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Jan. 22: Katey O’Connor, Muncie Central High School teacher whose poster assignment led to an argument between a student and school police officer and a subsequent student protest Nov. 23, said she submitted her resignation effective the end of the school year.

O’Connor’s resignation still needs to be approved by the Muncie Community School Board.

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Martinski, Mandilaris receive accolades

defeated Cleveland State 6-1, recording their second win of the season. Ball State won the doubles point with senior Danilo Kovacevic and graduate student Chris Adams winning their match 6-1 and juniors Parrish Simmons and Vince Orlando winning 6-2. Ball State travels to Charlottesville, Virginia, Jan. 29-30 for the Virginia ITA Kickoff Weekend.

Volleyball senior outside attacker Nick Martinski and graduate student opposite hitter Angelos Mandilaris were named Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) offensive and defensive players of the week. Martinski led the Cardinals with 16 kills against George Mason Jan. 21 while Mandilaris recorded eight block assists.

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Ball State online programs among best The U.S. News & World Report has recognized several Ball State online programs as among the best in the nation. The organization released its annual Best Online Programs list Jan. 25, and 10 Ball State programs ranked in the top 30 — with two ranked in the top 10. Ball State currently has 106 online programs, with more than 5,500 online-only students enrolling each year.

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Sexual assault bill passes State House House Bill 1079, co-authored

by State Representative Sue Errington of Muncie, intends to expand the definition of rape in the state code. The bill passed the State House Jan. 20. Under the bill’s provisions, the definition of rape can now include impersonation and a lack of consent through words or conduct. The bill will move to the state senate for consideration.

National

Stephen Breyer announces retirement

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The Associated Press announced Jan. 26 that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will be retiring from his position, opening the door for President Joe Biden to appoint a new justice. Breyer, 83, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1994 by former President Bill Clinton and is the oldest justice currently on the bench.

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OFFERING REFUGE

MARRC organizers pose for a photo with a check for nearly $11,000 to use toward community development projects.

MARRC is a subcommittee of AWAKEN, which seeks to provide access to education, healthcare services and clean water and sanitation to Afghan women and families. BIBI BAHRAMI, PHOTO PROVIDED

MARRC is making a home for Afghan refugees in Muncie.

Jaden Hasse and Richard Kann Reporters Editor’s note: Muncie Afghan Refugee Resettlement Committee (MARRC) uses the phrase “our new Afghan neighbors” when referring to the refugees whom they help relocate. The Daily News, in an effort to be as accurate as possible, will continue to refer to these individuals as “refugees,” unless attributed to another source.

In 1979, Bibi Bahrami was 13. The Soviet Union had just invaded Afghanistan, and Bahrami was forced to flee from her home country. Her family settled in a refugee camp in Pakistan, where she served those around her by providing medical attention, assisting the elderly and completing everyday chores.

More than 40 years later, Bahrami founded the Muncie Afghan Refugee Resettlement Committee (MARRC) in 2021 to provide a wide variety of services to Afghan refugee families, such as housing, education and, above all else, a community.

MARRC is a subcommittee of the nonprofit organization Afghan Women’s and Kids’ Education & Necessities (AWAKEN), which Bahrami founded in 2002 to aid Afghan families — whom MARRC refers to as “our new Afghan neighbors” — in need.

In 1986, six years after she was forced to flee to Pakistan, Bahrami was able to immigrate to the United States and marry Mohammad

Saber. However, she never forgot about those in Afghanistan who didn’t have the same opportunities. After 9/11, Bahrami set out to help those back in Afghanistan.

“After 9/11, there was a hope for Afghanistan to rebuild, and it was a perfect opportunity since the United States was trying to aid the country,” Bahrami said.

That’s the beauty, we’re all supporting the same mission.

It’s such a huge thing. I want my Muncie community to shine as an example for the rest of the community, [and] that’s my mission in life, to make my community one of the best.”

- BIBI BAHRAMI, Founder and President of Afghan Women’s and Kids’ Education and Necessities Bahrami founded AWAKEN while taking classes for her associate’s degree in general arts at Ball State.

“I had this vision to go back and help those I left behind, but I was still in school, starting my family, and my sixth child had just been born,” Bahrami

said. “The timing wasn’t good for me … but it would be good for the Afghan people. I wanted to help out these families even if I had to compromise my education. The need was greater [in Afghanistan], and there was hope of rebuilding Afghanistan.”

Nineteen years after founding AWAKEN, Bahrami founded MARRC after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, when thousands of refugees who aided the United States were forced to flee their country. Amid the chaos, Afghan refugees were relocated to military camps across the United States, including Camp Atterbury outside Edinburgh, Indiana.

“When I heard about the 7,000 [Afghan refugees] in Camp Atterbury, there was so much need, so I reached out to my AWAKEN board members,” Bahrami said. “I told them that I think we should create a subcommittee of AWAKEN and involve the whole community toward this one goal.”

Ari Hurwitz, volunteer member of the MARRC Leadership Committee, board of directors and chair of the fundraising committee, previously worked for the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., in 2004. While he said he didn’t enjoy working for the State Department, he knew he wanted to further assist refugees in some other role.

“I think people don’t really realize how much of our privilege comes from the luck of birth — so here we are sitting in the United States of America and, on our worst day, we can’t imagine what these people go through,” Hurwitz said.

MARRC now exists as 12 committees, each dedicated to a specific aspect of the organization’s overarching goal. Bahrami said MARRC has brought 19 families, totaling 58 people, to Muncie and she expects 10 more families to arrive soon.

