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Did you miss it? Catch up on the news from Oct. 15-19

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News reported on a riot at Longfellow Elementary School over how to divide six hamburgers among 20 protesting parents. The parents were angered with a school policy that allowed their kids to sit outside school in the morning before it opened. If you have any Daily News memories, email news@ bsudailynews.com.

Oct. 15: Officials from the Indiana Department of Health are urging Hoosiers to get the flu vaccine after reporting the first influenza-related death of the 2021-22 flu season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends everyone six months and older get a flu vaccine each year. Seven Hoosiers died after contracting influenza last flu season.

Soccer shut out against Kent State

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Oct. 17: The Cardinals fell 3-0 to the Golden Flashes. Ball State recorded 22 total shots with 12 on goal but could not convert any attempts into the net.

Senior goalkeeper Alex DeRuvo recorded six saves, marking her third consecutive game recording five or more saves. Up next for Ball State is a matchup against Western Michigan Oct. 21 at 4 p.m.

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Oct. 19: Ball State Men’s Golf placed third out of 10 teams in the two-day Dayton Flyer Invitational.

The Cardinals scored 871 (19-overpar). Senior Joey Ranieri placed sixth with a score of 214 while redshirt freshman Ali Khan tied for ninth with a score of 216. Ranieri’s best score came in the first round (69). The Cardinals led the field with 45 birdies.

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First Black Secretary of State dies Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell died at the age of 84 Oct. 18 from COVID-19 complications.

Although he was fully vaccinated, his immune system was weakened by multiple myeloma, making the vaccine less effective. Powell was the first Black Secretary of State and was instrumental in shaping U.S. foreign policy at the beginning of the War on Terror.

The Ball State SpeechLanguage Clinic shares therapy resources for members of the Muncie community.

Staff from the Speech-Language Clinic pose for a photo Oct. 19 outside the Health Professions Building. The Health Professions Building was completed in 2019. KRYSTIANA BROSHER, DN Krystiana Brosher Reporter One of Kate Avila’s favorite memories from working in Ball State’s Speech-Language Clinic is from when a client made a birthday cake and shared it with her supervisor and student clinician. “[She] was so excited to share it with us and wanted to have a birthday party with us because we were making an impact in her life,” Avila said.

“We were part of her life.”

The Speech-Language Clinic, which has been in business for more than 50 years, is located in the Health Professions Building on campus and provides speech therapy for Muncie and surrounding communities.

Avila, a speech-language pathology graduate student, said she enjoys the welcoming and inviting community inside the clinic.

“Everyone is there to help each other,” Avila said. “I feel like that’s really been a huge support in my education, and I think it’s brought the best out of me as a student, so I think that’s what’s been so special about being at this clinic.”

Avila received her undergraduate degree from Ball State in May 2020 with a major in speechlanguage pathology and a minor in psychology of human development. She plans to receive her master’s degree in summer 2022.

The fall 2021 semester is Avila’s fifth semester working in the clinic and her fourth as a student

One of the best memories was working together to make sure that this clinic was what our students can learn best in to treat our clients and a space that’s going to be good for their learning.”

- REBECCA KADINGER, Clinical lecturer of speech pathology and audiology clinician, as students have an undergraduate semester with the clinic first as part of a required class for speech-language pathology graduate students.

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Campus now, but to get her degree, she will have two more semesters as a student clinician off campus.

One will be in a school setting, and one will be in a health care setting, such as a hospital, skilled nursing facility or private practice clinic. She starts her day in the clinic at 7 a.m. and works at the clinic while taking classes for her degree.

“It starts early,” Avila said. “I mean, especially when you get into the thick of things in the semester when all your clients are going, and the clinic is up in full running and there’s diagnostic evaluations going on with regular treatment. It is busy — we have a lot of people coming and going, and it’s a lot of moving parts. It takes a lot of people to keep it going.”

Rebecca Kadinger has worked as a supervisor in the clinic for nine years. She has worked in different clinics outside of campus before but said the Ball State faculty is welcoming and “everybody’s here for everybody.”

Although the clinic sees more children than adults, it treats people “across the lifespan,” Kadinger said. The clinic may exist to help people with their speech, but having patients of all ages is what keeps it running. Kadinger said she wants to remind the community that the clinic sees “schoolage adolescents and adults.”

The clinic strives to make improvements for both its students’ and patients’ lives, Kadinger said, and she often sees the clinic bustling during its operating hours with people coming for therapy.

