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When senior center Majok Majok went down with an ankle injury Wednesday, it altered Ball State’s lineup and its defensive gameplan.

Majok missed Sunday’s game at Toledo, which ended in a 74-85 loss.

Ball State head coach James Whitford said Majok would be limited in practice this week.

“He’s really close to being ready,“ Whitford said.

“I’m optimistic he can play Wednesday [against Western Michigan].“ Ball State went [Mading Thok] small against Toledo on Sunday, as needed a little sophomore forward Bo Calhoun entered sunshine. Confidence the starting lineup is a funny thing in alongside senior Chris Bond, fresh- this game. man Mark Alstork, senior Jesse Berry JAMES WHITFORD, and freshman Za- head coach vier Turner.

Redshirt freshman center Mading Thok received some of Majok’s minutes Sunday.

Thok played a career-high 18 minutes in the loss, scoring a career-high 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field.

“He needed a little sunshine,” Whitford said. “Confidence is a funny thing in this game.”

Thok has played in nine games this season for a total of 65 minutes. Whitford said he may earn a larger role based on his Sunday play.

Up to this point in his career, Thok’s problem getting on the court is from his lack of size and strength.

Listed at 6-foot-11, he’s the tallest player on the team. However, he weighs in at just 200 pounds.

“He’ll get it eventually,” he said. “It just hasn’t been easy for him.“ With Thok playing more minutes, Ball State opted to use a 2-3 zone against Toledo. The zone differed from the man-to-man defense that the team usually plays.

Whitford said Thok was the main reason for changing defensive sets.

“I felt like if we put Mading out there in manto-man, we were really setting ourselves up,” Whitford said.

Whitford thought he would have trouble defending Toledo on its pick and rolls.

Thok’s playing time going forward will depend on Majok’s injury prognosis, but Whitford said he may have a larger role going forward based on his play against Toledo.

“I think it does give you a little bit of hope about who [Thok] can one day become,” Whitford said.

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lasted about two weeks.

“We’re looking at it like a puzzle,” he said hours prior to the announcement. “We’re trying to piece together the different parts of it. It’s still very inconclusive.”

The elections code has no rules regarding slates receiving debate questions ahead of time, though France denied helping regardless.

“That’s absolutely not true,” she said. “I heard someone said

that. That’s absolutely not true; I would never do that.”

Nick Wilkey, Cardinal Connection presidential nominee, said Carli Hendershot, vice presidential candidate, met with France to discuss the responsibilities of being the SGA vice president, but denied that France had given Hendershot questions.

France acknowledged that she met with Hendershot.

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Association official said Monday.

The primary concerns included whether Alyssa France, current SGA vice president, leaked questions to the Cardinal Connection slate ahead of the debates.

The elections board found no evidence of France or Cardinal Connection committing any violations, said Alex Sventeckis, elections board chairman.

Sventeckis acknowledged the difficulty of finding evidence during the investigation that

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Social media site adds custom gender options for users The following list of Facebook’s additional 56 gender choices shows the complexity of the terms and their definitions. Many of these terms have existed for decades.

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YEARS OF USE

AGENDER ANDROGYNE BIGENDER CIS FEMALE TO MALE GENDERQUEER GENDER QUESTIONING INTERSEX MALE TO FEMALE NEITHER PANGENDER TRANS TRANSSEXUAL TWO-SPIRIT

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135 394 100 3 54 43 N/A 97 84 N/A 88 26 57 24

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A person with no sense of gender identity A person presenting a mixed or neutral gender A person with both male and female gender A person whose gender aligns with their biological sex A person transitioning from female to male (could be physically or in regards to gender) A person who does not conform to society’s expectation for their sex A person in question of their position on the gender spectrum A person born with sexual anatomy that is not entirely male or female A person transitioning from male to female (could be physically or in regards to gender)

A person with a gender identity comprised of all or several genders A person whose gender does not align with their sex A person whose gender does not align with their sex, may have a sex change

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ith more than 50 gender and three pronoun options now on Facebook, some students think the addition is promoting conversation and will help society recognize different genders.

With new choices, including transgender and male to female, users have more freedom to express themselves as whichever gender they identify.

