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| MATT McKINNEY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR @Matt_D_McKinney

When the final buzzer sounded, the Ball State women’s basketball team would be heading to Cleveland as the No. 2 seed in the Mid-American Con-ference Tournament. But it wasn’t the buzzer to Ball State’s game.

It was the final buzzer to the Central Michigan-Eastern Michigan game. The Chippewas won, 63-56.

A Central Michigan victory meant Ball State was in a 3-way tie for the No. 2 spot, along with Akron. Ball State has a 2-1 record against those teams, so it moved ahead of Central Michigan and will get a bye until Fri-day afternoon.

The No. 2 seed is the best Ball State has had since the 2008-09 season, when it was also the No. 2 seed. That team beat Bowling Green to win the MAC Championship and move on to the NCAA Tournament, where it famously upset Tennessee in the first round.

One member of the 2008-09 team was Audrey McDonald. McDonald ended her career in the top ten in Ball State’s scoring totals, and is now di-rector of Basketball Operations for the current women’s basketball team.

| CONOR HOCKETT CHIEF REPORTER @ConorHockett

While it was arguably the ugliest of Ball State’s eight Mid-American Con-ference victories this season, Satur-day’s 53-51 win over Northern Illinois was undeniably the most important.

A slip up against the worst team in the MAC West Division would have dropped the Cardinals from a No. 5 seed in the MAC Tournament to a No. 8 seed, forcing them to host a first round game today.

The team managed to secure a sea-son sweep over the Huskies, however, advancing them to the second round of the tournament in Cleveland.

“Getting that win helps us know what it feels like to grind out games,” said senior guard Jauwan Scaife. “Our confidence is still the same, we’ve still won seven out of our last eight. Everything is still going well, we’re still working hard and nothing is going to change going into the MAC Tournament.

For a team that’s won four straight games in league play, change isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Ball State plays the winner of today’s game between Buffalo and Central Michigan on Wednesday to try and keep that streak alive.

While the team is a combined 1-2 against the Bulls and Chippewas, the Cardinals side of the bracket seems more favorable for a run in the tournament.

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While the amount of many types of underage drinking tickets rose across Indiana at college cam-puses, the amount of alcohol-related car accidents with intoxicated drivers was cut by half last year.

Indiana State Excise Department released an annual report in February that reflects the amount of activity and enforcement the depart-

ment achieved during the calendar year of 2012.

In 2011, excise of-ficers encountered 15 alcohol-related crashes with intoxi-cated minors ages 15-20 in Delaware County. Only seven instances happened in 2012.

The amount of underage drinking tickets and arrests for possessing fake identification and furnishing alcohol to minors rose. Twen-ty-nine people were charged for having a

fake ID or telling an officer their wrong age in 2011, compared to 41 people charged in 2012. In 2011, 25 people were charged for furnishing alcohol to minors or inducing to possess in Dela-ware County where as 81 people were charged in 2012.

Excise officer Brandon Thomas, who is in charge of Delaware County enforcement, said finding people with fake IDs in the Ball State area is a focus of his.

| EVIE LICHTENWALTER ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR [email protected]

A plan to redevelop the Village is one step clos-er to city council after being approved by the Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commis-sion on Thursday.

All voting members of the commission who were present voted in favor of recommending the proposed university village overlay district to the city council to review during their meet-ing on April 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The new plan splits the Village into four dis-tinct areas, with Area 1 including the commer-cial and retail section.

Marta Moody, executive director of DMMPC, said they want to make the area more attractive while creating a distinct brand and identity, with an em-phasis on walkability, bikability and sustainability.

“Whatever is done should be comprehensive in scope and it will achieve a change in perception for the area,” Moody said. “It’s centered around the idea of a vibrant commercial core.”

A task force created by the DMMPC in 2012 held a public input session in November that supported and reaffirmed the basic principles of the overlay project, Moody said.

New development companies wishing to invest

in the area must submit a development plan and be approved by a five-person council.

Existing developments will not be affected by the plan’s restrictions unless they want to ex-pand their property by more than 20 percent.

The plan has received support from interested investors and Muncie residents alike, including Da-vid Brint of Brinshore Development, a real estate development company based in Northbrook, Ill.

“The development standards called for in your proposed overlay district will not discourage in-vestment from occurring,” Brint said in a letter written to the commission. “Our experience with similar projects has shown these standards are seen as a positive factor for encouraging high

DN FILE PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMPAn excise officer examines an ID during a run Oct. 14, 2012. The number of alcohol-related crashes involving underage drinking has dropped more than 50 percent in the past year.

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See CLEVELAND, page 3

Charges for false IDs or false statements of ageAlcohol-related crashes with minors ages 15-20

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DN FILE PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERSigns of now closed businesses still remain in University Square. The Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Plan Commission voted Thursday to recommend a village overlay district.

