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CLAYTON COLL REFLECTS ON FAMILY SIGNIFICANCE07 Finders Keepers: Ball State’s Fashion Merchandising Association raises money for networking opportunities.13

Preserving History : Ball State alumnus becomes new site manager for Limberlost State Historic Site.05

ECHOING BENEFICENCE Ball State president begins new podcast focused on connecting with alumni.04

Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns and Grammy and Academy Award winner Tiara Thomas record an episode of “Our Call to Beneficence.” Thomas is a 2012 Ball State graduate. LOGAN WOOD, PHOTO PROVIDED; ALEX HINDENLANG, DN DESIGN

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Oct. 26: A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel endorsed kid-size doses of the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 years old. The panel voted the vaccine’s benefits to the age group outweigh potential risks it could cause and decided it’s important to give parents the right to decide to vaccinate their young children, especially those at high risk.

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Oct. 24: The Cardinals dropped their fourth consecutive game in a 3-0 loss against Virginia Commonwealth University.

Freshman forward Agostina Giudice led Ball State with two shots, including one on goal. Sophomore goalkeeper Hannah Johnston totaled 11 saves and has 68 on the season. Ball State closes its regular season Oct. 30 against Kent State.

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Oct. 27: Ball State Director of Athletics Beth Goetz was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2021 “Women of Influence” List.

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Alec Baldwin fatally shoots crew member Actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop firearm on the set of his upcoming film “Rust” Oct. 21, killing the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring its director.

Baldwin said he was unaware the gun was loaded before firing it, and there are no charges against him.

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State begins offering more booster options The Indiana Department of Health announced it will begin offering booster doses of both the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines to eligible Hoosiers following authorization by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Oct. 21. The CDC previously authorized Pfizer booster doses for certain high-risk individuals.

Ball State students shop for clothes at the Green Theatre Society’s annual clothing swap Oct. 23 at University Green. The club hosts the clothing swap to encourage students to practice more sustainable shopping methods and to spread the club’s message. MAYA WILKINS, DN

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Ball State Green Theatre Society aims to make theater more environmentally friendly.

Maya Wilkins Associate News Editor In fall 2019, Parker Hickey, senior acting major, was approached by Jacki Walburn, a senior at the time, who was looking for any opportunity to be an activist and be more sustainable, whether it be through organizing climate strikes or painting theater sets.

“She was very involved in political things and was knocking on doors for local candidates and on the debate team, so she was very passionate,” Hickey said.

Hickey and Walburn shared a common interest in theater, and they both wanted to do whatever they could to make a difference and show people the theater could be more environmentally friendly. “[Walburn’s] very passionate about theater, and it can be such a wasteful thing, but the arts and theater are extremely important in society,” Hickey said. “She was really fascinated by the Broadway Green Alliance, which is a program

I think we all have a responsibility towards taking care of the planet, so it’s one of my hopes that we get more members and specifically more male representation.”

- GRAEME MAHON, Senior acting major

with Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theaters and college programs that use that information to help create more sustainable practices within theaters across the country.”

According to its website, the Broadway Green Alliance connects members of the theater industry with environmental professionals to

normalize green practices in the community and has implemented sustainability reform on Broadway since 2008. These practices include making all the lights energy-efficient, keeping old costumes out of landfills and providing educational programs at various universities.

From Walburn’s fascination with this group, the Ball State Green Theatre Society was born — a club Hickey said encourages environmental stewardship and creates awareness about practices in the theater industry that may not be environmentally friendly. Walburn and Hickey both started the group in 2019, and now, Hickey is its president.

“We want to make sure people are always thinking, ‘Do I really need to print this script?

Can we be more frugal and save some trees and just reuse this old wood for this set? Can we bring reusable water bottles to rehearsals?’ Just thinking about every little possible thing to create more awareness,” Hickey said.

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Gov. Holcomb reviews law enforcement Gov. Eric Holcomb released findings from a report assessing the curriculum, training standards, policies and practices of all statelevel law enforcement agencies Oct. 25. The report suggests issuing body-worn cameras for all state troopers on the frontlines.

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Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns speaks with Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author and Ball State graduate, for his podcast, “Our Call to Beneficence.” Mearns interviews alumni on his show. BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, PHOTO PROVIDED

Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns begins his new podcast connecting alumni and Beneficence.

Maya Wilkins Associate News Editor “What does our call to Beneficence mean to you?”

Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns ends each episode of his podcast by asking this question, whether he is speaking with a New York Times bestselling author, a Grammy and Academy Award winner or the CEO of Project Lead The Way. In March, Ball State released the podcast, “Our Call to Beneficence,” which features Mearns interviewing university alumni who “embody the spirit of Beneficence through their professional success and their personal service,” according to the podcast description.

Mearns said the “character and culture” of the Ball State faculty, staff and students is recognized through Beneficence.

“That was how we came up with the name, to try to communicate again to the audience and reinforce to the audience what I believe makes Ball State such a distinctive and compelling place to study and work,” Mearns said.

Mearns also said his favorite part of his job is talking with students, staff and members of the community and getting to know them, which is what the podcast has allowed him to do with alumni.

“That’s so exciting to me because I get to hear what impact Ball State had on their lives and how that has helped them do other things in their lives,” he said.

The idea for the podcast came in late 2020, Mearns said, when he received help from members of the Ball State University Foundation and his office. He said they all started to design the format for the podcast and its guests, and then they

began recording interviews last spring and over the summer.

Mark Helmus, Ball State University Foundation chief advancement officer, said the foundation is in the leadership phase on a capital campaign named “Our Call to Beneficence,” which goes hand-inhand with the new podcast. During the leadership phase, the foundation does not post anything about it online or create a website for the campaign.

“I think we saw the podcast as a way to socialize the concept of our call to Beneficence with a larger audience and to get people comfortable with thinking about Beneficence as something other than a statue,” Helmus said.

Although the two are related, Helmus said listeners won’t hear anything about the campaign

I think we saw the podcast as a way to socialize the concept of our call to Beneficence with a larger audience and to get people comfortable with thinking about Beneficence as something other than a statue.”

- MARK HELMUS, Ball State University Foundation chief advancement officer as they listen to the podcast. However, Mearns does ask his guests about the idea of philanthropy, which is the foundation’s focus.

“Some people will look back and say, ‘Listening to Ashley Ford talk about her experience really caused me to think about who else has helped me succeed or help me get through college,’” Helmus said. “Those are the kinds of things that people don’t always recognize and can’t always put their finger on when they make a decision to make a gift

or get involved.”

