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Contents
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The Honors College’s most popular
390 course ended in 2014. Here’s why
colloquia disappear from year to year.
Goodbye, Gilman
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Leaving SHC
14 Where are we now?
Editors
Ellie Fawcett
junior English major
Contributing Staff
Noah Patterson
sophomore English major
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Victoria Ison
senior journalism & Spanish major
Olivia Power
sophomore English major
Liz Young
sophomore journalim major
Mary Cox
sophomore telecommunications major
Carli Scalf
freshman journalism major
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In this Honors 203 course, buying a
book won’t cut it. Students must make
the texts themselves.
Done with Disney
Long-time Honors and French
professor Donald Gilman will retire at
the end of this year.
Student Honors Council is working to
improve its retention rates due to a
declining number of upperclassmen.
Honors students are encouraged to
live in DeHority their freshman year,
but where do they end up after that?
The official student newsmagazine of
the Ball State University Honors College
Honors Fun Fact
The Ball Honors House has a
pineapple above the door.
According to Honors College lore, this
pineapple was placed there because
it’s a Southern symbol of hospitality.
Photo Credits
News & Notes would like to thank
the following individuals for providing
photos for this issue:
Cover photo by Mary Cox
Jessie Keith (p.2)
Valerie Sinha (p. 10-11)
Maren Orchard (p. 12)

News & Notes | December 2015 | 3
What does it mean to be an Honors
student?
Maybe to you it means taking colloquia
or classes in the humanities sequence.
Maybe it means living in DeHority with
other Honors students. Maybe it means
being on Student Honors Council and
going to events hosted by the Honors
College.
Or, maybe to you it means something
else entirely.
News & Notes has always
been committed to chronicling the
undergraduate Honors experience at Ball
State. In this issue, we say goodbye to Dr.
Donald Gilman, a long-time humanities
professor known for his aversion to
photography and acrobatics. We’ll show
you how colloquia are scheduled from
semester to semester and give you a
glimpse into how one professor brought
the ancient art of bookbinding to the
humanities sequence.
Our focus this year more than ever is
on the many meanings of Honors. Next
semester, be on the lookout for stories
about students who join the Honors
College after enrolling at Ball State, how
some Honors students with disabilities
navigate college, and even why some
students choose to leave the Honors
College.
What it means to be an Honors student
is not something that we at News & Notes
can define. The meaning of Honors is as
diverse as the population of the Honors
College. We need your voices to create a
meaningful conversation.
Use #honorsmeans to tell us what
you think. What experiences have defined
Honors for you? Which classes are the
core of the Honors program? What events
will you remember as defining moments of
your time in Honors?
Watch our Facebook and Twitter pages
for more questions about the Honors
experience. Participate in polls on our
website. Tell us what you think about our
stories and what other stories you want to
see in News & Notes.
What does it mean to be an Honors
student?
You tell us.
Victoria Ison & Ellie Fawcet
A Letter from the Editors
Top Row: Kristin Wietecha, Victoria Ison, Ellie Fawcett, Mary Cox
Bottom Row: Olivia Power, Kayla D’Alessandro, Noah Patterson, Liz Young, Margo Morton
Not Pictured: Carli Scalf, Casey Smith
#honorsmeans

