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Workers help with the move of Cleo’s Bourbon Bar and Red Bird in the Village to their new locations while renovations are being made to University Square. The move will only last a year, when both move back into their original locations.

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A new piece of legis-lation will aim to keep Indiana’s university students on track for graduation.

The bill’s several com-ponents will mainly af-fect the freshman class of 2014, but John McPher-son, director of scholar-ships and financial aid, said some of its effect will be felt next year.

Recipients of the 21st Century Scholars and Frank O’Bannon scholar-ships will need to com-plete 30 credit hours by the start of their sopho-more year to receive the full amount of their scholarships. The same applies for junior and se-nior year, with 60 and 90 credit hours respectively.

Pherson was among the Ball State officials pres-ent during the drafting process. University officials across the state helped legislators work on the bill.

“The overall goal of this legislation is to encourage students to graduate in four years,” McPherson said.

He said the credit hour requirements added to the 21st Century Scholars and Frank O’Bannon scholarships are perhaps the most important part of the bill.

More than $180 million was awarded through the Frank O’Bannon scholarship, and more than $50 million through 21st Century Scholars dur-ing 2011-12.

He said both businesses will remain at the new location for about a year until after redevelopment is complet-ed. Ellison said he hopes to then move back to where they were.

The University Square block will have more retail and 220 apart-ments above the businesses after the redevelopment, Ellison said. He said there will be a larger space for Cleo’s and Redbird.

The former Discount Den loca-

tion will become available for El-lison to introduce a new business to the Village, he said.

“We are going to open a whole new concept of a bar and a restau-rant there,” Ellison said. “We’ve toyed with a couple of things that does not exist in the Village and that’s kind of where we are al-ready talking about it.”

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Generally, postseason play is thought to be different from regular season play. The man-tra “Win or go home” is sup-posed to resonate with play-ers and elevate their game in superior venues.

The men’s golf team will travel more than 2,000 miles farther than they have all season. Wash-ington State’s campus is home to the No. 1 team in the country.

The first postseason appear-ance in 22 years for Ball State men’s golf is teeming with nu-ances that make its NCAA Re-gional fit that mold.

Coach Mike Fleck, who was a player on Ball State’s last tour-nament team, wants to focus on the similarities and make the biggest event of the year just an-other match.

“The guys say that the course is kind of like some of the others they have played, and with the competition we’ve played this year, the guys aren’t intimidated

at all,” Fleck said. The par-72, 7,308-yard Palouse

Ridge course plays long, Fleck said, forcing him to shuffle his lineup from the one used in the Mid-American Conference Championship.

The top three spots for Ball State will remain unchanged with First Team All-MAC junior Tyler Merkel, and Second Team All-MAC seniors Joe Gasser and Alex Stinson.

The decorated trio led the Car-dinals through the season and to an at-large bid in the NCAA field of 81 teams. The other two spots have been up-for-grabs.

Because of the importance of yardage off the tee for this course, senior Tony Lazzara and

sophomore transfer McCormick Clouser will fill those roles, bumping senior Brodie Williams out of the rotation.

“[Brodie] has given us some good rounds this year, but Clous-er is just longer off the tee,”

Fleck said.Merkel is the only player on the

roster with regional experience, as he competed as an individual last season.

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DN FILE PHOTO BOBBY ELLISJames Blackwell takes his shot at the Delaware Country Club during the Earl Yestingsmeier Invitational on Oct. 16, 2012. The men’s golf team will play in the NCAA Regional this week in Pullman, Wash.

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MUNCIE — Ball State on Wednesday closed the books on a decision to pull sponsorship of five aca-demically struggling charter schools.

Ball State President Jo Ann Gora approved a re-view panel’s unanimous decision to reject the five schools’ appeals. The loss of Ball State’s charters could lead to the closure of some of the schools.

Appeal panel leader Melissa Rubrecht said the committee’s members used their “deep education-al experience and expertise” to review each of the appeals after hearing testimony from the schools and Ball State’s Office of Charter Schools.

“They clearly understood the importance of their decisions and made every good-faith effort to make recommendations in the best interest of the stu-dents, communities and Ball State,” said Rubrecht, Ball State’s director of employee relations.

The Imagine Indiana Life Sciences Academy-East in Indianapolis, Richmond’s Christmon STEMM Leadership Academy, Gary’s LEAD College Prepa-ratory Charter School and two Fort Wayne charter schools — the Imagine Schools on Broadway and the Imagine MASTer Academy — lost their appeals and their charters.

Two other schools — Gary’s Charter School of the Dunes and Fort Wayne’s Timothy L. Johnson Academy — also had their charters revoked. They had filed appeals but later withdrew them.

Charter schools are alternative public schools that have had more freedom in setting curriculum. State law was changed last year to hold charters to the same academic standards as public schools. Ball State sponsors 42 charter schools in Indiana.

State lawmakers authorized Ball State a decade ago to sponsor charter schools in Indiana and the university approved the first one in 2002. Last year, state lawmakers approved allowing a sec-ond office, the Indiana Charter School Board, to authorize charter schools in the state.

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Two bars are relocating in support of the upcoming redevelopment in the Village.

Owner Chris Ellison said Cleo’s Bourbon Bar and Redbird Tequila & Taco Bar will be closed until mid-

June as they move from their current location in University Square to the former Discount Den location, one block away at 1801 W. University Ave.

“Our goal was to help see this new development come through,” Ellison said. “It needs to happen. That whole block needs to be done.”

Redbird closed Monday and Cleo’s closed Wednesday.Ellison said the greatest benefit of the temporary

location is having outdoor seating and more seating and bar space inside.

