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MOORE, Okla. — The tor-nado that tore through an Oklahoma City suburb de-stroyed or damaged as many as 13,000 homes and may have caused $2 billion in overall damage, officials said Wednesday.

State authorities mean-while said two infants were among the 24 people who perished in the twister.

Oklahoma Insurance De-partment spokeswoman Cal-ley Herth told The Associated Press that the early mone-tary damage tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive disaster zone that stretches more than 17 miles and the fact that Monday’s tornado was on the ground for 40 minutes.

The financial cost of the tornado in Moore could be greater than the $2 billion in damage from the 2011 torna-do that killed 161 people in Joplin, Mo., Herth said, add-ing that the Joplin twister left a smaller trail of destruction.

For the first time Wednes-day, authorities provided a clearer accounting of the de-struction.

Between 12,000 and 13,000 homes were destroyed or damaged and 33,000 people were affected in some way by the storm, said Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett, speaking at a news confer-ence. He also put the mon-etary damage estimate at

between $1.5 billion to $2 billion.

Emergency officials were unable to put a figure on the number of people left home-less, because many people have been taken in by rela-tives and only a few dozen have stayed overnight at Red Cross shelters.

Six adults remain unac-counted for since the tor-nado, said Oklahoma De-partment of Emergency Management Director Albert Ashwood. It’s possible those people had just “walked off” their properties or could still be found in the rubble, Ash-wood said.

Secretary of Homeland Se-curity Janet Napolitano vis-ited the area Wednesday, pledging the government’s support and urging people to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to see what aid they qualify for.

“We know that people are really hurting,” she said. “There’s a lot of recovery yet to do ... We will be here to stay until this recovery is complete. You have our com-mitment on that.”

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A Chech-en immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon

bombing sus-pects was shot to death by au-thorities early Wednesday af-ter he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife, officials said.

Ibragim Toda-shev, a 27-year-old mixed mar-tial arts fighter, was gunned down at his Or-

lando home during a meeting with the agent and two Massa-chusetts state troopers, authori-ties said. The agent was taken

to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The FBI gave no details on why they were interested in Todashev except to say that he was being questioned as part of the Boston investigation. But some of his former room-mates said Todashev knew one of the Boston bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, from mixed martial arts fight-ing in Boston and that the FBI was asking about him.

Public records show To-dashev lived in Watertown, Mass., just outside Boston, last year.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, an aspir-ing boxer, was killed in a shoot-out with police days after the April 15 bombings. His young-er brother, Dzhokhar, survived and is charged with carrying out the attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260.

Investigators have been try-ing to establish the scope of the plot. In addition, authorities in Massachusetts said they would

investigate whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to an unsolved 2011 slaying in the Boston suburb of Waltham, where three men were found dead in an apartment, their throats slit and marijuana sprinkled over their bodies. One of the victims was a boxer

and a friend of Tsarnaev’s.Todashev had lived on and

off with other Chechens in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee and had moved to Orlando more recently, friends said.

Agent suffers from non-fatal injuries after knife attack

FBI kills man after threat

See SMOKING, page 3

MCT PHOTO The FBI evidence response team enters an apartment Wednesday in Orlando, Fla., after an FBI agent shot and killed a man who was questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Residents in neighborhoods near campus and businesses in the Village generally don’t think any serious trouble will result from a higher smoking population caused by the campus to-bacco ban starting this fall.

Roger McConnell, associate professor of mu-sic performance, has lived in the neighborhood west of the Arts and Journalism building for 44 years, and agrees with the trustees’ decision to ban tobacco.

“I think it’s a step in the right direction,” he said. “I support it.”

Matt Bailey is a board member in the neigh-borhood association and said he’s been in-formed that other communities facing tobacco bans haven’t had many problems with people being pushed into neighborhoods.

“I wouldn’t say there’s much of an uproar from our neighborhood at this point, but if it becomes an issue, we’ll squawk about it,” he said.

He said the main concern of the neighbor-hood is the closing of the gate on Euclid Av-enue near LaFollette Complex.

Bailey said many university staff members used that gate to get to campus and will need to find a new route, but Ball State wasn’t com-promising.

Neighborhoods aren’t worried about litter, more smokers in area

Tornado damage in Oklahoma may total $2 billion

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Cigarette butts scatter the ground at the smoking area by the Studebaker East Complex. The new ban will force the students, faculty and staff who use this area to move off campus to smoke.

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Ball State is reviewing one of its courses after allegations that a professor is crossing the line by expressing his religious beliefs in class. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a formal complaint against Ball State assistant professor in the department of physics and as-tronomy Eric Hedin’s teaching of “Boundaries of Science,” an Honors College course.

Andrew Seidel, the founda-

tion’s attorney, said the group acknowledges the value of such a class, but argues He-din’s class is one-sided.

