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Never satisfied: Cardinals’ seniors discuss evolution as leaders 07

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Nate Howard walks alongside one of his colleagues on a nature trail in Latin America. Howard spent 17 years in Latin America — two learning more about the area and 15 working for multiple non-governmental organizations. NATE HOWARD, PHOTO PROVIDED; MAGGIE GETZIN, PHOTO ILLUSTRATION

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Nate Howard has never taught a class at Ball State or at the university level, but he has 17 years of experience in Latin America that prepared him for instructing his first college course.

Since 2006, Howard has been studying and working for multiple nongovernmental organizations and learning about different countries and their cultures. He worked for the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) for nine years and then started the Utz Kaslimaal Collective in Guatemala in 2015 and the Wajaro Foundation in Colombia in 2016.

“They have what is called a ‘Seed Program,’ which is a two-year [program],” Howard said. “It’s almost like a Peace Corps program where graduates from a university spend two years doing some kind of grassroots service. The program combines education, learning and service at the same time.”

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Track and field hires new head coach from UNC

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Aug. 20 Adrian Wheatley will

serve as the new head coach of Ball State Track and Field/Cross Country.

Wheatley has spent 17 years as an assistant and associate head coach, including at the University of North Carolina, University of Illinois and University of Virginia. Over his coaching career, Wheatley has coached 77 All-Americans and 31 conference champions.

Cardinals claim victory FDA fully approves in exhibition match Pfizer vaccine for use Aug. 21 Ball State Women’s

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Volleyball notched a 3-1 win over Purdue Fort Wayne in its lone exhibition match. The Cardinals played 16 different players, with junior outside hitter Natalie Mitchem leading the group with 15 kills.

Graduate transfer outside hitter Jaclyn Bulmahn also notched the double-digit mark with 12 kills in her Ball State debut on the court.

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Aug. 23 The U.S. Food and

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Escape Muncie opens its second location in Blue Heron Plaza.

UPD Lt. Terrell Smith retires after 30 years Officer Lt. Terrell Smith finished his last shift with the University Police Department (UPD) Aug. 20, officially beginning his retirement. Smith worked as a UPD officer for 30 years, and Ball State held a campuswide reception for his retirement in Worthen Arena Aug. 17.

Jennifer and Bruce Everetts sit in the lobby of The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude — Escape Muncie’s newest location — Aug. 23. The lobby features 1920s-themed decor to set the scene for the escape rooms. GRACE MCCORMICK, DN Lauren Clark Reporter Jennifer Everetts never planned to own an escape room, but when she went on a family trip to Cincinnati in December 2015, she surprised her six grown children with an escape room adventure — something new for her family.

“The kids kept talking about it and were saying, ‘Muncie needs an escape room. We need an escape room in Muncie,’” Everetts said.

“And I said, ‘Yeah, that would be a fun thing — somebody ought to do that’ — and I didn’t really think it would be us.”

About eight months later, in July 2016, Everetts found herself opening the original Escape Muncie building in the Blue Heron Plaza on North Pauline Avenue. She said she gave the idea some thought, and, after brainstorming with her son, Andrew Everetts, came up with room themes for visitors to solve puzzles in a designated time frame with their groups.

Jennifer Everetts said she wanted a stable fundraiser to support her and her husband’s nonprofit Journey Home Jamaica, which is what inspired her to buy the Blue Heron Plaza and open Escape Muncie. The ministry, founded in 2011, serves foster and orphaned children and women in distress in Jamaica.

“That’s primarily why we opened to begin

with, because we had Journey Home Jamaica established, and we were taking teams over and we were taking trips and stuff, but raising money to do nonprofit work like that takes a lot of work,” she said. “We were trying to brainstorm ways to have fundraisers that weren’t as hard as car washes and that kind of work, but that we would see a return on. So we had the idea to open an escape room and use the funds for the ministry.”

Everetts knew the Blue Heron Plaza buildings

I thought this could be fun if it was a fundraiser that was open all the time that people could come to all the time and come back to again and again.”

- JENNIFER EVERETTS, Escape Muncie owner

were vacant because her husband, Bruce Everetts, worked in the Taylor Architects building next door as a partner and project architect. The two of them together bought the plaza buildings at once and had been working on a new building name and themed escape rooms for years after the original Escape Muncie opened. They came

up with The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude, Muncie’s newest escape room adventure.

“People had played all four of our games, and they were begging for more,” Everetts said. “It takes two or three months to really work out a game to make sure that it actually works. So instead of changing out our rooms, we decided to purchase another building.”

While they wanted to open The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude last year, Jennifer Everetts said the couple took time off from the project during the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to open the second location in June 2021, coinciding with Escape Muncie’s fifth anniversary. With the success and repeat customers Escape Muncie has seen, Everetts said she is encouraged for the future of The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude and excited for the opportunity to support multiple charities beyond her own.

“I thought this could be fun if it was a fundraiser that was open all the time that people could come to all the time and come back to again and again,” Everetts said. “Once you’ve established it, you don’t have to do all the work.”

Everetts wants to grow Escape Muncie’s community presence by hosting “Food Truck Fridays” and other events in the parking lot, and she is considering sponsoring a community mural across the outside of the Blue Heron Plaza involving Ball State art students.

