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Ever since women’s volleyball coach Steve Shondell’s extension talks began, it was never a question of where he wanted to be.

“I told [athletic director] Bill [Scholl] from the beginning that the only place I’m ever going to be is at Ball State,” Shondell said. “When my tenure is finished at Ball State I won’t be coaching college or high school anymore.”

Shondell confirmed via text message to the Daily News he signed an extension early Tues-day before Ball State announced the three-year extension in a news release.

Shondell’s new contract will continue through Jan. 31, 2016, with a first-year salary of $89,000, including performance incentives, Scholl said.

Scholl said the agreement was “a bit anti-climatic” because a verbal agreement was reached in the mid-dle of Ball State’s fall season.

Shondell has led Ball State to a 63-30 record in his first three years as coach including a NCAA Tourna-ment bid in the 2011 season.

The AVCA Hall of Fame coach made it clear he’s willing to coach as long as the program is still successful.

“When it gets to the point where I feel like we’re not pro-ducing like we need to, then it will be time for someone else to take over,” Shondell said. “But hopefully that won’t be for at least a while. I just want what’s best for the university.”

Scholl said the Muncie com-munity and Ball State tradition means high expectations for Shondell and the women’s vol-leyball program.

“When you are looking for pro-grams to kind of serve as your signature programs, I think you would be silly to not think about volleyball potentially as one of those programs,” he said.

Shondell said his first goal going into a new contract is to improve the team’s health after issues in 2012.

Ball State is coming off a 14-17 season in which it was knocked out

in the first round of the Mid-Amer-ican Conference tournament, but it dealt with multiple injuries to key players throughout the season.

| SAM HOYT STAFF REPORTER sthoyt@bsu.edu

A recent Ball State study found that one in five Hoosiers ages 18 to 21 binge drink, compared to 38 percent of those between the ages of 22 to 25.

People with higher incomes, those between the ages of 22

and 25 and men are more like-ly to binge drink, according to “The Burden of Alcohol Use in Indiana” study, which was con-ducted by Ball State’s Global Health Institute, or GHI. The re-port analyzed how drinking dif-fers between gender, ethnicity, income, age and education.

The report was released in De-cember 2012 and was written by statistics graduate student Ian Reid and actuarial science graduate stu-dent Senzeni Mhlanga-Fichani.

The two worked with health

economics profes-sor and director of GHI Kerry Anne McGeary.

“Part of the rea-son why I looked at this study is because we had some funding from the National Institute of Health to look at alcohol taxa-tion and alcohol use overall,” McGeary said.

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HOUSTON — A fight between two people led to a shooting at a Texas community college, where a maintenance man was caught in the crossfire and wounded, officials said.

One of the people involved in the fight had a student ID, and both people were wounded and hospitalized, Harris County Sheriff ’s Maj. Armando Tello said. A fourth person also was taken to a hospital for a medical condition.

The two people involved in the fight are considered people of interest, Tello said. Authorities said they weren’t looking for any other suspects, and they recovered one handgun.

The shooting that hap-pened before 1 p.m. sent students scurrying for safety on the Lone Star Col-lege System campus about 20 miles north of down-town Houston.

Mark Zaragosa said he had just come out of an EMT class when he saw two people who were injured and stopped to help them.

“The two people that I took care of had just minor injuries,” Zaragosa told KHOU. “One gen-tleman had a gunshot to the knee and the [oth-er] actually had an entry wound to the lower buttocks area.”

Richard Carpenter, chancellor of the Lone Star College System, said the shooting hap-pened outside between an academic building and the library.

The man, said to be in his mid-50s, was listed in stable condition.

The shooting came one month after a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children and heightening secu-rity concerns at campuses across the country.

Guns are not allowed on college campuses, but the Texas Legislature this year may debate a bill that would allow them.

The Lone Star Campus System is a gun-free zone, Carpenter said. State officials said the school had a plan to handle a shooting or other emergency situation.

“It has been safe for 40 years,” Carpenter said. “We think it’s still safe.”

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LoopsUPPER ZONE • Closed “L” loops imply that you are restricting yourself in some way.• Open “L” loops show that you are spontaneous and relaxed. You typically find it easy to express yourself.

• Closed “e” loops show that you tend to be skeptical and have fixed, limited self viewpoints. You are often unswayed by arguments.

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Handwriting allows us to be artists and individuals in a world of fonts and typefaces. National Handwriting Day was started by The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) to promote the use of a pen or pen-cil to rekindle that creative feeling through handwritten word. WIMA sponsors National Handwriting Day every

Jan. 23 in conjunction with John Hancock’s birthday.

