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18 percentof undergrads are already married
| STEVEN WILLIAMS AND ADAM BAUMGARTNER [email protected]
IUPUI was under “high alert” for about four hours on Tuesday after police received reports of a man with a gun on campus before giving the all clear just before 5 p.m.
IUPUI police Capt. Bill Abston said no suspect was found matching the descriptions reported by a fe-male student, and there was no threat after a cam-pus search. The IUPUI student told police that she saw a man in a brown trench coat with a shotgun or “long gun” in the trunk of his car at about 12:30 p.m.
“She walked up to the car, saw a musical instru-ment case,” Abston said. “She’s a musician so she was kind of curious and she kept looking. It was a case for a shot gun or ‘long gun.’ So that’s what she saw. The person never pulled it out of the car.”
Police also received a report at IUPUI’s School of Nursing and a 911 emergency call that reported somebody with a rifle at the corner of North Black-ford Street and Indiana Avenue. Abston said he doesn’t believe the reports were related.
The campus wasn’t placed under an official lock-down and students weren’t prohibited from enter-ing or leaving campus, Abston said. A lockdown would have been challenging because of the num-ber of buildings on campus.
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Instructor and author Colleen Steffen explores the process behind writing her latest book
WHERE IS CATHERINE WINTERS?
SEE PAGE 4
RELGIOUS TIESBall State sociology professor
Richard Petts said in an email that those with religious back-grounds, particularly strong con-servative or evangelical Christian backgrounds, are more likely to get married at a younger age.
The Catholic Church is central to Alea Bowling and Branden Stanley’s relationship. They met through a homeschooled pro-duction of “The Hobbit” 10 years ago and became friends. When their relationship turned roman-tic in January 2010, Bowling fell in love with the traditional Latin Catholic ceremony Stanley was raised in. Their wedding will be a traditional Latin Mass as op-posed to the normal Catholic wedding ceremony, which Bowl-ing said she thinks adds to the dynamic they have.
The couple holds strong tra-ditional values, which influ-enced their decision to get married young.
“Getting married was always the intention of dating,” Bowl-ing, a junior art major, said. “When we started dating, knew our purpose was to find some-one to marry.”
Stanley said they looked at their dating as more of a seek-ing process than a way just to have fun. The idea of marriage was always there, but they did not seriously discuss it until last summer.
In college, not all have the mindset of dating with mar-riage on the brain. Marriage at a young age wasn’t in senior elementary education Lyndsey Kellett’s plan until her relation-ship with God developed.
“If God hadn’t pursued me and saved me, I would not be get-ting married right now. I would probably think it was inhibiting to be married,” said Kellett, who didn’t become a Christian until she was 16.
“It’s hard for me to even wrap my mind around what planning a wedding would be like in col-lege because I don’t think that I would consider getting married so young. I would want to pur-sue a career, or I would want the freedom to date around, things like that,” she continued, ex-plaining her thinking before she became religious.
Defiant teen gets life sentences in Ohio high school shooting
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARDON, Ohio — Wearing a T-shirt with “killer” scrawled across it, a teenager cursed and gestured obscenely as he was given three life sentences Tuesday for shooting to death three students in an Ohio high school cafeteria.
T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. Investigators have said he admitted to the shooting but said he didn’t know why he did it.
Before the case went to adult court last year, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent to stand trial despite evidence he
suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies.
Lane was defiant during the sentencing, smiling and smirking throughout, including while four relatives of victims spoke.
After he came in, he calmly unbuttoned his blue dress shirt to reveal the T-shirt reading “killer,” which the prosecutor noted was similar to one he wore during the shooting.
At one point, he swiveled around in his chair toward the gallery where his own family members and those of the slain teenagers were sitting and spoke suddenly, surprising even his lawyer.
“The hand that pulled the trigger that killed your sons now masturbates to the memory,” he said, then cursed at and raised his middle finger toward the victims’ relatives.
A student who was wounded in the rampage dismissed the outburst.
“He said it like a scared little boy and couldn’t talk slow enough that anyone could understand him,” said
Nate Mueller, who was nicked in the ear in the shooting.
Dina Parmertor, mother of victim Daniel, called Lane “a pathetic excuse for a human being” and wished upon him “an extremely, slow torturous death.” She said she has nightmares and her family has been physically sick over the crimes.
“From now on, he will only be a killer,” she said, as Lane’s smile widened. “I want him to feel my anger toward him.”
Prosecutors say Lane took a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to the
T.J. Lane smiled in court, raised middle finger, showed lack of remorse
See KILLER, page 3
IUPUI reports campus gunmanPolice captain says suspect not found, 3 calls not related
LAWYER ASKS THREATS TOWARD GIRL TO STOP
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A girl who was raped by two high school football players is being victimized by threats against her on Twitter, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said Tuesday as he demanded an end to such postings.
Two girls, 15 and 16, were accused of posting the tweets Sunday following the conviction and sentencing of two boys for raping the 16-year-old West Virginia girl after an alcohol-fueled party.
The older girl was charged with aggravated menacing for a tweet that threatened homicide and said “you ripped my family apart,” according to the attorney general’s office. The girl is a cousin of defendant Ma’Lik Richmond, attorney general spokesman Dan Tierney said Tuesday.
A Twitter message from the younger girl threatened the accuser with bodily harm, leading to a menacing charge, DeWine’s office said. One of the messages was later reposted on Facebook.
Such threats have to end, DeWine said Tuesday.
“People have the right to express their point of view, and they have the right to be stupid, and they have the right to be wrong, but they don’t have the right under Ohio law to threaten to kill someone,” he said.
This is not the first time the girl and her family have been threatened through social media, DeWine said.
“What’s sad particularly to me is that the victim has had to go through the rape, the aftermath of the rape, the trial, and she continues to be victimized on the social media,” DeWine said.