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Indiana

Miracle Ride for Riley returned Aug. 22 The 27th annual Miracle Ride for Riley, an event where thousands of motorcycle riders gather in Indianapolis to support Riley Hospital for Children, took place Aug. 22 after last year’s event was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns. The Miracle Ride Foundation has donated $6.8 million to Riley since 1993.

Community

Local women honored in community event The Coalition of Women’s Organizations hosted its 29th annual Women’s Equality Day program Aug. 25. The event honored six women who have made significant contributions to the Muncie community and celebrated the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

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GOING THE DISTANCE Anatomy of an e-bike

E-bikes share many of the same attributes as a traditional bike, but they are usually heavier due to the added weight of a battery and motor. Power controls help riders determine how fast they want the motor to go, and suspension aids in ensuring e-bike users don’t feel all of the bumps in a rough terrain.

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Ball State researcher finds support for active commuting on e-bikes.

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im Peterman, Ball State research associate in the Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, said he has found cycling enjoyable ever since he started racing as a student in middle school.

“I’m not sure there was anything in particular that really caught my eye about racing, other than that it was a lot of fun,” Peterman said. “I do remember that my first race was really painful but still a lot of fun.”

Years after being introduced to cycling, Peterman decided to pursue a doctorate degree in physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder to learn how to improve his performance.

While later competing at the semi-professional level as a graduate student, Peterman wanted to study how cycling could improve the physical fitness of people who weren’t used to regular exercise routines as part of his dissertation.

Peterman said he previously studied passive cycling, where a motor moves a person’s legs for them on a modified exercise bike, as well as desk cycles — stationary bikes placed under work desks to pedal in place. From 2014–15, Peterman studied electric battery-powered bikes with pedal assistance, monitoring fitness variables of 20 volunteer study participants in Boulder, Colorado.

The participants used e-bikes to commute at least three days per week for a total of at least 120 minutes each week over a fourweek period.

When the study began, Peterman said he and his research team only had two e-bikes, so they could only monitor two volunteers at a time before they secured more funding for an additional four bikes. The study was partially funded by the Boulder city government, local bike shops and other industry donors.

“The e-bike study was a lot of fun because it was outside, so a lot of people would call it ‘true cycling,’” Peterman said. “Certainly, one

of the more fun things I did with my advisers was we had to test out a variety of e-bikes before buying them, so that was a lot of fun — trying a bunch of different ones.”

The e-bikes Peterman’s research team chose had a maximum assistance level of 20 miles per hour, so participants could only travel above that speed without the help of the e-bike motor.

While Peterman said there are plenty of different brands of e-bikes in the United States now, they have gained popularity over the past 10 years.

“It’s only recently that [e-bikes] started to take off,” he said.

“They really took off in Europe around 2012 or 2013. We started to see a little bit of research on them, and that’s also what motivated us to do this study — these bikes just became available and were kind of the new technology.”

Peterman said he enrolled people for the study by reaching out to Colorado businesses to post recruitment messages online and

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Muscles developed in cycling workouts

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All study participants voluntarily completed more than the minimum required minutes on the e-bikes and, according to the study, rode the bikes at a moderate intensity.

“Regarding intensity, we were talking about how hard the participants were working, not the bike motor,” Peterman said. “They were cycling at a moderate intensity, and it’s this intensity that helped them meet the physical activity recommendations.”

While his study on e-bikes as a physically active transportation mode was published in 2016, Peterman said it has received multiple citations in other studies. A July 2021 article in the Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) Co-op Journal listed his research as proof e-bikes make exercising for longer periods of time easier for people.

“You can put on a bike rack, you can carry a bunch of stuff, and, because you have that motor assistance — even if you load the bike down with bags and groceries or whatnot — it doesn’t feel harder,” he said. “It makes it easier for you to be willing to ride to the store or to work.”

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The other great thing with an e-bike is they’re just a lot of fun — it’s fun being able to go a little bit quicker than you normally would without trying quite as hard. It’s hard not to have a smile on your face when you’re riding with a tailwind and when your entire ride is like that, it’s a lot of fun.”

-JIM PETERMAN, Ball State research associate in the Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being

manufacturers now often build batteries into the frame, rather than mounting them on the back or center of the bike.

Knowing about e-bikes, Peterman said, may encourage people to become more physically active.

“The e-bike is great because it’s like riding with a tailwind,” he said.

“It makes everything substantially easier, but what we showed in our study was you’re still getting exercise. You’re still raising your heart rate and getting to that zone that’s associated with health benefits.”

Matt Harber, director of the clinical exercise physiology laboratory in Ball State’s Human Performance Lab, said having e-bikes available as transportation might encourage people to make time to exercise during their commutes.

“Most people look for every excuse not to exercise, and, if you’re not used to exercising, it’s not easy,” Harber said. “A lot of times, if it’s not easy and enjoyable, people are less likely to do it. In general, we look for any option that’s going to increase a person’s compliance to exercise.”

In addition to the ease and convenience of using e-bikes, Peterman said, e-bikes can add joy to riders’ days.

“The other great thing with an e-bike is they’re just a lot of fun — it’s fun being able to go a little bit quicker than you normally would without trying quite as hard,” he said. “It’s hard not to have a smile on your face when you’re riding with a tailwind and when your entire ride is like that, it’s a lot of fun.”

