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Police are investigating a reported burglary at Grandma Betty’s Ice Cream Shop in the Village but said the main suspect in the case said he was given permission to take items from the store. Jeannine Lee Lake said she walked into her not-for-profit dessert shop and found tables lying on their sides. Neon red, blue and green gumballs spilled from their broken machines and covered the floor, mixed with shattered remains of expensive equipment, most of which was missing. “It’s just a bad day,” she said. “If you are going to steal everything, I can understand it, you need the money. But why do you have to destroy everything?” Lake said computers, refrigerators and freezers were taken from her small store. A few hours later, Kent Kurtz, University Police Department detective sergeant, told Lake that most of her equipment was recovered in two apartments — one owned by a person Lake said comes to the shop every night. Kurtz said other metal items, including large metal preparation trays and ice cream containers, were sold for scrap to OmniSource Corporation, a local metal recycling facility. Lake and UPD would not release the name of the suspect, and UPD had not filed a police report by the time of publication. Lake told police she had given the man permission to take a microwave from the shop a few days prior to the break-in. Kurtz said the suspect in the burglary told a different story. He said the man told police that Lake had given him permission to take “anything he wanted” because the business was going to close down soon. Lake said the man was mistaken. “Even if he did think he could take more things, why would he ransack the shop?” she said. Despite the discrepancy, the incident is still being treated as a crime, Kurtz said, because the man used force to enter the building. Kurtz said it isn’t up to him to decide what the possible misunderstanding means.
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cellphone ring shattered the silence of a pitch-black bedroom. Julian Welsh-White rolled over and called the number back. It was his aunt’s number, but not her voice. The voice was high-pitched and scratchy, unlike any voice he could recognize. It was his mother’s. She was speaking through her throat because of her recent tracheotomy. He had forgotten what she sounded like. He hadn’t heard it for nearly three months.
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Stacie Welsh embraces her son, Julian Welsh-White, after a win against Princeton on Feb. 8. It was the first time she saw him play in a Ball State uniform.
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Jeannine Lee Lake, owner of Grandma Betty’s Ice Cream Shop, surveys the damage done to the business after a reported break-in late Tuesday. Police found the missing equipment Wednesday.
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Last year, Ball State University Dance Marathon raised almost $200,000 for Riley Children’s Foundation. For the BSUDM president, raising this much money and awareness has become her life. Emily Probst, a junior child life specialist major, said she has spent around 140 hours in meetings this school year. The meetings plan various fundraising events the group sponsors, including the annual dance that starts at 2 p.m. Saturday
and lasts for 12 hours. “It’s a big time commitment, but I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” she said. She also has spent time in weekly adviser meetings, various weekend events and around two to three hours daily on other Dance Marathon preparation and activities for the event that hopes to raise $250,000 this year. The organization donates $30,000 of the money raised each year to the Magic Castle Cart, which gives patients toys, games and jewelry. Katie Glesing, the Riley Children’s Foundation Dance Marathon coordinator who works with Ball State, said what Magic Castle Cart does is “smile therapy.” “When the kids see it, it’s a pretty big highlight to the day,” she said.
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The Ball State Symphony Orchestra will play at 7:30 p.m. in Sursa Hall. Undergraduate Concerto competition winners Cecily Terhune and Ryan Bischoff will be present. Tickets are free in advance at the Emens box office for students with a student ID. General admission tickets are $5.
Ball State alumni Jeffrey Cohen, Chris Ulm and Jenny Yarbrough will discuss social media as part of the Miller College of Business’ Dialogue Days. The event will be at 3:30 in the Whitinger Business Building Room 144.
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The Clinical Exercise Physiology Program will host a blood pressure and cholesterol screening from 6 to 8 a.m. in the Human Performance Laboratory. Participants need to fast for 10-12 hours before the test and the program will forward results in five days. The screening costs $20. For more information, contact Lynn Clark at 765-285-1140.
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From 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., there will be a free fair trade brunch and presentation at the Downtown Farm Stand by owner Dave Ring. To attend, people need to sign up at 10 a.m. Friday in North Quad Office 222. Students can get free transportation. For more information, call 765-285-5530.
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Bill Osetek guest directs “The 39 Steps” in Strother Studio Theatre. Performances run at 7:30 p.m. tonight through Saturday and Wednesday through Feb. 28 as well as at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The tickets are $8 for students and $10 for the general public.