Jan. 10 vs. Miami W 62-59

Jan. 13 at Northern Illinois W 57-51

Jan. 16 at Bowling Green L 73-42

Jan. 19 vs. Kent State W 59-44

Jan. 23 at Buffalo W 69-55 Jan. 26

vs. Ohio W 77-46

Jan. 31 at Western Michigan W 73-50 Feb. 3 at

Eastern Michigan W 56-41

Feb. 7 vs. Central Michigan W 68-61

Feb. 10 vs. Toledo L 68-64

Feb. 16 at Akron L 64-52

Feb. 20 vs. Eastern Michigan W 56-34

Feb. 23 vs Northern Illinois W 64-54

Feb. 28 at Central Michigan W 67-63March 3

vs. Western Michigan W 60-46

March 6 at Toledo L 63-39

Feb. 9 vs. Western Michigan W 65-62

Feb. 13 at Northern Illinois W 56-52Feb. 16 vs.

Eastern Michigan L 56-50

Feb. 23 at Southeast Missouri W 85-82

Feb. 27 vs. Central Michigan W 95-90

March 2 at Toledo W 86-72

March 5 at Western Michigan W 89-85

March 9 vs. Northern Illinois W 53-51

UNEXPECTEDTRIPS

Senior guard Jauwan Scaife has averaged 24

points per game in the last eight games.

DN FILE PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP

DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEK

Junior guard Brandy Woody leads the team with 3.7 assists per game helping to secure them the No. 2 seed.

After 69-42 loss vs. Ohio on Feb. 6

RECORD ON DEC. 30, 2012: 3-10NO. 2 SEED IN MAC TOURNAMENT

NO. 5 SEED IN MAC TOURNAMENT

RECORD ON MARCH 6: 15-14 (12-4)

RECORD BEFORE OHIO LOSS: 8-13 (2-7)

RECORD AFTER OHIO LOSS: 7-1 (6-1)

TEACHERS: COLUMNIST WRITES ABOUT STARTING SALARIES PG. 6

Surprising conference stretch gives Cards No. 2 seed in MAC

Scaife leads Ball State in final 8 games, team earns bye

AFTER SLOW STARTS TO THEIR SEASONS, THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAMS PUNCH TICKETS TO CLEVELAND

Excise releases annual report

Alcohol-related crashes decrease in 2012, fake ID charges increase

City council to vote on overlay district proposal near campus

Muncie committee looks toward Village renovations

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A potential semifinal game against No. 1 seed Akron be-came more attractive after the Zips star point guard Alex Abreu was charged for mari-juana-trafficking on Thursday and suspended from the team indefinitely.

Ball State’s personnel seems better suited for an upset over Akron rather than No. 2 seed

Ohio. The Bobcats’ backcourt dominated the Cardinals in their 69-42 win in Worthen Arena on Feb. 6.

Despite Akron’s troubles off the court, coach Billy Taylor said his team doesn’t favor one opponent over another.

“We’re just happy to go to Cleveland,” Taylor said. “It doesn’t matter who’s in front of us, we’re going to try and win four games in four days.”

STREAK: Toledo’s ban helps Ball State get No. 5 seed| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Ball State will play at 2:30 p.m. Friday against Buffalo, Miami or Akron, depend-ing on how the Wednesday and Thursday games turn out. Ball State went 2-1 against that trio of teams, its loss coming at Akron on Feb. 16.

The Cardinals beat the RedHawks in its MAC open-er at home on Jan. 10.

Ball State beat Buffalo on Jan. 23, with the help of junior Brandy Woody’s 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven steals.

Senior Shanee’ Jackson was honored on senior day on March 3. She has scored more than 500 points and grabbed more than 300 re-bounds, but when asked of her favorite moment in her Ball State basketball career, she is quick to answer.

“This season,” she said.One team Ball State may

not want to see in the tour-nament is Toledo. Ball State went 0-2 against Toledo in the 2012-13 season, most recently in the season fi-nale on March 6.

Toledo is the No. 1 seed in the tournament, and will play its semifinal game just before Ball State at noon Friday.

Ball State coach Brady Sallee said he would like to face Toledo again, but not to get revenge.

“That would mean we’re playing in the MAC Cham-pionship,” Sallee said about the possibility of facing the Rockets. “We just want to go up there and win the first one, and see if we can get to the championship. You never know what hap-pens after that.”

CLEVELAND: Cardinals won’t play until MAC semifinals| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

DN PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERSenior Matt Leske goes in the kill against Penn State on Sunday. Ball State defeated the No. 10 team 3-1.

UPSET WIN

| EVAN BARNUM-STEGGERDA CHIEF REPORTER @Slice_of_Evan

Division-I athletics are usu-ally looked at through a lense that makes it a job. Athletes perform rather than play, and the word game is a mis-nomer.

