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| LINDSEY RILEY STAFF REPORTER [email protected]
Dominique Scott has always been a rocker at heart. His father was the lead guitarist in a band called Hollow Spirit, and he grew up listening to rock music. In college, Scott started his own rock band, Domin8trx, which successfully recorded and toured
their debut album “Carousel.”Tonight, Scott takes the John R. Emens Auditorium stage as
Drew in “Rock of Ages.” The musical takes place on Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip in the 1980s and tells the love story of a small town girl and a big city rocker.
“The musical is based off the song ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’ by Journey. It’s about a small town girl living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere,” Scott said. “It’s a story about these two young kids trying to make their way through life, find their dreams and figure out what they want.”
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Student response rates for course evaluations raised 21 percent after the university intro-duced incentives last semester.
Students who do not complete their course evaluations will have a hold put on their account and will not be able to view their offi-cial transcripts May 8, when they are released. The hold will last two or three days.
“[Course evaluations were] something that was seen as optional even though it is very useful for the university and in-structors,” said James Jones, the director of the office of research and academic effectiveness.
Only 49 percent of students filled out course evaluations for Spring Semester 2012.
Despite the increase in responses last semester, Jones said he has mixed feel-ings about providing incen-tives for students.
“Whenever you introduce any-thing that is an incentive, typical-ly you always worry are people just filling them out because of the grade hold and will that make the ratings any different,” Jones said. “So that’s always a concern. Ideally, everyone would just fill them out, but obviously that’s not going to happen.”
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BOSTON — A seriously wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with bombing the Boston Marathon in a plot with his older brother and could get the death penalty for the attack that killed three people.
Tsarnaev, 19, was charged by federal prosecu-tors with using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass de-struction — a bomb — to kill.
The criminal complaint con-taining the allegations shed no light on the motive. But it gave a detailed sequence of events and cited surveillance-camera images of Tsarnaev dropping off a knapsack with one of the bombs and using a cellphone, perhaps to coordinate or deto-nate the blasts.
The two pressure-cooker bombs sprayed shrapnel into
the crowd at the finish line last Monday. More than 200 people were wounded, and the dead included an 8-year-old boy.
The Massachusetts college student was list-ed in serious but stable condition at Beth Is-rael Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries. His brother, Tamerlan, 26, died last week in a fierce gunbattle with police.
“Although our investigation is ongoing, today’s charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country,” At-torney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
The charges carry the death penalty or a pris-on sentence of up to life.
See BOSTON, page 4
See ROCK, page 5
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WEST, Texas — When the first call came in, it was just a fire. Smoke was coming from West Fertilizer Co. and an alarm was sounding, so a woman at a park just across the railroad tracks called 911. She was calm and mat-ter of fact. The dispatcher responded in kind: “OK, I’m going to get them to put out the fire.”
It was 7:29 p.m. April 17, and the last routine moment in West, Texas, since.
Within 20 minutes, the park was strewn with two-foot chunks of concrete from the exploded fertilizer plant. The apartment complex be-hind it was ripped apart by the wave of energy that climbed the railroad bed and
slammed into the building, shredding its roof and blow-ing out windows.
Dispatchers were swamped with hysterical reports. Nearly all 50 calls that flood-ed in during the next 35 minutes came from within a mile of the plant. Some knew
what happened, others knew only that windows had sud-denly shattered on them and houses several blocks from the site were on fire.
Firefighters and EMTs would account for 10 of 14 people killed, and more than 200 peo-ple in the town of 2,800 would
be counted as injured.State and federal investiga-
tors continued combing the site Monday looking for the cause of the blast so powerful it registered as small earth-quake. They had found the center of the explosion a day earlier, but not the fire’s start-ing point.
Recordings show fears ran rampant among those who called 911 last Wednesday night.
One woman who glanced outside and saw the mush-room cloud that erupted from the blast could be heard shout-ing: “Get out of the house. Get out,” to those around her. “There’s a freaking cloud. Look at that!” An off-duty fire-fighter concerned about the air called a second time to say he was leaving with his fam-ily. A man wearing an ankle monitor told a dispatcher as he drove that he was fleeing the chemicals.
See TEXAS, page 4
MCT PHOTODepartment of Public Safety Sgt. Jason Reyes walks by an apartment complex on April 21, near the West Fertilizer plant that was destroyed in the explosion in West, Texas. The blast killed 14 people and injured about 200 more.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY KATE EGANThe cast of “Rock of Ages” strikes a pose during a performance. The show is built around the glam metal bands of the 1980s.