The girl, who had been drinking heavily, has no memory of the attack. One of the ways she learned that something had happened to her was by viewing parts of a 12-minute
Steubenville rape victim bullied through social media after sentencing
See OHIO, page 3
Spring
BY THE NUMBERS
See IUPUI, page 3
Ring
QUICK FACTST.J. Lane, 18, was sentenced to three life sentences Tuesday for killing three students in 2012 at a school shooting in Chardon, Ohio. Daniel Parmertor, Russell King Jr. and Demetrius Hewling were shot and killed by Lane on Feb. 27, 2012.
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Alert: Man with what may be a gun seen near Barnhill & Vermont. Campus remains on lock down. We will continue to update as possible.
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| EMILY MAAG STAFF REPORTER [email protected]
T he walk across the stage at commencement is the most important walk on most college students’ minds. However, some are more fixated with another special walk: a walk
down the aisle.A 2011 PEW Research Center study reported the av-
erage age to get married is up to 26 for women and 28 for men.
Despite this, some students still feel the pressure to get engaged while in college. Eighteen percent of undergraduates are already married, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
Students discover benefits, challenges of getting engaged while still in college
DN ILLUSTRATION JENNIFER PRANDATO
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Campus remains on full alert. If on campus, continue to shelter in place. Do not leave buildings or walk in open areas.1:22 PM - 19 Mar 13
Police continue to search campus for suspicious individual. #IUPUI remains on full alert. We will update as situation develops.2:03 PM - 19 Mar 13
Campus remains on full alert. Reports of campus or some buildings being “cleared” are not accurate. Please continue to shelter in place.3:07 PM - 19 Mar 13
This is the real, official, trusted “all clear” message! All clear. Now returning campus to normal operations. 5:06 PM - 19 Mar 13
« When else are you going to be in this environment that is filled with people your own age? You have the freedom to be around people that share your interests, and there’s this openness in the university setting to begin new relationships, most people are looking for new relationships. » LYNDSEY KELLET, senior elementary education major
22-25 yearsage to get married for most intact and high-quality marriage
SOURCE: National Center for Education Statistics, “Later first marriage and marital success,” a study at the University of Texas at Austin
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the school and fired 10 shots at a group of students in the cafeteria. Daniel Parmertor and Demetrius Hewlin, both 16, and Russell King Jr., 17, were killed.
Lane was at Chardon waiting for a bus to the alternative school he attended, for students who haven’t done well in traditional settings.
Six days before the rampage, Lane had sent a text message to his sister, who attended Chardon High school, and mentioned a school shooting, Geauga County Prosecutor James Flaiz disclosed after the sentencing. He gave no details about what the message said.
“The way the text message was phrased to his sister, I’m not sure she would have taken
it as anything. I think only when you look at it in retrospect does it really have the impact that it does now,” Flaiz said.
Lane’s sister, Sadie, was in the cafeteria the day of the shooting, and said outside the snow-swept courthouse that the brother she saw in court wasn’t the one she remembers. She asked for prayers for her family.
“It may be hard for some to understand, but I love my brother and hope that whatever the sentencing in life takes him in the future, that he can touch others’ lives in a positive way from the point of view that only he can give,” she said.
Flaiz said he has a theory about the motive but wouldn’t discuss it until he has a chance to meet with the families of victims and answer their questions.
| CHRIS STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]
A former chief financial officer for a Fortune 500 company will offer ethics advice to aspiring business students on campus today.
Weston Smith, formerly of Healthsouth Corp., will speak at 3:00 p.m. today in the L.A. Pit-tenger Student Center, allow-ing students to get a firsthand look inside the world of corpo-rate fraud, and to learn ways to
find the most ethical solution to questions that may arise.
Smith saw the company grow from one location to over 2,000.
“Underneath the glimmer-ing corporate office, the fleet of corporate jets and consistent earnings reports, laid a multi-year multi-billion dollar finan-cial statement fraud,” he said on his website. Smith eventually exposed this financial fraud by “finally doing the right thing.”
Mark Myring, chair of the accounting department, said
Smith’s experience with real world ethical quandaries gives him the applicable knowledge of when and where to define the line.
“Weston Smith is an impor-tant speaker for our students because he has the ability to discuss the real world pres-sures placed on people to make unethical decisions,” Myring said. “Ethical decision making is an important component of vir-tually every course in the busi-ness curriculum.”
Smith’s lectures also include leadership principals and ethics, and how to instill them in others, which is something non-busi-ness students can use as well.
“Whether students are in business or not, my goal is to stress principles of hon-esty and long term direction and discipline,” Smith said on his website.
Smith said he doesn’t see his story as necessarily about ac-counting or business fraud, at least not entirely.
According to his website, he does speak about the ways in which business students or accounting students can find financial red flags, so they can then stop fraudulent activi-ties when they enter the busi-ness world.
Myring said Ball State stu-dents, no matter the major,
will have to make ethical decisions at some point in their career.
“While the nature of these situations may differ based on the type of career you choose, it is important to know how to recognize ethical dilemmas, de-
velop alternative solutions to the situation and choose which is the most appropriate course of action,” he said.
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RestoringLiberty
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty, closed since Su-perstorm Sandy damaged the island where it stands, will reopen to the public in time for Independence Day, of-ficials said Tuesday.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced the timeline for the reopening along with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York.
“Hurricane Sandy inflicted major damage on facili-ties that support the Statue of Liberty,” Salazar said. “Based on the tremendous progress we have made, Lady Liberty will be open to the public in time for the July 4th celebration.”
The statue itself was spared in the late October storm, but its surrounding island was badly damaged. Rail-ings broke, paving stones were torn up and buildings were flooded. The storm also destroyed boilers, sewage pumps and electrical systems on the island.
As much as three-fourths of Liberty Island’s 12 acres was flooded, officials estimated, with water reaching as high as 8 feet.
An exact opening date wasn’t set. Before the statue can reopen, a security screening process for visitors must be worked out with the New York Police Department. Salazar said an announcement was expected in the next week or so.
About 3.7 million people visited the statue in 2011, making it the 19th most visited national park.
Schumer emphasized how important it was to the New York economy to have the statue open.
