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|  SAM HOYT CHIEF REPORTER sthoyt@bsu.edu

Smokers will be restricted to their cars when they light up on Ball State’s campus beginning August 1.

The Board of Trustees approved a new policy on May 3 that will ban smoking and smokeless tobacco except in cars with windows up or dur-ing tailgating events.

The ban will be enforced by a fine of $100, double the current amount.

Kay Bales, vice president of student affairs, said the whole community is impacted by smoking, and this ban follows other actions the university has made in the past.

“If you look at where we are with our policy that exists today, that would, I think, be the next natural progression to the proposal that was approved by the trustees,” she said.

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For the second consecutive year, the Ball State softball team entered the Mid-Amer-ican Conference Tournament as the No. 1 overall seed.

Much like last season, the Cardinals fell short of their tournament expectations in 2013.

It was a first round loss to Northern Il-linois that pushed the Cardinals into the loser’s portion of the double elimination bracket.

The No. 4 Huskies defeated Ball State in a manner that few had been able to in the regular season. The Huskies shut down the dominant Cardinals’ offense in a 3-1 win.

The 12 MAC coaches voted Ball State as preseason favorites to win both the 2013 MAC West Division title and the 2013 MAC Tournament.

The Cardinals followed through on the regular season expectations behind the play of their high-powered offense.

The Ball State offense entered the tour-nament ranked 27th in the nation with its MAC-leading .312 team batting average. Power-hitter Jennifer Gilbert ranked fourth among all NCAA Division I players with 65 RBI this season.

Coach Craig Nicholson said based on the team’s ranking, they had a chance to ad-

vance deep into the bracket. “In the long haul of the regular season,

the team that wins the title is typically the best team,” he said.

It felt all too similar to last season as the team entered the tournament with more than just a No. 1 ranking. The Cardinals outscored opponents all season as they worked their way to a 35-15 overall record and an 18-3 mark in the MAC.

|  CHRIS JONES STAFF REPORTER cbjones@bsu.edu

Ball State’s stalemated geother-mal project has been approved to receive $30 million despite gener-ally dwindling state funding for higher education.

Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler said approving the state budget was an easy decision for the Indiana law-makers because of what the project means for the state.

“Evidentally the general assembly saw the worth of this geothermal proj-ect for Ball State and my guess is the footprint or trademark that the geo-thermal project will have recognizing Indiana on the cutting edge of new technology,” he said. “By the state do-ing that, this is going to tremendously speed up on the process of the project.”

The state will fund the project in cash. Lowe said using cash means the project will only need to go through a couple steps of approval before starting.

The last portion of the project endedon the south side of campus where drilling of 1,800 boreholes ended after

funding ran out. Lowe said drilling the remaining 1,200 boreholes is just one of a few of his priorities.

“One of my first priorities is con-verting our old chill plant, to demo it to the degree that I can rebuild it in a fashion that’s very similar to the north station,” he said. “When done we’ll have almost two identical build-ings, two identical operations.”

Lack of funding caused Ball State to miss their goal date of converting the entire campus to geothermal heating and cooling. March 2014 was sup-posed to be the date because the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will enact the Boiler MACT (maxi-mum achievable control technology) requirement, which is pushing Ball State to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions.

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An increase in state funding for Ball State will make it easier for the university to keep tu-ition increases under 2 percent for the next two years, follow-ing the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s recommen-dation for public schools.

Bernie Hannon, Ball State as-sociate vice president of busi-ness affairs and assistant trea-surer, said the university takes the commission’s non-binding recommendations seriously. Ball State is required by state law to hold a public forum on tuition, which will take place by the end of the month.

Ball State was facing an $11.4 million cut in state funding when the higher education commission made its original budget recommendations to the Indiana General Assembly. But after the state added money to higher education, Ball State is receiving $6.7 million more in

state funding, the first increase since 2008-09.

“I want to thank our legis-lators for their hard work,” President Jo Ann Gora said in her newsletter. “While we still have significant financial challenges that need to be ad-dressed, this is indeed a posi-tive step in the right direction. The legislators have a difficult task balancing diverse needs throughout the state. Their support of the university is crucial, and I’m so pleased that we continue to inspire their confidence.”

The commission recommend-ed no more than a 3 percent increase for the previous two years, but Ball State raised tu-ition 3.9 percent and 4.9 per-cent after losing $11.8 million in state funding.

The university received 0.6 percent less funding for oper-ating appropriations in 2013-14. It recovered the differ-ence when the state increased funding by $4.1 million for each year to the Entrepre-neurial University line item, or specific capital request.

Ball State suffers early exit in second-straight tournament as No. 1 seed

See TUITION, page 2See SOFTBALL, page 4

See SMOKING, page 2

See GEOTHERMAL, page 3

DN FILE PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERHead softball coach Craig Nicholson speaks to the softball team after their win against Buffalo. The win made them the No. 1 seed in the MAC tournament that took place last weekend.

DN FILE PHOTO BOBBY ELLISFreshman Jordan Alstoft lights a cigarette in the smoking section between LaFollette and Johnson. The Ball State Board of Trustees recently passed a measure that would ban tobacco on campus.

RESTARTINGGEOTHERMALLawmakers give $30 million to start phase 2 of campus heating, cooling

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Last year the Cardinals fell to Western Michigan in their tournament opener. From there the team won one game in the loser’s bracket before falling to No. 2 overall Miami.

In this year’s tournament bracket the team bounced back from its first-round loss with a huge surge, something Nicholson be-lieved spoke to the strengths of his team.

