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Professors react to students evaluating them online by ‘hotness,’ alongside other attributes

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t seems inconsequential: hot or not? As students sign up for next semester’s classes, they can choose their preferences based on the review site RateMyProfessors.com when they assess some of the 1,565 Ball State faculty members with profiles on the site.

The concept, though, does not sit well with some professors.

According to the website, it contains more than 14 million reviews for professors and instructors of more than 7,000 schools in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Since its start in 1999, college students have used the website to evaluate professors on criteria such as ease of class, helpfulness, clarity and of course, hotness.

Some professors, though, say the website is inaccurate and insulting.

Cheri Ellefson, a women’s studies instructor, said evaluating professors on their hotness could be a dangerous practice, especially when female professors are involved.

“When a female professor walks into a classroom, she knows that she’s going to be evaluated on her skill and her performance,” she said. “But she never walks in online or in person into the classroom thinking that her appearance is going to be marked one way or another.”

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« Oaccording nce you objectify her to her beauty,

you’ve made her an object to all her colleagues as well. It’s not a compliment at all. It’s completely unsolicited in general.

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CHERI ELLEFSON, a women’s studies instructor

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Senior looks to reach full potential NEW PILL LAW Smith grabs 3 scores, SEEKS TO LIMIT gains 127 yards Friday PRESCRIPTIONS in regular season finale SEASON STATS

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Jamill Smith has been known as the local player at Ball State throughout his career.

He also happens to be the smallest on the team, but that didn’t stop him from coming up big in the 5514 win over Miami on Friday.

The senior wide receiver caught seven passes for 127 yards and three touchdowns in his final game in Muncie. All of Smith’s touchdowns came in the first half, which fueled a 35-0 halftime lead.

“We’re finally playing almost to our potential,” he said. “It feels good to end the regular season almost at our potential, but we know we can get better.”

Smith didn’t want his senior day to be extraordinary. The focus was simply to perform at a high level and get Ball State’s 10th win of the season.

Ball State (10-2, 7-1 Mid-Amer-

JAMILL SMITH, A SENIOR WIDE RECEIVER • Played in 12 games this season • Caught 63 passes • Has 855 receiving yards • Averaging 13.6 yards per reception • Scored 8 receiving touchdowns • Longest reception is 50 yards • Averaging 71.2 yards in each game

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ican Conference) got the job done behind the receiver trio of Smith, Willie Snead and Jordan Williams, who combined for 421 of Keith Wenning’s 445 passing yards.

Smith said there wasn’t any extra effort to accomplish the feat in his final home game.

“Not really,” Smith said following the game. “It’s the same thing.

I want to play the best, be the best Jamill Smith every game, every practice. It doesn’t matter.”

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Senior wide receiver Jamill Smith attempts to catch the pass from senior quarterback Keith Wenning against Miami. Smith had 7 receptions for 127 yards in his final home game.

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A new legislature targeting “pill mills,” which supply pills to people hooked on prescription medications, will limit the amount of prescription pills doctors are allowed to prescribe.

The legislation will go into effect this month. Before prescribing drugs, doctors will have to do more screening on patients and track the prescriptions they give out with a program called INSPECT. Patients might have to submit to drug tests before and during their prescription.

Sen. Ron Grooms, co-author of the legislation, said the bill

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College students are often cited as those who are more likely to abuse prescription medication. Their first use may be to pull an all-nighter to study for upcoming finals, said both Deidre Dorman of the Amelia T. Wood Health Center and University Police Department Chief Gene Burton.

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Alpha Phi Alpha’s Ball State chapter will host an event they compare to “Showtime at the Apollo,” according to a press release. The event will consist of a talent show WHEN Doors open where each 7:30 p.m., participant is at event begins given time to at 8:06 p.m. perform, then WHERE the audiPruis Hall ence decides whether the performer will continue to perform or if the “sandman” will be drag them off stage.

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The Social Justice League will sell beaded jewelry made from recycled paper with proceeds going to women in Uganda, who made the jewelry. All week, the group will be present from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center to inform students of poverty in Uganda and ways to provide a life outside of poverty, according to a press release.

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The College of Fine Arts with the Department of Theatre and Dance will present “Color of Motion,” a dance performance at 7:30 p.m. in University Theatre. It “explores how color can create and define movement and shape space,” according to a press release.