Use the space provided to write a note, poem, letter or journal entry. Write in cursive to make the most ac-curate analysis. Try incorporating as many letters as you can.

Example:

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WHAT DOES YOUR HANDWRITING SAY ABOUT YOU? 5 HELPFUL TIPS TO IMPROVING YOUR HANDWRITING

Line QualityWhen writing, you want your

lines to be sturdy and solid in or-der to make sure they are legible. If your handwriting is too light, that could make it hard to read what you write, and if your lines are too bold and solid you could sacrifice quality as well as risk hurting your hand from gripping your pencil so hard.

AlignmentWhen writing on a blank

sheet of paper, you are more likely to write at an odd angle than on lined paper. This makes what you write look sloppy and unprofessional. In order to ensure straight script you could place a sheet of lined paper underneath your blank sheet of paper before you write.

SlantIf you are unhappy with

that italicized look to your writing, you may try angling the paper you are writing on the compensate for the angle at which you are holding your pencil. You want your hand to be at the same angle as the paper.

SpacingWhen writing, you

should make sure that your letters are evenly spaced. If too close, your words tend to blend together and become illegible. If too spread out, your word loses its cohesiveness.

Letter FormationWhile writing, there are

some letters that manage to get mangled. This is most common when writing vowels. What you can do to improve this is look back at what you wrote throughout the span of a day. Make note of the instances where your letters weren’t complete or legible and remember them for the future.

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A You are self-reliant and independent. You are logical as well as practical. You are guarded with your

emotions.

B You are open to the world around you and like to socialize with other people. You show a

willingness to comply with rules and an ability to get along with your peers.

CYou generally like to work alone or behind the scenes. If you are right-handed and your handwriting slants

to the left, you may be expressing rebellion.

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BC

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• Open “e” loops may show that you have an open mind and enjoy trying new things.

LOWER ZONE• Narrow lower loops show that you have high standards when choosing possessions. You tend to have a fine line between friends and acquaintances

• Small dangling lower loop show that you separate friends from close companions. Small loops suggest a tendency to attach yourself to an object.

• No lower loops (lower-zone extensions resembling sticks) show that you have simple tastes and can get the job done. You also show signs of stoicism

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« It has been safe for 40 years. We think it’s still safe. »RICHARD CARPENTER, chancellor of the Lone Star College System

DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKHead coach Steve Shondell watches his team play during the match against Toledo in Worthen Arena. Shondell’s contract was renewed for another three years, now extending through Jan. 2016.

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Team has 63-30 record in Shondell’s tenure at Ball State

Shondell gets 3-year contract extension

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Shooting injures 4 at Texas collegeCounty police said two supsects considered “people of interest”

Researchers said age, income, race factors in consumption habits

STUDY ANALYZES BINGE DRINKING

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Tickets for indie pop band Fun.’s concert at Ball State are now avail-able to non-students.

Tickets were originally available for only Ball State students, but the John R. Emen’s Box Office announced in an email on Monday that tickets will go on sale today for students and one non-affiliated guest, as well as for faculty and staff members. The general public will be able to purchase tickets Thursday.

Tickets are still limited to two per person, and are $5 for students and $10-$15 for all other tickets at the box office.

Bob Myers, director of Emens Auditorium, said approximately 50 tickets were sold Tuesday.

The highly anticipated show will take place Friday at 8 p.m. Open-ing for the band is Andrew McMahon of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Mike Pence used his first State of the State address Tuesday night to lobby for a personal income tax cut, an expansion of Indiana’s school voucher system and im-proved vocational training.

The new Republican gover-nor highlighted the stories of three families he said showed the need to expand Indiana’s 2011 schools overhaul, im-prove veterans services and refocus the state’s education and business communities on the vocational training.

“We can put Hoosiers back to work and make Indiana first — first in job creation, first in education and first in quality of life,” he said.

Pence, who took office last

week, offered little new in terms of what he will seek in his first year in office, in-stead using his speech before a joint session of the Indiana House and Senate to lobby for an austere state budget built around a 10 percent cut in the state’s personal income tax. That would reduce the income tax rate from 3.4 per-cent to 3.06 percent.

Pence was firm about the po-tential loss of $500 million a year in tax revenue. “Let’s be honest with our fellow Hoo-siers: We can afford to do this,” he said.

The GOP holds overwhelming majorities in both the House and Senate. Republican lead-ers, however, have expressed skepticism at the idea of put-ting a tax cut ahead of school spending following years of education cuts.

Democratic leaders praised Pence for his speech and thanked him for including some of their priorities in his

first-year agenda, including a promise to send more state contracts to veteran-owned businesses. But they said they expected more from him, spe-cifically on how he would cre-ate jobs.

