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University speaks to relatives on decision to inform community ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu

When a student dies, on or off campus, the university decides on a case-by-case basis whether to announce it.

Ball State talks to the family before deciding whether to tell the community, said Tony Proudfoot, a university spokesperson.

“It is common that families wish to have their privacy, and that of their student, maintained and respected,” Proudfoot said.

Family members typically tell the university if a student has died off campus. If the death TOBY WILT is on campus or near campus, Friends, professor the University Police Depart- remember student ment or Delaware County of- who died April 13 as daredevil, loyal ficials will let Ball State know. friend with beard After Ball State student Toby Wilt died, the university sent + PAGE 4 a notice of the senior’s death to 21 departments through a memorandum from the Office of Student Affairs. It was then up to the discretion of the departments to inform others.

Sometimes, the university notifies through email any students who may have known the person who died. Ball State did this for students on one floor of Studebaker West Complex to let them know when their floormate freshman Elija Swager died in March in an off-campus apartment.

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ome students crave doughnuts enough to climb inside of dumpsters to get them.

Hannah Merk, a freshman education major, said she went to Concannon’s Bakery as part of her Ball State bucket list. She said she went for the dumpster doughnuts because she knew others did it, and she felt like it

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The university is looking at ways to deal with a small number of professors who “retire in office” after receiving tenure.

The Board of Trustees has encouraged University Senate to make a policy by the end of Fall Semester to address chronic low performance.

“We don’t have a good way of handling it,” Provost Terry King said in University Senate on March 20.

There is no policy right now that addresses faculty who are identified as low performing after they receive tenure.

However, a policy would potentially direct professors whose annual evaluations are chronically unsatisfactory to a peer-review process that already exists.

King said through the peer-review process, the faculty member will be given a one-year development plan and if it is unsuccessful, it could result in termination.

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was something she needed to do before graduating.

When Merk and her friends opened the dumpster, they saw black, plastic bags.

“I started ripping into them, and I was like, ‘This one has doughnuts,’” she said. “I had to get all three of my friends to help me pick it up because it was like 50 pounds of doughnuts.”

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DUO LEADS TEAM TO CONSECUTIVE WINS Complete game gives junior pitcher victory, career-high strikeouts ANTHONY LOMBARDI STAFF REPORTER | ajlombardi@bsu.edu

After dropping the first match up against the Broncos, the Cardinals needed strong performances from their team to take the series.

Those came from Alex Maloney and T.J. Weir, whose abilities helped Ball State win the final two meetings with Western Michigan.

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series, going the full nine, allowing no earned runs and a career high 14 strikeouts. It was the third straight time he’s pitched at least seven innings. “[Weir] is just getting ahead in the count,” head coach Rich Maloney said on his starter’s recent success. “That allows him to throw his breaking ball or elevate his fastball, and when you can do either one of those you have a chance to strikeout a lot of guys.”

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In the series’ finale, Alex Maloney hit a game-tying three-run home run and was hit by a pitch in the 10th inning to bring the winning run home from third.

Sitting at 27-13 overall and 11-3 in MAC play, the Cardinals travel Tuesday to Indiana University for a game, before heading to Mount Pleasant, Mich. for a three-game series against the West Division leading Central Michigan.

The Cardinals trail the Chippewas by a few percentage points for the top spot in the division, and the winner of the series will hold the inside track to a MAC title.

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3. SEARCH FOR FERRY VICTIMS TURNS TO BODIES JINDO, South Korea (AP) — Lee Byung-soo says he knew, when he saw his 15-year-old son’s body in the tent.

“Stop sleeping!” the truck driver yelled as he hugged Lee Seok-joon.

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He pumped his son’s chest and blew into his mouth, trying to resuscitate him, “but I could only smell a rotting stench.”

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BOSTON (AP) — Under heavy security that included an array of surveillance cameras and police officers on rooftops, nearly 36,000 runners hit the streets Monday in the first Boston Marathon since last year’s deadly bombing, sending a powerful message of resilience.

In what some saw as altogether fitting, an American won the men’s division for the first time in more than 30 years, dominating a field that included many athletes who were prevented from completing the race by the explosions April 15, 2013.

The two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the end of the 26.2-mile course killed three people and wounded more than 260.

This year, police were deployed in force along the route, with helicopters circling above and bomb-sniffing dogs checking trash cans.