“Being open for the summer tourism season isn’t just important symbolically, it’s a boon to the city’s economy and businesses, as the statue attracts millions of tourists from all over the world to our shores,” he said.
Sandy came one day after the Statue of Liberty’s 126th birthday and the reopening of the crown, which had been closed for a year for a $30 million upgrade to fire alarms, sprinkler systems and exit routes.
The storm also inflicted major damage on nearby Ellis Island. More than 1 million historical artifacts and docu-ments were moved because of the impossibility of main-taining the climate-controlled environment necessary to preserve them.
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s local leaders showed little en-thusiasm Tuesday for Gov. Mike Pence’s tax cut during their an-nual Statehouse rally, holding back applause as the governor spoke while they sought more money for roads.
Members of the Indiana As-sociation of Cities and Towns applauded Pence’s Statehouse speech when he talked about economic development and technology training. But when he turned to the tax cut, only one person clapped.
“That’s why I’m advocating we lower the income tax, across the board by 10 percent, for ev-ery Hoosier in the city and on the farm, on a permanent ba-sis,” Pence said to almost com-plete silence. He followed by saying. “I know we might have some disagreement on this from some in this organization, apparently not all.”
Pence has stretched his cam-paign for the tax cut from last year’s run for governor through this year’s session, his first in the governor’s office. But he has had little success, so far, winning support from Republi-can leaders in the Indiana Gen-eral Assembly.
Local leaders have emerged as the staunchest opponents of the tax cut, saying the mon-ey would be better spent on much-needed road repairs.
The state is facing a local road funding gap of more than $200 million per year. House law-makers rewrote Pence’s bud-get last month to exclude the tax cut and spend $250 million more annually on local roads.
“I know what the position of the association is on our tax cut proposal, but I wanted to make the case that I see permanent income tax relief as a part of a larger strategy for economic development,” Pence said after the speech, when asked about the lone person to applaud his tax cut.
The trade group represent-ing Indiana’s municipalities has not taken a formal position against the tax cut.
American landmark will open to public months after Superstorm Sandy
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Weston Smith of Healthsouth Corp. will discuss ethical decisions with students
YouTube video filmed the night of the attack in which students made crude jokes about her.
The two girls were charged Tuesday with intimidation of a victim, telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing. They were being held in the Jefferson County juvenile detention center without bond, as is customary with juveniles, said Jefferson County assistant prosecutor Sam Pate.
They would face up to seven years in prison if convicted as adults, but it’s likely they would be treated as juveniles. That means they could be detained up until their 21st
birthdays, if convicted.The rape case brought
international attention to the small city of 18,000 and led to allegations of a cover-up to protect the Steubenville High School football team.
Richmond and Trent Mays were charged with penetrating the West Virginia girl with their fingers, first in the back seat of a moving car after a mostly underage drinking party on Aug. 11, and then in the basement of a house.
Mays, 17, and Richmond, 16, were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile prison for the rapes. Mays was ordered to serve an additional year for
photographing the underage girl naked.
They can be held until they turn 21.
Special Judge Thomas Lipps recommended the boys be assigned to Lighthouse Youth Center-Paint Creek in Chillicothe, which he said has a strong program for treating juvenile sex offenders.
The privately operated center is “staff-secure,” according to the Department of Youth Services, meaning it’s an open campus where staff members rely on their relationship with residents to prevent escapes.
Staff and children live together at the facility, which
has shown success in keeping teens treated there from committing new crimes, said Renee Hagan, juvenile justice division director for Lighthouse Youth Services.
“We form good relationships with kids so they want to buy what we’re selling,” Hagan said Tuesday.
A grand jury will meet in April to consider charges against anyone who failed to speak up after the attack last August. That group could include other teens, parents, school officials and coaches for the high school’s beloved football team, which has won nine state championships.
“[A lockdown] is just so la-bor-intensive that if we had done that, we wouldn’t have been searching buildings and searching for a suspect,” Abston said. “We sent out an alert on our campus system advising people the emergen-cy we had and we told them to seek shelter.”
Amanda Mullner, a junior IUPUI human resources man-agement major, said she re-ceived the emergency alert at about 1 p.m. while on her way to class and remained at IUPUI’s Business/SPEA build-ing until leaving at 4 p.m.
She said her building was
under a lockdown but she was able to leave through an unprotected door.
“There were people around the doors telling you that you couldn’t get out, but the spe-cific building I was in, there’s a doorway that leads out to a parking garage across the street,” Mullner “There’s doors right there that were still open, unsecure, and people just walked out those doors.”
Mullner said she received alerts quickly but she still didn’t feel safe.
“One, there [were] no teach-ers or police officers near,” she said. “I saw maybe one or two in the building and the
rest were just students try-ing to figure out what to do, where to go. And two, with that open doorway, it’s not really safe at all. People came and went all the time.”
Abston said he thought the safety response was success-ful and the campus returned to normal after it was de-termined clear. He said it’s always important to take re-ports seriously and encourag-
es students to call when they feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
“Big thing we tell people is ‘trust your instincts,’” he said. “If you see something that makes you feel unsafe wheth-er you be on our campus, your campus or a shopping mall, be aware of your surround-ings, be aware what people are doing. If something makes you feel uncomfortable, trust your instincts and call.”
IUPUI: Students concerned with university process
OHIO: Grand jury will meet in April to consider charges
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Whistle-blower to offer adviceWHO IS WESTON SMITH?
• Former finance chief for HealthSouth Corp. • Exposed the company’s accounting fraud by going
to the FBI in 2003• Was sentenced to 27 months in prison and forced
to pay $1.5 million in “forfeited assets.” • His attorneys criticized the sentencing claiming
the issues would have not been brought to light if Smith hadn’t spoken up
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Statue of Liberty on Liberty Island, N.Y. has been closed since Superstorm Sandy damaged the
island. It is expected to reopen in July.
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KILLER: Families of victims express disgust at Lane
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LOCAL LEADERS OPPOSE TAX CUTS PROPOSED BY GOV.