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The Parade of Stars concert, featuring America’s Hometown Band, will be at 4:30 p.m. in John R. Emens Auditorium. The concert celebrates five solo artists: Phil Cooley, David Robbins, Dr. George Wolfe, Joel Replogle and Mike White. It will recognize the artwork of Ball State professor emeritus Ned Griner as well. The concert is free and is in conjunction with Emens’ 50th anniversary celebration.
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Presidential candidates gear up for final debate
Cardinal Connection, Empower nominees will push platforms RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu
NICK WILKEY
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Junior risk management and insurance major • 2 years of SGA experience • Currently on fundraising and corporate relations Dance Marathon committees • Fun fact: Also in Urban Gamers League
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• Recommends the university encourages students to use midterm course evaluations WHEN • Students will have the option to complete midterm course evaluations for every course EMPOWER’S
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Junior telecommunications, marketing and sales major • 1 year of SGA experience • Currently SGA’s Student Voluntary Services representative • Fun fact: Also president of the Rugby Club
BLACKBOARD TESTING LABS WHO • Wells authored this legislation
every student here should be aware of diversity on campus, and I want every student to be OK with the differences.” Cardinal Connection’s Wilkey is no stranger to the campaign trail. His older brother, Chris, was president on the Alliance slate and served in office in the 2012-13 school year.Wilkey followed his brother’s footsteps last year as the vice presidential candidate on the Fusion slate. This year, Wilkey said his brother encouraged him to run as presidential nominee. “There aren’t many people on this campus that really know the ins and outs of being president,” he said. “When [Chris] said, ‘I believe in you,’ and when some of the administrators said the same, I started to believe in myself.” In high school, Wilkey was
DANCE: Riley Hospital CEO, patients will speak at Saturday’s fundraiser “I know someone my age who is 26 or 27, and she can still remember when she would see the [Magic Castle Cart] coming down the hall,” Glesing said. The rest of the money raised goes to Riley Hospital for Children’s Palliative Care program, which works with children who have chronic and terminal illnesses. BSUDM is currently the largest donor to the program in the nation, Glesing said. Glesing said without BSUDM’s donations, starting the program would not have been a possibility. The hospital’s CEO will come to Dance Marathon on Saturday to thank the group for its efforts in helping start the program. Some of the children who the hospital cares for also will attend the event and will speak. Only two members of Dance Marathon will know how much money was raised by the time of the dance. When the results are announced at 2 a.m., it will be as much a surprise to the dancers as it will be for everyone else. Probst said Riley Hospital has held a special place in her heart since high school, when she participated in her
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Presidential nominees will face off tonight in the final debate of student government election season. Nick Wilkey, Cardinal Connection presidential nominee, will debate against Jes Wade, Empower presidential candidate, at the presidential debate at 7 p.m. in Art and Journalism Building Room 175. Debate moderator Payne Horning said the all-slate debate showed some gaps in the slates’ platform points and this is the last chance to resolve those gaps. “I understand they don’t want to let students down or their expectations to be set too high, but when you are campaigning, you campaign with promises,” he said. “Both slates need to emphasize they can achieve those promises.” Horning expressed concern specifically about the feasibility of Cardinal Connection’s food pantry platform point and Empower’s safety platform point. He said he thinks the presidential candidates need to bring more to the table in the final debate. “I hope they go home and they do more research, and they come with a platform that is more sound,” Horning said. “It’s late in the election. We may not get that.” On Wednesday afternoon, elections board chairperson Wade said her slate came Alex Sventeckis addressed together in October and GaSenate about personal at- brielle Bunn, vice presidential tacks on the senators. nominee, was originally set to He said some of the Twit- be the presidential candidate. ter conversation surrounding The slate changed its arTuesday night’s debate lent rangement when they realitself toward attacks instead ized Bunn’s SGA experience of a discussion of issues. made her more capable to “It should infuriate you to hear lead Senate meetings as vice this is going on,” he president. said. “Someone is us“I’m really pasing your good name sionate and really as an organization personable,” Wade and blaspheming it said. “I can have a and throwing it into [with a ELECTIONS ’14 conversation the dirt.” student] and also go Sventeckis asked and talk to administhe senators to step up and put tration about student issues. ... I a stop to any negative behavior. can do what I need to do to rep“I will not have what hap- resent the student body.” pened last year happen again She joked that the only this year,” he said. “We can- way to make Ball State betnot let the message that we ter would be to move it to an will turn on our own make it area with better weather, but out there.” she said diversity is an area in which the university needs CANDIDATES to grow. For Wade, being the Em“I really like [Ball State] the power presidential nominee way it is,” she said. “I think wasn’t always the plan.