Tickets for students are $8 while faculty tickets are $13 and general public tickets are $14. The program also will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

The “Down to Earth: Small Farm Issues in a Big Farm World” will have its screening, along with other student work, at 4 p.m. at the Delaware County Fairgrounds. This documentary was created by an immersive learning class working with the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. The film highlights a local farm that uses sustainable and green technologies. The event is free and open to the public.

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Anti-slavery group completes campaign Student volunteers gather donations, spread awareness BERG STAFF REPORTER | KARA knberg2@bsu.edu The U.S. State Department estimates that 27 million people around the world are in slavery today.

At Ball State, International Justice Mission tried to raise awareness for this little known

statistic, said vice president Stephanie Metzger, because many people assume slavery stopped after the Civil War. The group is a Christian human rights organization that focuses on human trafficking.

“We are really trying to raise awareness on Ball State’s campus because awareness itself is not change, it’s the first step toward change,” Metzger said. “If people don’t know, then they can’t choose to make a difference and fight this slavery.”

Throughout November, the group hosted a canned food drive and donated the proceeds to Second Harvest Food Bank, a local food bank that helps provide food to families.

Metzger said the group had trouble getting awareness for the food drive, but felt the event did well for its first year.

“One thing we did is we let Bible studies and campus organizations know we were doing it, so we got a lot of contributions through that,” she said.

“Next year, we want to be able

to make it a bigger thing.”

Bringing awareness to Muncie is important to the group and Metzger said they are doing their part to help.

“One of the leading causes for trafficking is poverty, so if we can make a difference in the Muncie community, then we can actually be preventing people here from entering into trafficking,” she said.

Graduate architecture student Nick Dodge put together an installation on human trafficking for one of his classes, which was

on display in the Architecture Building. Dodge said many of his classmates chose topics like education or helping out people with a disability for their project on social justice and human rights.

“We haven’t seen a lot of things done with architecture and human trafficking,” Dodge said. “Since there isn’t a lot on this, we thought, ‘Why don’t we actually do this?’ and began to research it.”

The installation was a pathway in the building that had information throughout it,

trying to raise awareness about the topic.

“It was beginning to bring information to people who maybe didn’t know so much about human trafficking, and it kind of made it more personal,” Dodge said.

“It scaled down the 27 million people that are speculated to be in trafficking, and it put it on a Ball State scale as well as getting people definitions and how to actually begin to realize what it is through people’s personal stories as well.”

Black Friday competes with family, NEW YORK TRAIN forces people to work on holidays DERAILS, KILLS 4, HURTS AT LEAST 60 Student employees feel they miss out due to popular sales

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For some Ball State students, Thanksgiving means more than just the turkey, pumpkin pie and the time with family. This year, some students saw their holiday cut short in order to clock into work at 8 p.m.

For Black Friday, the day of discounts, sales and mega-deals that nearly every retailer in the nation celebrates, the popularity and competition now mean the deals start early, moving to Thanksgiving Day. “We live in that society where people need to buy things that are on sale,” Beth Butler, a social work major, said. “It’s a consumer society — that’s the normal thing.

People miss their family dinners because they’re lining up outside the store.”

The National Retail Federation, a retail trade group, predicted that 33 million, or almost a quarter, of the 140 million people who planned to shop during the four-day holiday weekend that ends on Sunday, would do so on Thanksgiving.

Butler works for Wet Seal at the Hamilton Town Center in Noblesville, Ind. Some of the Hamilton Town Center Mall retailers opened the doors at 8 p.m. Thanksgiving this year. Butler said she disagrees with stores opening during the holiday.

“I think people should be with their families,” she said.

Hamilton Town Center Mall is owned by Simon Property Group, the nation’s largest mall operator. Most of its

malls around the country opened its doors at 8 p.m., too, with some opening even earlier. The Muncie Mall is one of the malls that opened at 8 p.m.

“Heading to Muncie Mall with family and friends is the perfect way to wrap up a holiday about gratitude and togetherness,” Stacey Nance, manager at Muncie Mall, said in a Nov. 20 statement. “Many families enjoy entertainment traditions around Thanksgiving, whether it’s sharing meals, going shopping, seeing a movie or watching a game together.”

But the early start appeared to pull sales one day forward, leading to a decline in Black Friday sales. Sales fell 13.2 percent from the previous year, according to Chicago-based technology firm ShopperTrak. Still, combined spending over Thanksgiving and Black Friday hit $9.74 billion, a 2.3 percent increase from last year.

