ll all have to accept some level of inconvenience in order to ensure the safety of some.” For Cipolla, even in a sea of emergency alerts the shooting would have stood out.

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Fraternity Phi Beta Sigma stands at the Scramble Light for 24 hours to raise money for the Muncie Mission. They have done the fundraiser for 30 years, collecting canned goods, monetary donations and gently used clothing.

is strictly for men, we’ll still donate the clothes elsewhere. We collect anything.” Burks said many people donate in the morning, because they like to see that they actually stood out there for the full 24 hours before they give money. “Sometimes they’ll drop a check off to us in the morning, or in our Student Center box, just to see that we’re out there for 24 hours,” Burks said. “So the whole idea is to feel what it’s like to be homeless for 24 hours without having a shelter.”

Their goal this year is to hit $2,000 in monetary donations, and Burks said each year, they want to raise more money than the previous one. The fraternity chose to partner with Muncie Mission because it is one of the few organizations aimed at men. “So mostly homeless shelters and social services are geared toward women and children,” Burks said. “[Muncie Mission] actually works with them to provide a home, so that’s why we decided to

“I think this was a more Laboratory school off campus serious crime than most,” and a report of a gun in the Jo she said. Ann Gora rec“So if they center. “If they want people reation would have Several possent some- to live near campus and sible gas leaks thing out have been [for the at- come to this campus reported this tempted bur- they need to know what year, at least glary] even if one promptthey sent out is going on otherwise if ing a partial a bunch of something bad happens evacuation at alerts people the Teacher’s would have they won’t have a College. paid atten- student anymore.” All but six of tion to it.” the 79 polled Last year, AMIE CIPOLLA, a junior who have atBall State sent residential property major tended Ball out several State for more emergency alerts informing than this year said the alert students of several gas leaks, system has not been used efa bomb threat at the Burris fectively this year.

partner up with them.” Three and a half hours into the 24 hours, there weren’t many people there, but Brandon Smith, president of the fraternity, said he thinks the traffic will pick up once classes get out. He said doing this was important because the homeless don’t get enough publicity, and if they do, it’s negative. “It’s not that people don’t care, it’s just that they don’t know,” Smith said. “We’re there to raise awareness and help out a bit.”

Making students aware that violent crimes have taken place will make students take the warnings, like last week’s email, and safety information available online more seriously, Cipolla said. “Because if they aren’t aware more of these situations are going to occur,” she said. “I think if there is an issue there needs to be a [warning] ‘Hey this happened to your fellow students,’ puts it into perspective.” “If they want people to live near campus and come to this campus they need to know what is going on otherwise if something bad happens they won’t have a student anymore.”

FERGUSON: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 He stressed that jurors were “the only people who heard every witness ... and every piece of evidence.” He said many witnesses presented conflicting statements that were inconsistent with the physical evidence. “These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,” he said. As McCulloch was reading his statement, Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, was sitting atop a vehicle listening to a broadcast of the announcement. When she heard the decision, she burst into tears and began screaming before being whisked away by supporters. The crowd with her erupted in anger, converging on the barricade where police in riot gear were standing. They pushed down the barricade and began pelting police with objects, including a bullhorn. Officers stood their ground. At least nine votes would have been required to indict Wilson. The grand jury met in secret, a standard practice for such proceedings. Speaking for nearly 45 minutes, a defensive McCulloch repeatedly cited what he said were inconsistencies and erroneous accounts from witnesses. When asked by a reporter whether any of the accounts amount to perjury, he said, “I think they truly believe that’s what they saw, but they didn’t.” The prosecutor also was critical of the media, saying “the most significant challenge” for his office was a “24-hour news cycle and an insatiable appetite for something — for anything — to talk about.” Brown’s family released a statement saying they were “profoundly disappointed” in the decision but asked that the public “channel your frustration in ways that will make a positive

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change. We need to work together to fix the system that allowed this to happen.” President Barack Obama appealed for calm and understanding, pleading with both residents and police to show restraint. “We are a nation built on the rule of law, so we need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make,” Obama said. He said it was understandable that some Americans would be “deeply disappointed — even angered,” but echoed Brown’s parents in calling for any protests to be peaceful. The Justice Department is conducting a separate investigation into possible civil rights violations that could result in federal charges, but investigators would need to satisfy a rigorous standard of proof in order to mount a prosecution. The department also has launched a broad probe into the Ferguson Police Department, looking for patterns of discrimination. The Aug. 9 shooting inflamed tensions in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb that is patrolled by an overwhelmingly white police force. As Brown’s body lay for hours in the center of a residential street, an angry crowd of onlookers gathered. Rioting and looting occurred the following night, and police responded with armored vehicles and tear gas. Outside the Ferguson Police Department on Monday night, St. Louis County police used a bullhorn to order a crowd to disperse, saying it had become an unlawful assembly. Protesters defied the orders and some chanted “murderer.” Minutes later, four gunshots were heard down the street. Hours before the decision was made public, Nixon urged people to remain peaceful as he appeared at a news conference with the state’s public safety director and the leaders of St. Louis city and county.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE INDICTMENT BEING DROPPED?

