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Legislators propose 1st fund boost for Ball State since 2008 Draft moves to the Senate, would increase state funding ARIC CHOKEY NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.com Ball State would get its first increase in state funding in six years if a proposed budget goes through Indiana’s legislature. The Indiana House of Representatives recently passed a draft of the state budget, which includes a $7 million, or nearly half of one percent, increase of new money to Ball State. Since the state does its biennial budget every two years, it has been tasked with figuring out state allocations this year. “This would be the first operating increase that we’ve had since 2009,” said Bernard Hannon, Ball State treasurer. “And that’s all good news.” The general operating budget funds areas such as academic programs and faculty salaries and benefits. The state also provides money for the university to keep up maintenance on its facilities. Before the 2014-15 academic year, the state had reduced support to Ball State’s operating budget every year since the 2008 recession, according to the university Fact Book.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL 2015 MAC POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT BRACKET SEE PAGE 5
STUDENT ATHLETES COULD RECEIVE MORE MONEY FOR PERSONAL TRAVEL, LIVING EXPENSES Potential stipend would cover full cost of attendance DAKOTA CRAWFORD IDESK EDITOR | dmcrawford@bsu.edu
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eer pressure is going to drive a lot of athletic spending at Ball State. Northern Illinois University announced last month that it would adopt a full cost of attendance structure within its athletic department. Beginning next academic year, every scholarship athlete will receive a stipend in addition to room and board, tuition and book costs. Athletic director Mark Sandy said getting cost of attendance figured out at Ball State is near the
top of his to-do list. In many ways, the decision to implement this stipend to help athletes with incidental costs was made for him. “If your peers do it and you don’t, then you’re in trouble,” Sandy said. “You have to compete.” If Ball State chooses not to provide the cost of attendance stipend, it’d lose recruits to other MidAmerican Conference schools. Top high school players will be more inclined to play for college teams that offer them some pocket cash. See STIPEND , page 4
WHAT THE COST OF ATTENDANCE STIPEND COULD LOOK LIKE AT BALL STATE BALL STATE ATHLETICS 2013-14 GRANT-IN-AID BUDGET EXPENDITURES
POSSIBLE STIPEND OPTION: ONLY FOOTBALL AND BASKETBALL PROGRAMS
Grant-in-aid is the full and partial scholarships awarded to student athletes. Scholarships currently cover room and board, tuition and books. Cost of attendance is an estimation of incidental costs, inlcuding travel and personal, from the Office of Financial Aid. The chart below shows how much the athletic department budgets for grant-in-aid and how much they could add for the additional cost of attendance expenses. Grant-in-aid budget
Possible cost of attendance addition
TOTAL SCHOLARSHIP ATHLETES
110
Total budget expenditures
ESTIMATED COST OF ATTENDANCE
$6,924,914
$335,500
$15,833,985
« The public eye is focused on the top 25 programs and primarily football and basketball.
$800,000 (estimated from Northern Illinois’ cost of attendance) TOTAL AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS
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Four different businesses make up The Common Market including a Mexican restaurant, a coffee shop, a vinyl record shop and The Acoustic Room. Scott Gates and Mike Martin are the co-owners of The Acoustic Room. Gates said that he wants to represent every genre of music by providing a variety of music each night.
LOCAL MAN TO OPEN NEW MUSIC VENUE Proposed community project to feature coffee shop, vinyl store ROSE SKELLY STAFF REPORTER | rmskelly@bsu.edu
A local Muncie man will open a new music venue this month on the city’s west side. The Acoustic Room, located at 1501 W. Kilgore Ave., will diversify the Muncie music scene, according to co-owner Scott Gates. Gates said he wants to provide different types of music each night, so that every genre is THE ACOUSTIC represented. ROOM “I’ve lived in this town my whole OPENING DATE life and what’s out March 27 there right there FUNDRAISER CONCERT music-wise, I just April 10 and 11, 5 p.m. don’t think there’s to 3 a.m. a lot of choices,” Gates said. “I want you to walk in here one night and it just be straight-up country guy in there, and then the next night you come in it might be a three piece jazz set, or just straight up blues or hard rock.”
