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Surviving the 'Red Zone'

Every fall students come to campus with a mental image of what college is: a time for partying, making new friends and attending football games.For some, this isn’t a reality.The Red Zone refers to the first six weeks of college when new students are most vulnerable.


​CDC urges all US hospitals to ‘think Ebola’

The government was telling the nation’s hospitals to “think Ebola.”Every hospital must know how to diagnose Ebola in people who have been in West Africa and be ready to isolate a suspected case, Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.



Live at Five 10-13

Hear what's making headlines with the WCRD News, Sports and Weather teams. News Anchors Audrey Kirby  Angelica Watts Weather Forecaster Ashley Baldwin Entertainment Diamonds Holsey Sports Anchor Conner Onion Producer Danielle Ortiz



James Reinhart, an urban planning graduate student, works with his group in creating a proposal for expanding pedestrian travel routes to downtown Muncie for their Muncie Maker's District proposal. DN PHOTO ALAN HOVORKA

Urban Planning grad program moves up in national rankings

The Urban Planning graduate program at Ball State surpassed its scores from the last ranking in 2011 in this year’s Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs by Planetizen, an information network for the urban planning, design and development community.