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Money-saving tips A few tips to save money while you’re in school: • Buy used books whenever possible.
• Use a prepaid meal plan instead of eating out • Take advantage of free activities, like concerts hosted by the university. • Resist impulse buying. Buy what you need, not what you think would be nice to have. When you do shop, use coupons and look for sales. • Stay healthy to keep medical bills and loss of class time to a minimum. Prepackaged food might seem cheap, but you also can find inexpensive, fresh and healthy foods if you plan ahead. • Understand your cellphone plan. Stay within your free minutes. Remember that texting is usually not free. • Brew your own coffee.
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Future SGA president says ‘battle f lag’ isn’t concern Officer says beliefs about diversity aren’t reflected by Confederate decoration Adam Baumgartner editor-in-chief | editor@bsudailynews.com
The future president of the Student Government Association is the owner of a Confederate battle flag and she says the banner — often considered a symbol of racism and slavery — does not reflect her beliefs on diversity. “I’m not racist, I’ve never been racist,” Chloe Anagnos said. “Most of my best friends are either black or Asian or Hispanic.” Anagnos will succeed Malachi Randolph, who resigned as SGA president Wednesday after receiving criticism for his denigrating tweets regarding Chinese people a day prior. Despite recent controversy, Dairick Wade, president of the Black Student Association, said he believes the current board is capable of representing the student body. “I still have faith in the SGA executive board,” he said. “That will never change, regardless of what happened with Mala-
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Chloe Anagnos answers questions about her future role as president of the Student Government Association during a press conference Wednesday. Anagnos said she owns a Confederate flag, but does not hold racist beliefs.
chi or anything like that.” Wade, who serves on the board’s cabinet and is friends with Anagnos, said he believes the flag is not necessarily a symbol of racism. “With some people, it doesn’t stand for Confederacy and white supremacy and all that stuff ... “I know that [Chloe] is not the person to have those values and those beliefs because she has plenty of African-American friends,” he said. “She has plenty of friends from other races.” Anagnos said she comes from a diverse background because her father’s family is from Greece. Though she is from Elkhart, Ind., Anagnos used to spend her summers in Alabama. Her mother is from Texas. “I was always brought up having a deep appreciation for the South and the history that sometimes isn’t written in textbooks,” she said. “There are actually a lot of groups down south that are working to protect the meaning of that flag, but I believe the [Ku Klux Klan] has taken it — obviously has taken it and turned it into something terrible.”
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Author finds calling in orphanage Common reader author to visit campus, talk about ‘Little Princes,’ activism Bethannie Huffman staff reporter | bnhuffman@bsu.edu
with no plans to settle down any time soon when he made the quick decision to travel for fun. “Writing ‘Little Princes’ happened by accident, really,” he said. “I was keeping a blog as I traveled around the world and wrote a lot about Nepal. But later, it became a way to keep people informed about the work we were doing in Nepal in the early days of Next Generation Nepal.” Grennan’s excursion in 2004 led him to volunteer at the Little Princes Children’s Home in a village in Nepal, Godawari. He was welcomed with open arms by the children — who later viewed Grennan as a father-figure, he said — and learned their stories and customs. He found out the children were victims of
When author Conor Grennan set off for his journey around the world, the last thing he expected to happen was to fall in love. Grennan would later write not a romance novel, but a story about how he fell in love with a group of young orphans, once enslaved through human trafficking, who he was determined to give a home. Nine years ago, the 29-year-old Grennan was living temporarily in Prague
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child trafficking. They had been taken by a man named Golkka from a district in northern Nepal. Golkka had taken the children from their families, promising to give the children a better home and an education. Instead, Golkka sold the children into slavery.
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Grab-and-go food from company removes student dining positions Prepackaged items on campus come from near Chicago Krystal Byers staff reporter | kmbyers@bsu.edu Dining Services’ job positions were eliminated after the university began outsourcing for packaged food, but no one was laid off to accommodate the change. Jon Lewis, director of Dining Services, said instead of Ball State staff packaging items on campus, they now get graband-go items prepackaged from Food Evolution, a food company near Chicago. “We hire hundreds of students new every year,” he said. “We hire 50-60 new part time employees every year. We simply didn’t fill those positions. So we didn’t lay anybody off, we just eliminated the position and nobody lost their job. Some were reassigned to other areas, which was fine with them because they had a job.” Lewis said there are three categories of prepackaged items, fresh fruit and vegetables, sandwiches, salads and snack items, including pudding and applesauce. All of the categories are now made and packaged off campus. “People are looking for highquality sandwiches,” he said. “This company makes the same kind of sandwich you would expect to see in a Starbucks. They produce for Trader Joe’s — for all the high-end grab-and-go types of restaurants and grocery stores. It’s a
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Demarcus Brookins prepares a meal for a fellow student in the Atrium on Monday. Some jobs were reassigned due to the new grab-and-go food items.
