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VILLAGE Locker Room to change locations A popular Village sports bar will move from its current location to the corner of McKinley and University avenues sometime during Fall Semester, but a definite date has not yet been determined, owner Scott Dalton said. The Giant Locker Room, currently located on the corner of University Avenue and Martin Street, will have outside seating, an additional bar and a doubled occupancy when it moves, Dalton said. The bar will locate the space previously occupied by Wing-Out, which was open briefly during the fall. Dalton and construction workers are working to remodel the interior of the future Locker Room location but are not sure when they will be done with the project. “We need to do the job right,” Dalton said. Several dates, including Sept. 1, have been rumored as the opening date for the bar’s new location, but Dalton said it is too soon to speculate when the project will be complete. Dalton, who has owned the Locker Room for three years, said he has been looking at moving to the new location for more than a year and considered the move each time the property became vacant. Being closer to campus was one of the reasons for moving the bar, he said. Before Dalton took ownership of the bar, the Giant Locker Room was known as the Locker Room. Prior to that, it was called Tony’s Locker Room and was located near Scheumann Stadium, Dalton said.
THURSDAY, August 16, 2007 Vol. 87, Issue 1
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Ball State hires Lehigh coach Taylor becomes third coach in three years for struggling program Will O’Hargan ■ Chief Reporter More than 150 members of the Ball State University community came to the Worthen Arena lounge to watch as former Lehigh University head coach Billy Taylor was introduced as the new head coach for Ball State’s men’s basketball program. Taylor was a candidate for the position when Ronny Thompson was hired in April 2006, however, Taylor had not been mentioned as a candidate until a few days before he was hired. He will be the third coach in
three seasons for Ball State. His hiring followed four weeks of intense speculation over who would replace Thompson, who quit on July 12, following and incident involving notes containing racial slurs left in the men’s basketball offices, as well as new allegations from the NCAA. “It is difficult to make that transition from one coach to another,” senior guard Peyton Stovall said. “But, at the Division I level, if you want to win you’re willing to make the sacrifice to do what you have to do to win.” Taylor spent five years at Lehigh where he amassed a 81-69 record. Perhaps more impressive is his graduation rate - he has seen 20 of his 21 student athletes graduate during his time at Lehigh and the 21st is six credit hours away.
“It’s one of the things you head coach who has dealt look at; it’s one of those things with the challenges of a strugyou can put a check mark by gling team and understands on the list,” Director of Inter- what it is you need to do to collegiate Athletics Tom Col- build a winning team,” Ball lins said of Taylor, who earned State President Jo Ann Gora a CPA after graduating from said. “He grew up in a small town and he Notre Dame. “I’m currently works mean, how many in a small town basketball coachInside and I think he es have their CPA? For more on the changes understands So he’s committed in the Ball State the interest and to that and makbasketball staff check passion of peoing sure his stuple for basketdent athletes are out the sports section. successful in the ball in a small SECTION B classroom as well town.” as on the court.” Collins said, When Taylor took over at following Thompson’s deparLehigh he led the team to an ture, that one of the things immediate turnaround and he would look for was a coach spearheaded a 16-win season, who could recruit local tal11 more than the program ent. This is in start contrast to had scored the previous year. Thompson, who only recruited “I think his greatest strength one player from Indiana, who is that he is an experienced never played for Ball State.
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Ball State recognized by Lugar Logan Braman ■ Editor in Chief Ball State University’s Council on the Environment was presented with the August 2007 Lugar Energy Patriot award last week. U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar visited the Communications and Media Building and presented the award to President Jo Ann Gora, who accepted the award on the behalf of COTE. The Lugar award award recognizes Ball State’s willingness to The award is given reduce dependence to leaders who show on foreign energy. an effort of reducing Specifically, the dependence on foreign monthly award is energy sources. “part of an ongoing effort by Lugar to recognize members of the business community, professionals, scholars, or students who demonstrate leadership and initiative in taking concrete action to reduce America’s dependence on foreign energy sources,” according to Lugar’s Web site. Before presenting the award, Lugar was given a tour of campus and a briefing by Ball State officials on the ways the university is moving
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THE COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA BUILDING will be dedicated on Sept. 7 at 4 p.m. in honor of David Letterman. Letterman is scheduled to be at the dedication. The building opens on Aug. 20 for the start of fall classes.
The ‘Late Night’ host plans to return Sept. 7 for the dedication of the media and communication building in his honor Ali Newton ■ Design Editor
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ALBION, Ind. (AP) — A foulmouthed cockatoo has workers at an animal sanctuary on notice to watch what they say. Staffers at Black Pine Animal Park say Peaches, an 8-year-old Moluccan cockatoo, spent the first several years of her life as a house pet, where she picked up a vocabulary that can be as colorful as her feathers. That was on display recently when a volunteer construction worker pouring concrete outside a chimpanzee enclosure yelled after the chimp threw some feces at him, said Jessica Price, senior zookeeper at the sanctuary about 30 miles north of Fort Wayne. The commotion caught the attention of Peaches in a nearby cage. “She started laughing and carrying on,” Price said. Peaches then strayed from her normal vocabulary of “Hi, Peaches” and “Hi, pretty girl,” reverting to a few of her old favorites. “Go away, shut up, shut your blankety-blank mouth,” Price said. “She says a lot of very bad words.” It is difficult to get birds to stop using words they have learned, she said. “We obviously don’t repeat them,” Price said. “We don’t encourage it.”
“Indiana is a talent-rich state in basketball,” Taylor said. “I’m excited to be here and have the opportunity to recruit in-state here and attract that local talent that can put our program in a position to be successful in the future.” As of Monday, Taylor had met with most of the players and was working on assembling his staff. There are only three anticipated returning players who were not recruited by Thompson; Stovall, Anthony Newell and Brandon Lampley. While most basketball coaching changes occur in April and early May, Taylor’s August hire is considerably late, and will only increase the challenges he will face in the coming weeks. “We have a lot of work to do,” Taylor said.
“Dave Letterman is an accomplished and loyal Ball State alumnus,” Gora said. “His support of the university and our students is long standing and remarkable.” The Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name the building after Letterman. An official name has not been announced, however, but Gora referred to the building as the Letterman Media and Communication Building DN PHOTO/ALI NEWTON during her proposal. The process to name the DOROTHY MENGERING (center) shares her apbuilding after Letterman was preciation with the Board of Trustees July 30 when about a year long, Gora said. it was announced the new building would be named
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Meter increase and ticket fines among things to change Logan Braman ■ Editor in Chief Several changes involving parking on campus will take effect when school starts Monday, Nancy Wray, Parking Services office manager, said. Enforcement hours Parking for the red section Changes include a of the Emens Auditopermit required between rium parking garage will affect students 3:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. who park there dur- Monday through Friday, ing the week. Starting in the Emens Auditorium Monday, a permit will parking garage, $5 be required between increase on parking the hours of 3:30 a.m. tickets and a rise in and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, ac- parking meter cost. cording to an e-mail. The changes won’t affect any other parking garages on campus, Wray said. “We’ve had some folks who wanted to park in there for extended hours,” she said. “The library is open extended hours, and I think it was just put together from feedback from
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