“This class does not ap-pear to be an honest inves-tigation into the intersec-tion of science and religion,” he wrote in a letter to president Jo Ann Gora.

Seidel also said Ball State could face legal and credibility questions because of Hedin’s teaching.

“We take matters related to

academic integrity very seri-ously,” university spokesper-son Joan Todd said. “To that end, the university has initi-ated a thorough review of the course to make certain the curriculum is appropriate and the methods of instruction are academically sound.”

Seidel said the foundation is also filing an objection to oth-er classes Hedin has taught, including an introductory as-tronomy class.

“You have a good reason to be talking about religion in a reli-gion and science class, but there is no reason it should be coming up in your introductory level astronomy class,” he said. “Reli-gion is not a part of astronomy.”

Fifth-year senior criminology

major Jake Owens said he was in Hedin’s astronomy 100 class in the Fall Semester of 2011 and that he wasn’t bothered when Hedin brought up religion.

Foundation files complaints over science classes

See OKLAHOMA, page 3See RELIGION, page 2

See BOSTON, page 2

IBRAGIM TODASHEVa 27-year-old Chechen immi-grant who was shot to death

ERIC HEDINBSU assistant professor of physics and astronomy

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“He’s a regular guy, nothing wrong,” Saeed Dunkaev said.

Muslin Chapkhanov, another former roommate, said Toda-shev knew the older Tsarnaev brother. Todashev “was living in Boston and I think he trained with him,” Chapkhanov said.

Former roommate Khusen Taramov said the FBI was asking questions about a con-versation Todashev had with the elder bombing suspect a month before the Boston Marathon attack.

The Tsarnaev brothers have roots in the turbulent Rus-sian regions of Dagestan and Chechnya. Investigators have

said the brothers carried out the Boston bombing in retali-ation for the U.S. wars in Mus-lim Iraq and Afghanistan.

Two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of ano-nymity because they were not authorized to release details of the investigation, said Todashev came at the FBI agent with a knife before he was shot.

An FBI team was dispatched from Washington to review the shooting, a standard step in such cases.

Todashev was arrested earlier this month on a charge of ag-gravated battery after getting into a fight over a parking spot with two men — a father and

son — at an Orlando shopping mall. The son was hospital-

ized with a split lip and several teeth knocked out, according to a sheriff’s report. Todashev claimed self-defense.

“Also by his own admission Todashev was recently a former mixed martial arts fighter,” the arresting deputy said in his re-port. “This skill puts his fighting ability way above that of a nor-mal person.”

Todashev was released on $3,500 bail after his May 4 ar-rest. His attorney, Alain Rivas, didn’t immediately respond to a call for comment Wednesday.

Police tape blocked off the complex of townhouses near Universal Studios where Toda-shev was shot.

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“He brought it up a lot when he would get into the constellations and how amazing the universe was,” he said. “He didn’t bring it up, obviously, when he was going into the scientific aspects.”

But Owens, who identified himself as a Christian, said Hedin did not open religion up to discussion in his class.

“I hate to say it, but it was more of a preaching type of thing,” Owens said. “It wasn’t like he said it and then opened it up to say, ‘Does anybody else have an opinion on this?’ If I remem-ber correctly, some people did say things, whether they agreed or disagreed, but he didn’t really open it up for discussion.”

Seidel said the foundation just wants an investigation of the courses and for the uni-

versity to take steps to cor-rect the issues if the allega-tions are found to be valid.

He said the foundation has received more evi-dence that this case shows more preaching and less teaching as the issue has gained publicity.

On ratemyprofessor.com, Hedin has received gener-ally positive reviews with a few specifically mentioning religious bias.

“Extremely nice guy and an easy class. However, the class had an extremely Christian bias and he does not believe in evolution. Many of his views do not quite jive with those of mainstream science,” one rater said.

Another said Hedin was a great teacher, but he “con-stantly talks religion, as an atheist, I was slightly con-cerned my science teacher is a devout christian.”

RELIGION: Student says God was frequent topic| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

WHAT HAPPENEDWHO Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen immigrant who was being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.WHATTodashev was shot to death after he lunged at an FBI agent with a knife. The FBI agent was taken to the hospital but sustained no life-threatening injuries.WHEREAt Todashev’s Orlando homeWHENEarly Wednesday

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SPOKANE, Wash. —A 37-year-old man was arrested Wednes-day in connection with a case in which a pair of letters contain-ing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

A grand jury indictment ac-cused Matthew Ryan Buquet of mailing a threatening commu-nication to U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle at the federal courthouse on May 14.

The indictment did not men-tion ricin. However, the U.S. Postal Service said last week that two letters were inter-cepted — one addressed to the courthouse and the other to the downtown post office — and

they contained ricin in a crude form that did not immediately pose a threat to workers.