Like other MARRC members, Hurwitz often works 50 to 60 hours a week as a volunteer to help refugees as best as he can, including creating extracurricular sports leagues and working with community partners.

“We have a couple dozen adult and youth soccer leagues,” Hurwitz said. “We got an incredible donation from Dick’s Sporting Goods to fully equip them with gear. A lot of really wonderful things are going on.”

MARRC’s fundraising campaigns and overall goal to help those coming from Afghanistan has been a success, Hurwitz said, which has brought the organization a surprising amount of attention.

“Honestly, I think we’re too busy to notice — I didn’t know we were getting a spotlight,” Hurwitz said. “We’re trying to create a spotlight that puts attention on the issue, that’s for sure, but I don’t honestly think we have a spare second to notice that there’s a spotlight.”

Bahrami said she’s proud of the unity and generosity she has received from the Muncie community and is especially grateful for the overwhelming community support for making the city a new home for Afghan refugees.

“That’s the beauty — we’re all supporting the same mission,” Bahrami said. “It’s such a huge thing. I want my Muncie community to shine as an example for the rest of the community, [and] that’s my mission in life — to make my community one of the best.”

Contact Jaden Hasse with comments at jdhasse@bsu.edu or on Twitter @HasseJaden.

Contact Richard Kann with comments at richard. kann@bsu.edu or on Twitter @RichardKann.

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BY MARRC 1. Housing deposit and six months of rent (if not already provided by refugee resettlement agency) 2. Furnishings for the house/ apartment (these are the property of the refugees after they move in) 3. Payment of bills (gas, electric, water, sewage, internet) for six months (if not already provided by refugee resettlement agency) 4. Weekly food allowances/deliveries until Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are active 5. A full list of household/personal essential items upon move-in (these are the property of the refugees after they move in) 6. A Welcome Family who will act as their first community connection and emergency contact upon moving in 7. Education assistance (for enrolling kids in school, providing Englishas-a-second-language courses for adults, along with GED and college/ university information) 8. Employment assistance (help finding jobs) 9. Wellness assistance (help connecting to doctor, dentist and mental health providers, as well as any specific or advanced providers necessary) 10. Volunteer drivers for appointments, grocery shopping and other necessary activities 11. Free community opportunities (including soccer, theater, music, fitness, public transportation, sewing classes, arts and more) 12. Driver’s education assistance (help taking driving classes and obtaining a driver’s license) 13. Assistance setting up a bank account and understanding aspects of financial literacy Source: Bibi Bahrami, founder and president of Afghan Women’s and Kids’ Education and Necessities

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A CAMPUS UNITED Ball State held the 42nd annual Unity Week celebration Jan. 17-22. The event began with a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration and march Jan. 17 and ended with a special Late Nite event Jan. 22. The Latinx Student Union, Spectrum and the Asian Student Union were among the organizations involved.

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Brandon Pope speaks to the audience about the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection Jan. 18 at Pruis Hall. Pope, award-winning journalist and 2014 Ball State alumnus, returned for Unity Week as a guest speaker. ELI HOUSER , DN

Two decorative aliens hang out of a rocket ship as part of the space-themed Latinxpalooza Jan. 21 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. ELI HOUSER, DN

Jarron Tichenor performs one of his original songs during the Latinxpalooza event Jan. 21 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. ELI HOUSER, DN

farmers market at minnetrista: indoor market Every third Saturday now through April; 9 a.m.–Noon Connect with local vendors and discover fresh produce, plants, baked goods, and more!

Belly dancers from the Belly Dance Club perform during the Latinxpalooza event Jan. 21 at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. Members from the Belly Dance Club performed twice at the Latinxpalooza event. ELI HOUSER, DN

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Andrew Luttrell analyzes the science behind opinions in his deep-dive podcast.

Sarah Olsen Reporter When he isn’t busy teaching in the classroom or working on his own research, Andy Luttrell, social psychologist and Ball State assistant professor of psychology, produces, hosts and edits his own podcast, “Opinion Science.”

Luttrell, a Chicago native, obtained his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Eastern Illinois University and his master’s and doctorate degrees in social psychology at Ohio State University. After teaching courses at his graduate alma mater and the College of Wooster, Luttrell came to Ball State in 2017.

Now, he spends much of his time putting together “Opinion Science,” the name for which he selected himself after much consideration.

“To call [the podcast] ‘Opinion Science’ is mostly getting at the idea that we can understand things like opinion scientifically,” Luttrell said. “I also like the juxtaposition of the word ‘opinion’ and the word ‘science.’ We often feel like these two things are different, but the show aims to integrate them together.”

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Although the initial idea for the podcast originated prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, production didn’t start until the virus had already entered the United States. Luttrell began releasing episodes in February 2020 — a month before the virus was declared a pandemic and began overwhelming most of the world. He then had a new abundance of downtime to continue his work.

“The pandemic was a real launchpad for lots of podcasts because people had the idea as a thing to keep themselves occupied,” Luttrell said. “Whereas my story was more like [the podcast] was something that, at that point, I was ready to start doing. It was a chance to start thinking about how people are coming to this health crisis from different perspectives.”

Luttrell said he tries to highlight various opinions on the podcast, and each episode includes either deep dives into single concepts or interviews regarding various psychological theories and people. The first episode featured Luttrell’s longtime mentee and graduate school friend Jake Teeny, assistant professor of marketing at Northwestern University and a current research partner of Luttrell.

“I’ve been on multiple podcasts now, but Dr. Luttrell’s podcast was by far my favorite experience,” Teeny said. “[‘Opinion Science’ is] the only psychology podcast I actually listen to these days. It’s really well done, and he has really informative and entertaining conversations with all sorts of psychologists.”

