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Students and staff look ahead to asynchronous finals week.

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Rather than pulling all-nighters with study groups and hoping to find open spots in campus testing labs, Ball State students will experience the fall 2020 semester’s finals week from their own homes, completing tests in front of a webcam monitor.

Departments at Ball State are handling asynchronous finals in different ways. Some, like the Department of Modern Languages, are requiring all final exams to be taken with LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor. Others, like the Department of Computer Science, are not implementing department-wide rules.

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Online finals are definitely not ideal.

The asynchronous delivery definitely adds to my stress.

I’m hard on myself anyway, and I try to do my best.”

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- CHLOE TOWNSEND, Senior marketing major “If you talk to all my colleagues in computer science, you’ll find all kinds of different approaches,” Computer Science Professor Paul Gestwicki said. “There’s been some advice given but certainly no rules.”

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Vote to decriminalize marijuana approved

student defensive lineman Chris Agyemang and senior running back Caleb Huntley accepted invitations to participate in the College Gridiron Showcase & Symposium, taking place Jan. 1721 in Fort Worth, Texas. The event gives college football players an opportunity to display their talent and have interviews with NFL scouts.

of Representatives voted to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill allows for the expungement of federal marijuana convictions and includes a excise tax on marijuana that will be used to address the needs of communities harmed by the decades-long “war on drugs” if it passes the Senate and becomes law.

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Bob Dylan sells publishing rights

Plitt named Offensive Player of the Week

songwriter Bob Dylan sold publishing rights to his catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group.

The price was not disclosed, but industry experts have suggested the sale is in the range of $300 million to a half-billion dollars.

Universal now has leasing rights to Dylan’s compositions.

consecutive week, the MidAmerican Conference named Ball State redshirt senior quarterback Drew Plitt its Offensive Player of the Week. In the Cardinals’ 45-20 win over Central Michigan, Plitt completed 26 of 43 passes for 366 yards and four touchdowns. He also added one rushing touchdown. He has thrown for 1,430 yards this year.

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Muncie Parks Department votes to pursue new YMCA project and close Downtown and Northwest branches.

The proposed expansion area (in red) for the new YMCA building and parking area. The proposal was brought to the Muncie Parks Department in a meeting Oct. 20.

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US fully restores DACA protections The Trump administration announced Dec. 7 it fully restored the Obamaera Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation, complying with a New York federal judge’s order. The Department of Homeland Security said it is accepting new applications, but it may seek legal action against the order.

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Moscow opens vaccination centers Russia’s capital opened 70 coronavirus vaccination centers starting Dec. 5, offering appointments for doctors, teachers and others in high-risk groups to receive shots. The Russian-designed vaccine, Sputnik V, has yet to complete the advanced studies needed to ensure its effectiveness and safety in line with established scientific protocols.

SGA Taylor Smith and Charles Melton Managing Editor and News Editor The mission of the YMCA of Muncie is “to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all,” said Chad Zaucha, president and CEO of Muncie’s YMCA. To continue this mission, Zaucha presented plans to build what he called “Muncie’s living room” to the Muncie Parks Department at its Oct. 20 meeting. The department board voted in favor of moving forward with plans to build a new YMCA in Tuhey Park, closing the Downtown and Northwest branches and uniting them within a new facility.

Zaucha’s presentation shared that the proposed new YMCA would be built in the

southern corner of Tuhey Park between North Street and West White River Boulevard. The building will be at least two stories high and contain an elevated track, a cycling studio and indoor lounge areas. Zaucha said the YMCA wants to partner with the City of Muncie to complete the project in an easily accessible area.

“Downtown is common ground,” he said, “so we want to create a true community center where everybody feels welcome to come together.”

Zaucha said the current facilities limit the YMCA’s overall impact on the Muncie community with efforts being spread thin between multiple facilities. He hopes building a singular YMCA in the center of Muncie will give the community a hub to gather and grow.

Rent College Pads partnership proposed Tuhey Park’s welcome sign stands at its entrance Dec. 8, 2020. The park sits in the Riverside neighborhood just off of White River. MAEVE BRADFIELD, DN “By shrinking our footprint [and] realigning and repositioning our organization, we have the expertise to deliver partnerships, and that’s really the key to everything,” he said.

“In order to deliver the impact we want to the community, we’re going to have to change how we’re set up.”

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The Student Government Association introduced a resolution to establish a partnership between Ball State University and Rent College Pads, an organization that helps college students find homes off campus, at its Dec. 2 meeting. The resolution proposes a customized off-campus housing website made by Rent College Pads and monitored by university administrators.

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How to use LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor

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Jackie Sydnor, assistant chair of the Department of Elementary Education, said her department has already depended on technology for practicum hours this semester.

“During most of the semester, we had students engaging in virtual practicum experiences,” she said, “teaching students virtually, engaging in some other experiences that were more simulations.”

Some professors in the Department of Education are having students turn in a final group project virtually, which is a shift from usual group presentations on campus.

Professor of applied behavior analysis Shannon Dieringer said the Department of Special Education was mostly virtual during the fall semester, so moving to online work will not have a significant impact. Dieringer added that Ball State provided clear guidelines for what asynchronous work should look like.

“Most courses will be offered asynchronously, given the potential for connectivity challenges once students leave campus,” a university statement from Nov. 24 said.

The statement also mentioned that, if faculty members felt synchronous delivery was necessary, they should consult the

They have had a lot of different Canvas workshops as well as a Canvas community that was made accessible [for] all faculty.

Ball State has made it really clear that they want this asynchronous delivery.”

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departmental chair or work with students on a case-by-case basis.

“They have had a lot of different Canvas workshops as well as a Canvas community that was made accessible [for] all faculty,” Dieringer said. “Ball State has made it really clear that they want this asynchronous delivery.”

