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STINGING LOSS Northern Illinois pulls away in 4th quarter to beat Ball State for 6th straight year
Nation, state lack consistent interpretations of requirements HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | ALAN afhovorka@bsu.edu As Ball State continues to try to find its place in the national rankings of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, there is still no consistent definition of what STEM actually is. The United States is ranked 17th and 25th in science and mathematics, according to the Department of Education. Nationwide, there is a push to increase STEM graduates to fill STEM jobs and to rectify the nation’s perceived dwindling competitive edge in PERFORMANCE academics, which FUNDING FORMULA trickles down to the WEIGHTING universities. As a result, Ball State, a liberal arts college with national- Overall Degree Completion ly-recognized teaching and business programs, is scrambling At-risk Degree to increase its STEM graduation rates in an effort to compete for High Impact Degree funding with schools like Indiana University and Purdue Uni- Student Persistence versity, which are more STEM-oriented. The Indiana Com- On-Time Grad Rate mission for Higher Education determines additional Institution Defined funding for Indiana Productivity Metric universities through a performance-based funding formula, which takes different types of graduation rates and weighs them in terms of importance. Under the proposed distribution of performance funding, the ICHE recommended Ball State receive 2.8 percent of the $66 million state performance fund in fiscal year 2014. At the same time, they recommended 30.7 percent to go to IU and 29.5 percent to Purdue for the same year. The commission is currently working on funding distribution for next year. Despite the money invested, the U.S. has no clear definition of what it is debating when it comes to STEM and increasing efforts in those fields.
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In a nationally-televised contest, Ball State and Northern Illinois battled for the Bronze Stalk Trophy on Wednesday evening. The game, which ran into the night, was mostly dominated by Northern Illinois’s rushing offense. DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER | @DavidPolaski
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all State football head coach Pete Lembo knew beating Northern Illinois wasn’t going to be easy. Less than four minutes in, Ball State already trailed 14-0. Missed tackles, bad coverage and a muffed kickoff put Ball State in a hole before players had a chance to catch their breath. Ball State fought back to tie the game at 14, but ultimately fell 35-21 to Northern Illinois. “I would say I need to do a better job of preparing our team to go put our best foot forward and not play a sloppy game like tonight,” Lembo said. Huskies quarterback Drew Hare moved the ball downfield quickly to start the game, driving the ball to the Ball State sixyard line with the aid of a defensive pass interference penalty. Aregeros Turner took the ball into the end zone for a quick touchdown.
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BASS DAY: FEATURING GUEST ARTIST JEREMY KURTZ-HARRIS
From 4 to 6 p.m., the Atrium Gallery will have a reception for the faculty exhibition. The show displays artwork from faculty of the School of Art in various media.
Kurtz-Harris will perform and host a technique workshop at the Music Instruction Building beginning at 10 a.m. He is currently a music faculty member at San Diego State University and has served on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bass.
VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: LAUREN GALLASPY
Gallaspy is a ceramics assistant professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and will give a lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Art and Journalism Building room 175. She was recognized by the National Council on Education and is one of 25 recipients of the 2012 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.
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The Artist Within will feature artwork from members of the Muncie Artists Guild at a reception beginning at 5 p.m. Refreshments will be served. FIRST THURSDAY
Downtown Muncie will display art for this month’s First Thursday event starting at 5 p.m. Downtown galleries will be open to the public and serve refreshments to visitors.
RED-TAIL RUN AND HIKE
Prairie Creek’s Indian Hill will host a run/ hike beginning at 9 a.m. Race day signup will be from 7 until 8 a.m. Attendees can sign up at runsignup.com/Race/IN/ Muncie/RedTailTrailrunhike
come, first-served basis. FRIDAY VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: NICK TOBIER
UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION, STATESMEN, AND WOMEN’S CHORUS
At 4 p.m., Tobier will conduct a social intervention piece called “Muncie Guest Workers Corp” at the Quad. He is the director of the National Engagement at the Stamps School of Art and Design and the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan.
The three groups will perform at Sursa Music Hall at 7:30 p.m. The event is free for students with ID and $5 for general admission.
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The Strother Studio Theatre will present the production, which follows three different couples as they learn to be parents over nine months. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and costs $10 for students and $12 for the general public.