But after Ball State’s men’s volleyball team’s 3-1 (25-20, 25-17, 18-25, 25-20) win over No. 10 Penn State, Worthen Arena hosted a jo-vial atmosphere that had 2 0 - s o m e t h i n g - ye a r - o l d s jumping around like 6-year-olds in a moon bounce.

“That was fun,” coach

Joel Walton said with a Cheshire grin.

The Cardinals enjoyed their fun at the expense of the Nittany Lions, who looked troubled and uncomfortable on the floor for a majority of the match.

In the first two sets Penn State made Ball State look like the No. 10 team in the country. The first time Penn State even tied the game af-ter 0-0 was at 1-1 in third set.

“This is how we play,” ju-nior setter Graham McIlvaine said. “This is how we know we can play every time we step out onto the court.

“This proves how good we are, and how good we can be.”

McIlvaine’s 39 assists and 10 digs for his third double-double of the season were only the tip of the iceberg in a gaudy statistical night for the Cardinals.

Ball State hit .379, a full .155 higher than its season average. Senior outside hit-ter Jamion Hartley led the way for the Cardinals with a match-high 18 kills and hit .368.

This weekend Walton started Hartley and moved senior Greg Herceg, who is

third in the nation with 4.21 kills per set, over to the left side in an attempt to gener-ate more offense.

“Two powerhouse hitters makes it a lot easier on me,” McIlvaine said.

Ball State came out and played like a team with noth-ing to lose, unleashing pow-erful jump serves that kept Penn State out of system.

“One of the reasons they are such a great offensive team is because they pass so well, so we knew we had to keep the service pressure on them,” Hartley said.

Ball State took the first two

sets in dominant fashion, lead-ing both sets the entire way.

In the third set the Cardi-nals started to look a little complacent and tightened up. This allowed the Nit-tany Lions to settle in and look like a nationally ranked team that has won their con-ference 27 out of the last 31 years.

The fourth set saw a side-out battle, with Ball State never being able to extend a lead.

With the score at 21-20 and Hartley toeing the line to serve for Ball State, the Cardinals strung to points

together that elicited a time-out from Penn State. In the one minute and 15 seconds allotted, McIlvaine had one simple message for his team.

“I said, ‘Guys, push two points and we are going to beat the No. 10 team in the country,’” McIlvaine said.

With its first win over a ranked opponent since March 18, 2012 over then-No. 10 Ohio State, Ball State’s marquee victory has it teem-ing with the optimism felt af-ter its 8-0 start.

“I’m just so excited,” Hart-ley said. “I think we can go even higher.”

Starting the season 8-0,

Ball State finally gets

marquee win by beating

Penn State in four sets

as team dominates the

No. 10 team in the country

at Worthen

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.360

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7

39

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| RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]

Students with the Virginia Ball Center will embark on projects dealing with sustain-able agriculture, the history of Indiana, Brown County and the Indiana Dunes next year.

The Virginia Ball Center an-nounced next year’s four im-mersive learning sessions. The two Fall Semester projects deal with advocating for sus-tainable architecture and cre-ating a fourth-grade textbook on Indiana’s history.

Ron Morris, a history profes-sor who is spearheading the

textbook effort, said he taught fourth grade in the past and there is a widely-recognized need for a new textbook — a demand his team can fill.

Morris wants to create sample chapters of an online textbook with video clips, Web links and a Spanish version.

“Indiana is not a populous state so textbook publishers don’t put an emphasis on [us],” Mor-ris said. “People have dreamed of doing an Indiana text for el-ementary students but the road-block has been cost of full color printing. Now that we’ve moved beyond that, we have the oppor-tunity to do something very dif-ferent. The goal behind this is to [give] students a richer experi-ence with text.”

He also wants sample chap-ters to model the complete text and generate more interest and

support for a continued project. Andrea Wolfe, an assistant

professor of English, will lead a team of students in research on sustainable agriculture, travel-ing to Virginia and Washington, D.C. After the research phase, the students will form an idea for a public policy change to positive-ly impact sustainable agriculture and create a website and videos to promote the idea.

She wants their work to reach legislators, educate the public and possibly enact change.

“Engaging the public with the idea of sustainability in farm-ing [is one of my goals],” she said. “I don’t think many of us are really that aware where our food is coming from; we aren’t in touch with what is on our plate. We should be and in order to move towards sus-tainability, this is one thing we

need to become aware of.”Jenn Blackmer, associate

professor of theatre, will lead a team of students to explore the history of Brown County and Nashville, Ind., through creating an original musical in spring 2014. It will premiere in a staged reading at the Brown County Playhouse.

Also during the spring, students with landscape architecture pro-fessor Christopher Baas will cre-ate short animations, posters, a documentary and children’s book to recreate a Prairie Club trip from Chicago to the Indiana Dunes. The Prairie club, which was a group of distinguished Chi-cago citizens, tried to preserve the dunes as a national park.

Projects through the center are funded mainly through the Edmund and Virginia Ball Foun-dation. Each year, four projects

submitted by faculty are cho-sen, with two running each se-mester. Each project has around 15 participating students.

