Stakeholders in the Student Government Association election process said changes need to be made to the current elections code to combat problems seen in this year’s election. Alex Sventeckis, elections board chairman, said the code does not cover everything that happened during the election.
Seventy-two African high school students and mentors will come to Ball State this year as part of the Pan-Africa Youth Leadership Program. The first group of three will arrive April 3 and stay at Ball State for two weeks.
A Ball State representative says there are no new developments concerning the letter sent by Indiana legislators regarding a professor that was accused of teaching intelligent design last summer. Joan Todd, a university spokesperson, said “there is nothing new to add,” regarding the letter sent March 10 by four Indiana senators who question Ball State’s respect for academic freedom and religious liberty in its treatment.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has been arrested on suspicion of intoxicated driving, authorities said Monday. Irsay was arrested Sunday night in the northern Indianapolis suburb of Carmel on preliminary charges of driving while intoxicated and possession of a controlled substance, Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Bryant Orem said. Police in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel say Irsay was stopped late Sunday after he was spotted driving slowly, coming to a stop in the roadway and failing to use a turn signal. Police say the 54-year-old Irsay failed several roadside field sobriety tests before he was arrested.
Early foul trouble and poor transition awareness kept the Ball State women’s basketball team from a Mid-American Conference Championship.
Nearly every statistic in the box score says the Ball State men’s volleyball team should have lost. It was out hit and had fewer assists and digs — three areas critical to winning a match.
Two new fraternity chapters have joined Ball State this academic year: Kappa Alpha Psi, which was reactivated, and Pi Kappa Phi. Greek Life on campus makes up 12.31 percent of all students.
Diversity in writing style is the focus of the ninth In Print Festival of First Books, a two-day creative writing event. This year features novelist Mario Alberto Zambrano, poet Natalie Shapero, nonfiction author T.
Not long before the snow melts and leaves return, the color green makes a reappearance for St. Patrick’s Day. People in the U.S. celebrate Saint Patrick, who lived in the 400s, during this originally nonsecular and Roman Catholic holiday with drinking, parades and maybe a few references to the “emerald isles.”
Monday Free Jamba Juice samples Ball State Dining is giving away Jamba Juice samples of the Apples ‘n Greens smoothie from 11 a.m.
Students applying for Ball State and other universities after the Spring 2016 semester will have the option to take an updated SAT test. The new test will return to a 1,600 point scale and the writing portion will be optional. The test will consist of evidence based reading, writing and math. Students will also no longer be penalized for guessing on the test because wrong answers will no longer count against them.
Ball State knocked off Lees-McRae in four sets Saturday night 25-19, 25-19, 27-29, 25-3. The team finished the match with 50 kills with outside attackers Marcin Niemczewski and Matt Sutherland pacing Ball State each claiming 11 kills. Setter Graham McIlvaine finished with a team-high 25 sets, while Hiago Garchet added 13 of his own. Ball State finished with 13 team blocks; Niemczewski and Kevin Owens each with a solo block. Libero David Ryan Vander Meer led the team with 15 digs, while Shane Witmer was not far behind, contributing 13 digs. The win improves Ball State’s record to 14-5.
The Ball State women’s basketball team fell to Akron in the Mid-American Conference Championship game today. The Cardinals lost 68-79 despite a late 14-2 scoring run fueled by junior guard Brittany Carter’s four three-point field goals.
MUNCIE, Ind. — Four conservative Republican Indiana legislators are questioning Ball State University’s decision to prohibit the teaching of intelligent design in a science course. The legislators sent a letter this week to Ball State President Jo Ann Gora, saying her decision last summer raised questions about whether the school had violated the religious and academic freedom of the professor involved, The Star Press reported. Gora’s decision followed complaints that the “Boundaries of Science” class taught by Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics, was promoting the idea that nature displays evidence of intelligent design, as opposed to evolution.
When the final kill fell Tuesday night, one of the loudest teams in the conference was silent. Ball State knocked off IPFW 19-25, 25-18, 25-19 and 25-23.
Governor Mike Pence named one new appointee to Ball State’s Board of Trustees. E. Renae Conley, a retired executive vice president of human resources for Entergy Corporation, which is an energy production and distribution company, was appointed to the board today, according to a press release. Conley earned two undergraduate and one graduate degree from Ball State as well as received the Miller College of Business’ 2001 Award of Achievement and was inducted into the Miller College of Business Hall of Fame in 2013. Conley also served as president and CEO of Entergy Louisiana and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana. Frank Hancock, owner of Sport Graphics, and Marianne Glick, director of the Eugene & Marilyn Glick Family Foundation, were reappointed to the board by Pence today.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sandy the dog “muttbombed” celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Ellen DeGeneres and Brad Pitt as they posed at the Oscars for the now-famous star-studded selfie.
This season Ball State men’s volleyball head coach Joel Walton has emphasized that serving well doesn’t have to mean getting aces. When the team knocked off No.
PARIS (AP) — European Union countries are preparing tougher new sanctions against Russia that they could impose by Monday. EU governments are divided about how fast, and how far to go, to punish Moscow for its military incursion into Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula. British and French diplomats said Tuesday that officials are preparing a second round of sanctions on top of an initial round imposed last week.