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She said when she joined first Dance Marathon. When she came to Ball State, she the organization her freshwas a committee member for man year, she didn’t realRiley Relations and then a co- ize it would impact her so director of Riley Relations her much. Now, she wants to work for Riley Hospital after sophomore year. She said she also volun- she graduates. “Never in the world would teers for Riley Hospital during breaks and when she gets I have thought that I would be where I am today,” Probst the chance. She said her own hospital- said. “It has transformed me ization in first grade sparked as a person in such an inher interest in and desire to credible way.” She said the direct impact give back to hospitals that caDance Marater to children. thon has is For Probst, this Many times, one reason event is a family afthe organizafair. One of her sis- [my sister] is just tion caught ters is a nurse at Riley Hospital and in tears because of her interest. She can drive another was on the what we’re doing an hour to the executive board for hospital to see Purdue University’s for the patients where Dance Marathon. she sees every day. exactly the money is “Many times, [my going. sister] is just in It’s a little family Although tears because of adventure. the organizawhat we’re doing tion continues for the patients she to raise more sees every day,” she EMILY PROBST, money each said. “It’s a little BSUDM president year, Probst family adventure.” said she isn’t Probst said when she found out she would be- too worried about exactly how come president of BSUDM, much money is raised. “I wouldn’t say there is she spent a long car ride getting ideas from her older pressure because I know sister who participated at that whatever we raise, peoPurdue. Many of the ideas ple are going to be excited,” she brought to the Ball State she said. “People are going chapter came from that con- to know that they’re making a difference.” versation.
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his senior class president. He said he’s always been a “big thinker” and he has dreams for Ball State’s campus. “I’ve always wanted to be at a school with NCAA basketball tournaments,” he said. “I just
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FEB. 9 JAMIE ANDERSON TAKES GOLD IN DEBUT OF SLOPESTYLE IN OLYMPICS As she so often does, Jaime Anderson made things look beautiful again. The world’s most consistent rider came through big under a huge amount of pressure — “I was freaking out,” she said — riding clean on the rails and stomping down three high-flying jumps on her second, and make-or-break, trip down the mountain. She scored a 95.25 on that run to make America 2 for 2 in slopestyle’s colorful and
treacherous debut on the Olympic stage. “It’s kind of a big deal,” said the gold medalist, who earlier this winter had conceded she was heading to Russia with some reservations about what the Olympics really stand for. “This is The Event.” Enni Rukajarvi of Finland won silver and Jenny Jones took bronze to give Britain its first Olympic medal on the snow.
FEB. 11 SHAUN WHITE, A FAVORITE TO MEDAL, FALLS SHORT IN HALFPIPE COMPETITION
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USA defenseman Brooks Orpik, No. 44, works the puck along the boards against Czech Republic forward Patrik Elias, No. 26, and Czech Republic forward Martin Erat, No. 91, during the first period of a Winter Olympics quarterfinal game Wednesday at Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia. The USA beat the Czech Republic, 5-2.
GOING FOR GOLD TOP 5 MEDAL COUNT 1. NORWAY 9 gold 4 silver 7 bronze 20 total
2. GERMANY 8 gold 3 silver 4 bronze 15 total
3. UNITED STATES 7 gold 5 silver 11 bronze 23 total
4. RUSSIA 6 gold 9 silver 7 bronze 22 total
5. NETHERLANDS 6 gold 7 silver 9 bronze 22 total
Maybe it was all too much. Or maybe just one of those bad nights. That debate will last a long time. Shaun White stood at the top of the Olympic halfpipe, hunched over, hands resting above his knees. He high-fived his coach, clapped his hands, then jumped in for a ride that would decide if all the calculated choices he had made over a winter full of injuries, distractions and angst would pay off. One jump, 15 feet above the pipe, was perfect. The second one looked good, too. Then, the trick they call the “YOLO” — the one a rival invented but White had turned into his own. His snowboard skittered across the halfpipe on the landing. White finished the run with a flourish and raised his index finger, trying to woo the judges who know well what he’s done for his sport.