« To me it’s just ridiculous because he was still

murdered. It doesn’t matter if he’s an officer or not, he still should get justice for what he did, killed an innocent person.

DIJON LOW, a sophomore music production major

« I believe they are starting to use too much force and are becoming murderers with permission. A human killing a human is unjust in any circumstance, and justice should be served.

JEANIE REUTER, a senior music education major

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Ball State will soon be seeing more action from high-ranked schools like Iowa and Texas A&M after new NCAA legislation changes the teams that can face one another. The legislation was intended to protect smaller programs, but may end up helping Ball State raise money.

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Redshirt sophomore forward Rocco Belcaster had a career high of 15 points with the 88-46 win over Grambling State. Ball State only committed four turnovers in the first half and finished with 10 in the second half, a problem that aided the loss against IUPUI.

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Redshirt sophomore Rocco Belcaster’s first three games weren’t what he expected after missing last season, but Monday’s game was a different story. Belcaster came off the bench and finished the game with a career-high 15 points, going 4-of-6 from the three-point range as Ball State defeated Grambling State 88-46 at Worthen Arena. “I’ve been feeling good in practice,” said Belcaster. “I was just letting the game come to me, everything was flowing pretty well.” Belcaster came into the game with urgency, helping the Cardinals off the bench with three triples in the first half. The game got off to a slow start, as both teams struggled to find their shot in the opening minutes. It wasn’t until Sean Sellers an-

swered with a three-pointer at the 18:47 mark that Ball State was able to get in rhythm. Sellers would finish the first half with seven points, and score 12 in the game. On the next possession, Sellers hit sophomore Franko House with a nice pass from the paint for another three-pointer, which would lead to a quick Grambling State 30 second timeout. Passing and turnovers were a big issue in the loss to IUPUI Saturday, and head coach James Whitford knew that was an adjustment his team had to make. “The biggest thing for us coming off Saturday’s game against IUPUI was taking care of the ball,” said Whitford. “Having [only] 10 turnovers was the stat of the game for us.” Ball State would commit just four turnovers in the first half. Freshman Jeremie Tyler, the Cardinals’ second leading scorer, was 0-5 before finally hitting his first shot in the first half, a corner three. From that point, Tyler made his next three shots, ending the first half with 8 points to lead Ball State. Ball State went on a 10-0 run before Grambling finally an-

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swered with a lay-in bucket. The Cardinals held the lead the entire first half, extending it to 19 with a House layup with just two seconds left going into halftime. Ball State shot 48 percent from the floor while also shooting an impressive 57 percent from three-point range in the first half, as Grambling State was only able to put up 22 points. The Cardinals followed up the first half by shooting 62 percent in the second half, shooting 54 percent overall from the field. They assisted on 23-of-30 made field goals. “I thought we played very unselfish,” Whitford said. “We have guys who are skilled and are good shooters.” The second half was no

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Senior Jahwan Edwards played in his last game at Scheumann Stadium on Saturday. He ended a career that achieved almost every rushing record in school history. Edwards is ranked one of the top 30 running backs in the nation.

“It feels great man, just to get a win period,” Edwards said. “At home for the seniors, our last game here, just unbelievable man, I just want to finish strong with the next one.” With a short week ahead, head coach Pete Lembo and company are already looking forward to battling with Bowling Green on Friday for the team’s season finale. “We have a quick turnaround,” Lembo said. “We’ve got to get to work, we’re down a day on our next opponent... we have to get ready for a real good team next week.” Edwards will look to build on his most recent performance against a Bowling Green team that is 5-2 in Mid-American Conference

different, as the Cardinals controlled the rest of the game. The half opened with a three-pointer from Tyler followed by a House dunk. Tyler remained aggressive in the second half, going 4-5 to finish with a game-high of 18 points. After fouling out late against IUPUI, House responded with a season-high of 12 points. Junior Bik Gill was the fifth Ball State player in double figures with 11 points. Fifth-year senior Matt Kamieniecki followed up a 15-rebound performance against IUPUI with 13 boards against Grambling State to lead Ball State. Ball State is now 2-2 on the season.