Nance said the earlier hours meet customers’ different schedules. However, not all consumers are pleased with the earlier hours. Multiple online petitions at Change.org demanded that Simon-owned malls stay closed on Thanksgiving.

The most popular petition, with 29,000 signatures, was authored by a Simon Mall employee in Green Bay, Wis. “Shouldn’t malls, which are family friendly establishments, have good morals and standards that fully support the American family and their values,” Amber Baumgart, author of the petition, wrote in the petition.

“This is a time for families to come together and enjoy a meal. To catch up. To have fun. Why are mall employees any different?”

Baumgart said opening the store on Thanksgiving was

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Shoppers laden with bags of sale items walk on a rainy Black Friday morning in the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, Calif. With retailers starting Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving, some people who work in retail had to work the holiday this year instead of spending it with family.

crossing the line. She also said at her company, none of the employees will receive holiday compensation. Many businesses reward employees who work holidays with time and a half pay or other incentives.

Allisyn Rees, a sophomore at Ball State, has worked in the retail industry for 4 or 5 years. She had to clock in at 8 p.m. and said she wouldn’t receive any holiday pay. Neither did Cara Calanni, a senior dance and photography major, who works at Finish Line in the Muncie Mall.

Calanni said her favorite holiday is Thanksgiving, but she hasn’t celebrated the hol-

iday with her family in Cleveland in three years because of work. Calanni said it’s because of the early hours on Black Friday that she is unable to travel for the holiday.

“I think it’s ridiculous they are opening at 8 p.m.,” Calanni said. “It’s supposed to be a day of thanks and not going out indulging in greedy behavior to get the best deal.

It upsets me that big corporations make these rules pushing the time earlier and earlier each year when those who choose, I doubt, are out there working themselves.”

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gathered would continue to be monitored through several law offices, Grooms said.

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, about 7 million people used prescription drugs non-medically in 2010, which is around 2.7 percent of the U.S. population.

The most commonly abused medicines are pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants and sedatives.

Grooms said the goal of the new legislation is to curb the number of prescriptions that are written by physicians who only want to make money.

“The reason this problem continues is because you can continue the addiction of people who are addicted to medications, usually unnecessarily and usually at the expense of a physician who wants to make a profit,” he said.

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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, many people assume prescription drugs are safe to overtake because doctors prescribe them. When doctors prescribe medicines, they do so at a safe level, reducing the chance of having harmful side effects. If the drugs are taken non-medically, there are unknown risks and the drugs can become addictive.

Dorman said the Health Center writes small numbers of opioid prescriptions for acute

pain for students and employees with short-term injuries.

The center does not offer services to help students stop abusing prescription drugs.

The Health Center is only marginally affected by the new legislation because it targets those suffering with chronic pain, which with Dorman said the center readily deals.

However, if a physician at the Health Center, or any other doctor’s office, were found to prescribe addictive drugs above normal limits, then the state police and the attorney general’s office would investigate them. The information

NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water.

Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, four or five of the seven cars had lurched off the rails. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year-history.

“Four people lost their lives today in the holiday season, right after Thanksgiving,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference. Eleven of the injured were believed to be critically injured and another six seriously hurt, according to the Fire Department.

The train operator was among the injured, Cuomo said.

The governor said the track did not appear to be faulty, leaving speed as a possible culprit for the crash. But he noted that the National Transportation Safety Board would determine what happened. The

A DIFFICULT YEAR In the last six months, MetroNorth has had several accidents despite a long history of safety in its nearly 31 years of existence.

• On May 17, a train in Bridgeport, Conn., derailed and was hit by a train traveling in the opposite direction. The crash injured 73 passengers, two engineers and a conductor.

• On May 28, a train hit and killed a track foreman in West Haven, Conn.

• On July 19, a garbage train derailed in the same area as the Sunday incident.

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Federal Railroad Administration also sent 10 investigators to the scene.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast said investigators would look at numerous factors, including the train, the track and signal system, the operators and speed.

The speed limit on the curve is 30 mph, compared with 70 mph in the area approaching it, MTA spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said. The train’s data recorders should be able to tell how fast it was traveling, she said.

One passenger, Frank Tatulli, told WABC-TV that the train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the sharp curve near the Spuyten Duyvil station, which takes its name from a Dutch word for a local waterway, sometimes translated as “Devil’s whirlpool.”

