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t took two months for a club volleyball player to share his sexual orientation with teammates his freshman year.

Austin Acel, a sophomore professional sales and French major, said he would suppress his usual energetic personality on the court.

When he finally got the nerve to come out to the team’s captain, Hunter Klein, he said the

team already knew.

“I’m really mad I did it so late,” Acel said. “It was a positive and warming experience once I did it. I felt like I could completely be myself. They’ve never treated me different because of it.”

Nationally, athletes have recently announced their sexuality in both the NBA and college football.

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Muncie will request $4M to raze houses

Indiana has $19.9M for county’s division, city will compete ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu

Muncie will seek $4 million in federal funding and community partners for the removal of vacant houses.

Federal funds will be used in the demolition of abandoned and blighted properties. The money comes from the United States Department of Treasury’s Hardest Hit Fund created in 2010, which will give more than $7.6 billion in aid to homeowners who live in states particularly affected by the economic crises.

The Blight Elimination Program, which receives support from the Hardest Hit Fund, allows cities to partner with private business owners, community organizations or individual homeowners who neighbor blighted properties to clear the lots.

The lots may then be made into new buildings, expansions of yards, or parks — an aspect of the program emphasized by Christopher Allen, facade grant administrator for the Muncie Redevelopment Commission.

“Being able to create new buildings or parks will make the community more appealing,” Allen said. “The exciting part is that [the empty lot] doesn’t have to be a lot or another home, it could be a park.”

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Blight Elimination Program allows a city to partner with private business owners, community organizations or individual homeowners who own blighted properties to clear the lot.

$75 million

is the amount Indiana has for the Blight Elimination Program

$19.9 million

allocated to Division Three, which includes Delaware County

$4 million

is the amount Muncie plans to apply for to demolish properties

See DEMOLISHED, page 3

SOURCE: Christopher Allen, facade grant administrator for the Muncie Redevelopment Commission

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Ball State revealed the nearly $17 million renovation of Teachers College on Wednesday.

In the Teachers College Lecture Hall Room 121, more than 125 people celebrated the official completion of construction.

Representatives from the university, President Jo Ann Gora, Rep. Sue Errington and Rep. Greg Beumer attended the ribbon cutting ceremony, which was followed by a tour

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Former State Rep. David Orentlicher will speak on campus at 4 p.m. in L.A. Pittenger Student Center Room 301. Orentlicher’s topic will be “Two Presidents Are Better Than One: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch,” according to a press release. The event is free and open to the public. Currently, Orentlicher is a professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law and has taught at Princeton University and University of Chicago Law School. He is a graduate of Harvard with degrees in law and medicine.

Muncie Civic Theatre will present “Seussical the Musical, Jr.” as part of its Youth Theatre Education Program. It will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Friday and will run at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Saturday as well as 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $5 and can be bought at munciecivic.org or by calling the Muncie Civic Theatre Box Office at 765-288-PLAY. The musical is about Horton, who discovers a speck of dust that contain the Whos. Horton must then protect the Whos and guard an abandoned egg.

The annual Muncie Gras will begin at 7 p.m. and last until 2 a.m. on Walnut Street in downtown Muncie. The event will feature a mechanical bull, zip line, Euro bungee, a giant “Twister” game, human bowling, go-go carts, two outdoor stages, belly dancers, aerial acts, a drag show and male revue. Bands include The Apathy Wizards, Blue Sky Carnival Band, Pork and Beans Brass Band, Hines Street Sound and Losing September. The MITS Trolley will provide transportation from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. to Ball State campus and Lyndenbrook area hotels. The event is 21 years or older. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the gate.

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DEMOLISHED: Two students help Muncie map out areas for tearing down homes | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and the Muncie Homeowners’ Association have expressed interest in partnering with the city for the urban renewal, he said.

Allen met with some Ball State students from the Student Planning Association who have expressed interest in volunteering with the project in an unspecified way.

Two Ball State geographic information science students have been working with the

city in mapping out areas for demolition, Allen said.

He added that Ball State’s John Fallon, associate vice president of economic development and community engagement, and Heather Williams, Building Better Neighborhoods program manager, also have expressed interest in the project.

“We discussed how the university could participate with the city and help make the project possible,” he said.

If the university were interested, it could partner with

the city and help with the renewal of these properties and come to own them, Allen said.

So far, that hasn’t happened.

