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| RACHEL PODNAR CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]

A specialty tequila and taco bar is open and ready for students in the Vil-lage as the new semester begins.

Red Bird Tequila and Taco Bar is the third business to open in University Square since the property was pur-chased by Milhaus Development for $1.3 million in April 2011.

Chris Ellison is the owner of Red Bird Tequila and Taco Bar, Cleo’s Bourbon Bar, The Silo and Columbia Theatre.

Ellison hopes that the Village can maintain the success it has and con-tinue to expand with a variety of businesses.

“I would like to see more people come in and do more,” Ellison said. “The things that are currently there, it’s awesome that they’re able to be there and maintain with additional growth. There should be additional things coming in like a decent clothing chain [could] come in and make a presence.”

Ellison said Cleo’s, his first business in the Village, has maintained success since opening in December 2011.

“It’s been amazing as far as people coming in, and the customer base,” El-lison said. “We’re busy all the time, it’s awesome.”

In a previous interview with the Daily News, David Leazenby, vice president of Milhaus Development, said Ellison was planning on opening a Little Chi-cago Pizza in the Village.

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C hris Ellison turned to the Mayans while searching for a name for his new taco and tequila bar in the Vil-lage. Researching their heirographs,

he found the red bird. “It’s the Mexican cardinal,” Ellison said.

“Cardinal is everywhere in Muncie, so we chose the name Red Bird.”

Red Bird opened on Dec. 11, the start of Finals Week.

“We were slammed from open to close time throughout Finals Week,” he said. “We blew out creating something that didn’t exist. This is an industry that struggles, and you’re more likely to fail than to succeed. No one gets into

something to fail, but escaping what could be failure is key.”

Mexican decor infuses the bar’s atmosphere. One part of Red Bird’s wall is made of exposed brick. The bar showcases a wide variety of tequila bottles, some of them quite exquisite. Lights hang from the ceilings and Mexican-influenced paintings hang from the wall.

Although Red Bird is a Mexican restaurant, Ellison brought his background from other areas into the business. Instead of traditional Mexican refried beans, he uses the black beans from his Cuban background. The seasoning in the food is created through a fusion of Cuban and Spanish influences.

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After a campus landmark was vandalized during Finals Week of Fall Semester, university officials are looking toward restoration.

The bronze statue, known as “Frog Baby,” was vandalized with gold spray paint during Finals Week.

Joan Todd, executive director of public relations, said restoring Frog Baby could cost up to $5,000.

“It is clearly a job for experts and can’t be done in house,” Todd said. “A professional will need to remove the paint to ensure pres-ervation of the statue.”

It isn’t the first time Frog Baby was vandalized.According to a Ball State news center release, four adults at-

tempted to steal the statue in June 1999.The suspects included three Ball State students and one

Muncie woman.Although they were not successful in stealing Frog Baby,

they did remove four bronze frog statues and caused more than $10,000 in damages to the mountings and water pipes connect-ed to the frogs.

The statues were later recovered by the University Police De-partment and reinstalled.

UPD has finished its investigation and will share its findings with Delaware County prosecutor Jeff Arnold.

Jim Lowe, director of Engineering and Construction Operations, said the university is still looking at options for repair, but it is in contact with a restoration company.

“It appears that [the statue] will have to be removed and sent to their facility to be restored,” Lowe said.

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DN PHOTO TAYLOR IRBY Frog Baby sports a new coat of gold paint Dec. 14. The act of vandalism to the iconic statue has left some students outraged.

Taylor W @taywicker Amanda K @salAmanda77

Frog Baby @bsufrogbaby Kelly B @_kaybar

i hope Frog Baby is back to normal by next monday. it hurt my heart seeing her all discolored and weird looking.

Note to BSU students: If you’re going to spray paint a university statue, at least do a good job. Finally walked by poor @bsufrogbaby :(

All i want for Christmas is my two front teeth. Oh yeah. And my freaking body to not be gold!!

I enjoy frog baby’s new look.

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Although Ball State didn’t win the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl against Central Florida on Dec. 21, the game didn’t result in a negative bowl week experience for the program.

“It was an incredible experience for everybody involved,” athletic direc-tor Bill Scholl said following the game. “Obviously you’d like to win the game, but everybody associated with the bowl was first-class.”

The team arrived in St. Petersburg on Dec. 16 and up until gameday partici-pated in several bowl festivities, includ-ing a welcome party, a beach bash and a team dinner on a boat.

The team captains also visited the St. Petersburg All Children’s Hospital the day before the bowl game.

“I’d be hard pressed to believe there’s not a more professional, customer-ser-vice oriented detailed staff than here,” coach Pete Lembo said. “From A-to-Z they had it all covered.”

Coming from Notre Dame, Scholl has been to multiple bowl games in the past. He passed along his knowledge of bowl games and knowing what to expect to Lembo, who was making his first bowl game appearance.

But after two seasons at Ball State and already playing in a bowl game, Scholl

understands that Lembo knows how to run a football team and how he’s built the football team for the future.

Scholl says having team in bowl game will help market school nationally

New editor-in-chief Andrew Mishler writes what is changing at the DN this semester

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Rules of etiquette apply when taking back holiday presentsSEE PAGE 4

Have gifts you don’t want?

See FOOTBALL, page 8

FLAVOR FIESTAVillage gets a taste of Mexico in new taco and tequila bar

Additions add variety to student retail area despite slow progress

See VILLAGE, page 5See RED BIRD, page 5

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CHANGES CONTINUE IN VILLAGE

DN PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEK Red Bird, a new Mexican restaurant in the Village, opened during Finals Week next to Cleo’s Bourbon Bar on Dec. 11. The bar and restaurant offers a variety of specialty tequilas and is open until 4 am Thursday to Saturday.

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After four months of work stoppage, the NHL and the NHLPA come to a tentative agreement that will end the league’s second lockout in the past eight seasons. The season will begin as early as next week.