Although guests like Teeny are experts in their fields,

Luttrell said the audience doesn’t have to be.

Anyone from any field or level of education has the opportunity to listen to “Opinion Science,” as Luttrell produces the show with the goal of welcoming anyone passionate about psychology.

“The response [to the podcast] has been really great,” Luttrell said. “It’s reaching people out in the world, and it’s really exciting. I think we have hundreds of thousands of downloads on this thing. I hear from teachers from all over the place asking for information or transcripts to include in their classes.”

In addition to the audience being able to learn about psychological concepts and notable people in the field, Luttrell’s podcast gives him the opportunity to expand his own knowledge and abilities.

“I’ve learned that I can have conversations with people better than I would have anticipated,” Luttrell said. “To be able to just sit down one-on-one for an hour with some of these people is daunting, but I have grown a lot of confidence when jumping into conversations with people who I otherwise would have thought I couldn’t [talk to].”

Contact Sarah Olsen with comments at snolsen@bsu.edu.

[The podcast] was a chance to start thinking about how people are coming to this health crisis from different perspectives.”

- ANDY LUTTRELL, Social psychologist and host of “Opinion Science”

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EVOLUTIONARY NOT REVOLUTIONARY As the game and plays of basketball change, so does Ball State Women’s Basketball’s offensive approach.

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Women’s Basketball

Becki has career-high in Cardinals’ win Ball State defeated Miami (Ohio) 6764 Jan. 24. Freshman Ally Becki led the Cardinals in scoring with a careerhigh 19 points. She shot 3 of 6 from the 3-point line and led Ball State with three assists. Graduate student Chyna Latimer recorded her fifth consecutive game in double-figures with 17 points and had a doubledouble with 10 rebounds.

Men’s Basketball

Ball State defeats Miami (Ohio)

Kyle Smedley Reporter Faster.

More.

Faster. More.

Faster. More. Faster. More. Faster. More.

In his 10th season as head coach of Ball State Women’s Basketball, Brady Sallee hasn’t changed the game of basketball — he’s changed Ball State’s game of basketball.

“I’ve always felt like, if you stay the same, you’re getting worse,” Sallee said. “They say, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ I think sometimes you have to break it to build it back up and make it better.”

It’s an evolution, not a revolution, as the Cardinals turn to a “five-out” offense this season and do not label players by their positions. No more guards, forwards or centers. Instead, the Cardinals go by “crashers, backs and keys.”

For the Cardinals, players have adjusted as much as the coaching staff. Every Cardinal has learned a new style of offense, whether they’ve been with the program for years or are a freshman or transfer.

“I’m sure there were players who felt like a square peg fitting into a round hole with this offense at first,” Sallee said. “This group has done a great job looking at this change positively and realizing what it can do for their skill set.”

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The Cardinals beat the RedHawks 81-64 Jan. 25. Redshirt junior forward Miryne Thomas scored a career-high 26 points while freshman center Payton Sparks matched his career-high of 23 points. The Cardinals totaled a season-high 20 assists while outscoring the RedHawks 15-2 in fast-break points.

The Cardinals return to action against Northern Illinois Jan. 27.

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Cardinals add recruits to 2022-23 roster

Graduate student Chyna Latimer attempts a layup coming off of a fast break Jan. 24 at Worthen Arena. Latimer’s performance of 17 points and 10 rebounds helped the Cardinals hold back Miami (Ohio), winning 67-64. ELI HOUSER, DN

On Jan. 25, Ball State received commitments from two recruits: allaround Dilynn Blair of Palm Harbor University High School and all-around Leah White of Odyssey Charter School. Blair won the 2021 Acro for Autism Level 10 all-around with a score of 36.775 while White won the vault competition at the 2019 Region 1 Level 9 Regional Championships with a score of 9.825. Blair and White join the six members of the class who signed Nov. 12, 2021.

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TRUST THE PROCESS

Graduate student middle blocker Will Hippe hits the ball over the net against George Mason Jan. 21 at Worthen Arena.

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Cardinals aim for a MIVA title in first year under new coaching staff.

Daniel Kehn Reporter Some questions are easy to answer.

Who helps with travel?

Where’s the best place to grab a burger?

Where’s the bathroom?

Some questions take a little longer to reconcile.

What’s this team going to play like?

Where’s this team going?

How are you going to leave a legacy on this program?

It has only been six months since Ball State Men’s Volleyball head coach Donan Cruz arrived in Muncie, Indiana, and the Cardinals are 3-0 to start the 2022 season.

However, everything is still new, and everyone is still settling. Some questions will have to wait to be fully answered.

Despite their short time together, though, the Cardinals have chosen their Everest: their 15th Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (MIVA) Tournament championship.

Cruz said he knows beginning a new era will take time but believes the Cardinals can be successful during their first year with a new coaching staff and environment.

“It’s going to be a process for us,” Cruz said. “A lot of learning is happening, but the guys embraced the coaching staff, and we’ve tried to do our best and make sure we’re communicating with them on our objective.”

Cruz’s appointment follows the retirement of former head coach Joel Walton, who was at the helm for 23 seasons — accruing 403 wins, two MIVA Coach of the Year honors and a 2002 MIVA Tournament championship. This season, the Cardinals have an entirely new coaching staff, with assistant coaches Mike Iandolo and Christian Rupert joining Cruz for his first year in charge.