A total of 35,755 athletes were registered to run, the second-largest field in its history, with many coming to show support for the city and its signature sporting event. “Boston Strong” — the unofficial slogan — was everywhere.

still missing from the submerged ferry Sewol, or at least those whose relatives’ bodies are ultimately recovered. Families who once dreamed of miraculous rescues now simply hope their loved ones’ remains are recovered soon, before the ocean does much more damage.

The pace of recovering bodies has accelerated in recent days, since divers finally succeeded in entering the vessel.

There were 86 confirmed fatalities as of Monday night.

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American Meb Keflezighi wins the 118th Boston Marathon, a year after deadly bombings, near the Marathon finish line Monday in Boston. Security for the race included surveillance cameras and police officers on rooftops.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria called a presidential election for June 3, aiming to give President Bashar Assad a veneer of electoral legitimacy in the midst of a civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and driven a third of the population from their homes.

The opposition and the United States denounced the vote as a farce, and a U.N. spokesman said it will “hamper the prospects for a political solution.” But Assad’s government appears deter-

mined to hold the election as a way of exploiting its recent military gains.

The announcement Monday by Parliament Speaker Jihad Laham raises questions about how the government intends to hold any kind of credible vote within the deeply divided country, where large areas lie outside government control and where hundreds of thousands of people live in territory that is either contested, held by rebels or blockaded by pro-government forces.

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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Monday launched a highprofile visit to demonstrate the United States’ commitment to Ukraine and push for urgent implementation of an international agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions even as violence continues. The U.S. will decide within “days, not weeks” whether Russia is abiding by the accord, a U.S. diplomat said.

Biden planned to meet today with government leaders who took over after

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy scrambled over an airport fence, crossed a tarmac and climbed into a jetliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours to Hawaii — a misadventure that stirred concern about possible weak spots in the security system that protects the nation’s airline fleet.

The boy, who lives in Santa Clara, Calif., and attends a local high school, hopped out of the wheel

pro-Russia Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February following months of protests. The White House said President Barack Obama and Biden agreed he should make the two-day visit to the capital city to send a high-level signal of support for reform efforts being pushed by the new government.

Biden will hold talks with Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleksandr Turchynov, the acting Ukrainian prime minister and president. He also is scheduled to meet with legislators.

well of a Boeing 767 on the Maui airport tarmac Sunday. Authorities found him wandering around the airport grounds with no identification. He was questioned by the FBI and taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was found to be unharmed.

FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the teen did not remember the flight from San Jose.

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If you were the type to build, test and potentially maim yourself on a homemade plywood ramp, “Trials Fusion” may be the game for you.

The newest installment of the “Trials” series of dirt bike games demands palm-sweating, curseshouting precision while giving players the freedom to build and test their own tracks.

The game is formatted like a side-scroller without being one-dimensional. Each track is a straight shot, with the only directions being forward and backward or up and down.

The world around the track lives, breaths and interacts ultimately with the player. Different tracks feature different scenarios, so the setting can

range from a middle-of-nowhere desert trail to a crumbling, futuristic metropolis.

Most of the game is based on physics. The player controls the gas, the breaks and the direction the rider leans. Different bikes ride differently than others, but open up new techniques.

If a bike has a lot of power in the rear, you make have to lean down on the front end to keep it from flipping. You will be grateful to have that bike when you’re slipping and you need the torque to propel you to safety.

Career mode introduces new players to the mechanics while providing those more experienced players with meaningful challenges. Training missions mix with the

level design isn’t required, knowing the game itself is important if you want to make a track that’s fun to play.

The “Trials” series carries it’s dramatic weight with the “almosts.” You almost stuck that landing, but you didn’t.

You almost completed that quintuple backflip, but instead you wiped out and cheated yourself out of gold.

When you’re customizing a track, knowing how to deliver on those moments is what is going to set your vision apart.

Completionists beware; this game will ruin your life. If you have that almost pathological hunger to get 100 percent on everything available, “Trials” will make you work for it.

With so much to unlock, medals to earn and achievements to complete, this simple arcade game promises people their money’s worth.

The game features a slapstick style of humor that some may find maliciously endearing. Handling a “Trials Fusion” dirt bike is a hard job. When you mess up, that ragdoll rider will pay for it.