Facebook collaborated with Network of Support, a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer advocacy organizations, to come up with a list of gender identities. Users also can choose to be referred to as “they” instead of “he” or “she” and control which individual users can see their chosen gender.

“When you come to Facebook to connect with the people, causes and organizations you care about, we want you to feel comfortable being your true, authentic self,” the company wrote in a statement.

Dalton Cromer, public relations director for Spectrum, Ball State’s LGBTQ and ally group on campus, said he thought it was a good idea for Facebook to recognize that not all people fit into traditional stereotypes of masculinity or femininity.

Cromer said he has a lot of friends who are genderfluid, which is a gender that varies across the spectrum, and genderqueer, which

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GENDERFLUID CISGENDER CIS FEMALE CIS MALE CIS MAN CIS WOMAN CISGENDER FEMALE CISGENDER MALE CISGENDER MAN CISGENDER WOMAN

GENDER NONCONFORMING GENDER VARIANT NON-BINARY MTF OTHER

A Native-American person with both male and female attributes

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A person who identifies as neither fully male or fully female

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sees gender as non-binary and doesn’t conform to gender stereotypes. His friends said they liked having the option to express who they really are.

“I think it’d be beneficial for people to know, that instead of saying like, ‘Not sure yet,’ you can see what they really are so you know how you should address them,” he said.

Perry Halkitis, a psychology professor at NYU Steinhardt, said it is important to acknowledge someone’s gender, just as people should acknowledge all other parts of a person’s identity.

“When we do not acknowledge a person’s being, we’re basically discriminating against that person,” Halkitis said. “And [that creates] emotional burdens in that person’s life that are compromising the well-being of that person.”

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3. MEXICAN KINGPIN FACES DRUG CHARGES MEXICO CITY (AP) — Drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been formally charged with violations of Mexico’s drug-trafficking laws, starting a legal process that makes swift extradition to the U.S. unlikely, Mexican officials said Monday.

Guzman was charged with cocaine trafficking Sunday inside a maximumsecurity prison outside the nation’s capital, Mexico’s Federal Judicial Council announced. A judge has until

ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president Monday signed an anti-gay bill that punishes gay sex with up to life in prison, a measure likely to send Uganda’s beleaguered gay community further underground as the police try to implement it amid fevered antigay sentiment across the country.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said the bill, which goes into effect immediately, was needed because the West is promoting homosexuality in Africa.

Museveni may have defied Western pressure to shelve the bill, four years and many versions after it was introduced, but his move — likely to galvanize support ahead of presidential elections — pleased many Ugandans who repeatedly urged him to sign the legislation.

Nigeria’s president similarly signed an anti-gay bill into law just over a month ago, sparking increased violence against gays who already were persecuted in mob attacks.

Some watchdog groups warn a similar backlash of violence may occur in Uganda.

today to decide whether to release him or start the process of bringing him to trial. Mexican authorities said the judge will launch the trial process, a Mexican federal official anonymously told The Associated Press because he wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

Guzman can appeal the judge’s decision, a process that typically takes weeks or months. Mexican officials are also weighing whether to renew other charges Guzman faces inside Mexico.

4. MISSISSIPPI RIVER PARTIALLY REOPENS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard says it is conditionally reopening 40 miles of the Mississippi River from New Orleans upriver, but 25 miles remain closed after oil spilled into the river.

Port spokesman Matt Gresham said each vessel’s hull must be certified clean of oil before it can move along the reopened stretch.

About 31,500 gallons of light crude oil spilled from a tank barge

that hit a towboat Saturday. The Coast Guard said nobody was hurt, and there have not been any reports of oiled wildlife.

The Coast Guard said 29 vessels are waiting for the river to reopen.

The river had been closed from below the Port of New Orleans to Vacherie, nearly 50 miles west of New Orleans. It’s now closed from Vacherie to near Hahnville, which is 30 miles from New Orleans.

2. DEFENSE SECRETARY PROPOSES MILITARY CUTS 5. EGYPTIAN PRIME MINISTER’S CABINET QUITS WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel proposed shrinking the Army to its smallest size in 74 years, closing military bases and making other military-wide savings as part of a broad reshaping after more than a decade of war.