The train was about half full at the time of the crash, rail officials said, with some passengers likely heading to the city for holiday shopping.

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indianapolis police officer who killed a man and seriously injured two others when he was driving drunk and crashed his police cruiser into two motorcycles stopped at a traffic light was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison.

David Bisard was convicted last month on nine counts, the most serious of which was driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.15 percent while in a fatal accident. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08.

He resigned Monday from the police department. He had been suspended without pay since the 2010 crash that killed 30-year-old Eric Wells.

Allen County Superior Judge John Surbeck sentenced Bisard to a total of 16 years in prison but suspended the last three years. Prosecutors had requested a 22-year prison sentence with two years suspended, while Bisard’s attorneys asked for 11 to 12 years, with several years suspended.

The Indianapolis Star reported Bisard told the court that he is “remorseful beyond words” and accepts responsibility for the crash. But he said he would not accept responsibility for being intoxicated.

Bisard did admit he was drunk when he crashed his pickup truck in April 2013 in a separate incident. He said that DUI arrest caused him to lose the trust of his family and friends and made it difficult for people to believe he wasn’t drunk at the time of the fatal crash on Aug. 6, 2010.

“I am not the awful man I’ve been made out to be,” he said while reading a statement during the sentencing hearing.

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Slavery didn’t just end in the Civil War — it’s alive and well with 30 million people worldwide being a part of the slave trade. And unfortunately, it touches every industry, from the clothes students wear to the food they stock in the fridge.

While a single person can’t solve the problem, students can be abolitionists when gathering gifts this holiday season. Support products that push for progress and boycott brands that don’t allow you to advocate for your values. Every dollar spent is a vote for one side or

the other.

However, fair trade isn’t overwhelmingly lining the shelves of major stores.

“Unfortunately, we’re not seeing a huge shift in America,” said Morgan Ulyat, vice president of Ball State’s Students for Responsible Consumerism. “Lots of your bigger brand companies are not fair trade; they don’t have any lines that are fair trade.”

With a little shopping consciousness, students can support sustainability, education initiatives,

animal rights and fight poverty all in one trip.

“But you are seeing some major corporations in America going toward ‘green,’ and organic,” Ulyat said. “Obviously, this kind of pressure by consumers can have an impact and has in other places.”

In the wake of “No Slave November,” here are some nose-to-nose comparisons of brands and some a tips that can make your gift giving season a little more ethical.

Consider your receipt a list of good deeds.

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Levi Strauss has a long tradition of perusing social justice that continues to this day.

In 1991, Levis published the first set of detailed sourcing and operating guidelines in the industry, which sought to hold its contractors to a set of legal, ethical and environmental standards. These guidelines have evolved throughout the years and the current version can be viewed on the company’s website.

In 2011, the company introduced its “Water<Less” initiative in an effort to reduce the large amount of water required to manufacture jeans. This includes teaching cotton farmers in India, Pakistan, Brazil and parts of Africa more efficient irrigation techniques to reduce waste.

Levi’s stonewashed jeans are switching to actually being rubbed with stones, as opposed to more water-based industrial methods.

In early 2012, the BBC reported that Levi’s had publicly announced a ban on sandblasting in its factories. Sandblasting is a manufacturing process where sand is fired from hoses at high speeds in order to “finish” or alter the texture of an object. When manufacturing jeans, sandblasting is used to make the denim look worn, but has been linked to repertory disease and other health concerns for employees who work in the environment.

Out of 102 brands of jeans reviewed by fair trade watchdog GoodGuide.com, Diesel is dead last. Among it are other high-end clothing brands like Armani and Prada. They share common problems such as poor environmental scores, little-to-no auditing and a lack of transparency in business practices.

University to offer free HIV screenings today at Park Hall

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Ball State will join the fight against HIV and AIDS by observing World AIDS Day today. In 1988, World AIDS Day became the first global health day and is observed Dec. 1 every year.

The Office of Health, Alcohol, and Drug Education is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV. There will be free HIV testing from 3-8 p.m. today in the Park Hall Seminar Room as well as an awareness table from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. in the Atrium.

At the awareness table, peer health educators will offer sexual health and responsibility games and provide information on HIV and AIDS, pro-

tection and abstinence.