high-quality item; people recognize it and they like it.” Charles Roberts, general manager of the Atrium, said one difference is that now, it takes a day for the food to be made and transported to Ball State, making the shelf life five days from the time it arrives instead of six. Roberts said the Atrium goes through about 2,500 grab-and-go items a week. So, losing a day of shelf life doesn’t have an effect because the items are sold quickly. “The health code regulations are the same,” he said. “We still make sure they are at the proper temperature. The main difference is we’re not pre-cupping them. They are coming in already packaged, so the process isn’t as involved as it was before.”
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3. New Van Gogh identified by museum AMSTERDAM (AP) — A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928. Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticated the 1888 landscape “Sunset at Montmajour” with the help of Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, chemical analysis of the pigments and X-rays of the canvas.
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops launched an offensive Monday against rebel-held positions on hills overlooking a mainly Christian village as they moved to regain control of the ancient community near the capital, Damascus, activists said. The battle for Maaloula has stoked fears among Syrian Christians that the alternative to Assad’s regime — which is made up mostly of Alawites, followers of an offshoot of Shiite Islam — would not tolerate minority religions. Such concerns have helped Assad retain the support of large chunks of Syria’s minority communities, including Christians, Alawites, Druze and ethnic Kurds. Most of the rebels and their supporters are Sunni Muslims. Assad warned in an interview Monday that there will be retaliation against the U.S. for any military strike against Syria.
Museum director Axel Rueger, at an unveiling ceremony, described the discovery as a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.” “This is a great painting from what many see as the high point of his artistic achievement — his period in Arles, in southern France,” Rueger said. “In the same period, he painted works such as ‘Sunflowers,’ ‘The Yellow House’ and ‘The Bedroom.’” Van Gogh paintings are among the most valuable in the world, selling for tens of millions of dollars.
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LONDON (AP) — America’s National Security Agency may hold crucial evidence about one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the Cold War — the cause of the 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, a commission of prominent jurists says. Widely considered the U.N.’s most effective chief, Hammarskjöld died as he was attempting to bring peace to the newly independent Congo. It’s long been
rumored that his DC-6 plane was shot down, and an independent commission set up to evaluate new evidence surrounding his death on Monday recommended a fresh investigation — citing radio intercepts held by the NSA as the possible key to solving the case. “The only dependable extant record of the radio traffic, if there is one, will so far as we know be the NSA’s,” Commission Chairman Stephen Sedley said in his introduction to the report.
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Officials said Ball State’s international program will not be affected negatively by the recent resignation of the Student Government Association president following racially insensitive tweets. Imara Dawson, executive director of the Rinker Center for International Programs, said he does not feel the tweets will change student’s views. “As an international educator, I choose to view this unfortunate incidence as an opportunity to encourage a larger dialogue between our international community and the Ball state community,” he said. Ball State’s international program won national recognition by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday for its
international student population growth. The university is expecting to have about 900 international students in attendance this year. Rep. Luke Messer and international trade specialist Leslie Britton presented Ball State President Jo Ann Gora and Ball State with the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Export Achievement Certificate for opening new foreign markets. Gora said Ball State’s growth in international students might have been recognized by the department because it is “unusual.” “We don’t have an engineering program, so it’s harder for a university like Ball State to grow its international enrollment,” she said. “So frequently what international students are looking for are those highly technical fields, like engineering, which we don’t offer.” Gora said this award better reflects campus than recent events with Malachi Randolph, SGA former president, who formally resigned Thursday after receiving criticism for racially derogatory tweets.