On Monday, Hagel outlined his vision in a speech at the Pentagon, a week before President Barack Obama is to submit his 2015 budget plan to Congress.

Hagel said U.S. forces must adjust to

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the reality of smaller budgets, even as he asserted that the nation faces a more volatile, more unpredictable world that requires a more nimble military.

“We are repositioning to focus on the strategic challenges and opportunities that will define our future: new technologies, new centers of power and a world that is growing more volatile, more unpredictable and in some instances more threatening to the United States,” he said.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s interim prime minister announced Monday the resignation of his Cabinet, a surprise move that could be designed in part to pave the way for the nation’s military chief to leave his defense minister’s post to run for president.

Hazem el-Beblawi’s military-backed government was sworn in July 16, less than two weeks after Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, the defense minister, ousted Islamist President

Mohammed Morsi after a year in office. Its ministers will remain in their posts in a caretaker capacity until the president picks a prime minister to form a new Cabinet.

The government’s resignation, announced by el-Beblawi in a live TV broadcast, came amid a host of strikes, including one by public transport workers and garbage collectors. An shortage of cooking gas has also been making front page news the past few days.

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Protests, president split Ukraine Uprising’s aftermath leaves nation waiting to make next steps | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — From the moment protesters claimed to control Ukraine’s capital until the triumphant release of their blond-braided political heroine from jail Saturday, it was a momentous day for this country.

President Viktor Yanukovych’s fate is in the balance, along with the direction of his nation.

Each development has been more dramatic or more confusing than the last.

DIVIDED COUNTRY

As the crisis has deepened, concerns have grown that it might split the country in two.

Protests began in November when Yanukovych abruptly refused to sign a long-anticipated political association and free trade agreement with the European Union, opting instead for closer ties with Russia. Yanukovych is widely despised in western Ukraine, but has strong support in the Russianspeaking east, where he’s from, as well as in the South.

The pro-Western demonstrators saw Yanukovych’s move as a betrayal of national interests and submission to Moscow and demanded that he reverse his decision. Their number swelled to hundreds of thousands after a brutal crackdown by riot police. Demands grew more radical to include Yanukovych’s resignation and early elections.

His supporters in the east, meanwhile, see the protesters and the opposition as manipulated and financed by the West and feel greater economic and

cultural connections to Russia.

Yanukovych left the capital Saturday for Kharkiv, the heart of his eastern supportbase and accused the parliament in Kiev of staging a coup.

The governor and mayor of Kharkiv fled to Russia.

A VIOLENT YEAR

Weeks of peaceful rallies turned abruptly violent in January after parliament, dominated by Yanukovych supporters, passed repressive laws intended to quash the protest. Radical protesters hurled firebombs and stones at police, who retaliated with stun grenades, tear gas and rubber bullets. At least four people died and hundreds were injured.

Yanukovych made some concessions, retracting the repressive legislation and firing his prime minister. The opposition kept pushing for constitutional changes that would limit presidential powers. The refusal by pro-Yanukovych lawmakers to endorse the amendments triggered new violence this week, when demonstrators assailed police who fought back.

Firearms were widely used this time, resulting in a much higher death toll.

On Thursday, the bloodiest day of fighting, scores were killed, including many by sniper fire. This hardened both sides.

The death count hovers just below 100.

OUTSIDE INFLUENCE

Ukraine is strategically located with a large consumer market and untapped economic potential, and the U.S., Russia and the EU have all tried to weigh in on its future.

Moscow sees what is now Ukraine as the birthplace of Russian statehood and Russian Orthodox Christianity. Most of modern-day Ukraine came un-

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The interim government of Ukraine put its deposed President Viktor Yanukovych on a wanted list Monday. Women in Khreschatyk street in Kiev, Ukraine, look at an image of Yanukovych.

der the control of the czars in the 1700s after being part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sees close economic and political ties with Ukraine as essential for the success of his project to build an alliance of ex-Soviet neighbors.

Russia has done its best to derail Ukraine’s pact with the EU with a mixture of trade sanctions and promises. Moscow offered a $15 billion bailout to help Ukraine avoid an imminent default, but so far has only provided $3 billion, freezing further disbursements pending the outcome of the ongoing

strife.