Indiana received $221.7 million from the fund and $75 million has been approved by the treasury department for the state to use in the removal of abandoned and blighted properties.

Other states, such as Ohio and Michigan, have also benefited from the Hardest Hit Fund.

In order for a city to receive funding, it must have partners lined up to handle demolition

ARMY PRIVATE PETITIONS TO LEGALLY CHANGE NAME

Manning requests hormone therapy, to live as a woman | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Army private who was tried and convicted as Bradley Edward Manning for leaking United States secrets to WikiLeaks is petitioning a Kansas court for a name change to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.

Leavenworth County District Court has scheduled an April 23 hearing on the request, according to a Leavenworth Times legal notice sent Wednesday to The Associated Press by a spokesman at Fort Leavenworth, where Manning is serving a 35-year sentence. The petition was filed Jan. 27 and published March 1 after Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs of

Providence, R.I., submitted it.

Coombs didn’t immediately respond to questions about the petition. Manning said in an October letter to supporters that Coombs would help her with the name change.

The Private Manning Support Network announced the petition on its website Wednesday.

The group also said it is changing its name to the Chelsea Manning Support Network.

Officials at Fort Leavenworth have said Manning would have to get a legal name change.

The Associated Press has referred to Manning as Chelsea since shortly after she announced in August her desire to be known by that name and treated as a woman. Manning has been diagnosed by at least two Army behavioral health specialists with gender dysphoria, or gender identity disorder.

and “end use” construction replacing the old structure.

The state divided its 96 counties into six divisions based on population to distribute the $75 million available for the Blight Elimination Program. The state has grouped its counties because of uneven population distribution throughout the state.

Muncie will have to compete with cities in counties including Madison, LaPorte, Vanderburgh and Hendricks.

The state has allocated nearly $19.9 million for Division

ties has grown to 225 and continues to grow.

He added that some properties currently listed for destruction could come off the list as they inspect the legitimacy of their candidacy.

All buildings that will be destroyed have to go through the city’s Unsafe Building Hearing Authority and the Building Commissioners Office.

The city will submit its application with the full list of homes it wishes to demolish along with renewal plans in June.

Three, which includes Muncie, Allen said. Muncie plans to apply for $4 million of it.

“That number came from the idea that if we have 200 properties we want to demolish and how we would budget for that,” Allen said. “It’s the goal we’ve set for ourselves.”

The city is currently in the application process for the fund, which involves producing a list of properties and partners to help with the destruction and renewal of areas.

Allen said the list of proper-

In addition to the name change, Manning has asked to receive hormone replacement therapy and live as a woman while incarcerated. She and Coombs have said they will go to court, if necessary, to obtain the hormone treatment.

Civilian federal prisons are required to provide such treatment, if deemed medically necessary, for inmates diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Unlike in military prisons, the policy also allows inmates who believe they are the wrong gender to dress and live accordingly as part of their individual treatment plans.

The military has said it does not provide treatment for gender dysphoria because Pentagon policy dictates that transgender soldiers are not allowed to serve. But Manning can’t be discharged until she’s released.

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Expansion of Cardinal Cash ongoing Goals include usage for locations in city, more on campus |

RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER rmpodnar@bsu.edu

As of this year, students can use their Cardinal Cash to purchase concessions at some athletic venues, but the process to expand the use of Cardinal Cash is still ongoing.

This academic year, Cardinal Cash was expanded to the concession stands by Scheumann Stadium’s student section and to aisle 16 of Worthen Arena.

Matt Stephenson, director of business services, said some students took advantage of the expansion during football, bas-

Amelia T. Wood Health Center pharmacy and certain laundry facilities in residence halls.

Kevin Thurman, a graduate student, has been working to expand Cardinal Cash for four years through the Campus Council and a former group called the Cardinal Cash Task Force. “[The athletics expansion] has been our big progress this year as well as continuing to push new residence halls to have it,” Thurman said. “Housing has assured us that, as they renovate residence halls, they are continuing to put that in there.”

Johnson A Complex will offer Cardinal Cash in its laundry facilities, said Cindy Miller, assistant director for marketing and communications for Housing and Residence Life. Currently, students can use Cardinal Cash in

ketball and volleyball games.

“It wasn’t huge because it was new,” he said. “But for the first year, we were happy about having the opportunity to offer it.”

Stephenson said his office will look at the number of students who used the new Cardinal Cash locations and decide if card readers would be beneficial at different venues.