Dawson said he plans to talk with all of the university’s student groups to let them know what the Rinker Center has done and what the center plans for the future. Robiyabonu Dustova, a sophomore accounting and criminal justice major, is an international student from Tajikistan, a country in Central Asia. She said she has had an overwhelmingly positive experience on her first time abroad. “So many things have changed in me and in my environment,” Dustova said. Dustova said she has never met anyone who has reacted negatively when they find out she is studying abroad. “Maybe I was just way too lucky, or maybe it is just the relationships people have with one another here,” she said. “What I can say for sure is that the community is a very good place for us to start. It is a wonderful campus where you can have fun, but it isn’t so big that you can’t focus on your studies.” Rachel Podnar contributed to this story.
“That was a moment in one student’s life and I don’t want this to be blown out of proportion,” she said. “Malachi made some poor choices and he has paid the price for that. I don’t think that his tweets represent the culture of the campus.” Dawson said he thinks this one bad experience is far outweighed by the larger overwhelmingly positive experience he has heard from international students. He said during his five months at Ball State so far, he has not come across a student being harassed for their international status. “If they were, I would hope we could talk to the person who did it to educate them,” Dawson said. He also said if an international student had been hurt by Randolph’s tweets, he would like to explain to them that is not the way most Ball State students feel. “I would want to let them know that Ball State is an inclusive and diverse place,” he said. “He did not speak for the university as a whole.”
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| Continued from PAGE 1 Anagnos said she considers the banner a matter of regional pride. “You know, it’s like a seasonal decoration,” she said. “You have it in the summertime when, you know, you hear country music about the South and ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ and all of this good stuff.” She said this week the flag is at her home in Elkhart. Anagnos said people have criticized her for owning the flag, and she was even tagged with the nickname “Ku Klux Chloe.” Though Anagnos understands some people take offense to the flag, she said she feels accusations of racism are unwarranted. She said her banner is different than a typical Confederate battle flag in that it is missing a star in the center. “Before you accuse me of being racist or of having flags I don’t have, maybe you should read the history books a little harder,” she said. Cathy Wright, a curator at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., said battle flags have variations because different Confederate armies, including the Army of Tennessee and the Army of Northern Virginia, had their own flags. Flags often had subtle variations on the general “Stars and Bars” theme. “Each army was supposed to come up with their own battle flag, which is basically whatever design that the general in charge of that army would choose to go with,” she said. Anagnos said others have displayed the flag, or variations of it, on campus. “When Luke Bryant or Toby Keith or someone like that comes to concerts here at Ball State, how many girls do you see with Confederate flag — not even battle flags — but Confederate flag belt buckles and guys with bandanas?” she said. Indiana is not the only state in which debates over the flag occur. In Richmond, Va., community members are speaking out against a group called the Virginia Flaggers. The group plans to
fly a battle flag on private property next to Interstate 95. Mississippi’s state flag still contains the Confederate emblem. Charlene Alexander, associate provost for diversity at Ball State, said she has witnessed the negative affect a battle flag can have on a person. “One of my professors when I was in graduate school brought it to my attention, and he was very offended by the presence of the flag at the university that I got my doctoral degree from,” CHARLENE she said. “He ALEXANDER felt that, as a associate male person provost for of color who diversity at Ball State had to walk in front of that flag every day, it was disturbing to see that flag.” She acknowledges, though, that the flag has multiple meanings. “It is important to understand how [the flag] is perceived by others,” she said. “And it is also important for us to have these dialogues to understand both sides of the issue.” Anagnos said she does not believe owning the flag creates a division between her and students who may be offended. “I just feel like if it’s one student that maybe would be afraid to approach me, I will take you to lunch,” she said. “Let’s talk. If you are that concerned about it, then maybe you just need to get to know me better on a personal level.” Despite this and the debate over the meaning of the flag, Anagnos said she intends to keep hers. “Yes, I have one,” she said. “And I will defend it until the day I die.” Christopher Stephens contributed to this story.
Get to know Chloe Chloe Anagnos will be inducted as SGA president Wednesday. Get to know Anagnos with a profile in the next issue of the Daily News.
Cathy Wright, a curator for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Va., said the image many people have in their mind when they think of Confederate flag is really the Army of Tennessee’s battle flag. The confederate nation as a whole had a national flag pattern and each individual army had its own flag pattern. The Confederacy went through three iterations of flags due to confusion with the United States’ flag and a surrender flag. Each army was free to choose its own flag based on personal choice. Here is each flag with an explanation for each.
NATIONAL FLAGS First National pattern The First National pattern was adopted March 4, 1861. It is often called the “Stars and Bars.” The flag was later abandoned because, when there was no wind, it was easily confused with the United States’ flag.