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ESTIMATED COST OF ATTENDANCE
PETE LEMBO, Ball State Head Football Coach
$710,650
BALL STATE FULL AND PARTIAL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIPS BY SPORT, 2014-15 ACADEMIC YEAR The cost of attendance stipend could cover all current scholarship athletes, or selected athletes for sports such as football and basketball. The chart below shows how many Ball State athletes receive full or partial athletic scholarships by sport. Current Ball State athletic scholarships
NCAA scholarships allowed 85
Football Track
17.6
Women’s basketball
13
15
11.68
Soccer Women’s swimming
18
14
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10.75 14
Men’s basketball
12
Field hockey
11.57
Gymnastics
sponsors or otherwise, has to be analyzed to see where we’re going to spend it... And in this case, how we’re going to cover the cost of attendance.
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12
12
Softball
MARK SANDY, Ball State Athletic Director 12
10.57
Women’s volleyball
12
Baseball
11.7
Men’s swimming
WHAT A FULL ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP COVERS NOW: TUITION AND FEES
$8,206
9.90 .06
Women’s tennis
7
Women’s golf
ROOM AND BOARD
$9,246
TRANSPORTATION
4.11
4.5
Men’s tennis
4.47
4.5
Men’s volleyball
4.4
4.5
$1,008
WHAT THE COST OF ATTENDANCE STIPEND WOULD COVER:
8
6
Men’s golf
BOOKS/SUPPLIES
$1,200
PERSONAL COSTS
$1,850
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Eliot Schrefer will give his presentation “Getting Others Into View: Crossing the Lines Between Teen and Adult, and Human and Animal, in Young Adult Literature” as part of the Marilyn Cory Speaker Series. Schrefer has won multiple awards for his book “Endangered,” and also wrote “Glamorous Disasters,” “The School for Dangerous Girls” and “The Deadly Sister.” The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Art and Journalism Building Room 175.
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MARKET: | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Even when there isn’t a musician lined up to play, Gates is planning to set out instruments for his patrons to pick up and play, such as conga drums, acoustic guitars and a piano. The Acoustic Room will also offer a beer and wine bar. In addition there will be a Mexican restaurant, a coffee shop and a vinyl store, all owned by members of the community, which are going to be housed in the same building. The property is owned by the Common Market, LLC, owned by Gates and his partner Mike Martin. “The whole idea behind the Common Market is to get a different layout of people in there that want to do something, [who] have an idea what they want with a business plan, but they don’t have the means or the opportunity to do it, so I’m giving them the opportunity to do it in my facility,” Gates said. Martin, who owns the business with Gates, said he was inspired to start the business by a community business he observed in Charlotte, N.C. Martin discovered the building on Kilgore Ave., and decided he and Gates could do something with it.
“[We thought], let’s take this old abandoned building in this run-down part of town and turn it into something cool,” Martin said. Gates said students will play a large part in the success of his business, because they make up a lot of the musical talent in the area. He hopes that students will choose to perform at his business. “For them to be able to get out and do what they love to do, then this is where it’s going to be,” Gates said. “It’s going to be a very relaxed, laidback atmosphere, and I think from what I’ve seen of the students and former students, this is the kind of stuff they like. I hope that they’re a big part of it.” Gates said he wants the building’s atmosphere to be very comfortable. He wants people to come in and relax, and not have to worry if they spill their drink. “Most people, and I’m just speaking from experience, I don’t care, if I go to a place like that, it doesn’t matter if every table is exactly the same and every table has four chairs that all match the one right next to it, that doesn’t make any difference to me, it’s what am I there for and what are the people bringing me,” Gates said. “You put on a good show with good musicians and cheap drinks, cheap beers, that I’m not going to spend a fortune on, I’m going to have a good time.”
BUDGET:
STATE FUNDING TO BALL STATE
On top of the cuts from state, the recession had also put pressure on Indiana colleges, said Ball State Professor of History Bruce Geelhoed. Geelhoed came to Ball State in the 70s and coauthored a study on the history of Ball State. In March 2010, former Gov. Mitch Daniels requested seven public Indiana colleges to cut a collective $150 million from their budgets to make up for the state’s decline in tax revenue. Ball State had to cut $15 million, which it took from faculty benefits, while adding tuition increases. “When you have a time of economic scarcity, where states’ level of income is not expanding, what higher education institutions do is turn to their students,” Geelhoed said. Ball State’s decrease followed a larger trend in declining support to higher education. Indiana University-Bloomington and PurdueWest Lafayette show similar trends in reduction percentages for their budgets. Outside of Indiana, Ball State’s president Paul Ferguson said he dealt with similar issues during his time at the University of Maine. “The percentages of how much is going from the state to the university and how much is tuition-driven have just flipped over the last decade and a half, so that’s where we have that conversation about student debt and students having to take that burden to fund higher education,” Ferguson said in an interview in January. According to the Indiana Secretary of State, on an individual level, Ball State has suffered from losses in its cut from the state even more than Purdue and IU, partly because of Indiana’s performance-based funding formula. The formula awards universities based on measurements such as on-time graduation rates and enrollment growth. Enrollment growth is more common at smaller colleges such as Ivy Tech and other new community colleges, Hannon said. Ball State has had more steady enrollment numbers yearto-year. “The formula has been set up to reward growth,” Hannon said. “We have not been a growing campus.”