Of the three goals for Cardinal Cash expansion, one was completed in Fall 2012: the ability to add money to the account online.

The other two goals are expanding the program with on- and offcampus locations.

Previously, students could use their Cardinal Cash in dining facilities, the campus bookstore, the Technology Store in Bracken Library, John R. Emens Auditorium, the

renovated laundry rooms in Noyer Complex, Studebaker West Complex, Studebaker Hall East, Woodworth Complex, DeHority Complex, Park Hall, Kinghorn Hall and Scheidler Apartments.

Miller said it is too expensive to add Cardinal Cash to existing laundry facilities because in some residence halls, laundry is not in one central location.

The Student Government Association recently passed a resolution encouraging the university to continue the expansion of Cardinal Cash.

Thurman said it is complicated to incorporate Cardinal Cash in off-campus locations, but it is still a large goal.

“We haven’t reached out to businesses specifically,” Thurman said. “We are working with our administration and from

there, be able to go out once we know for sure that we can make it happen from a university standpoint.”

Some of the challenges include whether it could be used to purchase alcohol and who will pay for the initial cost of a card reader.

Other Indiana universities use this kind of program. At IUPUI and Indiana University, the Jagtag and CampusAccess student IDs can be used at more than 100 locations on and off campus, according to the universities’ websites.

The Scotty’s Brewhouse locations in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Ind., accept Jagtag and CampusAccess. According to the restaurant’s website, IUPUI students can receive a 10 percent discount

CARDINAL CASH

CARDINAL CASH CAN BE USED AT THESE ON-CAMPUS LOCATIONS:

• Ball State Dining • Campus bookstore • Technology Store in Bracken Library • John R. Emens Auditorium • Scheumann Stadium • Worthen Arena • Amelia T. Wood Health Center pharmacy • Certain laundry facilities certain days of the week with university identification cards.

At both locations, the cards cannot be used to buy alcohol.

Thurman said the main goal is to have Cardinal Cash offered where students will use it most, on and off campus.

“We’ve made a lot of progress, but it’s a process,” he said.

BALL STATE BECOMES REACCREDITED

The Higher Learning Commission reaccredited Ball State, the Board of Trustees announced Wednesday.

With higher education accreditation, Ball State’s programs and degrees are recognized by the state.

At the meeting, Trustee Hollis Hughes announced the news and read from the report.

“This is years of work by a number of dedicated people, and I can’t say how much that is appreciated,” he said. “... We can’t overstate the effort that went into preparing this accreditation, the importance of it to the university and the outstanding work of the faculty during this process.”

The accreditation report states that Ball State met all of the HLC criteria without any concerns.

“It is a learning institution providing itself with measurable goals and objectives using multiple modes of measurement and identification,” the report reads.

The next accreditation period will be in 2023 or 2024.

“The nature of the accreditation process is changing, and we will participate in open pathways option to engage in continuous improvement and more freedom in what is accomplished during the next 10 years,” Hughes said.

Ball State first received accreditation in 1925.

The board also unanimously approved a master’s degree in emerging media at the meeting.

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DeHority Complex is a Living-Learning Community dedicated to honors students. Despite priority scheduling and the ability to live in DeHority Complex, about one-third of honors students drop the program by the time they graduate.

One-third drop honors by time of graduation Thesis fear, transfer, credit amount are among exit causes

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Every year, freshmen are drawn into the honors program for its many perks, but the benefits aren’t enough to keep all of them in the program.

Though honors students get priority scheduling and are permitted to live in DeHority Complex, approximately one-third of all honors students drop the program, said James Ruebel, dean of the Honors College.

Although Ruebel said the persistence rate is good, he still wants to maintain a higher number of honors students.

“We would like it to be better,” Ruebel said. “The most common reason [to drop] is fear of thesis. The second most common reason is transferring to another institution.”

Sophomore speech pathology major Elizabeth Kreipe knew she wanted to drop honors from the beginning of her freshman year.

She came to college with credits from high school and decided to graduate within three years.

“I would have had to go back and retake classes that I had already gotten credit for,” Kreipe said. “If I had stayed in honors, it would have held me back and

I would have had to pay for a telecommunications major, said she would never consider dropfourth year.”

She said the university doesn’t ping the honors title, mainly beaccommodate for majors that cause of the experiences she has are easier to obtain in three had with classes.

“I actually fell in love with years because of how many rethe program,” Conflenti said. quired courses there are.