NBC executives said Sunday they are conscious about the amount of violence they air in the wake of real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, but have made no changes in what has gone on the air or what is planned.

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AURORA, Colo. — SWAT of-ficers who stormed a Colorado home where a gunman had holed up found a horrific scene — four dead bodies including that of the gunman.

Police said the armed man fired shots at officers Saturday from a second-story window before officers killed him. Once

inside, they found the bodies of three other adults.

The suspect, whose name was withheld by police, held officers at bay for nearly six hours after neighbors report-ed gunfire at 3 a.m. inside the modest townhome in the Den-ver suburb of Aurora, said po-lice Sgt. Cassidee Carlson.

It wasn’t known if officers shot the suspect or if he shot himself.

Investigators said two men and a woman appeared to have been killed before officers arrived.

The suspect shot at police who approached the front of the home with an armored ve-hicle and who fired tear gas around 8:15 a.m. He was killed when he fired at officers from the second-story window about 45 minutes later, Carlson said.

“After we arrived on scene, there were no more shots fired up until he fired at us,” Carlson said. “During this time he was all over the house. He moved furni-

ture. He was throwing things. He was agitated. He was irrational.”

A large front window was missing in the two-story town-home, the window’s mini-blinds in disarray. Bullet holes marked two upstairs windows, and neigh bors milled about outside.

A fifth person escaped un-harmed and called police to report that she saw three people inside the home who “appeared lifeless,” said Carl-son, who declined to elaborate about the woman’s escape.

A motive for the killings was

unknown, and police had yet to say what weapon or weap-ons were used. Investigators wearing gloves and carrying evidence bags were going over the crime scene.

Police declined to release the victims’ names.

“We have an idea of who they are, but we obviously want to confirm their identities with the coroner,” said Carlson, who declined to release the rela-tionship between the victims and the shooter.

Officers evacuated neighbors’

homes during the standoff and used a bullhorn to communi-cate with the gunman.

The shootings occurred about four miles southeast of the Aurora Mall, where 12 people were killed and dozens were wounded by a gunman at a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” on July 20. The man charged in that shooting, James Holmes, goes to court today for a prelimi-nary hearing in which pros-ecutors will present their case against him.

Colorado authorities say it is not known if suspect was shot by officers or himself

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MIAMI — After decades when paying college athletes was thought to violate the spir-it of amateurism, the enormous television revenue generated by sports — football and bas-ketball in particular — and the long hours of work by the play-ers have changed the debate.

The head of the NCAA now supports a stipend for ath-letes to cover costs beyond tuition, books and fees, and both coaches in today’s BCS championship between No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama spoke in support of the idea in the days before the game.

The question is no longer whether to cut athletes a check, it’s how best to do that.

“I still think the overriding factor here is that these young men put in so much time with being a student and then their responsibilities playing the

sport, that they don’t have an opportunity to make any mon-ey at all,” Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said Sunday.

“I want them to be college kids, and a stipend will con-tinue to allow them to be col-lege kids.”

To get a sense of the land-scape, look at the way things were when Notre Dame last won the national champi-onship, in 1988. That sea-son, Fighting Irish players earned scholarships worth about $10,000 per year and the school got $3 million for playing in the Fiesta Bowl to go with the revenue it made for TV appearances through-out the season. Even then, there was discussion about the disparity between ben-efits for the players and for the schools.

This season’s Irish will get scholarships worth about $52,000 per year and the school will receive $6.2 million for playing in the title game — to go with the $15 million NBC reportedly pays just to televise the school’s regular-season home games.

While the value of that athletic scholarship has nev-er been greater, the money being made by the schools that play big-time college football has skyrocketed, too.

NCAA President Mark Em-mert believes it is time for a change.

While Emmert draws a clear distinction between the $2,000 stipend he has proposed and play-for-pay athletics, he un-apologetically advocates for giving student-athletes a larger cut of a huge pie that is about to get even bigger.

The NCAA’s current men’s basketball tournament agree-ment with CBS is worth an av-erage of more than $770 mil-lion per year, and the current Bowl Championship Series television deal — money that goes to conferences and then is distributed to schools, with no NCAA involvement — is worth $180 million per year.

The new college football playoff, which starts in the 2014 season, will be worth about $470 million annually to the conferences.

Emmert chides athletic

programs that make major decisions guided by efforts to generate more revenue, such as switching conferences, and then complain they can’t afford a stipend.

“When the world believes it’s all a money grab, how can you say we can stick with the same scholarship model as 40 years ago?” he said last month.

In October 2011, the NCAA’s Division I Board of Directors

approved a rule change that would give colleges the option of providing athletes with a $2,000 stipend for expenses not covered by scholarships.

“It doesn’t strike me as drastic by definition,” said Mike Slive, commissioner of the South-eastern Conference, Alabama’s league, and one of the most vo-cal advocates for a full-cost-of-attendance scholarship.

But many schools objected to the policy, and last January, the board delayed its implementa-tion. Colleges worried about how the stipends would affect Title IX compliance.

“I do understand the eco-nomics, that it might be more difficult for some than others, but for those that can do it, it’s the right thing do to and that ought to be the guiding factor,” he said.

Right now, the millions of dollars schools are making through sports are often going back into athletic programs. Colleges are caught in a never-ending race with their fellow institutions to attract the best talent with the best facilities, stadiums and coaches.

Head of the NCAA supports a stipend for student players

Police kill gunman, find 3 more dead

CLARKS HILL, Ind. (AP) — Win-ter weather has complicated fire-fighters’ efforts to extinguish a blaze at a western Indiana compa-ny that produces wooden pallets.

A Tippecanoe County sheriff’s dispatcher said Sunday that crews remained on the scene of a fire at the Industrial Pallet Corp. in tiny Clarks Hill, about 15 miles southeast of Lafayette.