The podcast is designed to have an episode released once a month, and each one will feature a different Ball State alumnus. Each episode is released near the end of the month and lasts between 30-45 minutes.

“It wasn’t difficult coming up with the ideas because there’s so many interesting and engaging people that are associated with the university in various ways,” Mearns said. “The harder thing was scheduling them because those people often have pretty busy schedules, but everyone we’ve asked has said ‘yes.’”

Mearns said the podcast’s first few episodes were filmed via Zoom due to COVID-19 concerns and because of the participant’s “busy schedules.”

However, the more recent ones, such as the episodes with Ashley C. Ford and Tiara Thomas, were filmed in-person and on campus.

Before filming, Mearns did not have experience with recording a podcast or even listening to one, but he said he has enjoyed getting the opportunity to listen to some and record his own.

“What I learned was that the idea is not to think of it as recording something for the world, but to just engage in the kind of natural conversation that you might with another person when you are trying to get to know them,” Mearns said.

Gail Werner, executive writer for the president and 2004 journalism graduate, said working on the podcast has been “a very rewarding experience.”

“I love being a storyteller,” Werner said. “And so, with speech writing, you do some of that, but then this is another opportunity to help tell other people’s stories, so I love being able to support them in any way I can.”

Werner said she was in charge of getting “everything off the ground” and looking into what the group would have to do for the podcast to be successful. She did this with some help from Sara McInerney, who is also a Ball State graduate and one of Werner’s former students. McInerney has her own podcast called “Facing Fear with Sara,” and helped start “Our Call to Beneficence.”

“She helped us with everything from selecting the company we were going to use to giving us some background on [podcasts],” Werner said.

“Then, she also gave us some ideas for social

media push and really helped us understand the platform we were using.”

Mearns, Helmus and Werner said they have all received positive feedback from alumni since the podcast’s launch.

“We’ve had probably four or five people who’ve actually emailed the president directly to say they’ve enjoyed the episodes,” Werner said.

Mearns said he is hoping more students will begin listening to the podcast, especially the episodes that feature young alumni, because the main audience right now is alumni and members of the Ball State community.

“We just launched it, so it’s still early,” Mearns said. “I’ve heard so far that it’s been consistent with our expectations, which is [that] people really have enjoyed hearing from these [alumni]. I’m just the vehicle or the medium through which we’re introducing those people, so it’s, as I say, not really about me, but it’s about introducing these people to a wider audience.”

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

WHERE TO LISTEN TO “OUR CALL TO BENEFICENCE” There are currently four episodes of “Our Call to Beneficence” available for listening on various platforms.

Listeners can find episodes on: • The Ball State website • Apple Podcasts • Spotify • Google Podcasts The guests on the first four episodes include: • • • •

Vince Bertram (ep. 1) Don Yaeger (ep. 2) Ashley C. Ford (ep. 3) Renae Conley (ep. 4)

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The Limberlost State Historic Site is dedicated to preserving Hoosier author, photographer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter’s legacy. According to Inside Indiana Business, Stratton-Porter is Indiana’s most-read female author. AIMED PHOTOGRAPHY VIA INDIANA STATE MUSEUM AND HISTORIC SITES, PHOTO PROVIDED

Ball State alumnus Shaun Payne serves as new site manager for Limberlost State Historic Site.

Hannah Amos Reporter In Geneva, Indiana, there is a home that once belonged to Indiana author Gene Stratton-Porter named Limberlost State Historic Site.

Stratton-Porter’s family moved to the Geneva cabin in 1888, and she lived there for 18 years. She wrote six of her 12 novels at this house, including “Freckles” and “A Girl of the Limberlost,” along with five of her nature books, according to the Limberlost State Historic Site.

Shaun Payne, 2013 Ball State historic preservation graduate program alumnus, serves as the site manager for Limberlost State Historic Site. Payne has been the site manager for the Limberlost State Historic Site for a little more than two months. As the site manager, Payne is the only full-time employee at the site, and he leads a team made up of three people.

Payne’s duties include creating programs, budgeting and purchasing for the site, but his favorite task is leading tours of StrattonPorter’s cabin.

“It’s just fun to meet all the different people that come in,” Payne said. “There’s people that have never heard of Gene Stratton-Porter before, and so they’re just shocked to learn about her and everything that she accomplished in her time.”

Payne had to do three Zoom interviews for

the position, including one with the north region manager and the vice president of operations at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.

Payne said the entire hiring process took around two months to complete. He applied for the position May 15 and officially received it July 17.

Before Payne received his master’s degree from Ball State, he attended three other universities to receive his bachelor’s degree in

Indiana, and she ended up transferring back to Indiana to go to Ball State … so I followed her.”

Originally, Payne wanted to be a high school history teacher. However, when the 2008 recession hit and there was a job crisis, he decided to get his master’s degree in teaching, with plans to eventually get his doctorate to teach at the university level.

One of his Anderson University professors,

I thought I would enjoy a more hands-on approach, which is what historic preservation kind of afforded me — is that instead of talking about history, you’re actually involved [and] immersed in it.”

- SHAUN PAYNE, 2013 Ball State alumnus and site manager for Limberlost State Historic Site history. He started in Alabama at the University of Mobile, transferred to Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida and finally graduated from Anderson University in 2009.

“We lived in Florida for three years while my dad was on recruiting duty, and that’s how he found out about the school,” Payne said.

“And I was there for one year because I met my wife there and she’s originally from Anderson,

Joel Shrock — a Ball State graduate — recommended the history department to Payne, and he applied for his master’s in summer 2009.

“I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I thought I would,” Payne said. “I was looking through course catalogs, and I found historic preservation [and thought] ‘Oh, this is interesting — it sounds like something I would enjoy.’”

After discovering the historic preservation program, Payne spoke with the director of the historic preservation graduate program at the time, Duncan Campbell, an associate professor of architecture.

Payne met with Campbell to speak about the differences between teaching history and working with history. From this meeting, Payne found historic preservation was more aligned with what he wanted to do.

“I thought I would enjoy a more hands-on approach, which is what historic preservation kind of afforded me, is that instead of talking about history, you’re actually involved [and] immersed in it,” Payne said.

When Payne was in the historic preservation graduate program, which he joined before the spring 2010 semester, it was a two-year program that required around 60 credits to graduate.

Under new leadership, it is now a one-year program with 30- and 36-credit hour options.

Campbell, who received his master’s from Columbia University, focused on recruiting students to the historic preservation graduate program and expanding the curriculum. He used Columbia’s larger program as a model.

