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Ethan Atterson is using band and his support system to pursue passion in life.

Ethan Atterson poses for a photo Nov. 16 on the marching band practice field after rehearsal.

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Nov. 12: The Cardinals placed 20th out of 33 schools in the NCAA Regional Championships.

Sophomore Elka Machan came within one second of her personal best with 20:47.6 in the 6K. Machan led the Cardinals individually, finishing 35th. Freshmen Carly Spletzer (22:18.4) and Jenna Schifferer (22:43.9) each recorded personal-best times in the 6K.

Ball State will offer rapid COVID tests

Cardinals defeat Butler on the road

vice president for student affairs, announced Ball State will offer COVID-19 rapid antigen tests for students Nov. 22, 23, 29, 30 and Dec. 1 at Worthen Arena. Students must schedule a testing date, and tests are administered on a first-come, firstserve basis on their scheduled day.

Results are returned in 15 minutes and are emailed to students.

Basketball defeated Butler 7056. The Cardinals were paced by redshirt junior Anna Clephane, who scored 21 points, while graduate student Chyna Latimer notched double figures with 12 points, too.

Ball State forced 26 turnovers. The Cardinals return to the floor Nov. 26 in the Van Chancellor Classic against Texas Tech.

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Britney Spears’ conservatorship ends

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A Los Angeles judge ruled Nov. 12 the conservatorship controlling the singer’s life and money for nearly 14 years has ended. James Spears, her father and former conservator, was believed to be mismanaging her finances. Spears’ attorney told fans and reporters the case helped “shine a light” on conservatorships across the country.

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Holcomb declares America Recycles Day Gov. Eric Holcomb declared Nov. 15 America Recycles Day in Indiana in partnership with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. The day is a chance for Hoosiers to recycle at a time when recycling rates grew to 20 percent in 2020 from 12 percent in 2015. More than half of Indiana’s waste goes to landfills or incinerators.

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Grateful Rescue and Sanctuary, a Muncie-based nonprofit animal rescue, is asking for donations and assistance from the public after saving 15 dogs from a backyard breeding eviction. A backyard breeder is an animal breeder whose practices are considered substandard and, unlike puppy mills, usually breed on a small scale.

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BREAKING DOWN BORDERS Ball State Spanish professor and Colombian author win the Ambroggio Prize.

Angelica Gonzalez Morales Reporter In October 2020, Jennifer Rathbun, professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, decided to reach out to a longtime work friend and Colombian author, Carlos Aguasaco. Rathbun saw the Academy of American Poets was accepting applications for the Ambroggio Prize, a $1,000 publication prize given to book-length poetry collections originally written in Spanish with an English translation, and thought Aguasaco’s book, “Cardinal In My Window with a Mask on its Beak,” would make for a good submission.

Rathbun said “Cardinal In My Window with a Mask on its Beak” was a different experience compared to the other 16 books she has translated in her career. “[Aguasaco] did not have the collection finished — he had three-fourths of it finished, so he sent me that, and I would work on the translations,” Rathbun said. “And, as I would finish a section or a group of them, I would send them to him and say, ‘OK, is this capturing what you’re wanting in the Spanish?’”

Rathbun worked closely with Aguasasco to make sure all translations captured the meaning of Aguasasco’s poems and what they represent.

The 40-poem collection focused on immigrants and Spanish speakers in the United States.

“Normally, when I translated a project, I couldn’t tell you that there’s a standard timeline,” Rathbun said, “but just for a point of reference, I did have

a project that took me eight years, I had another project that took me 10 years [and] another project that took me five years.”

The poetry book was completed and sent to the Academy of American Poets at the end of December 2020. Aguasaco wanted the set of poems to focus on serving society by writing about experiences other people have faced, including historical figures and first-generation immigrants in the U.S. “I was reading about these historical figures like Ota Benga … I saw the famous picture of a child in a cage that was being detained at the border following the orders of the former president of the United States, and I couldn’t resist the connection,” Aguasaco said. “It was so clear that 100 years ago, we had Benga in a cage and yet, one more time 100 years later, we had a child who was also in a cage due to the political situations, so I made the connection.”

After Aguasaco connected experiences from different generations, he realized he needed to write poems that shared the challenges immigrants face. Aguasaco thought more about the experience of immigrants, particularly within the U.S. “[I wanted to] represent marginal characters that are experiencing the same transformation in this changing environment, so that was the first poem in the book, and then, I tried to think more and more about the experience of immigrants like myself but [who] didn’t have the benefits I had,” Aguasaco said.

Aguasaco came to the U.S. in 1999 with a

INDIANA COMPARED TO U.S. HISPANIC OR LATINO POPULATION

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of people in Indiana are Hispanic or Latino

Indiana Total Population

18.7% of people in the U.S. are Hispanic or Latino

U.S. Total Population

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Jennifer Rathbun poses for a photo in her office Nov. 16 in the North Quad Building. Rathbun has worked for the university in the Department of Modern Languages and Classics since July 2021. RYLAN CAPPER, DN visa sponsored by his wife. He didn’t speak any English and his first job was at a supermarket.

Aguasaco said his wife helped him attend English-as-a-second-language classes at the International Center, an English language school in New York City, but he said not all immigrants have the same experience as him.

By 2020, Aguasaco learned enough English to become a Spanish teacher at Arts Integrated High School.

“I began thinking about those who have to cross the border due to other reasons, those who are fleeing gender violence and criminals, people who are fleeing due to the bands that are attacking them or people who are being displaced, even due to global warming or climate change,” Aguasaco said.

“I found that in the desert, there are immigrants that die in the process.”

Aguasaco believes the different poems in the book create “beautiful images” when he’s writing from the perspective of different immigrants, but the poems, even when fictional, seem “painful and real.”

Rathbun said she believes people who work within language departments are “original diversity workers” because they help students and communities learn about diversity and can spread the word of diverse authors through translating their messages.

“Because we’ve always worked in and with diverse cultures and diverse languages … this particular award is so important because it’s the only one of its kind,” Rathbun said.