Miss a jump and see him thrown and slammed into the ground. Order him to lean the wrong way on a ramp and he’ll tumble to base and be crushed by the bike. Cross a finish line and watch a cut scene of him blasted into space or thrown off a cliff.

Even when you win, he loses.

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WHY I DON’T CARE THAT YOU’RE

SINGLE I don’t really like ambiguous introductions, so I’m going to get to the point in a way that would make Buzzfeed’s head spin.

Just stop it, people. Stop cracking jokes about how single you are. Stop complaining that you’re single. And definitely stop showing off how much you love your independence, like it’s your first-born child.

Reason why? Your relationship is not for social media. I learn more about people’s personal lives from subtweets and a little bit of investigation than I do from anyone that’s ever confided in me.

You don’t need to prove to the world that your significant other is the greatest thing since spray cheese, which, let’s be honest, is pretty hard to beat.

More importantly, though, it can also show how desperate you are for human interaction.

And, what’s that? Other people don’t respond well to that kind of mindset? Well, we don’t.

Secondly, the jokes. I see little quips about being single all the

time. Hey, even I can appreciate a little self-deprecating humor.

But when it comes to laughing at your single-ocity, you come off as trying a little too hard. You might put up a picture with the caption: “Look at this dorky picture of me.

How in the WORLD am I still single? Heh heh.”

The rest of the world just sees, “I cry myself to sleep at night while clutching my Daniel Craig shaped body pillow.”

Confidence is key, y’all.

Not the falsified confidence about qualities you don’t actually possess.

And it’s not just me. In a Psychology Today article by Dr. Leslie Sokol, cited believing in your own desirableness as one of the main strategies on attracting others to you.

See? Even science hates your jokes.

And then there’s the worst category of the single status updates. The “I’m so happy I’m single” shtick. To

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Skills taught during training will be required to complete ensuing tracks. Each track must be completed with a bronze medal or higher to unlock the next track in the sequence. It makes you learn.

Along with the opportunity to earn a medal, each track also has a list of achievements. Sometimes these require equipment the player has yet to unlock, giving players the incentive to revisit old levels. Attaining these types of achievements can unlock further rewards.

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understand why, just let me paint you a tragic tale of high school Danielle.

High school Danielle really liked This One Guy. This One Guy said he liked her too. The next day, This One Guy didn’t.

It’s a sad type of story and practically any adolescent or young adult can relate to it.

The thing that makes it worse

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is if This One Guy or That One Girl constantly preached to the world how much they absolutely love being single. In the words of comedian Mitch Hedberg, “I don’t have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would get really mad if she heard me say that.”

So maybe I’m just bitter. Or maybe I’m out of touch after

being in a long relationship.

But before you post that next picture or see a happy couple smiling at each other and feel a twinge of uncomfortable emotion, think before you shoot off a complaint into the realm of the Internet.

How does it look to other people? And how could it affect another person’s feelings?

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‘Once you got to know him, you just loved him’ Friends, professor remember Toby Wilt as bearded, introverted, loyal friend EMMA KATE FITTES MANAGING EDITOR

When friends and family met Saturday to commemorate the life of Ball State student Toby Wilt, they did it how he would have preferred: privately.

To his classmates, the 23-year-old fifth year senior was a quiet, reserved guy with a full beard and sweatpants, who only showed up to classes if there was an attendance policy.

To his closest friends, he was a daredevil and prankster who would debate for hours and skip anything to make sure he saw the Patriots game. It took time to get to know Wilt, his friends said, but once he opened up, he was a loyal friend.

“Once you got to know him, you just loved him,” said Matt Short, one of Wilt’s best friends.

Wilt, a senior information systems and operations management major, died April 13 at his off-campus house.

His father, Douglas Wilt, said it was an accidental death, and the autopsy results have not been released yet.

“We are a mess,” he said. “He was my son.

I loved him. He was a great kid. He was very likable — had a lot of close friends.”

BEHIND THE BEARD

Toby Wilt came to Ball State from Randolph Southern High School in Lynn, Ind., with a few close friends and the beginnings of a beard.

“Everyone loved his beard,” said Meghan Wolfe, a junior anthropology major and one of Toby’s best friends. “Men would just be like, ‘Hey man, I like your beard.’”

Matt Short, also a senior information systems and operations management major, said he had been working on it for about three years.