“I think I was hoping for a bit more of a bolder approach in terms of ideas and resources to really empower workers to bridge that skills gap,” said Senate Minority Leader Tim Lanane, D-Anderson.

The audience of lawmakers, state officials, lobbyists and Pence’s family applauded the governor more than 25 times, standing five times as they saved some of their heartiest plaudits for the three Hoosier families Pence picked to high-light his priorities.

Pence highlighted the story of the Rodney and Melita Da-vis family of Indianapolis, whose daughter attends the Trader’s Point Christian Acad-emy, in backing a continuation of what is already the coun-

try’s largest private school voucher program.

“I have long believed that parents should be able to choose where their children go to school, regardless of their income.” Pence said. “We must continue to expand educational opportunities, especially for those with the fewest resources.”

Pence pointed to Bill Beach, owner of New Albany-based Beach Mold and Tool, as one reason to reinvest in vocational training for high school students.

Pence said Beach’s father told him as a teenager that his brother would go to college while he would go to a voca-tional school since he was good working with his hands. Beach started his company is 1972.

The governor called for cre-ating regional councils that would work with businesses and educators to tailor high school vocational programs to available jobs.

Pence plans to push vocational training, tax cuts in address

Ball State announces 7 charters will not be renewed after June 2013

| CHRIS STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER castephens@bsu.edu

Amid criticism of Ball State’s evaluation program as a char-ter school authorizer, the uni-versity announced that sev-eral schools will not have their charters renewed.

Ball State has chosen not to renew seven of its 20 reviewed charter schools based on their failure in three key criterion: academic performance, finan-cial well-being and organiza-tions compliance, said Robert Marra, executive director of the Office of Charter Schools.

“The decision process was based on a cap review of each criterion,” Marra said. “We pro-vided them [with] a meaning-ful opportunity to fix that [and]

from there we made our deci-sion not to renew them.”

As well as choosing not to renew seven schools, the Of-fice of Charter Schools also resigned seven schools for a three-year period with perfor-mance conditions, a sign that these schools were on the edge of failing the renewal process.

These conditions will be closely tied to academic per-formance and governance, Marra said, which allows Ball State to make a meaningful evaluation of scholastic prog-ress at a more direct level.

Two of the charter schools, Hoosier Academy in Muncie and West Gary Lighthouse Charter School in Gary, Ind., withdrew their application, for renewal. The schools could not be reached for comment at time of publication.

Marra said his office had been working with the re-viewed schools for the last two years on a framework to drive

strong school performance. A major part of that was a stron-ger review process that was changed from every five years to annually.

The schools that failed to reauthorize will lose their Ball State charter on June 30, which means students will not have to leave their school mid-semester.

“There will be a school fair to give parents information, Ball State will oversee that,” Marra said. “We will make sure the parents and the students have adequate time to look at the

information and find a new school before the beginning of the next semester in August.”

State law permits a child that has been removed from a char-ter school based on the school closing to bring their state funding with them to another institution. Students would still have to apply for accep-tance to the new school.

Moving forward, the Office of Charter Schools hopes this will make the Ball State char-ter school program more suc-cessful, Marra said, empha-sizing the new standards in place to enhance student and school performance.

“It is my hope for our frame-work to be the usable example for rigorous standards and accountability for other au-thorizers,” Marra said. “So we are not necessarily looking for five more schools to take these places, our whole priority is quality, so we will only looking for quality charter schools.”

University sponsored schools didn’t meet 3 key standards

Pulitzer prize-winning author speaks

| EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER emfittes@bsu.edu

Pruis Hall filled nearly to ca-pacity with students, faculty and community members who came to hear a 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner as part of this year’s Ball State Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration.

The Washington Post and MS-NBC contributor Eugene Robin-son, focused his speech around the question, “Is America Living the Dream?”

He gave his answer by high-lighting a few events in his life from when he was born in segregated Orangeburg, S.C. in 1954 to experiencing President Barack Obama’s re-election with his “intense and dysfunc-

tional MSNBC family.”“Whoever says this coun-

try hasn’t changed in the time they’ve been alive, I’m here to tell you that it has,” Robinson said.

Robinson said the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968, in which three young men were killed by state patrol officers’ fire during a nonviolent protest, happened maybe 400 yards outside of his childhood home.

He credits that event with be-ing “a lot of the reason” why he became a journalist, when two years later he wrote an award-winning essay for his freshman English class at the University of Michigan.

Robinson then fast-forwarded to the 2008 general election night with his MSNBC crew at the Rockefellar Center.

