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A NEW GIG

University Police Lt. and head gymnastics strength and conditioning coach David Bell claps with the rest of the gymnastics team after a pregame huddle before a meet against Northern Illinois Feb. 14, 2021, at John E. Worthen Arena. Bell has helped the Ball State Gymnastics to an 11-0 start to the 2021 season. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN

University Police Lt. and head gymnastics strength and conditioning coach David Bell poses for a photo Feb. 16, 2021, at John E. Worthen Arena. Bell has worked in law enforcement for almost 28 years. JADEN WHITEMAN, DN

Helping others has been a staple of UPD Lt. David Bell’s life.

Drew Pierce Reporter At 4:50 a.m., Ball State University Police Department (UPD) Lt. David Bell wakes up to his alarm. Before heading to the police station, he gets dressed in Ball State-branded Nike garb and heads to the gym — not to get a workout in for himself, but to work with student-athletes.

Bell started his law enforcement career with the Delaware County Department of Corrections. He took advantage of an opening with Ball State UPD in 1998 and

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has been there ever since.

“One of the things I enjoy the most about policing is helping other people,” Bell said.

“Since I have been here, I have had so many opportunities to do that.”

Throughout college, Bell had a passion for art, but he realized making a living from it would require a move to a big city. He said he didn’t want to make that move considering he had already started a family, which was how he forged his path in law enforcement.

However, Bell felt there was more he could do. In 2013, he decided to go back

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to school to pursue his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and exercise science and take advantage of the free undergraduate education UPD provided.

“I had run out of excuses,” Bell said. “Both of my kids were out of the house. I was pretty much where I wanted to be here at UPD. I woke up one day and said, ‘Why have I not gone back to school yet?’”

The first day he stepped foot on campus — not as a law enforcement member, but as a student — something clicked deep within him.

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Feb. 12: Freshman Elka Machan finished with a time of 17:05.81 in the 5,000-meter run at the GVSU Big Meet. She finished 12th out of 73 runners and currently owns the Mid-American Conference’s best time in the event. Seniors MaQuila Norman and Anasja Troutman placed third the 200-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles, respectively, with times of 24.65 and 8.76.

Trump acquitted of impeachment charges

Feb. 13: The Senate voted 57-43 to convict former President Donald Trump of his second impeachment charge, inciting insurrection on the Capitol Jan. 6, which fell short of the two-thirds majority vote required. The Senate convened in a rare weekend session to deliver its verdict, where seven Republican senators joined Democrats in voting to convict.

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Brown records 1,000th rebound

Feb. 13: Senior forward Oshlynn Brown recorded her 1,000th career rebound in Ball State Women’s Basketball’s 79-77 win over Miami (Ohio). Brown became just the second player in program history to reach 1,000 career points and rebounds. She needs just 14 more rebounds to pass Emma Jones, 1987 Ball State graduate, as the program’s all-time leader.

WHO approves AstraZeneca vaccine

Feb. 15: The World Health Organization (WHO) authorized AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, which should trigger shipments of doses to countries that signed up for the U.N.’s COVAX effort. AstraZeneca is only the second vaccine to be approved by the WHO after it approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in December 2020.

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Biden calls for tougher gun control laws President Joe Biden joined the Parkland, Florida, community Feb. 14 in remembering the 17 people killed three years ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in a shooting massacre. Biden used the occasion to call on members of Congress to strengthen gun control laws.

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for a better university’ SGA Strive slate introduces campaign focuses.

Grace McCormick News Editor After two Student Government Association (SGA) election seasons saw three executive slates run against each other, just one slate signed up to campaign for the 2021-22 school year.

The Strive slate is made up of presidential candidate Tina Nguyen, vice presidential candidate Chiara Biddle, chief administrator candidate Nita Burton and treasurer candidate Jacob Bartolotta.

Rather than run on platform points, members of the Strive slate wanted to campaign on four focuses: engage, encourage, educate and strive.

“With focuses, we want to welcome as many opinions as possible because our motto is ‘by the students, for the students,’” Nguyen said.

Biddle said she thought previous slates having

(Left to right) Tina Nguyen, Chiara Biddle, Jacob Bartolotta and Nita Burton of the SGA slate Strive stand together Feb. 10, 2021. Strive is the only slate running in this year’s election.

specific platform points was limiting what they could accomplish.

“As a slate, if you’re constantly trying to check off the boxes of your platform points, you’re not really thinking about what’s going on in the [student] senate or other ways that you can help the student body,” she said. “That’s a very rigid model, and we wanted to stray away from that.”

Engage The “engage” focus aims to promote transparency with the student body by hosting monthly town halls for the Strive slate to receive feedback and ideas. Nguyen said she also wants to open the gallery for students to observe SGA senate meetings and pass legislation that would allow gallery members to ask senators questions. Slate members said the first few town halls they host will likely be virtual if they are elected.

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A strong earthquake in northeastern Japan caused power blackouts for thousands of people and damaged parts of buildings and highways Feb. 13. More than 140 people suffered mostly minor injuries, many of them from falling objects and stepping on broken glass. Three people were confirmed with serious injuries, but there were no reported deaths.