The Journal & Courier reports 22 fire departments responded late Saturday night to the fire near U.S. 52 and Indiana 28, which was visible for several miles. No injuries were reported.

Water was trucked in from La-fayette and other sources after the Clarks Hill water tower was emptied.

Lafayette Fire Department as-sistant fire chief Steve Butram says the fire is expected to burn for several days.

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After the decorations come down and the cookies are fin-ished, the real nightmare of the holidays comes alive in the aftermath: returns.

For college students, fami-lies may stick with cash or gift cards, choosing a safe route to save themselves and the receivers time. However, there are still those that give gifts that are appreciated, but just don’t make the cut. These unwanted gifts leave the recipients stuck between a rock and a hard place. How do you tell someone that you like their gift, but not enough to keep it?

“There is nothing wrong with wanting to get rid of a gift that no longer brings you joy,” gift and etiquette expert Leah Ingram said on her website.

“With anything in your home, if you don’t love it and use it, get rid of it.

This includes gifts you’ve received over time.”

Many people struggle with the guilt or uncom-fortable feeling of returning gifts,

but it is something that can be done

with a little care and planning.

If you’re lucky, there will be a gift receipt included in the package. This allows an easy, guilt-free exchange; how-ever, if there is a price dif-ference between the original gift and what you want to ex-change it for, you will have to pay, which isn’t necessarily ideal. Keep in mind that you may not get as much as you expect for a gift, or you may

not necessarily like the store where you receive store credit. Ingram advised that “it really is unfair to judge someone by where they buy your gift,” especially those that bargain hunt on a lim-ited income.

In some cases, you can re-quest a receipt, such as if you’re looking to exchange a shirt for the correct size. This is basically the end of the ac-ceptability of requesting a receipt. Asking for a receipt without proper justification is a giveaway that you don’t ac-tually like the gift, and you are likely to offend the giver.

“Sometimes you just have to accept that you’re going to get gifts that you don’t like, but that’s what eBay or re-gifting is for,” Ingram said.

If you’re dead-set on return-ing an item but don’t have a receipt, many stores will accept items for store credit, but some stores have set limits. For exam-ple, Target limits customers to $100 worth of returns without a receipt in a single year.

Although secretly returning items can be enticing, you run the risk of the giver find-ing out, especially if it is an unusual item.

Sometimes you can get rid of a gift without having to worry about receipts or store credit. The first option is to resell it somewhere, such as eBay or a consignment shop. This option allows you to pass the item along to someone who truly wants it, as well as making a few bucks. Another option is re-gifting, which can be handy if done properly. Keeping track of who gave you something can help you to avoid the awkward situation of trying to gift some-thing to the person that origi-nally gave it to you.

Although dealing with un-wanted gifts can be a hassle or even a daunting task, if care-fully handled, it can be a breeze and possibly help you to be a better gift giver in the future.

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ONLINE “Texas Chainsaw 3-D” steals top spot from “The Hobbit” in box office debut this weekend.

TUESDAY Seniors, with one semester left, make sure you’re on track to graduate with our graduation checklist.

THURSDAY Check out which loveable green giant is making his way toward the Emens stage.

After kind of a lackluster 2011, we marked a return of quality major American films in 2012. These were my favorites. They’re ranked, but the top six were al-most interchangeable for me.

1. “ARGO”Plain and simple this was the best pure film of the

year. No other movie provided as tight of a plot or good of pace as “Argo.” With this story of U.S. embassy hostages being snuck out of Iran via a fake movie pro-duction, Ben Affleck has cemented his status as one of the better major directors working today.

2. “THE MASTER” Paul Thomas Anderson is undoubtedly the most

interesting major American director working today and “The Master” continues his remarkable run. “The Master” explores an amalgam for Scientology through its creator, Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix) a man who threatens the entire movement. “The Master” is maybe the most thought provoking movie of the year, for better or worse. Whether or not you like it, “The Master” will be sure to move you some way.

3. “LINCOLN”This is now my favorite of Steven Spielberg’s films. I

think “Lincoln” pulls off a good amount of complexity and gets a sublime performance from Daniel Day–Lew-is as the 16th president. The film takes place toward the end of the Civil War, as Abraham Lincoln moves to end the war as quickly as possible while also trying to pass the 13th Amendment. This requires him to try and persuade members of Congress across political party lines. The modern–day allegory is obvious, but the real strengths of the film are the great performances and a terrific script by Pulitzer winner Tony Kushner.

4. “THE DARK KNIGHT RISES”“The Dark Knight Rises” takes place eight years after

“The Dark Knight” and deals with Bruce Wayne (Chris-tian Bale) trying to cope with the new peace created after the death of Harvey Dent. However, that peace is in jeopardy from the greatest threat Batman has faced: a hulking mercenary named Bane (Tom Hardy).

“The Dark Knight Rises” brought everything full cir-cle in a fun and interesting way. I thought it was well–paced, well–acted and overall gave the trilogy the epic ending it deserved.

5. “LOOPER”“Looper” takes us to a future where specialized as-

sassins kill people sent back to them from the future by mob bosses. One of these “Loopers” named Joe (Jo-seph Gordon–Levitt) runs into problems when his fu-ture self (Bruce Willis) is sent back but escapes. Rian Johnson penned a wonderful script for “Looper” and combined it with a lot of cool visuals to create a mind–bending piece of sci–fi.

6. “MOONRISE KINGDOM”“Moonrise Kingdom” the story of a young boy scout

named Sam (Jared Gilman) who runs away with his young love Suzy (Kara Hawood). They try to escape on the countryside as their parents and other adults chase them. This movie wonderfully explored the mystique and loss of innocence in childhood. The cast includes Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.