Semester in Review
December
October
September
August
November
Honors Weekend 2015
AirJam
Backyard Bash
Curriculum
Crash Course
Student Honors Council cut down on the number
of activities historically offered during Honors
Week.The club instead offered a long weekend of
activities that officers hoped would lead to better
attendance. Besides the outdoor-turned-indoor
games on Saturday, these activities included an
evening of cards and board games on Thursday,
an open mic night and talent competition on
Friday and a 1 p.m. brunch at the Honors House on
Sunday.The activities took place between Sept. 10
and 14 and were well attended, SHC leaders said.
Freshman Olivia Snyder and sophomore
Joe Hannon play cornhole in the
lobby of DeHority Hall during Honors
Weekend 2015, when rain forced
Saturday’s outdoor activities inside.
Events drew a crowd despite
rain and altered schedule.
New event let
students preview
Honors courses.
First-ever Thanksgiving
dance amassed donations for
Second Harvest Food Bank.
Season of Giving
Student Honors Council launched a new
Thanksgiving initiative this year: a dance
designed to give back.Attendees were
required to bring two non-perishable food
items or $3 in order to get into the semi-
formal event on the evening of Nov. 20.
Honors faculty, students and families
mingled during Family Weekend
Tristian, Macy, Colton, Dana, Michael and Chloe
Holzhausen (from left to right) enjoy lemonade
and desserts while attending Backyard Bash
outside of the Honors House on Oct. 24. Tristian,
a freshman telecommunications major, said he
jumped at the chance to have his family visit Ball
State, the university he dreamed of attending
since eighth grade.
DeHority
Team won
20th-annual
Homecoming
talent
competition.
DeHority’s Air Jam team celebrates after taking first place in the
residence hall category at Air Jam, where they were the winners and
only competitors in that category for the second year in a row. Team
members danced to a medley of songs, including “Boom Boom Pow”
by the Black Eyed Peas and “White & Nerdy” by Weird Al Yankovich.
To help students decide
which Honors courses
to take, Student Honors
Council hosted a new event
on Oct. 15. Professors came
prepared to talk about
their 189 and 199 classes
and colloquia, syllabi and
courseloads with students
before scheduling for spring
semester began.
For the most recent Honors
happenings or to suggest an event for
us to cover, visit the N&N website.

Handbound
Dr. Rai Peterson’s Honors 203 class did more than
just buy notebooks from Walmart for class this year.
MEMORIES
By Mary Cox

6 | December 2015 | News & Notes
T
he handbound autobiographies
of Dr. Rai Peterson’s 19
Honors 203 students will
be found in the Special
Collections archive in Bracken Library by
December 2015.
Peterson, an English and Honors
professor, has taught bookbinding as an
English department capstone course in
the past, but this was her first time going
through the process with non-English
majors for an Honors class.
“Every semester, I bind a fat notebook
where I record my lecture notes for all of
my classes, and that thing is inseparable
from me for about four months,” Peterson
said. “The sequence students noticed that
I have unconventional notebooks, and they
asked if I would teach them to bind books.”
The students were tasked with writing
“autobiographies, memoirs, and manifesto
statements,” which they bound themselves
and turned in at the end of the course.
“This is what the humanities does,
talk about what it means to be human and
create an account of it,” Peterson said.
Throughout the course, Peterson
said, she and her students have “covered
the gamut of publication and means of
dissemination.”
They read works originally recorded
on clay tablets, passed down as oral
histories and written on papyrus scrolls.
The students then had the chance to tell
their stories through whatever medium
they chose.
“Our whole sequence has been about
history,” sophomore Rachel Harvey said,
“And now we’re just about to modern day,
so it’s like we’re adding our own takes to
Gilgamesh, the Iliad, Mrs. Dalloway and
all the other pieces we read over the past
three semesters.”
Some students said the book binding
element helps them pay more attention to
their own human experience.
“Humanities is a study of life and
the human condition, and writing these
autobiographies is our opportunity to
expand on that,” sophomore Kelsey
McDonald said.
The autobiographies, in both content
and binding, could be submitted in nearly
any format.
“I picked poetry because I can share
as much or as little as I want,” sophomore
Lucas Smith said. “I’m writing about things
I typically don’t share, and doing so has
been intense at times.”
Another student, junior Shelby Merder,
chose to write her book as a collection
of emails between her parents, some of
which are authentic and some that are
imagined or embellished.
TOP: Dr. Rai
Peterson holds
her handbound
journal full of
lecture notes.
Peterson makes
her own notebook
each semester.
RIGHT: Students
display their
finished journals
to show off the
final product of
their hard work.

