Captain Barrington Irving and the Flying Classroom team will be visiting Summer Learning Fun at Camp Adventure (SLFCA) to spend the day with the campers who have been participating in his Flying Classroom’s virtual learning program this summer.
SMEDLEY: Although the toxic nature of the Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) and the multitude of injuries both World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and All Elite Wrestling (AEW) currently face, the state of professional wrestling is still good.
President Joe Biden on Saturday signed the most sweeping gun violence bill in decades, a bipartisan compromise that seemed unimaginable until a recent series of mass shootings, including the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
As a part of Pride Month, June 30th is scheduled to play host to "Everything Queer" from 1:00- 3:30 p.m. at the Student Center at Ball State University. There are set to be three events hosted in Student Center Room 301 during this time frame.
AP: The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
SMEDLEY: With the No. 6 pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, the Indiana Pacers selected Bennedict Mathurin, who is an explosive athlete that showcases tremendous athletic ability that also shows a fiery passion for the game of basketball and should provide the Pacers with yet another scoring option and a player who has room to improve defensively, while not being a liability on that end either.
June 23, 2022, marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, a federal civil rights law passed in the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or educational program that is given funding by the government. In the world of athletics, Title IX helped give female athletes equal opportunity in all educational-based athletics.
Dr. Charles Payne, Ball State University's first Black faculty member to achieve tenure and professor rank, has reportedly died at the age of 80.
The 2022 National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft is scheduled for Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m. on ESPN. The Indiana Pacers are in a favorable spot heading into said draft and have multiple options as to what they can do on the night.
Twitter’s board has recommended unanimously that shareholders approve the proposed $44 billion sale of the company to billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday (June 21).
June 21, Ball State Baseball and the Cardinals' head coach Rich Maloney announced assistant coach Blake Beemer has accepted the head baseball coach position at Butler University. Beemer spent the last four seasons at Ball State as an assistant coach after spending four years as a Ball State Baseball player.
Indiana native and basketball star Caleb Swanigan died at the age of 25, as reported June 21, 2022. The Allen County (Indiana) Coroner’s Office said he died of natural causes.
In Zionsville, June 18, current Ball State University student Elizabeth Hallal, a Musical Theatre major (class of 2023), was crowned Miss Indiana. Hallal is scheduled to represent the state of Indiana at the Miss America pageant on December 17, 2022.
Awardees of the Whitinger Scholarship and the John R. and Aline B. Emens Leadership Scholarship for the 2022-23 academic year from Ball State University’s Honors College have been announced. Eight students have been awarded the Whitinger Scholarship while 15 have been awarded the John R. and Aline B. Emens Leadership Scholarship.
Starting 10 a.m., Monday, June 27, parking permits for general faculty/staff, R2, R6, and R8 lots will be available to all employees. Starting 10 a.m., Monday, July 11, any remaining R5, R7 and R11 permits will be available to all employees.
JOSLIN: Despite stepping down as the CEO and chairman of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), Vince McMahon still has creative control that needs to be discharged.
June 18, 2022, from 3-9 p.m. at McCulloch Park in Muncie, Indiana, a Juneteenth celebration was held. Juneteenth celebrates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans and is celebrated June 19, among other days.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In its first three hearings, the House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection has laid out the beginnings of its case against former President Donald Trump — that his lies about the 2020 election, and his pressure on his vice president to overturn it, directly led to the violence on Jan. 6, 2021.