“We’re very appreciative of what Joel and the old staff did for us,” senior outside attacker Kaleb

Jenness said. “It’s great to have Donan here now with Mike and Christian. We’re all just really excited to see what they can do and see how far we can go and what we can achieve.”

Less than a month into the season, graduate student setter Quinn Isaacson said he’s seen renewed energy in the Cardinals.

“You can already see it in the six months [of preseason],” Isaacson said. “I kind of wish I was here for a couple more years so I could really experience it. These young guys really get a cool little year out of it. It’s a big change, and it’s going to really help.”

It’s very competitive. It’s a competitive gym every single day. We play to win, and you can see that on the court.”

- QUINN ISAACSON, Graduate student setter In the preseason, the Cardinals looked to solidify their fundamentals in the gym and on the court, and Cruz said his staff wanted to focus their players on adapting to new aspects of training that he hopes will help the team recenter on its end goal.

“One of the biggest things we try to emphasize in our gym is being open-minded to new concepts — that is for us, as a coaching staff, and for the guys, too,” Cruz said.

Jenness said the new coaching staff is focusing on emphasizing the fundamentals of the sport in the gym, focusing “more skills-wise, instead of playing.”

Ball State Men’s Volleyball players celebrate scoring a point against George Mason Jan. 21 at Worthen Arena. The Cardinals won the match 3-0. AMBER PIETZ, DN

09 After walking into a new gym full of new players on day one of preseason training and meeting his team for the first time in a training setting, Cruz said getting to know each player was the most important step in order to start on the right foot.

“It’s really been about making sure that we have good connections with our guys, to know our team and understand how important relationships are with them and building them up,” Cruz said. “A lot of our initial time and practices have been about getting to know the group and the more we [can] trust one another.”

Isaacson is in a completely new setup in his fifth and final year with the team. In new surroundings, he said the Cardinals’ hunger to win and competitive nature in the gym will be key for success on the court.

“There have been some times throughout the last couple of years [when] we’ve played teams and we’ve wavered a little bit,” Isaacson said. “That isn’t allowed in this gym …

It’s very competitive. It’s a competitive gym every single day. We play to win and you can see that on the court.”

After finishing the 2021 regular season 11-8 (8-5

MIVA), the Cardinals lost to Lewis, the eventual MIVA Tournament champion, in the 2021 MIVA Tournament semifinals April 17 and went unranked in National Volleyball Association (NVA)/American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) polls following a 15th place preseason ranking Dec. 20.

“We’re focused,” Isaacson said. “We know there are some teams ahead of us that aren’t as good as us — we know that for sure. But we’ve got to prove it. We haven’t done anything [in the] last couple of years to really set that tone …We’ve got to find a way to really push through so we can prove that to everyone in the room.”

Despite a new coaching staff and a new generation for the Cardinals, their end goal remains the same: a MIVA title.

“We’re very hungry, and we’re fiery,” Jenness said.

“We’re ready to get some good wins this year, [and] we’re ready to see how far we go. We’re going through [to] the MIVA finals.”

Contact Daniel Kehn with comments at daniel.kehn@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @daniel_kehn.

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Senior middle blocker Felix Egharevba (11) hits the ball over the net against George Mason Jan. 21 at Worthen Arena. Egharevba had six kills during the match. AMBER PIETZ, DN

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Junior Sydney Freeman described this offense as “completely new” — one she realizes lets the Cardinals play to their strengths, like Sallee hinted. “[The system was] a big adjustment because you can do so many different things,” Freeman said. “At first, it was hard to score because we didn’t really know the system. But now, we’re getting the hang of it, and you’re seeing it work really well. I think it gives everyone an opportunity to score.”

This season, Ball State has accomplished what Freeman outlined: giving an opportunity for multiple players to score. The Cardinals have created a balanced scoring attack, averaging 70.6 points per game with a 43 percent field-goal

They say, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ I think sometimes you have to break it to build it back up and make it better.”

- BRADY SALLEE, Ball State Women’s Basketball head coach

Sophomore Ivet Subirats (13) attempts a layup while guarded by a Miami (Ohio) player Jan. 24 at Worthen Arena. Subirats finished the game with nine points, three rebounds and two assists. ELI HOUSER, DN

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percentage heading into their game Jan. 26 against Buffalo.

After beginning her collegiate career at George Washington University in 2017 before transferring to the University of Delaware in 2020, graduate transfer Chayna Latimer said her previous teams used a more “traditional” offensive approach in comparison to the Cardinals. She said Ball State’s “five-out” offense creates more opportunities for her and her teammates.

“I think what we’re built upon is everyone is able to play every spot,” Latimer said. “With my basketball IQ, it’s helped the team think on the fly and get others open as well as ourselves.”

With the Cardinals’ blend of upperclassmen and newcomers, Latimer said it has taken time to develop their new system, but it’s something she’s experienced before.

“I think, like any team, you have to get used to each other

and get a feel for how we all play,” Latimer said. “It helped us get outside our comfort zone and get uncomfortable on the court and have to work. I feel you can apply that off the court as well.”

In a game that used to be dominated by inside scoring (the NBA’s two top all-time scoring leaders are over 6-foot-9 in Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone), basketball has evolved into a sport featuring 3-point centered, explosive offensive attacks. In Sallee’s first season at Ball State, the Cardinals made 152-of-520 3-point shots in 33 games.

Through 19 games this season, the Cardinals have made 161of-504 3-point shots as of Jan. 26 at 7 p.m.

Assistant coach Audrey McDonald-Spencer, 2010 Ball State alumna and former Ball State Women’s Basketball player, believes the system change is part of the game’s evolution.