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Honors College hosts national conference The Ball State Honors College hosted a national conference, “Beyond Diversity: Antiracism & Intersectionality in Honors,” Oct. 1416. The on-campus event was open to faculty, administrators, staff and students of the Honors College and featured 14 events over three days.

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Governor Davis dies of COVID-19 Ball State alumnus Governor Davis died of COVID-19 Oct. 13. Davis was the lead performer in the blues group the Governor Davis Band and was vaccinated against the coronavirus. A benefit fundraiser to cover his medical expenses and support his family will take place Oct. 28 at Sight & Sound Music Center.

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is self-caring Ball State Counseling Center staff therapist discusses the Self-Care Challenge and stress coping mechanisms.

Lila Fierek Reporter Tests, essays, projects, work and social activities — the list goes on. College students deal with a number of things that can cause stress every day, and pressures from school are among the top reasons for stress, according to the Jed Foundation. As these responsibilities begin to build up, it can be hard for students to find ways to care for themselves.

To combat lack of self-care for students, the Ball State Counseling Center began the SelfCare Challenge, a four-week, email-based tool

A lot more students were struggling with managing stress with all the added stressors of [COVID-19], so this program was created and started last year as something to help students.”

- AUBREY DRISCOLL, Staff therapist and co-coordinator of group programming at the Ball State Counseling Center that provides students and faculty with more than 30 different strategies to help develop positive self-care.

The strategies of the challenge are short, quick and take about 10-15 minutes to participate in and complete. They are all based out of a workbook sent to students once they sign up for the challenge.

If students think the activities are beneficial, they can implement these strategies into their lives even after they have completed the Self-Care Challenge.

Staff therapist and co-coordinator of group

programming Aubrey Driscoll started the Self-Care Challenge in the fall 2020 semester. Driscoll said she was inspired to start the Self-Care Challenge with “The Resiliency Skills Training Workbook”

by Jessica Gifford, a book she received years ago, and wanted a Counseling Center resource more accessible to students compared to ones where students have to schedule an appointment or be physically on campus.

“A lot more students were struggling with managing stress with all the added stressors of [COVID-19],” Driscoll said, “so this program was created and started last year as something to help students.”

Driscoll defines self-care as “doing things in an intentional way to take care of ourselves, meeting our own needs and being responsive to what we need to keep us going, to refuel us [and] to regulate our mood.”

Unlike counseling, which is unavailable during the summers, the Self-Care Challenge takes place throughout the entire year, so students can sign up for it if they’re feeling stressed over the summer, too. At the end of every week, students participating in the challenge will receive an email asking for feedback so Driscoll can see what tools are most beneficial for students. She said the challenge has received positive feedback so far.

“Generally, students have enjoyed being able to have some activities to engage in,” Driscoll said.

“A lot felt really connected to the challenge and seemed to have benefited from it.”

The most popular activities used in the challenge were physical exercise, general breathing exercises and social connection exercises, like performing acts of kindness.

The activities in the program are broken down into four categories: self talk, finding meaning and purpose, goal-setting and emotional skills. Different coping skills are reflected in each area. Driscoll said one activity may be better suited for someone struggling with anxiety and another may be helpful for someone with depression, but she said she hopes there is something beneficial for everyone.

Driscoll participates in these activities herself, and she said she does a lot of mindfulness work and mediation while trying to maintain healthy sleep and hygiene habits.

“I think it’s helpful to have a variety of things,” Driscoll said. “I know sometimes we can get kind of worn out of doing the same thing all the time or might not find the benefit of it, so I think a big benefit to this program is that there are so many options that students can take advantage of or I can take advantage of as well.”

Driscoll said self-care can be a struggle for

students, as it’s not always their priority. While self-care can seem like planning elaborate selfpampering activities, sophomore graphic design major Lance Sukle said, it doesn’t have to take a long time or be a big thing.

“I think most people think of it like taking a relaxing bath or lighting candles, but it can also be just making comfort food and giving yourself time to relax after a long week,” Sukle said.

Sukle said they personally practice self-care by drawing, lighting candles and ignoring everything.

Giving themself time not to worry about anything helps Sukle get things done more easily, and they said practicing self-care helps them not to feel overwhelmed by stress, set a plan and stick with it.

Although Sukle hasn’t participated in the SelfCare Challenge themself, they think it’s a good idea.

“I think especially because a lot of college students, especially when they first start college, they don’t really know how to manage their time and everything,” Sukle said. “I think that [the SelfCare Challenge] could help a lot of people.”