in the 2004-05 school year
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$124,874,000 $124,351,000 in the 2005-06 school year
$124,351,000 in the 2006-07 school year
$126,384,000 in the 2007-08 school year
$129,077,000 in the 2008-09 school year
$125,529,000 in the 2009-10 school year
$122,395,000 in the 2010-11 school year
$118,723,000 in the 2011-12 school year
$118,723,000 in the 2012-13 school year
$117,973,000 in the 2013-14 school year
SOURCE: Office of University Budgets
It also favors “high-impact” degree completion, which includes the rate that a school turns out science, technology, math and engineering program graduates, according to
UPD engages with students to build relationships NAACP chapter gives people chance to meet officers RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER | rmpodnar@bsu.edu Three years ago, when biology major Devante Gaines was a freshman, University Police Department Sergeant Terrell Smith jokingly gave him a hard time about his game when he was playing basketball at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. That first encounter grew into a friendship and now that Gaines is a junior, they embrace every time they see each other on campus. Gaines isn’t the only student Smith has built a relationship with as UPD officer. He makes a point to walk around campus buildings and engage students in conversation, to get to know them. He is the godfather to a child of former Ball State students, and he has been in and attended weddings of former
the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Since IU and Purdue have larger programs in what the state considers STEM, they have also received a larger portion of funding historically. “The double whammy of the state in recession and having reduced revenues, and having the performance-based funding favoring large and growing campuses are the real reasons why Ball State has not done particularly well in gaining a lot of money in operating appropriations,” Hannon said. To deal with the falling state support, Ferguson recently mentioned his “entrepreneurial approach” at his State of the University address, which would aim to encourage students to work on more realworld projects and research as part of their classes. The university also currently receives a separate item of funding allocated for the “Entrepreneurial University,” according to past budget audits from the Indiana Secretary of State’s Office. This money has funded areas such as immersive learning and Ball State’s entrepreneurial minor program, Hannon said. The line item fund totaled about $6.6 million this year, but the proposed House budget took about $3.5 million of that and set it into the base operating appropriation. While line items can be removed
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students as well. “Sergeant Smith is the poster child for [reaching out to the community],” UPD Chief Jim Duckham said. “If I could have one hundred of him, doing that type of work, there’d be no issues in policing.” Gaines is the vice president of Ball State’s NAACP chapter and hosted an open forum between UPD officers and students Wednesday evening. About 15 students met with four officers and had the opportunity to ask them questions and get to know them. Gaines said he wanted to give people a chance to meet officers outside of patrols on party nights. “Parties are the times when you have to react to police and if you know them and see their faces, even when you’re intoxicated you’ll say ‘Oh hey, how are you doing?’” he said. “Stuff like that means something. With things going on in the media, why not make a better relationship with UPD?”
year-to-year, the base fund is more permanent annually. “It now becomes a permanent appropriation for us,” Hannon said. “We think it’s a recognition then that Ball State is indeed this ideal of an entrepreneurial university. Therefore the [Indiana Commission for Higher Education] has recognized that entrepreneurial characteristic by putting it into our base.” Hannon said the line item could be a potential area of growth in the future if Ball State stays consistent with the entrepreneurial push. This early version of the draft will go the State Senate this month to be amended, if necessary, and voted on before going to the governor.