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ICHE recommends tuition increase no more than 2 percent

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The main intent of the pol-icy is to deter people from smoking on campus and re-duce the amount of second-hand smoke, a goal senior history major Jake Ware said he thinks may not be met.

“It might just make smok-ers irritated that they have to go off campus or to their car to smoke,” Ware said. “I’m seeing more irritation as a result than actual deter-rence from smoking.”

Another intent of the policy is to lessen the health care costs of university employ-

ees, who account for a large portion of smokers on cam-pus, Bales said.

Smokers account for 24 percent of employees at Ball State, as opposed to 15 per-cent of students.

“It’s mainly for the staff, but it’s affecting the stu-dents,” Ware said. He said it would be inconvenient for students who don’t have cars on campus.

Ware said he thinks the ban is jumping too far ahead.

“I get the whole ‘cleaner air, healthier people’ brand they’re trying to work with, but perhaps if they start-

ed trying to scale back the smoking sections, a few years down the line, campus could be smoke-free, but it wouldn’t be such a drastic change,” he said.

The policy was originally introduced in February and received mixed response. Bales said she worked with students to adjust it.

“Some of the things that are in the policy absolutely came out of conversations with constituent groups,” she said. “For example, the amount of fine in which someone would pay if they violated the policy is a direct result

between conversations with students.”

The policy affects students, was influenced by students and, Bales said, should partially be implemented by students.

“It’s the responsibility of every member of our com-munity to enforce any of our policies,” she said. “We all need to know our poli-cies, whether it is this one or any other, and we all have a responsibility to make sure members of our com-munity are abiding by those policies.”

Steven Williams contributed to this story.

The additional money is re-stricted in use, but Hannon said the line item is broad enough that it shouldn’t hurt Ball State when it begins preparing the university’s budget.

“It would be nice if it was all 100 percent unrestricted oper-ating money, but the fact that it is restricted probably isn’t going to hurt us any this bien-nium,” he said.

Compared to other institu-tions’ operating budgets, Ball State is still behind. Indiana Uni-versity Bloomington and Purdue University in West Lafayette re-ceived 2.5 percent and 4.7 per-cent increases respectively.

The state also green-lit $30 million for Ball State’s geother-mal project and $12.2 million to complete renovation of Ap-plied Technology Building and the second phase of the Central Campus project.

Ball State has struggled with performance-based funding because of the for-

mula the commission uses when it makes recommen-dations. Gora argued in her presentation to the Indiana Senate Appropriations Com-mittee that the formula re-wards large and growing in-stitutions, which is a strategy Ball State hasn’t chosen.

Jason Dudich, associate commissioner and chief fi-nancial officer of the Indiana Commission for Higher Edu-cation, said the formula is de-signed to benefit the state.

“That’s the great thing about performance funding,” Dudich said. “The formula isn’t sup-posed to benefit one or two in-stitutions, it’s supposed to align with the state’s goals. One thing you may hear if you talk to other institutions is, ‘Well, the formula doesn’t benefit us.’ The formula is meant to benefit the state.”

Data in 2012 shows Ball State’s degree production is improving, and Dudich credits that to the strategy Ball State is taking.

“We believe that there is go-ing to be improvement because

of the steps President Jo Ann Gora is taking and the type of students that they’re bringing in,” he said. “I ask this question, if I fast forward a biennium or two from now and they’re do-ing very well, then they should be making the same argument. And I don’t think they would be. I think there is a lot of opportu-nity to improve.”

Hannon said he thinks Ball State will do better in the fu-ture, but flexibility in the met-rics and the data that’s used by the commission makes it diffi-cult to predict.

Even if Ball State improves in performance metrics, Hannon said he still would like to see the formula reward quality institu-tions, even if they aren’t large and growing.

“You always want to think that however our state chooses to fund higher edu-cation, [it does] it in a way that makes the most sense,” Hannon said. “I think a lot of us feel like we really ought to have a system that rewards

quality and rewards improv-ing institutions that want to get better, not just bigger.”

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TUITION: Ball State will see an increase in funding for first time since 2008-09 academic school year

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The Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced its non-binding tuition recommendations, asking public universities to increase their tuition and fees by no more than 2 percent for each of the next two years. Here’s how Ball State’s tuition and fees would look if the university follows those recommendations, increasing tuition by 2 percent each of the next two years.

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Women freed in Cleveland enjoy home, support

PARADE GUNFIRE INJURES AT LEAST 19

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GREENWOOD, Ind. — A leg-islative decision to pause the rollout of new academic stan-dards is leaving many Indiana teachers in limbo, wondering if they can implement new lesson plans they’ve spent more than two years creating to meet the standards.

The standards known as Common Core were devel-oped by a national group of state school officials and have been adopted by 45 states. They emphasize students’

analytical reading and writ-ing skills in all subjects.

Indiana adopted the stan-dards in 2010 and is already using the standards in its kindergarten and first-grade classes. The state had planned to use them in all grades start-ing in the 2014-15 school year.

But lawmakers voted last month to delay full imple-mentation to allow time to study the potential costs of implementing or abandoning the standards and hold public meetings.

Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who signed that bill into law on Saturday, said in a state-ment that the law “hits the pause button on Common Core so Hoosiers can thoroughly evaluate which standards

will best serve the interests of our kids.”

The legislative measure has left many teachers uncertain how to proceed, Greenwood director of secondary educa-

tion Rick Ahlgrim told the Daily Journal.