See EVALS, page 4
DZHOKHAR A. TSARNAEVSuspect No. 2 in the Boston bombings
ROCKIN’ OUTMEN’S TENNIS: BSU WINS REGULAR SEASON MAC TITLE PG. 3
Faculty, departments use student feedback for improvements
MORE PARTICIPATE IN COURSE EVALUATION
| EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]
POISON“Nothin’ but a Good Time”
“Every Rose Has Its Thorn”TWISTED SISTER
“We’re Not Gonna Take It”“I Wanna Rock”
FOREIGNER“Waiting for a Girl Like You”
“I Want to Know What Love Is”DAVID LEE ROTH
“Just Like Paradise”NIGHT RANGER
“Sister Christian”STYX
“Too Much Time on My Hands”“Renegade”
JOURNEY“Don’t Stop Believin’”
“Any Way You Want It” REO SPEEDWAGON
“Can’t Fight This Feeling”“Keep on Loving You”
“Rock of Ages” features several
classic rock songs. Here are a few and the original
bands that performed them:
49 percent
70 percent
BY THE NUMBERS
total participation Spring Semester 2012
total participation Fall Semester 2012
2-foot chunks of concrete scattered across local park
911 calls reveal terror of explosion
Bostonbombing suspect chargedMan accused of using, conspiring weapons of mass destruction use
Emens Auditorium presents a night of music from classic ‘80s glam bands in musical ‘Rock of Ages’
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ACROSS1 PINK DRINK, BRIEFLY6 ARSON AFTERMATH9 HUTT CRIME LORD OF SCI-FI14 ACCORDING TO15 GRAZING AREA16 LIGHT PURPLE17 O’NEILL DRAMA SET IN
HARRY HOPE’S SALOON20 TAILOR’S TARGET21 MANY A BEETHOVEN SO-
NATA ENDER22 POPEYE’S __’ PEA23 JABBER ON AND ON24 __ IN NOVEMBER25 LIKABLE PREZ27 MORE THAN FEASTS (ON)28 WITH 30-ACROSS, DRAMA
BASED ON ‘70S PRESIDEN-TIAL INTERVIEWS
30 SEE 28-ACROSS32 ASPIRING DOC’S COURSE33 WALKED ALONGSIDE ONE’S
MASTER35 ON THE PACIFIC36 FERTILIZABLE CELLS38 “JUST __!”: “BE RIGHT
THERE!”40 DRAMA ABOUT HENRY II
AND ELEANOR OF AQUI-TAINE
45 “FRIENDLY SKIES” CO.46 GREATLY FEARED47 COMSTOCK LODE FIND48 FRED OF “MY COUSIN
VINNY”50 OOZED52 WITH 54-ACROSS, “VIVA
LA VIDA” ROCK GROUP, AND WHAT 17-, 28-/30- AND 40-ACROSS EACH IS?
54 SEE 52-ACROSS55 POTTERY “PET”58 SMOOTH TRANSITION60 PASTORAL POEM64 INVISIBLE VIBES65 MORE THAN MOST66 WINE TASTING CRITERION67 QUILTING PARTIES68 CORRIDA CHEER69 NEUTER, HORSEWISE
DOWN1 SLYLY SPITEFUL
2 IRISH ACTOR MILO3 SAY WHAT YOU WILL4 GOLDA OF ISRAEL5 “THE LORD OF THE RINGS”
BADDIE6 ANSWERING THE PENULTI-
MATE EXAM QUESTION, SAY7 ACTOR CONNERY8 HOW LOVERS WALK9 “JERSEY GIRL” ACTRESS,
TO FANS10 GOALS11 EMULATED MT. ST. HELENS?12 WITH __ BREATH: EXPEC-
TANTLY13 PAINS’ PARTNER18 ANSWERING MACHINE
BUTTON19 JOURNALIST ROBERTS24 NAME, IN NÎMES26 PROGRAM FILE SUFFIX29 NOT COUNTERFEIT31 “THE GOOD EARTH”
MOTHER32 “NONSENSE!”34 TRACTOR MANUFACTURER35 GIVE __: YANK
37 BY WAY OF39 BELIEVABILITY ON THE
STREET, SLANGILY41 DRIVER’S LICENSE FIG.42 THREAT WORDS43 ACTOR SNIPES44 THOUGHT49 “MARCH MADNESS” GAMES,
INFORMALLY51 SIZING UP53 “WHIP IT” BAND54 LIKE THE DRIVEN SNOW55 RED WINE CHOICE, FOR
SHORT56 TINT57 WRATH59 SALON GOOP61 MOMMY DEER62 INITIALS ON L’HOMME
FRAGRANCE63 TOOK THE REINS
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Last fall, when Ball State coach Rich Maloney had his first look at the team he’d be coaching this season, he was less than impressed.
