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Muncie residents march for climate
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Senior kicker Scott Secor rubs his head on the sidelines after missing a field goal during the game against Toledo on Saturday at the Glass Bowl. Ball State lost 34-23.
WEATHERED Cardinals drop to 1-3 after defense falters on road DAVID POLASKI CHIEF REPORTER
Senior running back Jahwan Edwards attempts to push past the defense during the game against Toledo on Saturday at the Glass Bowl. Edwards rushed for 125 yards.
TEAM COMPARISON Ball State Total yards 351 Passing yards 176 Rushing yards 175 Turnovers 0
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he Ball State defense needed a tornado siren to slow down the Toledo offense Saturday night and into Sunday morning in the 34-23 loss to the Rockets. Thirteen offensive plays in for the Rockets, and the Cardinals were trying to figure out how they had already given up two rushing touchdowns to quarterback Logan Woodside, who had never rushed for a touchdown in his collegiate career. The first came before a two hour and 42 minute weather delay. The second came less than three minutes after the game resumed. “The kids were really excited to play and to their credit they were very resilient during that time we were in the locker room,” Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said. “They would have played this game at three in the morning.”
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Biology professor David LeBlanc holds a sign on Sunday at the intersection of Wheeling and Neely avenues for the climate rally. The Muncie rally occurred in conjuction with about 2,700 rallies in 166 different countries. ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu
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Fair speaker teaches youth sustainability Keynote lecturer talks to 7,000 students prior to Living Lightly ALAN HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | afhovorka@bsu.edu
A past comedian brought his talents to Muncie Saturday to speak about a serious issue: sustainability. More than 100 people from Muncie and Ball State listened to Jim Poyser, the keynote speaker for the Living Lightly Fair. Poyser discussed the obstacles to awareness and education about sustainability. “That’s the hardest thing: how do you communicate the predicament, because then it becomes, ‘What do we do about India?’” he said. “Well, we can’t really worry about India. Let’s just do cool
stuff right here and teach kids the right skills and just let it go.” Laura Buckles, a 16-year-old junior from Muncie Central High School and a member of the recycling club, agreed. “He was really descriptive and liked to get the audience involved,” she said. “Usually, [speakers] just try to push it on kids. He actually showed examples. It was not another boring lecture.” Over the past two and a half weeks, Poyser has spoken to more than 7,000 students around Indiana. He spends most of his time as executive director of Earth Charter Indiana, going from school to school teaching students and educators ways to become more sustainable. Teaching students how to farm effectively on a local scale has the potential to create a better community, he said.
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With the more than 400,000 people that attended the march in New York and the couple hundred thousand that hosted satellite rallies around the world, the question remains of whether or not activism has changed and has it increased. THE PULSE OF BALL STATE
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Allison Cole, 5, works with her mother Michele to create a fish for the River of Fish piece Saturday at the Living Lightly Fair at Minnetrista. These fish were placed onto stakes and then into the ground to create a “river.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1862, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
Ball State students and Muncie residents joined about 2,700 communities around the world in satellite rallies showing support for a climate march demanding change Sunday in New York City. “Of all the sustainability issues, I am convinced climate change is the most important of all,” said John Vann, director of the Ball State sustainability minor and one of the rally organizers. “It isn’t going to matter if we get things right in terms of recycling or toxins in our water, if we allow the climate to go off the rails.” The climate rally at the Riverside United Methodist Church on Wheeling Avenue was organized to show support for The People’s Climate March in New York City, which aimed to attract the attention of about 120 world leaders planning to attend a U.N. Climate Summit on Tuesday. Ten Ball State students attended CLIMATE MARCH the 400,000-person NUMBERS march on Sunday. • 10 Ball State students “I really think attended the event. civilization is at a • More than 400,000 critical juncture people marched. and if we don’t do • About 2,700 satellite something about rallies were hosted. it in a 100 years • 125 heads of state will discuss climate action there may not be a Tuesday. civilization,” Vann said. “There may be pockets of humanity here or there, but we are going to have a huge crash.” The Muncie rally attracted about 60 people, including Rep. Sue Errington and Ball State faculty. They held signs to cars passing by, which honked back in response. “Indiana is one of the polluters in the country [and] I think people are realizing climate change is happening now,” Errington said. “I think we are getting more in your face about it than we were.” Kiara Goodwine, 17-year-old senior at The Indiana Academy, held her sign at the rally because she said climate is the biggest threat to civilization. “I think it’s really important to speak out about it, especially our generation because we are the ones who are going to have to make a difference in this,” Goodwine said.
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