FEB. 12 U.S. WOMEN’S HOCKEY FALLS TO CANADA IN CONTROVERSIAL FINISH The Canadian women’s hockey team beat the United States 3-2 on Feb. 12 in a tense preview of the expected gold medal match, taking the lead on Hayley Wickenheiser’s controversial third-period goal. Meghan Agosta scored in the second period to tie the game 1-1, and then Canada added the go-ahead goal 93 seconds later on a shot that U.S. goalie Jesse Vetter seemed to have stopped, drawing a whistle from referee Anna Eskola of Finland. But the puck slid through Vetter’s pads and over the goal line. A video — and presumably audio — review confirmed the
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USA Bode Miller crosses the finish line during the men’s alpine skiing downhill Feb. 9 at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
puck went into the net before the whistle. “You celebrate when you see the puck cross the line,” said Wickenheiser, who is participating in her fifth Winter Games. “It doesn’t matter how.” But Vetter said she thought the whistle had blown before the puck came loose. American coach Katey Stone was even more sure of it. “I did hear a whistle blow before the puck went in,” she said. “But, more importantly, I said to our players, ‘Regardless of what happens, let’s be ready.’”
FEB. 13 A newly minted American medalist was sharing his thoughts — something about making history — when a certain song ringing out from fans in the stands stopped him midstream. “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Yes, they were skiing in Russia. But on a warm-and-sunny afternoon that goes down as the greatest in the history of a young sport making its Olympic debut, the slopestyle course was All-American. Joss Christensen, Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper swept the podium for the United States on Thursday in slopestyle skiing, each throwing down versions of
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No sale. No medal, either. He finished fourth. The world’s best-known, mostsuccessful and best-marketed snowboarder lost to a man they call the “I-Pod,” and now, he may never hear the end of it. “I would definitely say that tonight was just one of those nights,” White said after falling to Iouri Podladtchikov, the 25-year-old Russian-born inventor of the “YOLO.” “The tricks I learned getting ready for the competition will carry on for a couple years in this sport. It’s a bummer. I had one of those nights.” The Japanese pair of 15-year-old Ayumu Hirano and 18-year-old Taku Hiraoka won silver and bronze, and the Americans were shut out on the halfpipe for the first time since the sport was introduced to the Olympics in 1998.
their sport’s vaunted triple-cork jump to capture one of the rarest triples of all: gold, silver and bronze. It was only the third time Americans have swept an event at the Winter Games, and the first since 2002, when a trio of snowboarders in Utah did it in the halfpipe to truly bring their sport into the mainstream. The slopestyle medalists were well aware of what they’d accomplished in matching that feat. “We couldn’t have asked for a better way to debut this sport to the world,” Goepper said.
U.S. MEN’S HOCKEY DEFEATS RUSSIA IN SHOOTOUT T.J. Oshie brainstormed while he skated to center ice, desperately trying to come up with one last move to end an epic shootout. He had already taken five shots at Sergei Bobrovsky, and the Russians were still even. Yet Oshie was chosen for the U.S. men’s hockey team with just such a situation in mind, and the shootout specialist concocted one last clever goal to silence an arena filled with screaming Russian fans. Oshie scored four times in the shootout
and put the winner between Bobrovsky’s legs in the eighth round, leading the United States past Russia 3-2 on Saturday in the thrilling revival of a classic Olympic hockey rivalry. “I was just thinking of something else I could do, trying to keep him guessing,” Oshie, a St. Louis Blues forward, said. “Had to go back to the same move a couple times, but I was glad it ended when it did. I was running out of moves there.”
SUNDAY BODE MILLER CAPTURES EMOTIONAL BRONZE MEDAL IN SUPER-G This medal mattered to Bode Miller. Not so much because, at 36, his bronze in Sunday’s super-G — behind winner Kjetil Jansrud and surprise runner-up Andrew Weibrecht — makes Miller the oldest Alpine medalist in Olympic history. Or even because he now owns six medals in all, the second-highest total for a male ski racer and tied for second among U.S. Winter Olympians in any sport. The guy, who for years and years insisted results don’t mean much to him, declared he actually did care about this one. The last year has been a difficult
one for Miller: the death of his younger brother, Chelone, in April 2013; the court fight over custody of his infant son; the work it took to come back from left knee surgery and return to the Alpine apex. “It’s almost therapeutic for me to be in these situations, where I really had to test myself, so I was happy to have it be on the right side of the hundredths,” said Miller, who grew up in New Hampshire and is now based in California. “Some days ... medals don’t matter, and today was one of the ones where it does.”