He watched as the team worked out and performed at the practice facility, not happy with what he saw. Mostly, players lacked fun-damentals, errors were commonplace and patience at the plate was rare.
It was everything but the hallmarks of a Maloney-coached team.
“At our fall practice, we had a lot of work to do to be a competitive team, that was pretty clear,” Maloney said. “To our guy’s credit, they’ve gotten a lot better. They improved, that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
In 2011 and 2012, Ball State’s fielding percentage was at .950 and .955. This season it’s jumped up to .965.
Maloney has seen his team’s patience in the bat-ter’s box improve as well, taking 123 walks with 17 games left this season. Last year, the team had 127 after the entire season.
Ball State has had a sig-nificant number of one run games this season, two of them coming last Friday and Sunday, both losses. Malo-ney said all those games, regardless of the outcome, are a sign the team is mak-ing progress and is ready to take the next step forward.
Those close games have moments where the game can turn on one play, in-stances Maloney thinks may be the most important moments in baseball.
“I thought there would be moments, I just didn’t know how many,” Maloney said. “There have been a lot of moments, a lot of them we’ve done well and a lot of them we’ve done not so well. But we’ve been right there, which is encouraging.”
For seniors like Chris Ma-rangon, Wes Winkle and Blake Beemer, time is run-ning out, and those mo-ments will be harder to come by. Maloney said he’s been impressed with the time and effort they’ve put into the program and wants them to see success before they leave.
Seniors like Marangon have piled up stats during their Ball State careers, but don’t have postseason acco-lades to accompany them.
Maloney hopes that’ll change with the improve-ments this team has made since last fall.
“I really want success for these kids, they’ve worked so hard, especially the group of seniors,” Maloney said. “They’re right there
Coach wants BSU to see postseason for seniors on team
and inches away, I just hope that down the stretch here we can get over the hump so they can see the postseason.”
Sitting with a conference re-cord of 6-9 after dropping its series to Miami of Ohio 2-1, Ball State is currently on the outside looking in when it comes to the playoff picture.
Coming into the season, Maloney said he wasn’t sure what kind of team he’d have, if it would be competitive and make the postseason, or strug-gle to keep games close and end up being blown out.
After seeing the progress his baseball team has made so far, his view of the team is different than when the season began.
Seeing the team perform and spending time with them out-side Ball Diamond has changed his view from the first time he worked with them last fall.
“When you see yourself that close, the competitiveness in you, the fire that burns deep within yourself, and the drive, it raises the bar of your expec-tations,” Maloney said. “My expectations are definitely greater, and I really want it so bad for these kids right now.”
DN PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKSenior Blake Beemer slides into third against Northern Kentucky on April 3. The Cardinals suffered a 6-5 loss to Miami on Sunday.
Cardinals’ win at Buffalo clinches 21st MAC title
| BRIAN WEISS STAFF REPORTER @bweiss14
In 32 seasons of play in the Mid-American Conference prior to 2013, the Ball State men’s ten-nis team won 20 MAC titles. This season it added yet another title to its résumé.
The Ball State men’s tennis team captured their first Mid-American regular season title since 2006 on Saturday at Buffa-lo. Ball State finished the regular season a perfect 5-0 in the MAC and 16-7 overall.
“We’re awfully happy to have it. We were accustomed to win-ning pretty regularly there for a long time, it feels good to get a championship back,” coach Bill Richards said.
Before conference play, the Cardinals battled through a tough non-conference schedule where they lost all seven of their matches to nationally ranked opponents.
“We did have a tough non-conference and we were com-petitive with pretty much every team we played, so I think that gave us a little bit of confidence going in [to conference play] knowing we can play with most teams in the country,” senior Dalton Albertin said.
With injuries impacting the team throughout the early part of the season, Albertin played a key role in the team’s early suc-cess. He posted a 6-0 record at the No. 1 singles position.