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Grants to support vaccine distribution The Ball Brothers Foundation announced $70,000 in grants Feb. 15 to support COVID-19 vaccine distribution in East Central Indiana.

Ball State University received $5,000 to partner with the Delaware County Health Department to develop mass vaccination sites for staff and students on campus.

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Continued from Page 03 “Something our slate really wants to focus on is letting SGA out to the public, letting everyone know we want feedback from students,” Bartolotta said. “Let’s make it more accessible so more students can tell us what they want … and that’s where we can express some major concerns to higher offices.”

Nguyen said another goal within the “engage” focus is for Housing and Residence Life to communicate with on-campus students directly rather than through resident assistants (RA) or hall directors. Nguyen is an RA in Kinghorn Hall and said her own experiences talking with residents helped her come up with this goal.

“Right now, all my residents’ concerns come to me or our hall director, and then we try to communicate that to the higher-ups,” she said.

“As a slate, we want to help find better ways to communicate with housing administrators.”

Encourage Reducing Ball State’s carbon footprint and making SGA a model organization of environmentally-friendly behavior is the primary goal of “encourage.”

“I think it’s very doable,” Biddle said. “We’ve

SGA ELECTION DATES Voting for the Student Government Association 2021-22 executive slate will take place March 1 and 2.

Students will be sent a voting link to their Ball State email addresses and be given the option to vote for Strive or vote no confidence.

Voting will open online only at 8 a.m.

March 1 and close at 5 p.m. March 2.

Source: SGA Elections website

platform points.

“What I would love to see — it might be a pipedream — but if we could make implicit bias training a required thing before you come to campus, that would be incredible,” Biddle said. “I would love to see that, or even just make training an accessible link like on Canvas for students to get to it if they want to.”

Bartolotta said he hopes to host an implicit bias training during a senate meeting if Strive is elected and later make the training available to other students and faculty.

Also under the “educate” focus, Nguyen said she hopes to host a “diversity deep dive” for new students to get to know and connect with minority student organizations, potentially through an interactive fair after COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.

Strive With focuses, we want to welcome as many opinions as possible because our motto is ‘by the students, for the students.’”

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been operating virtually and paperless for almost a year now. We could still do tabling and handouts but make the handouts virtual or use a QR code.”

Biddle also said she wants to brainstorm strategies for dining halls to use less plastic products, including to-go containers and plasticware. This is similar to previous slates’ platform points — the current Bold slate wants to reduce plastic bag use in dining halls, and Elevate wanted to promote the availability of green to-go containers.

Educate The “educate” focus aims to create a more inclusive environment on Ball State’s campus by expanding SafeZone and implicit bias trainings — similar to the current Bold slate’s

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Inspired by Bold’s platform point to implement free menstrual products in the Student Center, Nguyen said, Strive members want to expand the number of buildings that will offer products to further this goal.

“We want to help Bold achieve that when they’re not in office anymore because our goal is just to improve SGA and the student body as a whole,” Nguyen said.

Bartolotta said he and his fellow slate members were thinking about the goals they wanted to accomplish if elected to office, and the words they chose to summarize each focus were “basically a campaign slogan.”

Though Strive is the only SGA slate running for office for the 2021-22 school year, students who choose to vote will have the option to vote for Strive or vote no confidence if they feel Strive isn’t fit to hold executive positions.

“I’ve heard some students say their vote won’t matter, but your voice matters,” Nguyen said.

“We want students to believe in us, and that’s why we’re campaigning.”

Nguyen said slate members will work together to achieve each focus and their goals within them if Strive is elected.

“We want to work as a team to complete these focuses to show the student body that this is how it should be,” she said. “That’s why we formed in the first place — to work together to strive for a better university.”

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Tina Nguyen

Presidential candidate

Chiara Biddle

Vice Presidential candidate

Nita Burton

Chief Administrator candidate

Jacob Bartolotta Treasurer candidate

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Ball State provost and students react to increase in online learning.

Angelica Gonzalez Morales Reporter

With classroom desks socially distanced and stickers signifying unavailable chairs, professors and students have made many changes to the ways they usually learn on campus. As the world still grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Ball State’s course modalities show one clear way of how the pandemic has affected campus and academics.

Susana Rivera-Mills, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, said the number of online class offerings increased by 23 percent this spring semester compared to last spring semester.

Rivera-Mills noted that most of this semester’s online classes are being taught asynchronously.

She said professors can request to teach online classes and that each department determines the

best way to deliver course instruction.

“Over the last year, due to the pandemic, we’ve had to also follow guidelines provided by the CDC, the state health department, our county health department and medical experts that help advise us,” Rivera-Mills said via email. “This ensures that we can offer a learning environment that is safe for both faculty and students.”

Rivera-Mills said online class offerings are higher than usual due to COVID-19, so the university has had to balance what is taught offline and taught on-campus, but she added that the university is also offering more in-person courses this semester compared to fall 2020.

With more classes being taught online this semester, students have noticed changes within their class schedules and their departments.

Noah Linville, sophomore business administration major, said four out of his six total classes are online this semester, which he said can be difficult to manage compared to last semester when he had two online and three in-person classes.