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SCHOLARSHIPSMany of the details are still in the process of being worked out, but here are some of main points the bill will change. WHATIn order to receive the full amount of scholarship money, students will need to have 30 credits by their sophomore year, 60 by their junior and 90 by their senior.WHAT’S NEXTAn accelerated schedule will be available. Students will receive a boosted scholarship if they have 39, 78 or 117 credits by their sophomore, junior or senior year.

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DN PHOTO PHOTOGS NAMEThe now-empty building that once was the CBX Bookstore on University Avenue will soon be the new home to Dill Street Bar and Grill. The bar will close this weekend and will open in its new location on Aug. 10.

Dill Street Bar’s penny pitchers will be available on Saturday for the last time this summer.

The bar will close while the Village undergoes remodeling and will reopen on Aug. 10 at 1716 West University Ave., a new location across the street from the T.I.S. College Bookstore.

Bartender Katie Heath said she’s optimistic for the move.“I think it’s a good opportunity for us to make some changes, hope-

fully for the better,” she said. “With the new location, the new build-ing, it’ll be fresh, clean and brand new. I think it’s a good opportunity for us to grow as a bar and as a business, and hopefully it’ll attract a lot more people.”

Dill Street will expand their hours and begin to serve a variety of food once the new location opens, with more staff to be hired.

The business will keep the name, despite no longer being located on Dill Street. Heath said the penny pitchers should be kept as well.

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Ellison said he is unsure of what the new development will be or if Milhaus Develop-ment will remain the develop-er. Ellison said these plans are preliminary until he discusses plans with developers.

Marta Moody, the executive di-rector of the county’s plan com-mission, said she is expecting to begin getting proposals from development companies by the end of the month.

She said until the developers begin planning, she will not know what businesses will be added to the Village or a time estimate for completion.

Moody said she has only communicated with Invest-ment Property Advisors so far.

Chase Sorrick of IPA said in March the company he works for is planning a multi-million dollar investment in the Vil-lage area and has worked with similar overlay standards in other communities.

He said they hope to start construction by August or September.

Moody and the commission

are focusing on putting to-gether a Village Review Com-mittee until more developers present plans.

The panel of five experts will review and approve develop-

ment plans.“It provides a detailed re-

view of a development that is done by people who have experience in development-related fields,” Moody said.

“Almost like a peer review.”Moody said two members

have been appointed by the plan commission, and one member was appointed by city council. Ball State and the mayor will each appoint one of the last two members.

The plan commission ap-pointed Deane Rundell, who specializes in landscape ar-chitecture, and Bill Morgan, a specialist in history pres-ervation. City council ap-pointed Andy Ellis, an expert in urban design.

Part of the commission’s job will be to ensure developers follow the zoning ordinance amendment that was ap-proved May 6.

Moody said the ordinance sets guidelines for the quality of the development, including standards for expanded devel-opments deals with setbacks, materials that can be used, parking provisions and ap-pearance.

The ordinance also approved Village overlay areas, which di-vide it into four separate areas, with Area 1 including the com-mercial and retail section.

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DN PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERWorkers strip Red Bird, the tequila bar in the Village, of all its furnishings as it prepares to move locations. Red Bird, as well as Cleo’s Bourbon Bar, will temporarily move into the location that used to hold the Discount Den.

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Suspect to plead not guilty in kidnappings

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CLEVELAND — The man ac-cused of keeping three women in captivity in his Ohio home for about a decade will plead not guilty, a member of his defense team said Wednesday.

Craig Weintraub, a former prosecutor representing Ariel Castro, 52, on rape and kidnap-ping charges, said in an inter-view he was concerned his cli-ent would not be able to receive a fair trial anywhere, giving the publicity surrounding the case.

The location of a trial is “al-ways an issue when you have a case that has such fantastic no-toriety,” Weintraub said.

Castro, a former school bus driver, was arrested May 6 shortly after one of the women, Amanda Berry, kicked out part of a locked door of his Cleve-land house and yelled to neigh-bors to help her and call police.

Police quickly arrived and found Berry in the street hold-ing a baby and then raced through the house, freeing Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. The women were admitted to a hospital but have been re-leased and have remained in se-clusion appeal-ing for privacy.

The three d i s a p p e a r e d between 2002 and 2004, when they were in their teens or early 20s, au-thorities said.

Castro’s defense team must

decide at some point whether to ask to have any trial moved out of Cleve-land, Wein-traub said.

“Then that begs the ques-tion: ‘Well, where can he get a fair trial based on the circumstanc-es?’ This is such a sensa-tionalistic type case which has

received inter-national coverage.”

Castro has been jailed on $8 million bond.

Weintraub said Castro is

despondent in his bare-bones cell — but Weintraub thinks people believe he’s got it too good under the circumstances.

“His day consists of remaining 24 hours a day in a room ... that contains a metal bed, a very thin mattress that is covered in plastic. It has a metal sink and what appears to be some sort of a mirror,” Weintraub said.

He declined to comment on a jail suicide watch for Castro or jail guard reports that Castro has been sitting in his cell na-ked. Weintraub said he would have been alerted if going na-ked reflected a medical issue.

Castro has made it clear that he loves his 6-year-old daughter born to Berry, Weintraub said.

He said the issue of custody

hadn’t been mentioned in dis-cussions with Castro.

The girl was born Christ-mas Day 2006, delivered by Knight in a kiddie pool so the cleanup would be easy, police said. Knight told police she was ordered by Castro under threat of death to deliver the baby live.

