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Ban moves smokers to street Students adhere to campus policy, instead smoke near neighboring homes, sidewalks SAM HOYT CHIEF REPORTER | sthoyt@bsu.edu

The campus smoking ban took effect almost a month ago, and while students are adhering to the new rules, some are simply finding new places near campus to smoke, creating problems for residents.

“It appears that people are respecting the policy on campus,” said Kay Bales, vice president of student affairs. “Students seem to be doing well to accommodate to the change.”

Bales said the university has placed trash cans near the borders of campus to dissuade smokers from littering, one is located

on Petty Road near Robert Bell.

Another method used to reduce problems is ticketing students breaking tobacco related laws, which one student has personally experienced.

Brandon Brown, a sophomore sociology major, was smoking on Petty on Aug. 20 and received a citation for littering. Brown DN PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP said he was the first student DeLong, a freshman architecture to get a ticket in regards to the Nathan student, stands smoking a cigarillo on West Petty smoking ban.

Road. Students and faculty smoke along roads flanking the campus to adhere to the new tobacco

See BAN, page 4 regulations.

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Students create their own alternate ‘fursonas’ as part of fandom and celebrate furry culture through art |

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lbert DiBenedetto entered room 301 in the Student Center dressed in all black. From the tips of his Belgian shepherd ears, to the hem of his dark, denim jeans, DiBenedetto was engulfed in his fursuit.

A fursuit is an animal costume that directly represents his furry persona, or fursona.

His black shirt blended into the black fur of his headpiece and fur covered paws. Adding color to his fursuit is the white border around his eyes, and a plush taco, an accessory DiBenedetto is rarely seen without. “[The taco] doesn’t really hold a meaning beyond the fact that I just really enjoy tacos,” DiBenedetto said. “It’s just a part of my fursona.”

DiBenedetto, a junior physics major, is a member of Ball State’s Anthropomorphic Art Society (AAS), a club of artists and art enthusiasts who meet weekly to discuss anthropomorphic art.

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Members of the Ball State Anthropomorphic Art Society Seneca (left) and Pom are just two of roughly 30 active members. The group has members ranging from artists, to fursuiters, to people interested in learning more about the fandom.

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CONSTRUCTION TO START ON CARDINAL SQUARE, GARAGE AFTER LABOR DAY Now that cleanup from demolition is over, the site for the future Cardinal Square is being prepared for construction to start just after Labor Day, said Todd Donati, director of the Muncie Redevelopment Commission.

“They have to prepare the site, compress it and make sure that it’s able to handle the foundation that we’re putting in,” Donati said.

Construction of the parking structure, contracted by Terre Haute-based Garmong Construction, will be the first step.

“The parking garage will be prepacked, which means the concrete slabs will be already poured and then they’ll be delivered and they’ll be put together like a puzzle,” Donati said.

Once the parking garage gets started, Whittenburg Construction, a Louisville-based company contracted

by Investment Property Advisors, will begin construction on the mixed-use apartment and retail building around the garage.

“What they’ll do is they’ll let us get a couple of levels up and then they’ll start putting their footers down so that they won’t be any higher than us,” Donati said.

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New bowls bring comfort to MAC schools Conference could go to Bahamas for C-USA matchup MAT MIKESELL CHIEF REPORTER | @MatMikesell The Mid-American Conference didn’t want to take any chances on teams getting left at home from bowl games when the College Football Playoff starts in 2014.

To relieve the anxiety, the

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league announced the addition of the Cameilla Bowl to the MAC postseason and several outlets have reported a bowl game with a MAC tie-in hosted in the Bahamas.

Adding two bowl games gives the conference five contracted bowl games for the 2014 season.

“I think it’s very important to add legitimate postseason opportunities that you are contractually committed to,” Ball State athletic director Bill Scholl said. “It just helps remove some of

the chance of whether or not you’ll have a spot.”

The MAC has seen bowleligible teams from the conference left at home during the postseason because of the at-large selection and other conferences, specifically BCS conferences, have more teams eligible than contracted bowls.

Ball State wasn’t selected to a bowl after a 6-6 season in 2011, coach Pete Lembo’s first season at the school. Before joining the now American Athletic Con-

ference, the MAC’s Temple missed out on a bowl game with an 8-4 record in 2010.

Last season, 9-3 Louisiana Tech was left in the cold.

The Cameilla Bowl will pit a MAC team against a team from the Sun Belt. The planned Bahamas Bowl is expected to place a team from the MAC and Conference-USA in the game.

Non-BCS conferences have pushed to stock their postseason bowl contracts with the coming College Football Playoff. When the playoff

begins, 12 bowl-eligible teams will be selected compared to 10 bowl-eligible teams selected in the current BCS bowl format.

“It’s all part of growth,” Scholl said. “It’s kind of an indicator of a healthy program and that was the MAC has right now.

We have a lot of really good football programs.”

Lembo uses the MAC’s bowl opportunities as a recruiting tool.

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GET IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO Alumnus creates storm chasing business, shares severe weather encounters

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LEADER URGES NATIONS TO ACCEPT REFUGEES been flooded with tens of thousands of refugees since the middle of the month.

