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Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
Currents: Right now here in Muncie it is a shocking 90°F and the strong humidity outside is making it feel much warmer! For today we could even see the high temps come close to 90°, but as for now no record breaking highs but it comes close to the previous record which was 95°, so stay cool everyone!
The 9 a.m. sunshine beat down on several Crossfitters running from the corner of Dicks and North Streets to University and Dicks Streets for their first of three warm up sets.
Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
Tonight: Just earlier we have been issued a flood warning mainly affecting Madison county near Anderson and this warning is in effect until Sunday of the 21st and any if there are any further updates we will update you with the latest. Moving on from that tonight should be a nice night as we will be seeing low 60's as the low with the occasional breeze and mostly cloudy conditions.
Tonight: For tonight it is going to be a mild night as it will get down into the lower 40's with mostly cloudy conditions and variable winds. Overall, a normal night for this time of year!
Tonight: It is the first day of spring and with that first day we will be seeing some precipitation tonight but will only last for tonight as in the late hours it will subside. Winds will also play a factor as winds will be around 10-15 from the WSW.
Tonight: Tonight is another typical cold night her in Muncie as we will see temps reach around the low 20's with variable winds all throughout the night. Clouds will also continue to increase in the evening hours.
Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
by Baylie Clevenger On Christmas day of 2018, the film On the Basis of Sex premiered in theaters. This film follows the story of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how being a woman inhibited her from opportunities in law school at Harvard and afterward in the workforce. In law school, she is one of the few women in her class. At the beginning of the film, she is invited to a dinner with the dean that was meant for just the women in her graduating class. During dinner, he goes around the table asking the students to come up with a good reason for why they are in a position at Harvard that could have been given to a man. This scene kicks the movie off and sets the tone for the kinds of adversities that Ruth Bader Ginsburg will run into. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28dHbIR_NB4[/embed] After graduating at the top of her class, with experience at both Harvard and Columbia, Ginsburg still struggles to find work. She searches far and wide, but there were no law firms that wanted to hire a woman even though she was more than qualified. Though the movie ends happily with Ginsburg’s victory in court with her first court case ever, so many people presented her with troubles that she would not have faced if she were a man. This movie is the story of a woman’s triumph in a world that favors men. At the time, this kind of thinking was common, and there are still women far younger than Ginsburg that have struggled to make it in the professional world because of their genders. These women are everywhere, even here in Muncie and the surrounding communities. Two women in particular shared their stories that mirror the type of discrimination faced by Ginsburg in the film. For purposes of anonymity, we will call one of the women Mary, as she did not wish to share her identity and, as a result, face repercussions for speaking out about experiences in her career. Mary is a physician at a large health network in Indianapolis. The second to share her story is Lori Luther, and she is the Chief Operating Officer of IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital here in Muncie. Lori and Mary both have stories of triumph, much like Ginsburg, and they had to work just as hard to get to where they are now. They both had to pay for their own education since women at the time were not expected to go to college. “I began my career during a generational time when careers and even household responsibilities were categorized as male or female," said Mary. "This was particularly true for my parents. Although they were paying for my older brother’s private college, they refused to pay for my college education because, ‘girls only went to college to get an MRS degree,' i.e., find a husband rather than pursue a career.” Mary also said that her parents and her college boyfriend also told her that she should be a nurse instead since they thought that was a more acceptable career for a woman. She and her college boyfriend even split up because he did not want to date a woman who was a doctor. Aside from having to pay for her own education, Mary said that medical school was difficult because some of her superiors would disrespect her and do things to purposely make her uncomfortable. Specifically, she spoke about her experience in clinical rotations in her third year. “...So while my male counterpart was assigned patients with kidney stones and enlarged prostates, I was given penile implant cases,” she said. “...Fortunately, the surgery went well and the patient was much kinder than my attending who, during the surgery, asked me if I approved of the size of the implant.” Lori shared a similar experience of paying for her own college, and her parents told her the same thing: that she should only aspire to become a wife and a mother. Lori also talked about her experience as a professional woman. She described being undervalued and even harassed severely enough that she took a job opportunity outside of the country to escape her harasser. “I finally left the country to get away after 15 years of following him from place to place. The harassment and the uncomfortable conversations and slipping me papers with his hotel room number on them when we were at conferences…” she said. “And I was publicly humiliated when, you know, I wouldn’t cooperate with things. So in group settings, he would humiliate me or get even through pay…” Along with the harassment she experienced from her male counterparts, Lori also describes having to become more man-like in her actions to make it in the workforce. “I found that I had to adopt the personality of a man…” she said. “If I wanted to continue to progress, I had to become one of the guys. I don’t know if she [Ruth Bader Ginsburg] had that experience, but I suspect very much so because women… that’s how we had to succeed." Professional women often feel compelled to act like men, because male attributes are associated with success. The result is women suppressing their femininity to appeal to the professional sensibilities of a male-oriented workplace. “I believe my professional experience would have been different as a man versus a woman,” Mary said. “...I think the additional scrutiny, and at times harassment, I received as a female medical student and physician resulted in making me a more competent physician as I was having to prove my worth more so than my male counterparts had to do.” Lori said that she has no doubt in her mind she would have made it to a higher position by now if she were a man. What we can conclude is that women have often had to do twice the work to make it to the same professional position as men. They have to act more manly, face harassment and even pay their way through their own education. Mary, Lori and Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced inequality, but they are not the only ones. They were triumphant in a male-dominated world and have helped to pave the way for the women of today and of the future. The workforce is still far from equal, but without the perseverance that women of the past have shown, we would not be where we are today.