Weintraub said the de-fense hadn’t researched is-sues raised last week when prosecutor Tim McGinty said Castro could face aggravated murder charges, and a pos-sible death sentence, related to allegations that he impreg-nated Knight and forced her to miscarry at least five times by starving her and punching her in the stomach repeatedly.

Defense attorney worried Ariel Castro won’t get fair trial


DHAKA, Bangladesh — Thou-sands of mourners gathered Tuesday at the wreckage of a Bangladeshi garment factory building to offer prayers for the souls of the 1,127 people who died in the structure’s collapse last month, the worst tragedy in the history of the global gar-ment industry.

The Islamic prayer service took place a day after the army ended a nearly three-week, painstaking search for bodies among the rubble and turned control of the site over to the civilian govern-ment for cleanup.

Recovery workers got a shocking boost Friday when they pulled a 19-year-old seamstress alive from the wreckage. But most of their work entailed removing corpses that were so badly decomposed from the heat they could only be identified

if their cellphones or work IDs were found with them. The last body was found Sun-day night.

Soldiers in camouflage, po-lice and firefighters in uni-form stood solemnly in neat rows near relatives of the dead. Many of the rescue workers had pained expres-sions on their faces. Tears rolled down the cheeks of one soldier.

The mourners raised their cupped hands in prayer and asked for the salvation of those who lost their lives when the Rana Plaza building came crashing down on April 24. They also appealed for di-vine blessings for the injured still in the hospital.

Maj. Gen. Chowdhury Hasan Suhrawardy, the military commander who had been supervising the site, thanked all those involved in the work. He said the army has pre-pared a list of 1,000 survivors that it would give to the gov-ernment with the recommen-dation they be provided jobs on a priority basis.

The tragedy came months after a fire at another Bangla-

desh garment factory killed 112 workers.

With global pressure mount-ing on Bangladesh and the brands it manufactures for, some of the biggest Western re-tailers have e m b r a c e d a plan that would re-quire them to pay for fac-tory improve-ments here.

Italian fash-ion brand B e n e t t o n , British re-tailer Marks & Spencer and Spanish retailer Man-go became the latest c o m p a n i e s Tuesday to agree to sign a contract requiring them to conduct independent safety inspections of factories and cover the costs of repairs. The pact also calls for retailers to

pay up to $500,000 a year to-ward the effort and to stop do-ing business with any factory that refuses to make safety im-

provements.S w e d i s h

retailing gi-ant H&M, the biggest p u r c h a s e r of garments from Bangla-desh; British c o m p a n i e s Primark and Tesco; C&A of the Neth-erlands; and Spain’s Indi-tex, owner of the Zara chain, an-nounced on Monday they would sign the pact.

Two other c o m p a n i e s agreed to sign last year:

PVH, which makes clothes under the Calvin Klein, Tom-my Hilfiger and Izod labels, and German retailer Tchibo. Among the big holdouts are

Wal-Mart Stores, which is the second-largest producer of clothing in Bangladesh, and Gap.

Gap, which had been close to signing the agreement last year, said Monday that the pact is “within reach,” but the com-pany is concerned about the possible legal liability involved.

Worker rights groups have set a Wednesday deadline for companies to accept the agree-ment, saying they will increase pressure on brands that do not.

“This agreement is exactly what is needed to finally bring an end to the epidemic of fire and building disasters that have taken so many lives in the garment industry in Ban-gladesh,” said Scott Nova, ex-ecutive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, one of the organizations pushing for the agreement.

Bangladesh has about 5,000 garment factories and 3.6 mil-lion garment workers. It is the third-biggest exporter of clothes in the world, after Chi-na and Italy.

Working conditions in the $20 billion industry are grim, a re-sult of government corruption,

desperation for jobs, and in-dustry indifference. Minimum wages for garment workers are among the lowest in the world at $38 a month.

On Monday, Bangladesh’s Cabinet approved an amend-ment lifting restrictions on forming unions in most in-dustries, government spokes-man Mosharraf Hossain Bhui-yan said. The old 2006 law required workers to obtain permission before they could unionize. The day before, the government set up a new minimum wage board that will issue recommendations to the Cabinet for pay raises for garment workers.

Government officials also have promised improvements in safety in an industry where at least 1,800 people have been killed in factory fires or build-ing collapses since 2005.

Bangladesh’s government has in recent years cracked down on unions attempting to orga-nize garment workers. In 2010 the government launched an Industrial Police force to crush street protests by thousands of workers demanding better pay and working conditions.

Soldiers honor, pray for victims at site of factory wreckage

Cannes film fest opens with Gatsby

Jolie reacts to hereditary cancer risk


CANNES, France — The Cannes Film Festival got off to a blockbuster, if stormy start, as Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” opened on a soggy French Riviera.

Amid heavy rain, dancing flappers flocked down the Cannes red carpet Wednes-day night, bringing a touch of the Jazz Age to the Croi-sette. “Gatsby” stars Leon-ardo DiCaprio, Carey Mul-ligan and Tobey Maguire helped give the festival’s opening day a strong dose of star power.

At the opening ceremo-ny, DiCaprio, joined by his “Gatsby” co-star, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, declared the 66th Cannes officially begun.

Over the next 12 days, doz-ens of the world’s most artis-tically ambitious films will premiere on Cannes’ global stage. But Wednesday was a day for blockbusters — both the big-budget “Gatsby” and Hollywood’s most accom-plished director of spectacle: Steven Spielberg.