“Something in the back of my mind is saying, ‘No this isn’t hap-pening’… and at 10:45 p.m. we hear through our earpieces that the network is going to call the

election for Obama at 11.” Robin-son said. “I thought, ‘When they call the election for Obama, they are going to turn to the black guy, so I have to figure out some-thing to say.’”

Robinson said he got to call his 92-year-old father during a short break to tell him that he had lived long enough to see the election of the first African-American president of the Unit-ed States, just a few months be-fore he died.

Robinson jumped once again to election night 2012, back again with his MSNBC family, this time without that voice of doubt in the back of his mind.

“In our 400-year conflict with race that started in 1619, when the first slave came to James-town ... 400 years we’ve been at this,” Robinson said. “And it struck me that it might be even more significant that a black president could be re-elected.”

Community member and Ball

State alumna Clarise Mason said the event was a great opportu-nity for students and community members to hear from someone who lived through history.

“I think it is always great to hear a personal story, and he was born in 1954, right in the middle of all of this.” Mason said.

Jaxx Simmons, a freshman physical therapy major, en-joyed the speech but thought some of the audience’s ques-tions were offensive.

“I just think that some people should stop referring to others as minorities,” Simmons said. “Certain people who are unintel-ligent about something should not refer to others as minori-ties. It is very disrespectful, it is very rude and it is actually a racial term. She’s lucky she left. I wasn’t going to fight her, I was just going to tell her.”

Robinson’s message was clear — America continues to prog-ress toward equality.

Washington Post, MSNBC contributor discusses race, past

DN PHOTO BOBBY ELLISThe Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Eugene Robinson speaks about the current state of racial relations in America on Tuesday in Pruis Hall. The event, which was part of Unity Week, featured a question and answer portion, during which Robinson addressed how media affects politics.

At least 10 police cars clus-tered on the campus’ west side as emergency personnel tended to the wounded and loaded them on stretchers. Students led by officers ran from the buildings where they had been hiding as police evacu-ated the campus.

Keisha Cohn, 27, who also is studying to be a paramedic, said she was inside a building about 50 feet away from where the shots were fired. She heard “no less than five” shots and started running.

She fled to the campus learn-ing center, which houses com-puters and study areas. Even-tually, a deputy showed up and escorted people out, she said. Like many students, she ended up leaving her car on the cam-

pus, which reopened after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

Daniel Flores, 19, was in a second-floor tutoring lab with about 60 people when he heard a noise that sounded “like some-one was kicking a door.”

Once he and others realized the sound was gunfire, they fled to the nearby student services center, where authorities kept them for about 30 minutes be-fore letting them go.

Cody Harris, 20, said he was in a classroom with about six or seven other students wait-ing for a psychology class to start when he heard eight shots. He and other students looked at each other, said “I guess we should get out of here,” and fled.

“I was just worried about get-ting out,” Harris said. “I called my grandmother and asked her to pick me up.`”

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While the 18- to 21-year-old group is not limited to colleges, binge drinking has its place among university concerns.

“As academics, our true reason for being part of a community like this is that we have a strong affection for our students,” Mc-Geary said. “I definitely get very concerned about these types of behaviors, because we do see in campuses with more binge drinking higher rates of crimes, accidents, all sorts of things. Death, even, in some cases from alcohol poisoning.”

Some students said they think binge drinking has its perks.

“You’re more sociable, you meet a lot of new friends and you have a good time in gener-al,” Haley Hunter, a sophomore psychology major, said. “On the flip side, you can have a hang-over, you sometimes do stupid stuff, the list goes on.”

For others, it’s just another form of entertainment.

“I’d say I choose to binge drink on occasion for a lack of any-thing better to do,” sophomore telecommunications major Jack Smith said.

Another area the group exam-ined closely was income.

“Our hypothesis was that peo-ple with high income tend to drink moderately, but according to these results, we’re going to have to reject our [hypothesis],” Mhlanga-Fichani said.

About 17 percent of adults with annual household in-comes from $15,000 to $25,999 binge drink, as op-posed to 21 percent of adults making $50,000 to $74,999.

“We do find that people drink heavier and binge drink more when you get older and you have higher incomes because it is kind of expensive,” McGeary said. “We see drinking increas-ing with income.”

McGeary said she is also in-terested in how the economy and recession affect drinking in Indiana.

“Because the alcohol tax hasn’t changed very much and hasn’t been adjusted for inflation, al-cohol has gotten much more affordable, so the real price of alcohol has fallen tremendously in the last few decades,” she said. “Even though it’s become more affordable, it still costs money, when it’s between alco-hol and feeding your kids.”