Dieringer said the Ball State administration also wanted to accommodate students who lived in different time zones.

“Let’s say you have an 8 a.m. class, but you live in Alaska,” she said. “Well, that’s going to be in the middle of the night.”

Gestwicki said professors in the Department of Computer Science have also had to adapt their usual discussions during the final exam

LockDown Browser is compatible with Mac and Windows computers and is used in conjunction with Respondus Monitor to record and analyze exam sessions for students. Some final exams may require LockDown Browser and/or Respondus Monitor.

To download LockDown Browser, log into Canvas, and click on the “Help” icon in the main menu on the left side of the screen. Click on the “Respondus Monitor for Students” link, which will take you to the download site. Review the terms and conditions, and click the “Install Now” button.

To produce a good webcam video while taking an exam with Respondus Monitor, students are encouraged to have their laptop on a flat surface, such as a desk, and avoid beds or laps to minimize the device’s movement. If possible, students should take exams in a well-lit room and avoid wearing hats so the webcam picks up a clear picture of their faces.

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period for students in their one-plus-two-plusone program, who complete their sophomore and junior years of a bachelor’s degree at Ball State and their freshman and senior years at their home colleges in China.

Gestwicki said the department has a significant number of Chinese students in its programs and synchronous work would be complicated, as China Standard Time is 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.

Students are approaching the asynchronous finals week with differing attitudes.

Isaac Ledford, a freshman business administration major, had two in-person classes this fall and has returned home to Fishers, Indiana, to complete his classes virtually.

While Ledford said he wasn’t stressed about finals, he is looking forward to finishing his Fundamentals of Public Speaking class.

“I’ve never really experienced an actual college final before, but I think the asynchronous finals will decrease my stress because the whole year, I didn’t feel stressed at all because I didn’t have to leave my dorm unless I wanted to,” Ledford said. “I don’t have the pressure of being in a room with a bunch of other kids, and I’ll just have all my resources with me.”

Senior marketing major Chloe Townsend is apprehensive. She said she struggles to understand class material when studying asynchronously and prefers taking exams in testing labs rather than on her laptop.

“Online finals are definitely not ideal,” Townsend said. “The asynchronous delivery definitely adds to my stress. I’m hard on myself anyway, and I try to do my best.”

The fall 2020 semester’s finals week will be the first to administer exams fully asynchronously at Ball State, so students and professors are both navigating

uncharted territory.

Finals week will end Dec. 18, 2020, followed by a month-long winter break before the spring

semester is scheduled to begin Jan. 19, 2021.

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Lessons learned Bold slate reflects on fall and shares spring semester plans.

Grace McCormick and Maya Wilkins Assistant News Editor and Reporter During his time as Student Government Association (SGA) president so far, Connor Sanburn said, he has realized how long the university process of approving proposals takes.

“I know we said this during elections about how we know the university is a slow-moving wheel, but we didn’t realize how slow it really was,” he said.

Sanburn said the Bold slate has made progress on its platform points in spite of the slow process, and he is proud of what slate members have accomplished this semester.

“No other slate has really had to govern through a pandemic like this before, and I’m so proud of the team and how they’ve persevered through it,” he said.

While Sanburn said he is pleased with the slate’s progress, he was hesitant to say any of Bold’s platform points were already complete.

“A lot of these [points] are ongoing and continuing, and a lot of them will take shape and take form during the beginning of next semester,” he said.

Chief administrator Gina Esposito said SGA will launch a pilot program for its free menstrual products in the Student Center during the beginning of the spring 2021 semester.

Esposito said she thinks Bold can use the menstrual hygiene dispensaries already in bathrooms and allow people to turn knobs on the machines without needing to pay a quarter for pads and tampons.

Though not in the original point, she said the slate is also working to partner with Cardinal Kitchen to supply students with boxes of menstrual products when they need them.

“At Cardinal Kitchen, there’s a lack of products to give,” Esposito said. “We know students need them, it’s just a matter of getting data to prove that students need these products to the point where they are supplied by the university.”

For spring 2021, Bold is prioritizing free menstrual products and diversity training for faculty.

When slate members established their platform points in February, they wanted to push diversity training for all faculty, but vice president Jordyn Blythe said they’ve adapted this point after realizing the university already has many training modules in place.

“We kind of switched gears on that because, in my conversations with Dr. Marsha McGriff, she expressed why mandatory bias training probably won’t happen this year,” Blythe said. “They’ve done mandatory trainings before and found that they weren’t as productive.”

Blythe said she and SGA secretary of diversity Temple Day have reached out to individual department chairs and college deans to ask how SGA can help further inclusive excellence plans

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Intercultural dialogues course for students: Bold is not expecting any expenses for this initiative.

Diversity training for all faculty: Bold is not expecting any expenses for this initiative.

and develop training modules if any departments don’t have them already.

“We don’t want professors to train for the sake of training — that’s not what this point was about,” Blythe said. “Training is in the near future for all of the departments, and our function in this role is just to help them be as effective about it as possible.”

Sanburn said he is most excited about the diversity training and menstrual products platform points, but Bold is still working on other initiatives.

Points Sanburn said he expects to be completed by the end of the spring 2021 semester are hosting an event with the Counseling Center, increasing accessibility of SafeZone training, reducing plastic bag use in dining halls and improving organizational connections with SGA. He added that Bold is working to advance Map App updates and heated bus stations, but those points might not be fully completed before Bold leaves office.

“A lot of them could look like a proposal — a lot of them could look like the finished product,” he said.

Sanburn said slate members will set individual goals for the platform points they are responsible for over winter break and discuss their progress before classes begin for the spring 2021 semester.

“We worked like dogs this semester,” he said.

“I think having a brain break and coming back in the spring — we’re just going to be moving.”