MONDAY U.S. WOMEN’S HOCKEY SECURES SPOT IN GOLD MEDAL GAME
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The work began before the U.S. women’s hockey team reached the medal round, before it arrived in Sochi, before the roster was even selected. Four years ago, the Americans left the Olympics with a silver medal. And Julie Chu was determined to be back. “When that buzzer goes off and it erupted in the arena and we fell short of our goal of being the best in the world, that hurts,” the four-time Olympian said after the U.S. beat Sweden 6-1 to reach the gold medal game in Sochi. “The last four years, that’s been our goal.” Megan Bozek and Brianna Decker each had a goal and two assists, and the Americans outshot Sweden 70-9 to clinch no worse than a silver medal. The U.S.
has medaled in every Winter Games since women’s hockey was added in 1998, and just once — with a loss to Sweden in the 2006 semifinals — failed to reach the Olympic championship game. Not since the inaugural tournament in Nagano have the Americans beaten Canada, losing in the championship game in 2002 and 2010 and again in the preliminary round of the Sochi Games on Wednesday. They will matchup again today in the final. Chu is the only one on the roster who was also on the team in Salt Lake City or Turin. She has two silver medals and a bronze. “We’re going for a different color this time,” she said.
TUESDAY AMERICAN DAVID WISE CAPTURES GOLD MEDAL IN HALFPIPE SKIING
USA’s David Wise celebrates after winning the men’s ski halfpipe Tuesday at Rosa Khutor Extreme Park during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russi. MCT PHOTO
USA’s Jamie Anderson, center, of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., celebrates her gold medal win with silver winner Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi and bronze winner Great Britain’s Jenny Jones in the ladies slopestyle finals during the Winter Olympics Feb. 9 at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park in Sochi, Russia.
David Wise considers himself a dad and husband first, a freestyle skier second. That might be why he also became an Olympic champion. Soaring through sloppy snow and sleet, Wise won the first gold medal in the young sport of halfpipe skiing Tuesday, outclassing a field in Sochi that had trouble with the slow, waterlogged conditions. Sightlines were less than perfect on the first true soaker of a night at the action-sports venue, but not so bad that Wise couldn’t look down from the top
and see his wife, Lexi, and the rest of his family members cheering at the base of the halfpipe. Many of them were holding big pop-out pictures of his 2-year-old daughter, Nayeli, stapled to wooden sticks. “To see that face looking back up at me was cool,” Wise said. After placing a heart-shaped rock Lexi gave him into one pocket, the 23-year-old from Reno, Nev., dropped into the halfpipe and scored a 92 — a mark that held up to beat Canada’s Mike Riddle by 1.4 points. Kevin Rolland of France took bronze.
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Osetek has been the artistic director of Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre in Chicago since 2006. He selected this script after seeing the show performed twice in New York and having directed it once before himself. One of the main difficulties for this show lies in the casting. “The 39 Steps” calls for a male actor to play the lead, a female actor to play three separate roles and two other actors to play what totals to 35 different characters between them. “It’s almost as if someone told them to try to tell the story with just the four of them and the props they could find lying around,” Osetek said. “They keep changing the set and the costumes to fit the needs of the next scene.” Senior acting major Talley Gale plays the female lead with three separate roles: Annabella Schmidt, a German secret agent who begins Hannay’s journey into subterfuge; Margaret McTyte, who Gale describes as a “wide-eyed Scottish lass;” and Pamela Edwards, an English girl who unwillingly gets caught up in the action. Sophomore musical theatre major Samuel Wisenden and junior acting major Luke Burris play the roles of Clown 1 and Clown 2. However, their characters include much more than these two, including but not limited to Mr. Memory, a salesmen, a policeman and Ms. Higgins. They even occasionally play two or more characters in the same scene. For these two actors in particular, this show presents an experience. “The challenge I’ve faced in this show is striving for specificity in my character choices,” Burris said. “When you are responsible for over half the characters in the show, it becomes even more essential to be meticulous in differentiating characters.” Complete with fog, strobe lights, gunshots and other sudden noises, this production boasts more than 50 costumes, three pages of props and more than 100 cues for the light and sound departments each. Actors have memorized countless accents and dialects to match their multiple roles. With some of their costume changes lasting less than 30 seconds, the show never really stops moving. Osetek said this means, “If you blink, you might miss a whole scene.” When Osetek did this play the first time, he was working with professional actors. He said even for them, the show was extremely challenging.
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held onto her from behind as she took slow, powerful steps forward. She left the hospital and went through multiple rehab facilities, slowly working her strength back. “I’m on a mission,” she said. “And I’m going to get better no matter what.”
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hard to concentrate on academics as his mother was halfway across the country. He kept his situation private, only sharing sparse details with his teammates.