Students interested must ap-ply and be chosen by the pro-fessor leading the project.

Joseph Trimmer, Virginia Ball Center director, said pro-fessors lay out the ground-work for their sessions with the topic they want to focus on and a final project, but stu-dents also have input.

“Professors announce the theme of the project, whether they want to do a film or a play or whatever but the students shape the way in which it is cre-ated,” Trimmer said. “The fac-ulty member quickly becomes a student in his or her own class and they all work together. The operative word out here is ‘we.’ They collaborate together.”

Immersive courses aim to enact changethroughout Indiana

MCT PHOTO Venezuelan Vice President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s first lady Rosario Murillo and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega pay honors for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Friday at Military Academy in Venezuela. Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles is set to run against Chavez’s handpicked successor.

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| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARACAS, Venezuela — Ven-ezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles is set to an-nounce he will run in elections to replace Hugo Chavez, setting up a make-or-break encounter against the dead president’s hand-picked successor, a close adviser to the candidate says.

“He will accept” the nomina-tion, the adviser told The Associ-ated Press. He spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the decision publicly ahead of a formal announcement sched-uled for later in the day.

Other opposition sources re-fused to comment, but a politi-cal consultant at ORC Consul-tores, which advises Capriles, also said he would run.

“He will put himself forward,” said Oswaldo Ramirez. “History is giving Capriles Radonski an important role.”

Venezuela’s election com-mission has set April 14 as the

date of the vote, with formal campaigning to start just 12 days earlier. Ramirez said the 40-year-old opposition leader would demand that officials extend the campaign period by moving up the start date by more than a week, and that act-ing president Nicolas Maduro not be allowed to abuse state resources to boost his chances during the campaign.

Maduro has already an-nounced his intention to run as the candidate of Chavez’s social-ist party. On Sunday he picked up the support of Venezuela’s small communist party as well.

In a speech accepting the party’s nomination, Maduro in-sisted he was running for presi-dent out of loyalty to Chavez, not vanity or personal ambi-tion, and called on the people to support him

“I am not Chavez,” Maduro said, wearing a simple red shirt. “In terms of intelligence, cha-risma, historical force or capac-ity to lead ... But I am a Chavista and I live and die for him.”

Capriles faced a stark choice in deciding whether to compete in the vote, which most analysts say he is sure to lose amid a fren-zy of sympathy and mourning

for the dead president.Some say a second defeat for

Capriles just six months after he lost last year’s presidential vote to Chavez could derail his politi-cal career.

But staying on the sidelines also would have put his leader-ship of the opposition.

“If he says he doesn’t want to run I could totally understand that,” said David Smilde, an analyst with the U.S.-based think tank the Washington Office on Latin America. “He is likely going to lose and if he loses this election he’s prob-ably going to be done.”

On a personal Twitter page that bore all the rah-rah adorn-ments of a campaign site, Capriles wrote Saturday after-noon: “I am analyzing the dec-laration of the [electoral com-mission setting the date] and in the next hours I will talk to the country about my decision.” A spokesman said Capriles would make an announcement in the early evening.

Analysts predict the next five weeks will increase the nasty, heated rhetoric that began even before Chavez’s death Tuesday after a nearly two-year fight with cancer.

Politican will attempt to succeed Chavez 6 months after loss

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INDIANAPOLIS — On the same day last week that state budget director Chris Atkins announced Indiana would be able to tough out a series of automatic federal budget cuts, Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann an-nounced the creation of a new office that will lobby for more federal defense spending.

That dichotomy — saying the federal government is spending too much money, while looking for as much of that money as possible — is old hat around the Indiana Statehouse. Former Gov. Mitch Daniels wrote a book dubbing unchecked federal spending the country’s next “red menace” shortly after accepting billions in federal aid with the caveat that he’d be a fool not to take the mon-ey if it’s being offered.

Gov. Mike Pence has softened Daniels’ assertion that “gov-ernment never created a job” to say that “government has never created a job, other than a government job.” But the val-ue of that “government job” is still very much in question.

The almighty federal dollar is one Indiana leaders love to hate, and hate to love.

John Ketzenberger, president of the In-diana Fiscal Policy Institute, points out that Indiana’s de-fense industry has rippled out beyond simply arming the troops in places like northern Indi-ana, where Hum-vees were converted from military use for public sales. But the state’s leaders are nothing if not fiscal conservatives.

“How important is fed-eral money to the economy, through all these various means? I think it’s very im-portant from an economic perspective,” he said. “So that’s the conundrum.”

That dance is not limited to defense spending. Law-makers pondering the cost of expanding Medicaid for 400,000 residents have been lobbied hard by the Indiana Hospital Association.