McDonald’s is written from the
perspective of her younger self listening to
her family reminisce at her grandmother’s
funeral.
“It’s about me as a kid wondering how
what I’m overhearing affects me, how the
parts of my grandma’s life made me who I
am,” McDonald said.
This sort of cathartic reflection was
exactly what Peterson hoped her students
would get out of the project.
“One objective of this assignment
is to get Honors students in their last
semester of the sequence to think about
who they really are…to help them reflect
on the people they were reared to be and
the people they are becoming,” Peterson
said. “It asks students to write down who
they are and how that guides them in the
important choices they are actively making
right now.”
Many students found this task to be
both heavy and rewarding. Sophomore
Taylor Hedges Inman said that while the
story told in her book was hard to share,
doing so has helped to jump-start her
healing. Peterson wholeheartedly believes
in the healing powers of putting your story
out in the world.
“I’ve found that having written them out
once, I could stop reliving them,” Peterson
said.
Peterson also hoped that this
assignment would create a new
appreciation for books within her students.
“Making a book from plain paper is
eye-opening about what books actually
are. Everyone who has sewn a book has
a new appreciation [for them],” Peterson
said. “In the present age,… it is easier to
make a movie or a website than to work
through ‘low’ technology like binding a
book. Things that are really here have
become more precious.”
The students seemed to agree with this
sentiment.
“Somebody is going to touch every
single page of this [book], which makes
you want to put more of your soul into
it,” sophomore Courtney Tuchman said,
“Whereas a website seems so far away
because it’s through a computer screen.”
Having something to hold in their
hands rather than just posting to an online
forum was an alluring aspect of the project
for many of the students.
“In a way, a tangible book is more
precious because it can be destroyed,”
junior Nicole Popovich said.
But for some, the permanence of
the project — especially the fact that the
books will be preserved in the university’s
archives — is, in the words of sophomore
Liz White, “terrifying.”
“I’m constantly worrying that what I’m
writing is not good enough to be in the
library forever,” White said. “I’ve been
struggling to let go of it having to be
perfect.”
The content of a book that will be in the
library “forever” needs to be considered
carefully, Peterson said.
She told her students that their books
shouldn’t contain any “deeply erotic
scenes” she doesn’t know about. In the
past, there were a few students who
came to retrieve their books in hopes of
censoring content.
“One guy who was applying to med
school came to ask me if he could get
back the book he had written about all the
pretend murders he had committed. I hope
they were pretend, at least,” Peterson said.
Unfortunately for this student, the
library staff generally does not allow
material to be extracted from the archives.
As of December, all 19 students’
names were to be found in CardCat and
their books on Bracken’s shelves. Most of
the students were excited by this prospect.
“It’s such a unique experience,”
sophomore Capriella Fenicle said. “For
most of us this is maybe our one shot to
have a book we made in a library.”
For some students, the most thrilling
part of the book binding experience was
the opportunity to complete a project that
is different from the traditional classroom
experience.
“I didn’t just come here to study my
major and play basketball,” Merder, a
member of Ball State’s women’s basketball
team, said, “Making this book makes me
feel like I’ve done something special.”
The collection of autobiographies
will provide insight for future Ball State
students and the families of the authors.
“One hundred years from now, a
researcher will discover this archive
of student statements from the young
twenty-first century and be able to see
what college students were like now. The
books demonstrate what we value, who we
admire, what we hope will come to pass,
as well as providing a keen insight into the
aesthetics of this generation.” Peterson
said. “It’s also a fun thing for us to
contemplate them [the students] showing
their own children someday.”
The students planned to continue
using the bookbinding techniques they’ve
learned in the future.
“I want to make journals for my future
children, so that they can have a space to
express themselves,” White said.
Peterson said she planned to continue
teaching bookbinding.
Those who cannot get into Peterson’s
Honors humanities sequence, may still
be able to get in on the bookbinding
experience. Peterson is currently
working to expand opportunities to learn
bookbinding at Ball State in several ways,
mainly by developing a bookbinding minor.
She is also currently writing grant
applications with Professor Sarojini
Johnson from the art department to create
a booking binding immersive learning
project to “do something big and beautiful
with printing and bookbinding in the Ball
State and Muncie communities.”
“We hope to create many opportunities
for students and community members to
collaborate on printing and binding projects
that will rock all of our worlds,” Peterson
said.
The immersive learning program will
be for 50-100 people and will take place
for a half semester for two consecutive
semesters. Peterson will know for sure this
May if the program will be happening.
Both the minor and immersive
learning project are in the early stages of
development, so be sure to check back
with News & Notes for updates.
“It’ll be groovy,” Peterson said.
“This is what the humanities does,
talk about what it means to be human and
create an account of it.”
“Somebody is going to touch every single
page of this [book], which makes you
want to put more of your soul into it.”