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

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

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How much of the SGA budget has been allocated to each platform point Emily Rutter, assistant director of African American Studies and associate professor of English, developed an “Understanding Race and Becoming an Anti-Racist” class with Honors College faculty after being awarded a creative teaching grant in spring 2020. Bold slate members said they completed this point through SGA vice president Jordyn Blythe’s involvement in the Student Anti-Racism and Intersectionality Advisory Council, which offered feedback on the course. Rutter said no other slate members besides Blythe have offered feedback.

The Bold slate is primarily focusing on developing diversity training for each department and piloting free menstrual products for the spring 2021 semester. SGA president Connor Sanburn said slate members will work on some platform points over winter break. JOHN LYNCH, DN

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Blythe said she and secretary of diversity Temple Day are discussing plans for diversity training with individual department chairs and college deans. Blythe has discussed training with Amy Livingstone, associate dean of the Honors College, Cathy Bickel, associate director of Housing and Residence Life, and Beth Goetz, athletic director, and is working on scheduling more discussions.

Build Counseling Center partnership and host event: $1,000

SGA president Connor Sanburn said the slate may allocate an additional $2,000 to this event as part of a spring break initiative to relieve student stress during the spring semester. Sanburn said he wants to work with the Counseling Center and other organizations to host this event.

bus stations through a proposal for where heated bus stations could be implemented.

Bold members are continuing to discuss heated bus stations with Jim Lowe, associate vice president for facilities planning and management. Sanburn said he doesn’t expect heated bus stations to be completed before Bold leaves office but hopes to develop written proposals.

Continue Map App updates for individuals with disabilities: Bold is not expecting any expenses for this initiative.

Sanburn said Bold has reached out to members of Digital Corps to continue Map App updates that were introduced as part of the previous Elevate slate’s platform points. Director of Digital Corps Brandon Smith said he is still in contact with SGA on implementing its proposed updates. Sanburn said he is focused on whether the updates SGA has proposed make financial sense, as they would require rewriting the app code.

Encourage reduced plastic bag use in dining facilities: Bold is not expecting any expenses for this initiative.

Sanburn said Bold has delivered a proposal to Dining Services to reduce plastic bag use in the dining halls by placing plastic bags behind cash registers so students have to ask for bags. He said the point will be complete by the end of the spring 2021 semester if Dining Services accepts the proposal.

Explore motion-sensored lighting: $300

Increase accessibility to SafeZone training: $350

Sanburn said Bold is not as concerned about this point as other platform points. He said he wants to investigate what areas of campus would benefit from motion-sensored lighting during the spring 2021 semester and move forward with plans to implement the point if slate members agree on some locations that could benefit from motionsensored lighting.

Expand metered parking app and grow awareness: Bold is not expecting any expenses for this initiative.

Improve organization connections with SGA: $800

Sanburn said Bold is working on paying for T-shirts and buttons for students and faculty who complete SafeZone training. He hopes to raise awareness for training through these initiatives and sponsor some Zoom trainings in the spring 2021 semester.

Sanburn said Bold wants to discuss expanding the metered parking app with the Office of Parking Services to allow students to pay for parking meters via their phone instead of with change. He said Bold is not actively working to complete this point.

Explore heated bus stations: $4,000

Sanburn said Bold is focusing on heated

Blythe said she has searched BennyLink for student organizations and contacted different members to ask how SGA can help them achieve their goals and if any of them want an organizational representative in the senate.

Pilot free menstrual hygiene products in select buildings: $4,500

*The Daily News did not recieve information from SGA regarding this platform point.

Source: SGA 2020-21 budget, as passed at the Oct. 14, 2020, senate meeting

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Continued from Page 03 Beverly Kelley, vice president of the Muncie Parks Department, said she fears residents living near North Street may not approve of the plans.

In years past, the parks department has attempted to close North Street, and Kelley said Muncie residents expressed “bad feelings” about the idea. Zaucha’s plans involve a similar change to allow for easy drop-off and pick-up as well as safer conditions for children.

Save Tuhey, a new movement organized by Muncie citizens, is one example of opposition to this project.

Heather Williams, associate director for community engagement at Ball State and a member of Save Tuhey, said Tuhey Park is a “promise” of investment into quality of life and quality of place in Muncie.

“If you lease and you build on Tuhey, you’re not going to get that back,” Williams said. “As someone who studied urban planning, when you build on greenspace [and] you put the concrete down, more likely than not, it’s never going to go back to green space. Its future from then on — it’s going to be a built space.”

Williams bought her first house in Muncie, she said, and sees the park as her “backyard.” When her first house got too small, she bought the one next door.

“I’m invested as a homeowner, as a parent and as a landlord in this particular area, and I’ve always felt like this triangle — this little triangle of Muncie — is my home. It’s my forever home,” Williams said.

Save Tuhey started shortly after a meeting between Muncie Mayor Dan Ridenour and the Riverside/Normal City Neighborhood Association.

Jeff Robinson, Muncie city council member, said that after Ridenour brought the idea to the park board in October, it set off “a chain of events.”

“The neighborhood associations took notice that are in that area, and [it] really became somewhat controversial at that point because new folks didn’t have a lot of information on it,” he said.

On Dec. 1, Robinson called a land and traffic

NEW AND IMPROVED Muncie’s new YMCA will include updated facilities. President and CEO of Muncie’s YMCA Chad Zaucha shared plans for the new two-story facility: “All these projects don’t come to fruition without partners.” Here’s what was proposed to be on each floor:

First Floor • • • • • •

Gymnasium Aquatics Youth development wing Teaching kitchen Multipurpose spaces Partner space

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Well-being space Elevated walking track Group cycling studio Spirit, mind and body studios Wellness center Cardiovascular strength equipment

Second Floor

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Tuhey Tower stands in the middle of Tuhey Park Dec. 8, 2020. The new YMCA would take the place of the Downtown and Northwest facilities. MAEVE BRADFIELD, DN committee meeting to hear people’s concerns over the project, he said. Three main issues came up during that meeting.