“I’ve been fortunate, I’ve played pretty high in the line-up my sophomore year on, so I was pretty ready for that [play-ing at No.1],” Albertin said. “But it’s always good to see good competition.”
Even though the Cardinals were unable to defeat any ranked teams during the non-conference, Richards men-tioned how important it was
for them to play against quality competition.
“I think it definitely helped us. I think most coaches feel that to try and get better and improve you have to play very good com-petition, and we certainly feel that way,” Richards said.
The Cardinals used the tough non-conference schedule to prepare for a competitive MAC conference.
“As far as the conference, we knew going into it that there were going to be five teams, that in my opinion, were all ca-pable of winning the league,” Richards said. “We approached every match as if it was for a championship.”
The attitude of one game at a time was prevalent for the Car-dinals throughout the entire season. With big matches on the horizon, Richards kept the team’s focus on the next match, no matter the opponent.
In MAC play the Cardinals used a huge 7-0 victory against Northern Illinois, a team that defeated them 6-1 last season, to set up the match of the year against rival Western Michigan. In front of the largest crowd of the season, the Cardinals defeat-ed the Broncos 4-3 to keep their title chances alive.
The Cardinals won against Chicago State before traveling to Buffalo looking to secure the title. Even when the Cardinals were within one win of a regular season title, Richards treated it like any other match.
After a long and difficult sea-son, the players took pride in their accomplishment.
“It was really, really exciting to win one for the first time since 2006,” senior Cliff Morrison said. “It’s been a really tough and challenging year for a lot of guys, and it was good to finally come through and be rewarded for it.
Senior Albertin leads Ball State with 6-0 singles record in ‘13
DN PHOTO BOBBY ELLISSenior Dalton Albertin returns a volley during his singles match against Detroit Mercy on Jan. 25. The men’s tennis team is headed into the postseason ranked first in the MAC.Maloney sees
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The Ball State community will discuss updates on the historic democratic and free market re-forms taking place in Myanmar and how Ball State is involved.
The Center for International De-velopment presents its involve-ment with Myanmar at 3 p.m. on Tuesday in the L.A. Pittenger Stu-dent Center room 301.
Ken Holland, director of the Center for International Develop-ment, will discuss his experience in Myanmar. He has established initial context with the university that will potentially partner with Ball State.
“The university is exploring a po-tential partnership with universities in Myanmar, former Burma, and its result of an outreach by the United States Government,” Kenneth Hall, a history professor, said.
Ball State is one of 10 United States institutions of higher edu-cation to participate in a delega-tion visit. The delegation visit was organized by the Institute of Inter-national Education.
Myanmar has been under mili-tary rule since 1962. United States diplomatic relations were served in 1990. On Nov. 22, 2012, President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. was going to restore dip-lomatic ties.
“Essentially in the last two or three years the government has transitioned,” Hall said. “The mili-tary has sort of opened up a will-ingness then to allow the devel-opment of some democratic base that is here and opposed to being in isolation to the rest of the world.”
They are currently exploring what the university would offer. Hall said they mostly want redevelopment of their university.
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PROFESSORS TO SHOW RELATIONS OFBSU, MYANMAR
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The Downtown Farm Stand proved to be the “hub of lo-cal food” in Muncie when local farmers, authors and environ-mentalists gathered for an Earth Day celebration there.
Dave Ring, owner of the Down-town Farm Stand, said he want-ed to host an event for author Kelsey Timmerman’s new book release. Timmerman wrote the freshmen reader “Where am I Wearing?” and signed copies of his new book “Where am I Eat-ing?” at the event.
“I’d never really realized how
important the first Earth Day was to the American environ-mental movement,” Ring said. “I’d always kind of been one of those people who’d say, ‘Well, everyday should be Earth Day,’ but when I saw the documen-tary, it inspired me.”
Timmerman’s books are about his attempts to learn about the places and people that make our clothes and food and the importance of being a responsible consumer.
“So much of what I write about in ‘What am I Eating?’ is about how our choices in the grocery store affect other people on the planet,” Timmerman said.
The idea for the second book partially came when Timmer-man met many factory workers during his travels for “Where am I Wearing?” who had left farms.
Timmerman met Ring when
he started researching local food in Muncie for his book. Timmer-man mentions Ring and the Farm Stand in his new book.
“The Farm Stand is a really great place, and there aren’t a lot of places like this in our area,” Timmerman said. “Get educated about where your stuff comes from.”