« [A lockdown] is just so labor-intensive that if we had done that, we wouldn’t have been searching buildings and searching for a suspect. »BILL ABSTON, IUPUI police captain
On March 20, 1913, a 9-year-old girl named Catherine Winters was abducted in New Castle, Ind. Never seen again, she became one of the most talked about missing girls in America at the time.
In 2007, as a way to relax after her daughter was born, Colleen Steffen began researching the Winters story. Soon the Ball State journalism instructor’s hobby turned into an obsession, and Steffen was spending hours in libraries going through archives of newspapers.
“There was a point about three years in, when I didn’t find a single article for five months,” Steffen said. “Laundry was piling up, my house was a mess and I was spending my time in a dark library. I kept asking myself why.”
After five years of research, Steffen finally began writing, a process that took six months. The four off-white walls of Art and Journalism Building room 382 provided sanctu-ary as she typed.
Now, Steffen is playing the waiting game. With a literary agent trying to get her book pub-
lished, Steffen is patiently waiting for her lifelong dream to be fulfilled.
“It’s a neat experience, and whether I’m on the bestsell-ers list or standing in line at Kinko’s, I’m glad I did it,” Stef-fen said. “Maybe I will get to try it again someday.”
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The couple holds strong traditional values, which in-fluenced their decision to get married young.
“Getting married was always the intention of dating,” Bowl-ing, a junior art major, said. “When we started dating, knew our purpose was to find some-one to marry.”
Stanley said they looked at their dating as more of a seek-ing process than a way just to have fun. The idea of marriage was always there, but they did not seriously discuss it until last summer.
In college, not all have the mindset of dating with mar-riage on the brain. Marriage at a young age wasn’t in senior elementary education Lyndsey Kellett’s plan until her relation-ship with God developed.
“If God hadn’t pursued me and saved me, I would not be get-ting married right now. I would probably think it was inhibiting to be married,” said Kellett, who didn’t become a Christian until she was 16.
“It’s hard for me to even wrap my mind around what planning a wedding would be like in col-lege because I don’t think that I would consider getting married so young. I would want to pur-sue a career, or I would want the freedom to date around, things like that,” she continued, explain-ing her thinking before she be-came religious.
Although Kellett’s relation-ship with her fiancé Nathan Newburn, a junior finance ma-jor, is “grounded in knowing and following Jesus,” she still did not anticipate getting mar-ried so young, recalling when she told someone in Navigators, a campus Christian group, dur-ing her freshman year that she would never do that and that it was ridiculous.
However, she is confident in her decision after they prayed and received confirmation from God that this is what they’re sup-posed to do.
FINANCIAL PRESSUREWhile faith may be one reason
to get married young, financial benefits and woes could swing a couple either way.
Bloomberg Businessweek re-ported that the top 1 percent of student borrowers owe more than $150,000 in loans, and this number is on the rise.
However, couples that are already married are eligible for different scholarships and grants. Mar-ried couples can look into Fed-eral Pell Grants, Federal Supple-mental Educa-tional Opportu-nity Grants and Federal TEACH Grants from the g o v e r n m e n t . More grants and s c h o l a r s h i p s may be available on a university basis.
Although there are financial aid options available, the pressure for financial stability can be intimidat-ing. It was a fac-tor in Ball State alumni Alyssa Braun and Dan Kreitl waiting until after they both graduated to get engaged.
“When you’re in college, you’re still very dependent on your parents,” said Kreitl, who graduated last December with his master’s degree in business administration. “I feel like, at least me, psychologically, when you’re getting married, that’s a definite separation from your parents financially.”
This new sense of absolute fi-nancial responsibility is just one of many transitions. There is also pressure to find somewhere to live as well as a career.
“Once you graduate, you have a lot of big decisions and big things that come after gradu-ation. Finding a job, living on your own, dealing with the real world, you know, with the bills and stuff,” Braun, a 2009 gradu-
ate, said. “For me, it was a lot of being able to adjust to all of that on my own versus trying to ad-just to that plus being married on top of that.”
They agreed that taking the bit of time after graduation has helped them get settled finan-cially to properly prepare for the future.NOT WHEN, BUT HOW
Although time may seem of the essence, the couples agreed age
or an unspoken social timeline should not dic-tate when a cou-ple gets engaged.
“When you have your whole life to be married to someone, I just feel like that’s a huge commit-ment and a huge decision,” Braun said. “You really need to take the time to make sure you’re mak-ing the right de-cision. When you make that com-mitment, you’re committed for life. Why rush that decision?
Why rush into that?”Kreitl warned against how
much people grow after gradua-tion as students venture out into the career field.
“We have both changed so much from when we first started dating, that now, who I’m marrying, her today, is to-tally different than a year af-ter we had been dating,” Kreitl said. “Maybe we’ll change more again in the next five years, but I would say a lot of changes happen, I think between your junior year of college and your one or two years after college.”
Bowling and Stanley are get-ting married a week and a day after Spring Commencement in 2014, but they don’t feel like they’re rushing things. However, they recognize that their situa-tion isn’t for most people, and that not everyone has known
each other for 10 years. For the most part, they have
received support, but there has been some concern.
“You can’t please everyone,” Bowling said, saying it’s either “aren’t you rushing?” or “are you ever going to get married?”
Although they do get asked if they feel they are too young, it doesn’t seem to faze them.
“We’re not setting out to do something reckless,” Stanley said.
Many who oppose marriage in college site the statistics that people who marry young are more likely to get divorced. But Petts said these studies are fo-cused on couples even younger, between the ages of 18 and 23, and often on those who do not attend college.
One study by a sociologist at the University of Texas even suggests that “the greatest indicated likelihood of being in an intact marriage of the highest quality is among those who married at ages 22-25” and that while those who mar-ried later than that may have a good survival rate, but may suffer in quality.
Bowling said she is glad they are going to have a long engage-ment because it’s teaching her to really think about the future.
“It doesn’t really matter what age you get engaged, to a certain extent,” Stanley said. “It more matters what your outlook is on it, and how you go about it.”