7. “BERNIE”This thought-provoking movie displayed just how good

Jack Black can be when given the right role. He stars as a beloved mortician who turns a community upside down when he murders a wealthy widow (Shirley Maclaine). It’s interesting to see how the town reacts when one of its most prominent members commits murder.

8. “PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER”Most movies about high school are stupid, clichéd

and pretty annoying. “The Perks of Being a Wallflow-er,” however, actually kind of reminded me of high school. “Perks of Being a Wallflower” gives high school a nostalgic but still mature look. It’s well–casted and has great pacing to the story.

9. “ARBITRAGE”Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is a corrupt business-

man unfaithful to his marriage and tries to cover up murdering his mistress. And yet, despite these things, “Arbitrage” makes us feel tension as he’s being investi-gated for the murder. This is the brilliance of Nicholas Jeracki’s film: that we can be behind such a villainous person as he tries to escape.

10. “BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD”Bizarre and beautiful, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”

explores an area known as “The Bathtub,” which is a ravaged area south of Louisiana. Here we meet Hush-puppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and her dad Wink (Dwight Henry) who are each trying to survive despite a com-ing storm. This film is unconventional but does a really good job of painting a world that is easy to get lost in.

FILMS TO LOOK FOR IN 2013: “Iron Man 3” (May 3) – The next in the saga of Robert

Downey Jr.’s superhero. Chirpmeter–3.5/5“The Great Gatsby” (May 10) – Starring Leonardo

DiCaprio as Gatsby, another film version of the book everyone read in high school. Chirpmeter–3.5/5

“Star Trek: Into Darkness” (May 17) – The eagerly awaited follow–up to J.J. Abram’s 2009 blockbuster. Chirpmeter–4/5

“World War Z” (June 21) – Based on the popular book, zombies begin to swarm the world. Chirpmeter–4/5

“Elysium” (Aug. 9) – Neill Blomkamp’s follow up to “District 9.” Chirpmeter–4/5

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” (Dec. 13) – The next in the trilogy of Hobbit films. Chirpmeter–4/5

“Anchorman! The Legend Continues” (Dec. 20) – The sequel almost 10 years in the making. Chirpmeter–3/5

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Technology aids in completing hard-to-keep 2013 resolutions

| JEREMY ERVIN CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]

Improving wellness is a constant theme among New Year’s resolutions. While self-improvement objectives such as losing weight, quitting smok-ing and drinking less have been around since the inception of their respective vices, new tools and technologies are developed every year to help people reach their goals.

LOSE WEIGHTThose looking to lose weight or sim-

ply get in better shape may consider the free smartphone app GymPact. The app takes users’ credit card in-formation and then has them devise a plan called a “pact,” committing to going to the gym for a specified mini-mum number of days for the upcom-ing week. Then the user selects a penalty for failing to complete their workouts, with a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $50. Users who com-plete their weekly pacts are rewarded with a share of the money from users who were forced to pay.

In order to help maintain legitimacy, users must use their phones to check in to their respective gym and stay there for at least 30 minutes.

Those less interested in taking a fi-nancial risk with their fitness can download MyFitnessPal from the Apple or Android app stores. The app helps the users evaluate their calorie needs for their goals, and then track the calories in versus calories out to help them lose or maintain weight.

The app provides users with useful graphs, charts and diagnostics to help

them better understand their nutrition-al needs and keep them motivated.

Marie Taylor, a 20-year-old Ball State student, has been using the app for a year and a half in order to help her keep track of her calorie intake and exercise.

“The barcode scan feature helps make it easier to make sure you’re logging the correct foods,” she said, “It’s helped me a lot. I have been able to lose weight in a healthy manner by using it.”

STOP SMOKINGThis year, the electronic cigarette

brand Blu began running advertise-ments on television. Since the prod-uct contains no tobacco, only nicotine gel, the laws banning tobacco prod-ucts from being advertised on televi-sion do not apply.

Electronic cigarettes are touted by both marketers and consumers as a safer alternative to tobacco smoking, or as a means of nicotine cessation, like Nicorette gum or patches. No large scale studies have been conducted that could legitimize or refute these claims. However, in 2009, the FDA publicly dis-couraged Americans from using elec-tronic cigarettes as a means of quitting. The debate continues.

While the public waits for the final word on electronic-cigarettes, there are numerous smartphone apps that smokers can use to motivate them. One of these is My Last Cigarette, which sells on the Apple App Store for $0.99.

My Last Cigarette has the user input basic information about their life as a smoker, such as date started, date quit, price per pack and number of ciga-rettes smoked per day. The app then provides users with graphs and statis-tics about their health and progress.

Among these are the increase in life ex-pectancy, money saved, tobacco-related deaths since the user quit and time as a non-smoker down to the second. My Last Cigarette users can also request a

photo of the day which includes images such as cancer ridden lungs coupled with health facts about smoking.

DRINK LESSThe New Year’s Day hangover can be

a strong motivator to drink less. While there are methods such as “12-step-ping” to help alcoholics kick the habit, more casual drinkers have often been lacking information on their behavior’s costs as well as motivation to change those behaviors.

The website alcoholaware.co.uk of-fers visitors a means to track their drinking and to evaluate the conse-quences. It includes articles with facts about drinking and its social impacts, information about detoxing and an in-teractive tool called MyDrinkAware.

MyDrinkAware allows users to make an account and begin tracking their drinking. It issues reports, telling the user the amount drank not only in tra-ditional measures like calories, money or units of alcohol, but also in equiva-lencies like cheeseburgers instead of calories and minutes of exercise need-ed to offset those cheeseburgers.

The application then provides the user with personalized tips to help them amend their drinking habits and be healthier.

QUIT BAD HABITSFree smartphone apps like iQuit can

help users quit anything from the com-mon to the unconventional. The user inputs the thing they’d like to quit, and the date they began quitting and iQuit begins a timer. It records the days so that progress can be easily recorded and felt. It includes two buttons, one called “desire” and the other “relapse” that record and display the number of times that they are pressed, allowing the user to understand that they have beat cravings before and to warn them against falling off the wagon.