“That was what I liked the best about it,” Campbell said. “[It] was trying to kind of revamp the program and upgrade it and improve it — and also bring in more students.”

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Continued from Page 03 They said the COVID-19 pandemic has been tough on the organization because a lot of the group’s activities in the first year required faceto-face contact and group activities, but now that the pandemic’s effects are improving, the Green Theatre Society can plan more events.

“Some of our meetings have been informational,” Hickey said. “We talked about current events happening in the world, but then, usually, we’ll do some group activities and sometimes creative things like making [climate] strike signs.”

We need to get more underclassmen passionate about it and more opinion and more diversity and more people onstage and backstage, just to get multiple perspectives and even connections with professors. I think it’s really important to get them on board so that we can do more within the productions.”

- PARKER HICKEY, Senior acting major and president of the Green Theatre Society The Green Theatre Society has consistently had between 15-20 people involved each year, but Hickey said the attendance is fluctuating. They have also spoken at freshman theater classes to recruit new members for the club.

“We need people to keep it going and carry it on,” Hickey said. “We need to get more underclassmen passionate about it and more opinion and more diversity and more people onstage and backstage, just to get multiple perspectives and even connections with professors. I think it’s really important to get them on board so that we can do more within the productions.”

Graeme Mahon, senior acting major, is also a member of the Green Theatre Society board and agreed it’s been difficult to recruit new members during the pandemic. He also said it’s been difficult to get male members because he believes there is a stigma around the group being “a feminine thing.”

“A big focus, specifically this semester, is just getting more people involved and really branching out and trying to get in as many new members as we can,” Mahon said. “I think we all have a responsibility toward taking care of the planet, so it’s one of my hopes that we get more members and, specifically, more male representation.”

The Green Theatre Society hosts multiple events throughout the school year to get students involved, with its most popular one being the clothing swap on University Green, where people can get new clothes while also donating their old ones. This year’s event was hosted Oct. 23, where the group also gave away some of its shirts to advertise the club and get more of a following.

“We usually wait to do it before Halloween so that people can get pieces for their costumes,” Hickey said.

“It’s super cheap, and college students love that.”

Mahon and Hickey said the group is trying to host more events in addition to the clothing swap, which it was able to do more in 2019 without COVID-19 concerns. Hickey said one of their favorites was a vegan potluck and another event where everyone brought materials to make their own zero-waste toothpaste.

“We’ve also done informational stuff on the zero-waste movement, environmental racism and sort of the hot button topics like that,” Mahon said.

This year, Mahon also said the board plans on adding other events like a succulent drive or a climate strike at the Scramble Light.

As Hickey and Mahon are both preparing to graduate, they both want to make sure the Green Theatre Society is in “good hands” and ready to outlive both of them once they leave Ball State.

“I feel like the beginning of the club came out of a lot of passion, but it was very chaotic and there wasn’t a focused mission,” Hickey said, “so my goal before I hand it off to the leaders next year is to make the mission super clear and that people know exactly what the club is about and exactly what we’re setting out to do.”

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Open the last three

Tuesdays of every month

We have groceries and toiletries!

Learn more or donate by emailing cardkitchen@bsu.edu Clothes are draped over benches near University Green Oct. 23 for the annual Green Theatre Society clothing swap. The club encourages theaters to be more environmentally friendly and is open for all Ball State students to join. MAYA WILKINS, DN

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Ball State defeated

by Miami (Ohio) The Cardinals suffered their second Mid-American Conference loss of the year, falling 24-17 to Miami (Ohio) Oct. 23. Redshirt fifthyear quarterback Drew Plitt was intercepted by RedHawks’ redshirt junior safety Sterling Weatherford with one minute remaining in the fourth quarter. The Cardinals return to the field Nov. 2 against Akron.

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Cardinals defeat Huskies on Senior Day Ball State ended its two-game loss streak with a 5-0 victory against Northern Illinois Oct. 24. Senior defender Kennedy Metzger scored her second goal of the season in the 17th minute off an assist from redshirt senior midfielder Nicky Potts. Ball State ends its regular season Oct. 28 in a 3 p.m. home match against Miami (Ohio).

Ian Hansen Sports Editor Every Friday night when Clayton Coll was younger, he would sit in the crowd and cheer as he watched his father, Chris Coll, lead TriWest High School Football as head coach in Lizton, Indiana. He would eventually watch his older brothers, Casey and Cody Coll, go on to play football at Tri-West for their father.

Watching football became the norm for the junior linebacker, as he eventually became teammates with Casey at Tri-West during his freshman and sophomore years and would go on to become a “film junkie” and a student of the game.

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two years at Tri-West in 2015 and 2016 before Chris would become head football coach of Franklin Community High School in Franklin, Indiana. Clayton then followed his father and joined him for his junior and senior seasons where he would go on to set a school record in tackles, finishing with 320 over just two seasons.

Clayton said moving to Franklin Community was when his football career took off and when he really started to have a better understanding of the game. He said he considers his father and brothers as his heroes.

“My dad’s always been a mentor in my life and always will be, so having him on the field with me as [my] coach was a little weird at

times,” Clayton said. “He was always coach first when we were on the field. And then, by the time we got home, it was just Dad being Dad, but having him around and being such a great mentor was a blessing to me.”

Chris said the relationship with his sons is “special” and almost always revolves around football. However, when it came to family trips, it wasn’t traditional.

“When they were growing up, they did two things, and that was football and rodeo,” Chris said. “So, as a family, the boys and I were always together at practice or playing.

On the rodeo side, we didn’t do normal vacations. We were in a truck together, going up and down the road.”

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Cardinals sweep Broncos, earn 10th straight win Ball State became the first MidAmerican Conference team to reach 20 wins Oct. 23 with a 3-0 sweep of Western Michigan. Junior defensive specialist Maggie Huber led the Cardinals with 18 digs, and junior defensive specialist Havyn Gates added 15 digs. The Cardinals return to action Oct. 29 against Bowling Green, which is 11-0 in MAC play.

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THE RIGHT Freshman goalkeeper Ally Butler sits in front of the goal cage Oct. 26 in Briner Sports Complex. Butler transfered from Wake Forest University to Ball State for the fall 2021 semester. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

How Ally Butler continued her field hockey journey and came to Ball State Derran Cobb Reporter After her freshman campaign at Wake Forest University, Ally Butler made the move from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to the Midwest and transferred to Ball State. However, playing for the Cardinals hasn’t felt much different for the freshman goalkeeper.

