Freshman point guard Zavier Turner eyes an opponent for an opening during the Nov. 4 game against Marian. Turner started off the season by scoring 17 points in each of the first three games of the season, but fell short during the Cardinals

MEN'S BASKETBALL: Young players face learning curve

There were bound to be an abundance of learning curves for the Ball State men’s basketball team, with a first-year head coach coupled with a slew of freshmen. Sitting at 2-4 and a last second shot away from being 3-3, the Cardinals had a lot to point to as foundations for success.



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Student group plans trips to shred snow

Late at night, in the dips and peaks of Ohio’s Mad River Mountain, the snow is freshly groomed and the slopes are open and uncrowded. The 300-foot vertical drop is covered in feather-light powder and for the taking.



	According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in 88 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
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Facing Autism

The color blue and Batman fascinate 7-year-old Luke Tyler. He loves ocean animals, particularly the anglerfish seen on “Finding Nemo.” He has his mother’s dark brown eyes and skin like a porcelain doll. He doesn’t understand his “space,” but he is quick to apologize to anyone he accidentally bumps into.



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Obama buys books on 'Small Business Saturday'

Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha dropped in Saturday at Washington’s Politics and Prose bookstore and purchased what he said was a “long list” of books that included “The Kite Runner,” “Harold and the Purple Crayon” and “The Sports Gene.”



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New legislation looks to curb prescription drug abuse

A new legislature targeting “pill mills,” which supply pills to people hooked on prescription medications, will limit the amount of prescription pills doctors are allowed to prescribe. The legislation will go into effect this month. Before prescribing drugs, doctors will have to do more screening on patients and track the prescriptions they give out with a program called INSPECT. Patients might have to submit to drug tests before and during their prescription.


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NYC train derailment kills 4, hurts more than 60

NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water. Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, four or five of the seven cars had lurched off the rails. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year-history.


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Ind. officer gets 13 years in fatal crash

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indianapolis police officer who killed a man and seriously injured two others when he was driving drunk and crashed his police cruiser into two motorcycles stopped at a traffic light was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. David Bisard was convicted last month on nine counts, the most serious of which was driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.15 percent while in a fatal accident. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08.


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Group works through November to bring awareness to human trafficking

The U.S. State Department estimates that 27 million people around the world are in slavery today. At Ball State, International Justice Mission tried to raise awareness for this little known statistic, said vice president Stephanie Metzger, because many people assume slavery stopped after the Civil War. The group is a Christian human rights organization that focuses on human trafficking.


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Today's bulletin board

TODAY Bead for Life The Social Justice League will sell beaded jewelry made from recycled paper with proceeds going to women in Uganda, who hand made the jewelry.


Sophomore guard Nathalie Fontaine and junior guard Brittany Carter try to steal the ball from a Pittsburgh player on Nov. 14 at Worthen Arena. DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Ball State falls to Auburn in Las Vegas

The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 51-67 loss against Auburn in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas. The team shot just 31.9 percent from the floor compared to Auburn’s 46.4 percent. Seniors Katie Murphy and Brandy Woody were a combined 0-10 on field goals.


Sophomore guard Nathalie Fontaine and junior guard Brittany Carter try to steal the ball from a Pittsburgh player on Nov. 14 at Worthen Arena. DN PHOTO BREANNA DAUGHERTY
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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Ball State falls to Auburn in Las Vegas

The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to 1-4 on the season with a 51-67 loss against Auburn in the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas. The team shot just 31.9 percent from the floor compared to Auburn’s 46.4 percent. Seniors Katie Murphy and Brandy Woody were a combined 0-10 on field goals.






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