Rathbun recently looked at U.S. Census population projections and said the Hispanic minority in the U.S. will eventually become a Hispanic majority as the population percentage of non-Hispanic

white people is predicted to shrink over the coming decades. With those numbers changing, Rathbun said she feels even more honored to be recognized with the Ambroggio Prize.

“This award, granted by the Academy of American Poets, is only one of its kind — it’s the only award in the United States granted to an author for work that is originally written in Spanish,” Rathbun said.

Aguasaco, being a first-generation immigrant, said he hopes to set an example for those in the Latinx and Hispanic communities. He also said he feels proud and honored to be able to share the stories of those who are unable to speak for themselves.

“It gives me hope for a better tomorrow, for a more inclusive and diverse society,” Aguasaco said. “It also makes me feel proud of the experience in the United States. I accept that my poetry highlights the contradictions of this nation … I do feel a big responsibility to open the door for other immigrants who understand the situation.”

Rathbun and Aguasaco received an email from the Academy of American Poets in March 2021 notifying them they had won the Ambroggio Prize. Both credited their award to the Latinx and Hispanic communities, to immigrants all over the U.S and first-generation students.

“I have two Hispanic children myself that are in college, and I know what type of challenges they face,” Rathbun said. “Feel empowered by your heritage and to feel empowered by your bilingualism at whatever level it may be.”

Contact Angelica Gonzalez Morales with comments at agonzalezmor@bsu.edu or on Twitter @angelicag_1107.

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Warsaw Community High School student Cora Ransbottom places a yellow block, representing a residential structure, onto her team’s plan during the UrbanPlan Workshop Nov. 6 in the Muncie Mall. During the workshop, teams were given various blocks, all representing different structures members of the example community would like to see in the future plan.

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The College of Architecture and Planning begins teaching high school students about urban planning.

Eli Houser Reporter Since the mid-1960s, Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning (CAP) has educated the next generation of urban planners at both the master’s and bachelor’s degree levels. Now, after almost 60 years since it was formed, CAP has taken its goal of education one step further and is teaching high schoolers about urban planning.

Over the fall semester, CAP is offering three workshops for high school students interested in urban planning. The workshops, which were originally designed to educate the general public on real estate development concepts, were adapted for educating high schoolers by Scott Truex, associate professor of urban planning and chair of the

community’s going,” Truex said. “So, the purpose of a plan is to reach community consensus, have public involvement, public discussion and to have a vision of where the whole community wants to go.”

Truex has taught students fundamental and technical skills necessary for their success in the field of planning for more than 30 years. In the class Introduction to Planning (PLAN 100), Truex and Banning introduce students to a simulation known as UrbanPlan.

During UrbanPlan, students are presented with a simulated town that has suffered from a large fire, and participants must play different roles representing various — and sometimes conflicting, — interests. Students are provided with letters from local residents, just as a real planner might see, and must determine the best way for the community to

What [UrbanPlan] does is just introduce people to a lot of real estate concepts and gets you thinking about what planning is and how it impacts places that you want to see grow. We planners are expected to go into communities and ask them what they need, and that is [a] relationship. That [relationship] is really important for the success, not only of the plan for the community, but really in our careers as well.”

- BRENDEN RESNICK, Sophomore urban planning major Department of Urban Planning, and Mary Banning, instructor of urban planning.

Truex, 1981 Ball State alumnus, began his career in urban planning in 1974 as a Ball State student.

In 1986, after spending a few years in the job field, Truex returned to Ball State as an educator.

“Planning is very important because otherwise, you have no direction — you don’t know where your

rebuild the space.

UrbanPlan was developed about 15 years ago by the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a nonprofit organization that conducts research and educates the public on real estate concepts as a simulation to educate the public and students on how urban planning works. Since introducing UrbanPlan, Truex and Banning said they have seen an

increased interest in urban planning among Ball State students.

Through UrbanPlan, Elise Jones, junior urban planning major, found her interest in planning despite coming to Ball State unsure of what she wanted to study. Jones said while taking PLAN 100, she saw all her interests align in the field of urban planning.

“I was asking around, talking to some older planning students, and [the major] just felt right, so that’s when I jumped in,” Jones said. “The [urban planning major] covers a lot of topics, and you can go to a lot of different careers … I knew that I would find a path within planning.”

Now, Jones, along with a handful of other urban planning students, have set about a new task. Under the guidance of Truex and Banning, the students are introducing UrbanPlan to high school students through departmental outreach programs.

The second of these UrbanPlan workshop events was held Nov. 6 and saw nine high school students from across the state of Indiana travel to CAP’s classroom in the Muncie Mall. Nathaniel Curtis, a senior from North High School in Evansville, Indiana, attended the event and said his interest in problem-solving was a large factor that drew him to urban planning as a possible future career.

The morning of the event, Curtis and his mother made the roughly four-hour drive from Evansville to attend, and he said he had to wake up at 1 a.m. to get ready. Curtis was given the role of neighborhood liaison during the simulation and was in charge of representing the local communities within his group.

“The role of the neighborhood liaison is to consider, read and draw from the responses of letters that groups with great affiliation or political power have put forth ideas for the developers,” Curtis said.

“What that means in the developing group is that you will have to advise the other team members where things should be placed for the best social response currently and for attracting new people.”

Curtis said the role of neighborhood liaison

REGISTER FOR THE UPCOMING URBANPLAN WORKSHOP This free program from the College of Architecture and Planning will host its final UrbanPlan Workshop Dec. 4 in the Muncie Mall. High schoolers grades 9-12 are invited to learn more about managing community growth and change through the lens of urban planning. The event will take place Dec. 4 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Each student will receive a copy of the UrbanPlan Student Handbook and other resources. Students will need access to a laptop computer to receive preparation materials for the required Zoom meeting with UrbanPlan team members Dec. 2 from 7–8:30 p.m.

To register or for more information, contact planning@bsu.edu.

Source: UrbanPlan Workshop website

was a good fit for his interest and personality.

In the future, Curtis said he hopes to attend college, possibly Ball State, to obtain a degree in urban planning.