Spielberg is serving as jury president at this year’s Cannes. His presence here is a rarity (he’s had films at Cannes before, including “E.T.” and “Sugarland Ex-press,” but never had a movie in competition), and he was received like a visiting head of state, a king of cinema.

The “Lincoln” director re-ceived a standing ovation at the opening ceremony and was serenaded with a per-formance of “Miss Celie’s Blues” from his 1985 film, “The Color Purple.”

He heads the jury that will decide the presti-gious Palme d’Or, given to one of the 20 competing films, with entries ranging from the Coen brothers (“Llewyn Davis”), Alexan-der Payne (“Nebraska”) and Steven Soderbergh (“Behind the Candelabra”).

This year’s jury is an in-timidating, starry bunch, in-cluding Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee and Christoph Waltz.

“Everyone sits in judg-ment of us,” Spielberg said. “So it’s our turn.”

Luhrmann’s 3-D adap-tion of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s

novel, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is this year’s festival opener, a choice that surprised many since the film opened last week in North America. Cannes typically takes precedence over release schedules, but “Gatsby” sails to the Croi-sette after a robust week-end haul of $51.1 million.

After Luhrmann noted in a news conference that the film had pushed Fitzger-ald’s novel to the top of the bestseller list (selling more copies in a week than in the author’s lifetime), DiCaprio added with a grin: “And a lit-tle film adaptation is doing quite well at the box office.”

But while “Gatsby” is getting a victory lap on the Cannes’ red carpet, it comes to the festival with the sting of mixed reviews. Many film critics have tak-en issue with the movie’s stylistic flourishes.

“I knew that would come,” said Luhrmann, noting Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel was also initially received poor-ly. “I just care that people are going out and seeing it. I really am so moved by that.”

“Gatsby” plays out of competition at the festi-val, but Spielberg should have his hands full with a slate lacking any obvious favorite. Internationally-respected filmmakers like Roman Polanski (“Venus in Fur”), Asghar Farhadi (“The Past) and Jim Jar-musch (“Only Lovers Left Alive”) are to premiere their films in competition.

Every year, the Cannes jury president is psycho-analyzed to help predict the Palme d’Or winner. This year is no different, with onlookers guessing that Spielberg will either gravitate toward the kind of warm-hearted films he’s best known for, or seek to deliberately contradict that assumption with a more au-dacious choice.

The international jury also includes Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Japanese director Naomi Kawase, French ac-tor Daniel Auteuil and Bol-lywood star Vidya Balan.

“I’m going to have to look at the Sidney Lumet film ‘12 Angry Men,’ again as a tutorial to prepare myself for the final day of deliber-ation,” Spielberg said with a smile.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan bring star power

MCT PHOTOHector Lugo points to a house police searched during an investigation in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 7. Three women who vanished separately about a decade ago were rescued from the home.

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survivors on prepared list from commander supervising the site

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5,000garment factories in Bangladesh employ 3.6 million workers

KIDNAPPINGWHOAriel Castro, man accused of keeping three Cleveland women in captivity.WHATCastro will plead not guilty, his attorney Craig Weintraub said. Defense is concerned Castro won’t receive a fair trial due to publicity.WHENWednesday

THOUSANDS MOURN 1,127 DEAD IN BANGLADESH COLLAPSE


Angelina Jolie’s mother had breast cancer and died of ovar-ian cancer, and her maternal grandmother also had ovarian cancer — strong evidence of an inherited, genetic risk that led the actress to have both of her healthy breasts removed

to try to avoid the same fate, her doctor said Wednesday.

Jolie, 37, revealed on Tuesday that she carries a defective BRCA1 gene that puts her at high risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. She had mastectomies in February followed by reconstruc-tion with implants in April, Dr. Kristi Funk said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Funk treated Jolie at the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills and detailed her care on the center’s website. She would not disclose when Jolie learned she

carried the faulty gene, which gives a woman up to an 87 per-cent lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and up to a 54 per-cent chance of ovarian cancer.

“This family history would cer-tainly meet any insurance car-rier’s criteria to cover genetic testing,” Funk wrote.

It is unclear whether Jolie will have her ovaries removed, al-though she wrote in her op-ed piece in the New York Times that she “started with the breasts” because they posed the highest cancer risk.

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WASHINGTON — Hurrying to check a growing controver-sy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commis-sioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the agency had improperly targeted tea party groups for scrutiny when they filed for tax-exempt status.

Obama said Treasury Secre-tary Jacob Lew had asked for and accepted Steven T. Miller’s resignation. Obama made no public criticism of Miller but spoke of inexcusable “miscon-duct” by IRS employees and said new leadership at the agency was critical.

“Americans are right to be angry about it, and I am an-gry about it,” Obama said in a televised statement from the White House. “I will not tol-erate this kind of behavior in any agency but especially in the IRS, given the power that it has and the reach that it has into all of our lives.”

Meanwhile, the FBI is inves-tigating potential civil rights violations at the IRS, Attorney General Eric Holder said ear-lier Wednesday. Other potential crimes include making false statements to authorities and violating the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in some partisan political activities, Holder said.

Miller, a 25-year IRS veteran, took over the agency in No-vember, when the five-year term of Commissioner Doug-las Shulman ended.

In an email to employees, Miller said, “This has been an incredibly difficult time for the IRS given the events of the past few days, and there is a strong and immediate need to restore public trust in the nation’s tax agency. I believe the Service will benefit from having a new acting commis-sioner in place during this challenging period.”

At the time when tea party groups were targeted, Miller was a deputy commissioner

who oversaw the division that dealt with tax-exempt organizations.