The first was residents’ concerns over limited public park spaces in Muncie, Robinson said, as well as concerns of giving up space taxpayers have invested in.

The second concern was the idea of putting in a large building in the middle of historic neighborhoods.

The third was neighborhood residents felt there was a lack of engagement between them and the city.

“That’s something that’s very important in this community and every community, frankly, is that the public is engaged early in the process — to be able to offer valuable input to see if this is something that the community could be OK with,” Robinson said.

Robinson said he has spoken to Ridenour, adding that the mayor doesn’t plan on bringing anything to the city council about this project in January, as he understands.

However, with the plans Zaucha presented alongside Ridenour, Ridenour said approximately 80 percent of North Street would remain open to the public.

“Currently, North Street goes all the way through,” Ridenour said. “What I am looking at doing is I would like to shut off North Street so that it no longer becomes a through street.

I would put a circle drive there so that people can come in, go to the park, turn around and go back out.”

That’s something that’s very important in this community and every community, frankly, is that the public is engaged early in the process — to be able to offer valuable input to see if this is something that the community could be OK with.”

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With multiple concerns going around about the project, Ridenour said he wants the city to have input on the final decision.

Now that Zaucha has the approval he needs from the Muncie Parks Department to move forward with this project, he wants to build a “world-class facility that can revolve around whole- person health and empower individuals to live purposeful and transformational lives.”

“This is a once-in-a-generation effort, a once-in-a-generation campaign,” he said. “I hope that we can work together to achieve this for our community.”

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

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A COMPETITIVE DRIVE Yo’Heinz Tyler increases his role in his third season with Ball State Football.

Connor Smith Assistant Sports Editor It wasn’t love at first sight for Ball State junior wide receiver Yo’Heinz Tyler when he first picked up a football as a 6-year-old.

Growing up in New Orleans, Tyler played football at a young age, but he said he had a hard time adjusting to the sport’s physicality.

Years later — in his third season with Ball State — Tyler’s dream is to play in the NFL post-graduation.

Ball State currently has three alumni on NFL rosters, and Tyler said he hopes to increase this number soon.

“I have a lot of older teammates from high school, and we all want to [play professionally],” Tyler said. “We’re all going to keep pushing to get to that level where we want to be.”

Tyler has played a critical role in the Cardinals’ success this season. Through Ball State’s first five games, he

is second on the team with 391 receiving yards and has five touchdowns to his name.

“We’re playing like no one can stop us,” Tyler said. “No one can compete with us. That’s been a highlight toward us and the team — we’ve just been balling.”

While Tyler said he’s expected this success throughout his collegiate career, this season has been a turning point for the junior.

Following the graduation of former wide receiver Riley Miller last spring, the Cardinals had to trust Tyler to step up and build off of Miller’s workload. Ball State wide receivers coach/recruiting coordinator Alex Bailey knew he could do just that.

“Yo’Heinz would play well off [Miller], and he didn’t skip a beat,” Bailey said. “Now, with him accepting a bigger role on this team, I think he’s handled it extremely well.

He knew coming into this season, ‘I have to step up.’”

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In his first game for the Cardinals, then-freshman wide receiver Yo’Heinz Tyler leaps for a touchdown catch in the end zone Aug. 30, 2018, at Scheumann Stadium. Tyler’s only two catches in his college debut were for touchdowns. JACOB HABERSTROH, DN FILE

Cardinals defeat Central Michigan Ball State Football took down the Chippewas 45-20 Dec. 5. Redshirt senior quarterback Drew Plitt led the Cardinals, throwing for 366 yards and four touchdowns and rushing for one touchdown. Redshirt freshman receiver Jalen McGaughy caught two of those scores and added 100 receiving yards. Ball State will play against Western Michigan for the MAC West Division title Dec. 12.

Women’s Basketball

Ball State beats Western Kentucky The Cardinals got their first win of the season against the Lady Toppers, defeating them 58-54. The Cardinals’ win was sparked by a 13-4 scoring run in the fourth quarter. Junior forward Thelma Dis Agustsdottir led Ball State with 15 points and eight rebounds. Junior guard Essence Booker also had 15 points in the win.

High School Boys’ Basketball

New Palestine takes down Rushville The Dragons defeated the Lions for their first win of the season. New Palestine had control all game in its 73-39 win. Junior Steele Brasfield led the offense, scoring 23 points and shooting 53 percent from the field.

Senior Eli Stephens contributed 11 points and shot 57 percent from the field. Senior Kyle Bastian led the way defensively with two blocks.

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Continued from Page 07 When Tyler made a recruiting visit to Ball State as a high school senior, Miller was one of the first teammates he met. The two often stayed late after practices to work on their route running, which formed a friendship and a positive working relationship.

“You could kind of tell he had that raw talent,” Miller said. “You could tell he was going to be a special player. It just kind of kept growing, and growing and growing.”

Bailey said Tyler’s discipline, athleticism and willingness to learn immediately caught his attention.

“He didn’t act like a freshman,” Bailey said. “He was always more of a mature type of player. He wanted to do things the right way and wanted to put himself in a position right away.”

Hitting the gridiron as a freshman in Ball State’s 2018 season opener, Tyler’s first two receptions in the cardinal and white were touchdowns. His first score came from a leaping 20-yard grab in the right corner of the end zone from former quarterback Riley Neal. He followed that up with a 63-yard catch-and-run from now-redshirt senior quarterback Drew Plitt.

Tyler said he had a competitive mindset heading into his freshman season, and it ultimately paid off.