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Prepackaged foods from dining aren’t made on campus anymore, which eliminated jobs for students, but no employees were laid off, a dining official said.
DINING: Transported foods have shortened shelf life | Continued from PAGE 1 Fresh fruit, vegetables and cupped snack items are similar to previous years, except for a smaller serving size and price change. The amount of money for a meal swipe remains the same, $7.85. “The prices have actually gone down for the fruit and grab-and-go compared to what we had last year,” Roberts said. “The portion sizes are smaller but in relation, the prices are about the same. ... What you’re paying
for and what you are getting is pretty much the same.” Lewis said dining always works on improving things and plans are being made for some minor dining room facelifts, such as the new chairs added in the Atrium. No major renovations on any of the dining locations are expected in the immediate future. “We are always looking for improvements that make fiscal sense and make our customers more comfortable,” he said.
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Second National pattern The Second National flag was adopted May 1, 1863. It removed the two red bars and added General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia’s battle flag as its canton, or the square in the upper corner, on top of the white background. Its first use was a flag placed on Stonewall Jackson’s casket. This flag was abandoned because when it was tied to the flag pole, it was easily mistaken for the white flag of surrender.
third National pattern The final flag, the Third National pattern, added a red bar to the outside in order to distinguish it from a flag of surrender. It was adopted March 4, 1865. Due to Lee’s army surrendering a few weeks after it was adopted, few of these flags saw service during the war.
BATTLE VARIATIONS Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag
This flag was first issued beginning in November 1861. There are often minor variations, such as missing stars, but that does not change which particular flag it is. The Confederacy never officially adopted this flag, though it was used as a canton for the Second and Third National patterns.
Missing Stars During the time of the Confederacy, there was some confusion on exactly how many states had seceded from the Union. When battle flags were made, there was no real pattern, so each flag maker was free to make their own version. This meant they could include as many stars as they saw fit. There was no dramatic difference between the number of stars in each flag. Source: moc.org and Cathy Wright, a curator for the Museum of the Confederacy dn illustrations Michael Boehnlein
According to the Ball State 1 Office of Financial Aid, when a student’s loan goes through their bursar account, any money left over, after the semester is paid for, is either sent to the 2 1 student by a check or a direct 2 deposit to their bank account. “The lure of getting loan money now through the federal 2 programs, which do not require a credit check, can be hard to resist when repay3 3 ment seems so far away,” said Rob Wirt, associate director of scholarships and outreach. 2Federal Student Aid regulates that 3 student loans are only to be used for education expenses, which can include supplies, transportation or the purchase of a personal computer. ARMY But Wirt said what is approARMY 3 priate can be a gray area. “The cost of an education includes more than the basic costs of tuition and fees,” ARMY Wirt said. “Luxury items, such as video games, would not qualify, in most cases. What if a student is majoring in computer game design? Perhaps ARMY up on the latest video keeping games is essential for the student’s major.” Sophomore computer science major Dante Payne took last Spring Semester off and used part of his student loan refund on a trip to Colorado. Payne said he knows he misused the funds, but it was necessary because he was not working at the time. “Most [of the portion of the check I spent] went to my trip to Colorado,” Payne said. “But even with all of that, I still have
most of that money in an account I cannot touch so I can make payments on the loan once the bill starts coming in three years.” There are no statistics on how often students use their extra loan money for noneducational expenses because the Department of Education cannot monitor how federal or private loans are used once the funds are released. Wirt said the responsibility is on students, but the lure of luxury can be too enticing. “Once the funds are disbursed to students, it is up to them to make good decisions and to use the funds wisely,” he said. “Our current ‘instant gratification’ society is also to blame a little for this — in general, people do not want to wait for things or save up for them.” Ankit Patel, a sophomore, said he thinks people probably abuse loans. “Government or school aid should only be used for school purposes whether it be room and board, tuition or school supplies, but nothing more,” he said. “I think most people want to be debt free and should stay focused on that” Rushi Parikh, a senior finance and accounting major, agreed that this practice is not a smart financial move for the borrower. “Financially, it’s not a smart move, but it’s debt they will have to pay back,” he said. “And if it’s private loans, they are welcome to do as they please with it. It’s not financially smart, but I don’t see how it affects other people.”