Harber said e-bikes can also be helpful for people who might be overweight or who find cycling workouts difficult.

“One of the unique things about cycling is it uses a specific muscle group, so people who aren’t used to exercising can fatigue very easily while cycling because it’s very localized,” Harber said. “That in itself could be a deterrent, so that’s where an e-bike, which can provide assistance to help people exercise more, may be a good alternative.”

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Nate Howard uses his experiences to teach new elective.

Howard had not taught before, but his master’s degree in international economic development from Eastern University in Philadelphia prepared him to be in charge of the Seed Program for the MCC in Colombia from 2012-15, where he helped teach and structure the program for students. He also was in charge of the Hurricane Stan relief program in Guatemala and El Salvador from 2006-08 and a rural development program in San Marcos, Guatemala, from 2008-12.

Now, Howard is back in the United States, teaching Ball State’s new Community Building and Latin America course in the Department of Urban Planning. The course uses Howard’s experiences to explain how Indigenous groups live in Latin America and looks at how Western worldview impacts the way they live.

HOW TO ENROLL IN PLAN 498/598 Students have until Aug. 29 to enroll in the Community Building and Latin America course. The course meets Mondays at 6:30 p.m. in Architecture Building room 310, and students of all majors are welcome to enroll. Undergraduate students can sign up for the course PLAN 498, and graduate students can sign up for PLAN 598.

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“A flourishing rural sector is kind of one of the things that suffer as a result of that model,” Howard said. “[The course will also] focus on what it would look like for us to learn from Indigenous countries in Latin America and show where these worldviews clash.”

Howard also said the course will explain why there’s “massive amounts” of Central Americans migrating to the United States, why there are problems with “megacities” in Latin America and the failed imperialist models in countries like Venezuela and Cuba.

He is planning on hosting two or three guest lectures for the course via Skype, which will be from Indigenous people he met while working in Latin America. He also plans on having students meet with three or four people over Zoom, most of them being Indigenous leaders.

Howard said he will have in-class lectures and some required reading, but the class will heavily emphasize student participation.

“We don’t have required texts — it will just be things that I have read over the years or things that really hit the nail on the head to have a really good class discussion,” Howard said. “It’s not focused so much on busy work … there will be some application in writing, but I think the goal is to [end with] a final paper where somebody is talking about how this class connects with their own life.”

Howard said the idea for the course came from conversations with Scott Truex, associate professor of urban planning and chair of the Department of Urban Planning.

“We’ve been trying to develop a partnership with a couple of organizations that I’m involved with in Latin America and Ball State,” Howard said. “We may be bringing groups [of students to Latin America] for a week or a two-week intensive course on some fields or focuses related to their field of study.”

Howard and Truex have known each other for 15 years and met before Howard went back to school and was living in Muncie. Howard had known Truex’s wife because they were colleagues at Muncie Community Schools, and she said Howard should meet Truex because they had similar interests.

Because of their friendship, Truex said, creating

Nate Howard walks along a nature trail with Gustavo Ramos, general manager of a coop, in Sibinal, Guatemala. Howard was in Guatemala during his work for the Mennonite Central Committee and was helping construct a lodge for visitors and a nature trail. NATE HOWARD, PHOTO PROVIDED

[The course will also] focus on what it would look like for us to learn from Indigenous countries in Latin America and show where these worldviews clash.”

- NATE HOWARD, Community Building and Latin America instructor RYLAN CAPPER, DN

the class was “fairly easy.”

“Whenever he would come back [to the U.S.], we would get together for coffee,” Truex said. “So I’ve been following his work and all the different organizations and communities and have been talking about how we could partner [with them]. All of these incredible experiences fit really well with our program … It wasn’t a hard decision to make.”

Because Truex is the urban planning department chair, he was able to get the course added to the department after getting permission from the university. He and Howard then worked together to come up with the curriculum, syllabus and organization of the class.

Truex said, as of now, there are not many students enrolled in the course because it was developed in summer 2021. However, he is excited for the future of the course and where it will take the department.

“We’re trying to get it marketed and out there because I think if enough people can hear about it, I believe they’ll find it really intriguing because [Howard] is just a really great individual,” Truex said. “He’s very passionate about sharing what he’s doing, and he’s super excited to have this opportunity.”

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

A lodge Nate Howard helped construct while working with the Mennonite Central Committee sits in Guatemala.

Through his course at Ball State, Howard plans to inspire students to help serve in Latin America and is working on a study abroad trip for the 2022-23 school year. NATE HOWARD, PHOTO PROVIDED

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SO CLOSE, Cardinals head coach Josh Rife stands with the team during pregame practice March 26, 2021, at Briner Sports Complex.

The Cardinals won 2-1 in overtime against the Chippewas.

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Caleb Huntley scores first NFL touchdown Atlanta Falcons rookie running back Caleb Huntley recorded his first NFL touchdown on a 31-yard run against the Miami Dolphins Aug. 21.

Huntley, who played for the Cardinals from 2017-20, went undrafted in the 2021 NFL Draft but signed with the Falcons as a free agent in early May and is fighting for a roster spot. He finished the game with six carries for 57 yards as the Falcons fell 37-17.

YET SO FAR

The Cardinals continue relying on their veteran experience in pursuit of a conference title.

