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Fourteen hours after campus internet came back from a nearly six-hour outage Feb. 9 — with no more than two tweets communicated from the university — the Ball State community was finally given an explanation to what happened.
“Big Wave Dave’ receives a waterman’s sendoff SHARE A seagull performs a flyby as family and friends celebrate “Big Wave Dave” Largent’s life. Photos by Wright Adaza When Dave Largent, a 6-foot-4 highschooler who looked like Clark Kent, tried out for the West High football team in the early ‘60s, the coach told him, ‘The long hair goes or you go.” The long hair stayed and the legend of “Big Wave Dave” was born. Largent traveled the world in search of big waves before marrying his love Kimberly and raising sons Derek and Dane. Derek fulfilled his father’s football ...