An inspector general’s report does not indicate that Miller knew conservative groups were being targeted until after the practice ended. But docu-ments show that Miller re-peatedly failed to tell Congress that tea party groups were be-ing targeted, even after he had been briefed on the matter.

The IRS said Miller was first informed on May, 3, 2012, that applications for tax-exempt status by tea party groups were inappropriately singled out for extra, sometimes bur-densome scrutiny.

At least twice after the brief-ing, Miller wrote letters to members of Congress to ex-plain the process of reviewing applications for tax-exempt status without revealing that tea party groups had been tar-geted. On July 25, 2012, Miller testified before the House

Ways and Means oversight subcommittee but again was not forthcoming on the issue — despite being asked about it.

Miller was scheduled to testify Friday at a Ways and Means hearing. It was not im-mediately clear whether he would still testify.

Holder announced Tuesday that the Justice department had opened a criminal inves-tigation, joining three commit-tees in Congress that are look-ing into the matter.

“I can assure you and the American people that we will take a dispassionate view of this,” Holder told the House Ju-diciary Committee at a hearing Wednesday. “This will not be about parties, this will not be about ideological persuasions. Anybody who has broken the law will be held accountable.”

But, Holder said, it will take time to determine if there was criminal wrongdoing.

Legal experts, however, said

it could be difficult to prove that IRS officials or employees knowingly violated the civil rights of conservative groups. If there is a violation, the ex-perts said, investigators can sometimes prove more easily that officials made false state-ments or obstructed justice in some other way.

“I think it’s doubtful that any of these knuckleheads who engaged in the conduct that gave rise to this contro-versy knowingly believed that they were violating the law,” said David H. Laufman, a former Justice Department lawyer. “But that remains to be seen. That’s what investi-gations are for.”

“It’s more likely than not that,” he said, “the conduct at issue here may constitute violations of IRS rules or stan-dards or protocols or proce-dures but may fall short of what is necessary to consti-tute a criminal offense.”

Treasury Secretary asks for resignation after controversy

“They don’t care if it’s even or not. You could fall short one year and make it back up another year,” McPherson said.

An appeal process will also be available if a student feels there is a legitimate reason they fell below the requirements.

McPherson said legislators heard about the growing cost of college, and this is their re-sponse. Ball State’s four-year graduation rate is 36 per-cent, slightly below Indiana’s four-year graduation rate of 37.8 percent.

Junior psychology major Christina O’Neill said one prob-lem the bill could face is stu-dents who change their majors.

“I think it’s a good start, but a big problem is that students change their minds,” she said. “They take classes that they end up not needing for their major.”

O’Neill changed her major from mathematics to psychol-ogy, and she said the bill might pressure students to stay with a major they don’t want in order to keep money.

The O’Bannon scholarship has a fallback—if a student falls below the 30, 60 and 90 credit hour marks, they can receive a smaller portion of the scholar-ship if they are still above 24, 48 and 72 hours.

McPherson said he and other representatives strongly sup-ported the fallback.

“It was an agreement by all of the public and private schools that we needed a fall-back and not to just let peo-ple drop out of the program completely,” he said.

The intent of the bill is to keep students focused on graduating in four years, but McPherson said doing so might not be the best for all students.

“It’s a personal opinion that

I’m not sure if four-year gradu-ation rate can be the expecta-tion of all students,” he said. “I tend to say, ‘If a student can earn a degree in five years, they’re a whole lot better off and pre-pared for life than if they don’t have a degree at all.’”

Junior accounting major Jeff Colver said the bill might be beneficial.

“I don’t think it’s going to make the biggest change in the world, because people are going to come in and do what they want essentially,” he said. “The people that really do care and look into how they’re paying for school, they’re going to look into it and say, ‘I want to get this done, I want to figure this out.’”

McPherson said students who intend to graduate in four years need to come in prepared and have an idea of what they want to accomplish.

Ball State has already begun using degree maps that outline what classes students need to take to move through college quickly, but the bill will spread them to other colleges and add a stipulation.

Universities will be required to provide a class for free if a student needs to take it but can’t due to scheduling con-flicts or class sizes.

O’Neill said being a transfer student makes it difficult to reg-ister for classes sometimes.

“I’m a transfer student. I’ve had problems getting into class-es because I don’t get to register as soon as some people do,” she said. “I think it’s a great idea, because sometimes they don’t even offer enough classes.”

The bill changed the scholar-ship wording from “semester” to “academic year,” making scholarships available during fall and spring semester as well as summer classes.

“They’re trying to give stu-

dents more flexibility so the awards aren’t tied only to fall and spring,” McPherson said. “A student who chooses to use an award in the summer can do so.”

The bill also changes the for-mula determining how much money will be offered. Before it was determined by expected parent contribution, but in the future it will be by expected family contribution, which covers parent and individual contributions.

High school honors classes have added a scholarship bo-nus to all four years of college for some students, but they will now need to maintain a 3.0 GPA to keep the bonus.

O’Neill said the intent is good, but it might have bad effects in some cases.

“I think it’s a good idea, but then again I have a lot of friends who are just on the border,” she said. “It makes me worry.”

A bonus incentive will encour-age students to take heavier course loads. A student who completes 39, 78 or 117 by the end of their freshman, sopho-

more or junior year will receive a bonus to their scholarships.

Colver said because he works, this incentive would be diffi-cult for him, but some students could make the cut.

“I think some will [take ad-vantage of the accelerated in-centive], but I don’t think many will,” he said.

The changes may seem like a big jump, but McPherson said the degree maps and scholar-ship formula are two of the only changes to affect current students. The majority of the changes will be brought in with the freshmen of 2014.