“When I got that chance to play and show them what I could do, it helped me a lot,” Tyler said, “just being able to go out there, know what I could

You could kind of tell he had that raw talent. You could tell he was going to be a special player. It just kind of kept growing, and growing and growing.”

- RILEY MILLER, 2020 Ball State graduate and former Cardinal wide receiver do against defenders and play with confidence.”

Watching Tyler’s debut from the sideline, Bailey immediately knew he had someone special.

“I was like, ‘Hey man, we’ve got one,’” Bailey

said. “The ball’s in the air, and he’s coming down with it, so that was really the first time everybody got a chance to see him live in action.”

While the Mid-American Conference’s initial postponement of its 2020 football season due to COVID-19 concerns extended the Cardinals’ offseason, it didn’t stop Tyler from staying motivated.

Tyler said he continued practicing on a regular basis prior to the MAC’s announcement to begin a six-game season in early November. He said not playing consistently made him appreciate the game more than he did his first two seasons.

“We all just worked, worked, worked,” Tyler said. “We never knew when that chance was going to come, and we always stayed prepared [for] whenever that time came. That was something we never experienced and something we never want to have happen again.”

Ball State has one game remaining on its 2020 slate — Dec. 12 vs. Western Michigan. Tyler is confident the Cardinals can defeat the Broncos and advance to the MAC Championship game Dec. 18 in Detroit.

“I love this team, and they’re my brothers,” Tyler said. “I feel like we can all stick together.

We all connect as one right now, so if we keep that going, we will definitely go.”

Contact Connor Smith with comments at cnsmith@bsu.edu or on Twitter @cnsmith_19.

A job not finished

Ball State Football prepares for Western Michigan game to decide MAC West.

Ian Hansen Sports Editor

The last time Ball State won the Mid-American Conference West Division was in 2008 when the Cardinals went undefeated in the regular season and lost in the MAC Championship to Buffalo.

It has been 12 years in the making, and Ball State is one win away from playing in the championship game again. The Cardinals will face Western Michigan Dec. 12 in what is essentially a “MAC West Division Championship game.” The winner will head to Detroit to play in this year’s conference championship.

The Cardinals are coming off of a 45-20 win against Central Michigan and are looking to follow their mantra, “Detroit or Bust.”

“Nobody, by any means, feels like we’ve accomplished anything yet,” head coach Mike Neu said. “We’re just in a position to have one more opportunity here at home to get the job done. Our focus is to finish that deal.”

Redshirt senior quarterback Drew Plitt echoed Neu, despite his success this season. Plitt has 1,425 passing yards — the second-most in the MAC — and 10 touchdowns this season. Saturday will mark his final regular season game as a Cardinal.

“We’re not satisfied,” Plitt said. “Guys are happy — we’re joking, [and] everybody’s in a good mood and in good spirits — but we’re not satisfied, and you can tell by the number of people that are in here watching film right now. Everybody’s in here, getting things done and moving things to Western Michigan.”

The Broncos’ 44.6 points per game is the third-

Then-sophomore wide receiver Yo’Heinz Tyler catches a touchdown pass during the Cardinals’ game against Florida Atlantic Sept. 14, 2019, at Scheumann Stadium. In his sophomore season, Tyler secured his first start for the Cardinals and finished the season third in the Mid-American Conference in yards per reception (18.7). PAIGE GRIDER, DN FILE

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highest scoring average in the conference. Neu said he is focused on keeping the team locked in to prepare for Western Michigan’s highpowered offense.

“Our guys know what’s at stake,” Neu said.

‘This is something we’ve worked hard for, and we’ve got to have a great week of preparation. It’s about focusing on that day in and day out.”

Senior safety Bryce Cosby said he believes the bond in Ball State’s locker room will guide the Cardinals’ defense in the right direction against the Broncos.

“As a unit, I think we’re eager to be in the facility to see what the next challenge is and what the game plan is going into the next week,” Cosby said. “We look forward to the challenge every week, and we have a pretty strong bond within our locker rooms.”

Senior running back Caleb Huntley, who led the MAC in rushing yards through the first two weeks of the season, has missed his last two games due to a rib injury.

Huntley has been the Cardinals’ leading rusher with 145 yards per game and six touchdowns.

Despite his absence, Ball State has managed wins against Toledo and Central Michigan. Neu expressed how badly Huntley wants to return to action and how much he wants his hard work to pay off.

“Caleb wants to be back out there in the worst way,” Neu said. “I know it’s tough for him to be out, and, obviously, you can see in his eyes when I have a conversation with him — it’s very emotional. He’s worked so hard, he’s done such an unbelievable job and he wants to be out there so bad.”

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Teens see depression among peers

Discovering self-love Ball State alumni come together to create the poetry art book “TubLove.”

For teenagers, it’s not uncommon to experience anxiety and depression, but compared to other factors like poverty, alcohol or drug abuse, teenagers perceive anxiety and depression as a major problem among their peers ages 13 to 17. BallBearingsMag.com

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Pippenger said his photography featured in “TubLove” captures the anonymity expressed in Barnes’ poems, as Barnes told Pippenger he didn’t want his face shown in the portraits.

The photography within “TubLove” is raw, Pippenger said, because he and Barnes often decided the day of a photoshoot where the photos would take place.

“We really wanted to capture [the feeling that] you could put yourself in this [photo],” Pippenger said. “Black people, queer people, straight people — we wanted anybody to be able to see themselves, see their bodies, see their skin in a way they related to these poems and the themes self-identity, self-love and self-discovery.”

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On a windy, late spring day in Chicago, Jacob Barnes met fellow Ball State alumnus Mason Pippenger for lunch at Montrose Beach, overlooking the waters of Lake Michigan. During their meal, Barnes pulled out his manuscript, plopped it onto their table and asked Pippenger, “Will you collaborate with me on this project?”