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DANCING PROS LIVE
Beginning at 7:30 p.m., dancers from “So You Think You DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY “Baby” will open at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Strother Studio Can Dance” and “Dancing With the Stars” will perform in focuses on three different couples trying to learn how to Theatre. The production be parents over nine Emens Auditorium. Tickets are free and available on a first- months.
Kamins will visit the Choral Hall from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. He is currently a faculty member at Rice University and has played in the Pittsburgh Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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FRIDAY The Ball State soccer team travels to Buffalo for the MAC Tournament semifinals. The match will begin at 4 p.m.
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Swimming and diving takes on Eastern Illinois on the road. The men’s meet begins at 6 p.m. and the women start at 7 p.m.
SATURDAY The women’s volleyball team travels to take on MAC foe Eastern Michigan. First serve is at 7 p.m.
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The last time the Ball State soccer team played Buffalo, the Cardinals lost on a penalty kick the Bulls received because of a blown call on a handball. When the two teams match up in the Mid-American Conference semifinals on Friday, head coach Craig Roberts wants his team to be focused on the present and not the past. “In the end, we have to just respect the call. We can’t do anything about it,” Roberts said. “We are getting a second bite of the cherry here, and we are going to go in with a lot of confidence.” Against fifth seeded Kent State in Sunday’s quarterfinals, junior Elaina Musleh sparked a Cardinal offense
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| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 After Jahwan Edwards muffed the kickoff, Cameron Stingily quickly scored another touchdown for the Huskies, extending the lead to 14-0. Not exactly the start Ball State was looking for. “You don’t panic, you don’t flinch, you know there’s so much football left to play,” Lembo said. “Don’t panic, just keep playing.” Ball State quarterback Jack Milas and the offense quickly
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that had failed to score more than one goal in seven of its previous eight matches. Musleh scored twice, the only goals the Cardinals scored, but a strong defensive performance and the team’s ninth shutout of the season were enough to secure the win. Despite managing to only score twice, Roberts said he liked the aggression his team showed. “They took a lot of shots when they had opportunities instead of looking for the assist,” Roberts said. “That’s something we will be promoting as we continue to build the confidence into the match.” Confidence is an area that Ball State isn’t lacking looking forward to the matchup with Buffalo, as the Cardinals have
won two of their last three road matches. The Cardinals will look to
continue this streak as they attempt to hand the Bulls their first loss to a MAC team this
season. Buffalo finished 9-0-2 in regular season conference play and will host the remainder of
the tournament as a reward for clinching the No 1. seed. Friday’s match begins at 4 p.m.
responded. Milas found KeVonn Mabon and Jordan Williams for first downs to move the ball deep into opposing territory before Edwards pounded the ball in from four yards away to cut into the lead. After the teams traded punts, Williams beat the defensive back, shadowing him as Milas hit him deep down the sideline for a 38-yard touchdown, tying the game at 14. Milas finished the game with 176 yards, one touchdown and three interceptions. With momentum slipping away, Hare took off running
to the left on the next possession, the ball ripped from his hands. Martez Hester recovered, giving Ball State possession in Northern Illinois territory. The Cardinals couldn’t take advantage of the opportunity, as the teams struggled to move the ball throughout the rest of the half. After the way the game started, being tied at 14 at halftime had to feel like a victory for Ball State. Halfway through the third quarter, the Ball State defense started to show signs of fatigue. Stingily and Hare began running the ball through the teeth of the defense, making
their way inside the Cardinals’ 10-yard line. After Hare was stuffed at the goal line, Stingily found the end zone. The Huskies regained the lead, 21-14. Hare and Stingily were two of Northern Illinois’s most dangerous runners, finishing with 40 and 148 rushing yards. “We’re going to get really tired when we’re in there a lot. They just kept hammering away at us once they found out they could run on us,” said Zack Ryan, a redshirt sophomore linebacker. The situation became worse for Ball State to start the
fourth, when Milas tried forcing a pass to Corey Lacanaria. Anthony Brooks intercepted it, jumping in front of the route and returning the interception for a 21-yard touchdown, giving the Huskies a 14-point advantage. Ball State bounced back immediately, Horactio Banks scoring quickly to cut the lead to 28-21 with just more than 10 minutes to go. Needing a stop, the Cardinals’ defense continued to struggle as Stingily and Hare used their size to run over, around and through Ball State defenders, chewing time off the clock. After Hare fumbled
and Ball State recovered, the Cardinals promptly gave it back off an interception of their own. Northern Illinois then rode the hot hand of Stingily, who rushed for 44 yards and a touchdown on the next drive to make the score 35-21. Mabon’s fumble on a screen pass gave the ball back to the Huskies, who ran the clock out and ended the game. Northern Illinois has now defeated Ball State in six consecutive games dating back to 2009. Ball State falls to 3-6 on the season, and 2-3 in Mid-American Conference play.