Even with this in mind, she understands the anxiety re-garding finding someone while at college.
“When else are you going to be in this environment that is filled with people your own age? You have the freedom to be around people that share your interests, and there’s this open-ness in the university setting to begin new relationships, most people are looking for new rela-tionships,” Kellett said. “I think there would be something real-ly intimidating about entering a career field and not having that kind of assurance of a human companion. I can see both signs of that coin.”
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PHOTOS PROVIDED Branden Stanley and Alea Bowling, left, and Lyndsey Kellet and Nathan Newburn, right, pose for engagement photos.
Colleen Steffen shares ups and downs of spending 6 years writing new book
COLLEEN STEFFEN
Q&AQ: HOW DID YOU CHOOSE A TOPIC THAT YOU WOULD END UP SPENDING SIX YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WORKING ON?
A: You know it when you see it. It’s like getting married, like when your person shows up, you recognize the person. If you have a doubt in your head like ‘Is this the person?’ then it is not the person.
It is the same with subjects, you just know it when you see and if you are not sure when you are looking, then you haven’t found it yet.
As far as time goes, it’s a mistake I made that I felt like I needed giant chunks of time and I felt like if I didn’t have an entire day to write I wouldn’t write at all. So I felt like I need my life to be cleared away to do this writing. That’s not it at all, you chink away at it little by little and you start small. It’s how Catherine Winters started. I started a few hours a week and it progressed from there. Wait until you feel moved on a subject, but otherwise just get started.
Q: HOW DID YOU STAY DEDICATED TO CATHERINE WINTERS FOR SO LONG?
A: I don’t know. You just keep doing, I don’t think there is a secret. I think it helps when you are so into your subject that you just want to keep doing it. It doesn’t mean that it is a ball of fun everyday.
Part of you just wants to do it because you are obsessed with getting to an answer or getting to the end of a chapter or making something good, and then the other part is the fun.
I’m like a dog with a bone sometimes: I don’t like to put things down. Some days I made myself come in against my will. Other days I couldn’t wait to come in and finish this cool part I was on, so I did different tactics for different days.
Q: DO YOU HAVE ANY ADVICE TO OVERCOMING WRITER’S BLOCK, OTHER THAN STARTING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BOOK?
A: I changed it up. I think that always helps if you are stuck; to change something. You can change your routine, the time of day or where you write.
Sometimes something logistical will get you out of it. For me it was a self-esteem crisis. I had built it up a lot in my head. When you want to do something for so long and then you get the opportunity to do it you think, ‘holy crap, am I able to do this?’ I had told a bunch of people that I could, I signed a contract with this lady saying I would, but could I really do it? I had never done it before.
I think writers psych themselves out a lot. The more you can block other people’s opinions, other people’s work out of your head, the better you’ll be. Sometimes you just need to simmer, I wasted a whole month because I needed to simmer.
Q: WHAT IS SOME ADVICE YOU WOULD GIVE STUDENTS TODAY WHO ARE PURSUING A CAREER IN WRITING?
A: You guys are growing up in the coolest time because you have so many more opportunities to just write and put it out there for people to see. Whether that’s the three people who read your blog or Twitter or whatever, it’s such a neat opportunity to practice and hone in your voice, build an audience and to see what works and what doesn’t work.
I would say literally write for everything. Don’t be so concerned about who’s going to pay me or if it’s going to be important. Kids will skip little opportunities because they have their eyes on the big ones. The big ones are awesome but don’t overlook the immediate ones. You get a lot out of those.
With the Internet the things you write go into the garbage bin tomorrow. No one is going to remember it tomorrow. Don’t be scared to take risks or suck at something. Embrace the youth, see what happens.
« When you have your whole life to be married to someone, I just feel like that’s a huge commitment and a huge decision, you really need to take the time to make sure you’re making the right decision. »ALYSSA BRAUN, alumna
SPRING CLEANING: It’s officially spring! As you vacuum the house and dust off the furniture, think about getting rid of the cobwebs in other areas of your life.
1) CLEAN UP YOUR COMPUTER Remove the miscellaneous files from your desktop
and put them in organized folders where they belong. Delete any unnecessary files (you don’t need your papers from high school). Transfer important documents (portfolios, resumes etc.) to a portable hard drive.
2) CLEAN UP YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE.It’s time to take a look back at the Spring Break
pictures of you drinking from a beer bong. Employers don’t want to see that. Remember that hazy weekend from freshman year? Your Facebook photo album does. Delete pictures that are questionable. If you love them that much, print them off and hang them on your bulletin board.
3) FRESHEN UP YOUR MUSIC LIBRARYOldies are goodies, but sometimes you need
something new in the mix. Websites like TuneGlue and Music-Map can help you find artists similar to those you already like. If you want brand new artists, check out TheSixtyOne or OurStage.
4) CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSETGet rid of anything that you haven’t worn in a
year. If it has unfixable holes, trash it. Still in good condition but just not your size of style? Trade with friends or donate it.
5) TUNE UP YOUR CAR Your room gets a fresh look so why not give your car the same treatment? Change the oil, rotate the tires and clean the trash out of the front seat (it’s for your friends, not your empty McDonald’s bags).
6) REEVALUATE YOUR SPENDINGCreate a budget. Allocate a certain amount for bills, other
necessities and of course, fun stuff. Free apps such as Mint.com can help you. If you’re strapped on cash, look for ways you can cut down. Instead of splurging for Starbucks everyday, make coffee at home.
7) REARRANGE YOUR FURNITURENew layout, new perspective. Also, incorporating some
feng shui techniques into your room can help you de-stress.• Eliminate clutter.• Embrace natural light by opening the blinds.• Bring nature indoors with a potted plant.• Hang mirrors. They reflect light and energy and create
the feel of a larger space. But don’t face it toward your bed; that creates negative chi flow.
• Let energy from the outside world in by facing your bed in the direction of the doorway, but not placing it directly in line with it.
8) GET ORGANIZED FOR CLASSESThat jumble of papers sitting on your desk or in your
backpack representing every class (including some from last semester) isn’t doing you any good. Throw away the ones you don’t need, and organize the rest into separate folders for each class.