Brenden Resnick, sophomore urban planning major, interned with Truex at Ball State this past summer and helped develop the UrbanPlan program for high schoolers. Resnick said the goal of UrbanPlan is to introduce the basic concepts that real estate developers, urban planners and regional planners use every day.

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EXPANDING EDUCATION Shwetha Sundarrajan Reporter Inspired by what he thought was a lack of political knowledge in young people today, Trygve Throntveit, director of strategic partnerships at the Minnesota Humanities Center and co-leader of the Third Way Civics project, was inspired to start a new class that would promote historical and civic learning for undergraduates.

Throntveit, dean’s fellow for civic studies at the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development, Anand Marri, dean of the Ball State Teachers College, and Dennis Ross, former Republican congressman from Florida’s 12th Congressional district, helped co-pilot the Third Way Civics program.

At a January 2020 symposium at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida, Throntveit, Marri and Ross all wanted to create a program “to help rebuild our national civic fabric by starting at a place that we think occupies a really strategic position in the overall institutional fabric of society, which is higher education,” Throntveit said.

Through their collaboration, Third Way Civics was born. The program got its start with a grant from the Teagle Foundation, which provides support for liberal arts education programs.

With this funding, Third Way Civics could start implementing new civics courses in universities

I think the idea behind the class is to really kind of let students discover their own sort of sense or idea of what it means to be a good citizen, and then, also to understand how our ideas about citizenship have evolved and changed in the United States.”

- DAVID ROOF, Ball State associate educational professor nationwide, with the pilot program starting at Ball State and Southeastern University. After six months of planning the curriculum, Ball State faculty members were ready to start offering the class to students.

“I think the idea behind the class is to really kind of let students discover their own sort of sense or idea of what it means to be a good citizen, and then, to understand how our ideas about citizenship have evolved and changed in the United States,” said David Roof, Ball State

Ball State begins offering new civics course.

associate educational professor.

The Ball State class is a special section of EDFO 420 and consists of 20 students, mostly secondary education majors, like senior Melea Shockney.

Shockney originally didn’t know she had signed up for the Third Way Civics class due to the class name not being listed on self-service banner, but she remained enrolled after falling in love with the class.

“It’s seriously been so cool,” Shockney said.

“Every single class is a discussion — your voice is heard. Every class, [there are] small groups, partners — we write ideas out on boards and share them with the class.”

While the class revolves around discussions, Roof said it also heavily relies on readings to facilitate important conversations surrounding civics.

“For example, we had a debate over whether or not the government should primarily be responsible for the well-being of citizens or whether citizens should be responsible for their own well-being,” Roof said. “The idea was to use the readings to support those positions — the students prepared their remarks, and then, they debated the two different positions. We [also] took some time to reflect and prepare rebuttals.”

While the class is starting some important conversations at Ball State, the Third Way Civics program still has a long way to go, Roof said.

A student in the Third Way Civics class talks about her group’s thesis on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at Ball State University.

The class aims to educate and empower students to understand American politics. AMBER PIETZ, DN

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A CROWDED STAGE David Crowder performs at Emens Auditorium.

David Crowder performs his most recent album “Milk and Honey” to an excited crowd Nov. 11 in Emens Auditorium.

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David Crowder sings to an energetic audience at Emens Auditorium Nov. 11. Crowder released his first solo album in 2014 after his previous group, “The David Crowder Band,” broke up in 2012. KATHERINE RICHARDSON, DN

David Crowder performs under a lighting display in Emens Auditorium Nov. 11. Crowder performed songs from“Milk and Honey,” which debuted in June of this year. KATHERINE RICHARDSON, DN

DNSports Redshirt fifth year offensive lineman Anthony Todd prepares to face Central Michigan Nov. 17 at Scheumann Stadium. Todd is a two-time Academic All Mid-American Conference winner. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

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CLOSE TO HOME Yorktown native lives out his dream of playing football for Ball State for the past five years.

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Ethan Atterson won’t let disability prevent him from spreading positivity.

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Charleston Bowles Associate Sports Editor

t’s a crisp fall afternoon, and near the sidewalks by LaFollete Field, backpacks litter the grass.

There is a persistent thumping sound coming from the field. The sound is reminiscent of a person clapping, but it’s roaring too loudly to be from one source.

A passerby’s attention immediately turns to the rows of people lined up in vertical and horizontal lines across the field.

They stand with an upright posture, even though they’re each holding instruments. Look through each line, and notice all their eyes fixated on something from above — Caroline Hand, associate professor of music performance and associate director of bands, is standing on a podium elevated from the ground. She’s performing different hand signals and echoing authoritative messages, to which the band members precisely follow. After one group moves, the next group follows.

Eventually, all participants are moving in different directions.

Look closer. You will see junior Ethan Atterson, playing the trumpet and moving at his own pace on a journey that started when he was a little boy.

Growing up, Atterson’s two grandmothers, Bona Jean Atterson and Shirley Hinshaw, each played the piano — Atterson for her love of music and Hinshaw, who took lessons as a child — for the family at Christmas. Atterson’s family had a piano in their house, but when they moved houses in 2005, the family sold it, as they didn’t want to damage the new house’s floors.

After they moved in, Atterson’s family received a free used piano from friends, and Ethan began taking piano lessons in sixth grade. However, Ethan’s mother, Karen Atterson, who was involved in choir and took piano lessons for a few years, didn’t notice his passion for music until middle school.

At 10 years old, Atterson learned he would live the rest of his life in a wheelchair because of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic illness involving the weakening of muscles because they lack a certain protein called dystrophin, but his diagnosis didn’t prevent him from pursuing his curiosities.

“As a seventh-grader, he decided he wanted to do things,” Karen Atterson said. “So, we had him try out the instruments. He had a couple of good friends that wanted to do band, so they were kind of like a trio, and it grew from there. He’s one of those kids who, if he is supposed to be practicing, he just religiously practices.”

In seventh grade, Atterson first picked up a trumpet. He immediately felt a connection to the instrument he hadn’t necessarily felt with the piano, the only other instrument he’d ever played.

Throughout high school, he was unsure of what he wanted to do with music until he attended a music camp at Ball State during his junior year of high school.