EU leaders stepped up their negotiating efforts this week because of the violence on their eastern border. Two days of shuttle diplomacy produced a peace deal between the opposition and president.

But the opposition quickly took the upper hand, and Russia slammed the deal as tailored for the West.

WHAT’S NEXT

On Saturday, protesters took control of the capital and police abandoned posts. Parliament voted to remove the president from power and set new elec-

Code changes aid election

Amendments made lead to clean season with fewer violations RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu This year’s Student Government Association election season has been noticeably different from the previous campaign.

In January, SGA Senate approved changes to the elections code, shortening the campaign trail from three weeks to two, prohibiting campaigning with electronic devices to solicit votes and requiring campaign staffs and slates to adhere to Ball State’s Student Code.

Jennifer Jones-Hall, Office of Student Life director, said the campaign so far has been clean compared to previous years.

TWO-WEEK ELECTION

Candidates said shorter campaigning gave them less time to connect with student organizations, but overall it has been a change for the better.

Nick Wilkey, Cardinal Connection presidential nominee, said he wishes he had a few more days to talk to organizations, but not an entire extra week.

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He said the shorter amount of time this year was less stressful than when he campaigned last year as part of Fusion’s slate.

Jes Wade, Empower presidential candidate, said having two weeks has forced her campaign to prioritize visits to organizations.

“You have to condense the love instead of spread the love,” she said. “I don’t want to say we’re not giving love to [all organizations], but we’re trying as hard as we can.”

Alex Sventeckis, elections board chairman, ran as Fusion’s presidential candidate last year and said it was hard campaigning for such a long period of time.

“Two weeks is plenty of time to get slates ideas and platform points out there,” he said.

Jones-Hall said as an adviser, she would never advocate going back to a three-week cam-

paign in the future.

“The stress of two weeks is a lot, but the stress of three weeks is magnified 10 times fold,” she said. “When we went into that third week [last year], everything started breaking down.”

CODE OF CONDUCT

When the elections board encountered issues with campaigns last year, they realized the elections code did not mandate students comply with the university’s Student Code.

This year, it was directly stated and Sventeckis said now, the elections board can directly enforce the mandate if it is violated.

“I can expect student leaders to want to abide by Student Code of Conduct, but reinforcing it in elections code is a good idea,” he said.

Wade agreed slates should have already followed the Student Code, regardless of its inclusion in the election code.

“I think you should be held to Student Code no matter what,” she said. “Just because we are campaigning doesn’t make you higher than anybody else.”

TABLET CAMPAIGNING

Last year, campaigning students were seen canvassing

campus with iPads and other tablets, encouraging students to log in and vote on the spot. This year, that is prohibited.

Jones-Hall said this will make the election more equal.

“Students have to truly vote on issues instead of being handed something and told to vote for a slate,” she said.

Wade said Empower’s campaign is relying on a grassroots method to get votes, talking to students and encouraging them to go online.

Wilkey said all three slates in last year’s election used tablets to solicit votes and that he thinks without them, it will change the number of votes. “[Compared to] last year, the number of votes is going to go down extremely,” he said.

Now, slates can only encourage students to vote and hope the students respond to the university email to cast their ballot.

Wilkey said he thinks this change, combined with the shorter elections period, will repair the relationship between SGA and student body.

“Last year, people got really annoyed with SGA elections and had a bad taste in their mouth afterward,” he said.

“This has been overall better for the organization.”

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When people face discrimination, Halkitis said it affects their emotional and social well-being as well as their health.

“If we have the potential to diminish their self-esteem, we have the potential to affect their self-worth and to negatively affect how they’re feeling about themselves,” Halkitis said.

However, junior telecommunications major Natalie Roman said people have told her they don’t want to change their gender on Facebook because it could out them.

Roman chose to change the gender option on Facebook because it allowed for a more accurate definition.

“To me, it allows me to choose something different than what I normally would have had,” Roman said. “Now, I can choose things like transfeminine or androgyne and those words.

While they still indicate female and use female pronouns, they still define me a little bit better.

Roman said a lot of social networking sites, like Twitter, are already gender neutral.

Facebook, however, uses pronouns to try to personalize the user’s experience.