“Most of the students that are here will continue under the current program they’re on,” he said.

He said current students should still follow the bill.

“Students should be aware of this bill because it will absolute-ly have a financial impact,” he said. “For students to maintain and maximize their award from the state of Indiana, they need to make sure they understand the completion requirements that have been placed in this bill.

“Students need to understand that their rate of completion is going to affect the financial as-pects of their state award.”

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THE DIFFERENCE?SO WHATDegree Maps will outline what classes students need to take to graduate in four years. If a course isn’t offered or conflicts with another class, the university has to offer it to the student for free.WHAT’S NEXTStudents will receive a boosted scholarship if they have 39, 78 or 117 credits by their sophomore, junior or senior year. In order to keep any scholarship bonus earned from high school honors classes, students must maintain a 3.0 GPA.

MCT PHOTOPresident Barack Obama delivers a statement on the case surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of political groups after meeting with U.S. Treasury officials on Wednesday in the East Room of the White House In Washington, D.C.

Ivy Tech Community College of Muncie is evaluating its emergen-cy response process after the campus was evacuated April 25 due to bomb and shooting threats.

Authorities are continuing an investigation, and the campus is co-operating but does not have any details, said Amanda Holmquist, marketing and communications coordinator.

“Any time there is an incident or emergency it allows you to look at how you handled the situation,” Holmquist said. “We were pleased with how we handled it internally.”

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ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH — A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday in a test flight that could eventually open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircrafts from just about any place in the world.

The X-47B is the first drone designed to take off and land on a carrier, meaning the U.S. military would not need per-mission from other countries to use their bases.

“As our access to overseas ports, forward operating lo-cations and airspace is di-minished around the world, the value of the aircraft carri-er and the air wing becomes more and more important,” Rear Adm. Ted Branch, com-mander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said after the flight off the Virginia coast. “So to-day is history.”

The move to expand the capa-bilities of the nation’s drones comes amid growing criticism of America’s use of Predators and Reap-ers to gather intelligence and carry out lethal missile at-tacks against t e r r o r i s t s in Iraq, Af-g h a n i s t a n , Pakistan and Yemen.

Critics in the U.S. and abroad have c h a r g e d that drone s t r i k e s cause wide-spread civil-ian deaths and are con-ducted with inadequate oversight.

Still, de-fense analysts say drones are the future of warfare.

The new Joint Strike Fighter jet “might be the last manned fighter the U.S. ever builds. They’re so expensive, they’re so complex, and you put a human at risk every time it takes off from a carrier,” said James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

“This is the next generation

of military technology — the unmanned vehicles, the un-manned submersibles, the unmanned aircraft,” he said. “This will be the future of warfare, and it will be a war-fare that is a little less risky for humans but maybe a little more effective when it comes to delivering weapons and effect.”

While the X-47B isn’t in-tended for operational use, it will help Navy officials de-velop future carrier-based drones. Those drones could begin operating by 2020, said Rear Adm. Mat Winter, the Navy’s program execu-tive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons.

The X-47B is far bigger than the Predator, has three times the range and can be pro-grammed to carry out mis-sions with no human inter-vention, the Navy said.

While the X-47B isn’t a stealth aircraft, it was de-signed with the low profile of one. That will help in the de-velopment of future stealth drones, which would be valu-able as the military changes its focus from the Middle East to the Pacific, where a number of countries’ air de-fenses are a lot stronger than Afghanistan’s.

“Unmanned systems would be the likely choice in a the-

ater or an e n v i r o n -ment that was highly d e f e n d e d or danger-ous where we wouldn’t want to send m a n n e d a i r c r a f t , ” Branch said.

D u r i n g T u e s d a y ’ s flight, the X-47B used a steam catapult to launch, just as tradi-tional Navy w a r p l a n e s do. The un-armed air-craft then made two

low approaches toward the aircraft carrier as it if was going to land, before being waved off and returning to a higher altitude. The jet then landed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland about an hour later.

The next critical test for the tailless plane will come this summer, when it attempts to land on a moving aircraft car-rier, one of the most difficult tasks for Navy pilots.

Unmanned aircraft size of fighter jet flies off Va. coast

«This is the next generation of military technology — the unmanned vehicles, the unmanned submersibles, the unmanned aircraft.» JAMES LEWIS, senior fellow at the center for Strategic and International Studies

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Ball State is receiving additional state fund-ing for the first time in the last two biennium, but it’s still in a dire funding situation.

The Indiana Commission for Higher Edu-cation originally proposed an $11.4 million cut for Ball State to the legislature in De-cember, but thanks to an overall increase in higher education funding by the state, that number dwindled to less than $750,000 lost in state appropriations. The university end-ed up 2.8 percent better than the last bud-get cycle after one of its capital requests, en-trepreneurial university, was granted $6.7 million in funding.

As President Jo Ann Gora has fought for Ball State’s educational strategy in the state, she has met resistance. She has fought the performance-based formula, which she has said favors large and growing campuses, and advocated for increasing the university’s se-lectivity. She has stuck by the same strategy

despite watching the state drain money from Ball State due to the university’s poor perfor-mance in ICHE’s metrics. One of the univer-sity’s biggest strategic goals has been increas-ing immersive learning, which continues to grow across campus.

Some may think Ball State’s additional fund-ing is a result of the state’s faith in where Gora is taking the university, but it’s just not the case — yet.