9) WIPE OUT THOSE BAD HABITSIt’s never too late to revisit those forgotten New Year’s
resolutions. Whether it’s biting your nails, playing too many video games, smoking or eating too much fast food, take another go at quitting.
10) FRESHEN YOUR FRIENDSHIPSBusy schedules may have pulled you away from people you
used to be close to, but it’s never too late to reconnect. Grab a cup of coffee and catch up. As for those toxic friends that
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The Spring Equinox today symbolizes new beginnings. Launch your great endeavor especially around May 25; an eclipse shines attention on your work. Communica-tion is key until summer, when home and family take your focus. Monitor financ-es, especially debt, insur-ance and savings. Release personal limitations. You can have it all.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 -- Go for perfection, with the help of friends or family. You’re inspired and are inspiring. Private conversations help. Research provides illumination. Get the facts to the right person.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 9 -- Focus on completing old projects over the next few weeks. Invest in your own success and in new alliances. Narrowing down to what you love makes it easy to stick to a budget. Make money.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) Today is an 8 -- Consider an option that seems beyond your reach. Work for money without worrying about it. Balance work with social time. Everyone wants your atten-tion; schedule for ease. Your efforts go farther, and playtime’s extra nice.Cancer (June 22-July 22) Today is an 8 -- Trust yourself and your intuition, and get the work done. The timing couldn’t be better. Make wise use of your turbo boost, then recharge before revving back up. Get this party started.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8 -- Get deeply into a research project. Indulge your curiosity, and make a dis-covery. Put off procrastination. Discuss all ideas and work out the practical details in a plan for action.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 7 -- You can make do with what you have. Cleaning your space leads to new discoveries (or rediscoveries), and to major improvements. Your team’s com-ing to the rescue. Avoid gossip at work. Music is a wise investment now.Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 9 -- Express your affection, and listen for other’s love. Hold yourself to high standards, but be flexible. Some things aren’t as imagined. Be careful around sharp objects. A blissful moment is possible.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7 -- Make great plans for the future and get moving. There’s plenty of work for the next month, and the pace could get intense. Play the ace you’ve been holding. Delegate when you can. Use your team.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is an 8 -- Seek inspiration this month. Delve into the mystery. Talk it over, and secrets get revealed. Launch a new venture. Negotiations could hit rough waters with unstable conditions. Listen more than you talk, and follow through.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is a 7 -- This month is about family. Set financial priorities to support this. An expert can help. Something you try doesn’t work, so devise a backup plan. This might take several tries. Set it up for success.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is an 8 -- You’re especially focused and keen this month, and your studies, research and writing thrive. Keep your eyes on the prize. Listen carefully. Secrets are revealed. Unexpected costs are likely now. The old way can still work.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7 -- Continue to resolve issues creatively. Ask a female friend for advice. You have better luck for the next two days, every little bit counts. A financial shortfall is temporary. Your understanding contin-ues to increase all week.
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Colo. one of few victories for gun control supporters
| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — After a no-holds-barred White House push for sweeping gun control legisla-tion across the country, Demo-crats have racked up only one victory outside the ideologi-cally friendly confines of the Northeast.
It is a big one: Colorado’s moderate Democratic gover-nor Wednesday will sign land-mark bills to require universal background checks and limit magazine capacity in this bell-wether swing state. But the White House’s package is run-ning into trouble in Congress and, even in liberal Washington
state, gun control couldn’t get out of the statehouse. Gun con-trol advocates are hoping for more victories to add to Colo-rado, but the clock is ticking as state legislatures start to wrap up business.
Mark Glaze, director of May-ors Against Illegal Guns, ac-knowledged in an interview Tuesday that his side has only won in a couple of states so far. He said that was because gun rights groups have strong pres-ences at most statehouses. “You don’t turn that around in three months,” he said, adding that he is trying to reassure lawmakers they can pass gun restrictions without trampling on the Sec-ond Amendment. “But we will turn it around, and Colorado is exhibit A.”
After 20 children and six adults were killed in the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook
Elementary School, President Barack Obama called for more gun control measures, and gun control activists across the country pushed to expand laws regulating firearms, hop-ing to capitalize on the national revulsion to the attack in New-town, Conn.
But it remains unclear wheth-er the centerpiece of Obama’s federal package — universal background checks on anyone who buys guns — will pass the Democrat-controlled Sen-ate, let alone the Republican-controlled House. Though a bipartisan deal on background checks still could emerge in the Senate, Democrats there on Tuesday dropped a proposed assault weapons ban from their gun legislation, a sign it was destined to fail.
Earlier this month, Wash-ington state’s Democrat-con-
trolled House failed to advance a universal background check bill there. Democrats are strug-gling to advance background check bills in Minnesota and Oregon, too. A bill to require background checks at gun shows died in the Democrat-controlled New Mexico legisla-ture this month.
Richard Feldman of the In-dependent Firearms Owners Association said he’s not sur-prised that politicians are balk-ing, despite polls showing over-whelming support for tougher gun restrictions like universal background checks or limits on the capacity of magazines. “The people say, ‘Oh yeah, ban it -- my ox isn’t getting gored,’” Feldman said. “But the people who are affected or feel af-fected — those are the ones you have to worry about. They will vote for you or against you
based on this.”Colorado will be the test case
of that political theory. An esti-mated one-third of households in this state have a firearm but the state has trended sharply Democratic in recent years, powered by coastal trans-plants, moderate suburban women voters and a growing Hispanic population. Demo-crats won back the statehouse in November. They approved universal background checks and a bill preventing gun maga-zines from holding more than 15 bullets over strenuous Re-publican opposition.
About 1,000 protesters swarmed the state capitol at the peak of the debate, which featured testimony by gun con-trol advocate Mark Kelly, hus-band of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, who was shot by a mentally ill gunman in
2011. Vice President Joe Biden called Colorado Democrats and urged them to approve the package, saying it would have potent symbolism in a western swing state.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, a moderate who once questioned whether increased gun control would have stopped July’s Au-rora movie theater massacre, infuriated Republicans when he said he would sign the leg-islation. Republicans have con-sistently accused Democrats of being driven by gun control advocate and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other coastal liberals.