Buquet appeared in federal court in Spokane after the FBI said agents arrested him Wednesday afternoon. He pleaded not guilty.

The short, balding Buquet wore dark-tinted glasses and was shackled in court. He gave brief yes and no answers to questions from U.S. Magistrate Cynthia Imbrogno.

Imbrogno ordered him held without bond until a bail hear-ing scheduled for next Tuesday. A public defender was appoint-ed for Buquet.

If convicted of mailing a threatening communication, he could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

U.S. Attorney Michael Orms-by declined to comment after the hearing, and little infor-mation about Buquet was im-mediately available.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Gregg is pondering another run at the state’s top job, but has yet to make a decision.

Gregg narrowly lost to Republican Gov. Mike Pence last No-vember despite the state’s Republican tilt. But Gregg said Wednesday he hasn’t decided whether it’s worth another run.

The Corydon Democrat reported Wednesday that Gregg told Democrats in Harrison County that he wanted to “keep going” following two years on the campaign trail. But Gregg said that was a lighthearted response to the local Democratic chair-man’s insistence that Gregg should be governor.

Still, Gregg has given every indication he’s interested in the job he almost won. He has traversed the state in the last few months speaking at local fundraisers and gauging support among Democratic activists.

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — The Purdue University trustees have approved a tuition freeze and lower costs for students on the main campus in West Lafayette.

The trustees on Wednesday approved freezing tuition and cut-ting costs for meal plans and university cooperative education and internship programs for all students in West Lafayette.

Tuition and fees for resident students on the West Lafayette campus will be about $10,000 each of the next two school years.

The fee cuts will affect more than 10,000 students.Purdue President Mitch Daniels announced the tuition freeze

plan in March. It covers only the main campus.The trustees also approved a 2 percent tuition and fee in-

crease at Purdue’s three regional campuses for each of the next two years.

With warm weather in Muncie, students can start using the 62-miles of Cardinal Greenway to ride bikes again.

The Greenway will have bicycles available to rent for free during the summer.

“It’s the best thing we have in Muncie. People come from all around the place,” said Muncie resident Gwen Kousari, who fre-quents the Greenway during the summer.

Angie Pool, the executive director of Cardinal Greenway, said they have about 26 cruiser bikes, which are old-fashioned bikes with no gears and larger sits.

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“We worked really hard on the Euclid gate issue and pretty much got stonewalled by the university and ignored,” he said. “I would say we’re a little frus-trated and not really sure of the proper way to engage the uni-versity in a conversation.”

Gary Burdine has been a man-ager at The Locker Room for two and a half years and doesn’t think the ban will affect the bar or the Village very much.

“We’ve allowed smoking on our patio ever since we’ve opened, and we’ve never been smoking in the building,” he said. “I don’t think it will have too much impact on us in particular.”

He said there might be a few more cigarette butts, but the Village does a good job clean-ing the streets.

“I don’t think it will come to the point that people won’t come to the Village just because there’s smoking outside,” he said.

Bailey also felt that litter might be a problem, but easily fixed.

“I love the ban— all for it,” he said. “I’m willing to tolerate some negativity to the neigh-borhood to do what’s right for the health of the university

community, so personally it doesn’t bother me.”

Kay Bales, vice president of student affairs and dean of stu-dents, said the ban will hope-fully be a positive change out-side the university.

“We hope that those who

choose to smoke will continue to be as respectful off campus as they have been on-campus in our designated smoking ar-eas,” she said.

McConnell said he has seen smokers walk through his neighborhood, but doesn’t

think they will cause much trouble.

“It is a public street, and they’re entitled to take walks and use the sidewalks,” he said. “I would hope that they wouldn’t litter. Would I say that we should legislate against them for walking down the street? No.”

Fred Curts, a Ball State gradu-ate and staff member, has lived in the neighborhood with Mc-Connell for 20 years, and has also seen smokers, mainly staff, walk past his house.

“I haven’t seen [problems with smokers] so far, but that’s a possibility,” he said.

Bales said the university has contacted neighborhoods, al-though Bailey said there hasn’t been much communication.

“Actually, the university has responded to neighbors who brought their concerns to our attention,” she said.

Communication is still a con-cern for Bailey.

“I’m in favor of the ban, and I just hope the university re-sponds if issues arise as a re-sult of their own policy and maybe they’d like to roll out the red with the neighborhood a little bit,” he said.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Some key Indiana legislators don’t expect the state to adopt a federal safety board’s recom-mendation that the thresh-old for drunken driving be cut nearly in half.

The National Transporta-tion Safety Board said in its proposal last week that drunken-driving deaths could be reduced if states lowered the current 0.08 blood-alcohol level for driv-ing to 0.05 percent.