It makes me feel good to see that I’ve achieved those dreams that I set when I was just a little kid.”

- ALLY BUTLER, Freshman goalkeeper

Butler, who is in her first year playing for Ball State Field Hockey, has found success in recent years. She began her field hockey career in Richmond, Virginia, and played for her club team, the Richmond Panthers, for about nine years. Her former coach with the Panthers, Betsy Ellis, said Butler was motivated to improve from the start.

“She was probably 8 years old — just a teeny little thing in the goal cage,” Ellis said. “[Butler] was naturally athletic and had some good skills, and she just kept on with it.”

Ellis said she remembers one pivotal moment in particular when she recognized Butler’s potential as a goalkeeper while playing a team made up of several current Division I players much older than the Panthers were.

“Ally probably had 32 saves, and we ended up tying them 0-0,” Ellis said. “That was the moment where I saw that she had the fire in her eyes — she was ready to move to the next level.”

Butler had multiple accomplishments while playing at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, Virginia. As a 2020 graduate, she led her team to the state tournament in 2019 for the first time in school history while also setting various records in Virginia High School League history, including most saves in a game, most saves in a season and total career saves. She credited much of her success to her family and her coaches.

“I would say what contributed to that success is my family being behind me for everything, supporting me for everything and taking me to every club practice,” Butler said. “Another thing that contributed to that was my goalie coach Annie Z. — she’s incredible. And, if it wasn’t for her, honestly, I probably wouldn’t have stuck with field hockey because I do a lot of individual [workouts] with her, and she basically got me to where I am today.”

Annie Zinkavich, now an assistant coach for Longwood University, said her relationship with Butler was like a “big-and-little-sister” bond. She says Ally had drive and constantly pushed herself to be better.

“Ally and I just got along really well,” Zinkavich said. “We are both super competitive and like to go balls to the wall, if you will. [She’s] just a great kid — we both just got along really well. We would do drills for hours and hours and hours, and the kid just wanted to get better at all times, so I loved working with her.”

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Their bond would continue to strengthen through competition. Casey said it was almost always friendly, but he felt like he had to one-up Clayton, whether it was adding an extra plate in the weight room or beating him while playing video games.

The countless days Clayton and Casey spent competing against each other all led to where they are now, as they are fulfilling their dreams playing together on the same Division I football team and competing for the Cardinals in Muncie — 87 miles from where they began their career in Lizton. Casey is a graduate student tight end and Clayton is a linebacker, so the competition continues in practice.

“It is one of the most rewarding things in the world — you spend your whole life competing with each other,” Casey said. “This was our dream, to play Division I football together. From youth football, it was our dream. [Clayton] 100 percent has always been the highest IQ guy on the football field — his drive and motor is unparalleled.”

Part of the reason why Ball State Football head coach Mike Neu recruited Clayton in the first place was because of his football IQ and his work ethic on the field and in the film room. He said Clayton came to the Cardinals with advanced football intelligence and has done an unbelievable job since he stepped foot on campus.

Clayton said he knew from the beginning the importance of watching film and preparing for the next opponent. He said college has really propelled his ability to watch film.

“In high school, you try to watch film, but it isn’t the same because tendencies aren’t the same,” Clayton said. “Once I got to college, I

(From left to right) Casey, Clayton and Cody Coll pose for a photo. Casey and Clayton played high school and college football together. DEENA COLL, PHOTO PROVIDED

realized this stuff puts people ahead. Being able to see plays happen before it happens comes from preparation.”

During his high school career, Clayton received offers from Miami (Ohio), Eastern Michigan, Navy, Army and other programs, but he said Ball State’s coaches made it feel like coming to Muncie was the right decision.

It is one of the most rewarding things in the world — you spend your whole life competing with each other.

This was our dream, to play Division I football together.

From youth football, it was our dream. ” - CASEY COLL, Ball State graduate and Clayton’s older brother

Once he arrived at Ball State in 2019, the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator, Tyler Stockton, said all Clayton needed was the physical reps to gain experience, and his knowledge of football was already there. Stockton said that has improved even more since his freshman year.

“He truly is a coach on the field,” Stockton said. “He is always helping the younger guys and even the older guys. He even helps us, as coaches, to see things differently. Even the younger guys gravitate toward him.”

Fast forward to 2021, where Clayton has seen more playing time than in previous seasons. While he has always played with the starters, redshirt senior linebacker Brandon Martin suffered a knee injury for six games after the Cardinals’ seasonopening victory against Western Illinois, giving Clayton even more time on the field. “[Jaylin Thomas] and Brandon Martin have been mentors for me so far,” Clayton said. “You hate to see an injury to anybody on the field, but the coaches preach ‘Next Man Up,’ and it is a part of the game. I studied and did my part.”

Neu credited Stockton for preparing Clayton and the entire Cardinals’ defense for buying into their team-first mentality and being ready to play at any given moment.

“It is a competitive room, so when Brandon Martin went down with the injury, Clayton was ready … Clayton has just done an unbelievable job of taking this opportunity that he’s earned and [running] with it,” Neu said. “He is just getting better and better and better every single week.”

So far, Clayton has had a career season for the Cardinals with 66 total tackles, a sack and an interception. The success all started with watching his dad coach and his brothers play. It all happened because he would spend extra time watching film.

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Midwest menus and food festivals Across the country, food festivals are a way to get people together and enjoy delicious food. The Midwest is known for many different types of food, ranging from ears of corn, barbeque, potatoes and even cherries. Many of these foods are important pieces of history for the people who live there and are vital to the states’ economies.

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A “reader” listens intently to a “book” share their story at a Human Library event in Muncie November 2019. “Readers” who attend in-person readings have the opportunity to converse with a specific “book,” but are assigned to another if they are already “checked out.” PEGGY LEWIS, PHOTO PROVIDED

The Human Library uses “books” to break the stigma around difficult topics like sexuality, abuse and depression.

Grace Duerksen Associate Lifestyles Editor

The Prequel

Founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, Ronnie Abergel created the Human Library to help challenge the stigma of difficult topics by simply creating discussion between people.

Created in 2000, the Human Library was a small-scale group operating solely out of Denmark. Twenty-one years later, the organization has branches in 85 countries and counting. The Human Library has four well-established branches in the United States, and two of them are located in Indiana — one in Fort Wayne and the other in Muncie. The other two are located in Los Angeles and New York City.

The Human Library uses “library language” in order to keep its theme and structure alive.