“My motivation has gone down since I am just able to push it back, and I’m like, ‘Oh, it’s online. I don’t have to do it then and there,’ and I don’t like that. It makes me feel like a bad student,” Linville

said. “I would like to have more in-person [classes] because I am able to do stuff throughout the day and I’m not just sitting in my dorm all day staring at the computer screen.”

Emma Kruse, a freshman nursing major, said the classes she had to take this semester are either delivered fully in-person or fully online.

“I had a couple more classes in person this semester. However, my harder classes are online,” Kruse said. “School, overall, has been a little tougher this semester compared to last.”

Kruse said she noticed more of her fellow nursing majors are taking more online classes than usual.

“For most of our science-based classes for nursing, they all are online,” she said, “which I find a little odd because I think of all classes that you will want to do in person, it will be the really hard science classes.”

In the post-pandemic world, Rivera-Mills said, the university will be able to offer more in-person classes, but safety protocols require more online learning than usual for this semester.

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

ONLINE LEARNING TIPS

To be successful in online classes, Kate Shively, assistant professor of elementary education, offered some advice to students on Ball State University’s blog.

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Make a space specific for e-learning, and make sure it’s comfortable.

Instead of completing assignments from your bed, sit in a chair with good posture.

Stretch throughout the day, and look away from your computer screen.

Use natural light to increase motivation and focus.

Schedule breaks during the day, and stay in touch with friends.

Source: Ball State University blog and Kate Shively, assistant professor of elementary education

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How has mental health been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The average share of American adults reporting symptoms of anxiety and/or depression JanuaryJune 2019 vs. January 2021 rose by more than 30 percentage points.

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Ball State Counseling Center introduces ‘Let’s Talk’ appointments.

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nxiety, depression and relationship concerns are the most popular topics of discussion for college students at Ball State’s Counseling Center, said Timothy Hess, associate director for Clinical Services and Counseling Center psychologist.

Last semester, the Counseling Center adopted the service “Let’s Talk” as a virtual outlet for students to conduct personal conversations with counseling staff.

It does not replace traditional counseling, but it is really [beneficial] for students who need a conversation.”

- TIMOTHY HESS, Associate director for Clinical Services and Counseling Center psychologist “‘Let’s Talk’ provides easy access to a one-time, informal, confidential, free conversation with a Counseling Center staff member,” Hess said. “It does not replace traditional counseling, but it is really [beneficial] for students who need a conversation.”

During the 2020-21 school year, Hess said, he thinks students are finding more difficulties connecting with friends.

“I do think, with some of the things around COVID-19, there has been some heightened sense of isolation and loneliness as students talk,” he said.

At a time when face-to-face conversation is needed most, Ball State’s Counseling Center staff brainstormed ideas that could help students’ situations regarding counseling.

“We had some students who were more interested in group therapy, which we have always been big proponents and fans of because of the social nature,” Hess said.

“Let’s Talk” aims to offer the opportunity to discuss issues like test anxiety, coping skills or roommate conflicts that might cause stress but don’t warrant regular therapy appointments. Students can also use “Let’s Talk” to discuss whether therapy is a good decision for their mental health.

Hess said a total of eight students utilized the service last semester, and the Counseling Center has already had the same number of students in the spring use “Let’s Talk” as of Feb. 4, 2021.

Bill Betts, director of Counseling and Health Services, said via email that “Let’s Talk” is growing and still in its early days of operation, which is a reason for its low usership.

“I think any time you start a new service, it takes a while for people to learn about the service and feel comfortable using it,” he said.

Hess said he hopes “Let’s Talk” will

provide another opportunity for the Counseling Center to connect with students and for students to receive mental health support.

I think any time you start a new service, it takes a while for people to learn about the service and feel comfortable using it.”

- BILL BETTS, Director of Counseling and Health Services “We want students to know that we are here to help and support them through another semester [in the midst of] a new academic experience,” Hess said.

The Counseling Center is advertising “Let’s Talk” through the Ball State COMM center, posters in residence halls and its brand-new YouTube channel.

“It is my hope,” Betts said, “that ‘Let’s Talk’ will give students one more way to get support so they can be successful.”

Hess said he hopes it will grow through advertising and word of mouth. “[‘Let’s Talk’] is a service that we hope will find a niche on campus since it’s got a lot of opportunity for students,” he said.

Contact Grace Bentkowski with comments at gmbentkowski@bsu.edu or on Twitter @gbentkowski.

Jan.­—June 2019

January 2021

Before the pandemic, young American adults ages 18-24 were at a higher risk of poor mental health compared to all adults in the U.S., but many weren’t receiving treatment. In a January 2021 National Center for Health Statistics survey, 56.2 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression.

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey

Let’s Talk appointments at Ball State •

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Ball State’s Counseling Center started offering one-time, 20-minute appointments with Counseling Center staff members in the fall 2020 semester.

The appointments aren’t meant to be therapy but problem-solving sessions to help ease anxiety and build coping skills.

Appointments are conducted virtually via Zoom and phone and are available to any Ball State student in Indiana.

Call 765-285-1736 to request an appointment.

For more information and answers to FAQs, visit the Ball State Counseling Center web page.

Source: Ball State Counseling Center

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Swinging for the fence Following missed opportunities, Ball State Baseball is hungry for success heading into 2021.