Charleston Bowles Associate Sports Editor As the clock winded down, realization set in.

After winning four of their final five regular season games last season, the Cardinals’ search for their first conference title in program history ended in a 2-1 loss against Bowling Green. For the second time in three years, Ball State Soccer had lost the Mid-American Conference Championship game.

Four months later, head coach Josh Rife still has a sour taste in his mouth.

“I spent, and probably still spend, too much time thinking about that game,” Rife said. “That’s what I love about the game — you can be a player or coach in this for a long time, and there’s always things to learn and ways to adjust what you’re doing.”

However, even after making the MAC Championship in last spring’s pandemicabbreviated season, the Cardinals return to the field four months later with the same expectations — a MAC West Division title and a chance at the conference championship.

“I don’t take for granted what these young

ladies do day in and day out,” Rife said.

“They’re a pretty self-sufficient group, which is really fortunate as a coach — to not feel like you’re having to micromanage a ton of things.”

Everyone has a common goal — we all want to win.”

- SAMMI CORCORAN, Senior women’s soccer midfielder After its season opening 3-1 win against Valparaiso Aug. 22, Ball State has five more matches against non-conference opponents — including Purdue, Butler and Xavier — before MAC play begins.

“I don’t want to make them bigger than they are,” Rife said. “I also want to keep them in their proper perspective — that

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they’re going to be difficult games and tough teams.”

Having started 29 of 30 games over the past two seasons, senior midfielder Sammi Corcoran understands the significance of nonconference play, which she said is important to her because it gives the Cardinals a chance to showcase their talent against quality opponents they don’t often face.

“Everyone has a common goal — we all want to win,” Corcoran said. “I think it’s really important that we have our nonconference games against big teams so we can really show how we can compete with those kinds of teams.”

With 11 seniors and three graduate students on the roster, Ball State has multiple years of experience at every position. In addition to Corcoran, six of the Cardinals’ returnees started all 10 games last season.

“We put ourselves in positions to be tested and against really stiff competition,” Rife said. “I think, what better time than now to challenge ourselves like this, because I think we have a resilient group who’s seen a lot, been through a lot and have a lot of minutes under their belts.”

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Soccer opens season with road victory The Cardinals opened their regular season with a 3-1 win against Valparaiso Aug. 22. In the first half, redshirt senior midfielder Nicky Potts converted on a penalty kick before graduate student defender Emily Simmons found the back of the net.

In the second half, senior midfielder Chelcy Ralph scored on a penalty kick. Senior goalkeeper Alex DeRuvo stopped five shots. Ball State returns to action Aug. 29 against Purdue.

Men’s Basketball

Persons joins new team in Hungary Tayler Persons, 2019 Ball State graduate and former men’s basketball player, joined SZTESzedeák Aug. 19 — a professional basketball team in Szeged, Hungary.

Persons, who ranks ninth in Ball State program history in points (1,558), recently played in Poland for GTK Gliwice. He averaged 13.4 points, 5.8 assists and 4.3 rebounds over nine games in Poland.

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RUN IT BACK Ian Hansen Sports Editor

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Last season, the Cardinals’ mantra was “Detroit or Bust.”

This year, it is “Run it Back.”

After last year’s success, Ball State Football is entering 2021 looking to repeat as Mid-American Conference Champions.

Thirteen days after winning last year’s MAC Title, the Cardinals won the Arizona Bowl — Ball State’s first bowl win in program history.

Both redshirt fifth-year quarterback Drew Plitt and fifth-year senior safety Bryce Cosby said they remember their share of blowout losses from when they were underclassmen. That alone, they said, is enough incentive to continue their success from last season.

“We know that there is a target on our back,” Cosby said. “Another way I look at it is one championship or one good year doesn’t really make up for the three years of losses that we took.

We’re grateful for last year and everything we’ve accomplished, but I still don’t think that equals some of the losses that we’ve taken in the past couple of years. I still remember those, and I haven’t forgotten about them, and I won’t forget about them.”

Cosby said the success of last season came from multiple seasons of himself and his teammates proving they belong among the team’s veterans while working to gain their trust. When Cosby was a freshman, he said, there was a learning curve, and he had to understand the amount of trust his teammates already had in him.

By his sophomore year, Cosby said, he felt he improved as a leader. However, it wasn’t until his junior year when he knew he made the jump he needed, as he kept getting reassurance from his coaches that his teammates respected him.

“I really became that vocal leader and presence, and that’s kind of out of my personality,” Cosby said. “I’m a laidback person. For me, being vocal was a challenge at first — trying to get out of my comfort zone. The more vocal I’ve gotten, I have realized that my teammates [trust me], when I talk, listen, and obviously, I don’t abuse that, but it kind of just gave me the confidence to lead these guys in the right direction.”

Head coach

Mike Neu knows the formula of coaching a championship team, which he said he believes starts with the veterans molding the newer guys into a successful way of playing football. That is part of the reason Cosby said he had to step up as a vocal leader.

“They know the ropes,” Neu said. “They have been around here. We have been around each other day in, day out, during all phases of our program from in-season to offseason. We are a player-led team. I said that when we started out this year.”

Plitt and Cosby both have parallels regarding how their vocal leadership evolved over time. Both of them said they started out reserved and didn’t know when to speak up to the team. Their growth is part of the reason why they believe they were so successful last season.