“There’s no such thing as a pause. It’s like slamming on the brakes real, real hard,” Ahlgrim said.

Whiteland Community High School interim principal John Schilawski said he is wor-ried switching from one set of standards to another will confuse younger students learning to read. The Com-mon Core-based lessons used in kindergarten and first grade are based heavily on nonfiction works so children can start learning how to read and think analytically.

“Education is a constant, ongoing process,” Schilawski said. “To make sudden starts and stops to things always

has a rippling effect. Some-where, some child or group of children will feel the ef-fect of uncertainty that’s being caused by legislative indecision.”

Common Core requires teachers to include read-ing and writing in their les-sons and assignments, even in courses such as math and science that typically haven’t asked students to write es-says detailing their answers.

Critics maintain that Indi-ana’s own school standards were better and that adoption of the Common Core has cost the state control over its edu-cation expectations.

Some also worry that the standards are making math courses too complicated and

will cause students’ scores to drop, while others are con-cerned that the emphasis on analytical reading will mean students spend less time read-ing classic works of fiction. But supporters say the stan-dards teach students to think critically and to apply what’s learned in one subject to an-other area.

Ahlgrim said dropping the Common Core standards would cost schools the abil-ity to collaborate with oth-ers around the country and could make it difficult to find current textbooks and other teaching materials.

“It’ll just be Indiana with our own standards. And I don’t know why we would want to be isolated like that,” he said.

Indiana joins 44 states in adopting new Common Core

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CLEVELAND — The three women allegedly imprisoned and sexually abused for years inside a padlocked Cleveland house asked for privacy Sun-day, saying through an attor-ney that while they are grate-ful for overwhelming support, they also need time to heal.

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight remain in seclusion, releasing their first statements since they were found May 6 when Berry es-caped and told a 911 dispatch-er, “I’m free now.”

They thanked law enforce-ment and said they were grateful for the support of family and the community.

“I am so happy to be home, and I want to thank everybody for all your prayers,” DeJesus said in a statement read by an attorney. “I just want time now to be with my family.”

The women, now in their 20s and 30s, vanished separately between 2002 and 2004. At the time, they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.

Investigators said they spent the last nine years or more inside the home of Ar-iel Castro where they were repeatedly raped and only allowed outside a handful of times. Castro, 52, is being held on $8 million bond. The former school bus driver was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape.

Prosecutors said last week they may seek aggravated murder charges — punishable by death — for allegedly im-pregnating one of his captives at least five times and forcing her to miscarry by starving her and punching her in the belly.

The allegations were con-tained in a police report that also said Berry was forced to give birth in a plastic kiddie pool inside the home. A DNA test confirmed that Castro fa-thered the 6-year-old girl, who escaped the house with Berry.

Knight, who was the first to disappear and the last of the three released from the hospi-tal, thanked everyone for their support and good wishes in her statement.

“I am healthy, happy and safe and will reach out to fam-ily, friends and supporters in good time,” she said in the statement.

Berry added: “Thank you so

much for everything you’re doing and continue to do. I am so happy to be home with my family.”

The attorney said none of the women will do any media interviews until the criminal case against Castro is over. He also asked that they be given privacy.

“Give them the time, the space and the privacy so that they can continue to get stron-ger,” Wooley said.

The Associated Press does not usually identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault, but the wom-en’s names were widely circu-lated by their families, friends and law enforcement authori-ties for years during their dis-appearances and after they were found.

Donations are pouring into funds set up for the women. City Councilman Brian Cum-mins said $50,000 has been raised with the goal of creat-ing a trust fund for each in hopes of making them finan-cially independent.

Castro was represented at his first court appearance Thursday by public defender Kathleen Demetz, who said she can’t speak to his guilt or innocence and advised him not to give any media inter-views that might jeopardize his case.

Castro’s two brothers, who were initially taken into custo-dy but released Thursday after investigators said there was no evidence against them, told CNN that they fear people still believe they had something to do with the three missing women.

Onil and Pedro Castro said they’ve been getting death threats even after police de-cided to release them. Pedro Castro said he would have turned in his brother if he had known he was involved in the women’s disappearance.

“Brother or no brother,” he told CNN.

Attorney statesgirls want privacy, need time to heal

DN FILE PHOTO KELLY MCMASTERSThe geothermal energy station on the north side of campus is lit up at night to showcase the piles and machines that make this form of green energy possible. The station works similarly to a household refrigerator and allows heat to be either gathered or dispersed underground.

The geothermal facilities will replace the World War I vin-tage generation facility, which emits roughly 85,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, ac-cording to the Center for Busi-ness and Economic Research’s report on Economic Impacts of a Geothermal Replacement Plant at Ball State.

The new facilities will re-duce the carbon dioxide emissions, while saving $2 million in generation costs and producing $1 million in electric power. The entire project will produce an esti-mated 487 construction jobs with an average annual salary of $39,000, according to the report.

“The situation is that since we’ve been patiently wait-ing for the opportunity of funding, we will miss that date for 100 percent comple-tion of geothermal,” Lowe said. “My administrative plan is to shut down coal and burn more natural gas until which time we’re con-

verted over to 100 percent geothermal and we’ll reduce out burn on natural gas.”

While Ball State is looking forward to leading the way in geothermal technology, other schools have had similar tech-nology for decades.

Oregon Institute of Technol-ogy has had a similar geo-thermal system, or heating pump, since the ‘60s. Toni Boyd, senior engineer at OIT, said they’ve been benefiting financially.