Connor Smith Assistant Sports Editor The last time a Ball State team played on the University of Arizona’s campus, it made history.

When Ball State Baseball opens its 2021 campaign Feb. 19 against the Wildcats — right where Ball State Football won its first-ever bowl game not even two months prior — the Cardinals will begin their quest toward a similar outcome: their fifth MidAmerican Conference Title.

In 2019, Ball State finished half a game behind Central Michigan for first place in the conference before the Chippewas defeated the Cardinals 6-0 in the MAC Championship. In 2020, Ball State played just 16 games before COVID-19 cut its season short.

“Having that season taken away from us was challenging and surreal,” head coach Rich Maloney

said. “It was hard to swallow but understandable — understandable in the circumstances, frustrating, the wave of emotion that humans feel in different things — we felt a bunch of them.”

Due to the NCAA’s ruling giving spring 2020 Division I athletes an extra year of eligibility, the Cardinals will return five of their nine senior players from last season — right-handed pitcher John Baker, left-handed pitcher Lukas Jaksich, catcher Chase Sebby and outfielders Aaron Simpson and Ross Messina.

Maloney said the Cardinals’ success in 2021 will heavily depend on the performance of their senior players. None of them played summer ball, and this season will mark their first competitive opportunity since last March.

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After 10 days between game action, the Cardinals lost to the Falcons 75-62 in the two teams’ second matchup of the season. Redshirt fifth-year guard K.J. Walton returned for the first time since Jan. 23. He, along with senior guard Ishmael ElAmin and redshirt sophomore guard Jarron Coleman, scored 11 points.

You have to take every at-bat as it is. I feel like when you’re dealing with COVID, the only thing on your mind is being able to be out there and help the team as much as you can.”

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Cardinals move to 11-0 on the season

- NOAH NAVARRO, Junior second baseman/shortstop

After beating Northern Illinois 195.275-193.350 on Valentine’s Day, Ball State remained undefeated.

Freshman Hannah Ruthberg and senior Arden Hudson led the Cardinals in their victory, recording a pair of 9.800 scores. Ruthberg won the uneven bars with a score of 9.850. Sophomore Taylor Waldo was Ball State’s highest scorer on the balance beam with a score of 9.825, tying for first place overall.

said. “They’re veterans who have already had success, and they’ve got to carry the torch and bring those other boys along. That’s the beauty of the program.”

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Emma Peeler wins tiebreaker match Sophomore pitcher Andre Orselli throws a pitch Feb. 21, 2020, at Husky Field in Houston. The NCAA granted multiple Cardinals an extra year of athletic eligibility after the season was canceled in March. BALL STATE ATHLETICS, PHOTO PROVIDED

Ball State moved to 2-2 on the season after sophomore Emma Peeler won her third set tiebreaker, helping the Cardinals beat Middle Tennessee 4-3. The Blue Raiders took the doubles point, giving them an early 1-0 lead. Sophomore Jessica Braun and junior Livia Lukas helped give the Cardinals the lead in singles play. Peeler sealed the victory for the Cardinals, winning her match 7-6.

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Continued from Page 01 “I was that student who always sat at the front of the class,” Bell said. “I was asking questions, and I was doing well from the start. It was solely because of this huge interest that I’ve always had.”

After finishing his undergraduate in 2018, Bell took it a step further. He decided to shell out some of his own money and pursue a master’s degree in sports performance.

Like Bell, who recently turned 50, Ball State Director of Public Safety Jim Duckham also went to school while still a police officer. Duckham said the decision to go back at an older age might seem crazy to some, but Bell’s furthered education has positively translated into the department.

“I think [Bell] has a thirst for knowledge,” Duckham said. “He is really passionate about law enforcement, and he is always passionate about fitness. He has been able to bridge those two things in his career here. With training, he touches everybody that works within the department.”

Bell said he doesn’t need this degree, but he wants it. He has dedicated his entire life to helping others.

“I realized that I am probably going to retire from here, so what is the purpose of furthering my education in something I am successful at?”

Bell said. “One thing I was always interested in is fitness. I was always an athlete. Exercise science seemed to fit the best.”

Early into his path, Bell realized he would need an internship to graduate. He applied and got one within the weight room of Worthen Arena, and it was there his love for helping student-athletes blossomed.

Bell joined Ball State Baseball as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in August 2018.

He said he had grown fond of the sport ever since he was a child, so staying connected to America’s pastime was a plus. When the head strength and conditioning coach position for Ball State

Gymnastics opened up in December 2019, Bell jumped at the opportunity, bringing his charisma with him.

“He is so happy all the time,” senior gymnast Arden Hudson said. “He is always in a good mood.

He is very receptive to what the team says and what we want. Considering our bodies do take a lot of impact, it is kind of nice to have a strength coach that listens to our bodies.”

Head coach Joanna Saleem said it did not take

He is going back to school because he wants to do this. This is all volunteer for him. He really cares for people, and he is not the type of person to do things halfway.”

- JOANNA SALEEM, Ball State Gymnastics head coach long for Bell to fit right in and establish his presence.

“He is in charge of writing and creating our strength program and then implementing that for our team,” Saleem said. “It is really awesome to have him as a part of our staff. There were a lot of questions in the beginning. He has definitely gained a lot of knowledge.”

