Civil rights leader Hurley Goodall recalls a time when blacks in Muncie were excluded from the classic sociological studies on Muncie as Middletown. However, the work of 15 Ball State University students, the contributions of 50 black residents such as Goodall and the help of multiple scholars paved the way for the first publication examining the black population.
The Ball State University men's basketball team will announce former Arkansas assistant coach Ronny Thompson as its latest head coach. Thompson was an assistant at Arkansas for three years and is the son of legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson. Ball State is holding a press conference today at 2 p.m.
Ball State University students and faculty members will volunteer to spend an hour in "jail" to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Muncie Lock-up event. The event will last from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. today. Cari Peterson, a Ball State alumna and program coordinator for the North Central District of MDA, said drivers would pick up local business professionals and Ball State students who had volunteered their time to be locked up.
I used to kick myself for not working harder in high school. I thought that if I had gotten better grades and test scores, I might have gotten into a place like Duke University. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I visited Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina.
Facing a school from the Big Ten Conference is no small challenge for any softball team. However, when a team could possibly be without two of its best players, the task can become an even bigger challenge. The Ball State University softball team (8-12 overall, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) will travel today to Purdue University (21-18, 2-2) for a game against the Boilermakers and might be without starting pitcher Amanda Pick and catcher Abby Gross.
Elements Alternative Gifts has reopened after closing its Muncie store in January. But this time, it's all on the World Wide Web. Carolyn Stellwag, one of the owners of the business, said Elements was online when it was open in the Village. "We had customers from all across the country," she said.
Dear Editor, I am writing as a parent concerned for the safety of my daughter who attends Ball State University. My daughter, Eden South, is under constant harassment from community members who call her and her friends "niggers," from uninterested police - both local and campus - who discount complaints from black students regarding harassment and who badger any groups of more than 10 black students.
When Brendan Powell Smith, nicknamed The Reverend, first read the Bible - while attending college at Boston University - he thought to himself, "Has anyone actually read this book?" Smith estimated the stories people are familiar with comprise about 5 percent of the book and decided he should educate people on the other 95 percent.
Ball State University's secondary education and entrepreneurship graduate level programs are on the list of America's Best Graduate Schools. Find out where they stand and what the university is doing to make its programs stand out from that of other schools.
Amid the excitement of the NCAA Tournament's last game, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics had a whole different kind of buzz going on. The department was planning today's announcement: Ronny Thompson will fill the top coaching spot for the men's basketball team, a position left vacant when Tim Buckley was reassigned March 15.
You'd think from the hubbub caused by Indiana adopting daylight-saving time that a biannual changing of the clocks is equivalent to giving up one's firstborn child. And even though I know a few people who wouldn't mind giving up their firstborn children, the time change seems to have gone off with relatively few hitches.
Evidently the earth is flat, and we're back in the times of pillaging and plunder. Without going so far as to say we live in a society of cavemen (because they're still around), there seems to be a growing problem with sexual exploitation and abuse among athletes.
After sweeping a three-game series with Miami University of Ohio by scoring 28 runs, collecting 43 hits and batting .377, the Ball State University baseball team's offense might appear as though it is hitting on all cylinders. Not so, coach Greg Beals said.
Daily News confirms Arkansas Asst. Coach Ronny Thompson will take helm as Ball State men's basketball head coach.
Power lines fell and fires burned across Muncie as high speed winds and heavy rain stormed through Indiana Sunday night. At 11 p.m. city emergency personal reported at least six sets of downed power lines, including power lines near Liberty Street, where they were setting off a railroad track signal.
In a bureaucratic institution like Ball State University, it takes time to process requests, policies and complaints. Although that time frame might be beneficial when it comes to changes to the university calendar or parking services regulations, the slow pace of the process should not be tolerated when accusations of racism are involved.
With raised fists and shouts of "Whose streets? Our streets," a crowd of Ball State University students marched down McKinley Avenue on Friday. The rally was sparked by a Thursday night incident during which a predominately black group of students said they were disrespected by university police.
Another school record fell as the Ball State University women's track and field team completed their weekend at Purdue and Stanford. Senior Jill Scully broke her own school record Friday in the 10,000 meters in Palo Alto, Cal. Her time of 33:54.66, good enough for 16th at the Stanford Invitational, broke her previous record of 33:58.
Just as she thought the storm was dying down Friday night, a 30 mph speed limit street sign crashed through Allison Ashbrook's bedroom window. A tornado threw the sign after touching down in Johnson County and moving 17 miles to Shelby County. The sign traveled more than 100 yards to her apartment complex, Ashbrook, a Ball State University junior, estimated.