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The soccer team is headed for the MAC semifinals to play against Buffalo. The team, including sophomore midfielder Chay McNitt, will be in action at 4 p.m. Friday.
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of majors, graduates, faculty, facilities as IU and Purdue that have historically been started in those areas,” he said. “I think | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 10 years from now, we will be a STEM-ish place, incrementally.” President Barack Obama is askFor evaluating Ball State’s “STEMing for $170 million to be invested ness”, ICHE’s definition is what in STEM programs for the 2015 matters because it factors into the national budget, yet there is no university’s funding. universal, nationally-defined list “What they consider STEM, or of what STEM is and how to evalu- high-impact, has a substantial dolate it. Rubrics are mostly left up to lar value on the money we receive individual organizations and can from the state,” Knight said. “So you differ based on their decided defi- can say the more money we get nitions of what falls under STEM. from these disciplines, the more For example, the Bureau of La- we have to work with to build up bor Statistics’s definition includes further in those areas.” health-related fields, but the IndiOne of the measures in the forana Commission for Higher Educa- mula is the high-impact, or STEM, tion does not. graduation rate. The commisThe decision process for this sion does not call its list of STEM variation on an accepted list of programs STEM; they call it highSTEM fields is unclear, said Bill impact because of the notion that Knight, assistant provost of insti- those fields will have a high impact tutional effectiveness. on the various levels of the “We have kind of economy and will be able heard that health care improve the general What they to fields are not on it quality of the workforce. because Indiana Uni- consider The Indiana Department versity graduates so of Education said there are many people in health STEM, 123,000 jobs in high-imcare that it would sort or highpact, STEM, areas that will of dominate,” Knight need to be filled by 2018. said. “That’s just kind impact, has STEM employment across of something people a substantial the U.S. has increased have said, but it would from 12.8 million in 2000 really help us if nurs- dollar value to 16.8 million in 2013, acing was on that be- on the money cording to the U.S. News/ cause we graduate a Raytheon STEM index. we receive lot of nursing.” The concern over However, Marilyn from the STEM derives from the Buck, associate provost pressure coming down and dean of university state.” in monetary form from college, said the decithe federal and state sion is a mix of trying to BILL KNIGHT, levels. ICHE’s formula account for strengths of assistant provost for performance fundindividual institutions. of institutional ing assigns a weight of effectiveness “It’s a matter of how 10 percent to high imsmall you divide up the pact degrees, whereas pie,” she said. “[Putting the four-year graduanursing on ICHE’s STEM program tion rate is assigned a 25 perlist] wouldn’t help us with the cent weight. funding, even though that is someThe university’s Strategic Plan thing we consider high impact.” 2017 lists having four-year gradWhen President Paul Ferguson uation rate up to 50 percent, an came to Ball State, he mentioned increase from last year’s 44 perSTEM being an important part of cent rate. The plan also includes the university’s future. increasing degree offering in “I think deciding where we’re STEM fields. But the number of going in the academic plan over degrees is not included in the the next couple of years, we have funding formula. some very significant decisions to The National Center for Educamake regarding what we’re going tional Statistics reports Ball State to do with health sciences, where graduated 218 in 2009 in areas we’re going in graduate studies designated as STEM. IU and Purand research, STEM disciplines, due graduated 549 and 1,857 reand making sure that whatever spectively in that year. These numwe’re moving balances with the bers are determined by the NCES’s heart and soul of the university as list of STEM degrees, not ICHE’s. well, which is art and humanities,” “For the institution of our type, Ferguson said in an interview with we have a nice balance of STEM,” The Daily News in August. Buck said. “We don’t have the In the past, Ball State has never large numbers like Purdue will been a large STEM or research have because of their engineerschool, Knight said. ing program.” “It is a priority, but certainly, Editor’s note: This is part of a historically, we do not have any- series on the state of STEM efwhere near the activity in terms forts at Ball State University.