Complaining about Wash-ington’s dysfunctional spending habits, while look-ing for a bit of the action, is hardly an Indiana phenom-enon. Political leaders in every state tout their ability to pass balanced budgets — they all must, because they can’t print money — at a time when the federal gov-ernment can’t even approve an out-of-whack budget.

Many of those leaders

later complain that their state’s hard-earned tax dollars flow to Washington while they get little in return.

“The Economist” magazine checked that balance in a 2011 study of U.S. Census and IRS data compiled from 1990 to 2009. The donors, states like New Jer-

sey, sent hundreds of billions of dollars more than they got back from Washington. And takers, like West Virginia, col-lected billions more than they put into the national pot.

Indiana came in about even over those two decades, sending $632 billion in tax dollars to Washington and collecting back $642 billion in federal spending.

Despite getting back almost exactly what the state puts in the national pot, Indiana leaders still like to razz the feds for only handing back roughly 92 cents of every federal road dollar Hoosier motorists kick in.

John L. Krauss, director of the Indiana University Public Policy Institute and a former lieutenant to for-mer Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut, said federal spend-ing isn’t the sole answer, but it is part of the solution when it comes to building a stable economy.

State government opposes spending, expands lobbying

SUE ELLSPERMANN Lieutenant Governor of Indiana

Center announces new projects

quality new investments in neighborhoods.”

Brinshore had hoped to start construction on an 80-unit low-income housing project near the Village this year, but were denied the proper tax credits.

Chase Sorrick of Investment Property Advisor, said the company he works for is plan-ning a multi-million dollar investment in the Village area

and have worked with similar overlay standards in other communities.

“[Past] developments that we’ve done, and this one that we plan, would not have been possible without overlay stan-dards that we’re talking about here,” Sorrick said.

Sorrick said IPA wants to begin construction in the area by August or September.

Muncie resident Deb Wise, who owns commercial prop-

erty in the Village with her husband Jerry, said she sup-ports the overlay plan and believes the new standards will take away the risks from developments.

“If we want to see improve-ment, and we don’t want to keep getting what we got, we can’t keep doing what we’re doing,” she said.

If city council approves the plan in April, it will have a chance for final action on May 2.

“Used to, you had to know somebody who knew how to make a false ID just to get one or have someone who sort of looked like you who’s 21 let you borrow their ID. But now, it has changed the game a little bit with the online pur-chases of false IDs,” he said.

Thomas said the rise in alco-hol-related charges could be contributed to the Intensified College Enforcement, or ICE, program that ran for a large part of 2012. The program’s purpose was to reduce the amount of underage people obtaining and consuming al-cohol, as well as making the communities around college campuses safer.

Thomas said he has received feedback from people in the community about the excise enforcement in Muncie.

“Every time I’m inside a gro-cery store or a liquor store ... somebody will usually come up to me and say what a posi-tive impact, particularly our department, has had in the area, and that’s stuff just little like reduced noise around the campus as far as where the resi-dential areas are, a lot less trash on people’s lawns, some of the [bad] behavior has gone down a little, they’ve said they’ve had to clean up less as far as stuff like that, disturbances late at night,” he said. “As long as we have that kind of impact, we’ll always have a focus on college areas.”

The ICE program is funded by a federal grant that was awarded to Indiana’s excise department twice in 2012. Thomas said the goals have been achieved in the past, and the grant has provided money to send more officers to college-town areas.

Thomas said he is not sure if the numbers will be as high next year, based on factors including the fact the depart-ment has not received a grant for the ICE program for 2013.

“We haven’t had a renewed grant,” he said. “I’m not sure if we are going to get a re-newed grant.”

Excise officers will continue to monitor college campus-es regardless of the grant. Thomas said the most activ-ity in Muncie is in residential areas and the Village.

“We get a lot of disorderly conduct and things like that around the bars, around the residential areas and espe-cially around the streets, particularly around the Neely Street area,” he said. “That’s usually where our highest area of activity is, especially during the move-in times [and] Halloween.”

ZONING: City of Muncie looks to renovate BSU Village with interested investors

EXCISE: Annual report shows decrease among drunk drivers under age 20

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HARVARD OFFICIALS SEARCH 16 DEANS EMAILS IN SCANDAL

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Har-vard University administra-tors secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about a case of cheating, two newspapers reported.

The email accounts belonged to deans on the Administrative Board, a committee address-ing the cheating, The Bos-ton Globe and The New York Times reported, citing school officials. The deans were not warned about the email access and only one was told of the

search afterward.Harvard will not comment on

personnel matters or provide additional information about the board cases that were con-cluded during the fall term, Mi-chael Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an email Sunday. If the commit-tee’s work were compromised, Harvard College would protect the process, he said.

“[The process] is designed to protect the rights of our stu-dents to privacy and due pro-cess,” he said.

Smith’s office and the Har-vard general counsel’s office authorized the search, the Globe reported.

Harvard spokesman Jeff Neal did not specifically address the allegations but denied any rou-tine monitoring of emails.