“Facebook has a really large impact on the way we behave; it’s obviously one of the most popular websites and it brings friends together and helps influence other people’s perceptions of one another,” Roman said.

The change signals that society is becoming more aware of gender, said Joel Baum, director of education and training for Gender Spectrum, a national group dedicated to educating people about gender identity and expression.

Last August, a bill was passed in California to make it illegal for K-12 schools to discriminate based on gender preference and to allow students to use the bathroom for the gender with which they identify and play on sports teams based on their personal view of their

gender, not their biological sex.

Baum said he thinks there will be more bills like this in the future.

“I think there will be more recognition in various forms [of gender] we encounter,” Baum said. “In the kind of facilities that we find, there’s going to be a real relaxing about these lines that have really kept a lot of people kind of excluded.”

In 2013, Sweden added a new pronoun, “hen,” to its language for people who don’t want to identify as male or female.

Baum said at Gender Spectrum, they believe work around gender isn’t just LGBTQ work, but it relates to everyone.

“Every one of us is impacted by gender and we all could use a little more room to operate, even if we happen to be typically gendered in our biology and our identity,” Baum said. “But maybe as a boy, you like softer things and as a girl, you maybe like slightly rougher things that are non-traditional.”

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757 million people use Facebook daily

Roughly 9 million people identify as LGBT in the U.S. The number of LGBT people worldwide is currently unable to be found.

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Over the weekend, the president signed an agreement that reduced his political power, effectively stepping down, and parliament made its speaker Oleksandr Turchinov as the interim president.

Parliament also voted to dismiss and replace more of Yanukovych’s lieutenants. They named a new head of the central bank, a new chief of the nation’s top security agency, a new head of the foreign intelligence service and a new chief prosecutor.

His chief rival, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is now

free from 2.5 years in custody, and is promising to run for president. Tymoshenko is already confidently talking about joining the EU, but that prospect seems a long way off given Ukraine’s corrupt economy.

Yanukovych fled the capital over the weekend and is reported to be in the Crimea, a southern area of the Ukraine that houses a major Russian naval base. Parliament has issued a warrant for his arrest.

The sharp divide between east and west has fueled fears of a messy breakup of the country. That remains a risk, though all sides are pleading against it.

SGA: Vice president denies she passed on to nominee questions used in debate | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “It’s the same advice I would have given Gabbi [Bunn, vice presidential candidate for Empower], had she ever contacted me, but she didn’t,” France said.

The elections code also has no rules governing interaction between members of the current executive board and those running in the election.

But Jennifer Jones-Hall, Office of Student Life director, said she discourages executive boards from engaging in the debates.

“I have a conversation with the current [executive board],” Jones-Hall said.

“They should not support a slate, they should not meet with a slate; they should remain unbiased.“ Debate moderator Payne Horning said he developed a majority of the questions.

He also considered questions from student media and

members of the SGA executive board, including France, for the vice presidential and presidential debates.

Of the questions France submitted, she was allowed to ask two during the vice presidential debate.

Horning said he emailed the questions to debate coordinator Katelynn Thys and to Sventeckis only for review ahead of time. People reading questions during the debate did not receive copies until arriving at the events, he said.

“I didn’t even know which questions they were asking until I got there that evening,” France said.

The elections board had not contacted France or Horning about the investigation prior to Sunday.

Sventeckis said the elections board will defer to the SGA Judicial Court, which has the ability to pursue the investigation further if it deems necessary.

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B B GET TO KNOW steve mahon • Industry technology major • Loves being outdoors more than anything in the world • Started rock climbing senior year of high school • Traded his small truck for money toward a used cargo van • Began modifying BIG BLUE with the help of Sportsmobile • Fell in love with nomadic lifestyle at Kentucky’s red river gorge

teve Mahon, an industry technology major, has decided to lead the wanderer’s life by means of his 20-foot, 6,000-pound cargo van, appropriately named Big Blue.

“I’m not happy inside,” Mahon said.

In reality, he said he just likes being outdoors more than anything in the world. And Big Blue lets him live that lifestyle.

“Dead of winter, I’m still outside,” Mahon said. “I go climb frozen waterfalls. I physically can’t be cooped up inside, I guess.

