Ball State University is on its way to having a mostly smoke-free campus as March 17 approaches and the implementation of the ban begins.
The implementation process is on schedule and has experienced no problems, Kay Bales, vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said.
"We are making progress," she said. "Everything will be ready."
Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president for marketing and communications, said the advertisements for the transition were on schedule. He said he expected everything to be complete when the policy takes effect.
"Our communications are moving forward as planned," he said. "We have many different ways to communicate with folks so nobody is surprised on the day the policy goes into effect."
Proudfoot said several notices about the ban had been given to the Ball State community. His staff sent e-mails to faculty and students informing them of the policy and offering smoking cessation classes, he said.
Advertisements on the residence hall television channel begin next week, he said, and public service announcements on local radio stations including WBST, WCRD and WLBC, will run the last week of February.
Proudfoot said table tents providing information about the ban would be in dining areas starting in March. He said his staff also created a brochure that would be located in busy areas of campus at the end of February.
The university allocated more than $30,000 for the implementation, according to the implementation task force report. About two-thirds of that was meant for signage and setting up the designated smoking areas.
Tom Morrison, acting vice president for business affairs, said he didn't know the official cost until all of the work was finished. He expects the signage and setup to cost less than that, he said.
Morrison said Ball State workers would do all of the setup work. The university has its own sign shop and has all of the park benches and ash trays in stock. The signs are being made now, and most of the setup work will be repositioning the benches and ash trays, he said.
Morrison said he saw no reason why everything wouldn't be completed on time.
Smoking areas will be set up in the next few weeks depending on the weather, Morrison said. All of the designated places will be the same as previously advertised, except for one, he said.
Morrison said the smoking area between Park Hall and the Woodworth Complex had been changed because the snow plowed from the Emens Auditorium parking garage was dumped there. The new location is now between Park Hall and the DeHority Complex, he said.
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