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To help bring down textbook costs, a couple Ball State professors are starting to turn to other methods of presenting information. Some alternatives that now are offered include materials accessible through the computer, such as PDFs or even websites that offer
free online lessons. In the past, Lathrop Johnson, professor of German, required an expensive textbook for his German classes, but has since switched to using an online course called Deutsch Interaktiv. Not only does Deutsch Interaktiv provide features not found in textbooks, such as audio options, it is completely free for students. Tracena Marie, instructor of theatre, also enforces a curriculum with no required print textbooks. Instead, she chooses to provide free PDFs of plays and encourages a more hands-on approach to teaching.
While she doesn’t require a textbook for her particular class, she does recognize the need for them. “Personally, I think it is really all about the subject matter of the course as to whether or not a teacher decides to assign a textbook for their student,” Marie said. While she teaches an Introduction to Theatre class for any major, she said if she taught a theatre history course, she would require a textbook. To keep up with the trend of online learning resources, T.I.S. Bookstore has adapted,
like other bookstores, by expanding its websites and offering students the option to buy e-books, said Pam Suminski, T.I.S. manager. Although there are benefits to using an online source, Johnson said there are some downfalls. “There were problems last winter getting the program to start up,” he said. “Since we have an assignment everyday, students were having trouble in class. ... We think that students are helped by using something black and white that they can carry around with them and see and reference.”
As a result, introductory German classes will begin to phase textbooks back into the curriculum. Instead of returning to the more expensive books however, they will use a cheaper option. Another option to save money, students will buy older editions of required textbooks. When Johnson was switching editions of his textbooks, some students asked if they could use an older edition. “There were so few changes between the fifth edition and the sixth edition that it was obvious that the textbook
company was just trying to rip off the student by making only superficial changes,” Johnson said. While purchasing older textbooks can be beneficial, Johnson said, students should be careful when purchasing editions that are multiple years behind the newest ones. “We had a wonderful textbook that we used at the third-year level, but it was 12 or 13 years old, so it was missing a whole lot of the new stuff about the European Union,” he said. “So we like to have current editions. It’s just sort of common sense.”
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Conor Grennan, author of “Little Princes,” is seen with the family of one of the children that he rescued in a village in Nepal.
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Author: Trip around world turns into rescue mission | Continued from PAGE 1 “I found it difficult to control my anger against this man, who seemed to be getting away with this, making a profit off the lives of the children,” Grennan said. After leaving Nepal and finishing his trip around the world, Grennan said he felt like his job in Nepal was not finished. In 2006, he began Next Generation Nepal, an organization that reconnects trafficked children with their parents. Grennan fundraised and found sponsors, and eventually, he raised enough money to go back to Nepal several times and build a new home for the children called Dhaulagiri House, which takes its name from one of the tallest mountains in the Himalayas. While Grennan attended business school, an article appeared in Readers Digest about his work in Nepal, and he was asked by a literary agent to write a book based on the blog he had already. “That made it a quite easy book to write, much of it came from the blog and my notes,” he said. After being published in 2011, “Little Princes” has been published in 12 languages. “It’s incredible knowing that so many people have read about these little kids,” Grennan said. “It’s also put a spotlight on this issue of child trafficking.” Since Grennan’s first trip to Nepal, he has found and helped to save the lives of many trafficked children in Nepal. He went on to find the deceased family members of the children at Little Princes and the Dhaulagiri House, bringing back interviews, pictures and letters to the children. Grennan will speak at 7:30 tonight at John R. Emens Auditorium as part of the Freshman Common Reader program. This is a free event for all students. “I hope people take away that you don’t have to be somebody special to do this kind of work,” Grennan said. “You just have to show up and offer whatever you can. You’ll find you can do amazing things when you do that.”