JAHWAN EDWARDS CAREER STATISTICS

Games played: 47 Rushing yards per game: 93.5 Rushing yards: 4393 (School record) Rushing attempts: 856 (School record) Rushing touchdowns: 49 (School record) play and sits atop the MAC East Division. The running back is currently ranked No. 27 in rushing yards in the nation with 1,083. An increase in standing could reap benefits for a Ball State offense that he became a leader of during his career. Since the Lembo era began, Ball State has seen three different starting quarterbacks and countless other starters across the field. The only piece of the offense that has remained constant is No. 32 in the backfield to carry the ball.

That means those five conferences, the wealthiest in college sports, can now adopt legislation separate from other conferences. Ball State interim athletic director Brian Hardin said those conferences will now likely encourage member schools to cut Football Championship Series opponents, the lowest level of Division I competition, from their schedules. “It won’t so much impact [Ball State],” he said. “It could indirectly benefit us, because we’ll have more opportunities to play schools from a conference that don’t want to play an FCS team.” The strength of schedule component used in the new College Football Playoff format will make playing bottom-feeders a big handicap for Power 5 schools. Starting this year, a selection committee will choose four schools to play in a singleelimination bracket deciding the national champion. That means a team like Ohio State from the Big Ten might avoid adding Indiana State from the Missouri Valley Football Conference to its non-conference schedule, Hardin said. That game could be too big of a blemish for the Buckeyes. “If you’re Ohio State,” he said, “you have to make sure your schedule strength is going to match up with that of a conference champion from the SEC or the Pac-12.” Last year, Ball State pocketed $975,000 in guarantee payouts — the second largest revenue listed in the athletic budget. Ball State received at least $1 million from guarantee payouts in three years prior to last. It’s a consistent form of income that, despite the chance of suffering a defeat, head coach and associate athletic director Pete Lembo has to consider when scheduling nonconference opponents. “You embrace it and make the most of it,” he said. “You use it as an opportunity. It’s going to be a great experience for the team. It’s going to be a great experience for the constituents that go to the game and it’s going to be great exposure for the university.” Exposure and income can greatly benefit Ball State, but some argue it’s not completely worth it. Jeff Smith, a leading voice on college athletics, said the current format is only ben-

eficial at a surface level. “The NCAA is broken,” Smith said. “Part of the reason there are so many schools in Division I is because the big schools want to play somebody smaller, pay them a bit and get a couple home games. You’ve seen the scores — sometimes they’re 70-3.” Smith has done extensive research on spending by college universities. He said one reason Ball State and other middle-of-the-pack colleges find themselves in a hole financially is because they want to compete with the big dogs. It’s all about portraying an image, Smith said. But the big schools need smaller schools, too. If Michigan only ever played other Big Ten schools, it would struggle to boost its record. Playing MAC schools can lead to a couple extra wins on the year, and that helps ensure a bowl game. Bowl eligibility drives scheduling decisions at most schools. Lembo works closely with the university president and athletic director to schedule non-conference opponents. It’s usually four games a season that include one big guarantee game for the income, two competitive Football Bowl Subdivision opponents, and one FCS game that’s winnable. It’s what Lembo calls the 1-21 approach. Long-term goals like bowl eligibility can be maintained while also pumping that extra money into the athletic budget. He hopes to go 2-2 in non-conference competition each year. “Then you’re in pretty good shape relative to being bowl eligible,” he said. “If you have a really good team, it’s not going to disaffect your team’s ability to compete for a MAC championship.” Though Ball State isn’t bowl eligible this year, it likely won’t change anything in scheduling for upcoming seasons. Teams often enter scheduling contracts for more than 10 years at a time. On Ball State athletics’ website, some non-conference matchups have been scheduled as far ahead as 2020-21. Ball State will take on Big Ten schools Illinois and Michigan, ACC member North Carolina State and Western Kentucky from Conference USA over the next six years. Hardin said any change in scheduling by the Power 5 conferences won’t necessarily impact how Ball State selects its non-conference opponents.

WOMEN’S SWIMMING

SENIOR EARNS MAC WEEKLY HONOR Ball State senior swimmer Jordan VanWinkle has been named the Mid-American Conference Swimmer of the Week, announced Monday. The Cardinals took first in the 11th annual Douglas A. Coers Invitational on Nov. 21-Nov.22. Ball State hosted the event and defeated Grand Valley State University in 13-of-21 events. VanWinkle posted five first place event victories in addition to a second and third place finish over the two-day event. She also finished the meet with two career bests, posting a 1:09.37 in the 100 breast stroke and a 24.76 in the 50 freestyle. The Ball State women’s swimming and diving team will return to action in the Eastern Michigan Invitational beginning on Dec. 5.