Barnes’ manuscript consisted of poems he wrote in multiple journals, on spare papers on his desk and in his phone’s Notes app in December 2019 following a breakup. By himself for the first time in years, Barnes’ poems were letters to himself as he began his journey to find self-love.

“I’m a gay man, proudly and loudly,” Barnes said. “I grew up in a small rural town in Indiana where I was closeted for much of my life. I was always hiding who I was, and I always knew who I was. My parents and my friends were always loving, but I didn’t see anyone like me.

“It has taken me to this point to find that inner empowerment and inner peace with who I am.

Everyone deserves that moment where they can look within themselves and say, ‘I love you.’”

Early this spring, Barnes compiled his poetry by writing it down in cursive on a legal pad to turn his work into a poetry book about self-love and self-care. In six chapters — fill, submerge, soak, float, sink and drain — the book “TubLove” invites readers to explore themes of intimacy, identity and loss through the metaphor of a bath.

“I meditate in the bath because it’s really hard for me to get to that place of silence,” Barnes said. “In meditation, you’re trying to go into that stillness, and I can just link in with it easier in a bathtub.”

Editing To edit his poems, Barnes also brought in Sophie Baker, a 2019 Ball State alumna who is also one of Barnes’ family friends, as he attended Ball State alongside Baker’s sister. An avid reader and writer, Baker has kept journals since she was 10. The “TubLove” editor said poetry was a way for her to express her thoughts and emotions, and she has continued the practice as an aspiring author based in Indianapolis.

Baker pushed Barnes to elaborate on his thoughts and themes and sometimes rearranged lines in his stanzas. Baker said her goal as Barnes’ editor was to help the work reach its peak potential rather than infuse her own voice as a writer into Barnes’ work. “[Working on edits with Barnes] flowed because we let each other be artistic to the utmost of our ability and just put ourselves into [‘TubLove’] without judgment,” Baker said.

Baker said working on the book didn’t feel like work because it was fun to connect and talk regularly with her family friend.

“Jake and I have gotten a lot closer throughout this process because we were friends before, but we weren’t super close people who really understood each other on a deep level. We’ve gotten there because that’s what art really does — it brings you to that point,” Baker said. “When you’re working with someone in that artistic way for so long, you really get to see sides of them they don’t always show everybody else.”

Imagery Pippenger initially met Barnes during a Munciebased editorial photoshoot in spring 2018 just before Barnes left Muncie to pursue a season of summer theater as an acting major. The two kept in touch over social media, and when Pippenger moved to Chicago this spring, he messaged Barnes to hang out now that they both lived in the same city. After agreeing to be a part of Barnes’ project during their lunch together, Pippenger became the photographer for “TubLove.”

Pippenger’s interest in photography began in eighth grade when he downloaded Instagram and saw photographers capturing bodies he wasn’t used to seeing in magazines. Now a photographer himself, Pippenger said he enjoys highlighting people of color and other marginalized identities in his photographs.

“I like to make sure whatever I put out there is a real, authentic perception of whatever the subject is, whoever the subject is,” Pippenger said. “I want [my subjects] to feel like they see themselves in the photos I take of them and capture a little bit of this person’s identity … I like to explore what your body means to you and what identity means to you.”

Most of “TubLove’s” poetry is paired with Pippenger’s photographs. However, there are a few poems that stand alone. Barnes said trusting his intuition and having discussions with Pippenger were the leading forces behind “TubLove’s” layout.

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Jacob Barnes is a 2018 Ball State alumnus who is now a creative collaborator and human rights advocate based in Chicago.

Barnes said he is inspired by what it means to be human, which he explores with his poetry in “TubLove.” JACOB BARNES, PHOTO PROVIDED, KAMRYN TOMLINSON, DN ILLUSTRATION

Barnes also brought in Talon Reed Cooper, a 2020 Ball State alumnus, to join the “TubLove” team as the poetry book’s managing director.

Cooper and Barnes grew up together in Frankfurt, Indiana, but they didn’t become close friends until Cooper’s sophomore year at Ball State.

The two kept in touch, and when Cooper and Barnes were in Barnes’ hot tub each with a glass of wine in April, Barnes told Cooper he was writing a poetry book. He then asked Cooper to work with him on the project.

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DIFFERENT SOUND OF MUSIC

Ball State music majors and professors reflect on performing, practicing and learning during the pandemic.

Iris Tello Reporter Throughout the fall semester, sophomore music education major Aiden Cangany brought his trombone, music stand and sheet music to Ball State’s parking garages for a wide, open area to practice.

Performing in parking garages is one of several ways Ball State music students have adjusted their ways of practicing and performing this

Junior music education major AnnaMarie Kelly plays the bass drum during a Ball State Pride of Mid-America Marching Band rehearsal this semester.

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semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The way that using the parking garages helps is that it allows for a fairly open environment where we don’t have to worry about leaving a room every 30 minutes because the air needs to circulate,” Cangany said. “The parking garages also surprisingly sound pretty good to play in.

You get a nice echo.”

Ball State’s School of Music implemented new requirements this semester, such as students wearing face masks with mouth openings to stick their instrument’s mouthpiece through, placing coverings on their instruments’ bells and students wearing masks when they sing. Because of social distancing, students can’t perform in large ensembles, so directors have also chosen music that needs fewer musicians, and students participate in small, chamber music ensembles.

“Put all [these changes] together, it affects what [music] sounds like — it doesn’t sound the same, but at least we’re making music,” said Ryan Hourigan, director of Ball State’s School of Music. “The students are really resilient, and the faculty have been amazing in their flexibility.”

These changes were implemented in response to a study conducted this summer by major music organizations around the country to look at how aerosols spread through instruments and by voice. Hourigan said the study found that singing sprays aerosols more than playing instruments does.