Guterres stopped short of predicting the effect on the refugee crisis if the United States and its allies move ahead with a possible military intervention in the more than two-year-old civil war.

But he said his agency is prepared for the conflict to “go on escalating” and called for further support from international donors.

“This is becoming a global threat.

With the recent escalation of the conflict, Syria could be on the verge of the abyss,” he said. “Obviously we need to be ready for any escalation,” he added later.

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday that his country is prepared to take action against those responsible for gassing people in Syria.

“France is ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents” in Syria last week, Hollande said at a conference with France’s ambassadors. He did not elaborate.

“I have decided to increase our military support to the National Syrian Coalition,” the main Syrian opposition group in exile, he also said.

France, one of Europe’s biggest military powers, has not specified what preparation it is taking for any possible international action against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

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U.N. AUTHORIZATION NECESSARY FOR ACTION ROME (AP) — Italy insisted on Tuesday that any military strike against Syria for its alleged chemical attack on civilians must be authorized by the U.N. Security Council.

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DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A senior Syrian official said Monday that his country will defend itself against any international attack and will not be an easy target as the U.S. and other countries heat up rhetoric in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack last week on a rebel-held neighborhood of the Syrian capital.

In an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad said airstrikes or other action against Syria would also trigger “chaos” and threaten worldwide peace and security.

He spoke Monday as support for an international response was mounting if it is confirmed that President Bashar Assad’s troops were responsible for the Aug. 21 attack, which activists say killed hundreds.

BAGHDAD (AP) — The head of the United Nations refugee agency warned Tuesday that Syria could be on the “verge of the abyss” as aid workers brace for a likely increase in the nearly two million refugees who have already fled the country’s civil war.

Antonio Guterres, the head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, called on Syria’s neighbors to keep their borders open to accommodate additional Syrians seeking to escape the war.

He made the comments during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad while on a visit to Iraq. The country’s northern Kurdish region has

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“Italy would not actively take in any military action ... beyond the context of the Security Council, which for us is and remains the only point of legal reference that cannot be ignored,” she said.

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THURSDAY Check out band Losing September, composed of two former Ball State students, before they hit Be Here Now.

Planning on tail gaiting? Several campus organizations have teamed up to create a pregame event that will bring in fans.

Make it a freaky weekend with Freaky Tiki Friday, a weekly outdoor live music event on Walnut Street in downtown.

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CHASING STORMS

Meteorologist takes students into path of twisters during tours

near Muncie to bring his business to Ball State students and give them a chance to get involved in storm chasing through his educational tour.

“For me, BSU is where it all started and I thought it would be a wonderful idea to offer this for students,” Berry said.

Next year, Berry will offer three tours including one 10day tour in May and two tenday tours in June. He uses an average-sized car as his mobile weather unit, not a heavy-duty van, for easy maneuverability and little wind resistance.

He tries not to attract attention to his vehicle in case rookie chasers might tail him while he is working. He said the growing popularity of storm chasing has created more traffic in the chase.

Assistant professor of geography David Call has taught a storm chasing class since 2008.

Since he began teaching “Field Observations of Severe Local Storms,” attendance has gone from six students to 19 students in 2012.

“There’s been a lot of growth,” Call Said. “The interest for storm chasing has been going way up.”

Last year, Berry led his first tour in “Tornado Alley,” a line of Midwest states between the Rocky Mountains and Appalachian Mountains where tornadoes are known to wreak havoc.

Ten students from Pennsylvania State University traveled with Berry to seek storms across seven states.

While in Western Nebraska, the group encountered severe weather brewing right before sunset but had to abandon the chase because it is too dangerous to encounter a tornado at night.

“It lets an individual experience and see things they would normally never see,” Berry said.

The crew studied thunderstorm development and how tornadic storms form using Doppler radar, GPS systems, tools to measure things like wind speed and on scene observations. Berry said the National Weather Service

depends on storm spotters. “[Storm chasing] is significant to meteorology, because often meteorologists have to depend solely on Doppler,” Berry said. “If a storm with a tornado forms, chasers can provide information while on the field, and give real time information to let the public know sooner.”

Call said while much is known about tornados, the genesis of these phenomena is unknown.

“One of things in meteorologists are looking at is why some storms produce tornados and why others don’t,” Call said. “ We’re good at predicting when storm occur, but the stage at which intense become tornadic storms is still a question.”

It can be an unnerving experience and storm chasers catch their fair share of turbulence.

“It gets bad, where there are hail storms with hail the size of baseballs,” Berry said.

“You’re driving in blinding rain while not knowing whether or not your windshield is going to hold up. It can be loud and frightening.”

This past May, three storm chasers were killed in El Reno, Okla., during a severe multivortex tornado. The men, members of TWISTEX, were part of a professional field research program featured on the Discovery Channel series “Storm Chasers.”

According to the Storm Prediction Center, this was the first time scientists have been killed while chasing a storm.

Berry had worked with Tim Samaras, one of the chasers who was killed, on a few occasions and has a Samaras memorial ribbon on his storm chasing car.

“It’s really sad,” Berry said.