Smartphone apps, sites help users lose weight, quit smoking, drinking

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Another green initiative by Ball State will go into effect this semester after the urging of visitors and faculty members.

Ball State Parking Services will make available several electric vehicle parking spaces.

Jim Lowe, director of Engi-neering and Construction Op-erations, explained the process of deciding how to accommo-date electric vehicles.

“We started doing research, and there are a number of uni-versities that have installed a more sophisticated plug-in, ranging from $3,000 to 8,000,” Lowe said. “We decided you could install a traditional, outdoor safe, outlet for about $400; a tenth the cost.”

Lowe said the change came after inquiries from staff and visitors to accommodate for those who drive electric cars.

Parking Services is in the pro-cess of creating a map detailing the locations of the spots. Cur-rent plans will offer only one spot students will have access to, which will be located near the Alumni Center.

Other spaces include the Emens, McKinley and L. A. Pit-

tenger Student Center parking garages as well as the general faculty and staff parking lot south of campus, Nancy Wray, Parking Services office man-ager, said.

“Electric cars are a little pric-ey so I don’t know when to ex-pect students to participate, but we already have three fac-ulty who have ordered [electric cars],” Wray said.

If there is a greater need for electric car spaces, Parking Services will look to meet those needs, she said.

Students looking to take ad-vantage of the power stations will have to pay an extra $60 per semester, and use it exclu-sively for an electric car, even if they own a gasoline powered car, Wray said.

Guests wishing to use the spots will have to get a $1 per day guest pass.

“Our sustainability efforts are broad,” Lowe said. “This is about energy, but we address environ-mental concerns, energy, wildlife and several other things from large scale to simply changing outdated light fixtures.”

The location of the new park-ing spaces will be designated using a “plug” symbol.

University adds several charging stations for electric vehicles after staff, visitor inquiries

Ellison confirmed that a Little Chicago Pizza is on the way for some point during the 2013 Spring Semester but did not reveal when.

He said while it will not be located in University Square, it will be in the Village, al-though he could not give an exact location.

Leazenby could not be reached for comment on the continued development of the University Square property, but in a June interview with the Daily News spoke of potential façade reno-vations to University Square in Spring 2013.

Other businesses leased in University Square include Dill Street Bar and Grill and cardi-nal cupcakes and coneys.

Also slated to open soon in the Village, although not in Univer-sity Square, is late-night dessert option Insomnia Cookies.

Marketing Manager for Serve U Brands Renee Sarnecky said

Insomnia Cookies will open sometime in January 2013, but the exact date has yet to be de-termined.

Currently, the Village loca-tion is putting together the final pieces and getting ready to open.

Sarnecky said Insomnia Cook-ies, which will be open until 3 a.m., will add to the late night food options near campus.

“It’s a fun late-night environ-ment and another late-night option that we’re bringing to the campus,” Sarnecky said.

Ellison hopes the Village can maintain the success it has and continue to expand with a vari-ety of businesses.

“I would like to see more peo-ple come in and do more,” El-lison said. “The things that are currently there, it’s awesome that they’re able to be there and maintain with additional growth. There should be ad-ditional things coming in like a decent clothing chain [could] come in and make a presence.”

VILLAGE: Investors hope to add variety, options in area| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

DN FILE PHOTO JONATHAN MIKSANEKThe University Square building in the Village stands empty except a local restaurant, Oh! Fusion, Japanese in August 2011. University Square has facade renovations planned for the future.

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“With me being from Geor-gia, we’re going to have a peach salsa on the menu soon,” he added.

Since Red Bird is opened until 4 a.m., Ellison said he wanted people to come to Red Bird rather than Taco Bell be-cause of the quality of food they serve.

“We wanted a cleaner, healthier menu,” he said.

The business is more than just the food though. It’s spe-cialty is tequila and Ellison made sure to train his new bartenders on the alcohol.

Jaymi Lechlitner, bartender and server at Red Bird, said Ellison sat with the other bar-tenders and taught them how to take the notes of the tequila.

“He taught us how to smell the tequila,” Lechlitner said. “Inhale through the nose and exhale out of the mouth af-

ter the shot. That helped me out to figure out the taste of the tequila.”

Red Bird sells 65 varieties of tequila, ranging from $3 to $50 a shot.

“Every tequila bottle has so much craftsmanship,” Ellison said. “The creativeness that we put in our drinks and the focus we put into designing the menu makes Red Bird so special. We wanted to present a concept of what a Mexican restaurant should be.”

So far Lechlitner said the fish bowl drinks have been a hit with customers. Bartend-ers make margaritas in large fish bowls with seven differ-ent items.

Ellison said business is al-ready booming. Interest began before the bar even opened. Ellison had to frequently turn away customers asking if the bar was open yet.

But even with interest high,

RED BIRD: New tequila bar looks for success in Village| CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the bar still has some kinks to

work out.“My drink was way too

strong, and you could tell they didn’t know how to mix it right,” said Michele Murday, a senior geology major who visited the bar the first week it opened. She ordered one of the speciality drinks served in a fish bowl that night.

In addition, Murday said the bar was understaffed for the crowd that was in the bar.

Once they get more into the swing of things, she said the bar has a shot at success.

Ellison said his customers don’t come to Red Bird to sing karaoke or listen to bands, so he plans on setting up events

throughout the Spring Semes-ter to bring customers in.

“We are going to plan big St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo events,” he said. “We have trivia night next door at Cleo’s, and we’re going to bring it here.”

With the success Lechlitner said she has already seen at the bar, she is looking forward to see what kinds of people will come starting in this semester.

“Red Bird [has] such a differ-ent vibe than what else is in the Village,” she said. “The at-mosphere here is definitely go-ing to be a good one, especially with tequila.”