World AIDS Day is an opportunity for those worldwide to show support for those who have it, to remember those who have died from it and to help fight HIV and AIDS. Ryan White from Kokomo, Ind., is among the most famous for having it, and his story is told in an exhibit at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. Throughout the exhibit, there are several sections that guide you through his years spent living with HIV. The exhibit introduces White’s family and how he contracted HIV from a contaminated blood treatment and shows speeches from friends and family to a glimpse of life in the 1980s. It dives into the story about a nationwide epidemic.

“AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, mom taught us to keep going,” White said in a quote on the Indianapolis Children’s Museum website. “Don’t give up, be proud of who you are and never feel sorry for yourself.”

WHAT IS HIV?

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. The virus compromises the body’s ability to handle disease and causes AIDS. WHAT IS AIDS?

AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. A person has AIDS in the final stages of HIV, after the immune system has been broken down and is no longer able to defend itself against viruses.

HOW HIV CAN BE SPREAD:

HIV can be spread through vaginal, anal or oral sex.

PREVENTION:

Condoms Take stock (focus on yourself and how you feel about your life choices) Be sober during sex Fewer partners Monogamy Abstinence

SYMPTOMS OF HIV:

• Dry, flaky skin • Persistent tiredness • Fever that comes and goes • Diarrhea lasting more than a week • Heavy night sweats • Rapid weight loss • Swollen lymph nodes in the armpits, groin or neck • White spots on the tongue, mouth or throat • Symptoms specific to infection of certain areas of the body such as headaches for the brain and cough for the lungs.

Having these symptoms doesn’t mean a person has HIV or AIDS because many illnesses have symptoms such as these. The only way to know if you or someone you know is HIV positive is to be tested.

SOURCE: aidshealth.org

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Ben and Jerry’s parent company Unilever, in conjunction with Fairtrade International, became the first ice cream company in the world to use fair trade ingredients in 2005.

Partnering with Fairtrade International, the company embarked on a mission to source its “Big Five” commodities as fair trade: coffee, cacao, bananas, sugar and vanilla.

Ben and Jerry’s released a statement in April announcing that by the end of 2013, all of its products worldwide would be fair trade certified.

The company also includes explicit details on the fair trade content of all of its flavors on its website.

Edy’s is owned by Nestlé, which has a decades long history of human rights abuses and poor environmental record.

As just one example, in 2005, the International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit against Nestlé and other companies for failing to meet the Harkin-Engel Protocol, which called for the end of child slave labor in the cocoa industry.

However, in 2012, the company released the results of a self-audit, where it continued to find child-labor abuses in its supply chain. But the self-audit is a step in the right direction.

While Nestlé has taken steps to improve its human rights record, business magazine Bloomberg reports that only 20 percent of its cocoa comes from fair trade sources. The rest comes from its traditional supply chain, which is neither regulated nor transparent.

Next time you’re looking to treat yourself, scoop up some Ben and Jerry’s.

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SoleRebels is an Ethiopian shoe company that focuses its business model on building a sustainable, long-term operation that addresses the issues of poverty directly.

The soles are made of recycle tires and are made from other eco-friendly materials, like hemp and leather from free-range animals on small local farms.

Because of its use of raw materials and manufacturing techniques from Ethiopia, soleRebels creates an export product for the country that funnels money into local communities instead of out.

Also, according to United Nations University magazine Our World 2.0, soleRebels pays its workers four times the legal minimum wage in Ethiopia and three times the industry average. The company also provides free health care for workers, transportation for employees with disabilities and pays for their children’s educations, which they view as an investment in the country’s future.

While soleRebels may not have the global reach of TOMS, its mode of operation focuses directly on combatting poverty at its source.

GlobalEnvision.org reports that TOMS and other free clothing distributors undercut local markets. A study titled “Used-Clothing Donations and Apparel Production in Africa” from the University of Toronto claims that areas receiving clothing aid see a 40 percent decline in local apparel production and a 50 percent decrease in apparel employment.

In recent years, TOMS has sought to address these issues by moving its production to regions that receive aid, like Ethiopia and Argentina. Extensive documentation of its efforts can be found on its website, as well as many official policies, such as its supplier code of conduct.

In the end, soleRebels is the best choice for those who want to know they paid for more than leather and laces when they strap on their shoes.

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HIV/AIDS TIMELINE 1981

The Centers for Disease Control publishes a report covering the deaths of five young men who died from a rare kind of pneumonia. The report calls the disease “gay-related immune deficiency.”