“We try to learn from that and remember to experience these storms safely.”

Interested individuals can sign up at tours.stormtracker. wx.com, and sign up is open to the public.

ing “incredibly personable and caring.”

He then started figuring out how much it would cost to get a partial fursuit complete with head, paws and feet. After asking around and coming up with the best price for the quality, he spent roughly $900 on his partial fursuit.

A full body fursuit can range in price anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000.

After months of planning, pricing and waiting DiBenedetto received his fursuit in the mail on the morning of Aug. 9.

“When it arrived I pulled it out of the box and immediately put it on,” he said. “I was going to a convention that day, so I really got to put the suit to good use just hours after receiving it.”

His first day in the fursuit, DiBenedetto spent eight hours walking through lobbies and hallways at the convention guided by his handler, someone who helps fursuiters navigate while they are in costume because their vision and range of motion is confined.

He quickly realized how hot the suit can get.

“I definitely sweat a lot in the

suit,” DiBenedetto said. “A lot more than I anticipated, but it is well worth it.”

While DiBenedetto was proudly displaying his new fursuit, Shawna Gardner, a senior art major, was selling her art at the convention’s Artist Alley, which is a place to sell personalized art and network with furry fans.

Gardner has turned her love for anthropomorphic art into a business.

Selling her art to a specific group of people has given Gardner the opportunity to raise her prices and make money through an outlet that she is passionate about.

“Depending on the size of the convention I can walk away selling 16 to 29 different pieces a day,” Gardner said. “It not only gives me the opportunity sell my art, but to continually challenge myself to make something different.”

Gardner started AAS her first semester at Ball State in 2009. She wanted to start something where lovers of the art could meet, create and discuss the different aspects of anthropomorphic art.

“It’s kind of my joy and my treasure, I’ve loved watching it grow and seeing everyone in it,” Gardner said.

To many in the club, it is more than something to do on Thursday nights, it is a place for them to be themselves and meet people they can connect with. For Brock Goodwin, a junior urban planning major, it was an added bonus to his transfer from RoseHulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. Goodwin knew about the club before his transfer, and has attended all the meetings.

“It’s a place for us to get together and share something we all love, and in turn find a community that is 100 percent accepting of everyone,” Goodwin said.

The club is out to combat the negative connotation associated with fursuiters.

“We have this link with being a sexual group of people, and it is not true,” Goodwin said. “We have been trying to pull away from that image, and show people that we focus on expressing ourselves through art, not sex.”

AAS meets at 9 p.m. every Thursday in the Student Center.

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The blue sparks of snapping electrical lines could be seen half a mile away, as Jason Berry watched a tornado tear through his town in Defiance, Ohio.

After the storm, the then 16-year-old Berry remembers walking outside to see wreckage raining from the sky.

“I remember debris falling and finding house insulation everywhere. I had never seen anything like that before,” Berry said. “I remember thinking, ‘This was someone’s house that was caught in the storm.’ I was holding a piece of someone’s home. That was an awe-inspiring experience.”

Since then, Berry has encountered nine tornadoes. However, now he chases them on their trail rather than watching them from indoors.

In 2008, six years after he saw his first tornado, Berry earned a degree in operational meteorology and climatology at Ball State and went on to be an onair meteorologist for four years.

He worked at ABC News as a meteorologist in Bowling Green, Ky. and Erie, Pa. “I had to study storms from in front of a camera and not get to actually go outside where they were,” Berry said. “I decided I wanted to go out and experience the storms and document them.”

He started his business, Storm Tracker WX, a year and a half ago. It’s an online site not only dedicated to tracking severe weather across the nation, but also to taking individuals in the path of the storm during tornado season.

Two weeks ago, Berry moved

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TOP:The view of the dashboard of Jason Berry’s car that he would normally see while chasing storms includes photography/video and storm tracking equipment.

The group also uses a mobile weather lab to gather scientific data for later use..

BOTTOM: Storm Chaser Jason Berry explains some of the equipment that he uses to document storms along with how they track incoming weather patterns while on the move. Berry uses sedan-sized car as his mobile weather vehicle, not a heavyduty van, for easy maneuverability and little wind resistance.

ART: Fursuiters create community around art, not sex

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Tracing history back as far as the Egyptian’s hieroglyphics of deities with human bodies and animal heads, it’s hard to pinpoint an origin of this art. The history and impact it has on society is one aspect that AAS discusses in its weekly meetings.

The first club meeting had less than 10 people sitting around a small table. Since then, the club tripled their numbers with more than 30 people showing up regularly to weekly meetings.

“The main goal of the club to get together, learn a little bit and discuss the art,” AAS President Vance Yaunt said. “We are such a unique group of people with very different reasons why we love anthropomorphic art.”

DiBenedetto started out dipping his toes into the fandom by building his fursona his freshman year of college. It wasn’t until the beginning of this month that he started fursuiting as Seneca, the name of his fursona.

DiBenedetto spent months coming up with a story and concept for his fursona. He described Seneca as being “very derpy and goofy” while be-

SVS offers different opportunities with recruitment fair

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On any given day in room 136 in the Student Center Room, students can find a group of friends goofing around, finishing homework, scarfing down lunch or laughing over weekend plans.