The Human Library in Muncie consists of many “books,” who are volunteers who come into the

It’s a place where we can begin to break down prejudices, biases and stereotypes and create an understanding.”

- PEGGY LEWIS, Librarian for the Human Library library to represent a topic that directly relates to or describes them, such as having depression, being a police officer, surviving abuse or being transgender. Librarians at the Human Library help train the “books” and organize readings within the community.

The “readers” are people who come to library

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events or readings. They may come with questions prepared for specific books or just attend to learn something new. Although most of their meetings occur via Zoom, they occasionally meet at Minnetrista in the Oakhurst Gardens.

Making an Impact Peggy Lewis, librarian for the Muncie branch, has been involved with the organization since 2018.

Lewis works as a branch manager both in Muncie and in a global group that meets twice a week via Zoom.

“I have a lot of books here,” Lewis said, “and I’d like to say that ours are kind of homegrown books, and it’s very organic.”

To recruit new “books” and spread the word about the Human Library in the Muncie community, Lewis said most of its advertising is done by word of mouth. She said her goal when volunteering for the Human Library is to give herself and the “books” a chance to grow and create an impact.

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“Diana: The Musical” premiered on Netflix Oct. 1, one month before it makes its Broadway debut. The musical is based on Princess Diana’s life until her death in 1997, but critics were less than enthusiastic to watch, claiming there was little to no desire for a musical about the royal. The show was originally set to premiere in 2020, but COVID-19 concerns put the plans on hold until this year.

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Following family footsteps to Ball State When deciding where to attend college, Kate and Sarah Mahnensmith followed in their mother Holly’s footsteps and chose Ball State University. Holly said while she never pushed her children to attend the same school as her, she was beaming with pride over their decision after finding out. Having worked for the Alumni Council for nearly 15 years, Holly and her family have always had an incredibly strong connection to the university.

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HOCUS POCUS An in-depth look into the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692

Giles Corey was the only Salem citizen who was pressed to death for his refusual to partake in trial.

I am no witch. I am innocent. I know nothing of it.”

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Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Williams are some of the first to exhibit strange behavior, such as screaming, seizures and trance-like states.

Others believed being touched by a witch resulted in a special reaction.

In an attempt to understand the physical cause for the behavior, physicians concluded that the girls were under the influence of bewitchment.

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LATE FEBRUARY As a way of exposing the witches, Mary Sibley, John Indian and Tituba baked “a witch cake” to reveal the identities to the afflicted girls.

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Witch cakes were made of rye meal, ashes and the victim’s urine.

It was speculated witches could float on top of water.

Legend had it that witches were incapable of speaking scripture aloud.

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FEBRUARY 29TH

EARLY MARCH After being arrested, Tituba confesses to being a witch and tells the court there are many other witches in Salem.

Chaos continues for the next year.

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Some believed witches had a mark to signify their role in witchcraft.

Increase Mather returns from England, bringing with him a new charter and the new governor, Sir William Phips — who set up the special Court of Oyer and Terminer to try the accused.

MAY 14TH

Extended family

29% of the accused for witchcraft were immediate or extended family of a minister.

JUNE 2ND The first session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer takes place. Bridget Bishop is the first to be pronounced guilty of witchcraft and is sentenced to death.

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“Our human books are very transparent,” Lewis said. “They’re very courageous and brave and, if the reader is courageous and brave also, they’re going to get a lot of new information. It’s a place where we can begin to break down prejudices, biases and stereotypes and create an understanding.”

Lewis said she believes most of the stigma surrounding difficult topics the Human Library’s books represent come from fear, but the best way to overcome that fear is to talk about topics that are often misunderstood.

“If you take a look at some of the Middle Eastern and Eastern countries, many of our topics are either illegal or taboo,” Lewis said. “We’re being invited to come to places like that to help and to educate.”

Every now and then, Lewis said she finds herself in the right place at the right time, with the right people. Lewis said she found one of the organization’s “books” at a gas station where she came across a K-9 police officer who did not fit the “typical” profile of a police officer.

“I happened to be pumping gas one day,” Lewis said, “and I was across the pump from her, and I first noticed her police car. I just walked around the pump and I said, ‘This is going to be totally random,’ and I explained what I do [for the Human Library]. Probably only three sentences in, [the police officer] said, ‘I can do that.’ That’s how you meet people — in lots of different ways.”

[After] we started training and had our first event, it had a really big impact on me ... and now, here we are — two years later.”

- IAN GONZALES, A “book” in the Human Library and 2019 Ball State alumnus The Human Library has a booth at many of Muncie’s community events such as First Thursdays, farmers markets and the Old Washington Street Festival.

“I stand out there with my brochures, and I hand them out to as many people as I can and tell them about the group,” Lewis said.

A New Direction After coming across Lewis and her Human Library booth in 2019 at a yard art (YART) event, Ian Gonzales found the purpose he had been searching for. Gonzales studied education at Ball State, but when he graduated in 2019, he said he was in need of something new after things didn’t turn out the way he expected.

“I was an educator for a bit, but I didn’t do too well in education, so I left,” Gonzales said. “I just wanted to have direction in my life, so I decided I would start saying ‘Yes’ to everything and anything.”

When Lewis asked Gonzales if he was interested in becoming a “book” for the Human Library, he agreed. “[After] we started training and had our first event,

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In the Oakhurst Gardens at Minnetrista, a “book” has a conversation with its “reader” September 2021. The Human Library consistently uses “library language” in order to keep their theme relevant. PEGGY LEWIS, PHOTO PROVIDED it really had an impact on me,” Gonzales said. “I really enjoyed it and wanted to keep going at it and now, here we are — two years later.”

When Gonzales first joined the Human Library, he was unsure about the title he was going to represent, but a consultation with Lewis and Abergel helped aid his decision.

“My initial title was ‘double minority’ or something like that because I’m a gay man and I’m an Asian,” Gonzales said. “When Ronnie came in, he said that I should just focus on one and the other one will come eventually.”

Because there were already other queer “books” in the library at the time, it was clear to Gonzales what story he needed to tell.

After deciding to represent the title of “Asian American,” Gonzales said most of his conversations focused on how his title became a political topic due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He said most of the people who come to public reading events aren’t aware Asian Americans face racism as often as African American or Latino people.

“How do you have someone in your life who’s Asian American and don’t believe there’s any discrimination against Asian people in this country at all?” Gonzales said. “That’s why I like to keep publishing under [the title].”