Not including the senior thesis “... It’s something that chalor freshman seminar, four-year lenges you, but in a way that honors students could receive can help you improve your perspective on credit for the necthe world.” essary courses by They feel She also said taking one honors most of the honcourse per semester. comfortable in ors professors Ruebel said an honare invested in ors diploma is still an environment the courses, as obtainable within opposed to some three years if stu- that it’s OK to traditional prodents plan ahead and be smart. They Despite take the right sumdon’t get a lot of fessors. scheduling diffimer classes. culties, Conflenti Kreipe would have social put back has chosen to stay stuck with the honwith the same ors program if she from their honors professor for her went to school for students if they honors sequence, four years because of which is threethe benefits. She said get a bunch course series of the priority schedul- of A’s. classes interrelating has enabled her ed to each other. to get into every class JAMES RUEBEL, Junior archishe has wanted.

Honors College dean tecture major Even though she Caroline Lawhas not officially dropped out of the Honors son decided she didn’t want to College, because she wants to be in the honors program the continue to receive the ben- spring of her freshman year and efits, she doesn’t think she is recently received a letter saying she was removed from the cheating the university.

“I don’t feel bad because I program because she had taken feel like I earned it,” Kreipe only three honors courses.

Students are typically cut out said. “I did well in high school, of the program if their GPA falls and I applied.”

Nicole Conflenti, a sophomore below a 3.33 and doesn’t im-

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prove or if they have not taken three honors courses by the end of sophomore year and are not signed up for one in their fifth semester, Ruebel said.

They receive a warning and are allowed to talk with Ruebel before being cut off. If students have a plan and are taking 18 credit hours per semester, exceptions can be made.

Lawson said she has taken 17 or 18 credit hours every semester and many of her friends ran into the same problem and dropped the program.

Ruebel said they are working to keep people in the Honors College by helping them early on in the program. The freshman seminar, a required course for all honors freshmen, helps students develop a fouryear plan in hopes they will see how it is possible to graduate with an honors diploma.

There are benefits to sticking with the program, including smaller class sizes, Ruebel said. The honors Living-Learning Community is an asset for high achieving students because they live together in DeHority Complex.

“Students can find a community of people that have similar goals and expectations,” Ruebel said. “They feel comfortable in an environment that it’s OK to be smart. They don’t get a lot of social put back from their honors students if they get a bunch of A’s.”

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Smoke billows from the coal plant on Ball State’s campus Feb. 2. Ball State is eliminating the use of coal and switching to exclusively geothermal energy.

LIGHT FADES IN CAMPUS COAL BOILERS Less than 24 hours before EPA regulations would require drastic changes to Ball State’s coal boilers, they went dark.

The university burned the final lump of its coal reserves Wednesday night as the project moves to rely solely on natural gas and geothermal energy to create steam to warm buildings both on campus and at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital.

The process of shutting down the four boilers, each more than 50 years old, began in January. But this week, Ball State received its final coal shipment. According to The Associated Press, this ends the release of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants from university’s yearly burning of 36,000 tons of coal.

When it is completed, projected to occur in January 2016, Ball State’s system will be the largest closed geothermal system in the United States.

Jim Lowe, director of engineering and construction management, said he has already been asked by people worldwide looking to learn more about the system to implement it at their own university or business.

“The word is out there, and I know it is out there because we have been getting calls,” he said.

He said the next move for the university will come in the next 10 or 15 years when the gas boilers need to be updated. He plans to upgrade the boilers to use the steam to create electricity as well.

A fixture of campus, the more than 60-year-old red brick stacks will come down.

Lowe said he hopes to bring down the east stack by next summer and the west stack in 2016.

“When they come down, it will be bringing down a kind of iconic symbol of campus,” he said.

– CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS

RENOVATION: Building displays new appreciation for departments, professor says | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The project took nearly two years and $16.9 million to complet, which included updating technology and the building.

The renovation affected nearly all of the building’s 126,000 square feet.

Paige Daniel, a senior elementary education major, spoke at the ribbon cutting ceremony as a student representative.

“I’ve been able to see the transformation — from sitting in classrooms where half the ceiling wasn’t there because

they were doing something to it, to walking down the hall and not being able to use certain staircases,” she said. “It’s been really neat to see the whole process. I’m OK with not being here as a senior because I’m already a part of it.”

Linda Taylor, an assistant professor of elementary education, spent 17 years at Ball State as a professor and welcomes the changes to the building and the update to technology.