“We have 192-degree water and we’ve heated our whole entire campus since 1960,” Boyd said. “We’re saving about $1 million in heating costs a year.”

The system at OIT is differ-ent in that it doesn’t cool the campus, and the water used to heat the campus is much warmer without electric gen-eration needed.

Boyd said while they benefit annually from the heat pump, they have nothing physically to show for it, and neither will

Ball State.“Unfortunately, after ev-

erything is said and done, nobody is going to see it,” he said. “Nobody really sees geothermal, not like they see wind and solar.”

The geothermal facilities used to produce electricity are only applicable in areas where the ground has enough heat to produce steam and is usually found on the west coast.

“If you go 10 or 15 feet un-derground it’s hot enough to use that for heating an direct use applications but when you’re generating electricity, you have to be at certain loca-tions in the U.S.,” he said. “You need to be in geological areas that heat the water and then that water can be steam or can be separated with a heat ex-changer to generate electricity with liquid with a lower boil-ing point.”

Geothermal Energy Asso-ciation Industry Analyst Ben Matek said about four mil-lion people in the U.S. use

electricity produced by geo-thermal means.

“California is the biggest use of it,” he said. “They have about 2,700 megawatts, or about three million people in California get their energy from geothermal.”

Geothermal heating and cooling is the most common type of geo technology. When phase two is completed, Ball State’s will be the largest geo-thermal facility of its kind in the U.S.

Just as the previous phase took years of digging and drill-ing, the latest phase will re-quire the same. Lowe said he is glad that there is a new be-ginning in sight.

“We just want to get these things started as quickly as possible,” Lowe said. “I’m hopeful that come September or October, assuming we can move forward with that ap-proval, we’re restarting. It’s more likely that we’ll be done going into the winter of 2015-2016.”

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NEW ORLEANS — Gun-men opened fire on dozens of people marching in a neigh-borhood Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19 people, police said.

The FBI said the shooting ap-peared to be “street violence” and wasn’t linked to terrorism.

Many of the victims were grazed and most of the wounds weren’t life-threat-ening, according to authori-ties, though at least three people had serious wounds. No deaths were reported.

The victims included 10 men, seven women, a boy and a girl. The children, both 10 years old, were grazed and in good condition.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged witnesses to come forward with information during a news conference Sunday night

at a hospital where gunshot victims were taken.

“These kinds of incidents will not go unanswered. Somebody knows something. The way to stop this violence is for you all to help,” he said.

Mary Beth Romig, a spokes-woman for the FBI in New Or-leans, said federal investiga-tors have no indication that the shooting was an act of terrorism.

“It’s strictly an act of street violence in New Orleans,” she said.

As many as 400 people joined in the second-line procession that stretched for about three blocks, though only half that many were in the immediate vicinity of the shooting, said police super-intendent Ronal Serpas. Offi-cers were interspersed with the marchers, which is rou-tine for such events.

Police saw three suspects running from the scene in the city’s 7th Ward neighborhood. No arrests had been made as of early evening.

Outside the hospital on Sun-day night, Leonard Temple teared up as he talked about

a friend of his who was in sur-gery after being shot three times during the parade. Tem-ple was told the man was hit while trying to push his own daughter out of the way.

“People were just hang-ing out. We were just chill-ing. And this happened. Bad things always happen to good people,” said Temple, who was at the parade but didn’t see the shootings.

In the late afternoon, the scene was taped off and police had placed bullet casing mark-ers in at least 10 spots.

Second-line parades are loose processions in which people dance down the street, often following behind a brass band. They can be im-promptu or planned and are sometimes described as mov-ing block parties.

A social club called The Origi-nal Big 7 organized Sunday’s event. The group was founded in 1996 at the Saint Bernard housing projects, according to its MySpace page.

The neighborhood where the shooting happened was a mix of low-income and mid-

dle-class row houses, some boarded up. As of last year, the neighborhood’s population was about 60 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina level.

The shootings took place about 1.5 miles from the heart of the French Quarter and near the Treme neighborhood, which has been the centerpiece for the HBO TV series “Treme.”

Sunday’s violence comes at a time when the city is strug-gling to pay for tens of millions of dollars required under a fed-eral consent decree to reform the police department and the city jail.

Shootings at parades and neighborhood celebrations have become more common in recent years as the city has struggled with street crime. Police said gang turf wars often are the root cause.

Police vowed to make swift arrests. Serpas said it wasn’t clear if particular people in the second line were targeted, or if the shots were fired in a ran-dom fashion.

“We’ll get them. We have good resources in this neigh-borhood,” Serpas said.

FBI calls shooting ‘street violence,’ not act of terrorism

MCT PHOTO Police guard the home of Gina DeJesus in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday. DeJesus, Amanda Berry and Michelle Knight had allegedly been held captive in a Cleveland house since their teens or early 20s.

QUICK FACTSFOUNDAmanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were discovered in the home of Ariel Castro where they were raped and secluded.WHENThe women had vanished between 2002 and 2004, spending the next nine years in the home until they were discovered on May 6.WHAT NOWCastro is being held on $8 million bond and is being charged with kidnapping and rape.

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May 11, 2013

CORE HISTORY

Indiana adopted Common Core standards, one of 45 states

Lawmakers voted to delay full implementation to study potential costs

Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed the Common Core standards bill into law.

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TUESDAY The Ball State baseball team will play at Indiana State in a non-conference game.