I think that music has the ability to allow disabled people to participate more in mainstream society. We have to just keep going, keep pushing and doing what we’re doing, especially in music, or really any field for that matter, because our jobs that we do in our lives can positively affect other people.”

- ETHAN ATTERSON, Junior music and arts major and member of The Pride of Mid-America Marching Band Ethan Atterson plays with the Pride of Mid-America during half time at a football game Sept. 7, 2019, at Scheumann Stadium. “Ball State has a really positive and supportive environment,” Atterson said. “The band is fun.” REBECCA SLEZAK, DN FILE

“We were rehearsing a piece with a composer, actually, and I got to have a pretty interesting conversation with him afterward,” Atterson said.

Music is more than just something to create — it can be made to change other people’s lives, by the meaning behind the music. That’s a big thing that’s always been a part of me, is wanting to make the world somehow better from my existence.”

- ETHAN ATTERSON, Junior music and arts major and member of The Pride of Mid-America Marching Band “I’ve come to realize from that conversation that music is more than just something to create — it can be made to change other people’s lives, by the

meaning behind the music. That’s a big thing that’s always been a part of me, is wanting to make the world somehow better from my existence.”

In 2019, Atterson graduated from New Castle High School in New Castle, Indiana. Hand met Atterson during his camp visit and, since joining The Pride of Mid-America Marching Band (POMA) in August 2019, she said his relationship with him has grown.

“I knew Ethan as a trumpet player when he first attended that camp but have now come to know him as a better composer, student, leader and disability advocate,” Hand said.

He isn’t physically marching, but Atterson sits in his wheelchair on the sideline, playing his trumpet as part of POMA. The decision to join POMA was easy for Atterson, who relishes uplifting those in attendance.

“Marching bands and other methods of musicmaking have the ability to touch the lives of millions,” Atterson said. “You see other marching bands from other universities get televised halftime shows sometimes and, even though we don’t get that at Ball State all the time, we still have a chance to play for a huge crowd and, hopefully, make at least one person’s day better by having played our music.”

In addition to performing, Atterson composes music and participates in the Ball State Campus Orchestra. This semester, he was accepted into

the School of Music and will begin courses in spring 2022.

However, Atterson said balancing all his responsibilities can drain him mentally and physically. In 2016, he was diagnosed with depression.

“It can be very tough on your mental capacity, and it has been for me, for sure,” he said. “It can be hard to fit in socially. [It] can be hard to find your way. Even as a musician, there are certain things that can be hard, and you have to constantly advocate for yourself, which is a good thing. I encourage everybody to advocate for themselves but, to a point, it can get exhausting when you have to do that all the time.”

Atterson’s hands have a contracture in them, which forces his fingers to bend back into a fist.

When playing fast passages, Atterson said it’s “incredibly difficult” to move his fingers and, with muscular dystrophy, his lungs make it harder to breathe. Music has its challenges, Atterson said, but he believes people make it worthwhile.

“It’s very hard sometimes, but with the individual people that are willing to be accepting and everything, there is hope,” Atterson said.

“Even if it’s not the whole society, there are still the individual people in our lives who are important and do listen to us and do help us and do care.”

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Ball State football has been a staple in the Todd household since Anthony Todd’s youth.

Kyle Smedley Reporter For redshirt fifth-year offensive lineman Anthony Todd, the 2021 season has gone beyond wins and losses. Ball State Football has been a part of Todd’s life from the day he was born, and he said it will continue to be a part of his life forever, despite it being his last season.

Todd was born in Muncie and raised in Yorktown, Indiana, just a 10-minute drive from Ball State. He said playing for the Cardinals is “a dream come true.”

“I grew up watching Ball State Football, and I have seen the transition from grass to turf,” Todd said. “I have watched the hill and press box be put in. I have always thought it was so awesome to play for my hometown team.”

Todd said his roots are important to him, but he credits his family as his biggest motivators in the sport.

“With the countless hours they have spent, they have really provided me with a great path to success,” he said. “Every day I go out to play, I am motivated by my parents, to make them proud and show them that all the hard work they have put in for me will not go to waste.”

Todd said his older brother, Joe Todd, who played quarterback for Yorktown High School from 2008-12, has inspired him by his hard work both on and off the field.

Anthony Todd and his mother, Sharine, look through scrapbooks of his previous achievements. Todd has played football since he was four years old. RYLAN CAPPER, DN

“The coolest thing that Joe did was growing up, he never left me out of anything even though we are four years apart,” Anthony Todd said. “Part of the reason I have been so successful in sports is because of Joe and the way he pushed me to be better.”

Joe Todd said he always knew Anthony had the ability to play college football at a high level because of his athleticism and work ethic.

“You were not going to stop him with his hard-headed nature and his want-to attitude,” Joe Todd said. “Whatever he decides to do, he is going to be successful because he has that loyalty and that drive.”

When he thinks of his brother, Joe Todd said he thinks of a good person above all else and said Anthony’s willingness to help out at the Muncie Youth Opportunity Center and Ball State football camps stands out to him.

“In the community, people always love Anthony Todd,” Joe said. “You’ll never see him not help out the younger kids.”

Anthony’s father, Joe Todd, said Anthony makes sure his family knows how much they mean to him, even after a big win such as last year’s Mid-American Conference Championship. As soon as he got to his phone after the game, Anthony texted his family. Before the bus ride back to Muncie, Anthony called them and told them how lucky he was to have them in his corner.

Joe Todd said he and his wife have only ever missed three games over Anthony’s football career, dating back to when he played flag football as a child. Those three games were all during Ball State’s 2020 season as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.

“When we won the bowl game and MAC Championship last year, there was a huge crowd at our house, and everyone was going crazy,” Joe Todd said.

Along with family, football is also one of the most important things in Anthony’s life. He described winning the MAC Championship and Arizona Bowl last season as the best feeling of his life.

“Ball State took a chance on a kid from Yorktown,” Anthony Todd said. “I started here, and I am going to finish here.”