“Any assertion that Harvard routinely monitors emails — for any reason — is patently false,” he said in an email.

Sharon Howell, Harvard’s se-nior resident dean, criticized Harvard administrators and said they owed the deans an apology for failing to notify the email account holders until af-ter gaining access to the emails.

“They don’t seem to think they’ve done anything wrong,” she said.

Harvard University said last month that it issued academic sanctions against 60 students.

The inquiry started after a teaching assistant in a Spring Semester undergraduate-level government class detected problems in the take-home test, including that students may have shared answers.

Ivy league school continues inquiry into cheating case

SPRING 2014 PROGRAMSTHE LIARS’ BENCH AND OTHER STORIES: THE LEGACY OF BROWN COUNTY

Jenn Blackmer (Theatre)Blackmer will lead a team of students to explore the history of Brown County and Nashville, Ind., through an original musical which will premiere in a staged reading in Brown County Playhouse. PRAIRIE CLUB EXCURSIONS TO THE INDIANA DUNES: EXPERIENCING THE LEGACY OF LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION

Christopher Baas (Landscape Architecture)Baas and his students will create short animations, posters, a documentary and children’s book to recreate a Prairie Club trip from Chicago to the Indiana Dunes. It will explain how the Prairie Club —a group of distinguished citizens from Chicago — attempted to preserve the dunes as a national park.

I’ve traveled the world with my family for the past 20 years and been on various school trips and vacations in the past, but none compare to this. My dad is in the military and we’ve moved from Alaska to six continental states and Germany over the years. My mom has passed along her love of travel so whenever we get an opportunity to, we do. I have trav-eled all throughout the world, around Rome, Portugal and Ireland, to name a few.

That being said, this is one of the first volunteer trips that I’ve been on and come back with more friends, intangible life lessons and progressive ideas for the future.

The Alternative Spring Break celebrated its 10th year an-niversary in Caretta, W.Va,, and I embarked on a journey that would change my life forever. From the moment we walked into the Big Creek People in Action facility, we felt at home because the head director Ms. Marsha was there to greet us with open arms, literally. She hugged each and every one of us as we lugged our bags up the stairs.

Each day there would be a wake-up call, breakfast, work site assignments, free-time, dinner and reflections.

Reflections each day were structured to allow us to learn more about ourselves in relation to the other 31 people and those who lived in Caretta, where we expressed our deepest secrets and fears and vowed not to let that information leave the room. I can’t recall one that didn’t bring tears to at least one person’s eyes. We became close.

I think the biggest shock for our group was the quality of the houses of the people who worked for BCPIA. The two or three guys that provided us with tools and basic skills to complete the tasks has the homes that were in the worst conditions be-cause they constantly put others before themselves.

I was also surprised at the large number of houses that were in bad condition and the lack of health care. That was evident when talking to people at first, and later reaffirmed by a resi-dent who said the nearest hospital was 45 minutes away.

On Monday night there were special guests that came to play country music and teach us the basics of flat-foot danc-ing. Chester Ball was the lead singer and guitar player who had white hair on his face and vibrant blue eyes. After each song he would continuously show his appreciation by telling us stories of the people and all that they had gone through. He also gave us advice about life, love and counting all of our blessings.

“That’s one thing you’ll find in West Virginia is people with big hearts, full of love,” Ball said. Which we can all bear wit-ness to, because although they might not have much, we en-countered some of the sweetest people.

Other events that we were able to be a part of were visiting farm animals, climbing a mountain in War (the most south-ern city), taking a nature hike around Berwind Lake, reading Dr. Suess books playing basketball with elementary school kids and talking to a senior class about secondary education.

The trip was so inspiring because all 32 people were there with one common goal: to do work and make a difference. But not as many of us expected to be changed ourselves, which was much more than we could have ever accom-plished on a beach in Florida.

We did not go in as the college kids attempting to re-en-act “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” but to help those in need by giving our time and resources. In return we formed relationships with the families whose homes we worked on to be more suitable for living.

At different homes in the area we insulated rooms, painted, repaired roofing, shoveled coal and built handicap ramps, walls and floors. The difference we made in each home is just one small amount of change that was set in motion, but the work definitely doesn’t stop there. They need helping hands to rebuild their community, which is prone to flood-ing, natural disasters and a thwarted economy.

The amount of people that we touched by the work we did and the way it impacted the lives of the Ball State students is unforgettable. Not one of us wanted to leave Saturday morn-ing, and a couple of us walked away with such enlightened purpose and drive. We have exchanged contact information with the people we worked with and someone has already emailed the group about sending pictures and coming back in the summer for warm weather and four-wheeling.

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Millennials triumph in generosity

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Growing up in a time where nearly everything has been readily available at one’s finger-tips hasn’t caused Generation Y to be any less appreciative. The feeling of civic responsibility is estimated to be the highest it has been in over 25 years.

