On a gloomy, January afternoon in the president’s office at Ball State University, first lady Grace Ferguson sat glancing at a table covered in framed family photos of herself, her husband, Ball State President Paul Ferguson, and their three children.
As soon as the pregnancy test turned positive, Alexis Major started crying and panicking. “The first person I wanted to call was my mom. I was crying hysterically and I thought my life was over,” she said. “I was like, I want to finish school.”
A shooting Thursday morning in Hartford City, 20 minutes north of Muncie, prompted Blackford County Schools to lock down. The shooting is still under investigation, Kelly Cale, Blackford County Sheriff’s Office dispatch said, however they did not occur at nor were connected to the school.
Ball State's 15th president took office on Aug. 1, 2014 following the resignation of the university's former president Jo Ann Gora. Here is his career before Ball State.
With high expectations and young talent, the Ball State softball team heads to Nashville, Tenn., this weekend for the Belmont/Lipscomb Music City Classic to open its season.
Five different players finished in double-figures, but Ball State still couldn’t overcome Buffalo in an 82-78 loss, its seventh straight. “I thought it was a really hard fought game,” said head coach James Whitford.
Anchors: Lafayette Jordan and Abby Kirk
Muncie celebrates 150 years in 2015.
If you’ve walked into the north entrance of the Atrium, you might have echoed the concerns of several students and thought, “What is that smell?”
The Ball State football team officially inked several commitments on signing day. Here's what they're saying on Twitter. [View the story "Ball State football signees recognized on #NationalSigningDay " on Storify]
Twenty-four players put pen to paper on National Signing Day on Wednesday and signed a national letter of intent to play football at Ball State next season.
It was a cold and windy night at the Ball Honors House Tuesday as groups of students filed up to its stately, red door only to be greeted with disturbing news: a murder had occurred on the university owned grounds.
Another anonymous persona on campus would probably call Happy Friday Guy a pretty nice dude. That’s just how Compliment Guy is. Compliment Guy, while lesser known than his blue suited counterpart, has been bringing smiles to campus since 2013.
For as long as he has been able to hold a pencil, junior visual communications major Eric Jones said he has been drawing.
Students will be able to hear spoken poetry and see the artist’s interpretation of it at Soul Crafted Methods tonight from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
Most of Ball State's sports facilities will receive a makeover now that the university has reached its $20.6 million funding goal.
Ball State contract faculty could see new titles and the possibility for promotion under a proposal. At last Thursday's Faculty Council a committee charged with reviewing and researching tenure, tenure-track and contract faculty titles found that the university needed to address how the faculty and professional personnel handbook defined and described its contract faculty.
When Polish native Marcin Niemczewski arrived at Ball State as a freshman in 2012, he found himself buried on the men's volleyball team's depth chart behind senior outside attackers Jamion Hartley and Greg Herceg. Niemczewski learned the meaning of hard work and leadership from the duo, who combined for 532 of the Cardinals' 1,222 kills that season. "[Marcin] was watching these two guys play his position who were everything that we would want a college men's volleyball player to be," head coach Joel Walton said.