Cangany said his School of Music classes have been divided into smaller sections where he and his classmates can either meet in person or participate in the class lecture on Zoom.

Aron Callard, first-year grad student, said he auditioned at Ball State a week before the school transitioned to virtual learning in March.

Meeting new people has had its obstacles, Callard said, because he is new to Muncie, and he hasn’t been able to connect with the community in person.

As a teaching assistant in Jazz III, Callard said

The students are really resilient, and the faculty have been amazing in their flexibility.”

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the safety precautions have also been a challenge for most students in his ensemble because it is hard for his students to hear each other while they are spaced out.

“My ensemble — it’s a lot of younger kids, some freshmen, so they’re not used to collegiate jazz band yet,” Callard said. “A lot of them are learning how to play in a collegiate jazz band

while also not being able to hear their peers a lot.”

Chris Van Hof, assistant professor of music performance and trombone instructor, said it was difficult switching from in-person classes to remote instruction, and practicing with more than two people became “almost impossible.”

To adjust how he teaches during the pandemic, Van Hof said he requires his students to submit recordings of themselves playing their instruments. He said his students found a positive outcome within this experience because they are able to look back on their recordings and reflect on how they can improve.

Because many music professionals are not currently working, Van Hof said, they have more availability to students online. On Oct. 1, Van Hof’s students attended a two-hour virtual clinic with George Curran, the bass trombonist for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Van Hof said this would not have been possible before because it would have been costly to attend the clinic in person.

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We need a break

Three no-new-learning days next semester are not enough.

Emily Hunter is a sophomore journalism major and writes “Speak Out” for The Daily News. Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

Before I stepped onto Emily campus as a sophomore Hunter this fall, I knew it was Columnist, going to be nothing “Speak Up” like my freshman year.

Classes were online, fall break was canceled and students moved home for the semester right before Thanksgiving. At the time, I couldn’t tell if the lack of rest fall break and Labor Day provided would even make a difference in the semester.

After struggling through over half of the semester, I can tell you it has.

Before I came to college, my dad gave me the best advice I’ve ever heard for time management: The amount of time spent studying outside of class should equal the amount of time you are in class. That way, you have a set amount of time to focus on school and a set amount of time to unwind and do whatever else you need to do.

This worked great last year, but the rule became blurred as I navigated this semester in my pajamas on my twin bed.

We can’t have designated study time because we don’t have designated class times anymore.

Time management has become more difficult than it has ever been.

The amount of schoolwork increased as well. From my perspective, professors are trying to make up for the fact that we aren’t in class by giving more assignments — because we obviously have more time on our hands. But the worst part isn’t the assignments, time management or

even the masks — it’s the fact that it’s all never-ending.

On the outside, there is an illusion that the lack of breaks provides a payout — we push through most of the semester and will get a longer break at Thanksgiving. But when you look further, you realize that, while we’ll be sent home, we will still have classes to attend and assignments to complete. The only difference between what we were doing on campus and what we are doing now is just that: We will be home.

When it comes to education, being at home is harder than being at school.

We are out of the environment that is

meant for learning and away from a lot of resources to help us succeed. In the end, we aren’t truly getting a break until mid-December.

Students have been working nonstop since August. We check one task off of our to-do list, and, then, there’s two more waiting in its place. Every single student I have talked to has said this semester has been the hardest and most stressful one of their college careers. I never understood what “burnout” really meant until this semester.

Now, I am no stranger to stress and mental illness. Last semester, I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety through the Ball State Health Center. I know what it feels like to be drained all the time with no energy or motivation to complete basic tasks. I’m lucky enough to have found a

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treatment plan that works for me, so that feeling lessened over time. However, I’m seeing it all around me now.

On Oct. 29, Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns sent out a video describing a new plan for next semester.

He and Student Government Association president Connor Sanburn announced that next semester, we will be getting three “study days.” According to the spring semester calendar, these days will be held Feb. 21, Mar. 23 and April 14. During these days, there will be no new material taught, assignments due or tests taken.

Students don’t have to attend class, but the spring semester calendar says these days should not be considered “university holidays” and that any other activities — internships, mentoring, clinical labs, etc.

— will still be held.

This plan is a great start, but I am hesitant to say this will solve the problem entirely.

I think having consecutive days off would be better for students. In the same breath, I think professors should understand that this is supposed to be a break for us and assign less work that week than they normally would. If the concern is for students to not go home, then make the days we have off Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Most students already spend their days with no in-person classes — just Zoom calls, video lectures and virtual assignments. The due dates breathe down our necks as we sit behind our screens, armed with nothing but blue light, coffee and a to-do list. While these “study days” seem like they will be helpful, it’s more likely that they will feel just like any other day of the week. All we can really do is make the most out of what we are given and pray 2021 is kinder to us.

Contact Emily Hunter with comments at ekhunter@bsu.edu.

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14 thing in the world,” Baker said. “In love, you need to be honest, whether it’s love for yourself or love for others. This book is honest and straightforward. What I think people will draw from this work is love stems from honesty. Be honest about your feelings and your desires and pushing yourself and others to meet those needs.”

As Barnes continues working on projects focusing on spreading love and questioning what it means to be a human being living on Earth, he said, he hopes as many people as possible experience “TubLove” and feel empowered to love oneself and one another bravely and boldly.

“I believe the highest form of this life is love,” Barnes said.

“When we are in a loving state and frame of mind, we are operating at our highest. When we love, we create magic.”

Contact Nicole Thomas with comments at nrthomas3@bsu.edu or on Twitter @nicolerthomas22.

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“That transition from friendship to working relationship is fascinating,” Cooper said. “I’m learning now as I get older that in college, you will spend time with people in rehearsals or on set filming something, and you also have close friendships with them.