As winter rolls in and seasonal depression increases, according to the Mayo Clinic, Driscoll said she recognizes the importance for students to take time for themselves. Whether it’s doing things they enjoy or making themselves a priority, “the goal of this is to encourage students to carve out that time, even if it’s just maybe 10 minutes a day, to do something that’s just for them and that makes them feel good and that can help them get through difficult times or help them get through a difficult day.”

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SELF-CARE STRATEGIES Meaning • • • •

Explore/affirm your beliefs Benefit-finding Explore your values Spend time in nature

Emotional Skills • • • •

Give yourself a break Watch your mental diet Assess what went well and why Mindful noting practice

Social Connection • • • •

Really listen Express appreciation Acts of kindness Smile

Health • • • •

Get in touch Breathe Exercise Improve your sleep

Self-Talk • • • •

Stressful situations Create an effective affirmation Write yourself a letter Find a positive voice Source: Aubrey Driscoll, Ball State Counseling Center

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DIFFERENCE The crowd anxiously awaits Ball State Football’s first game of the 2021 season Sept. 2 at Scheumann Stadium. The Cardinals defeated Western Illinois in their home opener 31-21. RYLAN CAPPER, PHOTO PROVIDED

How the Ball State fan environment shapes up and its substantial — or little — impact Charleston Bowles Associate Sports Editor Charleston Bowles is a junior journalism magazine media major and writes columns for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

It’s no secret having fans back in the crowd has helped Ball State Athletics. It’s rewarding for me to attend home games once again both as a student and reporter for The Daily News.

After Ball State Football’s season-opening 31-21 victory against Western Illinois Sept. 2, head coach Mike Neu said it was extremely fulfilling to play in front of a packed Scheumann Stadium again.

This game was my first in the press box covering football for The Daily News, and I witnessed the electric atmosphere firsthand.

“Just to see the fans warming up, going through their routine, to see the tailgate area, all the food trucks outside — it’s so cool to see that,” Neu said.

“And, as people walked into the stadium, just to get that vibe and energy, I loved that so much for our players. I know how hard they’ve worked, and that would mean more to them than anything.”

During the 2020-21 academic year, Ball State athletic teams played shortened schedules and

hosted games in front of few — if any — fans due to COVID-19 concerns, and this significantly changed not only how fans interacted with and supported the teams but how engaged they were with the season overall.

Last year, Ball State Football played a six-game, Mid-American Conference-only regular season schedule instead of its normal 12-game slate.

Instead of hosting their standard six home games, the Cardinals hosted just three.

Meanwhile, Ball State Women’s Volleyball, which usually plays its season in the fall, had its season pushed back to January as a result of the pandemic’s impact. Other fall sports, such as soccer and field hockey, had their 2020 campaigns pushed back to last spring and either had no postseason or a compact MAC tournament.

These postponements impacted both my fandom as a student and work as a reporter because I never knew the status of Ball State teams. I didn’t know if coaches and players were inactive due to COVID-19 exposure or if certain games would be the last for a while because of quarantine and close contact policies.

The return of full crowds this year has been beneficial for Ball State Athletics and has had just as much of an impact for fans and students. Junior

Just to see the fans warming up, going through their routine, to see the tailgate area, all the food trucks set up outside — it’s so cool to see that. And, as people walked into the stadium, just to get that vibe and energy, I loved that so much for our players. I know how hard they’ve worked, and that would mean more to them than anything.”

- MIKE NEU, Ball State Football head coach

business analytics major Steven Willeke said he considers himself an avid sports fan and attended two of the first three home football games this season, including the season opener.

“The energy was there week one — that thing was packed,” Willeke said. “I remember I even got a free T-shirt, so I was pretty hyped. I’ll be walking around campus, and I see people wearing that same shirt. I get this might sound cheesy, but that made the experience. I got a free shirt out of it, and I got to watch some good football.”

It felt great for me to be back in Scheumann Stadium, even if it wasn’t as a fan. I didn’t get to experience the football program’s path to winning the 2020 MAC Championship and Arizona Bowl, so I appreciated the chance to attend games in person without restrictions.

But while football and women’s volleyball headline the fall sports season, programs such as field hockey and soccer see smaller attendance numbers. Ball State Soccer’s largest draw this season came Sept. 12 against Butler, which saw 206 fans. Field hockey’s highest-attended matches were Sept. 26 against Indiana University and Oct. 8 against Appalachian State, with each one drawing 125 fans.