State Sen. Tom Wyss, R-Fort Wayne, pushed for more than a decade for the law that lowered Indiana’s drunken-driving level from 0.10 per-cent to 0.08 percent in 2001. Wyss said it would be “nearly impossible” to bring the level to 0.05 percent.

“It’s an effort I would not un-dertake again,” Wyss told the Evansville Courier & Press.

House transportation com-mittee Chairman Ed Soliday, R-Valparaiso, said he didn’t believe lawmakers would re-act favorably to an appointed federal board trying to press for changes in state laws. The NTSB recommended federal officials established “incentive grants” designed to encourage states to adopt the lower threshold.

The threshold change was one of nearly 20 recommen-

dations made by the board, which also included mea-sures to ensure more wide-spread use of use of alcohol ignition interlock devices. Those require a driver to breathe into a tube, much like the breathalyzers police ask suspected drunken driv-ers to use.

Soliday told Times of Mun-ster that before he would push for the lower drunken-driving standard, he wants more research showing that would be the best way to re-duce crash deaths.

“I think before we go run-ning off and introducing law, because somebody sug-gested we should be black-mailed, let’s look at the data and see what’s most effective and with what do we get the most reduction in alcohol-related injuries,” Soliday said. “Some of that may not need a law passed.”

Terri Carl, who owns Le-roy’s Tavern on the west side of Evansville, said she be-lieves less drunken driving depends on people taking re-sponsibility for their actions.

“Lowering the limit of alco-hol is not going to affect the way people drink or eat,” she said. “It’s them making ratio-nal, conscious decisions about getting behind the wheel.”

An 0.05 percent blood-alcohol level is about one drink for a woman weighing less than 120 pounds and two drinks for a 160-pound man. A drink is defined as 12 ounces of beer, 4 ounces of wine or 1 ounce of 80-proof alcohol in most studies.

Legal amount will likely remain at 0.08 for driving

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MCT PHOTOSABOVE: The damaged medical center in Moore, Okla., shows the aftermath of Monday’s tornado. The massive tornado tore through the town on Monday, leaving 24 dead.BELOW: A member of Nebraska Task Force 1 looks through the remains of a home with his search dog in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday. A massive tornado swept through the south Oklahoma City suburb Monday afternoon.

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President Barack Obama plans to meet with vic-tims and first responders, and view the destruction firsthand when he visits the area on Sunday, White House spokesman Jay Car-ney said.

The National Weather Service said the tornado was a top-of-the-scale EF5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph — the first EF5 tornado of 2013.

Dan Ramsey, president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Oklahoma, said a damage estimate in the low billions is “not surprising.”

“Certainly it’s in the hun-dreds of millions,” Ramsey said. “I suppose seeing

projections from similar disasters, it could stretch to a billion” or more.

With no reports of anyone still missing, the Oklahoma medical examiner’s office announced that it has iden-tified 23 of the 24 people who died in the tornado, and that 10 of those killed are children.

All of the children have been identified, among them 4-month-old Case Futrell and 7-month-old Sydnee Vargyas. Both ba-bies died from head inju-ries. The eight other chil-dren ranged in age from 4 years to 9 years. Of those, six were suffocated and two died from massive injuries.

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Ball State’s vice presi-dent of infor-mation tech-nologies has been nomi-nated for a national tech-nology award for his focus on students.

Phil Repp has been working on restructuring the way the

university approaches the topic of lifelong education. His work has earned him a nomination

from the readers of The Chron-icle of Higher Education to be 2013’s Technology Innovator.

According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, Repp “pioneered a student-centered approach to information tech-nology at Ball State.” This work focuses on creating an environment where learning transcends the classroom that connects learning to the over-all human experience.

“I’m asked to run a basic util-ity to campus, the information utility,” Repp said. “But I’m also asked to create and innovate these technologies. What I find interesting about my work is that I can daily switch from these two different worlds.”

Repp said the connec-tions allow the classroom to become more about the person figuring out the ma-terial through human inter-action that will lead to per-sistent learning throughout

students’ lives. He said this thinking came together in the “persistent learning experi-ence platform,” or PLEP.

Repp and other professors at Ball State created PLEP to keep up with compet-ing universities and online programs. The focus is on the changing ways students find and work with informa-tion and the blurring line be-tween online and on-campus classes. Repp said his team looks for ways to incorporate these changes into curricu-lum and software.

“He’s a big thinker, very cre-ative,” said Michael Goldsby, the executive director of the Entrepreneurship Center in the Miller College of Business. The two have worked together on PLEP and other projects.

Repp’s past works helped the university earn a $40 mil-lion grant from the Lilly En-dowment, Inc., which funded

much of the Center for Media Design. He now oversees the $17.7 million Emerging Media Initiative that helps Ball State focus on the application of in-novative technologies into the field while pushing economic growth in the 21st century workforce.