THURSDAY The men’s golf team will travel to Washington State for the NCAA Regional competition.EVENTS THIS WEEK

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“I think it’s kind of the same thing we’ve seen all year long with this team. That resiliency and that ability to keep fight-ing,” Nicholson said. “I’m not surprised that after losing that first game we bounced back and played really well in a cou-ple games.”

After being held to just one run by the Huskies, the Cardinals bounced back against Toledo for a 10-0 victory.

Freshman pitcher Kelsey Schifferdecker pitched the com-plete shutout game. Gilbert notched one hit and two RBIs in the elimination game.

Junior Taylor Rager went 2-for-4 in the game as she registered two RBIs. Her strong perfor-mance would continue in the team’s next game.

Ball State jumped out to an ear-ly 4-1 lead over the No. 6 Ohio

Bobcats. Rager drilled a first-inning grand slam to get things going. Gilbert added a solo home run in the game, moving her sea-son total to 23 – increasing her Ball State single-season record.

After five innings the Cardinals led 6-3, but Ohio would rally in the top of the sixth inning to tie the game at 6-6 heading into the seventh.

After Schifferdecker held the Bobcats scoreless in the top of the seventh inning, the stage was set for Rager. Her huge walk-off RBI triple would give Ball State the win.

The Cardinals advanced to play Northern Illinois for a second time. Ball State was able to keep the score close but fell short of the Huskies in a 3-2 game.

Nicholson said the tournament run was exciting, but still not what the team had hoped for.

“I’m proud of the way our team competed over the course of the

regular season, and this week-end as well, but obviously we’re a little disappointed with that,” he said. “In the tournament, any-

thing can happen. I felt like going in, any of the top four teams had a shot to win it; that’s kind of the nature of the beast.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — His spir-its down, his left ankle limp and his team’s season hanging in the balance, Stephen Curry wondered whether he could recover for the biggest game of his career until a text mes-sage popped up on his phone around 2 a.m. Saturday.

Curry called back his mother, Sonya, and vented his frustra-tions about his latest — and most inopportune — injury setback. Finally, she spoke up to calm his concerns.

“She just reminded me and battled tested me to rely on my teammates and support,” Curry said.

What followed was a Moth-er’s Day masterpiece.

Curry scored 22 points to go with six rebounds and four assists on a bum ankle, rally-ing the Golden State Warriors past the San Antonio Spurs 97-87 in overtime Sunday to even the Western Conference semifinal at two games apiece.

“It seems like every time you get on a roll and feel somewhat healthy there’s a setback,” said Curry, who shot 7 of 15 from the floor, in-cluding 5 of 10 from 3-point range. “And it just tests you. It changes your routine. It

changes your outlook on the game, your preparation. You’ve got to deal with the injury and the adjustments you’re making as a team.”

Game 5 is Tuesday in San Antonio.

Curry and the Warriors over-came the obstacles with contri-butions from all over.

Rookie Harrison Barnes had a career-high 26 points and 10 rebounds, Jarrett Jack add-ed 24 points in reserve and

Andrew Bogut grabbed 18 re-bounds to help Golden State erase an eight-point deficit in the final five minutes of regu-lation. The Warriors scored the first nine points of over-time to whip the yellow-shirt

wearing crowd of 19,596 into a frenzy and give this topsy-turvy series yet another twist.

Even Warriors coach Mark Jackson doubted whether Curry could play, especially after his star point guard took an anti-inflammatory injec-tion in the morning to ease the soreness in his sprained ankle and still had trouble getting loose. Jackson cor-nered Curry outside the cha-pel service at the arena to see how he felt.

“He said, ‘I’m going to give you what I got, coach,’ That’s not the language he speaks. I knew right away that he was not 100 percent,” said Jackson, who conferred with general manager Bob Myers in his of-fice before letting Curry play. “Once again, it’s that same spir-it flowing through that locker room that refuses to quit.”

Even for all of the theater Cur-ry provided, the Spurs seized control of a sloppy slugfest at the start until going cold shoot-ing when it mattered most.

Tony Parker, wearing a black sleeve around his bruised left calf, poured in 17 points on 6-of-17 shooting but never broke free the way he did in scoring 32 points the previous contest, saying the injury lim-ited his ability to elevate. Manu Ginobili had 21 points and Tim Duncan added 19 points and 15 rebounds as the Spurs ran out of steam in the end.

Golden State outshot San Antonio 38 to 35.5 to per-cent. The Warriors also out-

rebounded the Spurs 65-51.“They did a good job in over-

time. Just as simple as that,” Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.

Ginobili hit a mid-range jumper and a 3-pointer, and Kawhi Leonard put back a re-bound for an easy layup to put the Spurs ahead 80-72 with 4:49 remaining in the fourth quarter. With the series slip-ping away from the Warriors, their home sellout crowd sat down and fell silent for one of the few times in the fourth quarter all postseason.

Jack hit three jumpers and Klay Thompson added anoth-er to pull the Warriors even with less than a minute to play in regulation. After Parker provided a jumper to put the Spurs ahead 84-82, Thomp-son dribbled to his right and banked in the tying shot over Leonard with 30 seconds left.

Both teams missed shots to win in regulation, and the Warriors turned the extra session into a runaway.

The Warriors had been 0-3 when trailing after three quar-ters this postseason until Cur-ry and company came back.

Curry hadn’t checked in with his family when he spoke to reporters while soaking his feet in a bucket of ice in the locker room afterward. But he knew they were all watching from North Carolina with his brother, Seth, who was gradu-ating from Duke.