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Student government to host event for campus leadership involvement Conference to bring representation from 9 Indiana colleges
the day all centered around leadership development,” Hesser said. According to the SGA budget, $1,500 is set aside for the conference. Hesser said the money will be used to pay for RAYMOND GARCIA some of the food and T-shirts CHIEF REPORTER that will be provided. ragarcia@bsu.edu “We have worked hard to The Student Government work much more efficiently Association will bring 11 than last year,” he said, “We other colleges to campus as are offering more for conferpart of a conference for cam- ence attendees with half of the budget as last year.” pus leaders. According to the campusSGA senator Jack Hesser is the director for the Stu- wide email, the theme of dent Government Coalition the conference is “new d i r e c t i o n s ,” Conference, which will which is set provide an to take place environment Saturday at for attendthe Student ees to learn Center. new and inThe connovative topference is ics related to an opporstudent govtunity for ernance. student govHesser said ernments when the from other conference midwestern was held last universities year, there to meet and was hardly learn from any negative one another, feedback. Hesser said. Vo l u n t e e r “It shows coordinathat Ball tor and SGA State Unisenator Jes versity is a Wade said premiere Ball State institution students who in regards JACK HESSER, SGA senator are attending to student may see a difleadership,” ferent style of leadership he said. This conference is open to all they may not have been Ball State students, even if they involved with before. “It might spark an inare not involved with SGA. “We have a phenomenal terest in joining student keynote speaker and a vari- government or any kind ety of programs throughout of university govern-
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Group takes on Fed Challenge Students to practice economic presentation for business leaders ROSE SKELLY CHIEF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu Quick wit on economics will be the biggest challenge Monday for five students headed to Chicago to present their ideas on policy at the Federal Reserve. The group is competing in the first round of the regional competition for the College Fed Challenge, where teams from different colleges present what they know about current problems with monetary policy and how to fix them. The winners from the different regions will head to Washington, D.C., to compete in the national competition. Each presentation is followed by a 15-minute question and answer session regarding monetary policy. “The easiest part is to present your recommendations and to put together a good presentation,” said Nick Curott, an assistant professor of economics. “The hardest part is being able to think on your feet and being able to answer any question on monetary policy concisely and accurately.” Tyler Harris, a member of the group and a senior economics major, said he hopes their charisma will set them apart. “Most groups are going to talk about, more or less, the same thing; we all have the same data,” Harris said. “What really separates us is our personalities about it ... if you can have people who are actually having fun doing a presentation about the Federal Reserve, that’s a lot more than a lot of other things.” Curott said to win the competition the group has to demonstrate an extensive knowledge of monetary policy and economics. “[The judges] assess both the presentation and also the team’s ability to answer questions. They assess whether they’re always giving accurate information. They assess whether there’s cooperation and teamwork amongst the students,” Curott said. “They would have to beat out 10 or 12 other teams from top-ranked universities in the area.” The group is giving their presentation tonight in front of local business
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• Knowledge of economics • Monetary policy understanding • Data analysis • Teamwork leaders, bankers and alumni in the financial field. Curott said he was trying to get people with professional experience and an understanding of monetary policy to help the team practice answering questions. “I want to make sure that we foster interaction between the students and the local business community,” Curott said. “What we’ve done is invited people from local banks, or people who are alumni in finance-related industries, local business leaders to come in and watch the presentation.” Two of the members of the group are participating to obtain an independent study credit, but the other three are from another class of Curott’s and volunteered to participate. “In order to have a good grasp of monetary policy, you have to know a great many things — first how the economy works, and how everything in the economy is related, and how one variable can send ripple effects throughout the economy and affect other markets as well,” Curott said. “You also have to understand a lot about finance.” Harris said preparing for the event has taught him more about finance than any of his other classes. “Most of the time in a class, you show up, listen to someone talk about what they think is going on, maybe do a homework assignment here or there and then go home,” Harris said. “This is a real practical application where what you say can actually make somewhat of a difference to something … The only way to really understand the [Federal Reserve] and monetary policy is to actually be involved in the process of it.”