Todd’s former head coach at Yorktown High School, Mike Wilhelm, said he has always stood out among his peers. He said there is no doubt Todd chose Ball State to further his athletic and academic career partly because of his family’s constant support and Todd’s appreciation for it.

“He’s a genetic freak — he has the look,” Wilhelm said. “Anthony has always been the alpha — not so much in a bossy way, but more of a protective leader.”

From left to right, Joe, Sharine and Anthiony Todd pose for a photo outside of their house Nov. 13 in Yorktown, Indiana.

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Given that he is a Yorktown kid, being here at Ball State probably means a little bit more to him than the other guys, and you can see that in the way he plays.

Even though a lot of guys have pride, it’s different with Anthony because this is his community.”

- COLIN JOHNSON, Ball State offensive line coach Todd said he has fell in love with Ball State over the last six years and has made life-long friendships through football and the university, as discipline, leadership, people skills and work ethic are some of the biggest areas he’s grown in during his Cardinal career.

“We have the mindset that, ‘I am going to go to war with this guy every day,’ and to be able to do that at Ball State means a lot to me,” Todd said.

“We build a family atmosphere here.”

Redshirt fifth-year quarterback and Todd’s roommate, Drew Plitt, said Anthony is one of his best friends and he trusts him. They met each other their freshman year, and Plitt said they have built much trust in one another over the years. They also watch football together.

“Having him really helps me play better, knowing I can trust him,” Plitt said. “When you have such a high football IQ, you’re able to play for a long time and be successful.”

Plitt said Todd has expressed his appreciation for his family and his love for the game of football.

“I know that he is a big family person, and he just loves the game of football,” Plitt said. “I know that being from Yorktown and being on a team with such great success is a tremendous feeling for him.”

Part of the reason why he’s lasted so long on the

Cardinals, Ball State offensive line coach Colin Johnson said, is because Todd has “an extremely high football IQ.” “I think the most special thing about him is how well he knows the game,” Johnson said. “He always knows where he is supposed to be and when he is supposed to be there, and he makes sure our younger guys do, too.”

Johnson said he knows how important family and community is to Todd not only because Todd has told him, but by the way he plays.

“Given that he is a Yorktown kid, being here at Ball State probably means a little bit more to him than the other guys, and you can see that in the way he plays,” Johnson said. “Even though a lot of guys have pride, it’s different with Anthony because this is his community.”

Todd said he knows his football career is coming to a close, and he wants to help the Cardinals reach another bowl game. He said he is grateful for his six years spent as a Cardinal. Although Todd is focused on one game at a time, he said this season will likely be his last.

“I have had a great career here and, looking back, I will be able to tell people it was the best time of my life,” Todd said.

Contact Kyle Smedley on Twitter @smedley1932 or via email at kyle.smedley@bsu.edu.

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ONE UP, ONE DOWN Ball State took a narrow win against Omaha 73-69 and outplayed the Mavericks, reaching a 1-1 record for the season. The Cardinals will face Florida International in the Jersey Mike’s Classic in St. Petersburg, Florida, Nov. 18.

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‘Far Cry 6’ fails to impress its players Video game “Far Cry 6,” which focuses on rebellious guerilla fighters opposing their current president, was highly anticipated after the success of “Far Cry 5” in 2018.

However, there were noticeable changes in the game that distracted players and left them disappointed.

Gamers acknowledged the welldone graphics, but it was not enough to win them over.

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Behind the statistics of domestic abuse Becoming an Abuse Awareness Accountability instructor, Brian Walkup decided to change the way he lived his life. After being in and out of prison six times, Walkup said the guilt he felt after being arrested for domestic battery is what made him want to change. Having enlisted in the Marine Corps at 18 years old, Walkup said violence had played a large role in his life as he grew up.

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Mashed potatoes During the early years of the U.S., it was tradition for the president to declare a “national day of thanks,” with Thanksgiving becoming a national holiday in 1863 under Abraham Lincoln. Sarah Josepha Hale, novelist and poet, wrote “compellingly” about the Thanksgiving holiday in her novel, “Northwood,” and frequently sent appeals to officials and presidents to establish Thanksgiving as a way to unite the country during the Civil War.

A brief history behind several

Green bean casserole

Corn

Turkey

Green bean casserole, a more contemporary Thanksgiving dish, was introduced in 1955 when Dorcas Reilly worked in the Campbell’s Soup Company test kitchens in Camden, New Jersey.

According to mentalfloss.com, Reilly, a home economist, was tasked with creating limited-ingredient recipes for housewives to replicate using Campbell’s products.

Corn was a dietary staple in Native American culture. As a natural symbol of harvest, corn was just as plentiful as it is today, according to mentalfloss.com. For the first Thanksgiving in 1621, according to the History Channel, corn would have been removed from the cob and turned into cornmeal. Then, it was boiled and crafted into a thick corn mush and served occasionally with molasses.

When the first Thanksgiving occurred in 1621, there was no indication that turkey was served in the meal shared between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people. According to Britannica, one of the reasons why turkey became more popular was because there were at least 10 million turkeys in America at the time. Another reason is because, on family farms, turkeys were generally raised only for their meat and were almost always available for slaughter, unlike cows and hens who were useful as long as they produced milk and eggs.

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Stuffing

common Thanksgiving dishes

The first recorded history of turkey stuffing comes from “Apicius de re Coquinaria,” a collection of Roman recipes created by a chef by the name of Apicius from the 1st century A.D. According to Arcadia Publishing, an online blog connecting people to their community and their past through hometown histories, recipes in Apicius’ cookbook frequently mixed spelt — a type of wheat used to make bread — with spices, herbs and vegetables, which was then stuffed into a variety of animals such as chicken, rabbits or pigs.

Cranberry sauce

Gravy

Mac and cheese

Growing mostly in the Northeast and Pacific Northwest, the Wampanoag tribe used cranberries for dye, medicine and food. Stewing the cranberries in water and sugar, or what most consider cranberry sauce, dates back to the 1630s. In the 1800s, Americans started to grow cranberries and picked them by hand during dry harvesting. According to naturipefarms. com, cranberry sauce did not become an official Thanksgiving dish until General Ulysses S. Grant ordered cranberries to be served to soldiers as a part of their holiday meal in 1864.