In Duckham’s time at Ball State since August, he has focused on community policing, in which officers get out of their patrol cars, walk around and interact with citizens. In the wake of unrest in Ferguson, Mo. and the Michael Brown and Eric Garner shootings, community policing has emerged as a solution to nationwide issues between police and the communities they serve. Duckham said when he was an officer in New York for his career before he came to Ball State, he was always focused on community-centered policing. “That’s kind of my wheelhouse,” he said. “That’s my passion, community policing,
even before the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases. [But] I’d be lying to you if I said those cases don’t make us refocus and rededicate those resources and understand that we have to do better to outreach.” He told the students UPD will go “anywhere” on campus, to any organization if they are invited and particularly, they enjoy picnics. His goal isn’t to convince everyone that police officers are great, but for people and police officers to “see” each other, instead of just looking past each other.
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TEAM GETS POSTSEASON NO. 12 SEED
STIPEND:
“To have at least some expenses covered for transportation and the odds and ends that every college student is inevitably going to deal with,” Lembo said. “If it can be provided from a resource standpoint, that’s probably the right thing to do.” What can’t be provided is a payfor-play model where athletes get paid more if their program generates more money. Nebraska, Texas, Michigan — the big-time football programs — could pay players more than will be offered through the cost of attendance stipend.
Now MAC universities are ironing out the wrinkles. They have to establish what sports will be covered, they have to set a dollar amount and they | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 have to figure out how to fund it. Since Northern Illinois committed to fundSandy was working around these ing scholarships for every sport — issues during his last job as athletic Ball State likely will too. director at Eastern Kentucky too. The total cost of attendance is based The biggest difference is now he’s on numbers from the financial aid got about $7 million more in buying office. Ball State’s estimated cost of power. Despite Ball State’s larger $20 transportation is $1,200 and personmillion budget, providing stipends to al cost is another $1,850. That comes more than 200 scholarship athletes is out to $3,050 which, when provided going to be costly. to 233 scholarship athletes, comes Sean Frazier, associate vice out to $710,650 — which is president and director of athin the neighborhood of the letics at Northern Illinois said total Northern Illinois said it the expected cost for their deTo have at least some expenses expects to pay. partment is at least $800,000. Conferences have to make That’s about what Ball State is covered for transportation and the odds sure that the amounts paid looking at as well — assuming and ends that every college student is at each university aren’t too an effort is made to keep up inevitably going to deal with... If it can far apart, though. It’s not with the fellow MAC school. Thanks in part to a televi- be provided from a resource standpoint, fair to have one university offer far more than another sion deal between ESPN and because that too will throw the conference signed last that’s probably the right thing to do. a wrench in recruiting efyear, member schools includforts for the school with less ing Ball State can afford the PETE LEMBO, Ball State football head coach money to offer. extra costs. Sandy said there is Ball State’s athletic department still going to be some tightening of the PAYING IT FORWARD doesn’t bring in enough money to belt, though. Jeff Smith, a professor at the Uni“Every dollar coming in, from the cover its own costs. It collects about versity of South Carolina Upstate, NCAA or corporate sponsors or other- 70 percent of its income from student said the biggest schools are going wise, has to be analyzed to see where fees paid in addition to tuition. That’s to have to start providing compenwe’re going to spend it,” he said. “And a problem throughout the MAC. sation for their players in the fu“There is so much more to it than in this case, how we’re going to cover ture. He’s done extensive research [what’s in] the public eye,” Lembo the cost of attendance.” on spending in college athletics, said. “The public eye is focused on the and said this kind of model would LAUNDRY MONEY top 25 programs and primarily footrequire changes. Until the early 1970’s, student-athball and basketball.” “The football at these schools letes often got extra cash on top of make a tremendous profit,” Smith their scholarships to help with per- FAIR GAME Smaller conferences followed suit said. “But they are supporting sonal expenses. Sandy said cost of attendance is just another version of when the autonomous Power-5 other sports that don’t make any what was once called ‘laundry money.’ conferences — ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, money. Financial models there are The idea is to provide a $2,000- Pac-12 and SEC — voted to adopt going to change.” The smaller programs that don’t 4,000 stipend, which will vary from legislation that would allow for the make money — such as lacrosse, school to school, to help athletes expanded scholarships. MAC commissioner Jon Steinbrech- soccer and hockey could be cut, or cover living costs — primarily those incurred through travel. This is par- er announced in August that a task stripped of scholarships — to make ticularly important for out-of-state force was assembled to research way for those that do generate profit. athletes like Ball State running back various cost of attendance models. The NCAA’s decision to adopt a cost of Jahwan Edwards. If an athlete has to The same competition that drives attendance model is just one step tomake a trip home, they usually have these decisions within the MAC exists ward a pay-for-play model. among conferences, too. For now, schools are doing what to pay out-of-pocket. It’s all about keeping up with peers. they have to do to compete with their Some critics of cost of attendance “While we do not know at this time peers. And for Ball State, that’s adoptsay it will deteriorate the amateurism that has long been a foundation of what the actual legislation will look ing a cost of attendance stipend. “It’s a much more palatable numcollege sports. Paying athletes makes like, the [MAC] intends to remain a college sports a job, instead of a way strong and vibrant FBS conference, ber,” Lembo said. “In the big scheme to get an education. Ball State football committed to competing at the high- of things, it’s probably not all that head coach Pete Lembo believes in est level,” Steinbrecher said in a state- much relative to a department that’s the notion of amateurism — but says ment. “Our membership will be pre- got a $25 million budget or somepared to address this issue.” thing like that.” it can co-exist with this new system.