Lindsey Gelwicks contributed to this story.

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Some of us started our freshman year in Lafollette Complex with no friends in our entire hall, only to find life-long friends living next door by the end of the year.

And some of us had the best – and sometimes worst – experi-ences at parties across campus.

When I moved into Baker 126 in the Noyer Complex more than three years ago as a freshman journalism major, I imag-ined my story would center around the Ball State Daily News. I wanted to work my way up the ranks in the newsroom, go-ing from staff writer my freshman year to editor-in-chief my senior year.

Now, after writing hundreds of articles and spending count-less hours inside the Daily News newsroom, I turned that goal into reality.

But my position doesn’t come with the luxury of telling you my story. Instead, I want to tell your stories. And so does the rest of the DN.

Last semester, we made a push to become a more digital-first news organization. We incorporated stories, photos, vid-eos and graphics into our online product, and eventually, we switched over to a more user-friendly website, bsudaily.com.

After the Daily News was recently named a College Hybrid Publication Crown Finalist by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, meaning we’ve done well at combining our print and online coverage, I believe we’ve made strides in truly be-coming digital-first.

But we’re still building on that goal. And this semester, we have a new goal: to provide you with the most interesting and compelling stories about Ball State.

That seems like a pretty simple goal for a news organization, right? Well, sometimes that goal needs be re-emphasized. And that’s what we’re doing.

We’re not alone this time, though. As a part a new initiative between the journalism and telecommunications depart-ments, Ball State’s student media organizations are starting to combine their efforts. You may have already seen this on bsu-daily.com, which features content from the Daily News, Ball Bearings, NewsLink Indiana, WCRD and SportsLink.

In the next few years, all of these student media organiza-tions will work together in the same newsroom. Until that happens, we’re working together online.

All of us may present the news in different ways, but we all embody the same goal of presenting the best stories at Ball State to you.

So if you’re heading to class or sitting down for lunch, pick up the Ball State Daily News or Ball Bearings and check out the latest news.

If you’re relaxing in your dorm room around 9 p.m., turn on NewsLink Indiana.

If you’re driving around campus or Muncie, turn on 91.3 WCRD.

And go to bsudaily.com for stories from all of those organiza-tions, as well as SportsLink.

Remember, these goals and changes aren’t about the Daily News, or about any of the Ball State student media organizations.

They’re about you, the audience, and your stories about life at Ball State.

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UP FOR DEBATENO LONGER| EMMA KATE FITTES CHIEF REPORTER [email protected]

Instead of watching the ball drop at Times Square on New Years Eve, sophomore communications and po-litical science major Dakota Wappes watched fireworks from a huge festival on Germany’s Brandenburg bridge.

Wappes and six other Ball State students traveled to Berlin over Win-ter Break for the World Universities Debating Championship to compete against 82 countries.

The two debating students, Wappes and Caitlin Bartnik, beat 33 percent of the teams at the tournament.

Dylan Paul, who was a judge for the competition, got promoted from being a regular judge on a panel to a chair judge, who leads the panel and explains results to the debaters.

This far exceeded assistant director of debate and faculty adviser Nicole Johnson’s hope for the team, which was to beat 25 percent of the teams.

“Ultimately my expectations for this tournament was nothing more than to provide students with an experi-ence unlike anything they’ve ever had.” Johnson said. “Not only did we do that, we also performed well.”

The debaters were chosen from a multidisciplinary group of students in

a nine credit hour immersive project through a process of submitting an application and interviewing.

Although only two students compet-ed, five students accompanied them as “observers” of the competition.

Bringing more of the group helped calm nerves and provide a sense of security for Wappes.

“The only time I had been out of the coun-try was Niagara Falls, and I don’t think that really counts,” Wappes said,.“But I was never really homesick or anything. I think it was because I got to know everyone for a semes-ter. I was with people I trusted.”

Still, the competition was a culture shock and at times overwhelming, Wappes said.

“Seeing all of those people in the same place, competing and speaking the same language was really cool. It was definitely a neat educational ex-perience,” she said.

After watching her students increase

their skills in a different debate style called “British parliamentary style,” it was satisfying for Johnson to see the students practice networking and be-come accustomed with intercultural

relations.“We are approaching

a global economy that looks different than any one we’ve seen, one that looks far more diverse than most of us have experienced,” said John-son. “Now is the time not only to represent Ball State, but we are also representing the community of Muncie, we are representing the Midwest and we are also representing the United States of America. “

Now that they have had a taste of success at an international compe-tition, the team hopes

to continue to have an international presence.

“We were on a world stage … Com-peting with the best of the best, and we’re talking about the most intelli-gent, articulate thinkers in the world,” Johnson said. “And we held our own.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF BALL STATEDakota Wappes, speaking as the Prime Minister, motions to reject his opponent’s Point of Information during a preliminary round. The team participated at the World Universities Debating Championship in Berlin.

« We were on a world stage ... Competing with the best of the best, and we’re talking about the most intelligent, articulate thinkers in the world. And we held our own. »NICOLE JOHNSON, assistant director of debate

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MIAMI — Sometimes, the buildup to a game can over-whelm what actually happens on the field.

Certainly, No. 1 Notre Dame and No. 2 Alabama would have to play nothing less than a classic to live up to all the hype for Monday night’s BCS championship.

Before either team stepped on the field in balmy South Florida, this was shaping up as one of the most anticipated games in years, a throwback to the era when Keith Jackson & Co. called one game a week, when it was a big deal for teams from different parts of the country to meet in a bowl game, when everyone took sides based on where

they happened to live.North vs. South. Rockne vs.

Bear. Rudy vs. Forrest Gump.The Fighting Irish vs. the Crim-

son Tide.College football’s two most

storied programs, glorified in movie and song, facing off for the biggest prize.

“It’s definitely not any other game,” said Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley.