But most importantly, they are giving back to the Muncie community. This is the home of Student Voluntary Services, a Ball State student organization that provides volunteer work to the Muncie community.

From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today, SVS is hosting the SVS Volunteer Recruitment Fair in the Student Center Ballroom. Nonprofit organizations will have informational booths and SVS will walk students through the process of volunteering.

Whether in need of volunteer hours for a class or organization, or if students want to contribute to the community in their spare time, SVS will connect individuals in one of their 130 volunteer agencies.

SVS caters to a wide variety of interests, including animals, children, arts, healthcare, homelessness and the elderly — all of which students can learn more about at the fair.

James Simmons, a senior social studies education major, has been volunteering with SVS since his freshman year by tutoring students through Motivate Our Minds.

“The kids worship the ground you walk on,” Simmons said.

MOM serves students in first through eighth grade as a supplement to school. Simmons, one of the SVS Program Coordinators, is a student leader in SVS and works with driving students to

SVS Volunteer Recruitment Fair WHEN

10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today Student Center Ballroom, including arts vendors, food booths and Ball State student displays. volunteer sites and helping students process and reflect on their volunteer work.

Volunteering through SVS can save students time and money, because SVS handles the paperwork and pays for the background check most organizations require.

Kathy Smith, associate director of Student Life, said after a semester of volunteering, students leave saying, “I never realized the level of poverty or the level of need in Muncie.”

Smith called this phenomenon “taking the blinders off.”

Smith said once students see the needs of the Muncie community, they are unable to put the “blinders” back on, or pretend the need does not exist. Students then begin to see the need in their own communities back home.

Traditionally there has been a gap between the Muncie community and Ball State, Smith said.

“Muncie is not McGalliard and Tillotson,” Smith said.

SVS is trying to change not only how students view the Muncie community, but the way the Muncie community views students. “[SVS students] are having a profound impact on the community as a whole,” Smith said.

Non-profit agencies run on a small budget, and need volunteers’ creativity, energy and hard work to keep the organization running.

Jes Wade, an SVS Student Government Association representative, said as a freshman she was “scared to go off campus.” SVS changed her views of Muncie and she developed a passion for the community.

NEELY MUSICAL FEST CANCELED DUE TO LACK OF FUNDS, RESCHEDULED Neely Music Festival, a student-run live DJ event that has been in Muncie for the past two years, was cancelled due to lack of sponsorship. The date was originally set for Sept. 14 at the Horizon Convention Center in Muncie, but Organizer and Ball State alumnus Drew Thomas said an event in March will take its place.

The organizers’ deadline for funding the event was Aug. 23 and they were unable to get a substantial amount of money to support the event. Thomas said Neely Fest costs $15,000 to put on.

By the deadline, Thomas and the Neely Fest team needed to have 50 percent of their goal and they only had 25 percent of the funds from sponsors.

Thomas said 200 tickets had been purchased in advance, which were fully refunded after Aug. 23.

Seven DJ’s were slated for entertainment and the Neely Fest organizers planned to team with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Muncie. For each ticket sold, $2 would go to Big Brother Big Sisters.

With a goal of 2,000 attendees, Thomas hoped to be able to donate $4,000 to the organization.

Neely Fest began two years ago in Thomas’s backyard with a home-made stage and progressed in 2012 by gathering a crowd of 2,000 for a dance fest at Muncie’s fairgrounds.

“After the undefeated [football] year in 2008, I saw a drop-off in school spirit ...” Thomas said. “IU does Little Five, and I thought BSU is such a big school, the students should have something to be proud of to be at Ball State.”

Thomas is planning to have an event in March similar to Neely Fest and will continue partnership with Big Brother Big Sister.

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SOCIAL GROUP PLANS DEMONSTRATION A local social justice group plans to stage demonstration against unfair internment.

Amnesty International will host a protest in conjunction with Students for Creative Social Activism today at noon in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center in response to the continued operation of Guantanamo Bay. “We want to pressure Senator Joe Donnelly into supporting the National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2014, which will allow for the closure of Guantanamo Bay and to assist prisoners who have been cleared for release for having [never been] involved in terrorist activities,” said Caleb Hoagland, vice president of SCSA and five-year army veteran.

The event will feature a simulation of the Guantanamo facility. The protestors will silently march toward Bracken Library with a group of 20 students dressed in orange jumpsuits and two students in guard uniforms. Once at Bracken, the prisoners will kneel and simulate what Matthew Smith, co-director of Amnesty International, considers typical treatment at the facility, including waterboarding.

The continued imprisonment at Guantanamo tarnishes moral legitimacy, said Michael Mahoney, co-director of Amnesty International.

“We view ourselves as bastions of peace and we cannot talk about anyone else while our government violates the rights of these individuals,” Mahoney said. “Even if you don’t agree with our stance, it’s important that everyone knows what’s going and that issue has been brought to the table for discussion.”

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Members of Timmy Global Health man their dunk tank at the Scramble Light. They were raising money for medical supplies for Ecuador and spread word about their club.