“He was one of those guys that didn’t care what other people thought about him, he would be himself no matter what,” he said.

Fred Kitchens, an associate professor of information systems, had told Wilt he needed to trim his facial hair before

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looking for a job, since he had interviews shape, but didn’t cry. lined up.

He said that’s the kind of guy Wilt was.

“He was really preparing for the next step For four years, Wilt played flag football after college,” Kitchens said. “I told him to at Ball State, and he hated to lose. Short trim the beard, then after you get the job, said he was the first guy to call a practice grow it out as long as you want.” and would stay out longer than any of his So the beard was trimmed. teammates wanted.

This year, Wilt had been working on a He was the same way playing competicapstone project for Kitchens’ class be- tive “Halo 3.” fore graduating, making a mobile app “He was the best ‘Halo’ player I’ve ever and redesigning communication base- played with,” Short said. “... He could domilines for Republic Airnate me.” lines in Indianapolis. His At Ball State, the two group finished the project became roommates.

It’s hard to accept.

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Short said it was easy to His father said Kitchens ... You really can’t sum get along with Wilt. The was one of Wilt’s favorite up your best friend in a friends would debate evprofessors. erything from movies to Kitchens said he and Wilt 10-minute discussion. sports for hours. connected since they were It’s impossible.

The Patriots were both introverted. He said he Wilt’s favorite team, understood how he worked, MEGHAN WOLFE, and Short said he hadn’t and knew that when Wilt a junior anthropology major missed a game in probwas being quiet, it was beably eight years. cause he was listening and being respectful.

“He would skip everything for a PatriHe said Wilt probably listened harder than ots game — make up lies,” he said. “Tell his anyone else, using the quiet to make connec- group he had to go home just to stay home tions and come up with solutions. and watch the Patriots game. He did that a Kitchens said he is hoping to get Wilt’s few times this year.” diploma for his family, but it is out of his Short said Wilt did skip most of his classes hands now. when there wasn’t an attendance policy.

“He was smart enough to get by that TOUGH TYPE OF GUY way,” Short said.

Matt Short first met Wilt in elementary Meghan Wolfe met Wilt later. He would school. He said Wilt always had a prank help her with her school work and up his sleeve and was always doing watched anime with her. She said they something daring. went on a lot of bike rides on the Cardi“He’d be jumping off 12 foot swings and nal Greenway together. slides,” Short said. “One of my friends had “I think we kind of stuck together because a balcony in their house, and he’d jump off we helped each other,” Wolfe said. of it. He actually never [got hurt], surprisThe close friends said they will get together ingly. He had some bruises, and I know he to tell stories and help each other remember. sprained his ankle pretty bad one time, but “It’s hard to accept,” Wolfe said. “... You never broke anything.” really can’t sum up your best friend in a Once, when he was young, Short said 10-minute discussion. It’s impossible.”

Wilt had broken his arm nearly in an S-

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Toby Wilt, left, participates in his immersive learning project for his senior capstone course. Friends said Wilt, an information systems and operations management major, was a daredevil and prankster.

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Toby Wilt, bottom right, works with peers during a class Sept. 30, 2013. Wilt died April 13.

REACTION: University offers counseling, help making student memorials, vigils | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Proudfoot said the Office of Vice President for Student Affairs sends out notices to offices and personnel relevant to the student who died, including the student’s academic dean and department chair, the registrar’s office, the bursar’s office, housing and residence life and dining.

This protocol for notification changes depending on if a student dies on or off campus.

At Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., the procedure is for the Office of the Dean of Students to send an email notification with a formal notice of death. Around 40 faculty and staff members receive this email after the family has been notified, said Elizabeth Kozik, interim associate dean of students at Purdue.

If the student lives on campus, Purdue residence life staff members notify roommates and floormates in person.

While Ball State may not directly inform students, it provides services for family and friends, Proudfoot said.

The university offers help in setting up and publicizing memorials or vigils arranged by the students. However, the university will step back if the family wishes to maintain privacy.

The policy for a faculty member’s death is the same for a student.

When Wilt died, the university emailed his roommates to tell them about counseling services.

Meghan Wolfe, one of Wilt’s best friends, reached out to

counseling services when she heard the university had contacted his roommates.

Wolfe said she will go to counseling, and the center has emailed her teachers.

Wolfe said she thinks the university handled Wilt’s death well.