She was put on a ventilator and feeding tube just to keep her alive. Doctors said it could be years until she would function normally. “It was bad, it was so bad,” Welsh-White said. “It was just the worst feeling ever.” He felt helpless. There were no warm, familiar hugs from his mom. No welcome home kisses. No “I love you” from her during the hundreds of times he would walk in her hospital room. There was nothing. “This is somebody who has raised you your entire life,” he said. “To see them in the state they’re in, it’s hard to deal with.” Welsh-White’s time was consumed with thinking about his mother, wishing he could be with her. The bright, upbeat junior had become quieter and reserved. Throughout the summer, he kept his mother company whenever possible. He considered dropping out of Ball State, where he studies sports administration, so he could stay at home as August got closer. But he knew his mother wouldn’t approve. “She wants me to finish school,” Welsh-White said. “She always tells me that her motivation is to see me doing well in school, to see me excel.” He called head coach Joel Walton and explained the situation. The team is a part of his family, and he didn’t want to go back without them knowing what was going on. Back in Muncie, he found it
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On Sept. 10, 2013, Welsh took a critical step forward. She spoke to her son for the first time since June. “Her voice was high-pitched and really scratchy, but it was still her voice,” Welsh-White said, smiling. “It was just wonderful to hear.” The doctors had removed her ventilator and performed a tracheotomy, allowing her to breathe on her own for the first time in months. She was using the tube to speak. About a month later, when Welsh-White surprised her by visiting home in Collingswood, N.J., she was able to make small movements with her arms and legs. “Words can’t explain how that felt,” he said. “There’s just no way to say it. It’s indescribable.” He approached her bedside in the hospital, and she raised her arms for a hug. “Being able to hug my family again, it means everything,” Welsh said. “It’s been a long process. ... I’ve made it a long way.” During Winter Break, Welsh asked her son to come see a surprise. So, he went to her rehabilitation facility. Her hands grasped the bars of a walker and an assistant
TEAM TO COMPETE IN FIRST HOME MEET
On Friday, the Ball State track and field team will host the Ball State Quad, the first of the season’s two home meets. In its previous meet, all four of the team’s competing athletes finished in the top 10 of their events at the Tom Hathaway Classic. Junior Courtney Edon came in first in the 5,000-meter run, and freshman Gabrielle Perryman finished third in the triple jump. Junior Hannah Ciasto-Poor placed fourth in the pole vault while freshman Elizabeth Eversole was seventh. The Ball State Quad also will feature Miami, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan. Western Michigan won the meet last season, its ninth consecutive win at the Ball State Quad. The event, which will begin at 5 p.m., will be Ball State’s last before competing in the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships. – STAFF REPORTS
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Freshman guard Zavier Turner tries to get around a Butler player on Nov. 23 at Worthen Arena. In Wednesday’s game against Central Michigan, Turner scored 20 points in 40 minutes of playing time.
TRIPLE OVERTIME GAME ENDS IN LOSS The Ball State men’s basketball team looked to capture its first road victory of the season against Central Michigan on Wednesday. The Chippewas team, which has never held a lead in reguTEAM COMPARISON lation, pushed the Cardinals Central to triple-overtime. The game Ball Michigan ended with the home team on State Final Score 95 101 top, 101-95. Field goal 46.1 Ball State fell to 4-20 on the 44.1 percentage season with the loss. Senior Three-point forward Chris Bond scored a 26.9 41.4 field goal percareer-high 21 points to pace centage Ball State, a team that has lost 42 Rebounds its last eight Mid-American 52 6 Turnovers Conference games and sits at 15 Assists 16 1-12 in MAC play. Senior guard 16 Jesse Berry scored 19 points in a team-high 52 minutes. Senior center Majok Majok was unable to finish the game after an injury. Freshman point guard Zavier Turner fouled out in the third overtime period, leaving Ball State without two of its starters. The Cardinals’ road trip continues with a game at Toledo on Sunday. – STAFF REPORTS
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While research hasn’t provided an exact cause of GBS, many people get the syndrome after respiratory illnesses or stomach flus, according to the Mayo Clinic. While it’s rare, it also is possible to develop GBS after a vaccination. Welsh hadn’t had a shot for months. “It was very life threatening and extremely difficult to deal with,” Welsh-White said. “And it was confusing because none of us could figure out how she contracted it.” Her memory of the events were lost. Welsh said she can’t remember the first 10 days after the paralysis set in.