Ring also invited local farm-ers and environmentalists to meet and talk to participants at the event.
Skip Robb of Gospel Trails Farm talked about the steps the farm has taken to produce healthier beef and lamb.
“We raise our animals in a way that’s restoring to the land and that fits in with the Earth Day mindset,” Robb said. “Our phi-losophy is that if we produce good soil, we’ll produce good plants, which will make healthy
animals, then healthy people.”Robb said responsible farming
can produce an extra inch of top-soil per year, which lessens the effects of flooding and droughts.
Barry Banks, founder of Red-tail Land Conservancy, also dis-cussed the importance of taking care of the Earth.
“We’ve already lost almost 90 percent of our natural area in this part of the state,” Banks said. “The natural areas that re-main are even more precious and it’s more important to pre-serve what once was here.”
Since being founded in 1999, Red-tail has worked out 18 con-servation agreements that pro-tect at least 1,939 acres.
“The major natural cleanser of the air is trees,” Banks said. “Restoring trees when we can and maintaining the tree cover that is already here is extreme-
ly important to maintain our quality of living.”
Timmerman signed freshman natural resources major Derek Tepe’s copy of “Where am I Eat-ing?” which Tepe has already be-gun reading.
“People nowadays have a sort of disconnect between the source of their food and their kitchen, and I think it’s impor-tant that people understand where their food is coming from,” Tepe said. “More often than not, we take it for granted what it takes to get the food from point A to point B. In plac-es like this where it’s locally grown, I think it gets people a little more attached to the food they’re eating.”
While buying local and organic food can be more expensive, Ring believes it is better for everyone from a long-term perspective.
“There are no tax subsidies for organic food, but you also don’t have the environmental clean-up costs or the health problems,” he said. “All that ties into making organic food look much more expensive than it appears at the cash register.”
While the spotlight of the event was on local food and land, Tepe agreed that the worldwide impact is not to be overlooked as well.
“It’s interesting because we’ve almost seen this movement of locally grown food as a grass-roots movement, but its conse-quences reverberate globally. If everyone did this, we’d cut back on greenhouse emissions, peo-ple would be healthier, there’d be less disease,” he said. “We’re looking at it at a small-scale level, but it has these big-scale implications.”
Environmentalists, farmers gather to talk sustainability
Author signs books on Earth Day
State aid to benefit failed charter debt
DN PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKStudents enjoy the warm weather outside the Arts and Journalism building. Despite this morning’s cool start, the high reached almost 70.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana lawmakers are considering forgiving $12 million in loans that “failing” charter schools ac-cepted from the state, as part of a broader package of state aid for charters.
The Indiana Department of Education loaned roughly $12.9 million to eight charter schools to help with startup costs, and they still owe $12 million to the state, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Seven whose charters were revoked by Ball State in January would be absolved of payments, along with another school which did not seek to re-new its charter.
“Why did they get their char-ter revoked?” asked Senate Ap-propriations Chairman Luke Kenley, R-Noblesville. “If they were [educating students] and it was a good faith effort and they were in good standing at that time, maybe it should be paid for them.”
The Senate has budgeted roughly $80 million to repay loans taken out by a range of charter schools, many of them performing well by state stan-dards. The goal of the loan program was to put charter schools on equal footing with public schools. Because charter schools operate on a calendar year — unlike the state budget — each one started out having to find six months’ worth of operational money, which the state answered with loans, Ken-ley said Monday.
“So what we’re doing is funding what we should have funded when we first started this exercise,” he said. But he added that fiscal analysts are working fast to determine if the revoked charters should share in that benefit.
Charter school supporters said the loan forgiveness is merely setting straight a bud-geting technicality, but public school advocates point out they still have to pay back loans from the same state fund that gives to charters.
Ball State revoked charters after determining the schools were not meeting performance standards. An eighth school which received aid from the
state’s Common School Fund withdrew its application for an extension from the univer-sity. The schools also scored “Fs” or “Ds” under the school grading system unveiled by former School Superintendent Tony Bennett.
Loan forgiveness could trans-late into a windfall for each re-voked school. A trio run by the national group Imagine Schools — two in Fort Wayne and one in Indianapolis — borrowed a little more than $6.3 million and still owes roughly $6.28 million. Imagine is appealing Ball State’s revocation of its charters.
