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Devoted until the end Mathematics professor of 35 years dies at age 64 after battling brain cancer for 7 years

Tickets are $30, trip will hold first 100 students to sign up Ball State has announced there will be a fan bus for the upcoming football game on Saturday at Toledo. This is the team’s Mid-American Conference opener. “Anytime we can provide opportunities for students to support the Cardinals, in any matter, is what we want to do,” director of marketing Sean Sullivan said. “This was an opportunity on our schedule where we thought we had one of our key MAC rivals to kick off the conference calendar, so why not try and rally the students to take a little trip with us.” The bus will hold 100 Ball State students, costing $30 per ticket, which includes the bus ride and a ticket to the game. Food is not included in the ticket. Students may bring a snack for the bus ride or extra money for concessions at the game. The buses will leave at 3 p.m. from Gate 1 of Worthen Arena and return following the game. The game will begin at 7 p.m. Students can email thenest@bsu.edu or visit the table from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Thursday in the Atrium. Payment must be in by Thursday. Cash or checks will be accepted, with checks made payable to Ball State. – JAKE FOX AND ANTHONY LOMBARDI

Percent of transfers more than IU

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Roughly 16 percent of undergrads bring credit from other schools LAURA ARWOOD STAFF REPORTER | llarwood@bsu.edu Ball State had a higher percentage of transfer students than Indiana University this year. Joan Todd, spokesperson for the university, said Ball State had 721 new undergraduate transfer students on campus this year. Nearly 16 percent of undergraduates new to Ball State this fall were transfer students. Todd said the numbers remain pretty consistent each year. At Indiana University, 912 students transferred to the school this semester, making up ACROSS THE STATE about 8.5 percent of the new undergraduate students. transferred to Ball At Purdue Uni- State for the 2014-15 versity, 1,119 stu- academic year dents transferred, or about 17.5 percent of new under- transferred to Indiana University for the 2014-15 graduates. Mark Ferguson, academic year student adviser, said students transfer for a vari- transferred to Purdue University for the 2014-15 ety of reasons. “A common academic year reason is for speSOURCE: bsu.edu, iu.edu, purdue.edu cific academic programs,” Ferguson said. “BSU is very strong in TCOMM, journalism [and] teaching. Another [reason] is they’ve had a friend who’s spoken highly of BSU, or it’s closer to home.” Sydney Harris, a junior psychology major, found herself a freshman at the wrong university. “I liked Olivet [Nazarene University]. I met some great people there, but it was so small, and it was super strict,” Harris said. “Because it was a religious school, there were way more rules. We weren’t allowed to wear shorts or tank tops to class.” Proximity was also important to Harris. “I’m from Fort Wayne. I’d been to Ball State before and I was familiar with the campus,” she said. “Being far from home wasn’t easy for me.”

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He picked that spot because of the windows that faced outside. Umbach and his wife spent years tending to it, but as his health began to decline, he was unable to give the garden the time and effort he had in previous years. A group of friends offered to help. They planned it for Aug. 30 and got tools from Minnetrista. After seven years of battling brain cancer, Umbach died at age 64 at home the night before. Still, about 15 people showed up to pull saplings and weeds the next day. They wanted to keep the garden beautiful for Umbach. “It helped a lot of us deal with [Umbach’s death],” said John Lorch, chairman of the department of mathematical sciences said. “By allowing it to go forward, it helped

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other people feel like they were doing something.”

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Umbach worked at Ball State for 35 years, since 1979, and had come back to teach during the 2014 Spring Semester. He served as chairman of the department from 1997 until 2005. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1972, his master’s in statistics from Iowa State University in 1974, and his Ph.D. from Iowa State in 1976. Before beginning his career in Muncie, Umbach taught mathematics at the University of Oklahoma for three years. Amy Flynt, Umbach’s daughter, also a statistician, said her father’s first love was always teaching.

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UMBACH’S CAREER • Bachelor’s degree in mathematics from University of Cincinnati in 1972 •M aster’s degree in

statistics from Iowa State University • Ph.D. from Iowa State University • Assistant professor of

mathematics at the University of Oklahoma from 1976 to 1979 • Joined Ball State in 1979 • Promoted to associate

professor in 1983 • Promoted to professor in

1989

• Served as chairman from

1997 to 2005

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The day after Dale Umbach died, a group of volunteers showed up to help fix his garden. It was the garden that he had been staring at from his hospital bed set up in the dining room.

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