During the school year, Bell said, his days are long but fulfilling. After waking up, he works with student-athletes until the department reels him back at 7:30 a.m. for his daily duties. He said he hopes to be home at 5 p.m. most days, but overtime shifts, gymnastics events and anything else that pops up can keep him around later.

“He is going back to school because he wants

University Police Lieutenant and head gymnastics strength and conditioning coach David Bell is seen Feb. 16, 2021, at John E. Worthen Arena. “One of the things I enjoy the most about policing is helping other people,” Bell said. “Since I have been here, I have had so many opportunities to do that.” JADEN WHITEMAN, DN to do this,” Saleem said. “This is all volunteer for him. He really cares for people, and he is not the type of person to do things halfway.”

Bell said balancing multiple responsibilities isn’t an issue because he prioritizes helping others at any expense.

“In nearly 28 years of law enforcement, I have had a lot of opportunities to help people,” Bell said. “From the seemingly insignificant incidents of putting a smile on someone’s face to the major incidents like saving a life, I have had a lot of opportunities to be in those positions. [With strength coaching], I get a daily opportunity to help someone.”

After retiring from UPD, Bell said, he will look for more strength and conditioning gigs and ways to keep lending a helping hand.

“I’ve always known that just seeing my influence on someone else has always been the ultimate reward,” Bell said. “It is better than money. It is better than anything else. That is what truly makes me happy — just helping others.”

Contact Drew Pierce with comments at dlpierce2@bsu.edu or on Twitter @drewpierce.

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Heading into his fifth and final season as a Cardinal, Baker, who finished 7-2 with a teamleading 2.13 ERA in 2019, said he hopes to lead by example and embrace the opportunity that comes with being a mentor.

“All of us have kind of taken a leadership role just because we had a special opportunity to get an extra year of eligibility,” Baker said. “Maybe other guys [will] step up more this year just because they realize that this will for sure be their last year of college baseball.”

Junior second baseman/shortstop Noah Navarro said he views this season as a breath of fresh air.

Navarro batted .308 through 32 games in 2019 before he underwent shoulder surgery and missed the final month of that season. He built on his average in 2020, batting .377 before the pandemic canceled the season.

“I’m not going to lie, it’s been a little frustrating,” Navarro said. “Just having the opportunity to get back on the field and not having those restrictions

Senior outfielder Ross Messina hits the ball during a game against Houston Baptist Feb. 21, 2020, at Husky Field in Houston, Texas. The season was canceled a few weeks later in March due to COVID-19 concerns. BALL STATE ATHLETICS, PHOTO PROVIDED where we’re cut short again is really special.”

Because of the pandemic’s uncertainties, Navarro emphasized the importance of having a next-man-up mentality this season — something he believes Maloney has preached year after year.

“You have to take every at-bat as it is,” Navarro

said. “I feel like when you’re dealing with COVID, the only thing on your mind is being able to be out there and help the team as much as you can.”

Ball State enters 2021 with 17 freshmen. Maloney highlighted three in particular — right-handed pitcher Ty Johnson, third baseman/outfielder Tyler Hinrikus

University Police Lieutenant and head gymnastics strength and conditioning coach David Bell watches sophomore gymnast Megan Teter warm up before a meet against Northern Illinois Feb. 14, 2021, at John E. Worthen Arena.

Bell previously was an assistant strength and conditioning coach for Ball State Baseball. JACOB MUSSELMAN, DN and outfielder/first baseman Decker Scheffler — as potential difference-makers moving forward.

“You never know when we might lose a couple guys to this, that or whatever,” Maloney said.

“That’s not counting injury, but the pandemic could happen. You lose a couple guys on the weekend, and somebody has to step up. I’m confident that we’ve got some good depth.”

The Cardinals’ matchup against the Wildcats will mark the first of 13 consecutive road games — all against non-conference opponents — before their home opener March 19 against Western Michigan.

From there, the Cardinals will solely face MAC opponents with the exception of a three-game series against Butler April 1-3. Maloney said he plans to use the first few weeks of the season to establish his lineup and rotation come conference play.

Between falling short in 2019 and missing opportunities in 2020, Maloney said his players are hungrier than ever as they board the plane to Arizona and begin their 56-game journey.

“They’re all in,” Maloney said. “[For] the veterans, this is their last hurrah. They want to set it up the right way … This is it, and this is their time.”

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

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Communicating social justice through poetry

Carlos Andrés Gómez and Katie Kramer created “Dare to Speak” to bring attention to some societal discrepancies like gender, sexuality, race and mental health. During Ball State’s annual Unity Week Celebration, students were able to share their stories and provide support to those who reached out. ByteBSU.com

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Matt Mullins combines his multiple creative skills through film literature.

Taylor Smith Managing Editor Matt Mullins said he discovered film literature through “a series of happy accidents.”

Inspired by artists like Jim Morrison and The Doors, Mullins wrote song lyrics when he was in high school. While he wasn’t a “huge reader” of poetry at the time, he knew the lyrics he was writing were a form of the written genre.

