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Notices of death depend on family
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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.
Students take to trash for sugary treats KARA BERG STAFF REPORTER
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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. Weir delivered a career performance in the second game of the CONTACT US
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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.” Weir’s impressive week was not only rewarded by a Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Week award but also with head coach Maloney’s confidence that the redshirt junior will move up TWEET US
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in the rotation and become the Cardinals Friday night starter. 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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ERA: 3.61 Innings: 67.1 Strikeouts: 80 Earned Runs: 27
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“I think it’s going to be a whale of a series,” Maloney said. “It’s going to be very intense with two really good teams battling it out. It’s going to be a dogfight.”
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