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‘Baby’ places 4-year-long friendship in spotlight Seniors fulfill dream of performing with each other on stage
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In their senior year as musical theater majors, best friends Sam Malone and Laura Sportiello finally have what Sportiello calls “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to act together in Ball State’s production of the musical “Baby”. After meeting during their
freshman year, the two actresses have been best friends but have never had the chance to work on the same production together. Now, under the direction of Bill Jenkins, chair of the department of theatre and dance, they have that opportunity. The musical follows the lives of three couples of varying ages “who struggle through the realities, the ups and the downs, of the most remarkable process people can experience — having a baby,” Jenkins said. Jenkins has wanted to do this show at Ball State for 15 years, and his dream is finally
coming true. “When I was younger, I identified with the younger couple, then later I identified with the mid-aged couple, and now I identify with the older couple,” he said. “I’m really trying with this show to make the story applicable to anyone who’s gone through or who hopes to someday have a baby.” One of the technical aspects of the production is that it will be shown in the “round,” with audience members seated on all sides of the action. This, along with the live band providing the music for the show, will assist the audi-
ence in feeling that they truly are “right on top of the action,” Jenkins said. In this production, Malone plays Pam Sakarian, a basketball coach in her 30s who wants to have a baby but is struggling with the fact that her husband faces reproductive health issues. “Pam is full of energy and is determined with everything in her life, including having a baby,” Malone said. Sportiello, plays Arlene McNalley, a 43-year-old mother of three girls who have already moved out to go to school. As she and her hus-
band struggle to adjust to life as a couple again instead of the focus being on parents, they discover that she has become pregnant, and they have to face a difficult decision as to how to move forward. In “Baby,” the three women’s lives intersect because they all see the same doctor. Sportiello said the dynamic between her and Malone’s characters have been especially interesting because of their friendship in real life. “When [the characters] first meet, they don’t like each other at all,” she said. “Pam is so energetic and vibrant, and Ar-
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lene is so quiet and grounded. Over the course of one scene, their relationship takes a turn where they bring each other to the point of being able to let loose and lean on each other.” Malone said she and Sportiello are practically sisters, and it has been “beautiful” to put this show together with her. “Having my best friend’s energy in the room makes me feel fearless,” she said. “It’s really been a gift and has brought me so much confidence in knowing that I’m working with someone who loves me so much.”
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NOLAN CREATES GROUND-BREAKING FILM WITH ‘INTERSTELLAR’ After watching Christopher Nolan’s newest film, “Interstellar,” I have learned the art of sobbing without tears. I say without tears because I couldn’t allow my vision to be blurred for a single frame of this phenomenon. Nothing I can say will accurately describe what I feel about this film, so I’m not even going to try. Instead, I will list the reasons why you should see this movie as soon as possible. It was shot on film instead of digitally. The beauty of this is that the plot is as much about humanity as it is sci-fi, so the fact that it doesn’t have a sharp, industrial look to it makes sense. Nolan is one of the remaining few directors who still see the beauty in a softer image quality, and one of the still fewer who has shot a movie with 70 mm film. To explain, take the film that you would normally see, double that, and that’s how large the image is. If that doesn’t amaze you, think about the fact that all of the film for this movie had a final weight of 500 pounds. The use of practical effects in today’s generation is rare, but Nolan in-
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sists upon getting as much as he can visually without resorting to CGI. Some of the scenes in the film were actually captured from a glacier in Iceland. That’s dedication. Yet again, Nolan hired Hans Zimmer to compose the music for this film. As a reference, Zimmer has done the soundtracks to “Inception,” the “Dark Knight” trilogy, “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Gladiator,” to name a few. In an interview with Zimmer, he said the first time he played a piece composed for “Interstellar” for Nolan, Nolan simply said, “... I now know where the heart of the movie is.” The discussion it will spark about the relationship between time and space and the survival of humanity is worth the money in itself to see it now. There are so many ideas and possibilities in “Interstellar,” it is hard not to be reminded of experiencing “Inception” for the first time.
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And the second, and the third. There is so much detail to what Nolan is communicating to the audience that I was almost overloaded with symbolism. From the allegorical plot line to its many different locations. Even the names of the characters contain hidden meaning. The film explains real scientific theories in a way that I could understand. That rarely happens, in my experience. Jonah Nolan, co-writer of the script and Christopher Nolan’s brother, did research at the California Institute of Technology while writing the film, and much of its scientific elements are based on scientist Kip Thorne’s theories on black holes and wormholes. The computers featured in this sci-fi film contain more human-like qualities than I have ever seen before. The ratio of humor to honesty of the dialogue between the robots and main
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Anne Hathaway in “Interstellar” from Paramount Pictures and Warner Brothers Entertainment, directed by Christopher Nolan.
characters is enough to spin off its own TV show. Not that I think that should ever, in a million years, happen. There is not just one, but several diverse human reactions to the film’s apocalyptic storyline. Each character takes on the chal-
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