“It was,” he said, “a big day for the Currys.”

Curry plays through ankle injury, lifts team in Game 4

Cardinals’ streak comes to an end| DAKOTA CRAWFORD SPORTS EDITOR @DakotaCrawford_

The Ball State baseball team suffered an 11-1 loss to the vis-iting Toledo Rockets on Sunday.

Ball State was riding a seven game win-streak coming into the final installment of a three-game series versus Toledo.

Head coach Rich Maloney had become accustomed to his team playing solid defense during the span of its win streak. The team averaged a 1.89 ERA over six games and gave up three earned runs in the seventh win.

Sunday’s game played out much differently. The Rock-ets drove in more runs in one contest than the Cardinals had allowed in the four previ-ous games.

Toledo took momentum early and never looked back. A four-run third inning, in which the Cardinals commit-ted three errors, knocked the wind out of a confident Ball State team.

“We just had that bad in-ning,” Maloney said. “We just played poor defense, and we opened the windows for them. Then the floodgates opened.”

Junior pitcher T.J. Weir

relieved starting pitcher Jon Cisna in the fifth. The next three innings went by quick-ly, as neither team was able to score.

“T.J. came in and settled things down for a little while, but we just couldn’t get any-thing going,” Maloney said.

The same was not true for the Rockets. A pair of seventh inning runs pushed the score to 6-0 in favor of Toledo.

Toledo piled on five runs in the ninth and final inning to cap off an 11-run day. Ball State was able to drive in its lone run of the game in the bottom of the frame.

Junior Seth Vautaw ground-ed out to send Cole Griesing-er to the plate. Toledo pitcher Ryan Wilkinson held the Car-dinals to just five hits over eight innings pitched.

“Their pitcher was out-standing,” Maloney said. “They saved him for Sunday, and hey, he had a great game.”

With the loss, Ball State moves to 26-21 overall, with a 13-11 record in the Mid-American Conference.

Being that the Cardinals clinched a playoff spot after winning the series’ first two games, Maloney took the loss in stride. He told his players to keep their heads up and put the defeat behind them.

“I just told ‘em we’ve gotta start a new streak,” he said.

Ball State falls to visiting Rockets in MAC competition

Warriors defeat Spurs; even series at 2

Whether it was LaTasha Jenkins winning a national championship in 1999 or Amber Williams setting Mid-American Conference Cham-pionship records six years ago, Ball State’s women’s track and field teams have enjoyed success historically. After finishing in last at the MAC Championship on Saturday, those accolades could not have felt further away.

Kent State repeated as MAC champion with 169 points, while Ball State struggled to muster a total of four points.

Senior MaryKate Mellen placed fifth in the 1,500 meter run finals and highlighted the Cardinals’ weekend. Mellen’s 4:28.77 time was good enough to earn all four of Ball State’s points for the event.

Junior Alyssa Hurlburt, sophomore Haley Austin and freshman Mi-chaela Hull all competed in field events for Ball State. Austin led the way with a 10th place finish in the high jump at 1.65 meters, Hull placed 12th in the discus with a throw of 43.13 meters and Hurlburt placed 15th in the triple jump, registering 9.88 meters.

Ball State’s young 4x100 relay team placed 10th. Sophomores Katie Behrendt, Christina Crawford, Jordan McMillan and freshman Becca Kropf finished the 100 meters in 48.46 seconds.

The Cardinals other relay team placed 12th in the 4x400. Senior Ja-nae Taylor, freshman Danielle Dahl, Behrendt and Kropf ran the mile in 3:58.40.

Sophomore Courtney Edon finished 20th in the 5,000 meter run with a time of 18:39.98.

– EVAN BARNUM–STEGGERDA

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DN PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERJunior T.J. Weir pitches against Bowling Green on April 9. Weir played a major role in the weekend series against the Toledo Rockets, where Ball State won two of the three games.

MCT PHOTOThe San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker drives against the Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals on Friday at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif.

DN FILE PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMPJunior first baseman Taylor Rager gains an out during the game against Northern Illinois.

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« I understand the need to have a smoke-free campus, but doing so is not going to stop people from smoking. If people want to smoke, they will. It won’t matter if they have to walk the extra few blocks to get off campus to do so.»

JORDAN HUFFER, PHOTO EDITOR

« Smoking is a serious health risk and needs to be prevented where it can. But people have the right to smoke if they choose to and banning it beyond designated smoking areas seems a bit much. Smoking needs to be pushed out by society, not by law.»

STEVEN WILLIAMS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

« The consequences of smoking are common knowledge, yet informed people still decide to smoke. A ban on tobacco is not going to be a more effective deterrent than photos of black lungs. What should come first is people’s safety, including well lit smoking areas. Students and faculty without cars shouldn’t have to wander around to find one.»

EMMA KATE FITTES, NEWS EDITOR

«Smoking is a bad habit for anyone to form. Some students don’t even start smoking until they’re in college and away from the judgement of their families and so not having it on campus should lower the amount of potential smokers. A lot of colleges nowadays are moving to ‘smoke-free’ and I imagine some high school seniors take this into account when choosing which school to go to. Overall, I think having the policy in effect will benefit our students by promoting good habits and a healthy lifestyle.»

MICHAEL BOEHNLEIN, DESIGN EDITOR

PROFESSOR REMEMBERS FORMER GOV.LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I feel extremely sorry for the loss of the late Governor Otis D. Bowen. But, his contribution as a statesman will always be respected.