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Cardinal Senior midfielder Callie Rumbaugh (26) steals the ball from Junior midfielder Sarah Fondel (15) smacks the ball away her Bellarmine opponent at Briner Sports Complex Oct. 15. from her Bellarmine opponent at Briner Sports Complex Oct. The Cardinals fell to the Knights 2-1. JACY BRADLEY, DN 15. The Cardinals are now 4-10 on the season. JACY BRADLEY, DN

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annah Dreier never considered journalism as a career — she always liked reading and writing but thought she was going to do work as an activist after graduating from college.

“I had a combined major of history, philosophy and English,” Dreier said. “I’m so impressed by people who know in college that they want to be journalists and that they have the courage to do that.”

Dreier graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 2008 and got an internship at the Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, California, which is now the East Bay Times.

“I had a list of every newspaper in the country, and I went down one by one checking to see if they had internship programs,” Dreier said. “I just loved [the Contra Costa Times] immediately. It was a way better fit than what I thought I had wanted to do.”

Dreier said 2008 “was a really scary time to get into journalism” amid the Great Recession in the United States. However, Dreier said she did whatever she could to get a paid internship and start her career off right.

Dreier was unsure if the Contra Costa Times had any open applications, so she decided to write to the publication and ask for herself. As it turned out, Dreier said, an internship was available.

For a year, Dreier interned with the paper, and she didn’t know what she was getting into when she began interning there. However, she said she quickly fell in love with the work because of the stories she was able to tell.

“There was a lot of nepotism happening in the local political leadership and a lot of political things happening that hadn’t gotten any news coverage because it’s a small town,” Dreier said. “I think they weren’t used to having someone dedicated to going to all their meetings and covering all of the random county board appointments.

It felt really easy to make an impact.”

Dreier was hired as a full-time reporter for the paper after finishing her internship in January 2010. Once she finished working for the Contra Costa Times in 2012, Dreier was hired by the Associated Press to cover California politics out of Sacramento.

“It was so fun,” Dreier said. “It was a really different pace because I had this job at a newspaper where I was covering towns all by myself and doing whatever struck my fancy. And then, at [AP], it’s a newswire and you are working in the capital.”

While working for AP, Dreier had to learn how to publish stories and get them out there as soon as possible, which is not what she was used to with her previous job. Dreier said she remembers one time, in her first week where her boss assigned a story to her and made her send the first draft to him within 10 minutes.

Once the clock got to minute eight, Dreier’s boss sat by her desk and watched her create the story. When the time was up, he had her come up with an update for the story 16 minutes later, and the whole process started over again.

“It teaches you how to file really quickly and accurately and not get too hung up on the other parts of it,” Dreier said. “And that’s a valuable skill I think that [AP continues] to draw on in different ways.”

Dreier said working for AP allowed her to have a “low-profile job,” so no one was counting on her to do more of the larger political reporting that came out of California.

One of these stories was about a specialty license plate program California created in honor of 9/11 victims, where people could buy license plates and the money would be given to orphans who lost their parents in the tragedy to help pay for their college tuition.

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“It turned out, when I started to look into it, that almost nobody had gotten those college scholarships that the program was supposed to fund, and instead, the governor had taken that money and used it to fill a budget hole,” Dreier said. “I think that was really my first taste digging into something sort of random and being able to do a story that created change in the real world.”

Dreier traveled to Venezuela in March 2014 to work there for three and a half years for AP. She said she didn’t know much about the country at the time, but she moved at a key point in its history.

“It was going from a really prosperous country with all the largest oil reserves in the world to the poorest country in all of Latin America and one of the poorest in the world,” Dreier said. “It was

This whole story made you really feel like you were there with her — she sort of made herself invisible. She became this narrator and provided wonderful narration context to the characters, and really allowed readers to immerse themselves in the story like she did.”

- NATALEE SEELY, Assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Communication

really amazing to cover that decline.”

After working for AP, Dreier worked for ProPublica, where she won a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for her work covering the gang MS13, which was killing young Latino immigrants without much police resistance.

Dreier’s story for ProPublica shared many similarities with the one she wrote for the Washington Post, “The Worst-Case Scenario.”

Dreier began working for the Washington Post in 2019 and has been a member of its emerging journalism team, which means she gets to be “a fly on the wall” for her stories.

“Almost all the stories I have done have involved going out to someplace and living life with the person that I’m writing about,” Dreier said.

“The Worst-Case Scenario” highlights police shootings during mental health crisis calls in Huntsville, Alabama, and won the 2021 Ball State School of Journalism and Strategic Communication National Writing Award.

According to Ball State’s website, since 1961, Ball State’s School of Journalism and Strategic Communication has recognized writers who provide excellence in journalistic storytelling. Recipients of the award receive a prize of $1,500 for providing a body of distinguished work published by a newspaper, magazine or digital news site that sheds light on significant and complex subjects, demonstrates a mastery of the topic and reveals exceptional writing.