Rachel Cirullo, regional di-rector for Imagine, said many of their students are either transient or come from low-in-come families, making it hard-er to improve performance. The students also frequently enter the charterschool a few levels below where they should be performing.
“A lot of times kids will come to us far behind where they should be according to those standardized tests,” she said. “So we’re still not bringing them up to the grade level in that time that we’re allowed, so that’s obviously a big chal-lenge for us.”
Indiana lawmakers talk forgiving $12M as part of package
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Investigators later assured residents the town’s air was not toxic.
Calls from those further away relate terror of the unknown. Dispatchers asked callers to take deep breaths and repeat the unintelligible.
“Something happened out here,” a crying 83-year-old woman tells the operator, her voice quavering. “Our house exploded or something. There was a big explosion and then our house is just destroyed.
“We’re all ok, but my God, what has happened?” she said. “I’m scared to death.”
Residents and dispatchers soon realized the enormity of the situation. One woman who called about a house burn-ing on her street was asked if she lived close to the fertilizer plant. But she said she was several blocks away.
Less than five minutes after the first explosion call, dis-patchers also knew West’s own emergency resources were severely hampered. “Lis-ten to me, my ambulance sta-tion just completely exploded,” a West EMS supervisor can be heard saying on one call. “I’ve got a nursing home and an ambulance station and an air evac. I need as many ... trucks as you can send this way.”
“The roof completely col-lapsed on the building. I’m doing a walk through now. I think we got everybody out,” he said. “I don’t have radio communications, I have lost my repeater.”
The blast left the city with one functioning ambulance.
An EMT training class was in the building that evening. The trainees already had passed
their practical exam, so they left the class to go help, said Dr. George Smith, West EMS’s medical director.
Four of the 18 in that class died. “Every one of them were friends of mine,” Smith said.
Smith now carries a photo on his phone that shows a huge pile of debris, part of what used to be the West Rest Haven nursing home, where he also is medical director. The home sat between the ambulance building and the fertilizer plant.
“I was under that,” Smith said of the collapsed roof in the photo. His face bears scrapes and scratches from the night.
Smith and others managed to get all of the about 130 residents out. One man later died, not from injuries but his existing medical conditions, Smith said.
A woman whose mother-in-law was a resident told a 911 dispatcher they needed flash-lights to help find the injured.
“We’ve got old people, they’re bleeding, they’ve got glass,” she said. “This rest home is completely demolished.”
Injured residents of an as-sisted living facility next door were moved to the front porch.
“My people are at the as-sisted living, three workers and my 11 residents and they’re all bleeding,” anoth-er 911 caller said. “They’re trying to take care of the bleeding but nobody has any medical attention over there right now.”
One man who called twice from about a half-mile south of the plant said he had dug three women out of a col-lapsed house.
“Hurry, they’re bleeding bad,” he said.
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The suspects are two ethnic Chechen brothers from south-ern Russia — 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his 26-year-old brother, Tamer-lan. Their motive remained unclear.
The older brother was killed during a getaway at-tempt. The younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, remained hospitalized in serious condi-tion Sunday after his capture Friday from a tarp-covered boat in a suburban Boston backyard. Authorities would not comment on whether he had been questioned, but sev-eral officials have said Tsar-naev’s injuries left him un-able to communicate, at least for now.
Shots were fired from the boat, but investigators haven’t determined where the gunfire was aimed, Davis said.
The federal Bureau of Al-cohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is tracing the
weapons to try to determine how they were obtained by the suspects.
Tsarnaev could be charged soon, although it was not clear what those charges would be. The twin bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180.
The most serious charge available to federal prosecu-tors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Mas-sachusetts does not have the death penalty.
Across the rattled city, churches opened their doors to remember the dead and ease the grief of the living.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in South Boston, pho-tographs of the three people killed in the attack and an MIT police officer slain Thursday were displayed on the altar, the faces illuminated by glow-ing white pillar candles, one for each person lost.
“I hope we can all heal and
move forward,” said Kelly McK-ernan, who was crying as she left the service. “And obviously, the Mass today was a first step for us in that direction.”
A six-block swath of Boylston Street, where the bombs were detonated, remained closed Sunday, though police at the scene told pedestrians it was expected to reopen before this morning.
Boston’s historic Trinity Church could not host ser-vices Sunday because it was within the crime scene, but the congregation was invited to worship at the Temple Is-rael synagogue instead. The FBI allowed church officials a half-hour Saturday to go inside to gather the priests’ robes, the wine and bread for Sunday’s service.