SAYING GOODBYE TO
GILMAN
Honors Professor Donald Gilman is teaching the Honors humanities
sequence for the last time this semester. At the end of the year, Gilman
will retire to pursue other interests.
“In retirement I will be relocating to Washington, D.C., where I hope to
complete some research projects, enjoy cultural activities and travel both
within and outside the country,” Gilman said.
Gilman’s four-decade long career was marked by a love for the
humanities and for the students he taught.
EARLY CAREER
After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he earned
his degree in French, Gilman began his teaching career in 1974.
He taught at the College of William and Mary for a few years before accepting a
position at Ball State.
When he decided to go on the job market, Gilman applied to several places, including
UC Berkeley and Reed College in Oregon. Originally, Ball State was not his first choice,
but he missed the interview for Reed College.
“I had a very good interview with the chairman at Ball State, and I thought it would be
a good fit for me,” Gilman said. “I was not ready for a major research university.”
He taught at the College of William and Mary for a few years before accepting a
position at Ball State.
By Olivia Power
Forty-one years into his teaching career, Professor
Donald Gilman reflects on what he has done and
why he is saying goodbye.

Gilman said that he liked that Ball State had
a focus on teaching, a reputation as a liberal arts
college and good resources, all without being a major
research university.
TEACHING MEMORIES
Gilman said his favorite memory from his years of
teaching was taking students to the London Centre.
The London Centre, although closed now, offered
students a semester‐long study abroad experience
and the opportunity to take courses related to the
essence of the city of London.
He said that for many of the students it was their
first time out of the country.
“It was a great experience to see them awakening
to the theater, culture, music and art of London,”
Gilman said. “It opened their eyes to the diversity of
the world.”
In his years at Ball State, Gilman taught a variety
of Honors courses, including the Honors humanities
sequence and various colloquia. He also teaches
courses in the French department.
He said he can identify no one course, however,
as his favorite.
“Each one of these courses is like apples and
oranges. Each has its particular quality. For me, it’s
not the material of the course, but the students.”
He says he has taught many memorable students
during his time at Ball State.
“I have so many great memories of fine colleagues
and students,” Gilman said. “These are the memories
that are especially important to me.”
INFLUENCE ON STUDENTS
Nadine Hashem, a junior marketing major, took
Gilman’s HONR 201 and HONR 203 courses. She
said appreciates his teaching style and called his
lectures “thought‐provoking” and “engaging.”
Hashem also said that Gilman was different from
other professors she has had.
“He really cares about his students. He wants to
see you succeed. He cares about you becoming a
better person and not just working for a grade.”
Hashem said that after her first course with
Gilman, he wrote a whole‐page response to her final
paper about how she has developed as a writer.
“That’s how I know he cares,” Hashem said.
Aside from his teaching, Hashem also said she
appreciates the instances where he inserts life‐
lessons into his lectures.
“If you hear advice from someone like that, you
want to take it,” Hashem said.
WHAT’S NEXT
Upon his retirement, Gilman has both a
professional plan and a personal plan. Over the years,
he assisted many students with their senior Honors
theses. Gilman said that eleven of these theses have
translated sixteenth‐century French plays into English.
“My plan is to collect all of these, do an edition
of these plays and publish [it], giving attribution
to the students,” Gilman said. “I will be a
general editor, and there are prospective
publishers.”
After finishing his work in Muncie, he
will relocate to Washington D.C., and
alternate between D.C. and his house
in Colorado.
Gilman plans to pursue his
hobby of visiting presidential
libraries and houses, as well as
reading a biography about the
president before each visit.
He said he has been to about
half of the homes, but still has
more than 20 left to visit.
REMEMBERED
FONDLY
In his time
at Ball State,
Gilman worked
closely with his
colleagues in
the Department
of Modern Language
and Classics and
with Honors College
Dean James Ruebel
and Associate
Dean John Emert.
Ruebel said
that he enjoyed
working with
GIlman, and
called him
“highly
respected by
students.”
“[Gilman]
has been among
the longest serving
and most active of
faculty who contribute to
Honors education at Ball State. He has
served on search committees for Honors,
and on both the Dean’s Faculty Advisory
Committee and curriculum review committees,”
Ruebel said. “He will be hard to replace.”
Editor’s Note: Olivia Power, the author of this story,
has been a student in Donald Gilman’s Honors
humanities sequence for the past three semesters.