Natalee Seely, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Strategic Communication, has been the award director since 2018.

Seely is part of a preliminary group of judges who look at 20-25 stories submitted and then narrow it down to four. Another panel of judges will then look at those four stories and rate which ones they like best.

“This whole story made you really feel like you were there with her — she sort of made herself invisible,” Seely said. “She became this narrator and provided wonderful narration context to the characters, and really allowed readers to immerse themselves in the story like she did.”

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Washington Post reporter Hannah Dreier has held multiple positions at various newspapers since she graduated from Wesleyan University in 2008. Prior to the Washington Post, Dreier worked in California and Venezuela for the Associated Press and for ProPublica in New York City, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. HANNAH DRIER, PHOTO PROVIDED

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Owner Sandy Burrell partnered with local businesses and friends to sell items such as honey, soap and crystals along with her plants.

Local greenhouse owner grows business from her backyard.

Ayah Eid Reporter Stepping onto the rock-speckled dirt path, the first thing that can be seen from the front lawn of Northern Tropics Greenhouse is the rows of red, orange and gold chrysanthemum stones out on display. Further down the path, the plants from the five greenhouses emerge.

In the small, tiki lounge-themed checkout area, crystals, locally made honey, goat milk soap and dip mixes line the shelves of the small building’s perimeter. These items come from local businesses and friends of owner Sandy Burrell, whom she met during her time selling produce at local farmer’s markets.

“My mom always had a big garden,” Burrell said, “and me and my sister always said, ‘Oh, we’ll never have a garden when we grow up.’

Well, guess what? We both have gardens.”

Before opening Northern Tropics Greenhouse in 2005, Burrell was a newlywed, stay-athome mom with a big vegetable garden. While vacationing in Cozumel, Mexico, Burrell said she was amazed by the banana trees she saw and

wanted to have one of her own.

“We picked [a banana tree] up on a vacation, and we got really excited trying to keep this banana tree alive,” Burrell said. “I foolishly thought that it would be easier with a greenhouse.”

With a little greenhouse built in the back of her house, Burrell stored her banana tree with the rest of her plants. At the same time, Burrell said she was researching heirloom tomatoes and started planting those in her greenhouse as well. At the end of the spring and summer season in 2005, Burrell was left with hundreds of heirloom tomatoes.

“I bought a whole bunch of heirloom tomato seeds, and I started [planting] them,” Burrell said.

“Of course, they all grew because I didn’t know what I was doing… So, I stuck a sign out in the yard that said ‘plants for sale.’”

Northern Tropics Greenhouse has 80 different varieties of tomatoes and various types of hot pepper plants. Along with those, flowers, foliage, herbs, grasses and tropical plants like Florida palm trees are also sold. Some of the succulent plants sold at Northern Tropics Greenhouse come from cuttings of other plants grown in the greenhouse like Mother plants and

A close view of the checkout counter at the Northern Tropics Greenhouse in Muncie displays the store’s tiny trinkets and plants available to customers Oct. 19. Owner Sandy Burrell said they also have seasonal giveaways which customers can enter by visiting the shop.GRACE DUERKSEN, DN

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... me and my sister always said, ‘Oh, we’ll never have a garden when we grow up.’ Well, guess what? We both have gardens.”

- SANDY BURRELL, Owner of Northern Tropics Greenhouse Tristania plants.

With the summer season concluding and the winter season approaching, Burrell grows Christmas Cacti and Poinsettias in the “big” greenhouse, along with herbs, hanging baskets, annual flowers and pepper plants. Because something is always getting ready to bloom the next season, Burrell said she and her employees are planting things all year, and maintaining the quality of the plants is a major part of the job no matter the seasonal changes.

Common responsibilities for greenhouse workers include removing yellow leaves from the plants and consistently watering the plants to make sure customers are not getting plants that aren’t healthy.

Before working at Northern Tropics Greenhouse, Erica Davis said she and Sandy Burrell would talk about plants together when Davis would visit the greenhouse as a customer. Because Davis was knowledgeable about plants, she said Burrell offered her a full-time position on the spot.

Since she began working at Northern Tropics Greenhouse in April, Davis said she has seen gardeners with varying experience shopping at the greenhouse. Within the last year, Davis said she has noticed an increase in new customers coming in as most of them were just starting to build their own gardens. “[Sandy] had a lot of questions that she had to answer over and over, but that’s something [one has] to do with plants,” Davis said. “Whenever we get new people, we don’t mind repeating ourselves because we’re excited to have new people coming into the plant world.”