Mullins, Ball State associate professor of English, was officially introduced to the creative writing world as a sophomore at Michigan State University, where he originally studied communications. He later switched his major to English after an introductory class to creative writing “changed the whole course of [his] life.”

Not only did he start writing poetry in this class, Mullins said, but his professor also

had him experimenting with various types of poetry, and he read from a wide variety of poets.

After graduating from Michigan State with a bachelor’s degree in English and creative writing in the spring of 1990 and earning his masters of fine arts at Western Michigan University in 1998, Mullins worked as the senior editor writer for a boutique interactive media company out of Detroit called Sigma Six, where he became a “multi-genre man.”

“That’s where I started getting interested in digital technologies and the visual side of things,” Mullins said. “I had all these skills in terms of making music, recording music, and visualizing what things might look like, and recording those and then playing with those and editing software while I was writing poetry, and fiction and screenplay.”

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School of Music hosts opera gala

[My students] never cease to surprise me in terms of the things they come up with.”

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Performing pieces from operas such as “Les Huguenots,” “Love Never Dies” and “State Fair,” Ball State voice students returned to the stage to sing as part of Ball State School of Music’s opera gala in Sursa Hall.

The gala was live streamed because there was not an in-person audience present for the performance due to COVID-19. ByteBSU.com

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Grace Duerksen Reporter As students open the front door to their residence hall, letting the cold winter air rush in behind them, they walk past the front desk, scan their ID and head up to the warmth of their dorm.

It can seem simple, but behind the front desk students pass by every day is a staff member who is busy doing more than meets the eye as they check in guests, distribute mail and help resolve a variety of residents’ issues.

Nykasia Williams, junior psychology major, is one student who has worked as a desk staff member at Park Hall for two years. Juggling her school work, social life and extracurriculars, Williams said, she enjoys being a desk staff member because she meets new people and offers residents a helping hand.

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Ball State students share their experiences as residence hall desk staff members.

You have the opportunity to put a smile on everyone’s face.”

- NYKASIA WILLIAMS, Park Hall desk staff member “This job can connect you with other students who you probably would never see on a dayto-day basis,” Williams said. “You have the opportunity to put a smile on everyone’s face. It is so rewarding when parents, or even students, let you know how much of a help you have been with whatever they might need. I recommend this job for anyone who loves customer service.”

Williams said she and the other desk staff at

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Park Hall are “truly like a family.” Williams may not know the answer to every problem that arises, she said, but her team is always there to help her.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, interacting with residents has been a struggle due to the extra precautions put in place. For example, talking to residents and guests through a glass shield has kept Williams from engaging with them as much as she had in the past, she said.

Nevertheless, desk staff members are ready to assist with any issues their residents may have, whether they’re regarding room issues, lost keys or even pest control.

“Someone once asked how I could help them get rid of a spider problem they are having,” Williams said. “Me and spiders don’t work together well, so I kindly directed them to speak with maintenance.”

Whenever Williams works an early morning shift at the Park Hall front desk, she said, she allows herself enough time to get breakfast, and she packs extra snacks to help her stay awake if she needs an extra boost in the morning.

“Sometimes, my schedule doesn’t go exactly how I plan for it, but I am a flexible person, and I adjust accordingly,” Williams said. “Most importantly, I prioritize my time. Some weeks are heavier than others, so I have to make sure that the things that are most important I make a priority to get done before I do any extracurriculars or even go to work.”

Junior English education major Nicole Yount has also felt the pressure of the long hours as a desk staff worker, starting her day at the Studebaker East front desk at 8 a.m. or ending it working the closing midnight shifts.

To stay awake, Yount said she keeps herself as busy as possible and speaks to residents as they enter and leave the building. Her most meaningful

conversations, she said, happened when international students were staying in Studebaker East, and they would ask her questions about the English language or the United States in general.

“Because of this, I became close with a few of them,” Yount said. “One evening when I was working, we were holding an event in the [multi-purpose room], and [a group of international students] had asked me what snacks and drinks I had liked that the event had. A few minutes later, they had come out with one of the drinks that I had mentioned and thanked me for helping them with their English

and for being welcoming to them when they didn’t know anyone.”

When she completes her tasks, Yount said, she is allowed to work on her homework — while continuing to pay attention to residents walking in and out of the building — which has helped her stay on top of her school work even with her campus job.

However, Yount’s daily routine has also shifted due to the pandemic, as one of the main focuses of her job is ensuring everyone’s health is protected and the university’s rules regarding COVID-19 precautions are followed.

“We can no longer check out all of the things we could before, such as dishes and games,” Yount said. “Before the pandemic, the billiards and ping pong equipment would always be checked out. There was never a day that someone did not have them. As for what had never left, that would have to be board games like Ticket to Ride and Checkers.

“We have to stay on top of those who come in and out to ensure that all guests are checked in properly and that each person is wearing their masks. We also can no longer have our coworkers at the desk to talk, like we have previously, in order to maintain social distancing.”

As Yount comes up on working nearly two years as a desk staff worker, she said having this position has changed her life for the better, as she has learned to be more attentive to her surroundings.

“Before working at Studebaker East, I was very quiet and had a tendency to stick to myself,” Yount said. “Now, I have made some great friends from those that I work with currently, those in the past or those that live in the building.”