Gonzales said it’s a slightly different experience each time he tells his story. Because the goal of all the “books” is to give the reader what they want, every reader brings something different. He said while there is no true way to train for having a conversation with someone as a “book,” a good conversation will come through as long as a “book” is comfortable with their story.

Contact Grace Duerksen with comments at gvduerksen@bsu.edu or on Twitter @gracie_duerk.

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CARDINAL COUTURE The Fashion Merchandising Association hosts fundraiser to create more opportunities.

Taylor Smith Editor-in-chief Since joining the Fashion Merchandising Association (FMA) her freshman year, senior fashion industry studies major Brandi Osthimer has been working to raise the club from the ground up.

“When I joined, [the club] was kind of starting from the bottom,” Osthimer said. “They had not had a great past. The adviser wasn’t great, so they were kind of building up from that. We did a lot of fundraising to help with that, and we would have guest speakers and bonding activities.”

Osthimer said she joined the FMA to have a better opportunity to connect with other students in her “already small major,” and she feels the club has helped make fashion merchandising majors closer to each other. Since becoming a member of the FMA, Osthimer said she feels she has found more of a community of people with similar interests to her own.

“It’s been really fun — I feel like [people in] our major [have] definitely gotten closer,” Osthimer said. “Last year, we were non-existent.

There was no community, and we didn’t really know each other because we were online.

More sellers are driving resale’s projected growth

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Freshman fashion merchandising major Scottie Perdue poses for a photo on a decorative couch inside the Fashion Merchandising Association’s resale pop-up shop Oct. 27. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

is the amount that could have been reused or recycled.

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After COVID-19 concerns prevented the club from meeting in person for nearly a year, Osthimer is ready to return to her role as the FMA president and bring people together again.

“It’s just nice seeing people come together,” Osthimer said. “The bonding aspects of everything and the confidence — I feel like everybody’s keying into their strengths through this [club].”

Jessica Wolfe, sophomore fashion merchandising major, is using her social media skills and graphic design knowledge as a member of the FMA promotions committee. Wolfe helps create content for the club’s social media pages, like promotional flyers for upcoming events or organizing Instagram story takeovers and uses what she has learned in her marketing minor to spread the word about the FMA and its events. “[The FMA has] made me feel like more of a professional, and I feel like I’m learning so much about starting a business, making all the contacts and pushing everything out there,” Wolfe said.

“There’s a lot of meetings and scheduling things, and it’s made me feel like a bigger part of the club.”

For the past month, Wolfe has been working to spread the news of the FMA’s resale pop-up shop.

She built a consistent presence for the FMA on its Instagram account and hung flyers with QR codes linking to the FMA’s Instagram around campus.

“It’s really important to get the word out to people and make sure that [people] have access,” Wolfe said. “We’ve made sure to link to our Instagram so people can immediately get connected to all the information.”

The FMA’s resale pop-up shop fundraiser was put on hold last year due to COVID-19 concerns.

Now, as president of the FMA, Osthimer is making sure she keeps up the momentum of the club by holding its resale pop-up shop for the first time since the pandemic began and planning one every semester.

“Our main goal is connecting people with an interest in fashion [and] connecting fashion majors because we are a small major,” Osthimer said.

“Being involved in the club is a great experience to bond with everybody and network. Our big focus so far this year, though, has been fundraising.”

In previous years, the FMA would hold its resale pop-up shop at a table in the Atrium, which has proved successful, Osthimer said, as the club has raised $200 at their shop before. This year, the FMA decided to rent a building out in the Village, taking their shop to the next level. While the resale pop-up has been successful in year’s past,

members of the club are hopeful the shop in the Village will lead to more funds raised and higher foot traffic.

“We had a very wide variety of people that

I feel like I’ve really been able to key into my personal confidence. Being able to work with other people and forming those team-building skills just reminds me that I’m a part of something more than myself.“ - BRANDI OSTHIMER, Senior fashion industry studies major and president of the Fashion Merchandising Association would stop by the table in the Atrium,” Osthimer said, “but we’re hoping with this shop to get an even wider array of people. We’re going to have more clothes than we’ve ever had before because we don’t have to limit ourselves to a table, and we have a whole space.”

Sophomore fashion industry studies major and the FMA professional development chairman Maureen Kirk started planning the resale pop-up shop a month ago. As committee chair leader of the FMA’s resale pop-up shop team, Kirk has led the efforts of getting everything prepared and organized for the club’s event Oct. 27-29.

In her preparation for the pop-up, Kirk said she has considered the visual merchandising side of fashion, like where to place rails in the store or offering a photo area for customers, which is something she previously hasn’t had the opportunity to work on firsthand.

Gaining more experience in the fashion industry is just one benefit of joining the FMA, Kirk said.

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As professional development chairman, she has also had the opportunity to update visual merchandising for the Ball State Bookstore.

“I’m the one who does all the painting on [the windows], works with the mannequins to put them in the right places and promotes what clothing will sell best,” Kirk said.

The FMA’s members collected all the clothing being sold at their resale pop-up shop on their own, sifting through their clothing, donating what they no longer wanted and asking friends and family members to pitch in to help raise money for the club.

Reselling their own clothes not only helps the club raise funds, but also reduces their overall waste.

ThredUp’s 2021 Fashion Resale Market Report stated 36 billion pounds of clothing are thrown away in the U.S. each year, 95 percent of which could have been reused or recycled. According to the World Economic Forum, the fashion industry accounts for 10 percent of all humanity’s carbon emissions and is “the second-largest consumer of the world’s water supply,” producing mass amounts of waste and pollution that can be reduced through reselling. ThredUp reports an item bought used versus new displaces 17.4 pounds of CO2 emissions, and a resale pop-up shop is one way FMA can do its part.

While helping the environment is one benefit for FMA, all proceeds made at the resale pop-up shop will go toward helping FMA members afford opportunities like field trips to New York City for the National Retail Federation Convention, which allows more opportunities for members to network.

A year before the pandemic, the FMA sent their first group to New York City for the National Retail Federation Convention where businesses like Kohl’s, Walmart and Gap come together and help fashion-focused individuals network and meet with different CEOs of fashion companies.

“You also have the opportunity to interview these companies and possibly get a job or an internship,” Osthimer said. “You literally sit at a round table with all of these big names in the fashion industry and the companies, and it’s a

great opportunity overall to learn more about it.

If we can raise more money, more people will be able to go on the New York trip.”

Those trips are important to members of the FMA, Osthimer said, because they help in figuring out networking opportunities for students while aiding in the development of professionalism skills for the fashion industry.