For the Crimson Tide (12-1), this is a chance to be remem-bered as a full-fledged dynasty. Alabama will be trying to claim its third national championship in four years and become the first school to win back-to-back BCS titles, a remarkable achieve-ment given the ever-increasing parity of the college game and having to replace five players from last year’s title team who were picked in the first two

rounds of the NFL draft.

“To be honest, I think this

team has kind of exceeded ex-pectations,” coach Nick Saban said Sunday. “If you look at all the players we lost last year, the leadership that we lost ... I’m re-ally proud of what this team was able to accomplish.”

That said, it’s not a huge sur-prise to find Alabama playing for another title. That’s not the case when it comes to Notre Dame.

Despite their impressive leg-acy, the Fighting Irish (12-0) weren’t even ranked at the start of the season. But overtime wins against Stanford and Pittsburgh, combined with three other vic-tories by a touchdown or less, gave Notre Dame a shot at its first national title since 1988.

After so many lost years, the golden dome has reclaimed its luster in coach Brian Kelly’s third season.

“It starts with setting a clear goal for the program,” Kelly said. “Really, what is it? Are we here to get to a bowl game, or are we here to win national championships? So the charge immediately was to play for championships and win a na-tional championship.”

Both Notre Dame and Alabama have won eight Associated Press national titles, more than any other school. They are the bluest of the blue bloods, the programs that have long set the bar for ev-eryone else even while enduring some droughts along the way.

ESPN executives were hopeful of getting the highest ratings of the BCS era. Tickets were cer-tainly at a premium, with a seat in one of the executive suites going for a staggering $60,000 on StubHub the day before the game, and even a less-than-prime spot in the corner of the upper deck requiring a payout of more than $900.

“This is, to me, the ultimate match-up in college football,” said Brent Musberger, the lead

announcer for ESPN.Kelly molded Notre Dame us-

ing largely the same formula that has worked so well for Sa-ban in Tuscaloosa: a bruising running game and a stout de-fense, led by Heisman Trophy finalist Manti Te’o.

“It’s a little bit old fashioned in the sense that this is about the big fellows up front,” Kelly said. “It’s not about the crazy receiving numbers or passing yards or rushing yards. This is about the big fellas, and this game will unquestionably be decided up front.”

While points figure to be at a premium given the quality of both defenses, Alabama appears to have a clear edge on offense. The Tide has the nation’s high-est-rated passer (AJ McCarron), two 1,000-yard rushers (Eddie Lacy and T.J. Yeldon), a dynamic freshman receiver (Amari Coo-per), and three linemen who made the AP All-America team (first-teamers Barrett Jones and Chance Warmack, plus second-teamer D.J. Fluker).

“That’s football at its finest,” said Te’o, who heads a defense that has given up just two rush-ing touchdowns. “It’s going to be a great challenge, and a chal-lenge that we look forward to.”

The Crimson Tide had gone 15 years without a national title when Saban arrived in 2007, the school’s fifth coach in less than a decade (including one, Mike Price, who didn’t even made it to his first game in Tuscaloosa). Final-ly, Alabama got it right.

In 2008, Saban landed one of the greatest recruiting classes in school history, a group that has already produced eight NFL draft picks and likely will send at least three more players to the pros (including Jones). The following year, the coach guided Alabama to a perfect season,

beating Texas in the title game at Pasadena.

Last season, the Tide fortu-itously got a shot at another BCS crown despite losing to LSU during the regular sea-son and failing to even win its division in the Southeast-ern Conference. In a rematch against the Tigers, Alabama romped to a 21-0 victory at the Superdome.

The all-SEC matchup gave the league an unprecedented six straight national champions, hastening the end of the BCS. It will last one more season be-fore giving way to a four-team playoff in 2014, an arrange-ment that was undoubtedly pushed along by one confer-ence hoarding all the titles un-der the current system.

This title game certainly has

a different feel than last year’s.“That was really kind of a weird

national championship because it was a team we already played,” Jones remembered. “It was kind of another SEC game. It was in the South, and it just had a very SEC feel to it obviously.


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Alabama, ND meet for title gameMatch-up features old-fashioned style of football teams

MCT PHOTOSAlabama Crimson Tide running back Eddie Lacy is off to the end zone on the second play from scrimmage in the first quarter against Missouri at Faurot Field in Columbia, Mo., on Oct. 13, 2012.

Notre Dame Fighting Irish quarterback Everett Golson runs the ball down field during the first

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But with the football sea-son over, the athletic depart-ment transitions to the win-ter and spring sports. Scholl said it will be a challenge improving those teams be-cause it will be his first time going through those seasons at Ball State.

“It’s the first time through for me,” Scholl said. “Right now, I feel like I have a great handle on our fall sports. Now I’m trying to develop that same kind of sense to our winter and spring programs.”

Along with the bowl game itself, Scholl was also im-pressed with the number of Ball State fans that traveled to Tropicana Field for the game. The stadium was heav-ily favored for Central Flor-ida, but the Ball State crowd wasn’t drowned out.

Scholl said he hoped the crowd that made the trip to St. Petersburg will help draw larger crowds at Scheumann Stadium and for the other sports at Ball State.

“What we need to do is grow [the fan base],” he said. “Hopefully if we get some of the passion from the people that made this trip and grow that in Muncie so when you walk out of the home game you go, ‘Wow. We had a big crowd today.’”

The bowl experience ob-viously would have been better for Ball State had it claimed its first bowl win. But both Lembo and Scholl are confident there will be more bowl games for the school in the future.

“The student athletes had an incredible time, [and] the administration, [and] the do-nors did,” Scholl said. “This is as good as it gets.“

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DN FILE PHOTOS COREY OHLENKAMPABOVE: Central Florida running back Latavius Murray burts past Ball State defenders and into the open field at the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Dec. 21.BELOW: Defensive tackle E.J. Dunston celebrates with the bowl trophy after Central Florida’s victory. Central Florida toppled Ball State at the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl, winning by a score of 38-17.