According to the Washing-ton Times, 75 percent of this generation is making chari-table contributions, and Ball State is no exception.

Rather than students hav-ing to seek out opportunities to make a difference, volun-teering has become a part of normal extracurricular choices, with Ball State orga-nizations and classes requir-ing philanthropies.

Now that Gen Y is entering college and the workforce, when someone is in need they are capable of making the change they wish to see.

“We are young and feel that this is our time to make sure that things are positively bustling and thriving,” said Angelina Zulas, Student Vol-untary Services president and program coordinator. “We are very energetic souls with a passion to build up from where our forefathers left off.”

According to online busi-ness news media site fast-company.com, Generation Y has caused volunteering to increase by 25 percent since 2002. Along with doing physi-cal labor, such as the efforts of the latest Alternative Spring Break trip to Caretta, W.Va., this generation is also able to be philanthropists through consumerism. Companies whose sole purpose for exis-tence is to make a difference in the world has generation Y quickly jumping aboard, such as the booming ethical fash-ionableness of TOMS shoes. TOMS uses profits to sup-ply impoverished areas with clothing, hygiene products and other resources.

“I wear them because I get to put my money towards something worthwhile,” soph-omore graphic arts manage-ment major Olivia Schuman said. “When I wear them, people ask me about them.

It starts important conversa-tions to spread the word.”

Once a year on April 16, One Day Without Shoes have peo-ple taking a walk in someone else’s absence of shoes for a day. These events are held in cities and on college cam-puses, including Ball State. Last year, people went with-out shoes at more than 1,000 events in more than 25 coun-tries, according to TOMS.

Whether a monetary dona-tion or a few hours spent with the organization of choice, generation Y is making strides in bettering the world.

“I see a strong desire within people of our generation to please others and desire for reassurance of being needed,” Courtney Winter, a junior social work major and SVS program coordinator, said. “What I learn while volunteering simply can’t be learned within a classroom.”

Zulas does not see this as a blip on the generational radar, but a transformation that has begun to change the future.

“Our generation is inspired by those who went above and beyond their expectations, overcame destitution and op-pression, passed the animos-ity and the lack of support in order to make the world a better place,” Zulas said. “We hope to become just a frag-ment of a civil revolution.”

Students and statistics weigh in as to whether Generation Y is selfish or selfless

PHOTO PROVIDED BY COURTNEY WINTERA student builds a wheelchair ramp for a home through Rebuilding Together. Young people increasingly find it their responsibility to give back and as a result national volunteerism has seen a rise.

DN PHOTOS CARIEMA WOODTOP: Elyse Brenner and Mayu Watanabe shovel $6,000 worth of coal into a furnace. This is the 10th year of Ball State’s Alternate Spring Break program. ABOVE: Chester Ball (second from right) and his group play music for the students involved in the Alternate Spring Break. The initiative provided more than service and allowed those involved to connect with others in the program.

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Capitalism is the foundation of which America has been built upon; helping it to become the most prosperous nation in his-tory. However, it is often associated with ex-tortion and inequality. People tend to forget that the invisible hand, more often than not, finds a way to improve the lives of everyone in our society.

Payday lenders, used-car salesman and rent-to-own businesses are often the sub-ject of media attacks. These institutions are known for their “predatory” strate-gies as they often “take advantage” of unsophisticated consumers. Contrary to this standard belief, these predatory acts actually are a great example of the reason capitalism is successful.

A 2000 study by the Federal Trade Commis-sion found that only 2.3 percent of American households had used a rent-to-own transac-tion, but 73 percent of those that did had a high school education or less, and 59 percent had an annual income of less than $25,000.

In tough economic times such as now, these numbers increase and most likely include people with a higher level of education that are finding it tough to make a decent living.

You don’t have to search hard to find the articles and consumers who proclaim that these institutions overprice their items up to 100 percent of their retail value in addition to customer service that leaves much to be desired. These factors make them an easy target for criticism.

The greatest asset of a free market, capi-talist economy, is that people are free to make choices.

The reason these institutions continue to thrive despite their well-publicized weak-nesses is that they provide a service that many people desire. People are free to choose to do business with them. Low-income fami-lies or those with little to no access to credit are able to go out and improve their standard

of living and happiness with items that they want but cannot afford to purchase outright.

A free market economy provides the incen-tive and opportunity for some entrepreneur-ial citizen to recognize there are people all over the country who are more than willing to pay a premium in order to receive items that they believe will make them better off. No one is a victim in the open market if their wants are fulfilled.

In a free market system, any person who is able to recognize and satisfy an unmet desire of society can go into business. Therefore, it is in anyone’s self-interest to do what’s best for society as a whole.

Profit-seeking individuals only interested in their personal gain end up benefiting ev-eryone whether they intend to or not. The trickle-down effect of individual success is, in part, responsible for the high standard of liv-ing that even American citizens at the bottom of the income scale enjoy.

