The Daily News is made of stories.
In the spring of 1922, nine students from the Eastern Division of the Indiana Normal School became interested in newswriting. The students looked to Robert LaFollete to be their adviser and under the editorship of William Clem Harding, they put together the first student newspaper for what would become Ball State University.
Eighty years ago this Saturday, the Easterner, the predecessor to the Daily News, rolled off the presses for the first time. Over time, Indiana Normal School changed names -- as did the Easterner.
When the Normal School became Ball State Teachers College, the Easterner became the Ball State News. By 1968, the Teachers College grew into a full university and the News wasn't able to provide sufficient coverage as a semiweekly publication. The News became the Daily News, and since then, both the university and its newspaper continue to grow.
The Daily News has prospered because of the work of those that came before the current staff of "DN'ers," such as Louis Ingelhart, who spent his professional life as an advocate for the First Amendment and the student press. He educated the Ball State community on the importance of student press, allowing the Daily News to grow.
We will continue to grow as a news organization to better serve the community -- a lesson learned by many aspiring journalists during the first 80 years of publication. As technology advances, we will explore new forms of media to carry on our duties as journalists. Besides, change is something to which we've grown accustomed.
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