“The building looked dated,” she said. “Now, I feel more

appreciated as faculty and as a department.”

There were many things that were preserved from the original building, including an early childhood room. But the atmosphere has taken a turn, as well.

“Things were made to be more environment-friendly, for example, you don’t have the wind tunnel when you walk through the double doors,” Taylor said. “It’s better. It’s got a much more open feel than it had before. Parts of it used to be very dark, and I don’t sense that anymore.”

The new interior creates a better feel for the college and Gora said it is worth it for the students and faculty that are a part of the education program.

“This renovated building provides significant benefits to the 115 faculty with offices here and the nearly 3,400 majors who use it every day,” Gora said. “They are, after all, the ones responsible for so many of this college’s accolades. Including the fact, U.S. News & World Report has ranked our graduate programs in educa-

tion in its top 100 for the last seven years.”

The university’s appreciation of faculty and students is why Dean of Teachers College John Jacobson called on Daniel, as a student representative, to offer her the chance to speak.

“I thought, ‘might as well take the opportunity, as a senior, to share my love and passion for this building and the college as a whole and education,’” Daniel said. “I think it’s always great to have a student representative.”

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SPORTS

BREAKDOWN BASEBALL

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Ball State opens home schedule

Ball State eyes WNIT opponent Northwestern

Twenty-one games into the season, the Ball State baseball team has yet to play a home game. Its first chance to play at Ball Diamond will come this weekend as the Cardinals open conference play with a three-game set against the Bowling Green Falcons.

The Cardinals come into the weekend with momentum, as the team is riding a threegame win streak. With conference play beginning, Ball State’s record sits at 13-8, three games better than last season’s 10-11 mark through 21 games.

During the current win streak the Cardinal’s pitching staff has kept the opposition in check. In the final three games against IPFW the Mastodons were only able to score five runs, while being held to two runs or less in each contest. The pitching staff’s turnaround was vastly needed, as over the six games prior to the win streak, they had allowed 12.17 runs a game.

First pitch for Friday’s game is set for 3 p.m., while Saturday and Sunday’s contests are scheduled for a 1 p.m. start time.

All three games will be at Ball Diamond.

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Team record Batting average Runs per game Slugging percentage On base percentage Fielding percentage

It was announced Monday that Ball State will take on Northwestern in the first round of the 2014 Women’s National Invitational Tournament. Almost immediately after, Ball State head coach Brady Sallee was able to download film and begin preparing for the Big Ten opponent.

He spent the next few hours studying a team he thinks, much like his own, is young and would benefit from tournament experience. Sallee knew he’d be up against coach Joe McKeown, and he’d seen sophomore Maggie Lyon through recruiting.

That night, Sallee slept for only four hours, using his time to study his opponent.

“It’s just some late nights and early mornings,” he said. “You’re trying to get as much prep time in before you go to practice.”

Northwestern posted a 15-15 record this season, and Sallee said the outcome of tournament games can be decided by personal preparation as much as breaking down another team.

In practice, Ball State spent as much time working on its craft as it did studying its opponent. They focused on a winning formula of rebounding and defensive disciplines.

Ball State and Northwestern have scored at a comparable rate through the season. The Cardinals average 68.1 points per game while the Wildcats average 69.1. Defensively, Ball State holds a two-point advantage in points per game allowed.

“They’re playing pretty well, and you’re playing pretty well or you wouldn’t be here in the first place,” Sallee said.

There won’t be a lot of tricks and gadgets in this game, he said. It comes down to putting the best product possible on the floor and hoping it’s good enough to advance.

“This tournament is something special for them with their youth,” he said. “Hopefully, it can catapult them into something great, we just don’t want it to happen against us.”

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Website donations give alumna hope after catastrophe DERREK TIPTON STAFF REPORTER | dmtipton@bsu.edu It was supposed to be a new start. She had just moved to Tennessee.

But already, her new start had gone up in flames.

Ball State alumna Brittany Doseck arrived at her apartment Feb. 18 — one day after starting her internship in Nashville — to find it completely in flames.

“I lost everything,” Doseck said.

Yet, it only took a few hours for two of Doseck’s friends to create a fundraiser that would help rebuild her life.

Senior architecture majors Libby Burley and Sarah Schinbeckler put their heads together to create a fundraiser through the crowdfunding website, GoFundMe. “When we found out this had happened to Brittany, we wanted to help in any way we could,” said Burley, Doseck’s fellow member of Kappa Delta. “We knew she didn’t have renters insurance. We knew it was going to be expensive for her to replace all her things and find a new place to live.”