“Every year, I have been just a little bit more confident, a little bit more vocal,” Plitt said.

“Obviously, I played when I was young as a redshirt freshman. And even in the redshirt

How Ball State Football’s seniors have evolved as leaders, propelling the Cardinals’ recent success sophomore year, I wasn’t as vocal, but I was trying to lead by example. And I think every year, it’s just learning how to be more vocal every single year and be able to pass on the things that I’ve learned on to the younger guys.”

guys be able to come in, learn from us, see how we do things, see guys get extra work in — the young guys grasp on to that.”

It isn’t just leadership that anchored the Cardinals’ success last season, Martin said, as

We know that there is a target on our back.

Another way I look at it is one championship or one good year doesn’t really make up for the three years of losses that we took.”

- BRYCE COSBY, fifth-year safety

For the Cardinals, leadership is the standard, especially from the veterans. The more experience the seniors have gained over the years, the more redshirt senior linebacker Brandon Martin said they understood what it means to play for the program.

“It starts out by understanding our standard and the things we hold high and the morals we hold high here in our building,” Martin said. “Those are the same things we have had since coach Neu has been here. Having the young

practices have been met with more energy and competitiveness. He said, over time, everyone understands their side of the ball more and realizes what it means to take care of the little things. Plitt believes accountability and leadership started when a different approach was brought up in practice.

“It really kind of started two years ago — 2019 — when we implemented this [mindset]: compete, practice, survive and being selfdisciplined and being real with yourself on how you practice each day,” Plitt said.

“And especially with showing those practice clips in the meeting rooms on what you’re supposed to do and what you’re not supposed to do, it’s elevated practice. It has shown on the field — how we play, how much harder we play, and I think that’s been a great thing.”

The seniors’ growth as leaders and Ball State’s success last season have “put a target on their back.” They said they aren’t worried about preseason predictions and treat every day like they are still at the bottom.

“That is our No. 1 goal … to make sure our work ethic, our attitude, our focus is still like we are at the bottom — fighting and scratching to figure out how we are going to get to the top,” Neu said. “We really have to keep the process as simple as we can and focus one day at a time.”

Contact Ian Hansen with comments at imhansen@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ianh_2.

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From left to right, Matilda, Swiss and Imogen, three of the seven Nigerian Dwarf goats Erica Markley raises on her farm, graze Aug. 18. Nigerian Dwarf goats are a more manageable breed, Markley said, and their stature allows them to produce just enough milk for a small family. SUMAYYAH MUHAMMAD, DN

Local artisan makes homemade soap from goat milk.

Sumayyah Muhammad Lifestyles Editor When Erica Markley’s 9-year-old daughter was born, she knew she didn’t want to expose her child to harmful petroleum byproducts from store-brand soaps that could damage her sensitive skin.

After reading books on how to create your own bath products, Markley — an artist-turned-farmer with her own soap business — developed a dream of wanting to homestead and create healthy products for

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her daughter to use on her skin.

“Your skin is your biggest organ,” Markley said. “People don’t realize that what you put on it matters.”

Now, Markley runs her own homemade soap business out of Gaston, Indiana, selling her products in stores, out of her house and on her Etsy page, MarkleyFarms.

Markley began considering homesteading in 2012, but her dream was put on hold in 2015 while she and her family waited for their house to sell in Tennessee. Markley and her family moved in with her mother-in-law in Connersville, Indiana, as their house sat on the market for more than a year.

In 2016, Markley received an offer on her house and purchased a property of just under four acres in Gaston, Indiana.

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RUN — before we fly Ball State’s Run Club returns after pandemic hiatus.

Maya Wilkins Reporter When Brock Spahr stepped onto Ball State’s campus as a freshman in 2019, he carried his passion for cross country running with him.

Now, as a junior, Spahr belongs to a community of runners with Ball State’s Run Club — an organization that allows people of all paces and abilities to get together and run.

“I could tell I found a group of people that live a similar lifestyle,” said Spahr, who is the treasurer of the Run Club. “I’m ecstatic about expanding and bolstering our influence.”

When Ball State shifted classes online in March 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, the Run Club was not allowed to practice together or compete in races. However, as some restrictions for organizations are being lifted this semester, Ball State’s Run Club meets at 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Lewellen Pool.

During a meet, the runners split off into three groups based on how far they choose to run. For casual runners, the longest distance is 3.21 miles while intermediate runners can run up to 8.4 miles and advanced runners can run 10.5 miles. After its 3 p.m. practice on Fridays, the club ends its week playing games like ultimate frisbee.

Like Sphar, senior computer technology major Zack DeSimone joined the Run Club his freshman year after running for his high school’s cross country and track teams. As president of the Run Club, DeSimone said he has seen more and more runners join the club each fall.

“When I joined,” DeSimone said, “I was looking for a team away from the professional teams, but I found something much more with all the friendships I’ve made and all the experiences I’ve gotten to have.”

DeSimone said he has been training and trying to stay in condition so the team can pick up where they left off in 2019, but it’s hard to stay motivated when they’re not practicing together. To stay motivated this year, the club is focusing on practicing together and attending meets again, like they had done in prior years.

Like other sports at Ball State, runners compete in races during the school year. They have two different seasons — cross country in the fall and the choice of track or road races in the spring.