Organization raises money to send BSU members to Ecuador EMMA KATE FITTES NEWS EDITOR | news@bsudailynews.com Members of Ball State Timmy Global Health raised about $100 for medical supplies for Ecuador at the Scramble Light Tuesday.

From noon to 5 p.m., the organization charged $1 for three balls, $3 for an automatic dunk and $5 for participants to dunk a friend.

Between her classes, Kelly

McMasters, a senior visual communications major, volunteered to be dunked.

“It’s fun,” she said. “The water is warm. It’s warm out here, so it’s not too bad.”

McMasters said their main goal is to spread the word about the club and their call-out meeting in the Educational Resource Room of Bracken Library.

Timmy Global Health raises money and medical supplies throughout the year and then 13 selected members take them to Ecuador during Ball State’s Spring Break.

McMasters said they have seen a spike in membership

over the past two years, and hope to continue growing.

This year will be junior premed and biology major Tori Cuebas’ second year making the trip, if her application is selected.

“It’s a very humbling experience because you get to see how they live,” Cuebas said.

“They are so grateful for everything you do.”

During her last trip they gave out supplies like ibuprofen, toothpaste and sunscreen the group had collected through donations, supply drives and fundraisers.

Cuebas said after that the community members got together to

make them bracelets and treat them to a dinner.

The organization will also help pay transportation and medical expenses for local people to get to the hospital and get treatment, McMasters said. They focus on helping people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to get that medical attention.

This year McMasters said Timmy Global Health is also looking to have an affect on the Muncie community and find a way to help do community service, as well as get more people from the community involved.

nounced inspections conducted at stores to see whether they’d sell tobacco products to a customer under the age of 18.

A U.S. Surgeon General’s report issued last year found that more needs to be done to prevent young Americans from using tobacco, including stricter smoking bans and higher taxes on tobacco products. According to that report, almost one in five high school-aged children smokes. That’s down from earlier decades, but the rate of decline has slowed. It also said that more than 80 percent of smokers begin by age 18 and 99 percent of adult smokers in the U.S. start by age 26.

The inspection program, named for late U.S. Rep. Mike Synar of Oklahoma, is a federal mandate requiring each state to document that the rate of tobacco sales to minors is no more than 20 percent at the

risk losing millions in federal funds for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention and treatment services.

Frances Harding, director of the federal agency’s Center for Substance Abuse, said that while the program has made “remarkable strides,” far more needs to be done to curb underage tobacco use.

In the last fiscal year, 33 states and Washington, D.C., reported a retailer violation rate below 10 percent, according to the Tuesday report. It was the seventh time that no state was found to be out of compliance. Maine reported the lowest rate of 1.8 percent, and Oregon reported the highest rate at 17.9 percent.

The latest federal data shows that about 14 percent of minors reported buying their own cigarettes in stores in 2011, down from 19 percent a decade earlier.

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didn’t even make it through the school year after students repeatedly complained about the small portions and apples and pears went from the tray to the trash untouched.

Districts that leave the program are free to develop their own guidelines. Voorheesville’s chef began serving such dishes as salad topped with flank steak and crumbled cheese, pasta with chicken and mushrooms, and a panini with chicken, red peppers and cheese.

In Catlin, soups and fish sticks will return to the menu this year, and the hamburger lunch will come with yogurt and a banana — not one or the other, like last year.

Nationally, about 31 million students participated in the guidelines that took effect last fall under the 2010 Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Dr. Janey Thornton, deputy undersecretary for USDA’s Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, which oversees the program, said she is aware of reports of districts quitting but is still optimistic about the program’s long-term prospects.

“Many of these children have never seen or tasted some of the fruits and vegetables that are being served before, and it takes a while to adapt and learn,” she said.

The agency had not determined how many districts

have dropped out, Thornton said, cautioning that “the numbers that have threatened to drop and the ones that actually have dropped are quite different.”

The School Nutrition Association found that 1 percent of 521 district nutrition directors surveyed over the summer planned to drop out of the program in the 2013-14 school year and about 3 percent were considering the move.

Not every district can afford to quit. The National School Lunch Program provides cash reimbursements for each meal served: about $2.50 to $3 for free and reduced-priced meals and about 30 cents for fullprice meals. That takes the option of quitting off the table for schools with large numbers of poor youngsters.

The new guidelines set limits on calories and salt, phase in more whole grains and require that fruit and vegetables be served daily. A typical elementary school meal under the program consisted of whole-wheat cheese pizza, baked sweet potato fries, grape tomatoes with low-fat ranch dip, applesauce and 1 percent milk.

In December, the Agriculture Department, responding to complaints that kids weren’t getting enough to eat, relaxed the 2-ounce-per-day limit on grains and meats while keeping the calorie limits.

New study shows fewer retailers sell cigarettes to underage kids

1 in 5 high school students smoke, declines from past | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RICHMOND, Va. — New statistics show that the sale of tobacco to minors in the U.S. were held near all-time lows last year under a federal-state inspection program intended to curb underage usage.