As of Wednesday, 79 people had donated to the cause, raising $1,468 of its $5,000 goal.

“We were really surprised to see how quickly it took off,” Burley said.

She said it was humbling to see so many people were donating their own money.

Many donors have been from Kappa Delta chapters across the nation.

Some people are donating items directly to Doseck, in addition to the online fundraiser.

Doseck said she is grateful for the friends and strangers who are lending a helping hand.

“It definitely means a lot to know that people care and want to hear about it,” she said.

Doseck, who majored in architecture at Ball State, moved to Nashville to begin an internship at Hayden Architecture and Interiors.

The afternoon of the fire, Doseck said her boyfriend called her at work to tell her the news about her home at Point Breeze Apartments.

“I fell to my knees,” she said.

Fire Chief Walter Demonbreun said a resident’s candle likely caused the fire, according to WKRN-TV in Nashville.

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She will use the money from the fundraiser to replace the belongings she lost. Although most of the Doseck’s possessions were destroyed, two of her paintings remained.

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ATHLETE: University coaches don’t see locker room culture problems with athletes | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 On April 29, 2013, NBA player Jason Collins publicly announced he was gay through a Sports Illustrated cover story.

Collins, then a free agent, signed a pair of 10-day contracts with the Brooklyn Nets in late February and early March.

On March 15, the Nets signed Collins for the remainder of the 2013-14 season.

Former Missouri defensive end Michael Sam publicly came out Feb. 9. If drafted into the NFL in early May, he would become the first openly gay player in the NFL. “If a big-name athlete on Ball State’s campus came out, I think Ball State’s ready,� Acel said.

Maimee Morris played on the Ball State soccer team from 2010-13.

Coming from Worcestershire, England, Morris had to adapt to not only American culture but to being the only lesbian on the team.

Early in her college career, another player expressed her discomfort with Morris when they first met, citing religious reasons.

Morris said religion is very

different in England. She said ymous NFL scout said, “UnforChristianity is more by the Bi- tunately, this is a lot more OK in society than it is in lots of locker ble in America than overseas. “That was the first time I’ve rooms. Some locker rooms are ever really questioned it,� Mor- still stuck in the ’50s.�

Some athletes also have pubris said. “I thought, ‘Should I be more cautious about who I licly admitted having problems am?’ But the way I am is no dif- with a potential gay teammate. ferent to anyone else. The only Jonathan Vilma, a former linebacker with the New difference is that I like Orleans Saints, said in a girls instead.�

CNN interview, “ImagIf a teammate was ine if he’s the guy next worried about showto me and, you know, I ering with her, Morget dressed, naked, takris would wait until ing a shower, the whole that person was done nine, and it just so hapshowering before takpens he looks at me. ing her turn, at least at How am I supposed to first. Once her teamrespond?� mates got to know her, AUSTIN ACEL an openly gay He also tweeted in it wasn’t a problem.

Morris worked on be- Ball State club 2011, “Grown men volleyball player should NOT hav [sic] ing more approachable female tendencies. to other players in the future, embracing the role of Period.�

At Ball State, the football and teaching others about diversity.

Currently, she is back in Eng- men’s basketball coaches said land, doing an internship in they wouldn’t think a gay athlete would be an issue.

Birmingham. “I don’t think it would be as “I’ve really enjoyed changing people’s minds and changing big of a deal as a lot of people think it would be,� James Whittheir opinions,� Morris said.

Not everybody believes ath- ford, men’s basketball head letics is ready for gay athletes, coach, said. “I’m sure there are though. In a Sports Illustrated some people who might have interview in February, an anon- some religious beliefs that

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Joseph Fazio, a former Ball State football player, was one of 25 nominees for the national Bobby Bowden Award in late 2013, given by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes to those who express their faith “in the classroom, on the field, on the campus and in the community.�

He said his faith would allow him to support a teammate if they came out. “Everyone has the capacity and freedom to believe what they will,� Fazio said. “As Christians, we are called to be Christ-like and lead others toward God and heaven. We are not called to judge others based on sexuality, hair color, tattoos or anything else.�

Fazio was a member of the team from 2009-2013 and played in 39 games.