During the spring semester of 2013,
Valerie Sinha took a colloquium about
the wonderful world of Disney. She
storyboarded her own interpretation of a
scene from Fantasia for homework and
created a plan for a villains-themed bar in
Downtown Disney for her final.
Then, the 2013 graduate got a job
at Disney. She interned with the Disney
College Program and is now ending her
work as a seasonal cast memberat Disney
World working on the Buzz Lightyear ride,
Carousel of Progress, and Monsters, Inc.
Laugh Floor.
“It was really important to me that I got
a colloq that would be fun, educational,
and about something that I had some
passion in,” Sinha said. “It was easy-
going and fun. We would have full-blown
conversations about controversies, what
made Disney great, and the adult themes
we didn’t notice as kids.”
But the Disney colloquium that had
an influence on Sinha during her time at
Ball State is no longer being offered in
the Honors College course listings. Like
many colloquia, the Disney colloquium was
offered for a handful of semesters before
being “retired” by its professor, Honors
College adviser Sarah Haley.
Honors College Associate Dean John
Emert said students shouldn’t expect
colloquia to be offered more than once.
“Colloquia are always a one-time offer,
and when they are repeated, they are
hardly ever the same,” Emert said. “We do
not recruit perpetual colloquia, and some
morph more than others.”
Since colloquia (and most other
classes within the Honors curriculum) are
not scheduled with the idea that they will
reoccur like many of the core classes,
some may not return as often as others.
Every time a professor would like to
teach a colloquium, he or she must go
through a peer review process, even if it is
a course he or she have already offered.
Other colloquia are only available
during certain times. For example, the
Honors College has had colloquia covering
the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and
the 2012 presidential election. Since these
events only happen once, their associated
colloquia don’t return to the course listings.
Emert said that while he still does
get inquiries about when a colloquium
may reappear in the course listings,
few students ask him about when these
courses may return.
“I think part of this is due to the niche
collection of colloquia, and having more
variety since we started. Our goal is to
bring in varieties, to transcend and become
interdisciplinary,” Emert said. “A colloquium
is not designed to support a major, but to
complement it.”
Some colloquia are offered more often
No More Disney?
The list of offered Honors colloquia courses evolves every semester.
Here’s why some classes repeat year after year and others, like the
popular Disney Mystique, end up in the memory books.
Valerie Sinha (‘13, center) poses with her colleagues, Amanda Brook (left) and Sarah
Johnson (right), in front of the Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor while interning at Disney.
By Noah Patterson

than others. Sarah Haley, the Honors
adviser who instructed the Disney themed
Honors 390 Sinha took, called her course
“The Disney Mystique.” Between Fall 2011
and Spring 2014, the colloquium was
offered six times.
“We studied the man himself, how
he got started, the company and what
it developed into and worked our way
towards the present, its changes since his
death, and where it seems to be going in
the future,” Haley said.
The course looked at Disney’s
involvement in Broadway, its early work
and technological advances, and the
company’s various films, starting with the
How Colloquia Are Born
An interested faculty
member submits a
proposal packet for
the course.
The packet
contains a
sample syllabus
and other
documentation.
A sub-committee
of seasoned faculty
members does a
preliminary review.
The sub-committee makes
recommendations.
The associate dean
communicates the comments
to the faculty member.
The faculty member
revises the course
based on these
recommendations.
Ball State’s curriculum
committee makes
recommendations to the
dean regarding the inclusion
of this course.
Finally, the dean
makes the decision
on whether or not this
course will be offered.
When faculty members dream up ideas for new colloquium courses, they must follow these
steps in order to get them approved and offered by the Honors College.
When Colloquia Repeat
Since 2011, the Honors College has offered 94 different colloquia.
The following numbers show how often the courses repeat.
The Disney colloquium is the only course in that time frame to repeat six times.
Valerie Sinha takes a selfie in her first role at
the Magic of Disney Animation attraction at
the Star Wars Launch Bay. While at Ball State,
Sinha took the Disney colloquium that used to
be available through the Honors College.
first theatrical release, Snow White.
Haley said she is no longer teaching
the course because of the newfound
demands of the advising job and of caring
for her two daughters, ages 10 and 15.
“It’s sad the colloq is [no longer being
offered] since it was the best way that
I could merge my childhood with my
emerging adulthood,” Sinha said. “But I
also understand that Ms. Haley could use
a break and would want to focus on a
different passion for awhile.”
So, while certain beloved colloquia do
come to an end at the Honors College,
there is still hope that a course may only
be taking a hiatus.
“You can always contact the instructor
and see ask if they plan to offer it again,”
Haley said. “They may not know, but
sometimes knowing students are interested
can make them want to offer it again.
[Students] can also inquire with Dr. Emert
to see if it is likely to be offered again.”
65Number of colloquia
that have been offered
only once
22
Number of colloquia
two or three times
6
Number of colloquia
four or five times
8 percent of colloquia (since 2011) have involved field studies