I am a United States citizen to live in Muncie, Indiana for 47 years, and I supported Governor Bowen since he first ran for governor. As a professor of political science at Ball State University, I have contributed to commu-nity service to promote international friendship.

I was so glad that Governor Bowen accepted my pro-posal 34 years ago to set up a sisterhood between the state of Indiana and Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. He was the first governor of the United States to set up a sisterhood with Taiwan for the mutual ben-efit of Indiana and Taiwan.

I especially appreciate his kindness and treasure our friendship. I went to Washington, D.C. to attend a con-ference, when Dr. Bowen was Secretary of Health and

Human Services, and I had planned to visit him. I called his office to make an appointment. His secretary said that an appointment should be made two weeks in advance. Since I was to stay in Washington, D.C., for three days only, I asked her to forward my message to Secretary Bowen, with my regards.

Five minutes later, I received a telephone call from her telling me that Secretary Bowen wanted to see me the next day. This indicated Secretary Bowen trea-sured our personal friendship. We had a nice talk and I asked him to thank his secretary. I always treasured Dr. Bowen’s kindness.

Dr. Bowen will be respected always as a great states-man and a good friend.

When the academic year finally ends and summer begins, a bustling and busy Ball State campus turns into a hollow shell. Even summer classes starting up doesn’t help with so many students turning to sleeping in and taking classes online instead.

It makes covering what’s happening at Ball State more challenging, but not impossible.

This will be my second summer in Muncie working for The Ball State Daily News, my first as editor-in-chief. I know all too well what Muncie is like, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything you need to know.

In fact, this summer is going to be an important one for those students who will still be around for the next two years as Ball State begins preparations to settle on a new budget. That means conversations about tuition hikes will be at the forefront of dis-cussions all summer long. A hike similar to the last tuition increase could mean $350 to $400 dollars out of your pocket.

The city is also considering a $60 million dollar investment in the Village that will add a parking garage and commercial space.

And that’s not all. The university passed a campus-wide tobacco ban, eliminating all designated smoking areas beginning Aug. 1.

There are things still happening that affect Ball State students and we’ll be here to report on them.

When covering the news, sometimes it falls in your lap, but oftentimes you have to search it out and provide context. That’s our job this summer. Maybe there aren’t student events littering the calendar every week, but Ball State students still need to know what’s happening and why it matters.

We’ll be here researching and reporting to tell the best stories we can about the Ball State campus and Muncie community.

You can get involved, too. We want your input on what’s going on and what’s impor-tant to Ball State students. Let us know. Don’t forget to stay updated with our website all summer as we continue producing stories, photos and videos.

While classes and work continue at Ball State, so will our efforts to continue improv-ing the way we tell stories on campus.

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« It won’t do much to stop smokers from continuing the habit. Despite that, I’ll be glad to walk through a smoke-free campus and not worry about secondhand smoke. Not having smoking on campus will benefit the students who want to avoid the smell and chemicals. Smokers are going to smoke anyway, so we might as well help out those hoping to avoid it.»

DANIEL BROUNT, COPY EDITOR

« The new tobacco ban will simply result in more citations being handed out on campus, which is fine. If, by chance, you are one of the non-smokers that had to walk through a designated smoking area on a daily basis, rejoice.»

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The network said Sunday that the 12-year “Saturday Night Live” cast member will replace Jimmy Fallon at the “Late Night” show next year. Fallon is moving up an hour as Jay Leno’s replacement on the “Tonight” show.

Meyers was considered the lead candidate for the “Late Night” job ever since Fallon’s promotion was announced. The announcement solidifies Lorne Michaels as the com-edy kingmaker at NBC. He’ll be the executive in charge of “Late Night,” ‘’Tonight” and “Saturday Night Live,” which will all originate from New York’s Rockefeller Center.

Meyers, 39, has been the head writer at “Saturday Night Live” for eight seasons. He’s in his seventh year as “Weekend Update” host, to which he devotes all of his on-air time now.

And like Fallon before him, Meyers is making the move from “Weekend Update” to “Late Night.”

“We think Seth is one of

the brightest, most insight-ful comedy writers and per-formers of his generation,” said Bob Greenblatt, NBC entertainment chairman. His topical comedy is “per-fect for the ‘Late Night’ fran-chise,” he said.

The late-night show began with David Letterman in 1982, and its other hosts have been Conan O’Brien and Fallon.

Meyers is a Northwestern University graduate and be-gan his comedy career in Chicago. His chief television competition will be Craig Ferguson on CBS and “Night-line” on ABC. Like television in general, the late-night audience has dispersed in several directions, with DVR viewing of shows taped ear-lier a big alternative at night.

Late-night comedy is one of the NBC’s few strong suits, with “Saturday Night Live” often drawing a bigger au-dience than most of what the network airs in prime-time. With Meyers’ appoint-ment, NBC is hoping for a smooth transition to a young-er generation.

“I only have to work for Lorne for five more years before I pay him back for the time I totaled his car,” Meyers quipped. “12:30 on NBC has long been incredible real es-tate. I hope I can do it justice.”

Behind the scenes, Michael Shoemaker will remain with “Late Night” as producer, NBC said.

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Eleven comics for Comedy Moshpit stood on the base-ment stage of Be Here Now for the last time Wednesday night.

The show marked the last time the Moshpit will perform at the venue, after some con-troversy between the two resulted in a break.

Be Here Now’s Facebook page said Moshpit’s manager, Kyle DeWees, was withholding gas money from out-of-town comics, which DeWees denies.