Currently, alcohol in Indiana is taxed based on type. Beer is taxed at approximately 11 cents per gallon, liquor at $2.68 per gallon and wine at 47 cents per gallon.

Heavy drinking, two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women, was also an-alyzed, where men were much more prominent than women and Hispanics more prominent than other ethnicities.

Education seems to have little to no effect on binge drinking or heavy drinking.

McGeary said the report could be a wake-up call for people who drink regularly.

“Alcohol has not come under fire as much as, for instance, as smoking,” she said. “In general, I think it is one of the more dan-gerous behaviors that we have as a nation because of all of the problems that can happen. It’s something to be much more aware of than we are.”

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After four conference games, Buffalo is in a similar situation as Ball State. After a lackluster 2-11 non-conference stretch, the Bulls have turned it on throughout conference season, going 3-1 against Mid-American Conference opponents.

Ball State went 2-10 in non-conference games, and current-ly has a 3-1 conference record after a tough, 59-44 home win over Kent State on Saturday.

The Cardinals will have a chance to make it 4-1 on Wednesday when they travel to New York to take on the Bulls.

Rachael Gregory has set the pace this season for Buffalo. She has averaged 10.7 points per game, and has scored almost 30 more points than the next-high-

est player on the team.Gregory is more of a volume

shooter, though. She’s averaging just 34.3 percent from the field, but has taken 35 more shots than anybody else on the team. She’s also missed almost half of her 100 free throw attempts.

Sophomore Brittany Carter has upped her game during conference play, averaging 13.3 points per game during the MAC games. Carter has also averaged five 3-pointers per game in conference play. She set a season high in points in Ball State’s first conference game on Jan. 10.

Buffalo beat Ball State last sea-son in Worthern Arena, 61-37. It was Ball State’s lowest-scor-ing effort of the season. It shot just 20.4 percent throughout the game, the lowest it would shoot all season.

Shanee’ Jackson led Ball State

with nine points in the contest. She hit two 3-pointers in the loss.

Buffalo went on a three-game winning streak to start MAC play, winning contests against Northern Illinois, Ohio and Kent State. It’s most recent game was a loss at Toledo.

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Success often comes with ex-pectations, and it’s a combina-tion Ball State hasn’t proved it can handle throughout the past couple of seasons.

A 4-1 start to Mid-American Conference play in 2011-12 was quickly forgotten after the Cardinals lost their next nine league games and all but elimi-nated themselves from a chance to win the MAC Tournament.

Those struggles are looking all-too familiar this season, with Ball State in the midst of a three-game losing streak after surprising many with a conference-opening win at Eastern Michigan.

“You just have to help the young guys out because they haven’t been there before,” ju-nior forward Matt Kamieniecki said. “You’ve got to rely on the veterans to get through a three-game losing streak here. We just have to bounce back and play with a little more effort than we did on Saturday.”

Kamieniecki said Saturday’s loss at Central Michigan was demoralizing after playing so well in previous games against MAC East Division perennial powers Kent State and Akron.

One of the Cardinals’ biggest problems against the Chippe-was was defending ball screens, a system coach Billy Taylor said the team’s next opponent bases its entire offense around.

When Ball State (7-9, 1-3 MAC) plays Buffalo (6-12, 1-3 MAC) today, Taylor said his team will experience a steady diet of ball screen roll-and-replace action,

spearheaded by Buffalo junior forward Javon McCrea.

“What makes them so effective is all the pieces to the puzzle,” Taylor said. “McCrea is such a huge factor because he can roll to the basket and get post-up opportunities. He catches the ball in the high post and can drive against post defenders. He’s knocking down the mid-range shot this year, which is an improvement in his game.

“He’s a really tough matchup with the way they space the floor with shooters.”

The reigning MAC East Divi-sion Player of the Week, Mc-Crea leads his team in both scoring (17.1 ppg) and re-bounding (7.4 rpg).

While Central Michigan shred-ded Ball State on ball screens, they were of a different variety.

Most of the Chippewas’ big men picked-and-popped, as opposed to the Bulls’ McCrea and sophomore Will Regan, who Kamieniecki said rolled hard to the basket.

“With Central a lot of their posts played on the perimeter as shooters, where Buffalo’s posts tend to stay more inside,” Kamieniecki said. “That’s how it was with Akron and Kent State.

The other day [Saturday] there were just too many straight-line drives and they were getting into the paint too easily. We just have to do a better job commu-nicating and playing as a team on ball screens.”

For much of the season, Ball State has been solid against

ball screens. The Chippewas were able to force switches and get frontcourt players like Kamieniecki defending guards on the perimeter.