During the first Thanksgiving, it’s likely that gravy was made from the remains of whatever meat was roasted, thrown in a pot and boiled to make broth, according to Teen Vogue. To thicken the broth, grain was added, thus making gravy.

Mac and cheese was a common dish made for Thanksgiving during the Victorian times, according to Forgotten New England, a blog created by writer and photographer Ryan W. Owen. In 1883, Victorians made macaroni and cheese by boiling the noodles and sometimes adding tomatoes and a layer of grated cheese. Because of the layers, the dish would be presented looking more like lasagna or baked ziti instead of the way people make mac and cheese today.

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Saturday Children’s Art Classes return to in-person instruction.

Sarah Waters works with Dominick Haskins, art education major, on her artwork during Saturday Children’s Art Classes in the Art and Journalism Building Nov. 13. Each class has, at most, 12 students, so student teachers can easily help their students one-on-one if they need it. ELI HOUSER, DN; KAMRYN TOMLINSON, DN ILLUSTRATION Miguel Naranjo Reporter The classroom is filled with high-pitched clamor.

As children chat about everything from their favorite color to Minecraft, the teacher steps in front of the whiteboard, raises his arms and gives a loud “clap, clap, clap clap clap.”

The kids suddenly fall silent and respond — “clap, clap, clap clap clap.”

Class is now in session.

This year’s annual Saturday Children’s Art Classes (SCAC), an elementary practicum for art education majors at Ball State, are back in-person in the Art and Journalism Building after being conducted virtually via Zoom for the 2020-2021 academic year. The SCAC is coordinated by Mary Carter, assistant professor of art education.

When Carter was an art education student at Ball State in 1978, she taught the classes to kids as well.

“About eight years ago, a grandmother attended the classes with her granddaughter — she sat in the room with her,” Carter said. “I learned she had been a student in the Saturday Art Classes as a child, and she was now in her early 70s.”

In other years, her role in the School of Art program has consisted of preparing her elementary art education students to execute an eight-week lesson plan and make classes to teach registered elementary school students.

Carter said the goal of the SCAC is to teach four specific disciplines of art — art criticism, aesthetics, history and production — at a level simple enough to introduce to elementaryaged students in Muncie. Last year, however, was no ordinary year for the program. In July 2020, Carter found out classes would have to be conducted online due to COVID-19 concerns.

“I thought, ‘What are we going to do?’ Because this is their elementary practicum, they have to do it in order to graduate,” Carter said.

Carter’s problem was threefold. She needed a way to record her student teachers’ online classes, find a place for them to share their lesson plans with their students and find a way to remotely

accept payment for the program — all within a month before the fall 2020 semester began and registration for the SCAC would open.

The first problem had a simple solution, Carter said, as Zoom meetings can be recorded by the host and saved to their computer, but the second problem wasn’t as easy to solve.

Carter cycled through several websites and programs, such as Canvas, Planboard and Weebly, but each site required too much setup and training to employ on such short notice. Then, she said she came across Google Sites.

“It’s very, very simple,” Carter said. “I said [to the students], ‘Just get a site, put your name, your

During this time, Carter said her student teachers had a unique and realistic teaching experience because of the COVID-19 pandemic and having to conduct their art classes online.

“I thought it was fantastic because they learned how to do everything online that every other teacher in the whole country was having to learn,” Carter said. “It was really, really stressful on [the student teachers] because, at the same time, we had to deal with the fact that not all of [the students] had good Wi-Fi. “There was another student who was meeting with me from northern Indiana and, if she didn’t stand by a certain window in her house, she couldn’t get through, ” she said.

However, this year, the SCAC returned inperson Sept. 25 under the theme, “Expressively Astounding Art!” with added depth on account of last year’s adaptations during the COVID-19 pandemic. If students need to isolate or quarantine for a week or two, they can still join via Zoom and participate in the class.

Art education students at Ball State take two intertwined courses for their major: Art Education: Curriculum and Instruction (AED 304) and Art Education: Elementary Teaching Practicum (AED305). Students research two artists, their works and their techniques in the first course to design a lesson plan to prepare for the latter course.

A student’s lesson plan revolves entirely around the artists they choose — they write lectures, plan activities and make worksheets tying directly into what influences the artists and what makes their techniques effective.

“There’s a lot more that goes into teaching a lesson than just, ‘Today, we’re going to paint, and we’re going to use red, blue and green,’” said Kiley Hurst, senior art education major and one of 10 SCAC student teachers. “It’s all based on art history and what you want [the students] to get from it.”

Over time, children in the SCAC develop a

We found out that we couldn’t have in-person classes… I thought, ‘What are we going to do? …

They have to do it in order to graduate.”

- MARY CARTER, Assistant professor of art education times available and one picture — that’s all you need, just to make friends with it.’”

Between training from Jacquelin Analco, 2011 Ball State alumna and Jay County High School art teacher, and studying YouTube tutorials for Google Sites, Carter and her student teachers became acquainted with the program and could post assignments online for each of their classes.

Ben Johnson, Ball State director of student financial systems, told Carter he would help her with her last problem, and he set up a credit card enrollment system for the SCAC. Now, the organization can accept payment not only through mail, but online as well.

“By the time fall started, we had teacher websites, public school students who could enroll by credit card and they also had to have a laptop to use,” Carter said. “We had really everything we needed. The teachers develop their curriculum, just like they normally would do.”

The 2020 Saturday Children’s Art Classes began with the theme, “The Old is New Again!”

portfolio with art made from tempera paint, colored pencils, scissors, paper and glue, reflecting what they have learned from the student teachers and how their art improves with what they learned.

Lauren Walker, one of the program’s parents, heard about the SCAC five years ago from her daughter’s friend’s mother, who had signed her own child up and asked if Walker’s 10-year-old daughter, Violet, would be attending too. “[Violet]’s gone every year except for last year, when it was virtual,” Walker said. “It’s a social opportunity for her — it’s an opportunity for her to express herself artistically. I’ve been very pleased with it.”