“He understands the process of taking big ideas and bring-ing them into the real, which very few people have that skill set,” Goldsby said. “You can see Ball State provides great immersive learning opportu-nities and Phil has been a big part of that change.”

In the future, Goldsby hopes Repp can work on off-campus learning that still embraces the immersive learning op-portunities at Ball State. Currently a big obstacle in distance education that both Goldsby and Repp recognize is the disconnect that comes with distance.

Phil Repp nationally recognized for work with info systems

PHIL REPPVice President of Information technology who was nominatedfor a national technology award

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The Cornfed Derby Dames are hosting “Go Fast and Turn Left” against the South Bend Bonnie Dooms in the first night game the Dames have hosted since being founded in 2010.

And depending on the attendance figures, it could be the first Saturday bout of many.

“This is kind of a test run venue. If it goes well it’s something we’ll discuss,” said Amanda Holmquist, former skater and public relations person.

An average Derby Dames’ bout takes place on Sunday afternoon, with 200 to 300 people in attendance, Holmquist said, but a Saturday night at Muncie’s Gibson Skating Arena could have a 400 to 500 person turnout.

As with all of their home bouts, a portion of the revenue will be donated to

the Animal Rescue Fund. The team has recently volunteered with the organization to build a relationship with the public.

“We want to be stewards of our community,” Holmquist said. “It is just part of the game.”

Many of the other roller derby teams are benefactors for charities within their

own communities, she said. The Muncie-based team has

ties with Ball State, as several members are Ball State graduates. Trisha “Shrewd Bury-more” Shireman and Jessica “B-Flattened” Huffman are teammates and current Ball State students.

The team’s next bout is June 16 versus the Naptown Roller Girls.

| ASHLEE HAYES STAFF REPORTER amhayes2@bsu.edu

Professors and students of the Ball State School of Music will bring old and new music together in a classical col-laboration tonight during the first of four free concerts.

The 67th annual Chamber Music Festival, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Sursa Hall, will feature university faculty and students playing classic music.

“This is an opportunity for the Muncie community and Ball State community to participate in concerts that are free and experience chamber music as opposed to solos,” said Paul Reilly, a music performance profes-sor. “During the school year, most of the performances are solos.”

After applying two years ago, Ball State’s Chamber Mu-sic Festival will also be a part

of National Chamber Music month. May is dedicated as Na-tional Chamber Music Month through Chamber Music America and exists to celebrate small ensemble music.

The Chamber Music Festival Concert Series has been fund-ed since 2003 through the Sue Derexa Smith Memorial Con-cert Fund, and is also funded by the Shafer Music Endow-ment Fund.

The first concert has a piece that involves four harpsi-chords, a keyboard instrument.

“You just never see four harpsichords together,” Reilly said. “It’s a chance for the com-munity to hear something that you just never hear.”

Three of the four con-certs will be hosted on Ball State’s campus in Sursa Hall, and one will be hosted at the Unitarian Universalist Church on May 30.

The concerts will consist of mostly faculty, but a few students are also involved. Nigorabonu Miliyeva, a junior cello performance major, is one of the students who was invited to play.

Although she is working on becoming a soloist, Miliyeva said she enjoys playing with other musicians for the festival.

“I enjoy playing with other people and it gives me a good experience,” Miliyeva said.

Miliyeva believes everyone can benefit from attending the concerts.

“I feel like music makes people better,” she said. “Mu-sic helps people forget about their problems and they leave with something warm in their hearts.”

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TONIGHT Join the Cornfed Derby Dames at their roller derby “Go Fast, Turn Left” against the Bonnie Booms from South Bend 7 p.m. at the Gibson Skating Arena.

Anyone visiting the Cup in the Vil-lage on Monday will get free live folk music along with their coffee.

To enjoy the Memorial Day holi-day, the coffee shop will host sever-al musicians, including Josh Biner, Bryce Ernest Taylor, John Allen and the band Steve Robert with the Jazzmanian Devils.

The event will start at noon.It’s not the first time some of the

musicians have been to the Cup. Martin George, owner of the Cup, said several of the musicians played at an event last year.

“They asked if they could do an-other one, and of course we will since it worked so well last year,” he said. “I’m excited for all of them to come back.”

He said last year’s event was on a day when they expected to have low crowds due to other events happening, but they were pleas-antly surprised.

“It brought in a lot people, it was a good event,” he said.

George said many people might have Memorial Day plans, but he still hopes for a surprise turnout.

– SAM HOYT

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If you’ve never seen “Arrested Development,” there are two issues with that.

One: You’ve not seen “Arrested Development.”Two: You’ve not seen “Arrested Development”!? You should address the issue right away. It’s

easy to access, with all three seasons on Netflix for your viewing pleasure. If you start now, you should be all caught up on the story in time for 13 brand new episodes dropping Sunday on Netflix. Seven years after the last episode aired, another season will be dropping.