“He’s more interested in ap-peasing Bloomberg and East Coast Democrats than he is Col-orado,” Republican State Sen. Greg Brophy said of Hicken-looper, whom he may challenge in next year’s election.
State governor will sign landmark bills to require checks
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#1 LOUISVILLEBall State women’s volleyball fell 3-0 to
Louisville in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Tournament.
# 1 KANSAS Softball suffered an 8-7 loss to Kansas
on March 9.
#6 MEMPHISMemphis assistant football coach Charlie
Coe had a brief coaching stint at Ball State in 1982.
#6 UCLA Ball State men’s volleyball suffered a 3-1
loss to UCLA on Jan. 14, 2011.
#5 OKLAHOMA STATEAssistant professor of accounting Li
Sun received his doctorate degree from Oklahoma State.
#5 VCU Assistant professor of theatre Jonathan Becker received his master’s of fine arts
from VCU.
#7 CREIGHTONCreighton’s women’s volleyball team
swept Ball State on Sept. 7, 2012.
#7 SAN DIEGO STATESan Diego State associate athletic direc-
tor Bob Moosbrugger was a graduate assistant at Ball State from 1994-96.
#8 COLORADO STATEBiology technical assistant Susan Calvin
earned a BS in Microbiology from Colo-rado State in 1980.
#8 NORTH CAROLINAFormer Ball State athletic director Bubba
Cunningham holds the same position at North Carolina.
#3 MICHIGAN STATEWomen’s tennis coach Christine Bader
played her collegiate tennis at Michigan State.
#3 FLORIDABall State outside linebackers coach Daryl
Dixon was a team captain for Florida’s football team.
#4 SAINT LOUIS Former Saint Louis coach Rick Majerus,
who died in December, coached at Ball State from 1987-89.
#4 MICHIGANMichigan football coach Brady Hoke
coached at Ball State from 2003-08, leading the team to two bowl games.
#2 DUKEProfessor of political science Sally Jo Vasicko received her Ph.D. from Duke.
#2 GEORGETOWNFormer men’s basketball coach Ronny
Thompson is the brother of Georgetown coach John Thompson III.
#16 NORTH CAROLINA A&TOn Dec. 31, 2010, men’s basketball defeated a visiting North Carolina A&T team 80-68.
#16 LIU BROOKLYNSoftball defeated LIU Brooklyn 8-1 in the Citrus Classic on March 5, 2012.
#16 WESTERN KENTUCKY In 2011, Ball State and Western Kentucky were the only two bowl eligible teams to not play in a bowl game.
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#11 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATEBall State football is scheduled to play a home game against Middle Tennessee State in 2015.
#11 BUCKNELLBall State field hockey suffered a 4-2 loss to Bucknell on Oct. 29, 2009.
#11 MINNESOTAWomen’s basketball has been selected to play against Minnesota in the 2013 WNIT.
#11 BELMONTBelmont assistant professor of music business Timothy Tappan received his bachelor’s degree from Ball State.
#12 OREGON Before coming to Ball State, former quarterback Kelly Page had originally committed to play for Oregon.
#12 CALIFORNIACari DuBois, the longest tenured gymnastics coach in California history, graduated from Ball State.
#12 AKRONMen’s basketball suffered a 71-64 road loss to conference opponent Akron on Jan. 16.
#12 OLE MISSWomen’s golf coach Katherine Mowat was an assistant coach at Ole Miss from 2001-04.
#10 CINCINNATIAssociate head coach for Cincinnati’s men’s basketball Larry Davis had a coach-ing stint at Ball State in 1993-94.
#10 COLORADO - Director of the Human Performance Laboratory Scott Trappe received his master’s degree from Colorado in 1991.
#10 OKLAHOMAOn Oct. 1, 2011, Ball State football lost 62-6 to then-No. 1 Oklahoma.
#10 IOWA STATEBall State provost and vice president Terry King was once a professor at Iowa State.
#9 MISSOURIMissouri head athletic trainer Rex Sharp is a 1979 magna cum laude graduate of Ball State.
#9 TEMPLEFrom 2007-12, Temple was a member of the Mid-American Conference for football and beat Ball State 42-0 on Oct. 8, 2011.
#9 VILLANOVAAssistant professor of philosophy Kevin Harrelson earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova in 1998.
#9 WICHITA STATEWichita State assistant athletic trainer Becca Fitzgerald received her master’s degree from Ball State in 2012.
#14 VALPARAISOMen’s basketball suffered a 69-52 road loss to Valparaiso on Dec. 28, 2010.
#14 DAVIDSONIn men’s golf’s win in the Firestone Invitational in 2012, Ball State beat a field that included Davidson.
#14 NORTHWESTERN STATEFormer women’s volleyball coach Hugh Hernesman is the co-head coach of the Northwestern State volleyball team.
#14 HARVARDBall State baseball posted a 10-2 win over Harvard on March 10.
#13 NEW MEXICO STATEAssistant athletic trainer Sindra Schueler received her master’s degree from New Mexico State in 2012.
#13 MONTANAWomen’s golf competed in the Western Michigan Invitational on March 9 with a field that included of Montana.
#13 SOUTH DAKOTA STATEDepartment Head of Journalism and Communications Mary Arnold was once a journalism professor at Ball State.
#13 BOISE STATEMen’s tennis lost 5-1 to Boise State in the Spring Break Classic on March 23, 2012.
#15 ALBANY Football coach Pete Lembo received his master’s degree from Albany in 1994.
#15 PACIFICWomen’s volleyball pulled off an upset of then-No. 8 Pacific on Sept. 9, 1995.
#15 FLORIDA GULF COASTFlorida Gulf Coast associate professor of education Lynn Wilder earned her doc-toral degree from Ball State in 1999.