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

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Continued from Page 09 Mullins took his “unique skill set of interests” and became an emerging media fellow at Ball State in 2008. While working on his project of creating the digital interactive literary interfaces, he said, a colleague of his introduced him to Michael Pounds, a professor of music theory and composition.

Pounds said he creates music, or sound art, “by heavily processing and transforming sounds.”

When he met Mullins, Pounds said, he was looking for collaborators to pair his music with their art.

“He wanted to work on a project with me where he was creating a composition for the symposium that was coming up,” Mullins said. “He said, ‘I’d really like to set this piece that I’m writing to some work, some language. Do you want to collaborate with me on something like this?’”

At the time, Mullins said, he was working on his book, “Three Ways of the Saw,” in which he published a short story titled “Highway Coda.”

The story, revolving around “synchronicity, timing and improvisation,” follows jazz musicians returning from a gig when they see a box of takeout Chinese food in the middle of the road. A crow swoops down, picks up the box by its metal handle and flies away with it before the musicians could run it over.

Pounds later asked Mullins to join him at the conference at which the symposium was held, where Pounds hoped Mullins would recite his writing over Pounds’ composition. Before he shared their project publicly, Mullins said, he

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Mullins considered his other skills and interests, specifically the ones he had developed while working at Sigma Six, and came up with the idea of creating a movie out of his collaboration with Pounds. Mullins recorded himself reading “Highway Coda,” put his reading over images he felt fit with the story and Pounds’ music and created a short film about six minutes long.

Video poetry takes it to a different place.

As you read a poem on the page, your mind creates the visual images. Your mind can create the images that you’re reading.”

- MATT MULLINS, Associate professor of English “After hearing the audio piece I created, Matt created a video to go along with it,” Pounds said.

“I had Matt come to the studios, and I recorded him reading his poem. I also recorded him playing some guitar — some drums too — and I think there is some bass as well.”

The six-minute video Mullins created with Pounds’ recordings was the first stop on a decadelong journey in the world of film literature.

“That [process] was kind of a revelation,” Mullins said. “That was when I discovered that there’s a whole world out there, this whole subgenre of poetry — video poetry or film cinema.”

As a somewhat new hire at Ball State and a creative writing professor himself at the time, Mullins said, he began to consider how he could apply his newfound affinity for film poetry to tenure.

Occasionally, Mullins said, professors in the English department have the opportunity to teach a special topics course. When Mullins was offered the chance to teach ENG 405, he decided he wanted to teach a workshop on how to create film poetry.

Mullins’ class was offered three semesters ago during fall 2019. Katelynn Gossage, graduate student in student affairs administration in higher education, said she had an open elective slot in her schedule that semester. Gossage emailed Mullins to ask him what the focus of his class would be, she said, and his response inspired her to sign up.

Gossage was familiar with writing before taking Mullins’ course, she said, but video poetry was a completely new topic for her to explore. Poetry was not her “strong suit,” she said, but Mullins helped her and his other students learn to find what worked best for them.

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in some experimental ways that I wasn’t always comfortable with,” Gossage said. “When you’re not comfortable, that’s when you grow.”

Noah Davis-Cheshire, a 2020 Ball State graduate who majored in creative writing and intermedia art, also took Mullins’ video poetry course in the fall 2019 semester. When he came across Mullins’ course, Davis-Cheshire said, he thought the concept was a perfect combination of his majors.

“Putting poetry first and trying to find imagery that contrasts or adds an additional meaning to the words and using those words as a foundation was just an excellent opportunity,” Davis-Cheshire said. “It was a chance to see some really interesting work that I hadn’t had a chance to see before.”

In his course, Mullins said, he taught his students the process of creating film literature from start to finish. Contrary to what some may believe, he said, not all video poetry starts with a poem, but each project is about finding an “opening” in a poem that allows for the creation of what Mullins refers to as a “third thing.”

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DNOpinion Abstraction

Just because I wear pants doesn’t mean I am or act a certain way.

Elissa Maudlin is a sophomore journalism news major and writes “Abstraction” for The Daily News.

Her views do not necessarily reflect those of the newspaper.

The United States welcomed its first female Vice President, Kamala Harris, into office Jan. 20, 2021. For many women across the country, this election was a monumental one. Women of color Elissa finally saw someone with their Maudlin skin tone on national television in Columnist, a major governmental role, and “Abstraction” women across the country saw a confident woman take her place in one of our country’s highest positions.

As she walked across the stage, some noted her radiant confidence, charming charisma and stunning energy. What I noted was that she was wearing pants. I thought to myself, “Heck yes!”

As a female-pant-wearer myself, I’ve always found myself feeling isolated when it comes to my choice of wardrobe. Although pants are acceptable for women to wear in most environments, that doesn’t mean the social stigma about wearing pants has gone away. Whether it comes from my own insecurity or the actual internal opinions of others, I constantly feel out of place in the sea of feminine women wearing dresses on most professional occasions.

When a woman puts on a pair of pants in professional events, they are often singled out — sometimes out of praise, sometimes out of judgement and sometimes out of curiosity.

Immediately, there seems to be a judgment made about the pant-wearer before they even open their mouth to speak.