The violation rate of tobacco sales to underage youth at retailers nationwide has fallen from about 40 percent in 1997 to 9.1 percent in the last fiscal year, according to a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration report released Tuesday. The rate, which reached an all-time low of 8.5 percent in 2011, is based on the results of random, unan-

3 million

high school students and 600,000 middle school students smoke cigarettes.

1 in 3

young adults smoke cigarettes.

1 in 4

high school seniors smoke cigarettes.

1 in 5

male high school seniors smokes cigars and 1 in 10 uses smokeless tobacco.

18.1

percent of high school students smoke.

SOURCE: 2011 CDC DATA

SCHOOLS DROP HEALTHY LUNCH PLAN Students refuse to eat, bring lunch from home instead | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS After just one year, some schools around the country are dropping out of the healthier new federal lunch program, complaining that so many students turned up their noses at meals packed with whole grains, fruits and vegetables that the cafeterias were losing money.

Federal officials said they don’t have exact numbers but have seen isolated reports of schools cutting ties with the $11 billion National School Lunch Program, which reimburses schools for meals served and gives them access to lower-priced food.

Districts that rejected the program said the reimbursement was not enough to offset losses from students who began avoiding the lunch line and bringing food from home or, in some cases, going hungry.

“Some of the stuff we had to offer, they wouldn’t eat,” said Catlin, Ill., Superintendent Gary Lewis, whose district saw a 10 to 12 percent drop in lunch sales, translating to $30,000 lost under the program last year.

“So you sit there and watch the kids, and you know they’re hungry at the end of the day,

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• 1 cup Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Meat Sauce • 1/2 cup Chilled Apple Sauce • 1/2 cup Steamed Broccoli • 1 cup Mixed Green Salad • 1 packet Light Salad Dressing and that led to some behavior and some lack of attentiveness.”

In upstate New York, a few districts have quit the program, including the Schenectady-area Burnt Hills Ballston Lake system, whose five lunchrooms ended the year $100,000 in the red.

Near Albany, Voorheesville Superintendent Teresa Thayer Snyder said her district lost $30,000 in the first three months. The program

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MASSAGE CHAIR LATEST ADDITION TO HEALTH CENTER Relaxation station allows students break from stress KAITLIN LANGE STAFF REPORTER | kllange@bsu.edu

In order to attract more students to the Student Health Center, staff added a massage chair to their Resource Room, creating a free Relaxation Station.

Room 206 is open from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Students can utilize the chair when the room is open, by either making a prior appointment or checking in at the reception desk in room 201.

Ball State Health Educator Julie Sturek said the chair was purchased in May with excess office funds. Not only does Sturek want the chair to bring new students into the center, but she also hopes it will directly impact students’ moods. “[The Relaxation Station] is hopefully a place for students to come between classes, take a break and relax for a minute to recharge their batteries to succeed academically,” Sturek said.

The chair is placed in a dimly lit corner of the Resource Room, partially separated by a folding screen. “Relax” is spelled out on the wall.

The rest of the room is still used as a Resource Center where students can look up health information in wellness brochures and on computers. An alcohol education

program is also held there for students who violate the campus alcohol policy. The corner of the room, currently occupied by the chair, previously was a storage area.

“We thought [the chair] would be a good addition to the resource room instead of just leaving it as a storage area,” Sturek said. “We thought [the chair] would bring some new students through our office to find out what services we provide and to use us as a resource.”

Sturek initially got the idea to install a massage chair after the Counseling Center installed one in Fall 2011.

The chair is placed in Lucina Hall 310C, known as the Resource and Relaxation Room. Although it functions as an extension to the Counseling Center, it is not part of counseling. Any student can use it, said Sam Fitzjarrald, graduate assistant in charge of the Resource and Relaxation Room.

“Most people that are in [Lucina Hall] actually don’t use [the massage chair],” Fitzjarrald said. “It’s mostly people who have come from classes and have heard about it. I had spoken with one of the people from the health center about [the massage chair] and I’d promoted it with ours, because we work together with the help center.”

During the 2012-13 academic year, approximately 700 students utilized the relaxation room in Lucina Hall.

Fitzjarrald said they keep busy with around 20 to 30 student visits.

BAN: Smokers leaving campus creates litter | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Carl Pipkin, a senior telecommunications major, said he supports the ban because smoke from cigarettes makes it difficult for him to breathe.

“The people I hang out with generally don’t smoke, and those that do live off-campus, so I’ve heard almost all positive reactions,” he said.

Pipkin said he thinks problems smokers and residents face off-campus could be resolved by stronger citations.

Elizabeth Robertson, a junior nursing major, lives in an off-campus house adjacent to the former LaFollette smoking section. She said people use her property to cut through to the neighborhood or university, and now some are using the near-campus area to smoke.

“I don’t even mind so much that they smoke there, but they could just not throw [the cigarette butts] on the ground in our yard,” Robertson said.

She and her housemates put up a chain to prevent people from disturbing them during the night. They were advised to leave the chain up 24/7 when they contacted University Police Department to complain.

“Before, I could avoid the smoking lots if I wanted to,” Robertson said. “Now I have to

walk through their smoke because they’re right on the edge of campus on our pathways.”

“As much as I’m not in favor of smoking, I think we should leave the smoking lots as a part of the campus,” Robertson said.