1984

Ryan White, right, a teenager from Kokomo Ind., contracts HIV from tainted treatments for his hemophilia. He is later barred from school after parents refuse to send their children to classes with White for fear they may contract HIV.

1987

The Food and Drug Administration approves azidothymidine (AZT) for the treatment of AIDS. This is the first drug the administration approves; however, it is impractically expensive with an average price of $12,000 yearly.

1990

White dies at the age of 18. His life and death prompt the Ryan White CARE Act, which is the largest federally funded program aimed at supporting HIV/AIDS patients.

1995-1996

A series of drugs become available to people with HIV and AIDS. The drugs are more affordable than AZT. 2008

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is authorized

by President George W. Bush to offer up to $48 million and five years of support international HIV/AIDS awareness, prevention and treatment.

SOURCES NPR.org, HAB.HRSA.gov, Oprah.com, LIFE.TIME.com, nytimes.com, newrepublic.com, aids.gov, webmd.com, newsdesk.si.edu

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RATINGS: Professor challenges validity, criticizes siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sample size | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Kristen Ritchey, an associate professor of psychological sciences, agrees there is an imbalance. She has noticed when she tells students to review a guest speaker or a talk, female speakers will often elicit more comments on appearance than a male speaker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What are you achieving by saying that one professor is hot and objectifying her?â&#x20AC;? Ellefson asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you objectify her according to her beauty, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made her an object to all her colleagues as well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a compliment at all. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s completely unsolicited in general.â&#x20AC;?

Melinda Messineo is an associate professor at Ball State who knows what it is like to be dismissed because of her physical attributes. She also is the chairperson of the Department of Sociology.

Messineo said she is not personally offended by the amount of chili peppers she has received from students throughout the course of her employment. She said the rating is not ill-intended and she recognizes the practice as a mindset deeply ingrained into our culture.

Her issue with the website revolves around the qualities of a teacher not represented on the website by symbols, such as the chili pepper. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it be great if we could come up with a different icon to indicate other values?â&#x20AC;?

Messineo asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Perhaps an ear that says this teacher is a good listener or a scale that says the teacher is fair.â&#x20AC;?

Jagdish Khubchandani, a community health education assistant professor, does not believe the hotness rating is completely reliant on physical beauty.

Khubchandani initially heard of Rate My Professors when he met his wife in June 2012.

She shocked Khubchandani when she told him his students thought well of him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought she was a stalker,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My initial evaluation is from the school, and no one is supposed to know about these evaluations.â&#x20AC;?

After some prodding, she revealed the name of the website from which she had gathered information about Khubchandani, who boasts the highest hotness rating for Ball State professors on the website.

Khubchandani said he

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to think that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m being evaluated on something so irrelevant to my performance [as attractiveness]. Âť KRISTEN RITCHEY, an associate professor of psychological sciences thinks students taking the poll are more likely to choose the â&#x20AC;&#x153;hotâ&#x20AC;? option if they give high ratings on other categories, such as the level of difficulty.

He said a teacher should watch their behavior in the classroom, dress professionally, keep personal issues out of the classroom and above all, give them something from the class to take into the real world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you do all of that, then maybe theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll think that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attractive,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the whole package.â&#x20AC;?

Messineo agreed that this is a possibility. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Research indicates that students connect with faculty who are enthusiastic and they believe care about them as individuals,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Reuben Allen, a geography instructor who claims the third hottest Ball State slot, takes a less introspective approach to his high chili pepper rating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely flattering,â&#x20AC;? he

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said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But [itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] also embarrassing because when people start kidding you about it, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing you can really say in response.â&#x20AC;?

But some professors, such as Ritchey and Ellefson, do not think the rating is a compliment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I work very hard at my job,â&#x20AC;?

Ritchey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frustrating to think that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m being evaluated on something so irrelevant to my performance.â&#x20AC;?

The average overall rating for the 50 hottest Ball State professors is a 4.5 out of 5, higher than the average Ball State professor rating of 3.67.

Ellefson said she does not believe most studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; goals involve finding an attractive professor and the website makes an unfair assumption.

Dalton Rinehart, a senior telecommunications major who uses the website, said he has never decided to pick a certain teacher based on their attractiveness.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;It should be based on how well they teach and not how they look,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Rinehart said he primarily uses the website to get a feel for professors while registering for classes.