“Analytics say you should be shooting threes and getting to the rim,” McDonald-Spencer said. “The mid-range game is kind of a thing of the past.”

Last offseason, Sallee and McDonald-Spencer outlined a plan and determined areas of improvement, be it recruiting needs or a potential system change like what last offseason brought. McDonald-Spencer said the Cardinals gravitated toward their new system this offseason, recruiting more versatile players to fit the new style.

“You see a kid like Ally Becki come in, and she can create for others and herself,” McDonald-Spencer said. “She can shoot threes, and she can get it to the rim. With her and Syd on the floor, we can play fast.”

Sallee said he’s been pleased with how quickly Ball State has adjusted to its new system, as well as his coaching staff.

“It didn’t take long — I think [the players] saw what it can do,” Sallee said. “They’ve done a great job breaking it down and making it easier for the players to understand.”

Latimer, Freeman, McDonald-Spencer and Sallee said they believe Ball State has what it takes to get where they all want to go: Cleveland for a Mid-American Conference Championship and possible NCAA Tournament berth.

“I think there’s more work to be done,” Latimer said.

“We’ve been close in a lot of games, but at the end of the day, we want to win these games.”

Sallee said he wants himself and his players to focus on one game at a time and improve after each game, win or loss.

“For us, it’s centered around whether we can be better on Saturday than we were on Wednesday,” Sallee said.

“It’s really that simple.”

Contact Kyle Smedley with comments at kyle.smedley@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @smedley1932.

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Bryant wins his fifth NBA title and is named the NBA Finals MVP

The Kobe Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation is founded.

The Lakers retire both of Bryant’s jersey numbers, No. 8 and No. 24.

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• Stand Up to Cancer

• National Museum of African American History and Culture

• The Kobe Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation

• Boys & Girls Clubs

In addition to being an 18-time NBA All-Star, Kobe made impacts in the community in countless ways, including being a supporter and donor to the following organizations:

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CARDINALS WIN REDBIRD RIVALRY Ball State totals season-high 20 assists in win against Miami (Ohio).

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Freshman center Payton Sparks dunks the ball against the RedHawks Jan. 25 at Worthen Arena. Sparks scored 23 points during the game.

Sophomore guard Tyler Cochran dribbles the ball towards the net against Miami (Ohio) Jan. 25 at Worthen Arena. Cochran scored 10 points during the game.

Redshirt freshman forward Mickey Pearson Jr. prepares to dunk the ball against Miami (Ohio) Jan. 25 at Worthen Arena.

Freshman guard Luke Brown looks to pass to one of his teammates against the RedHawks Jan. 25 at Worthen Arena.

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Baking

Thrift Culture: Hunt For Hidden Gems According to a ThredUp sales report, more than 40 percent of shoppers at thrift stores are from Generation Z, slowly making thrifting part of their culture. A number of customers visit Walter Lynn’s shop Caldwell’s Antique Mall and Flea Market to see what types of alternative clothing and furniture items they can score.

“It’s an experience you can’t get online,” Lynn said.

HER WAY Muncie native works to open her bakery, Casey’s Cakes.

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Honoring a long celebrated tradition Casey Toomey uses a cookie cutter to form shapes for her sugar cookies Nov. 17, 2021. Toomey said customers of Casey’s Cakes frequently order decorated sugar cookies, custom cakes and cinnamon rolls. SUMAYYAH MUHAMMAD, DN Sumayyah Muhammad Reporter Casey Toomey’s grandma, Carolyn, baked cakes — “beautiful cakes with royal icing flowers” — to celebrate family and friends. She never sold them. It was her gift to those she loved.

When Toomey was 7 years old, she watched Carolyn bake a cake decorated with little pink and blue booties for a friend’s baby shower. Her grandma looked away from the cake, and Toomey stretched out her arms to touch the booties.

“Don’t touch that,” Carolyn scolded.

Even though her grandma didn’t allow Toomey to assist with the baking, Toomey watched and learned. She later read books about baking and watched YouTube channels like Sugar Geek Show and How To Cake It. Toomey started baking cakes for her son’s 1st birthday in 2010. After baking her son’s first birthday cake — a miniature three-tier cake — baking cakes became a regular hobby.

“Everybody always said my cakes looked

It was a risk, but I had more enjoyment baking cakes than going to a job where I couldn’t do whatever I wanted.”

- CASEY TOOMEY, Casey’s Cakes owner

really nice, but looking back at them, they were kind of rough,” said Toomey, Ivy Tech early childhood education graduate and owner of Casey’s Cakes.

Part-time baker In 2013, Toomey’s friend, Nicole, asked her to bake a baby shower cake, and word of mouth eventually launched her baking business.

Toomey worked full-time at Head Start, a Muncie preschool, as a center aide for about four years while she baked cakes on the side.

Toomey said working and pursuing her hobby became overwhelming. While working at Head Start, being a part-time baker and raising her son, Toomey said she would sometimes get two to three orders a week. In January 2018, Toomey decided to quit her job at Head Start to become a fulltime baker.

“It was a risk, but I had more enjoyment baking cakes than going to a job where I couldn’t do whatever I wanted,” Toomey said. “I don’t really like people bossing me around.”

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Many high schools around the nation celebrate homecoming — a time filled with celebration, unity and school pride. The first high school homecoming occurred around 1910 and was a time when alumni came back to their high school grounds, reliving memories and seeing their old school in a new light.

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A bulletin of Anderson’s work Wes Anderson’s movie “The French Dispatch” differs in storytelling techniques compared to his previous movies but still captures the essence of art. After a newspaper editor dies of a heart attack, journalists at the paper have to put together a final edition, revisiting previous stories and reminiscing on the past.