Some smokers are reported to sit in the street and disrupt traffic when they move off campus to smoke.

Brown said one of the reasons people move into the road is due to the lack of sidewalk room.

“If there’s one or two people out there, they are pretty good about staying off the road,” he said. “If there’s a big group, it overflows into the road and people get careless.”

Brown said he’s talked with several other people about the smoking ban, and many believe that returning at least one of the smoking sections to a central area would solve some of the problems.

Bales said the university is working to solve the problems with different methods.

“I think we’re certainly moving down the road of being a tobacco-free campus, and we’ll continue to work toward that goal,” she said. “[We want] people to respect others people’s property by disposing properly of their trash.”

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‘PRINCE AVALANCHE’ SUCCEEDS BY DOING MORE WITH LESS STEVEN WILLIAMS GOING DOWN IN FRAMES STEVEN WILLIAMS IS A SENIOR JOURNALISM/ TELECOMMUNICATIONS MAJOR AND WRITES ‘GOING DOWN IN FRAMES’ FOR THE DAILY NEWS. HIS VIEWS DO NOT NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THOSE OF THE NEWSPAPER. TWEET TO STEVEN AT @SBWILLIAMS15.

The solitude in the torched wilderness depicted in “Prince Avalanche� paints a beautiful and quiet picture that is often interrupted by its two main characters, Alvin (Paul Rudd) and Lance (Emile Hirsch). “Can’t we just listen to the silence,� Alvin yells more than once at Lance.

But it’s not so much in anger at his coworker as it is at himself.

Alvin is a highway road worker who has hired his girlfriend’s brother, Lance to help him paint miles and miles of Texas highways. Alvin cherishes his time, even if temporary, alone in the countryside to reflect on his own life and the relationship with his girlfriend. Lance, a man fixated on his own sexual conquests, resents the solitude.

David Gordon Green’s latest directorial effort tackles the bond that grows between the two characters as they are presented with the each other’s challenges and the lives they are seemingly escaping. The opening sequence is honestly one of the best of the year so far, using clever visuals and the natural sound of the environment while forgoing dialogue.

There’s another scene that shines above the rest. One where Alvin finds the ashes of a home and talks to a lady sifting through the rubble for pieces of her home that may have survived. Later, Alvin returns to the house and pantomimes coming home to his girlfriend. Watching Alvin climb stairs

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that aren’t really there, greet the girlfriend he hadn’t seen throughout the film is incredibly powerful and one of the first realizations the audience has on how troubled Alvin is.

Lance is a bit of a one-dimensional character but grows as Hirsch gets a better handle on him as the film continues.

However, Alvin is a balanced character, played well by Rudd.

It’s one of my favorite performances so far this year. “Prince Avalanche� has an almost bare script, but Green milks as much out of it as he can. He uses closeups and cuts almost flawlessly to depict the sparse, almost sad landscape.

There aren’t many big, direct challenges to the characters.

Instead, Green focuses on how it impacts Alvin and Lance while pairing it with the symbolism of the environment.

As the film concludes, it becomes evident how simple and minimalistic the film is overall. It focuses on how the dynamic between its two characters grows, not necessarily on the conflict that each develops. But the third act is both great and frustrating. Green stylish choices are a bit too bold and heavy-handed in some scenes, including one where “I love you so much� is written on the screen above Alvin.

What the film lacks in the final act is a cleaner resolution.

As it is, the pacing of the film is not traditional, yet succeeds in replicating the feelings the two characters have at different points of the film.

The interactions between the two are simultaneously

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Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd in “Prince Avalanche,� a Magnolia Pictures release.

amusing and touching. The unlikely bond and the quirkiness of the characters is what makes watching it so enjoyable.

Prince Avalanche is a film where the individual parts are greater than the whole product. But when you evaluate the individual parts for what they are worth, you come away rather satisfied.

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Josh Shaffer is a sophomore visual communications and draws “Strange Gods� for the Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper. Write to Josh at jashaffer@bsu.edu.

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ILLINOIS STATE AT BALL STATE Thursday, 7 p.m.

Breakdown: A game against a team from the Football Championship Subdivision might seem like a breeze, but this Illinois State team does have surprise potential. Their roster is loaded with players that have transferred from Football Bowl Subdivision schools including quarterback Jared Barnett. As a freshman, Barnett led Iowa State to a double-overtime win over then-No. 2 Oklahoma State, which cost the Cowboys a chance to play for the national championship.

But Pete Lembo knows the FCS well and will surely have Ball State focused on the task at hand.

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Prediction: Ball State 42, Illinois State 20

ARMY AT BALL STATE Sept. 7, 1 p.m.

SA

7 14 21 28

Breakdown: Army always presents an unusual challenge because of its triple-option offense. In the last two meetings between the two schools Army has rushed for 402 and 341 yards, respectively. But the rushing yards hasn’t translated to points for the Black Knights and the last time they visited Scheumann Stadium, the game was over by halftime.

Prediction: Ball State 41, Army 17

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3 10 17 24

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4 11 18 25

TOLEDO AT BALL STATE Sept. 28, 3 p.m.