During the cross country season, DeSimone said, the men on the team run an 8-kilometer race, which is a little less than 5 miles, and the women run a 6-kilometer race, which is a little less than 4 miles.

“We’re still waiting to hear from sports clubs [from other schools] on how we are going to

practice and how we can go to meets, but we are currently in the process of setting up one of our own meets,” DeSimone said. “I know a bunch of other schools like Michigan State, Michigan University and Miami University in Ohio have all contacted us about hosting meets, so we’re getting back into the normal schedule of things this season.”

Hollyn Anderson, a senior health education and promotion major, said she has been running since high school and began running again her freshman year of college to stay healthy.

Anderson was running on her own, she said, until she realized how much she missed running with other people like she had in high school.

Once Anderson joined the Run Club and practiced with the team, she said, she was able to push her limits and achieve more than she knew she could.

“I never thought I could run a marathon,” Anderson said. “Without Run Club, I wouldn’t have done that, so I feel like it’s encouraged me

When I joined, I was looking for a team away from the professional teams, but I found something much more with all the friendships I’ve made and all the experiences I’ve gotten to have.”

- ZACK DESIMONE, Senior computer technology major and Run Club president

to do things I didn’t think I could do.”

While the Run Club didn’t meet during the 2020-21 school year, the club is back together again, and Spahr said he looks forward to what the season will bring and hopes to get more underclassmen involved in the Run Club’s community.

“Unfortunately, half of the campus population doesn’t know what it’s like to be on a club at Ball State,” Spahr said. “I want to make Run Club a place where people find it easy to engage and work on bettering themselves through running.”

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

The Ball State Run Club women’s team huddles up before a cross country race. Hollyn Anderson, vice president of the Run Club, said she enjoys the environment of the races and likes that the Run Club doesn’t demand as much commitment as the official Ball State cross country and track team. ZACK DESIMONE, PHOTO PROVIDED

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Continued from Page 09 In her home search, Markley looked for properties with enough room to raise goats, as goat milk is good for the skin and a main ingredient in her homemade soaps. “[The property] had a huge horse barn — I knew that I would have the facilities for the animals that I wanted to get,” Markley said.

Markley and her family moved into the property in April 2016. Raising Nigerian Dwarf goats, 25 chickens, a couple of ducks and a pig, Petunia, Markley took the first steps in achieving her homesteading goals as she began handcrafting her own soap made from goat milk.

Goat milk is healthy for skin, Markley said, because its vitamins and minerals can rejuvenate dry, damaged skin. Knowing exactly what ingredients go onto your skin is one of the benefits Markley said she finds in creating her own bath products, and her customers appreciate knowing, too.

“I love her soap because it doesn’t dry out my skin, and I love the natural smells and

It’s really fun to have met the goats that her milk comes from. It’s a special aspect of her product.”

- MOLLY WARNES SCHALLER, customer of Markley’s ingredients,” said Elysia Gipson, co-owner of the Common Market in Muncie and one of Markley’s customers. “I know that she doesn’t use weird, unnatural colors. She doesn’t need that for it to appeal to people because it’s just so good.”

In 2018, Markley started selling her soap bars and lotion to her family, friends and Muncie locals. Markley now sells her products at the Common Market, Everyday Good Life Co-Op in Missouri and an esthetician’s office in Idaho.

Erica Markley gives a kiss to Barnaby, one of her Nigerian Dwarf goats, on her farm in Gaston, Indiana, Aug. 18. Aside from being a farmer, Markley paints landscapes on miniature canvases that she sells on her Etsy page, MarkleyFarms. SUMAYYAH MUHAMMAD, DN Her products feature scents like grapefruit and bergamot, lavender eucalyptus and sandalwood.

Markley said because her lotion sells so fast, she has not put it out for wholesale as it is on shelves for only a short amount of time. It is harder for Markley to sell her lotion commercially as making soap from goat milk is easier than making lotion, she said. Because she uses frozen goat milk in her soap and fresh milk for the lotion, the process is different.

“It’s first come, first serve, get-it-while-it’shot-kind of thing,” Markley said. “If you mix the lye with fresh milk, it burns out all the good stuff in the milk because it gets really hot, so I start out with a frozen liquid and it keeps all the

goodness inside.”

Imogen, the goat responsible for most of the “goodness” found inside Markley’s products, produces nearly half a gallon of milk a day, Markley said. Because of Imogen, Markley has been able to store 100 bags of milk, which equates to about 1,000 bars of soap.

Gipson first met Markley through a mutual friend four years ago. Before Gipson and her husband invested in the Common Market, Gipson said she would purchase Markley’s soap for herself and as gifts for her family and friends.

“You can tell how much she loves doing it … she’ll do a video to show [the process],” Gipson said. “It’s really humble.”

Molly Warnes Schaller, another customer of Markley’s, met her when both of their husbands worked at the same fire station and on the same shift four years ago. Schaller said she wanted to buy from Markley because she loves supporting local businesses, especially those run by women.

Not only does Schaller find Markley’s choice of scents creative, but she said she loves knowing where her products originate.

“It’s really fun to have met the goats that her milk comes from,” Schaller said. “It’s a special aspect of her product.”

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

Markley’s steps to making her soap

Weigh out 96 grams of lye — an alkaline solution that is used for washing and cleansing.