We can compare poverty in our country to poverty in worse-off countries to see this. Approximately 97 percent of all Amer-ican households own at least one television while around 15 percent of them live in what is classified as poverty. In countries without the economic institutions of a capitalist society, citizens living in poverty often not only do not have televisions, but also lack access to basic amenities such as electricity and shelter.

It would be naïve to ignore the fact that there are Americans who cannot make ends meet, let alone have the certainty of where their next meal will come from. However, the true beauty of our system is that any indi-vidual with the drive and determination can work hard to change their situation.

That’s why we should embrace our eco-nomic freedoms and always remain true to the principals this country was found-ed upon.

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With Spring Semester halfway over and many education majors far into their student teaching, many are starting to think about their future in the education field.

While some may move right into grad school, others are looking for jobs in the field, and many factors are helping them decide where they want to apply — salary being one of the big factors.

According to the National Edu-cation Association, the average beginning teacher’s salary in In-diana is $32,761. This leaves me wondering, is this even enough to live on in the state of Indiana?

With the average one parent, one child yearly budget being $32,013, according tofindthe-data.org, first year teachers are cutting it close with their start-ing salaries.

For many educators, especially those new to the profession, “they simply can’t raise a family on that based on beginning teacher sala-ries,” Nate Schnellenberger, presi-dent of the Indiana State Teachers Association, said in an Associated Press article .

Even further, teachers’ salaries are now being based on student performance, which comes with the implementation of the RISE evaluation and development sys-tem put into place by the Indiana Department of Education. Teach-ers are now being held further accountable for the their teaching and for their students’ success.

Teachers’ scores are large-ly based on standardized test scores, but with disciplines such

as art, journalism and physical education there is a lot of gray area since there aren’t standard-ized tests for them.

I, like many other future educa-tors, worry that once I get into the profession my salary will not cover my living, let alone cover the supplies and extras I must purchase for my classroom.

When I think about my future as a teacher, I don’t want to have to worry about how I am going to put food on my table, appropri-ate clothes on my body and make sure my students have pencils to do their work. Instead, I want to worry about how I will provide a top-quality education for the stu-dents in my classroom.

My advice to education ma-jors, and really any student at Ball State, is to start saving now, so that when you do enter your chosen profession you already have some money put away. By doing this you will be ahead of the game, and will not necessar-ily be forced to live paycheck-to-paycheck, like many do after college. Also, make yourself as well-rounded as possible.

The more you know and can teach, the more likely you are to be hired and make more money.

We are taught in our classes how to apply different methods to our lessons, and how to deal with disruptive students, but maybe we should be required to take a class on how to survive with a starting teachers pay if we are really going to make it in the education profession.

SAVING MONEY IS VITAL FOR EDUCATION MAJORS

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Cardinals go 3-1 at FAU Tournament

| MELEAH FISHBURN STAFF REPORTER [email protected]

The Florida Atlantic Tourna-ment in Boca Raton, Fla., came to a close on Saturday as Ball State softball suffered a loss to Kansas.

The team defeated Michigan State (7-2), Stony Brook (5-2) and Florida A&M (9-0), though fell to Kansas (7-8) during the three-day tournament. The Cardinals overall season record is now 11-9.

“I feel like we are in a pretty good place right now,” coach Craig Nicholson said of the team at the current point in the schedule.

Ball State remained strong at the plate throughout the competition.

The Cardinals hit eight home runs in the three-game weekend

bringing the team’s overall total for home runs to 21 on the sea-son with a .315 batting average.

The Cardinals are well ahead of last year’s pace for home runs and doubles as they reached 42 team doubles during the FAU Tournament after 20 games. Last season Ball State had 100 doubles all year.

Senior center fielder Amanda Carpenter recorded her second career grand slam against Mich-igan State as she drove the ball over the left field wall, helping boost the team to a 7-2 victory over the Big Ten opponent.

“We hit great all weekend and we made some very good ad-justments against some very good pitching,” Nicholson said.

The pitching of freshmen Nicole Steinbach and Kelsey Schifferdecker also ended on a high note after the weekend with 18 combined strikeouts. The duo pitched a combined 2.80 ERA over the weekend bringing the overall total to 2.85.

“We made some errors at bad

times that really cost us some games on this trip,” Nicholson said.

Despite errors made in the field, the Cardinals managed to come out of the second weekend maintaining a winning season.

The team is currently .955 in the field with Carpenter, sopho-mores Jessica Craft and Loren Cihlar and freshman Sasha Margulies each fielding 1.000

“My big thing on this trip was just to continue to grow as a team and I think that we definitely did that as we went through the week,” Nicholson said.

Team on pace for most home runs, doubles in season

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DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKAmanda Carpenter slides home to score the second run for Ball State during the game against Central Michigan on April 22, 2012. Carpenter blasted her second career grand slam against Michigan State, helping the team to a 7-2 victory.

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