Sammie Hopkins, a freshman elementary education major, found out Wilt died

« It is not unusual for

families to seek privacy so they can grieve without a great deal of attention. » TONY PROUDFOOT, university spokesperson over Twitter a week later. She said while she didn’t know Wilt, the university should send out notifications in case people knew the student.

Mark McCabe, a Ball State student, said he didn’t know a student had died.

“They are a part of my community, and I want to support them by reaching out or praying,” McCabe said.

Proudfoot said sending a mass email to the entire university would be assuming the family sought that form of attention.

“The loss of a someone so young is a particularly difficult event,” he said. “It is not unusual for families to seek privacy so they can grieve without a great deal of attention.”

Art, music come together in immersive learning course Students develop links between media for fuller knowledge GARCIA STAFF REPORTER | RAYMOND ragarcia@bsu.edu

This semester, students learned how to connect and develop a relationship between music and art in a new immersive learning course.

The main idea of the Synergizing Music and Art class from the School of Music is that people who visit the David Owsley Museum of Art will be able to scan a QR code with their iPad or

smartphone to learn more about the selected piece of art with related music, said Heather Platt, professor of the course.

“The patron can hear the music the student has chosen and then read about the types of artmusic relationships they have discovered,” Platt said.

This Saturday, the students will further explain the relationships at a Muncie Symphony Orchestra concert at John R. Emens Auditorium.

Platt said she decided to create this project after visiting museums in Rome and witnessing many of the patrons using tablets to look up information about certain works of art.

“I realized then that we could use hand held devices to enable [David Owsley Museum of Art] patrons to hear music while they viewed the collection,” She said.

Platt said she wanted to guide students through their own explorations of music and art by creating the immersive learning course.

Carson Weingart, a senior piano performance and business major and student in the course, described art and music as multidimensional.

He said a piece of music reveals over time what a work of art contains in a single snapshot.

“Music can be used to guide the viewer around the work of art

process, as they are submitted in the report.

David Pearson, chairman of University Senate, said a new policy would not result in “dreaded, post-tenure review.”

Faculty are evaluated for seven years after they are hired before they receive tenure. Some universities address this problem by reviewing faculty periodically after they receive tenure, in the post-tenure review.

Pearson said Ball State has good faculty members and low performance is not common, but it is out there.

“We do know there are faculty members who have decided to retire in their office, and there needs to be a connection between that and helping departments move forward,” he

said. “If someone isn’t lifting their load, you are.”

Shawger said he was pleased the board wants changes to come from University Senate instead of top-down. “[The board] could make the decision for us,” he said.

“They don’t want to appear heavy-handed, but it is under their jurisdiction.”

President Jo Ann Gora also addressed the issue during University Senate, encouraging the group to take action so the board can vote on something in the fall.

“This is an issue that the board has been talking to us about for a while,” Gora said. “It’s an area they have a significant interest in based on trends all across the country. Ball State is not the first in the country; it has been done in most institutions across U.S.”

and increase his or her understanding of what is taking place on the canvas,” Weingart said.

He said he developed a new appreciation for looking at works of art.

“By learning about the elements of art, I can see many connections between musical style and artistic style,” he said.

One of the challenges Weingart had to overcome was his limited knowledge of art history.

“I had not taken an art history course prior to starting this project,” he said. “So when it came time for me to research my chosen work, I worked with museum staff and was given access to museum files, which contained

fascinating articles and information on the piece I had chosen.”

Jason Wade, senior major in music performance and French, hoped to gain a greater understanding of music and art their influence on each other.

“After the course, I now have the knowledge to make educated comments about how art and music relate,” he said.

Wade said music and art can complement one another.

“The two art forms allow us as viewers and listeners to enter a new world,” he said. “We can use extremely similar vocabulary when describing art and music.”

Cathy Bretz, education program coordinator, said the art

museum does collaborations with other departments and organizations in Ball State.

“The addition of music adds an interesting perspective which adds to the experience of viewing an artwork,” she said.

non’s left the doughnuts out on purpose.

“They’re always off to the side,” Jerstad said. “They leave the gate [to the dumpster] unlocked, so all you do is open the gate and you can smell the bag.”

She said four or five layers of doughnuts are placed in the bags with wax paper separations, almost “so it’s not like they’re throwing them away.”