– STAFF REPORTS

JORDAN VANWINKLE

The senior had five first-place finishes in the team’s last meet.

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KEEPING STUDENTS INFORMED ON CRIME The Ball State Alert Twitter page launched a week before announcing a possible armed assailant in November 2013 in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The first tweet about that occurrence received 238 retweets, notifying the community of the potential danger and spreading knowledge of the Twitter page. Yet despite numerous recent reports of burglaries — some armed — the Ball State Alert Twitter has only tweeted once this semester. That tweet was just a test. With several resources available to notify students of threats, the Daily News questions Ball State’s failure to use them actively. When student safety is at stake, the university should take every step

to keep students aware. In the recent case of an armed burglary attempt off campus, in which a student was shot in the leg, university spokesperson Joan Todd said Ball State did not notify students because she said the situation was contained. But the three gunmen have yet to be arrested. If there is crime on or near campus, isn’t it the university’s responsibility to ensure students are aware? Ball State has yet to send out an emergency alert this year, only recently sending an email vaguely warning students of the increase in burglaries. Meanwhile, other institutions, like IU, send numerous alerts. IU has also developed a new protocol specifically for alerts.

In a post on the university’s Protect IU blog, Mark Bruhn, IU’s associate vice president for public safety and institutional assurance, wrote about the university’s new alert decision tree, which provides a step-by-step process to examine each situation before notifying campus. This provides a transparent protocol to determine how and why alerts are sent. “IU will continue training, reviewing and improving its alert system to make it as effective as possible,” Bruhn wrote. This mindset is essential in creating proper systems for situations like this. With such a transparent and readily available policy developing at IU, Ball State’s lack of preparation is especially evi-

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dent. If the university has a protocol, it must be transparent, publicly available and well-defined. We are not asking for Ball State to notify students of every small occurrence of crime on or near campus. We are asking for Ball State to examine situations more carefully and to develop a more structured and transparent protocol like IU’s to deal with them. If the university has resources such as emergency text notifications, the Ball State Alert Twitter and mass emails, it should not hesitate to use them under appropriate circumstances. Student safety is at stake. Informing the campus community of crimes does no harm. Leaving students unaware does.

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o matter what holiday you celebrate, there is a certain charm and joy in strand lights. Even though they add some cheerful, simple lighting, they have a tendency to look raw and unfinished. Thankfully, there are a couple ways to dress up your lights and make them look less like an afterthought and more of a cohesive part of your decor. Disclaimer: There are always worries about fires when it comes to holiday lights. As always, proceed with caution when dealing with electricity and never overload your circuits.

Strand Style #1 (Pictured)

Take your pipe cleaners and twist them around the wire part of your lights. I packed them as tight as I could, trying to make the wire look as much like a real branch as possible.

Take your ping pong balls and poke a hole in them. I took a craft knife and made a little ‘X’ in each one, just big enough for the light to fit though.

These balls were left over from another craft that I did at Halloween. However, if you don’t have 50 ping pong balls lying around the house, look on Amazon or an online craft store. If you go the route of practice balls instead of regulation, it’s quite a bit cheaper. I got 200 of them for about $25.

Pop the balls onto the lights. I shoved them all the way on so that you don’t see any of the light. You might need to go back and make the ‘X’ on the ball bigger.

Hang your lights with pride. The great thing about the way this is done is that the pipe cleaners make the wire much more sturdy and able to intertwine with things. This makes them easier to hang and interact with the rest of your decor.

Strand Style #2

WHAT YOU NEED: Style #1: Lights Pipe Cleaners (I used ones that look like greenery) Ping Pong Balls Craft Knife

Style #2: Lights Tinsel Paper Tape

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Start with your tinsel and wrap it around the wire of your lights, much like we did the pipe cleaners in the first one. The difference is that I made more than one pass. I had a pack of tinsel that was 50 feet long and I used all of it. The fuller the better, and since I used cheap tinsel it was needed.

Get enough paper to make folded lanterns. I used newspaper, but you can use any thin paper. Origami paper looks especially lovely.

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Fold your lanterns. You can use any type that you like, but I used a water balloon fold. If you don’t know this one, search for ‘Origami Water Balloon’ and you’ll find plenty of how-tos that can help you fold them. True origami uses no tape which is totally possible with this fold. However to make them stronger I just use a little piece of clear or paper tape to finish.

Blow your lanterns up and pop them on your lights. The hole in the bottom of the lantern should be just big enough to hold the light. I keep a few of these lanterns I made a few years ago in the box with my tree decorations and pop them on the lights every year. They can add a real pop of color.

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