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Continued from Page 12 At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Toomey was pregnant with her third son and baking full-time. Unlike most businesses who shut down due to COVID-19 concerns, Toomey ran Casey’s Cakes from her home and said it “took off” as people were staying at home. She even ventured beyond cakes to prepare meals for people who didn’t want to go to restaurants.

“I would make homemade egg noodles, and people were at home ordering that,” Toomey said.

“I remember, at one point, I had my porch just filled with everybody’s bags and names.”

Because of the added stress, Toomey said she gave birth to her son, Jonah, at 34 weeks in May 2020.

“My mom would come over and she’d be like, ‘Come sit down. You can’t keep doing this.’ I’m like, ‘I have 50, 60 orders that I have to fill in,’” Toomey said. “It was really busy.”

Shantal Thompson, Head Start family services coordinator, met Toomey when they worked together at the preschool. Thompson said she first started buying items like house decorations and rice bags infused with oils from Toomey in 2016 but started regularly buying cakes for kids’ birthdays and special events in 2019.

At the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, Toomey hosted an online cookie baking class, which Thompson and her family attended.

“Casey is so easy to work with,” Thompson said. “It isn’t just about the flavor, but the time and energy she puts into making everything ‘just right.’”

Casey’s Cakes In January 2021, Toomey decided to open a bakery named Casey’s Cakes. She asked her friend, Carrie Johnson, owner of Forever Baked — a bakery formerly known as Curry’s Sweets and Treats in Muncie — if she wanted to run the business with her. Johnson and Toomey both went to Southside High School but didn’t build a close relationship until they ran into each other selling desserts at Muncie farmers markets, Johnson said.

“We had been talking quite a bit because we

were both pregnant and had three kids and always joked about opening a bakery together,” Johnson said. “She asked me and, without a doubt, I said yes. What made me want to run a business with her is just how hardworking she is and how much faith I had in us succeeding.”

After researching how to open a business in Muncie, Toomey met Ted Baker, CEO and director of the Muncie Innovation Connector.

Baker, who has guided hundreds of entrepreneurs to success, empowered Toomey to “go for it”.

“We did a few Zoom calls, and he had me come in and he heard my story and was like, ‘I really think that you can do this,’” Toomey said.

When Toomey had a meeting to pitch the idea of her business with city officials, she said they didn’t think her business would be successful because they didn’t believe she would bring in enough money. Upset with the outcome, Toomey said, Baker figured out a way for Toomey to receive a small loan through Innovation Connector the following week.

“I went into maybe six or seven meetings there with [Baker], going back and forth,” Toomey said. “He helped me with so many spreadsheets and making phone calls and jumping through hoops.”

The future Casey’s Cakes opened its doors last October at 7300 N. Walnut St., directly behind a residential house. Although the business is not fully open yet, Toomey and Johnson bake at the location, and customers can pick up their online orders at the door.

Johnson and Toomey said they plan to add a few more pieces of structure to their bakery before they officially open to the public.

Toomey said she looks forward to having a steadier workload when the bakery officially opens sometime this spring.

“I cannot wait to see my customers’ [from Forever Baked] faces again,” Johnson said.

“Especially with COVID, it has definitely taken away the time spent with them.”

Contact Sumayyah Muhammad with comments at smuhammad3@bsu.edu or on Twitter @sumayyah0114.

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Andy Shears opened the Muncie Map Company to push for more pride in the Muncie community.

Maya Wilkins Lifestyles Editor “Do well by doing good.”

Ben Franklin’s historic quote shapes the Muncie Map Company’s mission, seeking projects and jobs that benefit the Muncie community. Andy Shears, owner of the Muncie Map Company, is a Muncie native and a Ball State alumnus, and always wanted to give back to the community after leaving his former career as a professor.

“I got tired of academia. I didn’t enjoy it at all,” Shears said. “So the question was, ‘What do I do next?’ The thing that kept coming up was moving back to Muncie and doing something completely different from academia. I like making maps, and I’m trained as a cartographer, and so making a map shop made sense.”

Shears founded the Muncie Map Company in 2017, which he started by selling maps out of the back of his car at the Muncie Makers Market. He opened the brick-and-mortar storefront at 111. E. Adams St. in 2018 and has been operating there ever since.

In addition to maps, the store also sells map artwork, globes and “Muncie-centric” goods, such as apparel, stickers, buttons and greeting cards.

Shears said he wanted to add more of a “placecentric vibe” to the store because he believes Muncie has suffered his entire life.

“We’re the industrial Midwest. Our population peaked in 1980, and it’s been sinking since then,” Shears said. “We have very little civic pride or

We try to do good in community and go with the Ben Franklin quote, ‘Do well by doing good.’ He was focused on trying to do well for his community, and he said if you do well for your community, prosperity follows, and your community will take care of you in return.”

- ANDY SHEARS, Muncie Map Company owner pride in our place, so we’ve tried to remedy that.”

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, the Muncie Map Company created

Sun shines through a mural on the front window of Muncie Map Company Jan. 25 in downtown Muncie. In addition to helping customers with map orders, the company offers a variety of Muncie-focused merchandise. RYLAN CAPPER, DN a website and accepts some orders online, but it hasn’t always been that way.

“Before the pandemic, we did a lot of markets and events, ” Shears said. “That was how we got our name in the community in the first place.”

When businesses moved solely online in 2020, Shears said he and his staff had to do everything “in a panic” and put together a website with options to pay online, which the company is still putting together and perfecting today.