“It seems like they really do put them in a bag and set them outside for people to get,” Jerstad said.

Lt. Steve Cox with the Muncie Police Department said unless the company or business makes it clear to the police that it doesn’t want people in its trash, the department

won’t take action.

“It could be a trespassing issue if restaurants made it clear they didn’t want anyone in it,” Cox said. “We take it case by case. If someone called and said, ‘Hey, we have people in our dumpsters, can you please tell them to get out?’ ... We would.”

Cox said he couldn’t think of any companies calling the police for trespassing.

Although people have questioned Merk for getting doughnuts from a dumpster, she said it was worth it.

“There were some people who were like, ‘You really got these out of the dumpster?’” she said. “... It seems kind of gross, I guess, but they were in trash bags. So, I think it’s fine.”

MSO CONCERT MUNCIE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

6:30 p.m. Saturday “The Creatures of Prometheus” by Beethoven ABOUT THE CONCERT

Students will explain the relationship between “The Creatures of Prometheus” and the artworks of “Prometheus Brings Fire to Mankind” and “Prometheus Bound.”

POLICY: Low performance is not common, DUMPSTER: Concannon’s owner says but can happen says University Senate trash under surveillance, not raided | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

This type of policy is an important part in the development of an institution, he said.

In two open forums at the beginning of April, faculty members could provide feedback.

The promotion and tenure committee is currently formulating the policy.

Kip Shawger, Faculty Council chair, said all faculty currently must complete an annual review that includes course evaluations and information about their activities in teaching, scholarly work and service to the university.

Through the annual reviews, departments identify low performing faculty.

Shawger said student course evaluations play a role in this

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Mike Concannon, the owner of Concannon’s Bakery, said he doesn’t think people dumpster dive at the business.

“We have people watching the business 24 hours a day,” Concannon said. “We haven’t had anyone in years.”

Despite the security, Lee Jerstad, a senior public relations major, said she got Concannon’s doughnuts from the business’ dumpsters three times last year.

“When I [went], it was a blast,” Jerstad said. “You can smell [the doughnuts], and you never know which doughnuts are going to be in the bag. ... It’s like hitting the jackpot.”

She said she felt like Concan-

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WEDNESDAY The Ball State baseball team travels southwest for a nonconference matchup against Indiana University.

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The Ball State men’s volleyball team continues its tournament schedule when it faces Lewis on the road.

FRIDAY After completing the regular season, the Ball State men’s tennis team begins postseason action at home.

Late-game hitting brings recent success Veteran leadership keeps team focused during key moments FOX STAFF REPORTER | JAKE @fakejox3 All season, the Ball State softball team has made its name by getting important hits during difficult situations.

Head coach Tyra Perry knows her team well and said the moment is never too big for her bunch.

“We have tremendous po-

tential, especially at the plate,” she said. “It’s fun to see not only the three seniors in the lineup regularly do their job. ... But it has been nice to see other people step up and get clutch hits and have good atbats throughout the lineup.”

Whether the team falls behind or is in a tight contest, timely hitting has consistently come forward.

The Cardinals have scored runs in the sixth inning or later to erase a deficit or break a tie for the lead five times since beginning MidAmerican Conference play.

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The team also did it six times throughout the non-conference schedule.

Veteran leadership can be found throughout the Ball State lineup. However, Perry

second base

realizes clutch performances can come from anyone.

“I think that’s the difference,” Perry said. “It’s not only been Jenny [Gilbert], [Taylor] Rager, and [Audrey] Bickel, there’s

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The names started with Emmett Till and finished with Jordan Davis. Black students, wearTheatre majors Abigal Michelle, Jessica Banaszak and Jessica Morrison ing hoodies in honor of Trayvon participated in the protest hosted by the Ethnic Theatre Alliance. Morrison said Martin, marched out in a line. playing a role against her friends in ETA was unnerving.

White students, with “justice” spelled out in red letters on them. It’s atrocious that all these make things happen, there’s no reason we should keep our their backs, mimicked shooting stories actually happened.”

On the opposite side of the fir- voices shut.” a gun. One by one, each black The group passed out fliers student fell down as a represen- ing squad, Kelsey Johnson, vice president of ETA and a sopho- with the contact information tative of the names.