On Feb. 8, Ball State had pulled up to Dillon Gym, home of the Princeton Tigers, and unloaded its players and equipment. The university is in New Jersey, not far from where WelshWhite’s family lives. At most games when the team gathers in its pre-match huddle, Walton usually talks about the plan or says something to fire up the team. He said something else: Welsh-White was in. Walton wanted to dedicate the match to Welsh, who was in the crowd. “It was really special for me,” Welsh-White said. “She’s finally starting to get over being very, very sick for half a year, and it was really good having her there.” In front of his mother, he walked on the court. Welsh had just learned how to whistle, and she whistled proudly from the stands for her son. It was the first time she was going to see him play in a Ball State uniform. She watched her son go on to win the match, and afterward, she met him on the court for a picture. She walked to him and wrapped her arms around his midsection. Smiles spread across their faces. She still has miles to go, but for that moment, it didn’t matter. They were with each other, and she was holding on.
Julian Welsh-White hugs his family. His mom, Stacie Welsh, on the left, has Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare illness that left her temporarily paralyzed.
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In June 2013, the junior middle attacker for the Ball State men’s volleyball team was in Orlando, Fla., coaching for Munciana Volleyball Club. Welsh-White’s brother contacted him to tell him that his mother, Stacie Welsh, went to the hospital during a family vacation in North Carolina. She had been having pain in her back and neck while feeling tingling and numbness in her hands and feet. On the second day of the vacation, Welsh-White’s aunt took his mom to the emergency room twice because her discomfort was becoming unbearable. “She had been complaining about this tingling feeling in her arm the day prior when I spoke to her,” Welsh-White said. “I knew she had been in a lot of pain the previous night.” By the next day, her condition worsened and her family had to carry her out of the house and to the ambulance. Her body was shutting down. She was rushed to a local hospital and began a series of tests to determine the problem. Doctors feared she had Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare neurological illness that can leave a person permanently paralyzed and has the potential to be fatal. About one person in 100,000 has the syndrome, according to the National Institutes of Health. Welsh was transported to a hospital in a helicopter in Norfolk, Va. “They were telling me to be glad I wasn’t there because it wasn’t a good sight,” he said. Welsh-White stayed updated through his phone. He couldn’t leave Orlando because of his coaching obligations. Once the tournament ended, he flew to Muncie and was at Ball State for less than 12 hours before flying out of Indianapolis to Norfolk. His mother could no longer speak or move anything except her eyes. At the hospital in Norfolk, the doctor’s initial fears were confirmed. Her immune system was attacking and damaging her nerves, causing numbness and paralysis. She had GBS.
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It’s time for Ball State to send a message. The men’s volleyball team faces No. 1 Loyola at 7:30 tonight at Worthen Arena, the home of Midwest volleyball. There’s no better time to tell the American Volleyball Coaches Association that the Cardinals have arrived. Knock off the No. 1 team, send Worthen Arena into a frenzy and make the country take notice. It isn’t like the team doesn’t have the personnel. On offense, outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski leads the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association in kills per set with 3.74. Defensively, Ball State leads the MIVA in blocks per set with 3.67, with senior middle attacker Matt Leske ranked third in the conference and eighth in the country. But there’s no doubt the Cardinals will be underdogs tonight. The Ramblers are a physical, punishing and lethal team. It’s a team that does everything right — Joe Smalzer leads the conference in aces with 33, Nicholas Olson leads it in blocks per set with 1.49 and two players are in the guest columns and feedback on our website. Letters to the editor must be signed and appear as space permits each day. The limit for letter length is approximately 350 words. All letters must be typed.
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*** 2 blks to Village. 3 & 4 bdrms for Rent. A/C, W/D, No pets. Avalible August. 1. Call 286-2808 ****4 bdrm 2 bath at 825 W. Ashland W/D, C/A, all utils paid, $380/mo, No pets,Aug. lease. Call 765-760-2202 ***RATCHFORD PROPERTIES*** •Great Apts. & Houses! •Best Locations for 1,2,3,4 BR on & Near Campus •Affordable Prices! •Some Utilities Paid! Laundry Facility, NO Pets. ***CALL OR TEXT 748-6407*** www.ratchfordproperties.com
2204 N.Maplewood Ave. Close to BSU nice 2 bdrm, W/D, fridge, stove, off-st prkg. No pets, no smoking. $250/each +util. May to May lease. UALA member. Call 288-2663 or 730-2237 2713 Beckett. 4 bdrm, 2 ba. 2 car gar. $295/person + utils. Aug.-Aug. Lease. Quiet area, lots of parking Call 765-254-9992 3 & 4 Brdms, W/D, D/W, C/A, off-st parking, Aug-Aug. call Rob for showing 765-748-7278 3 Bdrm House full basement Near BSU campus off street prkg W/D, A/C,Aug-Aug 765-215-4591 3 Bdrm, 2 Ba., Nice! Walk to BSU, UTIL pd! W/D, A/C, avail aug, No pets. $990/mo. (317) 439-3763 3 Brdm Homes from $167/month ea. Now,May,Aug. 765-744-1079 joecoolproperties.blogspot.com 3 Brdm, 1 full Ba. 2000 1/2 W Jackson. Close to campus. W/D, parking at back. $285ea, all util pd. 765-284-3646 or 765-744-5008 www.munciecollegerentals.com 3 or 4 bdr C/A, C/H ,W/D + Utils. Ball Ave 4 blks from Bethel Aug 1st. 765-289-3971
1,2,3,4 bdrms. Lease 2014-2015. www.clunerentals.blogspot.com 765-744-1400 or 729-9321
3/4 Bedroom, 2108 N. Ball Ave. August lease, $975 plus utilities. Call 317-716-7174
105 N. Calvert - Avail 5-1 LIKE NEW 3/4 BR, 2 BA - Ht/Wtr pd. Off st. pkg. Walk to class! UALA Call 765-284-4287 for details & previe.
