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Ball State sets date for talks on dispute
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Legislators agree to meet, discuss intelligent design case in private HOYT STAFF REPORTER | SAM sthoyt@bsu.edu
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University officials are scheduled to meet privately with state lawmakers on campus Thursday to discuss the legislators’ concerns about faculty freedom of speech over the intelligent design dispute. “We really believe it is better to talk through these issues with folks,” said President Jo Ann WHAT HAPPENED Gora in an interview with the Daily News • Ball State officials will meet last week. “We have with legislators in a private written lots, frankly, meeting on campus. • Legislators previously so we thought it complained about the would be much more university’s treatment of effective to sit down professor Eric Hedin. and engage with a • Hedin was accused of conversation, which teaching intelligent design in might lead to a better his honors colloquium class. • Legislators control the understanding.” $133,401,503 given to Ball University spokesState from the state. person Joan Todd • President Jo Ann Gora says said three of the four controversy won’t hurt lawmakers who have university. voiced their concerns to Gora have confirmed they will attend the Thursday meeting. She did not say which person had not scheduled yet. The lawmakers are Dennis Kruse, Senate Education Committee chair, Sen. Travis Holdman, Sen. Greg Walker and Rep. Jeffrey Thompson. The four sent a letter in mid-March with concerns that improper procedures were followed by the university when investigating Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, after he was accused of teaching intelligent design instead of science in an Honors colloquium.
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OPEN WATER SCUBA COURSE NUMBER AQUA 220
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Just ten minutes off campus, students strapped with SCUBA gear learn to dive unassisted at Philips Outdoor Center’s sand and gravel quarry. Carol Reed, instructor of physical education, leads the students enrolled in her AQUA 220 course. In the class, students listen to lectures and apply their knowledge of diving to the quarry or the Lewellen Aquatic Center. Not only do students come away with two credit hours and a lifelong license to solo dive anywhere with deep enough water. Reed estimates 1,000 students have glided through the course since it began. She said the cost of taking the class can run into the $500 range, but the high price is worth it. “It’s a recreational activity you can pursue your whole life and also have something to do on vacation,” Reed said. “Vacation for me is to go to a beautiful, warm place in the ocean and go diving.”
Finance, accounting major stopped from selling products on campus KAITLIN LANGE CHIEF REPORTER | kllange@bsu.edu What seems like a quick way to make money may actually get Ball State students in trouble with the university. Ball State allows few opportunities for students to start an on-campus business if they are using university property to sell their products. Jake Evans, a junior finance and accounting major, tried to start a branch of Campus Protein, a company which uses college students to sell supplements and proteins for working out to other college students, his freshman year. Evans and his roommate told their resident assistant about the business, who told them to ask for university’s permission before embarking on their business venture. After pitching the idea to a university representative, they were told they couldn’t start the business. One problem with Evan’s business plan was that he would advertise and sell their products in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The Housing and Residence Life policy on solicitation states that students can sell things within their own dorm room but can’t sell or advertise on other campus property, including lounges, hallways or in other campus buildings. In addition, the university’s Student Code states that the university can restrict access to all campus grounds if it impedes on the mission of the university or safety of students.
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Students can dive in the Lewellen Aquatic Center, Philips Outdoor Center’s quarry and Ball Pool. A student can acquire a lifelong diving license to solo dive anywhere the water source is deep enough.
INTRODUCTION TO SPORT IN AMERICAN LIFE
HEALTH, SEXUALITY AND FAMILY LIFE
COURSE NUMBER HIST 205
COURSE NUMBER HSC 261
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PRE-REQUISITES None
AVAILABILITY Fall, online only
With March comes debates about brackets and how someone’s favorite basketball team will surely beat another’s. But Ball State sports fans do not have to limit themselves to mundane “water cooler” talk. Anthony Edmonds, a retired distinguished professor of history, teaches HIST 205, an online class on the relationship between America and its beloved sports. Edmonds said the class is not just for history majors, but anyone who enjoys watching sports live and within their homes or, perhaps, actually participates in one. He’s even had a student who took the class just so she could understand her boyfriend. “I don’t think that’s intellectually primarily the reason you should take a sports course, but if it improved the relationship because of increased communication, then that’s fine with me,” he said. Edmonds begins his class with a discussion of sports in colonial times and slowly makes his way into the 20th century. So crucial, he said, that having a basic knowledge of its influence could be essential to being a truly educated person. “You can learn a lot about stuff like racisim, sexism, challenges, mobility and so on by studying sports,” he said.
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AVAILABILITY Summer and Fall
Ashley Nakata, a junior aquatic biology and fisheries major still needed to fulfill her tier two natural science requirement. After scanning her options, she decided to take a class she didn’t know much about: HSC 261. “I think that a lot of what we talk about in that class is stuff that people don’t really like to talk about. It’s kind of sensitive. And I thought, ‘Well that’s kind of interesting. I want to learn more about stuff like that’,” she said. Nakata is taking Health, Sexuality and Family Life. She said it’s like sex education in high school, but it’s more extensive. One of Nakata’s requirements for the course is a field trip assignment. Some of her peers visited a gay bar or a strip club, but she said interviewing a counselor on subjects discussed in class, including information on love and relationships, also works. “In a lot of my other classes, I look at the clock every five minutes and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh this class is going by so slow,’ But in that class I look and it’s almost over,” she said. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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