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is expected to unveil its latest take on the iPhone today during an annual ritual that will probably cast a spotlight on the gadget maker’s drive to regain market share and its sluggish pace of innovation. In keeping with its tightlipped ways, Apple Inc. hasn’t disclosed what’s on the agenda for the coming-out party scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. PDT at its Cupertino, Calif. headquarters. But this is the time of year that Apple typically shows off the latest generation of its iPhone, a device that has reshaped the way people use computers since its debut in 2007. Apple’s timetable for rolling out products has vexed many investors who have watched the company’s growth slow and profit margins decrease. Meanwhile, a bevy of smartphone makers, most of whom rely on Google Inc.’s free Android software, release wave after wave of devices that cost less than the iPhone. Those concerns are reflected in Apple’s stock price, which has declined nearly 30 percent since peaking at $705.07 at about the same time the iPhone 5 went on sale last year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index has risen about 14 percent during the same stretch. Even though Apple’s market value of roughly $460 billion is more than any other company in the world, the deterioration in its stock price is escalating the pressure on CEO Tim Cook to prove he’s the right leader to carry on the legacy of cofounder Steve Jobs. In public appearances, Cook has repeatedly said Apple is working on some exciting breakthroughs without revealing details. The company is believed to be working on a so-called “smartwatch” that would work like a wrist-bound smartphone. The company isn’t expected to reveal the latest model of its tablet computer, the iPad, until later in the fall. Apple
introduced a smaller, less expensive version of the iPad last year in response to the success of more compact and cheaper tablets running on the Android system. This year’s refresh of the iPhone line may address the growing popularity of cheaper Android phones. Based on leaks from suppliers, it appears Apple is poised to release a less elaborate and less expensive version of the iPhone in an attempt to appeal to consumers too frugal or too poor to pay for the high-end model that sells for more than $600 without a wireless contract. If reports published in technology blogs and newspapers pan out, the stripped-down iPhone will be called the “5C” and be housed in plastic casing that will be offered in a variety of colors instead of an aluminum casing. If it introduces a cheaper iPhone, Apple might end production of the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S that were released in 2010 and 2011, respectively. Those models have been sold at a discount to the iPhone 5, a factor that has lowered the average price Apple has fetched for its phones. A new version of the highend iPhone also is expected to be revealed today. The topof-the-line model, expected to be dubbed the “5S,” will be the first to be sold with Apple’s revamped mobile software, iOS 7, already installed. The new system will automatically update apps installed on the device. This will be the second iPhone model that Apple has released since Jobs’ death in October 2011. Besides running on iOS 7, the upgraded iPhone may include technology that enables its owner to unlock the device with a fingerprint instead of a four-digit code. “One of the big questions is whether Apple is going to push the envelope on the iPhone or do they feel they have pretty much gone as far as they can go on the smartphone side of things?” said Gartner Inc. analyst Carolina Milanesi. A less expensive iPhone would help boost sales in China and other lessdeveloped countries where people have less disposable income.
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National prevention week event to take place on campus taff reports | snews@bsudailynews.com ABOVE: Grennan poses with Amita, one of the girls that he helped rescue from a human trafficking. BELOW: Grennan went though great lengths to find the parents of Amita and her younger sister. Both of the girls were rescued from a human trafficker named Golkka, who had taken them from their home in Nepal. Grennan raises money and works with organizations to free children and reunite them with their parents.
Lost loved ones will be remembered as candles are lit at a candlelight vigil tonight. “Suicide is a blacklisted topic and people don’t realize how many people are affected by it,” said Carmen Diaz, president of The Alive Campaign. “We really like to bring people together. It’s amazing to see people unite over something that not many people are comfortable with dealing with.” The National Suicide Prevention Week event is at 7:30 p.m. on the University Green, between the College of Architecture and Planning building and Bracken Library. Those who have lost loved ones to suicide, survivors and people with depression can light a candle during the vigil. There will be tables to provide information about mental health and suicide prevention, and guest speakers will share their stories. At 8 p.m., the candle lighting will begin and people
will say the name of the loved one they are honoring during the vigil, followed by a moment of silence. Events will continue for the week, with three more chances to be a part of National Suicide Prevention Week. At 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, there will be free community “Question, Persuade and Refer” training at Kennedy Library, 1700 W. McGalliard Road. The focus will be on how to help in an encounter with a person contemplating suicide. To register, email your name and contact information to ecispc@gmail.com or call Chris Drapeau at 219730-6765. At 4 p.m. Friday, the safeTALK Suicide Prevention Training will take place in the YMCA Community Room, 310 E. Charles St. To register, contact Travis Bemis-Smiley at 765-747-9107, though registration is limited to 30 people. To close out the week, the city of Muncie and Muncie Community Schools will host the Back to School AntiBullying and Suicide Prevention Fun Fair. The event will be from 2-6 p.m. Saturday at Canan Commons in downtown Muncie.