Walker said Violet is always excited to go to the SCAC, and she is sad that next year is the last year she can attend the program because she is in fifth grade and the SCAC only takes students up to sixth grade. “[Violet]’s like, ‘We’re gonna have to find something similar for me to do,’ after she ages out of it,” Walker said.

The students are not the only ones learning from the SCAC, though. The student teachers are also gaining classroom experience that is true to teaching in the real world.

“This experience has been really insightful as [to] what teaching a real classroom of students is like,” Hurst says. “It has prepared me for all the aspects that go into teaching a unit, from planning to budgeting for time to managing student work and behavior.”

In the classroom, student teachers direct conversations about art and study and explain important vocabulary words and concepts. In these two-hour long classes, student teachers work oneon-one with students who need or want help with their activities, all while watching the clock and keeping their lesson plan moving at the right pace.

According to the SCAC discipline protocol, student teachers do not use punitive discipline techniques with disruptive students, such as taking away their materials or putting them in timeout, but rather focus on teaching disruptive students how their actions are not invisible and can negatively affect others.

Diana May, 2006 Ball State art education graduate, learned about the program’s classes when she had to observe them for her own art education degree.

“I remember being excited and amazed at the amount of information the students were being given,” May said. “This is the first student teaching experience for most of the student teachers in this program. The amount of research and preparation for this is intense.”

May has two of her four children enrolled in the program right now. Her oldest has outgrown the program, and said all four of her children will have entered or finished the program by the time her youngest child enters elementary school. May drives her kids to Ball State from Noblesville, Indiana, each weekend the classes take place, which is about a 45-minute drive.

“I love when they come out of class and tell me who they have been learning about,” May said. “These art classes expose them to so much more than they are able to get in school.

The depth that they study the artists and the techniques is truly amazing.”

Contact Miguel Naranjo with comments at miguel.naranjo@bsu.edu.

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We can’t win wars we don’t believe in.

Richard Kann Columnist, “Yankee Fist” Richard Kann is a junior journalism news major and writes “Yankee Fist” for The Daily News.

His views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

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nother generation has passed, and another long war is lost.

But, of course, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened.

Since the end of World War II, the United States has complicated foreign conflicts to further the political and personal agendas of politicians and elitists in the military industry. One only has to look back to the Vietnam and Iraq Wars to see this, and they’ll find it always ends the same way: defeat.

We’re always left asking the same questions: “What went wrong? How can insurgents thwart the most sophisticated military in the history of humankind?”

The answer is simple: we can’t win wars we don’t believe in. This answer isn’t a mystery or a riddle — it’s something we’ve known for decades.

However, as soon as a politician sparks another forever war, it gradually evaporates from the intellect of our leaders.

Is it such a trivial thought that maybe people don’t want to sacrifice themselves, to kill for a cause they don’t believe to be virtuous? Is it so outrageous to assume that parents don’t want to send their children thousands of miles away to die?

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Public opinion: Were these wars worth Not worth it

FIGHTING? U.S. Adults

Worth it

34%

35% Iran

62% In the context of the recent political fallout of Afghanistan, according to a July 2021 Gallup Poll, 47 percent of Americans believe sending troops to Afghanistan was a mistake.

Additionally, Gallup’s research shows that Americans have become far more divided on the topic of the Afghanistan War since 2011.

That year, approval for the war dropped from 93 percent in 2001 to roughly 58 percent. Americans became incredibly divided on the war, yet we continued trying to win a war that had no end in sight.

At the beginning of the so-called “War on Terror,” there was an air of optimism and patriotism, the thrill of fighting evil on an unfamiliar front

Afghanistan 63%

Source: AP News

against a “godless” enemy that will, no doubt, inspire countless Hollywood movies. Then, the years set in, and we were faced with the question, “What exactly are we fighting for?”

Back in the early 2000s, when I was a child, I remember wholeheartedly supporting the “War on Terror.” I was young and naive. I savored stories of how we sent our brave troops to fight against the evil terrorists overseas. In my childhood, I didn’t know any details about the war beyond that. As far as I was concerned, the war was a classic case of good guys versus bad guys, like in the video games I played.

However, now I’m older and wiser, and though I still fully support weeding out extremists who corrupt religion and use it as a justification to murder innocents, I don’t support a war that ends up devastating the people we’re supposed to protect.

The Associated Press (AP) found that 47,245 Afghan civilians have been killed in the fighting of the Afghanistan War, and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that 300 to 909 Afghani civilians, including 66 to 184 children, have been killed in U.S. Military airstrikes that were intended for terrorist combatants.

On top of this, I don’t support a war that I don’t believe we could technically win. Growing up and watching this war, one pattern I noticed was no matter how many terrorists we killed, there was always someone to replace them.

On Monday, May 2, 2011, my classmates and I waved small flags and celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden in my fifth-grade class at Everglades Elementary School in Weston, Florida.

My teacher at the time spoke to us with infectious optimism that soon, terrorism would be a bad dream, and the wars it caused would be over.

Then, in July 2011, the grown-ups started fearfully talking about something called the Islamic State and a dangerous extremist named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It would be almost nine years until the Islamic State would be militarily crippled and al-Baghdadi’s assassination successfully carried out.

To me, the “War on Terror” was a lost cause that I didn’t believe America would win. These are just a few reasons Americans, like myself, lost faith in the war— a war we continued to fight for

another decade, despite significant concerns and doubts.

However, two groups fully believed in the war until the end: military contractors and their stockholders. According to the Watson Institute of Public and International Affairs report, the Pentagon has spent $4-7 trillion on military contractors. An investigation from Sludge used House and Senate financial disclosure portals from 2018-19 to expose what members of the House and Senate possessed stocks through these contractors within their own bank accounts or through their spouses and other associates. The investigation showed that prominent politicians such as Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) own thousands of dollars of stocks in one or multiple different military contractors. Feinstein herself holds $650,000 in stocks from Boeing, who managed to secure a $500 million contract for Apache helicopters in April 2012, according to financial publication, Seeking Alpha.

The U.S. has complicated foreign conflicts to further politicians’ and elitists’ political and personal agendas.