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Colts’ unlikely season ends in playoffs| THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BALTIMORE — Andrew Luck was harried and hurried in his first career playoff appearance as the Indianapolis Colts’ un-likely run came to a disappoint-ing end.

Chuck Pagano’s emotional return to Baltimore also ended with a thud as the Colts fell 24-9 to the Baltimore Ravens in an AFC wild-card game Sunday.

“The Ravens made plays when they needed to and we didn’t,” Luck said. “Field goals in the red zone killed us. Some bad balls by me killed us. ... I wish we could have done better.”

After improving from 2-14 to 11-5 with No. 1 overall draft pick Luck running their high-octane offense, the Colts couldn’t even score a touchdown against the Ravens, who advanced to the conference semifinals against Denver next weekend.

But Pagano chose to empha-size the improvements the Colts made in a season filled with adversity, rather than dwell on the way it ended.

“The foundation is set, and we said we were going to build one on rock and not on sand,” Pa-gano said. “You weather storms like this and you learn from times like this. This disappoint-ment and the feelings they all have right now, that’s what’s going to propel us to 2013 and

motivate us to come back and work even harder.”

One key moving forward will be Luck, who reached the play-offs as a rookie.

Luck was 28 for 54 for 288 yards and an interception, but was often under pressure and forced to scramble by a Ravens defense energized by the re-turn of linebacker Ray Lewis from a torn triceps.

“My only focus was to come in and get my team a win. Nothing else was planned,” the 37-year-old Lewis said. “It’s one of those things, when you recap it all and try to say what is one of your greatest moments. I knew how it started, but I never knew how it would end here in Balti-more. To go the way it did to-day, I wouldn’t change nothing.”

Lewis, who announced earlier this week he would retire after Baltimore’s playoff run, was playing the final home game of his 17-year career.

“We still had opportunities,” said Luck, who was sacked three times. “We still put ourselves in positions to score and didn’t take advantage of them, and a lot of credit goes to the Bal-timore defense. What a great, great unit. I wish we could have capitalized on a couple of those drives, but we didn’t.”

Pagano, the former Ravens de-fensive coordinator who missed 12 Colts games this season

while undergoing treatment for leukemia, coached his first play-off game. But offensive coordi-nator Bruce Arians, who had a 9-3 record coaching in Pagano’s absence, missed the game after being hospitalized for an un-disclosed illness, leaving play-calling duties to quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen.

After the game, Pagano said Ari-ans would remain hospitalized

in Baltimore overnight for ob-servation and likely rejoin the Colts in Indianapolis on Monday.

“Just precautionary,” Pagano said. “I think every test they’ve done on Bruce came back nega-tive. He’s in good shape. ... He’ll be back with us tomorrow.”

Indianapolis had won five of its final six games to clinch a wild-card berth, and moved the ball during the first half, but

had to settle for a pair of field goals by Adam Vinatieri and trailed 10-6 at halftime.

“As good as that defense is, it’s hard to go on sustained drives,” Pagano said. “We moved the ball, we did some things. But we weren’t able to get some chunk plays.”

Luck completed 13 of 23 pass-es for 143 yards in the first half, and a 15-play drive in the third

quarter stalled at the Baltimore 8-yard line, with Vinatieri kick-ing his third field goal.

Vinatieri pushed a 40-yard field-goal attempt wide right early in the fourth quarter. He was previously 10 of 11 between 40 and 49 yards this season.

“In games like this,” Vinatieri said, “you have to make them all.”

The Ravens followed up Vi-natieri’s miss — his first after 18 successful kicks against the Ravens — Baltimore retali-ated with a five-play, 70-yard drive that ended with a touch-down pass from Joe Flacco to Anquan Boldin.

Until that point, even with an offense that couldn’t manage a touchdown, it was still a one-score game.

“It’s always come down to a one-score game, a 10-point deficit, and this team has always been able to overcome that for many weeks,” Pagano said. “Sit-ting on the sideline and looking in everybody’s eyes, the faith and belief was still there that we were going to get the job done.”

Indianapolis held without a touchdown as Baltimore harasses Luck all game long

MCT PHOTOIndianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck passes the ball as Colts tackle Winston Justice blocks Baltimore Ravens defensive end Arthur Jones during the first half of an AFC playoff game in Baltimore on Sunday. The Ravens won 24-9.

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Ball State gymnastics opened its season on the road against No. 3 Florida on Friday.

The team was defeated by a score of 196.575 to 190.550.

Senior Brittney Emmons competed in the all-around and placed second with a total score of 38.400. It was her first competition since suffering a season-ending Achilles injury in 2012. Placing first was Ashanee Dickerson of Flor-ida with a total of 38.900.

On the floor, junior Angie Hosbach posted a team-high 9.700.

In her first collegiate competition, freshman Denasiha Christian placed fifth in floor with a 9.725, and fifth in vault with a 9.800.

Ball State will travel to Iowa for its next event on Friday.

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DN FILE PHOTO EMMA FLYNNSophomore Angie Hosbach spins through the air during her bar routine Jan. 27, 2011 against Kent State in Irving Gymnasium. Hosbach owns the team’s fourth best score on the bars with a career best 9.750 vs. Kent State.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Indianapolis Colts offensive coordina-tor Bruce Arians was hospitalized Sunday with an undisclosed illness.

The team said he is doing well in a local hospital. Arians did not attend the AFC wild-card game between the Colts and Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens best the Colts 24-9.

Quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen called the plays in Ari-ans’ absence.

Arians served as interim coach for 12 games this season, going 9-3, when head coach Chuck Pagano was undergoing chemo-therapy treatment for leukemia.

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• Spent three seasons with Cleveland Browns (2001-03)

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