That’s how my mind is.”

Mahon started rock climbing his senior year of high school, and he quickly had enough of the indoor version of his favorite pastime.

His train of thought, Mahon said, can be summarized as, “Get me out of this building. I want to meet new people.”

He first fell in love with the idea of a nomadic lifestyle after seeing other rock climbers live out of their vans in the Kentucky’s Red River Gorge.

Realizing his small truck didn’t have enough room for his dreams of travel, Mahon drove four hours to Chicago, traded it in for $2,000 credit and put the rest toward a hulking used cargo van shortly after Labor Day last year.

Wasting no time, Mahon began modifying the van through his own construction handiwork and the help of Sportsmobile, a company based that sells and modifies luxury vans.

“I had Sportsmobile put in a 6-and-a-half-foot bench seat that pulls out into a bed,” he said. “So now, I have room to carry people. I also had them put in a good 32-inch window behind it.

Then I realized I really want a pop-top. I want to be able to sleep on the roof. My buddy who’s 6-foot-7 can stand up and not hit his head when it’s open.”

Big Blue also features a bed, a fridge, a stove and a 12-inch subwoofer. Three of the van’s doors swing out to allow the speakers to project sound outward, avoiding that muffled “car sound.”

Mahon plans to add a drainable sink, drawers, two floor-toceiling cabinets and a lot of additional storage space.

Despite the vast amount of work put into Big Blue, it all comes back to climbing and the friends Mahon has made.

“My closest group of friends, I feel like, is my rock climbing community and people I’ve met there,” he said. “Campus friends will come and go. No matter who you are, you’ll have a few best friends. Climbing friends will tie into a rope with you, no matter what day of the week, no matter where it is, because we have one thing in common.”

Mahon said one of his biggest influences is a friend he met while climbing in Tennessee, Simeon Heimowitz. A 45-yearold New Jersey native, Heimowitz’s van is similarly named The Big Beluga.

Whether he’s driving more than 6,000 miles along the East Coast looking for his next climb, studying for one of his four areas of academic focus or working on his van, Mahon exemplifies his one creed.

“Do what you love, love what you do.”

• will Drive more than 6,000 miles looking for a place to climb • his closest friends are his rock climbing community

BIG BLUE’S EXTRAS EXISTING FEATURES

• 6 -AND-A-HALF-FOOT bENCH • pull-out bed • POP-TOP • 32-INCH WINDOW • BED • FRIDGE • STOVE • 12-INCH SUB-WOOFER

possible FUTURE FEATURES

A small stove sits atop a wooden board. “I’m waiting to get something a little more permanent,” Steve Mahon said about the temporary kitchen setup inside the van.

• Drainable Sink • drawers • two floor-to-ceiling cabinets • Additional Storage space

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Steve Mahon, an industry technology major, poses in his van. Mahon renovated his van to include a blue suede couch, a stove top, a pull-out bed and a pop-top roof.

I physically can’t be cooped up inside, I guess.

That’s how my mind is.

Steve Mahon positions his pillow at the front opening when he sleeps in the upper cabin. This provides him with an opportunity to wake up with the morning in full view.

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In the case that they would need to do that, CC will communicate with students what the changes to the platform are.

Communication is a key focus for CC. Several platform points were created to gratify this concern, including the monthly campus-wide executive report and Cardinal Connection event. The slate wants to emphasize to students that their concerns and questions are always welcome and encouraged to make sure that all students feel their voices are heard.

The only Cardinal Connection platform point that the Daily News stated was not feasible is keeping the library open 24 hours during Finals Week. The problems that the newspaper outlined, however, are problems that CC foresaw and planned for before putting this point on the platform. In order to resolve the safety concern, CC plans to fund Charlie’s Charter to transport students to and from the library so that students do not have to walk alone at night. CC also plans to make a schedule of when floors will be closed for cleaning, so that the library can be cleaned and students can plan ahead.

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Express your love.

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Disease delays Miller’s return to court Sophomore’s illness prolongs recovery, family offers help CRAWFORD SPORTS EDITOR | DAKOTA @DakotaCrawford_ Despite her unassuming 5-foot-5 frame, Ball State sophomore Taylor Miller’s physicality measures up with the biggest players on the court.