College is a really good learning point for me to understand how to have friendships but also to have working relationships with those people. It’s been, overall, a fantastic experience to learn.”

As the managing director for “TubLove,” Cooper oversees marketing the poetry art book and ensures the team meets its deadlines. Cooper said developing social media partnerships is also a large part of his Muncie-based job, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic when it’s essential to make virtual connections with readers and supporting artists.

“We have a lot of people we consider close friends who also are artists, and artists carry art,” Cooper said. “Our idea is if we have our close personal relationships sharing the art we are producing, then it will be more successful because it’s going to be easily accessible to different artists. They’re going to want to consume this book because not only is it created by somebody they trust and some love, but it’s also created by a group of passionate artists.”

Jacq Clark, a 2017 Ball State alumna, also helps market “TubLove” as the team’s outreach program director based in Detroit. Since October, Clark has reached out to publications, podcasts, bookstores and online shops to partner with the poetry art book.

She’s also in charge of “TubLove’s” artist collaboration project where photographers, dancers, actors, muralists and other artists across the country will create artworks in their mediums to pair with the poetry featured in “TubLove.” These artist collaborations will then reside on “TubLove’s” Instagram page.

“Being the only woman [at ‘TubLove’] other than Sophie is different,” Clark said. “I can offer somewhat of a different perspective on how we can communicate with people and how we can share what it means to love yourself and love a community in a more maternal and nurturing way than some of the boys can.”

Collaborating Because the “TubLove” team is spread across Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit and Muncie, the team meets via Zoom and FaceTime while collaborating through Google Docs. Barnes said he and the “TubLove” team rely heavily on respecting each other and leading from a place of love as they work together safely and socially distanced.

Everyone deserves that moment where they can look within themselves and say, ‘I love you.’”

- JACOB BARNES, 2018 Ball State alumnus and author of “TubLove” “As creators, we hold this tremendous power,” Barnes said.

“The things we are creating right here and right now are going to influence and manifest our futures. If anything, the pandemic has solidified, for me, the power the arts and creators hold. As artists, we are empathetic beings, and we can relate to people. That’s something we have to remember in this political environment we’re in. It’s stepping up to that power as creators, accepting the challenge and becoming love warriors, justice warriors and equity warriors.”

Clark said her experience curating and promoting a show from scratch during a Ball State immersive learning class taught her how to collaborate with people who have different artistic views than herself.

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“[I learned] how to compromise and recognize through that compromise that at the end of the day, it’s not about the individual in the project, it’s about the art itself, and remembering that is priority,” Clark said. “[The class] also taught me how to carry myself with professionalism in every environment while still maintaining my integrity as an artist and as an individual within a product project.”

While every member of the “TubLove” team identifies with the LGBTQ community, Clark and Cooper both said “TubLove” isn’t solely meant for queer people and stressed that anyone can read and relate to “TubLove’s” themes of self-love.

“That’s one of the things we’re really proud about — yes, it is created by queer people, but it’s about self-love and the loss of love,” Cooper said. “It’s really about being human. You don’t have to be queer to understand that.”

As each team member takes care of Barnes’ “baby,” Pippenger said, he hopes readers realize and support that each person involved is not a big name who is a part of a big publishing house. “[We] are everyday people who have a passion, and we have the confidence, the desire and drive to chase after it and literally work our butts off to make it happen with the resources we have,” Pippenger said.

While Baker said she believes everyone should prioritize finding self-love, she doesn’t love the cliche, “How can someone love you if you don’t love yourself?” Instead, Baker believes in the saying, “How can you know how much someone should love you unless you’re loving yourself fully?”

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Continued from Page 08 Ball State hasn’t played in a bowl game since 2014 when it lost 23-20 to Arkansas State in the GoDaddy Bowl. This is the team’s first year with a winning record since that season, and it’s also Neu’s first winning season as head coach of the Cardinals.

“That’s really what it’s been for us,” Neu said. “It’s great to get out of the car and walk

in the building, knowing that you’re playing for something meaningful that the guys have worked so hard for.”

All season, Ball State’s mantra has been “Detroit or Bust.” Now, the Cardinals have one game to prove if this season will end up as a “bust” or if they will play for the conference championship in Detroit Dec. 18.

“We’re focused on finishing our mission,” Neu said.

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

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Continued from Page 11 “I just am really impressed with the resolve and determination that our music students have,” Van Hof said. “Without complaining or eye rolling, they leave their [personal protective equipment] on, and they have adapted very quickly to new safety protocols. They’re willing to bend as much as they need to in order to be safe and to still grow as artists, musicians, teachers, sound engineers and all the other programs that we offer here.”

Whitney Twigg, a fifth-year music education major studying vocal and instrumental music, said she has a different view of how the pandemic is affecting her schooling than most students. Twigg said she believes virtual learning is less stressful because it cut out her time traveling to campus.

“I’ve not had a week yet where my schedule has been the same as another week, and that’s actually been OK for me because it’s kept my interest,” Twigg said. “I’m not getting burnt out and tired of it.”

AnnaMarie Kelly, junior music education major and percussionist, said it was really difficult for her when she had to “throw away” all of her work when she couldn’t play in her final performances of the year last semester when students were sent home. Now, she focuses on the positives of the opportunity to have been on campus this semester.

“In coming back, there was this real sense of excitement even though it was going to be really different,” Kelly said. “I just wanted to be back on campus, and be in the proximity of the people I wanted to be around and hopefully create music in

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some way. That’s what I love the most, and I really, really missed it over that quarantine period.”

Throughout the semester, Kelly said, her professors have challenged her in ways she never would have been challenged before, and she now has a much greater appreciation for being able to create music.

“I think that it has been an incredibly hard year for every single person, professors included,” Kelley said. “The students might blame it on the professors for it not seeming as normal as other years, but it can’t be normal because it’s not normal.”

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