We never seem to ask ourselves why this happens. Why do women who wear pants get singled out and sized up like this?

Women wearing pants was controversial from its inception. According to historic records, Amelia Bloomer, editor of the first female newspaper, The Lily, popularized and wrote about women wearing pants to give women more comfort in their clothes while they did their daily

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activities. She was among a group of women who gave pants a try and defied normal convention for women’s dress.

Continuing on the path of rebelling against social norms, Helen Hulick combated standards by wearing slacks in a 1938 courtroom, resulting in her being turned away by the judge for not being in proper attire, according to that day’s Los Angeles Times.

Obviously, women wearing pants has stuck around, with people like Hillary Clinton wearing pantsuits for presidential debates in 2016 and Lady Gaga wearing pants at Elle magazine’s Women In Hollywood Awards. In events like these, many women choose to wear dresses, and to see women with power wearing pants at professional events shows how far we’ve come as a society. There is no doubt that women have excelled on the path to equality.

Pants are no longer a problem for women … or are they?

According to The Associated Press, a North Carolina charter school attempted to regulate how girls dress by making them only wear skirts at school, a proposition deemed against the law in 2019.

During a 2019 Norwin High School board meeting, Hannah Kozak, a 12th-grade student at the time, fought her school to allow female students to wear pants to graduation.

Although these examples may seem like exceptions to the rule, they demonstrate the idea that maybe the social stigma against women wearing pants hasn’t entirely gone away. Perhaps, there are still preconceived notions nagging at the back of people’s minds about how women should look and behave.

I wear pants and have dressed in ways some may not consider feminine. Due to this personal choice, many people hold preconceived notions about me — even people I’m close to. The immediate idea people have of me is that I must be lesbian or I must not be super girly.

For others, the immediate idea people have might be that they are transgender or have characteristics different than their gender from birth.

What about an article of clothing brings people to these assumptions? What is it about a pair of pants that makes people assume something about how another internally feels?

We cannot excuse the immense power clothing holds on how others perceive our identities, and this power can be confusing for someone coming to terms with who they are.

When I look at the people close to me, who I think classify me as a certain way, I often put a lot of pressure on myself to simplify my identity to that standard. I ask, “If wearing pants makes a woman a lesbian, then am I a lesbian?”

It also doesn’t help when all the women around me are wearing dresses while I am wearing slacks, a picture perfect depiction of an outcast in a lagoon of social norms.

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Continued from Page 11 “Good video poetry for me is often about subtext,” Mullins said. “As I’ve tried to progress in my work, it’s less about literally representing what the poem is talking about and more about showing things that create this third thing, this subtext, an idea.”

Because the students in his course had so much creative freedom, Mullins said it allowed them to not only discover what worked best for them, but to grow individually as both writers and artists.

“What I found surprising is the wide range of invention and the skills of my students,” Mullins said. “They never cease to surprise me in terms of the things they come up with, their abilities. Both their skills and their inventiveness are the things that I think over the years in terms of teaching creative writing have surprised me the most.”

Both Gossage and Davis-Cheshire said one of the biggest takeaways from Mullins and his video poetry course was the ability to combine so many creative elements into one project. For Gossage, the classroom was a comfortable place for her to share her ideas and turn them into something visual.

“I’m a very visual person, so when I think of ideas, or create a metaphor or something like that, there’s usually another picture that comes along with it,” Gossage said. “The great thing about video poetry was that I was able to sometimes take those metaphors that I

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Continued from Page 13 There isn’t an exact answer to any of this. It’s not like everyone is going to wake up one day and decide clothing doesn’t matter because, at the end of the day, it does. Clothing is a way to show a person’s identity.

However, to simplify a person’s identity into a pair of pants limits our own perceptions on identity.

could only see in my head and show them to my audience.”

Which, in essence, is the entire purpose of film poetry, Mullins said, giving “extra sensory input that you’re not getting when you’re reading it on the page.”

“There’s no substitute for poetry on the page — it’s ancient, and it’s beautiful and it will endure, and that’s marvelous,” Mullins said.

“Video poetry takes it to a different place. As you read a poem on the page, your mind creates the visual images.”

Mullins said he hopes for the genre of film literature to continue to grow, especially in the United States. As a co-curator of the Juteback poetry film festival and the mixed media editor of the Atticus Review, an online literary magazine, Mullins works to increase awareness of mixed media art and hopes to continue doing so.

“My hope is that [video poetry] continues to be interesting and vital,” Mullins said. “I hope that I am still inspired to make it. I hope I progress in how I make it — getting better, evolving in interesting ways, discovering more and learning new approaches. I hope to grow in skill. I hope to grow in output. I hope to grow in exposure.”

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

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A person can wear pants and be a lesbian. However, they can also be straight. A person can wear pants and be transgender, but they could also be cis-gendered. They can be super girly, super tomboy, somewhere in the middle or not want to be labeled as anything at all.

Identity is complicated. We can’t keep looking at it as a multiple choice answer box when, in reality, it is a written response question. Like many things in this world, one size does not fit all, and the answer is far from black and white.

So, I beg of you, let me wear my pants in peace.

Contact Elissa Maudlin with comments at ejmaudlin@bsu.edu or on Twitter @ejmaudlin.

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