Closer to home, the club promotes professionalism and networking by hosting guest speakers, sharing internship opportunities and meeting with other student members who have more experience.

“I’ve thought of doing resume and LinkedIn workshops, just because — since we are in the fashion major — it’s a little different,” Osthimer said. “We don’t have to be as strict when we are making our resumes or creating our LinkedIn profile.”

While building her portfolio has been a plus for Wolfe, she said, her biggest takeaway from joining the FMA have been the connections she has made, especially with people like Osthimer and Kirk.

Wolfe said the FMA is a safe place where she feels she is heard, and before joining the club, she hadn’t experienced being somewhere her ideas mattered.

Osthimer said members of the FMA “love new ideas,” and they all try to help one another in being successful in the fashion industry. Because every member joins the club with little to no knowledge regarding what it takes to make it in fashion, Osthimer said it’s important to support one another and learn together as a team.

“We’re all working together — teamwork makes the dream work,” Osthimer said. “That’s such a generic thing to say, but it’s really true. If somebody is not pulling their weight in the group, it’s hard to get back up.

Not only has the FMA helped members find friendships, but Osthimer has also found more faith in herself and her work. Before taking over as the FMA president, Osthimer had never held a leadership role before, but she feels she has found her voice through the role.

“I feel like I’ve really been able to key into my personal confidence,” Osthimer said. “Being able to work with other people and forming those team-building skills just reminds me that I’m a part of something more than myself.”

Contact Taylor Smith with comments at tnsmith6@bsu.edu or on Twitter @taywrites.

Jessica Wolfe (left), Brandi Osthimer (middle) and Maureen Kirk (right) pose for a photo in front of the location of the Fashion Merchandising Association’s resale pop-up shop. The team started planning more than a month ahead. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

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UNTIL NEXT YEAR Ball State’s Homecoming Week wrapped up Saturday, Oct. 23 with the Chase Charlie 5K, a parade featuring four marching bands and tailgating before Ball State Football’s 24-17 loss against Miami (Ohio) at Scheumann Stadium.

Members of the Pride of Mid-America Marching Band (POMA) stand waiting before the start of the Ball State Homecoming Parade Oct. 23 in downtown Muncie. The Fall 2021 Homecoming Parade was the first in just over two years. JOEY SILLS, DN

(Above) Participants of Chase Charlie 5K join Charlie Cardinal at Muncie City Hall in looking toward the flag during the national anthem Oct. 23. (Below) Members of Delta Tau Delta pose for a photo while tailgating before the homecoming game Oct. 23 outside Scheumann Stadium.

This year marked 95 years of homecoming festivities at Ball State. JOEY SILLS, ELI HOUSER, DN

Jayne Rohlfing (center) laughs as her team finishes a round at the annual Bed Races Oct. 22 on Riverside Avenue. Teams are made up of five people — four to push the bed and one to ride on it. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

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Monarchy Reforming the Supreme Court is essential to fixing an inherently broken democracy.

Joey Sills Columnist, “Talking Head” Joey Sills is a freshman journalism news major and writes “Talking Head” for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

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Justice Samuel Chase becomes the only Supreme Court justice to have ever been impeached, though he isn’t removed from office.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes increasing the court to 15 justices, a failed plan that has sparked the conversation ever since.

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n the shadow of Texas’ recent antiabortion legislation and the Supreme Court’s failure to block it, the calls for court reform have once again entered the political conversation.

We first heard debates on the topic soon after the death of former Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Sept. 18, 2020, and those debates amplified following the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett just eight days before the 2020 presidential election.

A year later, we’re seeing a similar problem with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s stubborn refusal to retire even while the Democrats hold onto the White House and the Senate. Ginsburg expressed the same sentiments in 2014 when she refused to retire just months before the midterm elections handed control of Congress to the Republican Party.

To the progressives already calling for court reform, Breyer’s line of thinking is a bit too close to Ginsburg’s for comfort.

One way reformists suggest addressing the possibility of a 7-2 conservative majority on the court is to simply expand the court to as many as 13 justices. Progressive congressmen like Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., frame this demand as a way of balancing an increasingly partisan body by

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Justice Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court.

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

matching the number of justices with the number of U.S. courts of appeals. Conservatives like Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and moderate liberals like Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., however, argue this move is nothing more than a progressive power-grab, vowing to block any attempts Democrats make at “packing the court” with justices who will rule in their favor.

The problem with expanding the court is not that it’s necessarily unconstitutional or the wrong thing to do. Article III of the Constitution leaves the makeup of the court to Congress, and the number of justices in its ranks has ranged from as little as six in 1789 to as many as 10 in 1863.

63

IN 2021

of Americans support term or age limits for Supreme PERCENTCourt justices Source: 2021 Reuters/Ipsos poll

The problem with expanding the court is that such reform doesn’t go far enough.

How is having 13 unelected, life-serving judges determine the constitutionality of popular legislation any more democratic than having nine unelected, life-serving judges do the same thing?

A system that gives so much power to a handful of individuals does not seem to be one that takes into account the popular consensus. I would even go so far as to argue it’s the closest thing in our society to a remnant of the monarchy.

Supreme Court justices are first chosen by the president, who himself is elected by the Electoral College, a system that forgoes the popular vote in favor of a “winner-takes-all” rationale, in which the winner of each state gets all that state’s votes regardless of how many votes their opponent received. According to a report from Gallup, 61 percent of Americans support abolishing the Electoral College in favor of a popular vote system. Pew Research Center reported a fairly similar majority, with 55 percent of those surveyed preferring a popular vote system.

They are then confirmed by the Senate, a body that, by design, overrepresents smaller states with less population. If you add together the populations of the three most populated states —

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg becomes the second woman and first Jewish woman on the Supreme Court.

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor becomes the first woman of color, Hispanic and Latina to serve on the Supreme Court.

California, Texas and Florida — you’ll see those states’ six senators represent roughly the same number of people as the 64 senators from the 32 smallest states.

And, should the justice be confirmed by the Senate, they retain their new position for life, unless they’re removed from office — a process that has only been attempted once, to no result, with the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase in 1805.

These justices have a lot of power — more power than the Constitution ever explicitly gave them. Judicial review, the ability of the Supreme Court to review executive and legislative action to determine its constitutionality, is not once mentioned in any of our founding documents.

Yet, it’s become the primary function of the court since former Chief Justice John Marshall granted himself and his colleagues this power in the 1803 landmark case, Marbury v. Madison.

Years later in 1820, former President Thomas Jefferson famously said, “To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.”