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Ball State’s Kati Vasalakis probably wasn’t going to fill up the stat sheet against Western Illinois. Nor would she expect to. As a defensive specialist, Vasalakis didn’t record a kill or an attempt in the weekend finale and hasn’t had either all season. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t a key contributor to Ball State’s win against Western Illinois, though. After being inserted into the starting lineup, she helped control the tempo of the game and fueled offense for her team. “She solidified our ball control game which had been giving us a lot of problems,” head coach Steve Shondell said. “We started her for the first time and her consistency helped get our offense rolling again.” Vasalakis started the second set against the Leatherbacks, using some of the minutes that would normally be allocated
to Nikki Box, who didn’t play against Western Illinois. Shondell said Box has played more than he would have liked early on, and Vasalakis’ previous experience allows her to be in position to make plays while Box continues to get up to speed with the level of play in college. Just a sophomore, Vasalakis impressed Shondell with how well she can move the ball to setter senior Jacqui Seidel, an important job for her position. Defensive specialists are often on the receiving end of spikes. A team is allowed to touch the ball only three times before it crosses the net, so each touch is important. With the set being the second touch and the spike being the third, it’s Vasalakis’ job to start the offense. If she plays the ball poorly, it means there could be a bad set, leading to a poor spike and losing the point. “She was just passing the ball like a laser to the setter against Western Illinois,” Shondell said. “It made all the difference for our team that afternoon.” Vasalakis received nine serves in the final match, tied for third most on the team. Being an initiator for the offense, she puts
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pressure on herself to make each pass perfect. “My main focus is putting the ball where it needs to go, which is something Steve really drives home,” Vasalakis said. “Coming from the Muncie area, ball control is a big deal, so I put a lot of pride in putting the ball where I want it to go.” Behind her, Ball State put up its best victory during the weekend in the second set against Western Illinois by winning 25-16, in a match Shondell
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said was the most complete he’s seen this season. Ball State jumped out to an early 5-1 lead to gain momentum and never looked back. The win kept Ball State above .500, a mark the team hasn’t fallen under this season. Although the team fell in the previous two matches, Shondell
Hague leads team to second place Junior took home accolades after big opening weekend
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A fifth career title, a Ball State record and new confidence in a reshaped roster are all products of consistency. Jenna Hague, a junior on the Ball State women’s golf team, earned medalist honors at the season-opening Redbird Invitational on Monday. Hague’s 1-under par performance also matched the Ball State 54-hole scoring record. “It’s really rewarding,” she said. “I wasn’t really thinking about it out there. I didn’t know [about the record] but it shows consistent play, and that’s been my main goal lately, to play consistently.” After bogeying her 15th hole of the day, Hague was behind
the tournament leader by one stroke. However, she birdied two of the final three holes to move into first place. “Today was more difficult, I wasn’t quite as sharp as I was before,” Hague said. “Our team goal and expectation is to play in the moment. I think we did that.” Just as solid in her return to action was senior Meghan Perry, who set a career best 54-hole total. She paired with Hague to lead a Ball State team that graduated two seniors last year. “It’s just a treat to have those two,” head coach Katherine Mowat said. “They’re wonderful people, they’re incredible talents and they’re examplesetting leaders for us.” Hague said there was some uncertainty surrounding Ball State going into the tournament after graduating Zoe Camus and Autumn Duke. The team’s second-place finish reassured her that the loss of leaders wouldn’t be detrimental.
“We didn’t get everything out of the tournament,” Hague said. “It’s not like we went in there and played as well as we could have, but we did eliminate some of the question marks and got some really solid play.” Senior Mary Welch and sophomore Karley Dobis both did “what was needed” at key moments to keep Ball State in good position. Ball State edged Bowling Green State by one stroke with a final team score of 902. Mowat said she was happy with the team’s first showing, and she is excited to see it progress through out the year. She said the individual accolades and awards for Hague and Perry will drive them play even better in the future. “It’s really awesome to get your name on something like that,” Hague said. “I know I’ve got two years left, so hopefully I can beat that, but I’m not worried about that right now. ... We’re hoping to build on this momentum. We’ve got a really good schedule this year.”
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used the win against Western Illinois as an example for why he believes the team is starting to figure out what’s effective and what isn’t. “This team is learning where to put the ball, which players should be in during what situations,” Shondell said. “Western Illinois showed me how smoothly
the offense can run with Vasalakis in there.” Vasalakis said she thinks there’s more to it than just her. “We didn’t reach our full potential, and we know that,” she said. “I don’t think I was the difference maker in the group — our team was just having fun out there, and it made a big difference.”