“If I had an agreement with somebody, I paid them. That’s how I do things,” De-Wees said. “If a comic came to me and said, ‘Hey, I can’t do your show un-less I get gas money,’ I’m going to figure out a way to get them gas money.”

Noel Quizalla, who has per-formed stand-up with the Moshpit for a year and a half, said the break reminds him of a bad relationship.

“There’s hurt feelings on both sides,” he said. “It was great for three years, then something got messy. It’s a breakup. It happens.”

Be Here Now said they did not want to comment on the break with Comedy Moshpit.

DeWees said the Moshpit will

do podcasts for the rest of sum-mer and will resume shows in the fall, in an effort to start breaking new ground.

They have not decided on a venue yet, but DeWees said there are several prospects.

“For me, it does suck, the fact that it’s not going to be there anymore, but I really look for-ward to finding a new venue,” he said.

Dave Lightfoot, who has regu-larly attended Moshpit events for two years and is in their Hall of Fame as a fan participant,

said a change in venue could be an opportunity for the Moshpit to expand. He said before it had to compete with other bars and events in the Village.

“With this unique atmo-sphere, with how the comedy is and acts are, I think it will be good to move e l s e w h e r e ,”

Lightfoot said.DeWees said he does not want

the break to develop into mud-slinging and prefers to look to the Moshpit’s future, such as expanding to road shows and regular podcasts.

“It’s going to be a change, but it’s going to be a welcome change,” he said. “It is what you make it.”

Ball State alumnus Trevor Smith has followed Moshpit since it began and eagerly an-ticipates some of the changes.

“I had no idea about their podcasts — I think it’s really cool,” he said. “I’m actually re-ally excited for that.”

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While May 4 may be known as the Star Wars holiday, some know it as Free Comic Book Day, a day when comic book shops hand out free com-ics to anyone who comes in.

The event started in 2002, and shops throughout the world partici-pate. Publishers usually have a vari-ety of comics produced exclusively for the event. Alter Ego, a comic book shop in Muncie, has been participat-ing in this event for the eight years that they have been open. It is their busiest day of the year.

Jason Pierce, owner of Alter Ego, answered questions about Free Comic Book Day and the comic book culture.

Q: What do you think is the ap-peal of comic books in com-parison to a more traditional

or mainstream form of enter-tainment, like movies or video games?

A: I think it’s a combination of the mixed media … You get the per-fect blend of a novel and a movie combined in the same thing. You get the visual media in the art, but you get the narrative of a nov-el. I think that’s why. It’s a big ap-peal because the movies and the motion picture industry literally now are just using comics as sto-ryboards; they don’t even have to make a story board anymore.

Like the Iron Man movie, I saw it last night. I went to the bathroom during the movie and my fiancé was like ‘No, you’re [going to miss something]’ … I knew what was going to happen cause I’ve read

the comic it was based off of.I also think it can be more fan-tastical than… a novel or a movie because there is stuff you can pull off in comics that you can’t pull off in any other medium.

Q: What do you think are the most popular comics? What do you find that people are asking for nowadays?

A: It’s so eclectic now, it’s all across the board, so I don’t know. You have everything from “The Walk-ing Dead,” which is a horror-type comic, to “Spiderman.”

Q: Over the years, have you no-ticed a shift in trends as far as what people are asking for, or has it always been that eclectic? A: It’s not always been quite that

eclectic. When I first opened, it was very much more superhero stuff. Now especially since Im-age, a smaller company, does a lot more independent type books that are a little bit off beat and quirky and weird. People are starting to get into that.

Most people ‘wet their whistle’ so to speak, on superhero com-ics, but once they get in they start leaning all the different genres of comics they end of loving it. And… there is going to be a comic for whatever you like.

Q: It can be a little overwhelm-ing for people just starting out on comics. Could you give some tips to people who want to get involved in comics and want to start reading? What they should look for?

Smith said one of his favorite memories at the Moshpit was when his girlfriend won a free T-shirt.

“I remember they had a chugging contest, and they gave them really warm beer they had left out all night. It was stale, but no one knew that until they got up there and were chugging it,” he said.

Smith’s girlfriend wore the T-shirt she won to the show Wednesday night.

Lightfoot fondly remembered the 100th show and the roast the

Moshpit did for co-founder Jake Lentz as a farewell.

“I couldn’t think of a better way to send him off than have a main staple of comedy—a roast—for him. We had just a whole slew of comedians who were friends of Jake,” he said.

DeWees is staying positive for the fans of Comedy Moshpit.

“Thanks [to fans] for coming out and supporting the show,” he said. “The second we get a new venue, come back out- we’re going have a lot more fun. It’s definitely not done.”

TODAY Danielle Howle, Firework Show and SmileEatingJesus will perform at Be Here Now from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.

« It is what you make it, and a lot of people came out and made this a great show, made it one of the three best shows in Indiana. »KYLE DEWEES Moshpit’s manager

| JORDAN HUFFER PHOTO EDITOR jahuffer@bsu.edu

A: Talk to the shop owner, a well-informed shop owner should be able to steer them in the right direction. I had a girl come in one time… she did not know any-thing… she said she liked roman-tic comedies… Years ago there was not a ton of these around, but I directed her toward one and she came back in every week and got [the next] one.

Q: What about yourself? What kind of comics do you like?

A: I read everything. “Walking Dead” is my favorite. I’m really enjoying “Superior Spider Man” right now. Yeah, I read every-thing. When someone comes and talks to me about something, I need to be informed.