Josh Shelton, NewsLink Indiana
Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
Tonight: As for tonight we should see a low of 32 degrees with a chance for a snow/rain mix into the late evening hours. Winds will stay mostly calm with winds around 6-8 mph.
by Eben Griger Spectrum, one of Ball State’s LGBT+ student groups, hosted their semi annual drag show in Ball Gymnasium on Saturday, Nov 3, which in total raised $1504 for Muncie OUTreach, a non-for-profit LGBT youth group. This year's theme was Breaking the Binary, featuring technologically oriented decorations. The drag show featured a multitude of queens lipsyncing, dancing and, in one case, actually singing along with music. In addition to the choreographed numbers, announcers would crack jokes about the event and poke fun at themselves and other queens while giving introductions Throughout the acts, spectators gave donations in the form of tips, either given to the queens themselves or put into buckets placed around the stage. The show also featured a booth with merchandise available, where Spectrum members were selling shirts. Proceeds from that were also added to the donation total at the end of the night. The show ended with the regular awarding of sashes, but to crown the true queen, contestants were treated to a lip sync battle between the two finalists. After the winner was decided, the hosts congratulated everyone who participated, both onstage and off, and announced the total raised. As the crowd filed out, they were able to chat with some of the queens and continue making donations.
Tonight: Conditions will stay similar as we move on into the evening hours as we will have a low of 31 degrees late tonight. Winds will be mostly calm with 5-7 mph and it will be mostly clear throughout the night.
Editor's note: Muncie Origins is a Ball State Daily News series profiling various businesses that originated in Muncie.
Tonight: As we move into tonight we will see some mild conditions as we will see a low of 64 degrees with winds around 11-13 mph. Mostly cloudy conditions will be the norm for the night as the only thing that could happen will be the occasional breeze from the wind.
by Matthew Yapp The world is a stage, and while some are content to perform on that stage in everyday clothing there are many who would prefer something with a little more flair. That’s where drag comes in. Drag has been a staple of the queer community from the very beginning; drag performers going all the way back to Stonewall have been trailblazers for the LGBTQ+ community. We still see this today, with some of the most prominent and vocal names in the community doing drag, but what exactly is drag? While many see it as men dressing as women, it goes far deeper than that. We got the opportunity to speak with a Muncie-based drag queen, Aura Aurora, and learn what drag means to them, their drag experience, and the changes they’ve seen in the drag world. In our interview Aura discusses how she has seen anyone from transgender women to straight men doing drag which comes as a shock to many. Two of the most prominent queens of all time are the legendary Divine, known for Hairspray and Pink Flamingos, and RuPaul, known for her music career and talk show in the late 90’s. Both queens are cisgender, meaning they identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Because of well-known names like theirs and other queens held to the same caliber, it became the standard that a drag was just a gay man dressed up as a woman. Generally, during a drag show people get on stage in over-the-top clothing: giant gowns, huge hair, and dramatic makeup. The act itself can be anything from stand-up to dancing, but the vast majority of drag performers find a way to incorporate lip-synching one way or another. While men usually choose to perform songs by women and vice versa, drag isn’t necessarily about performing as the opposite gender. Drag is just about performing gender by taking societies perceptions of what a man or what a woman should look like and turn that into a show. In fact, Marsha P. Johnson, one of the biggest names to come out of Stonewall, was both transgender and a drag queen. While cisgender men are still considered the norm in drag, great strides have been made in getting away from that idea with huge names like Peppermint, the RuPaul’s Drag Race season nine runner-up who came into the limelight to represent trans queens. Another thing we were able to discuss with Aura is drag's new push into the mainstream. Aura credits this to societies acceptance of queer people. Societies’ very, very, VERY, slow adoption of the LGBTQ+ community, specifically drag performers, into conventional society can be seen just by looking at your television screen. RuPaul’s Drag Race, which has been on for nearly a decade now, works in the same way that shows like Project Runway or Masterchef do. The show starts with 13 or so contestants and every week a different drag-based challenge is thrown at them. At the end of every episode a queen is eliminated until we are left with one, America’s next drag superstar. RuPaul’s Drag Race has brought over a hundred different queens, all of whom fall into the queer spectrum in one form or another, into the living rooms of families across the country. Not only that but many stars from the show have moved onto shows like America’s Next Top Model, and Scared Famous. Most notably, season six finalist Courtney Act won the most recent version of the UK’s Celebrity Big Brother. This was especially surprising to some because the winner is chosen by audience vote, meaning that the average family sitting at home was open-minded enough to not only enjoy seeing a drag queen on tv, but to pick up the phone and vote for her. The times they are a changing and it’s beautiful to see. With drag becoming increasingly common in society one must think about how many more drag queens will be inspired to move onto the stage in the future. Imagine a child being able to turn on the tv and see someone like them be unashamedly queer and not only be accepted, but celebrated. It’s incredible to think what that will do for their confidence and allowing them to come to terms with who they are. For many queer people life is a drag, but with society embracing the idea that not everything has to fit into the spectrum we’ve grown accustomed to, hopefully things will improve.