Oh, if only he could see the state of the court today.

This isn’t to say the concept of judicial review is entirely unnecessary or illogical — it’s important Congress is held in check. It’s even proven, on occasion, a decent strategy in practice.

Landmark cases like Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and Roe v. Wade, which cemented a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, both took a progressive view of the Constitution that has affected us to this day.

However, for every one of these decisions, there’s a Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, which allowed for unlimited corporate funding of campaigns, or Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by determining preclearance of election laws in historically discriminatory states unconstitutional.

You can’t convince me the majority of Americans would’ve supported corporate influence in elections or restrictions on their fundamental right to vote.

This is why the most sensible course of action is to pair short-term, structural reforms like expanding the court and imposing term lengths with a strike at the heart of the Supreme Court’s power by weakening judicial review.

Yes, the court must be ideologically balanced and expanded to represent the changing American population. Yes, it is reprehensible that Supreme

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Ginsburg dies at 87 and is immediately replaced with Justice Amy Coney Barrett, to much controversy.

Court justices are the only officeholders in the federal government to not be subject to term lengths. But we can’t simply achieve these victories and call it a day when the ultimate problem of the court lies in its power to render any legislation it so wishes null and void.

The court itself is fundamentally broken, and we must treat it as such.

To prioritize the will of the people over the will of the court, all cases of judicial review should be decided on a 7-2 — or 9-4, should the court be expanded — supermajority.

This ensures that if the minority party only holds a simple majority on the court, the decisionmaking authority on all but the most egregiously unconstitutional legislation would be left to the more democratic branches of government. It would also require the majority faction to put more time

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into compromising with their colleagues across the aisle, theoretically leading to less disastrous decisions going forward.

It would be naive to believe these reforms alone would solve every problem with our democratic process. Abolishing the filibuster, making it easier to vote, giving Washington, D.C. statehood, publicly financing elections and many other solutions are requirements for establishing a truly popular democracy.

But what good are these solutions if we’re burdened by an increasingly partisan and undemocratic Supreme Court that can strike down this sort of legislation at will?

Reforming and weakening the court may not entirely fix our broken democracy, but it certainly isn’t a bad place to start.

Contact Joey Sills with comments at joey.sills@ bsu.edu or on Twitter @sillsjoey.

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Continued from Page 05 Campbell also expanded the program to make it available for architecture and history students. For graduate students, the historic preservation program lasted two years and required a full-time thesis, he said. Most of the students in the program also had an assistantship.

While Payne was enrolled in the graduate program, he was at a pivotal moment in his life after getting married to his wife, Ashley Payne, in 2010. They lived in the Scheidler Apartments across from Scheumann Stadium while both of them were attending Ball State.

“We still reminisce about [how] that was our favorite place to live being married,” Payne said.

Ashley Payne was enrolled in Ball State from 2008-12. She majored in legal studies and now works as a paralegal at a law

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Initially recruited to play at Wake Forest, Butler found some success during the 2020-21 season, appearing in nine games and starting six of them. She said she appreciates how the experience benefited her collegiate career.

Freshman goalkeeper Ally Butler poses for a photo Oct. 26 at Briner Sports Complex. Butler played for the Richmond Panthers for nine years before attending college. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

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Shaun Payne described the atmosphere of Ball State as being “a Midwestern college experience [that] still [has] that hometown [feel].”

“And the resources were certainly better at a bigger school like Ball State,” Payne said. “I mean, the main library, Bracken Library, [is] just amazing — bigger than all three libraries at the other schools combined.”

Payne said he appreciated the caliber of professors Ball State had along with having “the ability to have all the information at your fingertips.”

“You have people that are some of the best people in their fields teaching you,” Payne said.

Before he worked at the Limberlost State Historic Site, Payne worked at the Indiana state park, Salamonie Lake, located in Andrews, Indiana. He heard about the opening at Limberlost from a coworker whose significant other was the regional ecologist at Limberlost.

“I had a great experience at Wake Forest, and I met some of my best friends there,” Butler said, “I’m very thankful for that and definitely playing at such a high level of Division I field hockey has just overall helped me with a lot of things.”

After playing one season at Wake Forest, Butler decided to come to a school that was more familiar to her. She said she chose Ball State because she already knew head coach Stephanie Bernthal and associate head coach Chelsea Herlocker and felt the overall vibe of the school was better compared to what she had experienced in North Carolina.

“Chelsea was actually my coach when she was in college for my club because she played college [field hockey] in my hometown,” Butler said. “And then, when I came, I just fell in love with the campus. It was so pretty, and it really felt like a family.”

After everything she’s experienced in her field hockey career — from a hip injury in high school to transferring to a new school — Butler said she is extremely proud of it all and thankful for how it prepared her for Ball State.

“It makes me feel good to see that I have accomplished those things that I never thought I could,” Butler said. “Even though I found hardships along those ways, like having a major hip surgery when I was a junior, I was still able to make a comeback my senior season and perform at a high level. Now, [I’m] here, still playing Division I field hockey [at Ball State], so it makes me feel good to see that I’ve achieved those dreams that I set when I was just a little kid.”

Contact Derran Cobb with comments at derran.cobb@bsu.edu or on Twitter @derran_cobb.

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Payne said his time at Ball State helped him learn how to perform his duties as the site manager. The classes he took for repairing historic structures have been useful for his current position because he has to maintain Stratton-Porter’s cabin, and his architecture classes have helped him share facts on tours.

Campbell taught one of Payne’s favorite classes, where Payne could talk about architectural history theories and preservation issues. “[It] was definitely my favorite class because we were able to organically learn because we were able to just talk about everything,” Payne said.

Payne advises Ball State students “to do something in your degree field … anything entry-level that you can do that gets some experience.”

Contact Hannah Amos with comments at hannah.amos@bsu.edu or on Twitter @HannahA15361356.

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Now, Chris said he feels like he can finally sit back and be a dad when he watches Clayton play on Saturdays.

“I have spent my whole career coaching, so it has always been about the team and the big picture,” Chris said. “So now, with him at this level, I now get to be a father and sit back, watch his contribution — it is fun to be a dad.”

Life has come full circle for Clayton and Casey — from Clayton watching his father coach and his brothers play, to him playing with Casey in high school, to finally fulfilling a lifelong dream of playing Division I football.

Clayton doesn’t know exactly what the future holds. While Stockton and Neu said he is essentially another coach for the Cardinals, becoming a doctor or working in wildlife is something Clayton is looking to pursue after college.

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