The state gave the university more funding, but it’s mainly because of the renewed fund-ing for higher education as a whole. Indiana increased operating appropriations of public institutions a total of 3.8 percent in the next biennium. The state is edging closer to recog-nizing Ball State’s educational commitment, but it won’t show the support the university needs until its performance-based formulas start rewarding institutions for their quality educational initiatives.

Even in Gora’s presentation to the Senate Appropriations Committee in March, Sen. Brent Waltz questioned the university’s educational goals and its possible finan-cial implications.

“Is Ball State going down the right road from a financial perspective, not from the educational perspective, but from a financial perspective?” he said. “Are we doing the right thing by the taxpayers of the state or are some of these projects better left toward maybe some of the higher end private universities and colleges that Indiana and surrounding states would have?”

That sounds far from a seal of approval from the Indiana statehouse.

I agree with the strategies Ball State has taken to improve academically. I have em-braced them and enjoyed the opportuni-ties it has given me. But the statehouse isn’t quite on board with Ball State’s strategies

like many of us are and it shows in the fund-ing. Even when it’s more, it’s still far less growth than institutions like Purdue, Indi-ana and Ivy Tech.

“You always want to think that however our state chooses to fund higher education, [it does] it in a way that makes the most sense,” Bernie Hannon, associate vice president of business affairs and assistant treasurer, said. “I think a lot of us feel like we really ought to have a system that rewards quality and re-wards improving institutions that want to get better, not just bigger.”

The university needs more than what it has been getting. That’s why Gora has made her case time after time with state legisla-tors. And it’s why Ball State is still going to fight for performance-based measures that factor in institutions improving the quality of the education, not just the quantity of de-grees completed.

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And now he can rest until the Eastern Conference finals.

LeBron James scored 23 points, Wade added 18 and had a brilliant 45-second se-quence that proved crucial, and the Heat clawed back from an 11-point second-half deficit to beat the Chicago Bulls 94-91 on Wednesday night and close out their second-round series in five games. The Heat outscored Chicago 25-14 in the fourth quarter to escape and advance.

“I knew the fourth quar-ter was going to be tough so I wanted to re-tape my knee,” said Wade, who has been bat-tling bone bruises on his knee for several weeks. “I knew I was going to come back into a grind. Our trainers did a great job of getting it taped it enough so I could come out and play.”

Wade had a blocked shot, de-fensive rebound, offensive re-bound and put back slam — all in a late 45-second span — to help cap a wild night of wild comebacks. The Heat blew an early 18-point lead, then pulled off a late rally to finish off the depleted Bulls, who still had two chances on their last pos-session to force overtime.

“Dwyane is uncanny,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “When the competition is at its highest, and its fiercest, he finds a way.”

Carlos Boozer finished with 26 points and 14 rebounds for the Bulls, who were with-out Derrick Rose for the 99th straight game, as well as Kirk Hinrich (calf) and Luol Deng (illness). Rob-inson scored 21 points, But-ler had 19, and Richard Ham-ilton 15 for the Bulls, who dropped the fi-nal four games of the series.

A team that played without the 2011 NBA MVP in Rose, and dealt with a slew of other issues along the way, was within a couple shots from forcing the reigning champions to fly back to Chicago for a Game 6 on Fri-day night.

“We’ve got warriors here,” Boozer said. “If we’re healthy next season, we’re going to be pretty good.”

Shane Battier opened the fourth quarter with a 3-pointer to get Miami within five. An-other 3-pointer from Battier — over Boozer, his fellow Duke alum — came not long after-ward, and he connected on a

pair of free throws after being fouled on a 3-point try to cut Chicago’s lead to 81-79.

Norris Cole had a pair of bas-kets, the second being a left-handed driving dunk, to put Mi-ami on top, and the Heat found a way to close it out from there, even though it wasn’t easy, by any measure.

Robinson’s 3-pointer with 1:43 left got the Bulls to 94-91. No one scored again, even though there were plenty of

chances both ways.When it was fi-

nally over, the Heat lingered on the court in celebra-tion. Wade held on to the game ball as he shook a few fans’ hands, and he, James and Bosh exchanged some high-fives — the last three Miami players to leave the floor.

“I had a good couple of minutes,” Wade said. “I knew they’ve seen a lot of LeBron and Norris.

I knew they weren’t prepared for me to attack which is what I was able to do.”

The Heat will almost surely be big favorites against either Indiana or New York, though it’s certain either opponent would enter a series against Mi-ami with plenty of confidence. The Knicks went 3-1 against the Heat this season, outscor-ing them by 11.5 points per game and winning both of their games at Miami convincingly. The Pacers went 2-1 against

the Heat, winning twice in In-dianapolis and losing their lone game in Miami.

To put that in some more perspective, the Heat went 2-5 against the Knicks and Pacers, and is now 72-12 against all other NBA clubs this season.

“It only gets more difficult and more challenging,” Spoel-stra said. “That’s what com-petitors want.”

Then again, given how Mi-ami has played over the last 3½ months, the notion of the Heat losing to anybody four times might seem downright impossible. The Heat lost at Indiana on Feb. 1. They won at Toronto two days later, the first victory in what became a run of 27 straight wins — and the start of a stretch that has seen Miami go 45-3 in its last 48 games.

More than half the league —“They’re a great team. A great team,” Thibodeau said. “They’re not going to beat themselves. You have to beat them.

No one would have thought the ending would be so exciting after the way this one started.

“We grinded it out,” Boozer said. “We had chances. We just fell a little bit short.”

And Miami moved on, now halfway home in its quest for a second straight title.

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Scott Baker was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week on Wednesday.

In a complete game versus Toledo last week, the sophomore right-hand-er threw a three-hit shutout. He struck out one hitter and walked two on the day.

