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Athletic director to start job in Milwaukee in mid-October EMMA KATE FITTES AND MATT McKINNEY | sports@bsudailynews.com
Ball State athletic director Bill Scholl has been named athletic director at Marquette, and will take over duties in mid-October, according to a press release. Scholl has been Ball State’s athletic director since 2012. His salary was $246,750. “This was a very difficult decision to make because of the momentum Ball State’s ath-
letics department has right now and the great people I have had the pleasure to meet and work with at Ball State and in Muncie,” Scholl said in the press release. “My wife, Julie, and I have thoroughly enjoyed our time here and will take great memories with us.” Associate athletic director and head football coach Pete Lembo only worked with Scholl for about two years, but he said the two will be life-long friends. Lembo said the hire is exciting for the Ball State athletic department as a whole and Scholl as an individual.
If it’s a chance to take on a new challenge and it’s a good step professionally, then I’m thrilled for him. » PETE LEMBO, head football coach
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Study ranks Ball State professor salaries low Provost attributes average to cost of living, programs offered DANIELLE GRADY ENTERPRISE REPORTER | dagrady@bsu.edu
Ball State lags behind other Indiana colleges when it comes to average salaries of full professors, according to a recent American Association of University Professors’ Faculty Salary Survey. The study said Ball BALL STATE State placed 14th out of AVERAGE 35 Indiana colleges and universities for average PROFESSOR amount paid to full pro- RAISES 2013-14 fessors as well as 11th for the average salary of associate professors Full: 212 professors and 13th for assistant professors. Full professors are ten- Associate: ured and have produced 237 professors a scholarly work. Associates are tenured and have not produced significant Assistant: work, while assistants are 306 professors on track to receive tenure. Although the statistics may look straightforward, professor of economics and business research Michael Hicks said the reality is much more complicated. “The fact is that our composition of our faculty is very different than the composition of faculty at any other Indiana university,” he said. Terry King, provost and vice president for academic affairs, said recent data points out that some academic disciplines garner higher salaries than others. “Law school faculty members are paid 60 percent more than the average faculty member. Engineers are paid 25 percent more. Health professions faculty like doctors are paid 19 percent more,” he said in an email. “While we do have a nursing program, we do not have any other programs that have such high market demands for compensation well above average.”
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Frank Rice smokes Friday outside of Muncie Liquors. Along with giving him an opportunity to become friends with college students, his job does not require him to cover up his tattoos, allowing him to keep his individuality.
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FRANK Local employee bonds with students, calls job his ‘destiny’
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tanding in a circle of discarded half-smoked cigarettes, Frank Rice waits, squinting into the sun as the light begins to fade. Surveying a busy Centennial Avenue, he takes a final drag, tosses his cigarette to the ground and follows another college student-customer into Muncie Liquors. “What’re you getting into tonight?” Rice asks of the tall 20-something young man, one of Rice’s many regular customers, after he sets two Editor’s Note: cases of beer on the counter. This story is the first of The Ball State Daily “You still datin’ that same News profile series, girl you came in here with? Famous for Muncie. Marriage material?” Personal questions are easy for the 30-year-old Rice, or as so many on campus know him, “Liquor Store Frank,” who started working at Muncie Liquors near campus four years ago. From the moment he walked in the doors, Rice decided he wanted to be
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Frank Rice takes a shot with customers Friday at Muncie Liquors. Rice has regular customers that refer to him as “Liquor Store Frank.”
the kind, knowledgeable and maybe a little weird friend for every college student that came into his shop. “You college kids are looking for a buddy,” he said. “That’s what I wanted to be for them, their homie.” Trying to be the friendly olderbrother to college men or the cute, flirtatious and funny older guy to college women is what Rice considers to be his destiny. 2. MOSTLY CLOUDY
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