Both Whitford and football head coach Pete Lembo said sports can bring people of different backgrounds together. “Sports has often been a mode of breaking through things like that, whether it be racist attitudes, homophobic attitudes or other types,� Whitford said. “A lot of times, sports has been a

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changing people’s minds and changing their opinions,.  MAIMEE MORRIS, a former Ball State soccer player way to teach society to change.�

Lembo said a trusting, family culture in the locker room can help a team deal with potential internal issues. “It’s things like this that you say, ‘Here’s a subject that might be somewhat unusual’ or in some people’s eyes, controversial,� he said. “But when you have the right kind of culture in your program, you can deal with those kinds of things.�

Whitford said while he puts down the groundwork for what goes on in the locker room, he ultimately isn’t in there when his players are. “It’s hard for me to know what goes on in the locker room when we only have 13 players,� Whitford said. “I can only imagine what it would be like in a football locker room. I don’t know how the coaches know the names of the players, much less what’s go-

ing on in the locker room.�

With such large numbers, the football team works on team building exercises in the preseason. The entire team is split up into six smaller teams.

Players of different leadership backgrounds, positions, years and academic standings are put together. The teams get points for different criteria such as community service, weight room results and academic results. “It serves to bring your team closer together in the offseason,� Lembo said. “You can talk all you want about family and culture, but if you don’t work at it, it’s not going to happen.�

Lembo has been a football coach, in one capacity or another, for more than 20 years. He equated the changes he’s seen as a coach to those in society. “There was a time when a female reporter in the locker room after a game never happened,� Lembo said. “Nothing ever stays the same in life.�

Acel thinks more athletes will come out in the near future. “Time will tell,� he said. “It’s slowly getting better, which is nice. In the next couple of years, we’ll have this boom. People will call it ‘the gay boomers.’�

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SPORTS

Altered practice schedule allows relief Fatigue lingering, coach lessens load, keeps players healthy

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DAVID POLASKI ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR @DavidPolaski

An exhausted Matt Sutherland took a deep breath after being asked how he felt.

“Tired,” he said. “I’m really tired.”

The Ball State men’s volleyball team had just finished its second match within 24 hours, this one a full five sets.

With the demanding schedule of the season wearing down players’ bodies, head coach Joel Walton took precautions to protect his team’s health.

“We’ve got a couple players, mostly guys who have played a lot, the wear and tear is starting to take its toll

on them,” he said. “We have to look for opportunities to cut practice short and manage the types of drills we’re running.”

Some of Ball State’s drills push players to the limit.

One drill puts multiple volleyballs in play and requires constant movement from the players to help improve conditioning.

By eliminating or cutting back on those drills, players can enter matches healthier.

One player benefitting from shorter practices is outside attacker Larry Wrather. He suffered a leg injury earlier this season against Lewis and hasn’t seen as much time attacking since. Against LeesMcRae and Harvard, he took a total nine swings and didn’t record a kill.

With a match against the New Jersey Institute of Technology looming Thursday, Walton said his team was still feeling fatigued during the

Tuesday practice.

Strength training remains important to the team but has to come through easier exercises that don’t strain the body. Walton talks to the strength staff to make sure the players are being taken care of properly.

“We don’t want our players going through extremely rigorous types of workouts during these weeks,” Walton said. “We’re trying to catch our breath and we don’t want to wear our players down to the point they end up getting injured.”

Some of the most active players on the team are middle attackers Kevin Owens and Matt Leske, outside attacker Marcin Niemzewski and libero David Ryan Vander Meer.

All four rarely get breaks, even during blowouts where backups start the second and third sets.

Walton wanted to rest

players for most of a match against Lees-McRae, but had to put them back in after the second and third string players were unable to win the third set.

Owens has played in 71 of 74 sets and Leske has played in 68. Niemczewski has taken nearly 500 attacks along with maintaining his defensive play as Vander Meer throws himself across the court, taking punishment just to deny opponenents attacks.

Vander Meer ranks No. 11 in the nation with 2.45 digs per set while Leske ranks third in blocks per set with 1.47.

With Walton taking precautions to keep his team healthy, Leske and Owens should be able to force mistakes from upcoming opponent NJIT. “We’re trying to work hard enough that our guys stay in shape,” he said. “But not so hard that we run into bad situations.”

DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY

The Ball State men’s volleyball team celebrates after getting a point in the match against Belmont Abbey on March 7 at Worthen Arena. Fatigue has caused differences in practice drills in order to protect players’ health.

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