Taylor said despite these and other lingering problems like turnovers are minute cor-rections that prevented sev-

eral key wins over the past couple games.

“I thought we had some great opportunities to capitalize against some tough opponents, so we are disappointed to fin-ish this segment 1-3,” Taylor said. “But from what I’ve seen from our guys, they’ve shown

a lot of resiliency so far this year. I feel like they still really believe in themselves and what we’re doing.

“Hopefully now with a home game [today,] getting our feet back underneath us a little bit, we’ll be able to play some consistent basketball.”

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TODAY The Ball State men’s basketball team will play a conference game against Buffalo at home at 7 p.m.

Women’s basketball will travel to Buffalo to play against Bulls at 7 p.m. following Saturday’s tough win against Kent State.

FRIDAY An 0-2 men’s tennis team will try to secure a win in its first home match against Detroit Mercy at 6 p.m.EVENTS THIS WEEK

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Cardinals look to end MAC skid

DN FILE PHOTO BOBBY ELLISSophomore Matt Kamieniecki attempts a jump shot over a Butler player. Ball State will play Buffalo today in Worthen Arena.

Cardinals travel to Buffaloafter tough Kent State win

DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKSophomore guard Brittany Carter attempts to push past Miami for the shot attempt. Her performance has improved since the start of conference play.

Buffalo’s McCrea is reigning MAC East player of the week

TEAM COMPARISONBall State7-962.141.130.863.035.911.95.62.4

Team RecordPPGFG%3PTFT%RPGAPGSPGBPG

Buffalo6-1264.342.932.369.337.014.3

5.54.6

The Ball State gymnastics team is set to host its first-ever Valentine Princess Ball.

The event will take place Feb. 17, from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom.

Gymnastics head coach Nadalie Walsh that this type of fundraiser is new to the city of Muncie and will offer a new type of opportunity to local young girls, and even across the state. Girls from as far away as Indianapolis are expected to attend.

The event is open to girls from pre-school to seventh grade.The Student Center Ballroom will be transformed into a

royal court, complete with a castle. To set the scene, gym-nasts from Ball State’s team will act as Disney princesses.

Each girl, or princess for the night, will be accompanied by their own adult chaperone. Attendees will be eligible to partake in raffles and compete for the title of “Princess of the Ball.” The grand prize winner will receive a photograph with Ball State’s gymnastics team, a $50 gift card and other prizes.

The team has previously held gymnastics clinics for young girls but Walsh said they seemed more exclusive. The ball is a way to interact more with the community and will allow for all young girls, regardless of their background in gymnas-tics, to enjoy a care-free evening with the team.

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BALL STATE TO HOST VALENTINE BALL FOR YOUNG GIRLS AT STUDENT CENTER

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Payton’s season-long suspen-sion for his role in the Saints’ bounty program was lifted by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday, nearly two weeks earlier than expected.

The decision allows Payton to attend the Senior Bowl in Mo-bile, Ala., on Saturday, where some of the top college players available for the NFL draft will be competing.

Payton, along with assistant head coach Joe Vitt, general manager Mickey Loomis, and four players including Jona-

than Vilma, was suspended af-ter an investigation found the club had a performance pool offering cash rewards for key plays, including big hits. The player suspensions eventually were overturned.

“I clearly recognize that mis-takes were made, which led to league violations,” Payton said in a statement.

The suspension was sched-uled to end after the Super Bowl on Feb. 3, but was moved up after Payton and Goodell met on Monday.

“Coach Payton acknowledged in the meeting his respon-sibility for the actions of his coaching staff and players and pledged to uphold the highest standards of the NFL and en-sure that his staff and players do so as well,” Goodell said in a statement. “’Sean fully com-

plied with all the requirements imposed on him during his sus-pension.

“More important, it is clear that Sean understands and ac-cepts his responsibilities as a head coach and the vital role that coaches play in promoting player safety and setting an ex-ample for how the game should be played at all levels.”

Saints owner Tom Benson welcomed back his coach.

“We are all thankful that Sean Payton has been reinstated,” Benson said. “We have a lot of work to do and we are in the middle of it right now.”

Loomis and Vitt are in Mobile evaluating players. Loomis said he was caught off guard by the news of Payton’s return. But he said having Payton back soon-er than expected will help the Saints.

“Every day makes a differ-ence. We’ve certainly missed Sean in terms of the football team and all the things that go with our business and the game. But look, I miss his friendship. We all miss his friendship. We miss him as a person. I’m excited that he’s going to be back here and fired up that he’s back.”

