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Development off McGalliard Road aims to be completed in six months

November 20, 2013

A development that will house Dick’s Sporting Goods and four or five other businesses is expected to be completed in six months, a city official said. The project, located on the 600 block of East McGalliard Road, is one in a string of developments that could offer future opportunities for Ball State students in architecture or engineering design, said Todd Donati, president of Delaware County Commissioners. “We are not just looking into labor forces entirely,” he said.

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Dick’s Sporting Goods, Panda Express, Culver's to open in Muncie

November 19, 2013

• Culver’s will host a ground-breaking ceremony Friday on the corner of Wheeling Avenue and McGalliard. • Dick’s Sporting Goods will be part of the multi-million dollar development being built off McGalliard. • Chick-fil-A has seen success after opening in August.

A car drives through the rain on East Riggin Road during a thunderstorm warning Nov. 17 in Muncie. Storms in East Central Indiana left heavy damage in southern Kokomo, which prompted the city to declare a state of emergency. DN PHOTO TAYLOR IRBY
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Evidence refutes claims of tornado myth

By Sam Hoyt / November 19, 2013

Muncie’s supposed lack of tornadoes has been attributed to Indian roots and luck, but some experts explain Delaware County is no exception to twisters. Cailin Murray, an associate professor of anthropology, said she heard the myth that Chief Munsee blessed the area to keep severe weather away when she first came to Muncie. “I was very concerned about tornados coming from the Pacific Northwest,” she said.

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Muncie Community School Board votes to close one high school

November 18, 2013

The Muncie Community School Board voted 4-1 tonight in favor of closing one of its two high schools. Central High School will remain open while Southside High School will become a middle school. Many members of the crowd responded with cheers to the single member of the board who voted against the proposal.

Those in favor still hopeful as mariage ban moves to general assembly soon
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Faith leaders deliver letter in opposition to HJR-6

By Rachel Podnar / November 18, 2013

This afternoon, the Interfaith Coalition on Non-Discrimination, made up of Indiana clergy members spoke at the Indiana Statehouse against House Joint Resolution 6, which would define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, and write that definition into the state’s constitution.

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IU fraternity parties face limits on hard alcohol

By The Associated Press / November 18, 2013

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University fraternity group says a new policy limiting how much hard alcohol is allowed at fraternity-sponsored parties was well received during its first test earlier this month. The IU Interfraternity Council says it implemented the hard alcohol limitations in hopes of creating a safer, more responsible drinking atmosphere on the Bloomington campus. The new limits got their first test during IU’s homecoming weekend during the first weekend in November. Interfraternity Council vice president of communications Jordan Shwide says that while the new policy was well received, its success is difficult to measure. The Council’s vice president of risk management, Ben Weisel, tells The Herald-Times the group is receiving positive feedback from fraternity chapters.

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Starbucks customers in Lebanon, Ind. rode out storm in bathroom

By The Associated Press / November 18, 2013

LEBANON, Ind. — A shift supervisor at a central Indiana Starbucks store damaged by a suspected tornado says she rode out Sunday’s storm in the coffee shop’s small bathroom with 10 other people. Melinda Wissig tells The Indianapolis Star she looked up Sunday to see the tornado approaching the Lebanon store after a customer yelled about a tornado. Wissig rushed to the drive-thru and told customers to come inside, where she and 10 others huddled in the store’s bathroom as the storm swept through. Once the sounds of breaking glass subsided, she says they emerged to find the floors strewn with debris and the store’s windows blown out. Outside the Starbucks, a car had flipped onto its side on the sidewalk and the windows of Wissig’s car were blown out.

Television helicopters circle around the area as police secure the Student Recreation and Wellness Center after a report of an armed assailant in the building. DN PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP
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Miles away

By Anna Ortiz / November 18, 2013

The text message alert popped up on Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler’s phone. He read the words “alleged gunman,” and began to worry, as several students, professors and parents did Friday evening when they became aware that there might danger. “Of course, I’m always concerned,” Tyler said.

Aric Fickert, a sophomore exercise science major, speaks to police about what he knew after an officer's gun accidentally discharged a few moments earlier. Fickert was released immediately after questioning. DN PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP
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Across the street

By Jeremy Ervin / November 18, 2013

From the fourth floor of the Architecture Building, junior architecture majors Maya Bird-Murphy and Ellen Forthofer gathered against a wall of windows to watch the flurry of police across the street.

Police secure the Student Recreation and Wellness Center after a report of an armed assailant in the building. DN PHOTO COREY OHLENKAMP
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Behind the tape

By Anna Ortiz / November 18, 2013

Sitting underneath his desk in the darkness, Dan Tracy listened to every noise outside of his office in the Health and Physical Activity Building. “Every step or shuffle of feet, it could be a guy out there with a gun,” he said. His worry began at about 4:30 p.m.

Officer R. Trissel tells students how they are allowed to leave after the report of an armed assailant Nov. 15 at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. DN PHOTO TAYLOR IRBY
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How the night unfolded

By Emma Kate Fittes / November 18, 2013

Three shouts of “gun” began three hours of at least six different police departments searching about 500,000 square feet in four buildings, evacuating an unknown number of occupants, finding zero suspects or threats. Students were locked down in the facility as the University Police Department, the Muncie Police Department, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana State Police, Homeland Security and Delaware County Emergency Management secured the perimeter and searched the area.

Those in favor still hopeful as mariage ban moves to general assembly soon
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President Jo Ann Gora opposes HJR-6

By Rachel Podnar / November 17, 2013

Ball State President Jo Ann Gora spoke against House Joint Resolution 6 for both moral and economic reasons, saying the university will reaffirm it’s commitment to diversity and tolerance. HJR-6 would write Indiana’s law banning same-sex marriage into the state constitution, also jeopardizing civil unions and domestic partnerships.

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