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5 12 19 26

Breakdown: Toledo presents Ball State’s first true test on the season. The Rockets return nearly everyone on offense, including 1,000-yard running back David Fluellen. Toledo will also have revenge on its mind after Ball State defeated ranked Toledo on Election Day last season in the Glass Bowl. Expect a high-scoring shootout where one defensive play — or miscue could decide the game.

Prediction: Toledo 38, Ball State 35

KENT STATE AT BALL STATE Oct. 12, 3 p.m.

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Breakdown: Ball State was a fourth quarter Jeff Garrett dropped interception away from beating Kent State on the road last season. But Kent State won on its way to one of the best seasons in program history. Darrell Hazell is gone to Purdue, but do-everything Dri Archer and running back Trayion Durham are still with the Golden Flashes. Still, the loss of Hazell should bring Kent State down to Earth.

Prediction: Ball State 31, Kent State 20

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MAC BOWLS: New playoff could affect 2014 bowl schedule | CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Ball State coaching staff and even the players have been able to add last season’s Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl appearance as another pitch. Another bowl game in Montgomery, Ala., and another in the Bahamas would only help the recruiting tools.

He understands the playoff coming in 2014 could affect how many non-BCS schools get picked into bowls as an at-large (Ball State’s selection to the Beef

‘O’ Brady’s Bowl was as an atlarge bid), but said the emphasis is getting more bowl games in general.

“Playoffs or not it’s important,” Lembo said. “You’d rather be in a primary situation with a bowl rather than having your fingers crossed and hope another conference doesn’t fill all its slots.”

The Cameilla Bowl will be played at the Cramton Bowl. The Bahamas Bowl has been reported by CBSSports.com to be play in Thomas Robinson Stadium in Nassau.

Breakdown: Central Michigan finished 2012 hot by winning its final three regular season games and the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl against Western Kentucky. Ball State had a comfortable road win against Central Michigan last season and the Chippewas aren’t as talented this season. But don’t be surprised if running back Zurlon Tipton makes the game interesting.

Prediction: Ball State 35, Central Michigan 21

MIAMI AT BALL STATE Nov. 29, TBA Breakdown: Ball State will get over two weeks to prepare for its final game of the season, which could have bowl spot implications. Miami is without quarterback Zac Dysert, who the RedHawks relied on heavily in the offense.

Ball State will have the easy advantage on offense against Miami as the Cardinals end the regular season with a win.

Prediction: Ball State 38, Miami 17

Predicted record: 10-2, 6-2 MAC (3rd place in MAC West) For predictions on away games, go to bsudaily.com

2-0 start masks position battle

Competition for starting goalkeeper friendly, coach says

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EVAN BARNUM-STEGGERDA CHIEF REPORTER @Slice_of_Evan

A 5-1 goal differential, the Mid-American Conference Offensive Player of the Week and most importantly, two wins. Not a bad opening weekend for a team that did not have a starting lineup set until the day of its first match.

After a nearly perfect start to the season, it appears a deep well of talent has answered all but one of the starting lineup questions.

Ball State’s 10 starting fielding players stayed the same through the weekend, but saw senior Layne Schramm and freshman Brooke Dennis each get a start in goal.

“Going into the weekend [coach Craig Roberts and I] told [Schramm and Dennis] they would each start a game, and have the opportunity to show themselves,” assistant coach Marcie Klebanow said. “And we

were very pleased with both of their performances.”

Schramm started between the pipes in Ball State’s season opener against Northern Iowa, and did not see much action.

In a game played predominantly on Northern Iowa’s half, Schramm was only tested a handful of times. She had two elementary saves, but looked confident distributing the ball from the back and directing the defense.

The sole goal Ball State allowed on the weekend came from a Northern Iowa corner kick. It looked as though Schramm didn’t get a good read on the ball, and a curler went in untouched.

On Sunday against Wisconsin-Green Bay, Dennis was also impressive, recording a clean sheet in her first collegiate start. Dennis had four causal saves, but had impeccable timing coming off her line to break up through balls and possible opportunities.

There are several variables to the competition, but a constant is talent. The coaches agreed that the team will have sure hands backing it up.

“Brooke and Layne are just great keepers,” Roberts said

Sunday after the victory Wisconsin-Green Bay. “It’s really neck-and-neck between them.”

A key aspect to the battle is actually how similar the two play. According to Klebanow, neither keeper has any glaring weaknesses, and both do many of the same things well.

Both coaches agree that despite the battle for the starting spot there is no animosity between the senior and freshman—in fact they embrace it.

“They know that them pushing each other is going to elevate each other’s games to higher levels,” Klebanow said. “They are working hard every day to make this team better.”

So who is going to start Friday’s match against IPFW? “We won’t decide that until match day,” Klebanow said.

Intra-team competition is integral to Ball State’s team, and players know that every time they step onto the field it is an audition.

“In every single practice and game [Schramm and Dennis] have been competing at a high level,” Klebanow said. “It’s a phenomenal competition.”

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Goalie Layne Schramm dives to save a shot against Illinois on Aug. 26, 2011.

Schramm and Dennis both had goal time in the past weekend’s games.