Students then read out the le- more theatre major, said the ex- of local politicians and foundagal action taken after the people perience was emotional for her. tions to get involved with to “Seeing my friends who were combat social injustice. Johnson named had died. With most of them, the students announced on the other side, who were the said the first step is the easiest. shooters, and standing with my “First, you have to talk about the legal action as “no justice.”

Members of the Ethnic The- friends and falling with them it,” Johnson said. “It’s not offenatre Alliance hosted the per- — it was such an emotional ex- sive to anyone in any way to talk perience that I wasn’t about these issues. I think, in the formance art demexpecting it to be,” United States, we still haven’t onstration Monday I could Johnson said. healed from our past. And it’s outside of Bracken Karen Kessler, an because people are afraid to Library to highlight have been associate professor talk about it. This will, hopeinjustice against the black community in Jordan Davis. of theatre and ad- fully, spark a dialogue between for the group, people of every color, of every the United States.

I could have viser said teaching the- ethnicity, of every nationality.”

Audrey Eldridge, a Dee Dee Batteast, a theatre junior theatre pro- been Trayvon atre students to use their voice for social instructor and another adduction major, was Martin. justice could be em- viser to the group, said emone of the students powering. powering students outside of who read names.

NATHANIEL “There’s a feeling the theatre department was “Trayvon Martin THOMAS, that, as individuals, a goal for the protest. and Jordan Davis ETA president we are impotent to “You have the right to say were the straw that doing anything about something,” Batteast said. broke the camel’s back,” Eldridge said. “We these things that are happen- “You have the right to an thought we needed to come ing,” Kessler said. “But as artists, opinion on what is happenout here and scream about it we can raise our voices. That’s ing in your country.”

For Thomas, the experience and let people know that this what we have: our voices to is not new. This has been going raise. And we can do that, and as a black man from Atlanta was harrowing. on for a very long time, and we that’s important to us.”

ETA recently started in the “I actually cried at the noon need to do something about it hope that ethnic issues could [protest], after I fell,” he said. before it escalates further.”

The emotionally charged be brought to the forefront “I died second, so I had a long protest pitted classmates and that a conversation could time to listen to the rest of the against one another, divided be started, the group said. Na- names. It finally hit me while thaniel Thomas, ETA president I was sitting there. This could by their race.

Jessica Morrison, a junior and a sophomore theatre ma- be me. The truth of the matter theatre major, said participat- jor, said the conversation could is, Florida is three hours away start with theatre. from my home. There’s no reaing was unnerving.

“Theatre is a vessel for a lot son a situation like that couldn’t “Personally, it felt weird to be in that situation,” Morrison said. of communication around the be me. I could have been Jor“I didn’t like it. Hearing those world,” he said. “And if we can dan Davis. I could have been stories, all of them, I didn’t re- use it properly and we can Trayvon Martin. So many of my alize there were that many of use it in a positive manner to friends could have been them.”

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NATIONAL STUDENT EMPLOYMENT WEEK RECOGNITION

Congratulations to Lauren Riggens, Ball State’s Student Employee of the Year. Lauren works as an office assistant at the Office of Admissions and was nominated by Donna Perry. Career Center Director Jim McAtee presented her the award on behalf of Ball State.

Thank you to all the donors who participated and supplied students with some great prizes.

AAA Travel & Insurance • Alter Ego Comics • Art Mart • Dairy Queens of Muncie • Damask Cafe • Delaware County Regional Airport • Eclipxe Salon & Day Spa • Family Video • Fazoli’s • Greek's Pizzeria • Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites of Muncie • Hot Heads Hair Design • IHOP • J.R.’s Tropical Tan • Jimmy John's • Kirk's Bike Shop • La Hacienda • Lowery's Candies • Midas Auto Service Experts • Minnetrista Cultural Center • Muncie Civic Theatre • Muncie Mission Attic Window Thrift Store • Papa John’s Pizza • The Pita Pit • Pizza King (Swartz Restaurant, Inc.) • Salon Eclipse • Sunsations Tanning • Sunshine Café • The Artist Within, Inc. • Wendy’s

And a special thanks to T.I.S. College Bookstore in the Village and Warwick Partners, student apartments.

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DN PHOTOS LAUREN CHAPMAN

Members of Ethnic Theatre Alliance marched out in a single file line in front of Bracken Library. The group was led out by Kelsey Johnson, vice president of ETA. The group dressed in hoodies in honor of Trayvon Martin.