Though the Rockets entered the game with a MAC best .290 batting average, Baker held the team to a .100 average in the game.

The award was Baker’s fifth of the season. Coach Rich Maloney said Baker has been a huge part of the team’s success, and will be especially impor-tant in the team’s series versus Northern Illinois this week.

Baker will compete in a pitcher’s duel with

Huskie pitcher Eli Anderson. An-derson comes into the series with a 9-3 record on the season, and an 8-0 mark in MAC play.

“He’s gotten several Pitcher of the Weeks,” Maloney said of Baker. “I’m sure the other boy has too. It’s going to be a great battle, and it’s going be a great opportunity for anybody who comes out to see two of the best pitchers in the league in a great matchup.”

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After the five completed their practice round, Fleck said the team seemed confident on the course. That will go a long way, as a majority of the 14 teams in the regional have no experi-ence on the course.

Ball State has played against two of the teams in the field (St. Mary’s (Calif.) and Mem-phis), but the new faces will be on the team’s mind.

Unanimous No. 1 California heads the talented Regional, and is not only the favorite to

take first in the regional, but also win the National Cham-pionship.

All season the Cardinals’ motto has been to “stay rel-evant,” but now that might be changing, and the sights are a little higher. Ball State has to finish in the top five to advance to the next round.

“There are a lot of talented teams in [the Regional], and it is going to take five solid scores, but there’s no rea-son we can’t compete [and] be near the top at the end,” Fleck said.

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BASEBALL

MCT PHOTOMiami Heat’s Dwyane Wade gets inside for two during the second quarter in Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs against the Chicago Bulls. The game took place at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Fla., on Wednesday.

DN FILE PHOTO JORDAN HUFFERSophomore Scott Baker pitches against Central Michigan on April 13. Ball State will host a series against Northern Illinois this weekend.

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The Ball State baseball team will compete for the Mid-American Con-ference West’s No. 1 spot this week. A three-game series beginning on Thursday will set the stage for two of the league’s biggest surprises.

The 2013 MAC baseball preseason poll, voted on by the conference’s 12 head coaches, tabbed Ball State to fin-ish fifth of six teams in the MAC West.

The only team that fell below Ball State in the preseason poll was the team that currently leads the division: Northern Illinois.

The Huskies lead Ball State by two games heading into the regular sea-son’s final series.

Coach Rich Maloney said his team’s first priority is to get one win in the series, as to clinch a spot in postsea-son play. From there, the sky is the limit.

“Right now we’re one win away from the playoffs, and on top of that we’re actually going into a weekend that if someway, somehow we’re able to put together a great weekend, we could win the west division,” he said.

If Ball State sweeps Northern Illi-nois, they will stand alone as division champions.

The Cardinals have won seven of their last nine games to climb up in the league’s standings. Now a team that was not favored coming into the season, or even at the season’s half-

way point, is a contender at the end of the year.

“We’ve put ourselves into good posi-tion going into the series,” Maloney said.

A big part of the team’s success has been sophomore pitcher Scott Baker. He has posted a 10-1 record in the circle for Ball State this season.

Baker now owns a 1.69 ERA on the year with 78 strikeouts in 90.1 in-nings. The sophomore will continue to play an important roll as the team prepares for Northern Illinois.

“We’re going to give it everything we’ve got and see if Baker can help pitch a great game,” Maloney said. “He’s had a phenom-enal year, but we’ve got our work cut out for us.”

The Huskies will bring their own dominant pitcher into the all-impor-tant series. Eli An-derson is 9-3 on the season, with a perfect 8-0 mark in MAC play. His ERA in league play is .91, as he’s allowed just 11 runs in his eight games.

A pair of teams that failed to make the 2012 MAC Tournament field now find themselves competing for a 2013 division title that few thought either was capable of taking.

“It’s going to be a great battle between two teams that haven’t had a lot of suc-cess in the recent past,” Maloney said.

The teams will play at 3 p.m. today and Friday, with the series finale to be played at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Ball State to host pivotal three-game series with divison leader N. Illinois

INDIVIDUAL STATSSCOTT BAKER, SOPHOMORE PITCHER

• Ranks sixth in the nation in pitching victories with 10

• Tied for 17th nationally in games started with 13• 30th in the nation with four

complete games• 31st in the country with a 1.69

ERA

THE INDIVIDUALS

THE FORMAT

1. Ryan Williams, Sacramento State,

2. Tyler Raber, UC Davis3. Mason Casper, Utah Valley4. Taeksoo Kim, Boise State5. Jordan Weir, Sacramento

State.

THURSDAY — SATURDAY18 holes each day

Ball State tees off at 12:15 p.m. in Thursday’s first round. Live scoring is available at golfstat.com.

SCOTT BAKER TAKES WEEKLY HONORS, PREPARES FOR DUEL

Cards compete for West title

Miami wins, advances to Eastern Conference FinalsHeat rally behind clutch Dwyane Wade, home crowd to defeat Bulls in Game 5

« I had a good couple of minutes, I knew they’ve seen a lot of LeBron and Norris. I knew they weren’t prepared for me to attack which is what I was able to do. »DWAYNE WADE, Miami shooting guard

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EVENTS THIS WEEKHAPS/////////// THE TODAY The baseball team

will host NIU in the first of a three-game series. First pitch scheduled for 3 p.m.

The men’s golf team competes in the first day of NCAA Regionals at Washington State University.

FRIDAY Baseball takes on Northern Illinois in series’ second game, first pitch scheduled for 3 p.m.

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