Davis said she is surprised by how many Ball State students she sees at Northern Tropics Greenhouse. The greenhouse is located about 5 miles from campus at 1501 E. Fuson Road.

“We’re a pretty good distance away, and not a lot of students venture on to the other side of the river,” Davis said. “It’s nice to see them coming

out. We’ve even had some [students] that are like, ‘Oh, we’re in a dorm, [and] we need something to lighten it up.’”

Northern Tropics customers come from all over, Burrell said. Not only do Muncie locals come to the greenhouse, but people come to visit from Indianapolis and other surrounding areas as well. Davis once had a customer who was visiting family from Arizona who loved Northern Tropics because the only other place she could find plants was Walmart.

“More than one [customer] has said they were just searching for greenhouses on the way home to where they are traveling to and decided to stop by, or they know someone in town and were recommended, ” Burrell said.

Ted Burrell, Sandy Burrell’s husband, said Northern Tropics is in the process of opening up a brewery in addition to the greenhouse.

While waiting to get his brewery permit from the state of Indiana, he said he has added a counter, taps, fermenters and coolers into a space of the greenhouse that was once an office.

“I love beer, and I love making beer,” Ted Burrell said. “I’m keeping it small — it’s going to be my little semi-retirement project.”

With the brewery opening soon, the services offered at Northern Tropics will expand from just selling plant cuttings, honey, crystals and soap to its customers.

Having gotten to know Sandy Burrell, Davis said she is very knowledgeable when it comes to plants, and it’s a nice feeling knowing that customers are getting a piece of her plants whenever they buy from Northern Tropics Greenhouse.

“One of my friends and I,” Davis said, “we always joke that [Sandy] made a deal with the fairies, and that’s the reason why [when we] give her a dead plant, it’s going to come back to life … because she’s so good at it.”

Contact Ayah Eid with comments at azeid@ bsu.edu.

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Overworking is glorified to the point that people are willing to sacrifice their mental and physical health for productivity.

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year ago, my body broke.

It started with a hangover.

I was embarrassed, so I didn’t tell anyone about the intense sickness I felt in my stomach. After a week, it hadn’t gone away.

Soon after, I found myself aching from vomiting multiple times a day, and my doctors chalked it up to a thyroid medication I was taking.

Months later, I laid in my bed silently letting the tears stream down my face. I was too weak to shower, too weak to eat, too weak to even use the bathroom by myself. A darkness had set over my life, and I fought to find the light to grow.

I had no idea what was happening to me, and the doctor’s best guess was as good as mine.

Over the course of six months, I lost everything.

My weight was dropping as rapidly as my grades because I couldn’t attend classes, and I had to quit everything I loved. I struggled through the spring, keeping my head down and hoping my professors would be forgiving with the ever-looming doctor’s note above my head.

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Officially, I had a stomach ulcer, but after five more months of medications and follow-up visits, I still said “hello” to the toilet bowl before I could greet the sun in the morning. While my physical health continued to decline, my mental health rapidly spiraled with it, perched on a cliff like I had Bonnie and Clyde sitting on each shoulder, double-dog daring me to turn the car off the edge.

Turning down opportunities turned into necessity, and survival became the top priority.

Throughout college, I was told I needed to do as much as I could outside of classes to build a successful career. Each year of college, I added a

in industries that involve civil work and has continued to grow in research and prominence.

The APA shows society displaying burnout in exceedingly early circumstances, leaking into universities and high schools like an odorless gas, helplessly taking over the minds of anxious, overworked teens. The pressure for teenagers to surpass others academically is more overbearing than ever in the race to see how many college credits you can take with you from high school.

According to TransferIN, 79 Indiana high schools offer some type of dual-credit course with eight different programs to choose from. At my

Like peace lilies thriving in the black, I am blooming, and my darkness has found a new love in its growth.” new responsibility to my plate, and soon my plate became a full three-course meal.

As a junior, in September 2020, I held an editor position with The Daily News, worked in an unpaid internship with the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, took 16 credit hours, held a part-time job through the campus technology center, freelanced articles to local papers and took the next step in my five-year long relationship by getting a Great Pyrenees puppy.

I had no idea what I was getting into, and, when my body broke, my mind couldn’t hold on by itself.

Overworking, or burnout, doesn’t have to look like having the flu or a hospital visit. It can be as simple as holding your urine until your bladder feels hard to the touch or skipping lunch because you’re too afraid to miss a deadline. Ignoring the needs of our bodies to the point of neglect is praised as hard work even though the effects are detrimental.