Politicians and military contractors lining their pockets don’t win wars. We, the people do and, as previous statistics show, we, the people, didn’t have the same faith in the war as our leaders did.

Afghanistan isn’t the first time Americans have participated in a war that primarily benefited politicians and elites. The Vietnam War is another good example. Like Afghanistan, statistics show Americans did not support this war. According to a 1965-71 Gallup Poll, the percentage of Americans who believed that sending troops to Vietnam was a mistake rose from 24 percent to 60 percent. The Vietnam War plagued Americans for more than a decade. And just like the “War on Terror,” we lost this war. We apparently didn’t learn from it.

When we’re forced into wars we don’t believe in, we lose them. It’s an unfortunate and depressing theme that replays throughout our history, but it’s one we can’t ignore.

Weeks after the United States military withdrew, the Afghanistan National Army retreated from the city of Kabul. The democracy that took decades to establish collapsed like a house of cards, and the country returned to the hands of the extremists we fought. After nearly 20 years, another generation passed, and another long war was lost.

According to an AP report, the Afghanistan War cost us the lives of 2,448 of our soldiers, 47,245 Afghan civilians and $2.313 trillion of debt that will plague Americans for generations, all while the politicians and elites responsible for creating this turmoil currently go unpunished.

The scars inflicted by this war will serve as a permanent reminder of the lesson that seems to always be forgotten: We can’t win wars that we don’t believe in.

Hopefully, now, we won’t be so quick to forget.

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

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U.S. Cost of the war in

AFGHANISTAN U.S. dollars rounded to the nearest billion Defense Department Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)

$933

Interest on War Borrowing

$530

DOD War-Related Increases

$443

Veterans Care

$296

State Department (OCO)

$59

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“I think, right now, that early phase is really just trying to kind of get feedback on the project and sort of plot a path forward,” Roof said.

“I think, ideally, the hope is that this will become a good model that can be used in universities in different contexts around the country.”

With the help of grants from organizations such as the Teagle Foundation, Marri said he hopes to begin expanding Third Way Civics to other universities. In January, Roof, Thorntveit and Marri plan on attending the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities. At the conference, they will hold a one-hour discussion about the Third Way Civics program.

In addition to attending conferences, they’re also working with

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“What [UrbanPlan] does is just introduce people to a lot of real estate concepts and gets you thinking about what planning is and how it impacts places that you want to see grow,” Resnick said. “We planners are expected to go into communities and ask them what they need, and that is [a] relationship. That [relationship] is really important for the success, not only of the plan for the community, but really in our careers as well.”

Resnick said soft skills, such as communication, are also necessary for success in the simulation. Additionally, Resnick said making mistakes in the simulation is OK, even at the graduate and undergraduate level.

“CAP tends to emphasize … in all of our coursework, the iterative design process,” Resnick said. “The reason we do that is because your first attempt is often not your best, and you don’t know that until you keep trying and going for it.”

Dylan Gehring, senior urban planning major, is another one of Truex’s students who is helping to educate the next generation of planners. Gehring said he discovered his interest in planning in seventh grade and, since then, has been pursuing an education in planning.

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For Atterson, his mother is one of his main sources of hope. During his time at New Castle, she drove him to marching band competitions and now helps him prepare on game days when he needs assistance.

“We’re proud of him,” Karen Atterson said. “I think a lot of people thought, ‘Well, he can’t do that,’ but he was always accommodated in high school for marching band, and he’s continued to do that in college. We get that feeling in your chest, ‘That’s my kid up there,’ but I’m happy because that’s what makes him happy.”

Atterson keeps in close touch with a community of musicians with disabilities and said the individual people he’s met through musicmaking have helped change his life for the better.

“To be honest, the individual people I’ve met through music-making, there are some wonderful souls who really changed my life for the better,” Atterson said. “What keeps me going in life is the fact that I can meet so many more amazing people by progressing on the path I’m going on and really make a difference in this world by meeting these other people. When powerful minds collide, powerful things can happen to make the world better.”

different publications.

“We’re going to apply more and larger grants to further implement [this program] beyond this year at Ball State and Southeastern University so that we are able to get it across all the states in all parts of Minnesota, and then, start trying to go state by state,” Marri said.

As the program expands, so does the speculation behind the unique name.

“At the beginning, I was saying we wanted to develop and demonstrate the value of a type of civic learning that transcended debates between traditionalists and progressives,” Thorntveit said.

“So one of the discussions is, do we need informed citizens or do we need empowering citizens? Well, we think you can take a path between those two alternatives.”

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“[Urban planning] is something that has tended to be in the shadows,” Gehring said. “People don’t really know about it — it doesn’t have a lot of public exposure until something goes completely wrong. We’re really trying to just get word out to high school students and work with [them] so that we can spread the word [about] planning and help them get into a career that they’ll find interesting.”

David Roof talks about a group’s thesis developed from themes of the Third Way Civics class readings Nov. 16. In January 2022, Roof plans to travel with his colleagues to the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges & Universities to discuss implementing the class in other colleges. AMBER PIETZ, DN This past spring, Gehring returned to Northfield High School in Northfield, Minnesota, where he graduated from, to talk to students about urban planning. Gehring said the experience of introducing urban planning and its associated jobs to students is exciting for him.

“I think [UrbanPlan] just really highlights all these different aspects of the profession,” Gerhing said. “Really, [it] creates a teachable moment of what planning does, as opposed to just lecturing about planning topics.”

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Marching bands and other methods of music-making have the ability to touch the lives of millions.”

- ETHAN ATTERSON, Junior music and arts major and member of The Pride of MidAmerica Marching Band

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After he graduates in the spring 2024 semester with a bachelor’s degree in arts and music, Atterson said he hopes to become a composer and conductor for a major symphony. He wants to use his platform to raise awareness for people with disabilities and show they are qualified to operate in leadership positions.

“I think that music has the ability to allow disabled people to participate more in mainstream society,” Atterson said. “We have to just keep going, keep pushing and doing what we’re doing, especially in music, or really any field for that matter, because our jobs that we do in our lives can positively affect other people.”

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

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