SHC’s SolutionStudent Honors Council is having trouble retaining its members after
their freshman years. Campus authorities and students offer their
explanations for why some students leave the group early on.
T
he Student Honors Council
(SHC) is making member
retention a top priority for this
year and the next after noticing
that the group has been mainly composed
of freshmen for the last several years.
“This is a trend that the other officers
and I have noticed,” Maren Orchard,
the SHC Director of Online Promotions
and a sophomore public history major,
said. “Having upperclassmen members
in addition to the freshmen members is
important because upperclassmen have
more experience in SHC and the Honors
College, can lead by example, and provide
input from previous years.”
Orchard said that freshmen contribute
in the group with new perspectives and
“refreshing” ideas.
Larry Pettrone, a freshman planning to
major in finance and accounting, chose to
join SHC after seeing a poster about it. He
also talked to the group’s president about
getting involved.
“My friends wanted to join the club, so I
naturally tagged along with them,” Pettrone
said. “We have been actively involved
since we first joined. I will absolutely join
next year ... the people are really fun and
I feel like I’m creating great events for
students in the Honors College.”
Not everyone has the same attitude.
Rachel Hatton, a junior social studies
education and history major, stopped going
to SHC meetings at the beginning of the
spring semester during her freshman year.
“I quit because I expected it to be
similar to student council in high school,
which I loved with all my heart. But SHC
wasn’t,” Hatton said. “I didn’t really think
I had a role in the decision-making and I
generally didn’t have time to do it when I
was more interested in other activities.”
These are just two reasons students
may stop attending a club or activity after
trying it out as a freshman. Dr. Kay Bales,
the Vice President for Student Affairs
& Dean of Students, said that, as time
goes on, students may take on additional
leadership roles and devote more time to
one organization over another one.
“I think students spend their first year
or two looking for experiences that match
their passions and, once they find their
niche, they tend spend their time in those
organizations,” Bales said.
Some people are lucky enough to find
their passions early on. Valerie Weingart,
SHC’s president and a junior vocal
performance and creative writing major,
said she followed in the footsteps of her
older brother when she joined SHC during
her first year at Ball State.
“I saw SHC as a way for me to be
able to give back to the Honors College
and become more involved with all of the
members of the honors community — both
students and faculty,” Weingart said. “The
Honors College is the main reason why
I chose to come to Ball State, and I was
excited to have the opportunity, through
SHC, to serve this fine institution and the
people within it.”
By Margo Morton
Students gather for the Student Honors Council callout meeting at the start of the
school year. SHC’s mission is to allow students to build their own Honors community.