Trinity’s Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III offered a prayer for those who were slain “and for those who must rebuild their lives without the legs that they ran and walked on last week.”
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Mahesh Daas, the chair of the department of architecture and planning, said he supports the new incentives.
“I think whatever incentives they can provide that encourage students to provide feedback is good,” Daas said. “[Course evalu-ations] are absolutely important. All of my colleagues take them very seriously. What they pro-vide matters in very real ways.”
Jones said the evaluations have two main functions: they pro-vide instructors with feedback about their course and are taken into account when departments decide on promotions, salary changes and tenure.
“We just provide reports to fac-ulty and department for them to use as they see fit,” Jones said. “How that’s used will vary from department to department. Some departments put more emphasis... on how much weight to give student ratings.”
If a course has four or more students enrolled, students can evaluate it online. Evalu-ations are shared with the chairperson of each depart-ment and the instructors who were evaluated after final grades have been submitted.
Darren Wheeler, a political sci-
ence assistant professor, said in the political science department, the evaluations are used as part of their teaching assessment for potential promotion and tenure and to help determine rankings for merit pay.
Wheeler said student evalua-tions are just one aspect of the decision and these assessments also take into account evalua-tions by the department chair, teacher’s portfolios and peer evaluations.
Since he first came to Ball State in 2009, Wheeler said the evalu-ations have been especially help-ful in adjusting to a new school.
“I use them individually to assess what students like and what they don’t like, what went well and what didn’t go well,” Wheeler said. “I’ve often found that students collectively have the capacity to give useful feed-back, especially if I am teaching a course for the first time or if I am using a textbook I haven’t given.”
Dan Waechter, chairperson for the journalism department, said his department also uses the stu-dent evaluations for annual as-sessments, and they are typically included in promotion or tenure requests and salary calculations.
Daas said he goes a step fur-ther and reviews each evalua-tion he receives, looking for pat-
terns and problems.“We look for [if there] has
there been a consistent deliv-ery of materials, have there been any unusual changes in terms of faculty majors,” Daas said. “If there are any major changes, I discuss them with the faculty members.”
James Ruebel, the dean of the honors college, said he also reviews the evaluations and talks to faculty members if they should continue to teach honors courses or make other changes.
“For honors teaching they are absolutely critical because our entire honors college is devoted to the success of undergraduate students, we don’t have another internal goal,” Ruebel said. “If there was a disaster, say there was a faculty member abusing students, we want to know that and stop that.”
Since teachers do not apply for tenure or promotions through the honors college, they are only used for feedback about courses.
“If you have good things to say, fill it out. If you have bad things to say, fill it out,” Wheeler said. “We actually do use them for stuff. We don’t have you fill them out and then stick them in a drawer and don’t look at them. I know students worry about that sometimes.”
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Scott said he was rehears-ing for another show when he received a text message about auditioning for a spot on the “Rock of Ages” touring cast. He was originally cut after the first round of auditions, but after creating a performance video at home and sending it to the casting director, he was asked to come back and was eventually given a spot.
“I’ve always been doing the whole rock thing and it was a coincidence that ‘Rock of Ages’ came along,” he said. “It’s a
perfect blend of my theater life and rock life.”
Although it’s a musical, the show also has the feel of a rock concert.
“There’s a live band on the stage just rocking out. There’s smoke, fog, moving lights and lasers. It’s a spectacle,” he said. “It’s the most fun you will have at a live theater event.”
Elizabeth Bolinger, a junior at DeKalb High School from Au-burn, Ind., is visiting Ball State not just for a preview day but to also see “Rock of Ages” for the eighth time. She describes the show as “nothin’ but a good time.”
“The show itself is special. You usually don’t go to the theater to see ‘80s hair metal and girls on poles, but that is what makes ‘Rock Of Ages’ what it is,” she said. “It is a crazy fun show from start to finish that either has me on the edge of my seat or out of it dancing, no matter how many times I see it.”
Bolinger said she has traveled to places like Chicago, Bloom-ington and South Bend to see the musical. She said the audience should not be surprised if the musical becomes one of their fa-vorite shows.
“It is rock and comedy in epic
proportions and it is impossible to resist,” she said.
Ball State senior creative writing and English education major Morgan Smith said she is excited to see the show af-ter growing up listening to the same type of music.