The show is about a dysfunctional family and one son, the only sane member, trying to hold them together. The hilariousness comes from the sheer insanity of the members of this family and the people they keep around them. The humor can sometimes be a little subtle, which works when the characters take themselves way too seriously. If you had any other kind of humor, it would just come off as corny and not funny.

A classic example of this is the character Tobias Funke. He is the husband of one of the members of the main family and is, well, an idiot. What’s better is that he is totally unaware that he is an idiot. Most of the time he is oblivious to how weird some of the stuff he says is. You can’t watch an episode without him saying something that is poorly worded and comes out awkward for everyone — except Tobias, he sees nothing wrong with how he is.

I’m only using Tobias as an example. Every person in the show has a character profile that is not only humorous, but relatable and eccentric.

I think that is part of the draw of the show, the fact that there is something for everyone. The subtle humor and eccentric characters allow two people to watch the show and each pull something totally different from it.

It is for all these reason that I will be gladly attending the party on Sunday. Not only is it a great time with friends, all of whom will be in blue jean cutoffs, but it is a chance for us all enjoy something that we love. We may not laugh all at the same time, but we will still enjoy a classic show and eat frozen bananas and blueberry pie.

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THE DERBY DAMESWHAT“Go Fast and Turn Left”WHEREMuncie’s Gibson Skating ArenaWHEN7 p.m. Saturday, doors open at 6 p.mCOSTTickets are $10 at the door, free for children 10 and under with an adult

Derby Dames to host first Saturday night match upRevenue from first bout to help fund local animal rescue

HOME AWAY FROM HOME In an effort to encourage inter-

national students to branch out and acclimate, International Con-versation Hour has extended to the summer months.

The program is designed for in-ternational students at Ball State to practice their English, learn about American culture, inter-act with domestic students and make friends.

The group meets Tuesdays from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursdays from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in L.A. Pit-tenger Student Center room 306.

Pei-Yi Lin, a doctoral student and founder of the ICH, started the program back in 2008 when she was an intern at the Counsel-ing Center.

“At the beginning I tried a dif-ferent format to see what works best both for international and domestic students,” Lin said. “The purpose of this program is to help

new international students to feel more comfortable in a new place.”

Hadi Alyami, a graduate student from Saudi Arabia, said the only reason he came to the United States in the first place was be-cause of the education and oppor-tunities he could receive.

“In [ICH] I made a lot of friends and shared many interesting things with them and also prac-ticed my English. That is how I learned my English, matter of fact,” Alyami said.

Abbas Jammali, a graduate stu-dent in physics from Iraq, said although he misses his family, attending the ICH helps him feel he has found his family away from home.

“I encourage all students to take advantage of this program,” Jam-mali said.

Luke Bonvillian, an interna-tional business major, attends

the ICH on a regular basis.“We always see international

students immersing themselves into our culture, but I was always curious what it feels like to be somewhere where everything is just new to you,” Bonvillian said.

Participants share stories about their culture, country and why they came to Ball State.

The program is a way American students can learn a lot about oth-er countries and cultures, Lin said.

“International students have a lot to offer to Ball State,” she said.

Lin said she faced a lot of chal-lenges by coming to study in the U.S. from Taiwan.

“I know how difficult it can be. Language, friendship, cul-ture, food — that is why I cre-ated [ICH] and we work to help international students to belong to our campus and count their voice,” Lin said.

SAFARALI SAYDSHOEV STAFF REPORTER | sisaydshoev@bsu.edu

International students continue conversation hour during summer

Festivals to celebrate MaySchool of Musicto play 4 free classical concerts

DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKMembers of The Derby Dames, “Philly Cheezeskate” and “Bonan Contention,” skate during a jam in September. The Dames will be skating again Saturday night at Gibson’s Skating Rink at 7:30 p.m.

BALL STATE’S TOP 10 COUNTRIES

1. China - 3032. Saudi Arabia - 1403. South Korea - 414. India - 205. Afghanistan - 136. Canada - 137. Japan -138. United Kingdom - 119. Germany - 810. Tajikistan - 8

Number of students from each country. Numbers are based on survey from 2012.

CLASSIC LINE-UPWHO:Ball State School of Music professors and select students

WHAT:The 67th annual Chamber Music Festival

WHERE AND WHEN:• Tonight, Sursa Hall 7:30 p.m.• May 30, Unitarian Universalist

Church of Muncie 7:30 p.m. • June 2, Sursa Hall 3 p.m.• June 6, Sursa Hall 7:30 p.m.COST:Free

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DN FILE PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERSophomore Scott Baker pitches against Central Michigan on April 13. The Cardinals won their first game of the MAC tournament against No. 5 Miami.