Add whatever essential oils, charcoal or clay that you want to finish making your soap.

Place olive oil and organic coconut oil on the stove at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, then mix.

Freeze milk in breast milk bags. One bag is the amount needed for one bar of soap.

Mix lye and frozen milk together. The lye will start melting the milk.

Take an immersion blender and blend until it becomes a trace — a thick substance.

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LET’S DO THIS RIGHT. While I understand vaccine hesitancy, mandating full vaccination on campus is the only way to return to normal.

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13 John Lynch is a senior journalism news major and writes “Fine Print” for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

Who would have thought that the worst experience of our lives could be ended by two needles?

As the three types of COVID-19 vaccines were making their way into the arms of the U.S. population near the end of spring, it almost felt like we had started to turn the corner on the pandemic.

Masks were being recommended less and less by the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), businesses were opening their doors to full JOHN capacity again and even our college lives seemed to LYNCH Opinion Editor, be getting back on track.

Then, the COVID variants made things more “Fine Print” complicated than ever, for both vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike.

In May, the Ball State Board of Trustees proposed a plan that included a provision to require vaccination against COVID-19 for students and faculty who participated in classes or activities that might increase the risk of contracting the virus.

Good, do it. Seriously.

Now, Ball State has the chance to gain back the trust of members of its student body — trust that was shaken early last school year.

The university has yet to actually see this plan through and mandate vaccinations but would be wise to do so now that the Food and Drug Association (FDA) has fully authorized the Pfizer vaccine.

We all remember the first few weeks of the fall 2020 semester — the fear we’d all have to go home in the first couple weeks due to the massive case spikes the school experienced, the rocky halftransition from in-person to hybrid learning, the stern warnings from the administration regarding some students’ behavior — and I, for one, am not interested in returning to those days.

Ball State and the student body made their fair share of mistakes since the pandemic started. Parties thrown by students and fraternities caused case spikes early in September 2020, according to an email from President Mearns, which led to reprimands from the university. Through all that, some classes still went on in-person despite early campus infection statistics that belied the real severity

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of the pandemic.

I still find it abhorrent the university charged full tuition and fees in a year where we couldn’t live out a true “college experience.”

I had two classes over the last two semesters that were conducted almost entirely without the supervision or instruction of a professor.

I didn’t learn anything from these classes — I was just a homework machine, filling out assignments and hoping for the best.

It certainly didn’t feel worthy of the price I paid for tuition.

While Ball State enacted plenty of pandemic protocols like social distancing, mask mandates and limiting class and activity sizes, there were still more than 1,500 COVID-19 cases among Ball State students and faculty in the first semester alone.

Mask mandates, stern words and $100 incentives are just not enough to get us to herd immunity, which seem to be all Ball State is willing to do for now.

A vaccination requirement is the key to never going through that

The only way to get our college experience, dignity and lives back is to reach herd immunity and take the vaccine.”

particular low point of our college experiences again. Ball State has an option to take a stand and place itself firmly on the right side of this issue.

Indiana University (IU) has already wisely opted to include a vaccine requirement for its 2021 school year and was later vindicated in its implementation when Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said he would not reverse the university’s decision via executive order, drawing the ire of his Republican colleagues.

IU’s decision to mandate vaccines was also upheld by the Indiana Supreme Court, giving Ball State even stronger legal footing to pursue a similar mandate.

There are valid reasons for people to feel apprehension toward vaccines, particularly for those in minority communities, who have

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seen hardships inflicted on them as a direct result of lies from the medical community. The Tuskegee studies on syphilis are one prominent example of medical suffering inflicted by the federal government, all in the so-called name of the “public good.”

It’s also true that we don’t know the full, long-term effects of the vaccine yet. However, all signs point to the three types of COVID-19 vaccines being safe for the general population — so much that the Pfizer vaccine has been approved for children over the age of 12 and the Moderna vaccine is on track to receive a similar over-12 approval.

If you are unvaccinated, how much more proof do you need that the vaccine works?

According to the CDC, more than 166 million Americans — more than half of the population — have been fully vaccinated, largely without negative effects. How much larger of a control group would satisfy you?

Did you know people who suffered from the virus?

Did you know people who lost loved ones to the virus?

Did you catch the virus or see a loved one die from it?

If the answer to any of those questions is yes, you should support vaccine requirements in our community.

More than 600,000 of our fellow Americans have died from this pandemic. Do we really have such a short memory that we can forget the heartbreaking losses we experienced during quarantine?

The truth is, if you’re unvaccinated, the reason we’ll all still be in masks and continuing to see the best time of our lives slip away this semester is because of you.

That’s not an insult, it’s a fact — according to an Associated Press analysis of CDC data on COVID-19 hospitalizations, only 1.1 percent of all COVID-19 positive patients were vaccinated.

Ball State’s administration and students have a chance to right these wrongs — if not for ourselves, then at least for the people who have seen their lives destroyed by the pandemic.

The only way to get our college experience, dignity and lives back is to reach herd immunity and take the vaccine.

The worst time of our lives can end, but only if we take charge and make it happen.

Contact John Lynch with comments at jplynch@bsu.edu or on Twitter @WritesLynch.