Glorifying the idea of overworking is furthering the narrative that our economic output is more important than our personal input.

A year later, I still spend the early morning hours on the bathroom floor, willing my body to keep my stomach acid down. I am 65 pounds down, and most of my diet to this day consists of Goldfish crackers, if anything at all. The darkness surrounding me still loomed overhead like storm clouds waiting to wreak havoc. I am on two types of anti-anxiety medications, an antidepressant and a stomach acid-reducer in order to get through my day. Overworking can affect more than your mental health, and my body is a living testament to that — I am still recovering, sleeping more than normal and requiring more help than I’d feel comfortable asking for.

Overworking to the point of mental strain is not a new concept in the modern workforce. Job burnout has become such a popular illness — preventative measures can be found in scientific journals and basic secondary sources, such as Mayo Clinic. According to a study posted by the American Psychological Association (APA), burnout first emerged in the 1960s, mostly

high school, they offered Advanced Placement (AP) courses for college credits as early as freshman year.

The pressures only worsen the older we get.

Jobs require more education, certifications and experience than ever before, and according to educationdata.org, the average student leaves their university with more than $30,000 in debt.

Overworking in college can sneak up on you, disguising itself as four hours of sleep or partying every night to distract from the intrusive thoughts.

Burnout is seemingly inevitable in current work environments, yet preventative measures are not taught in school and are ignored as the pressures of job insecurity leave little room to recover properly from overworking.

I wake up every day wondering who I have become because I feel like my identity was stripped with my extracurriculars. My safe space has been stripped and mashed with the impending feelings of deadlines — even on weekends. I am slowly learning who I am, what I love to do and accepting that I am not tethered to the degree I have been working to earn for the last four years.

I am slowly learning to separate time and have deliberate spaces.

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I have begun searching for the benefits of darkness, rather than fighting to find the light. I am not only growing in the new darkness — I’m beginning to bud.

For the first time since middle school, I have a desk I use as more than just a storage area for old cereal bowls two months too late to wash and half-emptied water bottles collecting dust. I also force myself into the library for homework at least twice a week and try to designate specific hours to myself for gratitude and self-care, something I’ve never known how to prioritize.

The consequences of overworking need to be normalized, not glamorized. Burnout, prevention and recovery measures should be taught in high schools and basic university courses, and we should teach what normal boundaries look like.

In virtual schooling, designating breaks geared toward stretching students’ minds and eyes should be enforced to help with blue-light headaches and short-term burnout.

While prevention can be taught, most people don’t realize they are overworking themselves until it’s too late to take preventative measures.

Teaching what burnout looks like in school and the workplace is essential to prevent overworking for future generations. Don’t stop going out for extracurriculars, but don’t feel pressured to take on everything to build your resume. People can find their passions while evaluating their hobbies and dropping extracurriculars that no longer serve them.

I am nothing without my degree path, or so I thought six months ago. My battle with my body feels like a never-ending war in my mind, but a treaty is finally starting to be negotiated.

Overworking is not a completely breakable habit because society’s standards continue to grow and change. However, there are ways we can learn to put ourselves above our work and ways to avoid burnout from happening too frequently. I am slowly learning to love my body and my mind for what it is, and I am accepting that I don’t need to fill my schedule down to the hour with my rainbow pens to feel accomplished anymore — and I’m proud of that. Like peace lilies thriving in the black, I am blooming, and my darkness has found a new love in its growth.

Contact Sophie Nulph with comments at smnulph@bsu.edu and on Twitter @nulphsophie.

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Continued from Page 03 “There’s days that are so busy from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,” Kadinger said.

“That’s our hours in the clinic, so if you were to walk through our clinic on an average day, you’re going to see students coming and going.”

Having a wide age range is something “great about [her] profession,” Kadinger said, and both Kadinger and Avila said one of their favorite parts about working in the clinic is seeing patients make progress in therapy.

“We can’t get bored,” Avila said. “It also makes it hard. It’s a good

The Voice Lab is pictured in the Speech-Language Clinic in the Health Professions Building Oct. 19. The clinic offers numerous diagnostic and rehabilitative services.

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Before I joined The Daily News second semester of my freshman year, I only attended football and basketball games. I grew up playing those sports and didn’t know much about sports like soccer, field hockey and others which contribute to the diversity of Ball State Athletics. I was hesitant to attend these games because I had no connection to them, other than that they were played at Ball State.

Willeke said he feels the same.