The Muncie Map Company also does online advertising and promotions, including a tournament they ran several springs in a row encouraging customers to choose from multiple designs to put on a shirt. Shears also said the company relies on its reputation in the community to help the business flourish and grow.

“We try to do good in the community and go with the Ben Franklin quote, ‘Do well by doing good,’” he said. “[Franklin] was focused on trying to do well for his community, and he said if you do well for your community, prosperity follows, and your community will take care of you in return.”

Jannell Summers, Muncie Map Company shop manager, said working at the company has helped her develop more pride in Muncie and the surrounding area.

“When I first started here, I was pretty down on Muncie,” she said. “But when you learn the history of the place, and you talk to the people day after day, it’s hard not to love it … This community has shown me that, when you just really try to do good work, your community will usually try to take care of you.”

Summers said she has been working for the Muncie Map Company since the beginning of the pandemic.

She became interested in working for the company because it gave her an opportunity to learn more about Adobe Creative Suite. Since she started, she’s helped create the online order form process for the store.

Summers said her day starts by checking orders customers have placed. Then, she works to communicate with each of them and make sure she is designing the items they ordered in the way they want. Customers can come into the store, so she spends time with them and posts on the company’s social media platforms daily.

“All kinds of weird, wild projects and people walk through the door,” she said. “It can be a very normal day, and we can just take care of business, or a new project or person can walk through the door and anything can happen.”

Some days, the Muncie Map Company has the help of Emily Wallace, an intern and Ball State alumna. Like Shears, Wallace thought she would want to pursue a career in the education industry but realized that wasn’t where her passion laid.

“After working at other small businesses downtown, I [worked at the Muncie Map Company] and was like, ‘Hey, this is what I’m supposed to be doing. This is where I’m supposed to be,’” Wallace said.

Wallace said she loves working at the company because of the diverse groups of customers who place orders, whether it be Muncie locals or people from all over the world.

Neither Wallace nor Summers had a background in mapmaking before they began working at the Muncie Map Company, and both had to give themselves a “crash course” in geography because neither of them are trained cartographers. Even though they now know more about the practice than before, the company still relies on Shears to create the maps.

“We have less to do with the maps and more to do with the retail, design and social media aspects of [the store],” Summers said. “We actually manufacture all of our buttons, all of our stickers and all of our magnets here in the shop with small mechanical devices.”

Shears said the orders for each customer depend

Colorful signs direct customers into Muncie Map Company Jan. 25 in downtown Muncie. RYLAN CAPPER, DN on what they want, with some geared toward a wide audience, like their “Ultimate Muncie” map that has sold almost 600 copies. The store also accepts custom orders, such as maps of different properties in Muncie.

Wallace said she enjoys looking at the custom orders and seeing what people come up with, like one woman who saw an old railroad map of Muncie and got the idea to make a map linking where she was from and where her husband was from. Their wedding vows surrounded the path.

“It was so cute,” Wallace said. “Taking anything and making it more meaningful and including that sense of place, you get to learn more about the people in your community. It’s definitely made it my favorite part of working here.”

Shears believes the Muncie community needs to look more at the city’s past rather than its future and see where it has come from, especially when he remembers a time where he felt like no one wanted to admit to liking Muncie.

“Muncie needs more pride in itself,” he said.

“What have I liked about [owning this business]?

Meeting lots of people and helping lots of people, but also, helping people realize that if they’re proud of our city, they’re not alone.”

Contact Maya Wilkins with comments at mrwilkins@bsu.edu or on Twitter @mayawilkinss.

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Columnist, “Soapbox”

Theta Chi returning to campus after their 2018 suspension will stain Ball State’s standing.

Grayson Joslin is a freshman political science major and writes “Soapbox” for The Daily News. He is also a senator for Ball State’s Student Government Association. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

In the 1980s, Playboy ranked Ball State the 18th best party school in the nation.

From that point on, Ball State’s reputation as a hub for parties was cemented. That perception would be put front and center on a warm October morning in 2018, when a cornerstone of Greek Life at Ball State was put under scrutiny.

On Oct. 3, the national Theta Chi fraternity revoked the Ball State chapter’s charter after multiple incidents, including a sexual assault, were reported at the Theta Chi house at 1100 W. Riverside Ave. The university immediately withdrew recognition of the Theta Chi chapter.

The oldest brotherhood on campus, with more than 185,000 national lifetime members, would not be able to form a new chapter on Ball State’s campus any earlier than the fall 2021 semester.

The clock has now struck midnight on the suspension, and the once-suspended fraternity has made what it desires clear: Theta Chi wants to come back to Ball State.

Ball State’s administration faces an important decision, and how they react will send a clear message to students and faculty regarding how fraternities will be disciplined in the future.

Growing up 30 minutes from Muncie, a point that always came up when I told people I was applying to Ball State was the reputation the university gained as a party school.

I saw how American culture portrayed fraternity life: kegs, hazing and juvenile behavior. This reputation was hammered home in movies like “Animal House” and “Neighbors,” which showcased a variety of mischievous activities and culture.

Combine that notion with Ball State’s standing as a rowdy party school, and my mind was made up before getting to campus — I was not going to join a fraternity.

Let’s be clear: I have no hostile bias toward Greek Life here at Ball State. I understand the impact they have on our campus — there are bountiful opportunities to build leadership skills and to associate with a brotherhood of men with similar ideals. But, at the end of the day, I have different ideals than them. The clean-cut, professional image these Greek

Life organizations sell to incoming students during rush week hides what I have come to understand as a dark underbelly of hazing, sexual assault, secrecy, elitism and — in some unfortunate circumstances — death.