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MIAMI — LeBron James caught the inbounds pass, changed direction and imme-diately attacked the rim.

There was no one in his way.There was no stopping him,

either.James made a layup as time

expired in overtime, cap-ping a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist effort as the Miami Heat found a way to outlast the Indiana Pacers 103-102 in a wildly back-and-forth Game 1 of the Eastern Con-ference finals Wednesday night. There were 18 ties and 17 lead changes, the last two of those coming in the final 2.2 seconds.

“Two teams fought hard,” James said. “We were able to make one more play.”

If this is how this series is going to go, then get ready for a classic between teams that absolutely wanted to face the other with a trip to the NBA Finals on the line.

Paul George saved the Pac-ers at the end of regulation with a 32-footer with 0.7 seconds left, and then made three free throws with 2.2 ticks left in overtime to give Indiana a one-point lead. George pumped his fist gen-tly after the third free throw, then extended his index fin-ger skyward as the teams retreated to their benches to get ready for the final play.

He just left James too much time, and the Pacers left their best shot-blocking option on the bench. Roy Hibbert wasn’t on the floor for the final play, and without a 7-foot-2 barri-er to contest him, James made the winner look easy.

“Two great teams just

throwing punch for punch,” In-diana coach Frank Vogel said. “Our spirit is very high, very confident. We know we can play with this basketball team.”

Vogel said he left Hibbert off the floor for the final play out of concern of what defending champion Miami would do with Chris Bosh in that scenario. Afterward, he acknowledged he might have different thinking next time.

“I would say we would prob-ably have him in next time,” Vogel said.

Game 2 is Friday night in Miami.

Officials reviewed James’ play at the end, though it was clear he beat the clock, and the Pacers walked slowly to-ward their locker room, la-menting one that got away — by no fault of George’s.

George was fouled by Dwy-ane Wade on the play where the Pacers had to think they had stolen the series opener. Referee Jason Phillips said Wade hit George, and the Pacers’ star made all three free throws for the 16th lead change of the night.

The final lead change came moments later.

“Welcome to the Eastern Conference finals,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Back and forth the whole way.”

Wade scored 19 points, Bosh had 17 and Chris An-dersen had 16 on 7-for-7 shooting for Miami.

George scored 27 for the Pacers, who got 26 from Da-vid West and 19 from Hib-bert. The Pacers have won only two series in NBA fran-chise history after dropping a Game 1.

“It just felt like everything was in our favor,” George said.

The final few seconds of regulation were stunning, with Ray Allen — the sixth-best free-throw shooter in NBA history — missing one that proved big, and George

making a miracle happen.So George simply made

something happen.“It took an overtime to get

it done,” Spoelstra said. “Glad to get that one.”

The Pacers kept landing the first punches in the extra session. George made a pair of free throws to open the OT, and Andersen tied it with a pair of his own. Hibbert scored from close range, and Wade answered with an easy one after a runout for the 16th tie of the night.

George was far from done. He went past James, got into the lane, tossed up a shot after contact and started

what became a three-point play that put the Pacers up 99-96. Miami had three chances at the tie — a des-peration 3-pointer by Shane Battier as the shot clock was expiring, then a 3-point try by Battier and another 3 at-tempt by Battier.

All missed.“We wanted LeBron to

shoot a jumper right there,” George said.

He was just better.And after 3 hours, 18 min-

utes, it was over.“We’re excited about the

win,” James said. “But we have to get better going into Game 2.”

Heat capitalize on empty lane, Lebron hits game-winner

The Ball State baseball team had two players named to the 2013 All-Mid-American Conference First Team. Scott Baker and Billy Wellman both earned a spot on the 15-name list.

Baker, a sophomore right-hander, was named the Mid-American Confer-ence Pitcher of the Year in addition to his First Team honors, as he accrued an 11-1 record in the regular season.

Coach Rich Maloney called the award “a huge accomplishment, for both Scotty and the program as a whole.”

Baker is just the third pitcher in school history to receive the Pitcher of the Year award. In Wednesday’s MAC Championship game, he pitched eight innings and claimed a 12th win, breaking the Ball State program record for most wins in a single season.

Baker owns a 1.63 ERA on the season.Wellman, a junior third baseman, is second on the Ball State roster with

35 RBIs this season. Sean Godfrey was named to the All-MAC Second Team as he hit five

home runs on the season, and he led the team with a .325 batting aver-age and a .485 slugging percentage. His batting average has been slightly higher in MAC play, as he has registered a .345 against league competition.