What the Saints do know is that the 49-year-old Payton is set to return to New Orleans for the next five seasons. Earlier this month he signed a contract extension running through the 2017 season.

The coach is the last person punished in the bounty probe to return to work. Before Tues-day, Payton had not been at work since mid-April, when Goodell rejected the coach’s appeal of his suspension.

Coach’s suspension not supposed to end until early February

Sean Payton reinstated by Goodell

“I lost four key players for a good part of the year,” he said. “We never really kind of became the team we could have been had we had all of our players [healthy].”

The struggles didn’t af-fect the extension talks because Scholl said he understood the circum-stances.

“It was clearly a year with some very unusual circumstances involv-ing that team relative to the injury side of things,” Scholl said. “His record this year did not cause me hesitation.”

Thanks to a new deal, Ball State gets to keep the Shondell coaching legacy alive with someone who puts Ball State first.

“He loves Ball State,”

Scholl said. “There is no question how passionate he is about Ball State, about Ball State volleyball and about volleyball.”

SHONDELL: Scholl says there was agreementin middle of season| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

TEAM COMPARISONBuffalo5-123-159.118.727.8%39.1

Overall RecordConf. Record

PPGTurnovers PG

3PT%RPG

BSU6-11

3-157.717.6

29%32.8

Cardinals hit with big loss last year against the Bulls

SHONDELL’SACCOMPLISHMENTS• 2010 Mid-American Conference regular season champion

• 2010 MAC Coach of the Year

• 2011 NCAA tournament at-large bid

• 63-30 record in three years as head coach

• 33-15 MAC regular season record

•21 Indiana state championships as head coach of Burris Laboratory School in 34 seasons

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For a while I avoided going to see “Django Unchained.” Simply, I was worried about seeing director Quentin Tarantino’s take on the Civil War, fearing that his distinct style would overtake any sort of larger point the film was trying to make. After I saw “Django,” it took me a while to organize my thoughts about it. If nothing else, Tarantino has cre-ated a provocative dialogue, but I’m not sure if he’s going about it in the right way.

The film starts with two slavers lead-ing Django (Jamie Foxx) and other slaves through the woods. They run into a den-tist named Dr. King Schultz (Christopher Waltz) who frees Django after learning he has information on slavers that Schultz is hunting. Schultz is a bounty hunter, mas-querading as a dentist, who goes from town to town killing people for the U.S. government.

Following Django and Schultz making their rounds through different towns was eas-ily the most enjoyable part of the film. It’s a buddy film where race roles become re-versed as Django quickly evolves into what

Schultz dubs “the fastest gun in the South.” Typically the black sidekick will help the white main character toward his goal, but the narrative shifts from Django and Schultz trying to hunt bounties to them trying to free Django’s wife Broomhilda (Kerry Wash-ington) who is being held at Candieland, a plantation run by the nefarious Calvin Can-die (Leonardo Dicaprio).

Calvin himself is a monster who watches “Mandingo Fighting,” a gladiator–style sport where two slaves fight to the death. Joining Calvin is his house slave Stephen (Samuel L. Jackson) who is the Uncle Tom of the story. Stephen is a slave who is willing to betray his own race in order to gain favor.

Once we reach Candieland, all sense of pacing is lost. The film drags unbelievably, and it seems like we hit at least two or three climaxes during this section. This film lacks Tarantino’s ability to bend a narrative to his will and I think it may be his worst con-structed film.

The scenes with Stephen and Calvin feel like a wasted opportunity to explore an in-

teresting relationship. The fact that Stephen can somewhat exert influence over Calvin is interesting, as is the fact that Stephen essen-tially betrays his race in order to gain this power. The relationship between Stephen and Django is also interesting but too often Tarantino’s overbearing impulses inter-rupt these moments, like an ugly monster devouring everything significant the film might have to say.

This is never more apparent than the de-piction of Mandingo Fighting in the film, which never existed. Of the several articles I’ve read, it seems there is no record of these sorts of matches. The only real record of Mandingo Fighting is of it occurring in a few exploitation films of which Tarantino is so fond but few filmgoers are aware of.

So why include Mandingo Fighting in the film? The scene of the slaves fighting is in-credibly violent and hard to watch, enough that it eclipses any other violence in a Taran-tino film. What possible service could these scenes serve? It can’t be to make Candie any eviler; his nature as a slave owner makes

him plenty evil enough. The only reason I can think of is for Tarantino to give the audi-ence something else to jump at, something else to catch their eye.