#15 IONABall State cross country competed at the Meet of Champions hosted by Iona in 2002.
#1 GONZAGA Gonzaga director of counseling education Steven Koffman received his doctoral degree from Ball State in 1998.
#6 ARIZONAMen’s basketball opened its 2011-12
season with a road 73-63 loss to Arizona.
#5 WISCONSINMen’s volleyball player Jamion Hartley
was once recruited to play basketball at Wisconsin.
#7 NOTRE DAME Athletic director Bill Scholl worked at Notre Dame from 1989-2012 before
coming to Ball State.
#8 PITTSBURGHWomen’s volleyball swept Pittsburgh 3-0
at Worthen Arena on Sept. 14, 2012.
#3 NEW MEXICOWomen’s volleyball coach Jeff Nelson
played on the 1995 Ball State volleyball team that reached the Final Four.
#4 KANSAS STATEFormer football coach Stan Parrish had
2-30-1 record as coach at Kansas State from 1986-88.
#2 OHIO STATEOhio State baseball coach Greg Beals
coached at Ball State for eight seasons, going 243-202 in that time.
#1 INDIANAMen’s basketball lost to then-No. 1
Indiana 101-53 on Nov. 25 at Assembly Hall.
#6 BUTLEREach season Ball State and Butler’s
men’s basketball teams play, the most recent a 67-53 win for Butler.
#5 UNLVUNLV professor Tony Lucas received his
bachelor’s degree in accounting from Ball State in 1986.
#7 ILLINOISProfessor of human development Brent
McBride received his bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Ball State.
#8 N.C. STATEN.C. State tight ends coach Eddie
Faulkner was an assistant coach at Ball State from 2003-10.
#3 MARQUETTEWomen’s tennis lost on the road to
Marquette 5-2 on Feb. 17.
#4 SYRACAUSEBall State’s basketball and football play-
by-play commentator graduated from Syracuse in 2009.
#2 MIAMIExecutive director of alumni programs
Julie Stroh once had the same position at Miami before being hired in 2012.
Ball State missed out on the tournament again, but here’s the relation to those in
| MAT MIKESELL SPORTS EDITOR @MatMikesell
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| LEAH FISHBURN STAFF REPORTER @meleahcue
After defeating No. 24 North Carolina and suffering a 8-7 loss in the battle against Wisconsin, Ball State softball picked up its share of weekly awards by the Mid-American Conference West Division.
A strong seventh inning performance in the circle by freshman Nicole Steinbach against the Tar Heels brought the victory for the Cardinals as she struck out the first batter, forced an easily fielded ground-er to shortstop and then caught a line drive to close the game.
The freshman pitcher was
awarded pitcher of the week for the second time this season after back-to-back solid perfor-mances in the circle.
Despite a loss to Wisconsin, Steinbach finished the open-ing game of the tournament holding the Badgers to three runs and striking out a batter in two innings.
She brought her season record to 5-7 after defeating North Carolina as she allowed just six hits and a run go, with three strikeouts in seven innings of work.
Sophomore second baseman Taylor Cox was awarded play-er of the week for the first time in her career.
Cox helped lead the Cardinals to a 1-1 record in the weekend part of the Louisville Class as lead-off batter.
Her strong performance at
the plate against Wisconsin carried into game two as she led the team in a rally.
She finished the weekend with 5-for-9 at the plates in the two games combined with three singles, three runs scored and an RBI.
The team has a total of 45 RBIs on the season as the MAC leader in doubles.
Ball State has earned a MAC West Division award in each week of competition this season as four players have claimed player of the week and three total pitcher-of-the-week titles.
After a canceled game against Butler on Tuesday, the team will be back in action Friday, taking on Marist and Colorado State in the first day of the Col-orado State Spring Tournament in Fort Collins, Colo.
| DAVID POLASKI STAFF REPORTER @meleahcue
Ball State’s 3 p.m. game against Butler today is canceled due to poor field conditions.
It’s the fourth time in just more than two weeks that the Cardi-nals have been unable to play.
Ball State had to have its entire series against Morehead State shifted because of poor weather during the beginning of March.
Ball State pitcher Chris Maran-gon said because he doesn’t let the canceled games affect him psychologically.
“As much as I want to play
just so that we can get another win for the team, it’s OK in the grand scheme of things because it’s another day we can fine tune ourselves,” Maran-gon said. “We can get out there and practice and keep working.”
So far this sea-son, those missed games haven’t hurt Ball State. After having its series against Morehead State postponed on March 1 to 3, it was resched-uled for the following Monday and Tuesday.
The Cardinals won both games, outscoring Morehead State 16-3.
“Coach has taught us that no matter what day we come out,
we have to be ready to go,” pitch-er Scott Baker said. “Those games against Morehead State showed
that we won’t let ourselves be affect-ed by having games canceled.”
Without the game against Butler, the team will be look-ing forward to its conference-opening series against Ak-ron this weekend.
Akron struggled last season, going 17-38 overall and just 10-17 in Mid-American Con-ference play.
“We really need to make sure we’re ready for MAC play,” Ma-rangon said. “We’re disappointed that we can’t play, but this might be a blessing in disguise.”
DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKTaylor Cox bunts a ball in the game against Central Michigan on April 22, 2012. Cox was awarded Player of the Week in the Mid-American Conference West Division on Tuesday.
BASEBALL
MARCH BOREDOM
AKRON SERIESMuncie, IndianaGAME ONE3 p.m. Friday GAME TWO1 p.m. SaturdayGAME THREE1 p.m. Sunday
Ball State will wait until Friday against Akron to play again
HOME GAME CANCELED DUE TO POOR FIELD CONDITIONS
Ball State sweeps weekly conference awards againSteinbach, Cox win player of week after successful weekend
THURSDAY Men’s volleyball travels to Fort Wayne, Ind. to take on in-state rival IPFW in a key MIVA match.
FRIDAY Women’s basketball plays in its first postseason since 2008 in the WNIT against Minnesota.
SATURDAY Baseball begins Mid-American Conference play with a three-game home series against Akron.