Use the fields below to perform an advanced search of Ball State Daily's archives. This will return articles, images, and multimedia relevant to your query. You can also try a Basic search
1000 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
(06/19/19 4:00pm)
Editor's note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to editor@bsudailynews.com.
(06/17/19 6:53pm)
Editor's note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to editor@bsudailynews.com. Matt Dowell is an employee with the McKinley Avenue Agency, which sells ads for The Daily News.
(06/03/19 5:59pm)
Editor's note: A previous version of the article wrongly mentioned the time for the "One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure" event. The correct time is 5:30 p.m. Fridays – June 7, 21, 28 and July 12. The change has been made to reflect the correct time.
(05/03/19 8:44pm)
After three and a half hour practices twice a week, additional individual practice and the help of a personal trainer, Ball State’s Code Red dance team ended its season with a sixth place finish at Nationals.
(04/30/19 4:00pm)
With some of its pages yellowed and cracking, the Vulgate — a Latin version of the Bible from the 13th century — sits in The Remnant Trust Book Exhibit.
(05/01/19 2:00pm)
Editor's note: Intern Spotlight is a Ball State Daily News series profiling Ball State students and their summer internships. If you have any suggestions as to who we should feature next, send an email to editor@bsudailynews.com.
(04/23/19 4:00pm)
As an a cappella group, Straight No Chaser brings their shows to life with vocal harmonies, “goofy” choreography and twists on fan-favorite song covers.
(04/22/19 4:00pm)
Jennifer Eber, one of eight nominees, recently won the A. Jane Morton Award for her 12 years of service at Ball State.
(04/17/19 11:17pm)
Campus publication "The Odyssey" hosted its first launch party for its yearly issue. The party featured spoken word poetry read from the publication as well as shirts, posters and copies of the publication for those who attended.
(04/17/19 11:08pm)
by Blake Chapman
Campus publication "The Odyssey" hosted its first launch party for its yearly issue. The party featured spoken word poetry read from the publication as well as shirts, posters and copies of the publication for those who attended.
(04/17/19 9:32pm)
by Sam Smith
Nick Molter, a 2014 Ball State graduate, has recently released an app called Dinggo.
Dinggo makes deciding what to watch on streaming services easier by using an algorithm similar to Tinder. Users can select what streaming services they use, narrow down by the genre they are in the mood for, and then can swipe through to decide what sounds interesting and what doesn't. Once user feel they have swiped through enough options, they can then see a list of all the shows or movies they felt looked interesting. Dinggo also has an option where groups can swipe together and a list showing what everyone in the group wants to watch will be made.
Molter was inspired to create Dinggo after too many attempted movie nights with his fiancee, where they could never decide what to watch. They both felt that there were apps for everything, so there had to be an app that helped decide what movie to watch. When Molter discovered no such app existed, he decided to make one himself and started to work on Dinggo full time.
Molter felt the most challenging part of creating Dinggo was designing it. He credited his time at Ball State for his critical thinking skills and his ability to break down complex problems, both of which helped him to create Dinggo. Molter had advice for current Ball State students.
“Be frugal... It’s hard to predict what shape your opportunity will take, but financial preparedness is pretty universal.”
“You don’t need to do everything yourself,” Molter also said. Molter hired a developer to help him create his app and he said it was one of the smartest decisions he’d ever made. For aspiring app makers, Molter suggested using prototyping software to create a blueprint for your ideas.
Molter is currently working on improving Dinggo. He wants to continue to get to a more mature phase where constant updates won't be needed. Since launch, he and his team have received lots of feedback. He wants to “take that feedback and turn it into a deliverable, in the form of refining some of our current features, as well as adding new features. Once this next version is released, we'll continue gathering feedback and making adjustments indefinitely.” The goal for Dinggo is to continue improving and continue gaining users. Molter also said that once the app is in a more mature phase he would like to work on creating new apps.
Dinggo is available for both Apple and Android.
(04/17/19 9:32pm)
Nick Molter, a 2014 Ball State graduate, has recently released an app called Dinggo.
(04/18/19 4:00pm)
It was a Sunday.
(04/19/19 7:00pm)
Starting at a young age, Paul Luft, whose stage name is Paul Rosewood, was no stranger to putting on performances with his siblings.
(04/17/19 7:00pm)
For 10 minutes, members of the Ball State Speech Team had everyone’s attention and the stage to themselves as they performed their speeches.
(04/10/19 8:21pm)
by Tanner Kinney, Jack Gillespie, and Trevor Sheffield
Frog Baby Film Festival 2019 was another excellent showing of a variety of expertly crafted student films. These films show a number of varied perspectives, many of them taking risks on the ways we tell stories. From dramas about just trying to get home, to comedies about purgatory, to even experimental films that feel like Twilight Zone episodes, this festival had it all. Although some films were stronger than others, all of these films were deserving of the honor to be shown at Frog Baby this year. This year truly highlights the creativity of Ball State students in crafting narratives that have never been seen before.
(04/05/19 8:04pm)
by Jeremy Rogers
The doors to Pruis Hall will be opening tonight at 8 p.m. to welcome members of Ball State and the surrounding Muncie community free of charge to this year’s Frog Baby Film Festival.
The festival showcases short films and other short subject videos made by Ball State undergraduates. Genres can range from documentaries to music videos to narrative films and even extending to more experimental works. The theme for this year's submissions is "Rockabilly."
Thought the submissions are created by undergraduates, the festival’s judging panel is composed of professors and other faculty. They will be deciding the winners of categories ranging from Best Action, to Best Actor and Best Actress, to Best Editing and the top award of the night: Best of Festival. Last year’s Best of Festival winner was the short film Lightswitch. The film was written and directed by Nick Kinder and is about a man who finds an odd switch on the wall of the warehouse where he is working the night shift.
The festival gets its name from the Frog Baby statue that now stands in the middle of a fountain not far from the north-facing side of Bracken Library. The statue was created by Edith Barretto Sevens Parsons in 1937 and spent several years in the David Owsley Museum of Art. While there, students would rub the nose of the statue for good luck on final exams. Since being moved to its outdoor resting place, traditions have adapted, and students now give scarves and hats to the statue during the campus’ colder months.
(04/05/19 7:02pm)
For a year and a half, senior playwright Emma Rund has been writing and rewriting what she called her masterpiece, “Rosemary and Time.”
(04/04/19 4:00pm)
The concept of saving energy and using more eco-friendly resources has been around for years — businesses like the Indianapolis International Airport have even made the switch entirely to solar panels.
(04/03/19 7:00pm)
Featuring 20-foot screens, lights that can be seen almost a mile away and lasers that require federal waivers, Muncie has never witnessed a concert scene like this before.