Through high school, she built a reputation for playing tough, gritty basketball.

When she fell to the floor after a minute of play during the Feb. 10, 2013, game against Toledo, her mother thought nothing of it.

Surely, she would get back up.

“She’ll give it all for the team at that moment and worry about the injury later,” Nikki Miller said. “But this time, it wasn’t the case.”

Taylor couldn’t finish the game. Instead, she’d spend 10 months recovering a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

Nikki all but expected Taylor to suffer a serious injury — knowing how often her daughter put her body on the line — but it was still frustrating.

“I hate to not see her play because I love watching her as well as the other girls,” she said. “You’ve only got four years of college to play ball, and it goes by quick.”

Taylor played 22 of 33 games in her freshman campaign, but

she missed out on some of the biggest moments. She missed the latter half of Ball State’s 12-4 run through Mid-American Conference play.

She missed out on the team’s appearance in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament Sweet 16 and the trip to Cleveland for the MAC Championships.

For Taylor, not being a part of those moments was difficult. She had family to get her through the rehabilitation, and her team was supportive when they were on campus.

When neither support group was around, though, she was forced to acknowledge a dramatically impacted routine.

“You’re use to coming [to Worthen Arena] every day, seeing your team,” Taylor said.

“But then two or three days when they’re gone, you’re just like, ‘What do I even do?’”

Advice from family to “keep praying” and to “take care of yourself ” helped her stay positive. Taylor wanted to be out playing live basketball, but her family made sure she felt supported even when she couldn’t.

“They came to the home games even though I wasn’t playing,” she said. “They watched the girls and supported me. That meant a lot.”

Unwavering support from her parents was nothing new.

For about a week after the initial operation, Taylor had her mother at her side.

“She was ready to stay until I could start running again, I

think,” she said with a laugh.

It took about seven months of wall sits, stretches and other physical therapy before Taylor could run without a limp. She knew she was favoring her injured leg and recovery was all about getting past that.

At first, just the idea of running without a brace was nerve-racking because Taylor’s knee felt so vulnerable.

She never thought about giving up, and she was told her knee would come back stronger.

“I focused on that,” she said. “That made me feel like I would be fine when I get back.”

So far, Taylor’s knee has been fine. Her basketball game improved after she spent time in rehab working on ball handling.

But a different ailment is now keeping the sophomore from playing.

She was diagnosed with mononucleosis after playing a total of 33 minutes over a five-game span this season.

Again, Taylor is faced with losing time from something out of her control.

She has returned to full participation in practice, but until she sees meaningful playing time again, Taylor will continue to lean on her family’s advice.

“Just because you’re down now doesn’t mean it’s going to stay this way,” Nikki said to her daughter. “Every day is a new day.”

HOW AN ACL TEARS An anterior cruciate ligament tear is common, especially for athletes in physically demanding sports. Here’s a look at where the ACL is located in the knee and how the tear can happen.

The ACL Femur

Patella Articular cartilage Lateral meniscus Lateral collateral ligament

Fibula

The ACL connects the femur to the tibia. It is in the middle of the knee and prevents the tibia from sliding in front of the femur. It also provides rotational stability.

The injury

In an ACL injury, it is common to ACL tear Medial meniscus hear a “popping” noise in the knee.

Most of these injuries are complete or near complete tears.

Medial collateral The causes ligament • Rapid direction change • Suddenly stopping • Slowing down while running Tibia • Incorrect landing from a jump • Direct collision

SOURCE: orthoinfo.aaos.org

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« Yevery ou’re use to coming [to Worthen Arena] day, seeing your team. But then two or three days when they’re gone, you’re just like, ‘What do I even do?’ » TAYLOR MILLER, a sophomore guard

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Ball State is creating a comprehensive campus master plan that will guide the development and use of facilities for the foreseeable future.

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We need your help to plan for the future.

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Meet members of the steering committee and our consulting team at one of our open houses listed on the left. Learn more about where we are in the process and what we have heard so far, then give us your feedback and ideas.

2

Participate in our online forum at masterplan.bsu.edu.

Share ideas. Comment on suggestions. Collaborate with the university community.

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