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The No. 12 seed Ball State men’s basketball team will face off against No. 5 seed Bowling Green at 7 p.m. tonight at Bowling Green for their first game of the MAC tournament.
After finishing its conference schedule with a 2-16 TOURNAMENT record, the Ball State men’s basketball team will PLAY open play in the 2015 Mid-American Conference Keep up with the Tournament on March 9, as the No. 12 seed. Cardinals in the With the tournament’s first round held at the home MAC bracket court of the higher seeded team, Ball State travels to Bowling Green, Ohio, for a 7 p.m. matchup with No. 5 + PAGE 5 seed Bowling Green. The Falcons defeated the Cardinals by double digits in both of their regular season meetings. If Ball State wins its first game, the second round through the championship game will be played at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Central Michigan enters as the No. 1 seed, after posting a 12-6 MAC record and winning the West Division. The Cardinals defeated the Chippewas 83-65 at Worthen Arena on Jan. 10. – STAFF REPORTS
SOFTBALL
OFFENSE HELD TO 1 HIT IN LOUISVILLE After its first three games of the Louisville Classic were cancelled, the Ball State softball team dropped both of its games on Sunday to fall to 10-13 on the season. Ball State fell to Northwestern 13-0 in five innings in the first game, and was defeated by the host Louisville 8-0 in five innings in the second game. The Cardinals were unable to muster any offense on the day, totaling just one hit. Northwestern starting pitcher Kristen Wood threw a no-hitter for the Wildcats in the win, striking out nine Cardinal batters and walking two. In the second game, outfielder Loren Cihlar picked up the team’s only hit in the fourth inning. Junior pitcher Nicole Steinbach took the loss on the mound for Ball State against Northwestern, leaving the game after allowing seven earned runs on seven hits in one inning. Freshman Carolyn Wilmes allowed two earned runs in four innings of relief. Steinbach also took the loss against Louisville, pitching two innings and allowing four earned runs. Wilmes and sophomore Amanda Arnett came in to relieve Steinbach. The Cardinals will look to bounce back as they take on IPFW in their home opener on Mar. 18. First pitch is at 3 p.m. – STAFF REPORTS
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‘PRACTICE RUN’ PREVIEWS KENT TEAM The Ball State gymnastics team fell to Kent State University 195.500 to 196.800 on March 8, putting their record at 3-8 for this season. Coach Joanna Saleem said the UPCOMING MEETS team did well, but just didn’t match up with Kent State’s team. MAR. 13 “We’re working on a lot of the at Kentucky - 7 p.m. little details, this is one of the MAR. 13 highest scores they’ve had in a vs. Pittsburgh at Kentucky number of years,” Saleem said. - 7 p.m. Junior Denasiha Christian tied for first on vault with a 9.85 MAR. 21 and sophomore Jala Washington at Mid-American Conference Championship - 2 p.m. scored third with 9.825. Senior Brooklyn Schumacher was the top scorer for the Cardinals with 9.775 and Christian was the top scorer for the Cardinals on floor with 9.925. Sophomore Kayla Beckler and freshman Baylee Bell tied for third on beam with a 9.825. The team stayed in Muncie to train over Spring Break, and Saleem said having no class distractions or scheduling conflicts helped pull the team together. “We were able to have more fun in the gym and be able to spend more time together as a group without distractions,” Saleem said. “It’s definitely a good time to have spring break right before we get ready to go into the last couple meets of the season.” The Cardinals have one more meet Friday in Lexington, Ky., before they head back to Kent State for MAC championships March 21. “This was a great practice run to get to go two weeks before to the venue they’re going to be competing with,” Saleem said. – KARA BERG