“For me, I mainly watch three sports: football, basketball and baseball,” Willeke said. “I want to feel more connected to the sport because I don’t know much about sports like soccer. I want to have a reason to go and support the team.”

I feel Willeke’s eagerness as well. I had the opportunity to cover soccer and men’s and women’s swimming and diving during the 2020-21 academic year but did not attend the events in person.

Instead, I scoured athletic websites for live streams and followed a stat tracker throughout each event. However, this season, I’m now able to go to these smaller-attended events and experience the action

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Richard Jensen was one of the judges who chose Dreier’s story as the winner of the competition. Jensen spent most of his career working for the Gannett Company until he retired in 2009. This was his first year judging the Ball State National Writing Awards.

“All four stories were excellent, so it was good summer reading,” Jensen said.

Each judge graded the stories individually and sent the story back to Ball State with a number grade to select which one they liked most. Jensen said out of all four stories, Dreier’s stood out to him as the best.

“She effectively wove a big picture look at the issue,” Dreier said. “Her narrative storytelling was really powerful, and consequently, I thought the story gave readers a greater

problem to have, but I’ve enjoyed all the clients that I’ve worked with in the clinic.”

Avila said she finds it difficult to choose what age group she would like to work with in the future because she’s had so many positive experiences with people of all ages, but she knew she wanted to pursue speech pathology because of the relationships it would allow her to build.

“The reason that I chose speech pathology was I like to make connections with people,” Avila said. “I wanted to see that I had a direct impact on someone’s life for the positive. There are times where you kind of get caught up in the process and you get caught up on the treatment and the clinical side of things. And then, your client brings you back to that personal side when you least expect it.”

After spending five semesters in the clinic, Avila has collected memories of specific clients who have remembered her name and wanted to see her again.

“Another client, after I had moved on, [the] next semester he had a new clinician [and] was asking about me, what I was up to and if I could come see him or say ‘hi,’” she said.

When the Health Professions Building was in construction, Kadinger got to help plan for what the clinic would look like and how it would function, which she said was beneficial for her and the staff because they could pick out the sizes for each room and decide earlier on what the function will be.

“One of the best memories was working together to make sure that this clinic was what our students can learn best in to treat our clients and a space that’s going to be good for their learning,” Kadinger said.

Although the clinic has been around for more than 50 years, it is ever-changing and evolving. Kadinger said the clinic offers services for transgender voice modification or accent modification for up close.

Ball State Athletics can improve at marketing these smaller programs and advertising them across campus, social media and other avenues accessible to students. Athletes should have the ability to participate in social media takeovers and bring the fans into their daily routines, which could include practices, team meals and even game preparation.

Students should know the premier players within the smaller programs, their backgrounds and stories before coming to Ball State. If students have a better understanding of who’s representing the Cardinals in soccer and field hockey, they will likely be more inclined to attend games and follow the team closely. The followers of soccer and field hockey should not feel any less significant than those of football and volleyball. With students able to get in free to all home athletic events, the attendance numbers for these sports are more disproportionate than they should be.

However, as a Ball State community, the least we can do is provide more support by attending these smaller-scale sporting events on campus, providing them with the same energy we give at basketball, football and volleyball games.

Contact Charleston Bowles with comments at clbowles@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cbowles01. understanding of this complex issue.”

For Dreier, she said the best part of her piece has been the feedback she has received from readers.

“I’ve gotten a lot of messages from police training academies and people who are training to be social workers or other kinds of law enforcement workers,” Dreier said. “It’s also been nice to hear from readers who talked about how it changed their mind on this issue or helped them see this issue in a new light.”

Dreier also said it has been “really exciting” for her to talk with Ball State students about her piece and receiving this year’s School of Journalism and Strategic Communication National Writing Award.

“It’s really inspiring and energizing for me to know that there are people who are thinking deeply about these things so early in their careers,” Dreier said. “I was definitely not grappling with these issues at 20 years old, so that’s a really wonderful thing that makes me happy.”

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

those who are not native speakers, in addition to its general speech pathology services.

The Speech-Language Clinic recently received a 2021 Parkinson Voice Project Award SPEAK OUT and LOUD Crowd Grant. The clinic also received the same grant in 2019, which is helping it purchase supplies to start more treatment groups. One group includes a literary clinic, which helps Muncie schools identify struggling readers and have them come to the clinic for intensive reading help.

“We treat a specialty population, so like Parkinson’s disease, people who’ve had a stroke, fluency or disfluency — a lot of people would recognize this as stuttering,” Kadinger said. “We are a resource in the community, and they help us and our students as much as we are hopefully helping them as well.”

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