“I know every song, and I’ve seen a lot of the bands that [in-spired the show] in concert,” she said. “My taste in music has always made me feel like I was born in the wrong time. I’m an ‘80s addict; as soon as ‘Rock of Ages’ debuted, I knew I had to see it.”
With semester finals ap-
proaching very soon, Smith said she is using the musical as a good excuse to take a break from the end-of-the-semester stress.
“[The musical] is going to at-tract a very specific crowd, peo-ple like me from the wrong gen-eration, and people who loved that music when it was new,” she said. “Either way, everyone there will have similar interests. It’s like a community audience, so I expect to experience a really fun show with a really fun crowd.”
Despite rock music not be-ing as mainstream as it once was, Scott said this musical has something for everyone to
enjoy whether or not they love the music.
“If you grew up listening to these tunes, it’s going to be a great walk down memory lane. If you’re hearing them for the first time, you will love them,” he said. “One of the best parts of our show is the music, and it’s the best music of the ‘80s.”
“Rock of Ages” will be at Emens Auditorium tonight for a one-night performance. In addition to the popular Journey hit, audience members will hear other classic rock songs such as: “The Final Countdown,” “Wanted Dead or Alive” and “Here I Go Again.”
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classic, brand name handbag. While cheap handbags are cute and fun, an expensive handbag will last a lifetime. Brand name purses are well-made with better fabrics and materials and look stylish and polished. Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs and Tory Burch are my current preferences, but there are some less expensive options. Brand name purses may seem too expen-sive, but they are worth every penny considering how often they will be used. Plus, an inexpensive outfit looks costly the moment you add an expen-sive handbag.
A CLASSIC PAIR OF JEANS Jeans are a staple item of almost
everyone’s wardrobe. They can be dressed up or down and are appropri-ate for most casual events. A more ex-pensive pair of jeans will fade and tat-ter less; cheap jeans get stretched out more easily, meaning more washing and drying and more wear and tear. Boot cut or straight cut, dark jeans are definitely classic styles to splurge on;
however, I splurge on skinny jeans because I wear them daily. Also, if you stick with a classic brand like Levi or Ralph Lauren, they are likely to contin-ue making that style for a while, mean-ing you can buy that style consistently when you find the perfect fit. A SUIT
Weddings, funerals and interviews are all inevitable life events that call for the dreaded suit and tie. After col-lege, there will be many occasions for a suit, so bite the bullet and splurge on it now. Opt for a classic black suit, then you can spice it up with a col-lared shirt or blouse underneath.
EVERYDAY JEWELRY If you plan to wear an item every-
day, it is worth the splurge. Watches are both timeless and trendy; they never go out of style. Whether your budget allows Fossil, Michael Kors or Rolex, the watch is worth the money. One day last summer, I spontaneously headed to Nordstrom and bought a rose gold Marc Jacobs watch. Hands down, best purchase I’ve ever made. There isn’t a day I don’t get compli-mented on that bad boy, maybe be-cause I never take it off.
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TO SPLURGE OR NOT TO SPLURGE: THAT IS THE QUESTION
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s broke college students, we are usually scrounging up change just to buy dinner. Most students would rather have an extra Jimmy John’s sandwich a week than save that money — except me. I would gladly eat PB&Js all week if it means new clothes.
Now is the time to start building the staples of your wardrobe, because after college, the expenses and bills will only increase. So what is worth the hard-earned money and what can you spend a couple bucks on?
Coach Purse, $375 « When you know an item is expensive, you’ll treat it better and it will last longer. »HANNAH WATTS, a sophomore child life specialist major
Michael Kors Watch, $250« I will be able to wear it with professional clothes, class clothes and ‘going out’ clothes. And I feel like jewelry never really goes out of style, I still wear my first pair of birthstone earrings from almost 13 years. »ALLYSON BURGER, a junior journalism and telecommunications major
Burberry Scarf, $395« I decided to treat myself for my birthday, because I’ve always wanted a Burberry scarf and I happened to have the money. »KODEY LEE, a freshman public relations major
QUAD TALKWHAT HAVE YOU SPLURGED ON?
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THINGS NOT TO SPLURGE ON:TRENDY TOPS
Yes, skulls, spikes and crop tops are in, but for how much longer? If you are keen with staying up on trends, stick with Forever 21 or the sale rack at Ur-ban Outfitters. No, the clothes won’t stand the test of time, but they will last as long as the trend. You don’t want to spend a lot of cash on an item you can only wear for a season.