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The Ball State baseball team suffered a 16-1 defeat to in-state foe Indiana in its final game of the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Fla. Indiana’s Jake Kelzer put together six innings of no-hit baseball that was broken up by an Alex Call hit in the seventh inning. At this point, Indiana had amounted a sizable 11-0 lead, scoring in each of the first five innings. Call would go on to have two of the three Ball State hits on the day, with the other coming from sophomore centerfielder Matt Eppers. Eppers scored the Cardinals’ lone run in the contest as well, crossing the plate in the ninth inning. Senior Scott Baker was the starting pitcher for the Cardinals, but would only last a little over three innings with freshmen Trevor Simon and Colin Brockhouse, along with fifth-year senior Devin Wilburn sharing time in the final six innings. Ball State finished with a 2-2 record in the Snowbird Classic, with wins against Maine and Dartmouth while losing to Northwestern and Indiana. The Cardinals are now 7-7 on the season. Ball State will return to action on March 10 in its home opener against Miami University at the newly renovated Ball Diamond. The game is set to begin at 3 p.m. – CHASE AKINS
WHAT YOU MISSED Ball State Athletics over Spring Break: Date
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BASEBALL Feb. 27
Illinois
0-1 (L)
Feb. 28
Illinois
2-1 (W)
Feb. 28
West Virginia
6-7 (L)
Mar. 1
Coastal Carolina
6-7 (L)
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Maine
8-7 (W)
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Northwestern
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Dartmouth
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Eastern Michigan 60-67 (L)
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Northern Illinois
67-71 (L)
MEN’S VOLLEYBALL Feb. 27 Brigham Young
0-3 (L)
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Brigham Young
0-3 (L)
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UC-Irvine
0-3 (L)
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Central Michigan 85-69 (W) Toledo
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2015 MAC TOURNAMENT – MEN’S BASKETBALL March 9, 11-14 Quicken Loans Arena – Cleveland, Ohio
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“Deep” is a word used to describe multiple facets of a local dubstep DJ’s musicianship. Colin “Phlank” Ledbetter considers himself a “deep dubstep” producer. He makes prodigious use of deep, low frequencies. Phlank said that bringing music to the people is a calling. “As a performer, it’s your responsibility to take [the] vibes and move them in a direction that the people will love,” Ledbetter, a junior computer science major, said. ”Not only are you getting that atmosphere, but you’re also fulfilling some type of inner-calling of wanting to bring what you love to everyone else.” Every Wednesday and Sunday, Phlank performs online from his bedroom via a website called ClouwdNine. As a DJ, Phlank chooses the tracks that he thinks his audience will enjoy. He uses his turntablemixer and keyboard to remix the tracks with audio effects and add effects called “dub sirens,” which fill in the music to “hype it up.” Phlank joined Ball State’s EDM club last semester. The founder of the club, Andrew August, watched Phlank’s first “field-test” show at DWNTWN’s Art Walk. Despite playing for four hours straight, August said Phlank performed with an enthusiasm he had never seen before. “[Phlank has] continually shown initiative in taking opportunities to improve
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to keep doing this; this is amazing, and I haven’t even tapped the surface.’” The experience triggered a shift in direction for Phlank, leaving him with the determination to take the show’s atmosphere and put it into his own music. He says he’s not the typical musician in that most “have this emotion and need to express it through music.” He admits producing is something he does for fun, sometimes without “putting emotional emphasis towards it.” But that’s OK, he said: the music brings the emotion out of him and brings people together to “share the same moment.” Phlank has a regimen of mixing at least a little every day. If nothing else, he perfects something he’s been working on. Phlank has been accepted by Propellerhead, the creators of his choice of software, to develop extensions for their program Reason, though he doubts he’ll ever sell the extensions instead of giving them away. “At some point, I do want to release my music through some form that I can be paid money for, but at the same time I never want this to become my job,” he said. “I feel like if it does, I’ll have to owe people things.” For the time being, Ledbetter has found his niche as dubstep DJ and producer Phlank, equipped with a pair of KRK speakers and a heavy passion for deep sounds.
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