Tarantino said he wanted to make this movie to “give black American males a Western hero,” which is a noble cause. But “Django Unchained” tries to have its cake and eat it too in terms of its own importance. It wants to create a dialogue on racism and slavery while at the same time being set in a fantasy world of cartoonish violence and al-tered history. If you really wanted to create a dialogue on slavery and racism, why make these choices?

Despite that, I think the film is wrong in how it delivers its message, at least it brings a dialogue of slavery to the table, and it should be commended for that. However, once we are at the table, I don’t think we get very far. The movie is intriguing and en-tertaining, at least for its first half. For that alone I can recommend going to see it; I just can’t predict what your reaction is quite go-ing to be.

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THE SCIENCE OF GETTING DRUNK THE SCIENCE OF SERIES

Blood alcohol concentration (BAC) measures grams of ethanol per 100 milliliters of blood in the body. It can depend on the amount of water in the body and rate of alcohol metabolization. Individuals with a BAC of .08 or higher are considered legally drunk in the state of Indiana. Here is a breakdown of impaired activities and changes in feelings and personality as BAC increases.

*Reaching a .08 BAC within a couple hours

CONSUMPTION AND ABSORPTION ALCOHOL AND THE BRAIN

EFFECTS ON THE BODY

BLOOD ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION THE “STANDARD” DRINK

MODERATE VS. BINGE DRINKING

Alcohol is diffused into the bloodstream and carried to the water-concentrated parts of the body, such as muscle tissue. Rates of absorption and elimination depend on the amount of food in the stomach, body type and gender. Here is a breakdown of how the body absorbs alcohol.

Intoxication affects different parts of the brain, resulting in impaired activity on both physical and psychological levels. Long-term exposure can lead to tolerance and dependence.

STOMACHAbout 20 percent of alcohol is absorbed through the stomach.

HEART

PANCREAS

ESOPHAGUS

SMALL INTESTINEAbout 80 percent of alcohol is absorbed through the upper portion of the small intestine.

LIVERThe primary breakdown of alcohol takes place in the liver. Less than 10 percent is not metabolized, but released through breath, sweat and urine.

LIVERAccumulation of the toxic byproducts from alcohol during metabolization can cause inflammation (alcoholic hepatitis) or liver scarring (fibrosis or cirrhosis), and potential liver failure.

PANCREASAlcohol causes production of toxic substances that can lead to pancreatitis, the dangerous inflammation of blood vessels that prevents proper digestion.

IMMUNE SYSTEMDrinking too much weakens the immune system. Consuming too much alcohol at once can hinder the body’s ability to protect itself against infection for up to 24 hours after intoxication.

CANCERDrinking too much increases the risk of cancer of the mouth, esophagus, throat, liver and breast.

HEARTAlcohol interferes with electrical currents controlling muscle contractions and cause an irregular heartbeat. Long-term drinking can lead to stretching and drooping of the heart muscle (cardiomyopathy), stroke and high blood pressure.

According to a study by Ball State’s Global Health Institute, one in five 18 to 21 year-olds binge drink. Here is a look at how alcohol moves through the body and affects physical and psychological functions.

SOURCE: nih.gov DN GRAPHIC STEPHANIE MEREDITH

judgment | coordination | reasoning, depth perception | body temperature regulation | bladder control | difficulty breathing

.01 - .05

IMPAIRED ACTIVITIES CONTINUUM

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MODERATE

MEN

WOMEN

BINGE*

Relaxation, sense of well being, loss of inhibition

Pleasure, numbness of feelings, nausea and sleepiness, emotional arousal

Mood swings, anger, sadness, mania

Aggression, reduced sensations, depression, stupor

Unconsciousness, coma, potential for death

Death

CEREBELLUMThis part of the brain controls movement. While intoxicated, people can experience a loss of coordination.

HIPPOCAMPUSThis section is responsible for storing new memories. When alcohol is present, people may experience memory lapses.

BRAIN STEMThis part of the brain controls breathing and blood circulation. Excessive drinking can suppress these functions and lead to death.

HYPOTHALAMUS When alcohol is introduced into this part of the brain, people may experience intense feelings of satisfaction. This is because the hypothalamus controls hunger, thirst and emotions.

In the United States, a single drink is defined as containing about 14 grams of pure alcohol. This amount is equal to:

four drinks a day, 14 drinks a week or less about five drinks

three drinks a day, seven drinks a week or less about four drinks

This is the first graphic in a series meant to explain how different stimuli common to college students affect the body. Other graphics you will see in the future include the science of falling in love, sleep deprivation, caffeine buzzes and marijuana use.

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12 ounces of regular beer (5% alcohol)

5 ounces of wine (12% alcohol)

1.5 ounces of distilled spirits (40% alcohol)