Erin Soller, a sophomore elementary and special education major, said her experience with using the website has been mixed. Favorable reviews have led her to professors she has loved as well as professors that caused her to drop the class. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think, in a way, it does give students a perspective of what to look for in a classroom, like how to be more prepared,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that the younger generation in particular really values feedback and really values preparation.â&#x20AC;?

Still, Khubchandani challenges the validity of the website.

He said the people who post have most likely had extremely positive or extremely negative experiences, which may lead to an incomplete picture of a professor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m teaching 140 students and only two of them would rate me,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a public poll, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a good poll.â&#x20AC;?

HOOSIERS TO KEEP HOLIDAY TREES EVER GREENER

MUNCIE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Environmental officials and activists want Indiana residents to go green this Christmas.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management is urging Hoosiers to help the environment and economy by buying Indianagrown Christmas trees this year instead of artificial ones.

Indiana tree farms grow a wide variety of trees, though some â&#x20AC;&#x201D; such as the popular Fraser fir â&#x20AC;&#x201D; donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow well in the state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Unlike artificial trees, which are usually made of petroleumbased products and smell the same way a plastic shoe horn smells, a real Christmas tree can fill your home with fresh air and can be recycled,â&#x20AC;? Goldblatt told The Star Press. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even after you cut the tree down and put it in your house, it continues to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen as long as it has a fresh water supply to keep it alive.â&#x20AC;?

Real trees can be recycled into mulch or used as habitats for wildlife during the winter. â&#x20AC;&#x201C;

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JAMILL SMITH: What happened in Vegas shows in 1-1 record Receiver After 16-point loss UPCOMING GAMES has most to Auburn, team rebounds to win kick returns | on team

Freshman guard Jill Morrison dribbles the ball past an Oakland City defender Oct. 30 at Worthen Arena. Morrison placed six threepointers in two games during the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas over the weekend.

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Listed at 5 feet and 8 inches, Smith has had to play at his best in his four years. He’s come up big for Ball State in his final year by totaling 63 catches for 855 receiving yards and eight touchdowns.

“I’ve been the smallest person on the team since elementary,” Smith said. “I can play football with anyone, so it doesn’t matter.”

Smith’s toughness and speed has allowed him to be the Cardinals’ top kick returner as well. He’s recorded 23 returns in 2013 with more than 600 return yards.

No other Ball State player has more than five kick returns.

“Everybody knows the tremendous competitor he is,” head coach Pete Lembo said.

“You have to be living under a rock to not know that.”

Smith will get one last opportunity to wear the Ball State jersey in the team’s bowl game.

Ball State will learn Sunday when its bowl game is.

Regardless of where the game is, Smith will be ready to compete and help Ball State try to win its first bowl game in program history.

It’s the only way he knows how to play.

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After splitting a pair of games at the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas, the Ball State women’s basketball team holds a 2-4 record on the season. Ball State fell to Auburn on Friday and bounced back Saturday with a victory over Tennessee Tech.

Turnovers plagued the Cardinals in a 51-67 loss to the Tigers. With six each from Nathalie Fontaine, Brandy Woody and Brittany Carter, the team committed 29 turnovers as a whole.

It was the third game this season in which Ball State has committed at least 20 turnovers. The Cardinals have averaged 20.3 turnovers per game this season.

Auburn took advantage in the first half as the team jumped out to a 35-19 lead.

The Cardinals opened the second half with a 13–8 run to narrow the Tigers’ lead to 11 points. Ball State improved its shooting in the second period, going 9-for-23 from the floor.

Both teams went on to score 32 in the second half, resulting in a 51-67 final score favoring Auburn. Freshman guard Jill Morrison finished the game shooting 50 percent from three-point range and 5-of-9 from the floor.

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The Cardinals have shot 32.8 percent from deep as a team this season, while opponents have shot 36.6 percent.

Morrison and Carter combined for six threepointers in Saturday’s win over Tennessee Tech. In the two weekend games combined, Morrison saw six deep balls of her own fall.

Ball State was able to limit its turnovers to just 10 in the win, and finished with 12 team assists. Woody led the Cardinals with eight assists on the night, and leads the team with 21 on the season.

The Cardinals outrebounded the Golden Eagles 46–35 as the team muscled its way to a 76–64 victory. Four players, including freshman Renee Bennett, finished the game in double-digit scoring, and all but two on the team scored.

Fontaine led the team in a third-consecutive game with 16 points. The sophomore has averaged 16.5 points per game this season.

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