Should I stay or should I go?
At my first night of
Student Honors Council, I
was not under the impression
that I would leave this club
the same year I started it. I
went to the call-out meeting
with two friends, sat near
some people I recognized
from my floor in DeHority, and
listened to the president speak about the club
and introduce the officers.
I thought it sounded like a great way to
become involved and meet new Honors students,
something I desperately wanted to do as a brand
new college freshman. From that point on, I was
in the Honors House at 8 p.m. every Tuesday.
I joined various committees for our different
events, which led me to cook chocolate chip
covered pretzels with M&Ms stuck on top on
more than one occasion, run the game “Pin the
Torch on the Statue of Liberty,” paint a realistic
scene of London, England for the “Around
the World Honors Formal” and think up door
decorating ideas for Honors Week.
But I did leave SHC.
Student Honors Council was an engaging,
fun and enlightening club that helped me meet
new Honors students my freshman year, know
more about what goes on in the Honors College
and DeHority and become involved in the Honors
community. I recommend it to any freshman
enrolled in the Honors College at Ball State.
By the end of the year, I had gotten what I
wanted out of it. I knew how Honors events were
created, knew when they would occur every year,
and I was able to meet more people in my class.
After freshman year, I wanted to open up my
schedule to new opportunities that were in line
with my major and minors, and that would give
me practice for my future, and I did not feel that
SHC was one of those experiences anymore.
At the beginning of
my freshman year, I was
desperately seeking
a way to be involved
on campus. I wanted
something that would
give me the opportunity
to meet other Honors
students and maybe find
a way to gain leadership experience. SHC
seemed like a good place to find both of
those things.
I went to the call-out meeting freshman
year with some of my new friends, and, two
and a half years later, you’ll still find me in
the Honors House every Tuesday from 8
p.m. to 9 p.m.
I’ve stayed with SHC because it’s given
me the chance to do all kinds of things.
From hiding under a table trying to scare
the living daylights out of other Honors
students at the haunted Honors House
activity, to coordinating the awards for
outstanding senior and Honors professor,
to attending the National Collegiate Honors
Council conference in Chicago, I have
gotten all kinds of experiences that I would
never have gotten otherwise.
I’ve gained leadership experience, made
new friends and gotten to be involved in
planning cool events for Honors students.
For me, SHC isn’t something I have
ever really considered quitting because it’s
something that I enjoy.
I like getting to work behind the scenes
planning events like Honors Formal. Every
year I have found myself doing something
new and having a great time doing it.
I’ve met some of the coolest people at
SHC, and I see myself returning to the club
for my fourth year next fall.
Those who go Those who stay
By Noah Patterson By Ellie Fawcett
sophomore, one year in SHC junior, two and a half years (so far) in SHC
Two N&N staff members explain their involvement in SHC.

“[DeHority] has a very lived-
in feel, a very comfortable
and home-y feel...The Honors
College, I think especially,
really strives to make a kind of
community where people feel
welcome, and they’re always
putting on events.”
“It’s a trend among honors kids
to move to Park after DeHo. Its
mostly older people [at Park]
so its like a way to distinguish
yourself from the freshmen.”
— DANIELLE BEHRENS
junior telecommunications major
Honors College students are usually required to live in
DeHority Hall during their freshman years. Many students
later move 259 feet south to Park Hall. Others move to
different residence halls or off-campus housing. These
numbers, provided by Joel Bynum, assisstant director for
coordination of Living Learning Programs, show where
Honors students choose to live.
On staying in
DeHority for 4 years:
On moving from
DeHority to Park:
Where else do Honors students call home?
— JESSIE KEITH
senior elementary education major
55percent of
Honors students
live in DeHority
and Park
HONORS HOUSING:
Where are we living?
597Honors students
live on campus. The
ones who don’t live
in DeHority and Park
abide in these halls.
LaFollete
Woodworth
Studebaker
Elliot
Johnson
Noyer
2
3
7
8
8
15
30
By Liz Young
WHAT STUDENTS SAY:
KinghornMoving Out
About 3 out of 8 Honors
students live off campus.
Honors Halls
More than half of Honors
students live on the east side
of campus.

FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY OR ACTIVITY
“I was a super fan of Lego. I built the most
complicated, huge, outrageous things out of Legos.
I kept them and gave them to my girls — I’m not
sure they get the sentimentality yet, but they do like
playing with them.”
THE MUSIC YOU LOVED WHEN YOU WERE 16
“The Beatles and Bob Dylan — it hasn’t faded one
bit. Every time I listen to their music, I get something
different out of it. Great art allows you to keep
growing, it changes with you.”
Getting to know
Professor Berg
Wanting more?
Anna Mitchel, sophomoreKatelyn Warner, juniorChristopher Held, junior
As told to Carli Scalf
Check out our Faces tab at ballstatenewsandnotes.weebly.com to see more of the Honors students and staff.
FAVORITE LOCATION IN THE WORLD
“There is a Bamboo forest in the botanical gardens of
Rome that I love. The trees are towering giants, and
you can feel your smallness. Also, when I was living in
England two summers ago, there was a pub I loved
because of the community that was there. On my
last day there, the pub owner let me tend the bar — I
had tears streaming down my face, I had become so
attached to the community there.”
WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW FOR SURE
“I know that I don’t know much, and that’s a humbling
experience. The more I read and understand
things, the more I know I don’t have many answers,
but instead lots of questions. And that’s good,
because questions create a curious mind, and that’s
something I won’t age out of.”
Honors humanities professor Tim
Berg opens his office to N&N.

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