These incidents in Greek Life have affected many colleges in the past — including Ball State.

In October 2017, the Interfraternity Council announced it would suspend social

If Ball State accepts Theta Chi’s attempt to come back and reestablish a new chapter, Ball State’s administration will be setting a dangerous precedent for Greek Life organizations.”

gatherings until Jan. 31, 2018, for its member fraternities. The reasoning was that their actions “stemmed from behaviors that do not represent the Beneficence Pledge,” according to a letter sent out following the decision. This decision was in response to 51 reports of sexual assault, fighting, hazing and other behaviors to the Office of Student Life between August and October 2017. The end of this suspsension came only

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eight months before Theta Chi was suspended.

Andrew Walker, senior communications strategist for Ball State, said in an email, “Theta Chi is in the process of recolonizing and is in the process of seeking recognition as a student organization by the University [sic].”

Walker also said Theta Chi officially coming back to campus and being confirmed as a member of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) “will be dependent on their recognition as a student organization and by the IFC.” Theta Chi representatives first presented to the senators of Ball State’s Student Government Association (SGA) Oct. 20, 2021. The representatives announced their intentions to form a new chapter on campus and stressed the ideals of the “Resolute Man,” the personification of the morals and integrity of Theta Chi. I heard about Theta Chi’s suspension before I came to Ball State and became an SGA senator. I learned about it and pondered the possible ramifications the suspension could have on the university.

When Theta Chi representatives came to present to SGA, they stressed their image of the fraternity, which they described as focused on philanthropy and dignity. However, based on what I learned about the fraternity’s past, I would argue the image the Theta Chi representatives shared was misleading.

To an even greater surprise of mine, representatives failed to acknowledge that they were suspended three years earlier. After their presentation, I asked the representatives how they would stress and emphasize accountability and responsibility within Theta Chi. The answer they gave was a non-answer in my opinion, as they put aside the question of accountability to talk up their “Resolute Man” program once more.

It wasn’t just my question they avoided answering directly. In response to another question from a fellow senator, the representatives said they “understand where they’re coming from, and I want to show them that this new group of guys can be exactly what this campus needs,” without putting forward any specific plans or additional information regarding how this “new group of guys” will be any different than the last.

Overall, the representatives’ responses sounded like public relations talk lacking a sincere commitment to accountability. If they cannot provide proof of a positive change, how can they expect hesitant students to trust that their return would be a good thing?

If Ball State accepts Theta Chi’s attempt to come back and reestablish a new chapter, Ball State’s administration will be setting a dangerous precedent for Greek Life organizations. It seems Ball State is sending the message that if a fraternity or sorority harms their own image and that of the university, then it can take advantage of the lax accountability that can let them come back without earning their return.

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There is no concrete public system to deal with Greek Life misconduct at Ball State. This means when tackling a fraternity or sorority who has broken the rules, it is the Wild West when it comes to how to reprimand them. However, solutions can be put in place for extraordinary circumstances, as shown with the suspension of social activities by the IFC in October 2017.

Even more alarming, many fraternities, including Theta Chi, place a premium on secrecy to ensure the confidentiality of certain aspects of their brotherhood. When approaching Theta Chi’s website, trying to access their constitution and bylaws brings up a page that shows these documents are only available when logged into a myThetaChi account.

It is not just their governing documents that are shrouded in secrecy. Currently, viewing the statement announcing the suspension by the national headquarters on any media outlet redirects to a private server with no option to move forward. By prioritizing secrecy, Theta Chi was diminishing their “dedication” to accountability and sending the message that brotherhood is more important than transparency.

This lack of transparency is one of many variables that can lead to some terrifying situations that may take place without any public outcry as consequence. Hank Nuwer, professor at Franklin College and writer dedicated to the history of fraternity hazing and abuse, found that there has been a hazing death related to a college fraternity chapter in the United States every year from 1959 until 2019.

Though Ball State has not had a hazing death in the university’s history, these statistics represent the risk inherent to excusing bad behavior.

Based on how Theta Chi’s attempted return is

playing out, it seems as though Theta Chi is hoping that Ball State will say bad behavior has the potential to be excusable.

I welcome this approach of greater penalties for Greek Life organizations after decades of leniency. Ball State’s current administration, and Greek Life governing administrations in the past, has taken actions to ensure the safety of students in response to unsafe situations in Greek Life.

After Lambda Chi Alpha’s suspension from campus in late 2004, the fraternity waited until March 2011 to be officially reinstated on campus.

What did Theta Chi do so differently that made their suspension shorter?

Ball State’s administration must keep the safety of students in mind if it wants to consider letting Theta Chi back on campus.

In order to restore faith for the student body, the administration must put together a system that will allow for more transparency and accountability in Greek Life. I believe Ball State needs to be more transparent with Greek Life organizations on campus; the university and the Greek Life governing associations need to work together to institute a system of accountability.

We must invest in a system that puts safety first because the current system does not fully protect students, and it did not prevent Theta Chi from wanting to return to campus. I believe new guidelines need to be implemented in order to prevent this situation from happening.

It will take some time to see if Theta Chi has learned from its mistakes, so what purpose does it serve to bring them back onto campus before they’ve shown a willingness to change?

Bringing Theta Chi back on campus could bring a risk of more unfortunate incidents, and another incident is something with the potential to leave another mark on Ball State’s reputation.

Contact Grayson Joslin with comments at grayson.joslin@bsu.edu or on Twitter @GraysonMJoslin.

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