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To run Escape Muncie and direct the escape room games, Everetts said she relies on the help of multiple employees so she can focus on her art labs, coming up with new escape room ideas and marketing all four of her plaza businesses.

The Everetts are closely involved with the Ball State community, often inviting students from immersive learning classes to the escape rooms close to the beginning of the semester for icebreaker opportunities.

“It’s so much fun,” Jennifer Everetts said. “What we see is that they don’t know each other at first and, then, after 20 minutes, they are

Jennifer and Bruce Everetts stand outside the entrance to The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude, which opened June 2021. GRACE MCCORMICK, DN

BIKE

Continued from Page 05 While evaluating study participants’ health variables including blood pressure, body composition of fat and muscle amounts and VO2 max — the maximum rate of oxygen the body can use while exercising — Peterman found total daily activity, glucose levels and VO2 max showed significant improvements after the four weeks using e-bikes. At the end of the study, Peterman said his team raffled off all six e-bikes.

“There were also a couple people who started using their traditional bike more,” Peterman said. “Boulder has a lot of different bike paths, and there were some people who participated in the study who had no idea they existed, and, once they learned about them, they realized it was sometimes easier to get around by

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Corcoran said last year’s unconventional season will help prepare her and her teammates for this season’s schedule.

“We had a lot of outside variables we had to deal with, and we were still able to succeed,” Corcoran said. “I think it shows how we can persevere and get through. Hopefully, without as many outside variables this year, we will be able to do the same thing and hopefully reach that next step, which is the MAC Championship.”

The Cardinals’ senior class has had its fair share of opportunity in years past. When they were freshmen in 2018, they were a part of the program’s first championship appearance since 2013. After falling short again last spring, senior midfielder Tatiana Mason said

learning to know each other, and they start working together because their end goal is — in 60 minutes — to get out of this escape room.”

While the creation of new escape rooms is a lengthier process, The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude already has two rooms open: On Safari and The Pirates of the Caribbean. On Safari features Gilbert and Maude visiting their friends, Dorothy and John, but John goes missing while trying to find elephants. The players then have 60 minutes to follow clues and try to discover John’s location. The Everetts said this puzzle has a completion rate of 5 percent and is recommended for an expert-level player.

“We like for people who have played all our other games to come into our new games and have a different experience,” Bruce Everetts said. “The biggest challenge, really, is in just the creative approach — to create an experience that’s different from everything else.”

Pirates of the Caribbean is rated at a moderate difficulty level with a completion rate of 60 percent, Jennifer Everetts said. Gilbert and Maude are on a cruise when their ship is attacked by pirates.

They sacrifice themselves to save the passengers and later find a map in the captain’s quarters, which inspires them to investigate the possibility of hidden treasure. The difficulty of the games, which the Everetts create themselves, is decided by the completion rate of all the groups that participate.

“In the original Escape Muncie, we had four different rooms that were all very different in the experience, and all of the box games are very different in their experience as well,” Bruce Everetts said. “In Gilbert and Maude, there’s at least a common theme so that, when you’ve played one of the games, you can go to the next one to get a consistency in the experience.”

The original location’s rooms include the theater, mansion, classroom and grandma’s living room, along with four box games — portable games that can be set up on a table — and two circus-

themed games in a box truck outside of the building.

“You can play those either out in the parking lot, or we can bring them to your events,” Jennifer Everetts said. “The games are enclosed in our truck, so it’s just like a room.”

Jennifer Everetts said the next room in The Adventures of Gilbert and Maude — the castle — should be open in 2022. Once all games are opened, Escape Muncie will have built 17 games total, five of them being the escape rooms in the Blue Heron Plaza.

Bruce Everetts said his favorite part about running Escape Muncie is connecting with people and building friendships.

“Talking with people after the game and building friendships has been very rewarding,” Bruce Everetts said. “We can see the benefit of the service we’re providing, but we’ve also made a lot of good friends, and that’s been fantastic.”

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bike than by driving. Even when they didn’t have an e-bike, they gained enough confidence to start riding a traditional bike more, so that was great to hear.”

Peterman said he will continue studying VO2 max at Ball State, specifically focusing on long-term health benefits and how higher fitness levels lower people’s risk of dying early. While he is not currently studying e-bikes, Peterman said he is pursuing opportunities to continue this specific type of study in the future.

“There’s a lot of other variables that come when you collect VO2 max, so that’s what I’m studying now at Ball State is how these other variables may predict health outcomes down the road,” he said. “That will give us a better idea of how well an e-bike intervention may impact health — not just in the immediate future, but prolonged future as well.”

Contact Grace McCormick with comments at grmccormick@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @graceMc564.

she understands the importance of making every moment count this season.

“I think our class is in a special situation because we came in as freshmen and kind of had a big impact from the start,” Mason said.

“Throughout the past three years, we’ve still kind of held that impact.

The expectation is always to win a MAC Championship.”

No matter what others may think, Rife said, he realizes the talent and potential the Cardinals possess.

“We’re pretty laser-focused and have a goal that we’re trying to reach,” Rife said. “Maybe other people might look and say, ‘Oh, look at what Ball State is doing.’ In that locker room and among our staff, I don’t think it’ll surprise us at all if we come out of nonconference with a lot of success, and that’s the expectation.”

Contact Charleston Bowles with comments at clbowles@bsu. edu or on Twitter @cbowles01.

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