– DAKOTA CRAWFORD

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Miami takes 1-0 lead in OT thriller

AWARDS AND STATISTICS

SCOTT BAKER | MAC Pitcher of the Year• 1.63 ERA on the season• Struck out 80 batters in 99.1 innings• Opponents’ batting average .218• 12-1, owns the program record for

wins in a single season

| DAKOTA CRAWFORD SPORTS EDITOR @dn_sports

A win over the No. 5 Miami RedHawks did more than just keep Ball State in the Mid-Amer-ican Conference Championship winner’s bracket. It allowed them to move past a demoraliz-ing loss suffered to the Northern Illinois Huskies last Saturday.

And it allowed the Cardinals to build confidence in the fact that a regular season series de-feat does not necessarily corre-late to the postseason.

“In that bracket that we’re situated in, every [opposing] team won the series this year,” coach Rich Maloney said.

The other teams in the brack-et are No. 1 Kent State and No. 8 Central Michigan. Kent State was able to score 20 runs over the span of a three-game series against Ball State. The Golden Flashes won the series 2-1.

Central Michigan routed the Cardinals in the first game of its series, before going on to win two-of-three, despite playing at the Ball State Baseball Complex.

Miami won the regular sea-son series against Ball State 2-1 as well. In a matchup between the team’s premier pitchers – Brooks Fiala for Miami and Scott Baker for Ball State – the RedHawks de-feated the Cardinals 1-0.

After three innings against the Miami RedHawks on Wednesday, it looked as though Ball State might fall back into its regular season habits.

And postseason habits too, for that matter. The Ball State baseball program had not won its opening game in the MAC Tournament since 2006.

Maloney said he expected stiff competition from Miami, and he certainly got it, as Miami had a 4-3 lead after three innings.

“We knew this had potential to

be a really tough game,” he said. The offense was shaky early,

but not dead. More pressing were Baker’s struggles.

Baker, named MAC Pitcher of the Year on Tuesday, had al-lowed an ERA of just 1.63 dur-ing the regular season. The RedHawks’ first four runs of the game were all earned.

It was the Cardinals’ offense that would eventually allow Baker to get his pitching under control. In the fourth inning, T.J. Weir, Ryan Spaulding and Cody Campbell all singled. Sam Tida-back tripled, and finally, Wes Winkle doubled.

“To our guys’ credit, the bats came alive and we put on a pretty impressive display of hitting against what I consider to be one of the best pitchers in the league,” Maloney said.

The rally gave Ball State a 7-4 advantage heading into the fifth inning, one that would remain in the Cardinals’ favor through the end of the game.

Ball State went on to win 13-7 in a game that was not competitive after the fourth inning. Baker would not allow any runs for the remainder of his time on the mound.

“Once we got Scotty some runs, he started to settle down and pitched like he has all year,” Maloney said.

He was relieved after pitching eight full innings, in which he gave up nine hits and four runs.

The victory moved Baker to 12 wins on the season, set-ting a program record for most wins in a single-season.

Ball State played in the tour-nament’s first game, which started at 9 a.m. on Wednes-day. Next, Ball State will take on the No. 1 Kent State Golden Flashes in a Thursday game set to begin at 4 p.m.

“We’re in a good spot now, we get to sit back and watch baseball,” Maloney said after beating Miami. “Tomorrow will be a new day, and it will be a tough challenge regard-less of whether it’s Central [Michigan] or Kent [State].”

Ball State sails in opener, will take on No. 1 Kent State

SEAN GODFREY | All-MAC Second Team• Two triples• Five home runs • 14 doubles•Leads team with .325 batting average and a .485 slugging percentage

BILLY WELLMAN |All-MAC First Team• Batting .315 through 51 games• 35 runs-batted-in• Nine multi-RBI games• Seven multi-hit games• 12 doubles

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San Francisco 49ers leading wide receiver Michael Crabtree has had surgery to repair a torn right Achilles tendon.

Crabtree was operated on Wednesday, one day after suffering the injury during an organized team activity.

“Michael Crabtree underwent surgery to repair his Achil-les tendon that he tore yesterday,” coach Jim Harbaugh said. “Surgery was successful, and we do not anticipate it will be season-ending for Michael.”

Kaepernick and Crabtree were eager to get back on the field to-gether after falling just short in New Orleans back in February.

Crabtree also had five TDs and 30 catches on third-down plays last season — both stats among the top five in the NFL.

In 2011, Crabtree led the team in catches (72) and yards receiv-ing (874), but San Francisco came up short of a Super Bowl.

While he had four catches for 25 yards and a 4-yard touchdown reception in a 36-32 victory against Drew Brees and the favored Saints in the NFC divisional playoffs, it was the NFC championship game Crabtree remembers as a most disappointing day.

San Francisco’s receivers had just one catch for 3 yards — yes, it was by him — and Crabtree was targeted four times in a 20-17 overtime loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants.

Crabtree said that performance helped fuel him last year.

AP|BRIEF

CRABTREE SUFFERS TORN ACHILLES