4 bdr Very Nice, Hrdw floors. W/D, off street prkg, Walk dist to campus, Call Eric at 317-825-8683 www.ballurental.com
!!! 6 bdrm. 3 ba. single house clos to campus, w/laundry rm.,deck, paved off st. prkng. $350 each includes heat, water & sewage. Aug lease. No pets. lori2260@comcast.net or 765-212-8992
2 bdrm very nice house + sunrm, bsmt, gar, W/D, A/C, near BSU, Aug lse. 765- 289-0815
4 BDRM, 1 & 1/2 bths, C/A, gas heat, W/D,o ff-street parking.1608 New York, garage, close to BSU 765 748 8425
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against IPFW, Princeton and Lindenwood, when the team came back to win despite dropping the first set. Opportunities can’t and won’t be wasted. When the situation arises, senior setter Graham McIlvaine has to catch the Loyola defense off guard with his quick dumps over the net. There can’t be the slightest bit of predictability from him. If there was ever a time for him to unleash one of his nightmare-inducing yells, it would be after Ball State’s first kill of the match. He’d be sending a message to Loyola and to the country that Ball State isn’t backing down, isn’t afraid and is ready to make a push for a MIVA championship. It’d be a yell that fuels the country’s hopes of seeing the upset of the season. One with so much emotion, passion and energy, that it can’t help but give his teammates the confidence they need to win. Because when the match ends, there will be just one undefeated team left in the MIVA. With the nation willing them to victory, it’ll be Ball State.
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4 Lg bdrms, 2 baths. 824 W. Beechwood. Behind SAE. C/A, D/W, W/D. Call 286-1943 4, 5, or 6 bdrm. Lrg. rooms, 2 lrg. ba., W/D, off st prkg, all utils includ. 501 N. Alameda. (765) 744-8269. 5 Bdrm. 1.5 Ba. 1428 W. Gilbert. Close to village. W/D bsmt, Off-srt prkg. Call 286-1943
5 Large Bedrooms 829 W. North St.
Spectacular 3 baths big rooms Dishwasher, Central Air, W/D $275/each Avail Aug 1. 749-9792
6 Bdrm, 3 Ba, 3 blks from campus. All utils pd, A/C, D/W, W/D, off st prkg, garage, no pets, avail Aug. 760-4529 For Rent. 1121 W Rex 3 BD. W/D. newly remodled.2.5 car garage. Great Location. 765-520-9404 Great location, 1308 Abbott May to May lease, 3 bdrm 1 ba, 2 car garage, A/C. 765-254-9992 Great location, 1312 Abbott, 5 Bedroom, 2 bath, C/A, $290/per + utilities, Aug-Aug lease. Call 765-254-9992 Newley renovated. 1-6 BR homes. Close to BSU. W/D, A/C, D/W. Rent:$300-$400 ech. 765-286-2806 Nice 3 bdr. Close to BSU. 2 ba. Avail. Aug. A/C, stove, fridge, W/D. $395 /ea, utils incl. 765-348-6413 www.jahrentals.com, Nicest houses on campus. Many extras. Even a 6 bdrm. Also student parking available. Call 286-5216.
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ABOVE Jeannine Lee Lake, owner of Grandma Betty’s Ice Cream Shop, sweeps up damage done during a reported burglary. Police are questioning a discrepancy in statements between Lake and the suspect of the crime. RIGHT Kent Kurtz, a University Police Department detective sergeant, tells Lake that the missing equipment was found after questioning a former patron. The suspect told police he had permission to take the goods.
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