With airlines charging extra to check a bag, the Spring Break challenge is stuffing an entire week’s worth of clothes into a carry-on or packing a checked bag.
Ball State’s baseball team is 9-3 so far this season, but a five-game road trip to Kentucky and Campbell should prove to be the team’s toughest stretch.
Ball State will play its final regular season game Saturday afternoon in DeKalb, Ill., as it faces 13-16 Northern Illinois. The Cardinals have struggled this season as the team sits at 2-15 in Mid-American Conference play and 5-23 overall.
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This year’s harsh winter conditions already have caused Muncie to spend about $16,000 more than last year on repairing potholes, most of which goes toward a temporary fix. The city spent roughly $60,000 last year on patching roads using hot and cold mixes, said Donnie Wright, supervisor for the Department of Street and Public Works. The expense was split evenly between the winter and the summer.
Men’s volleyball players crouched on the court at Worthen Arena while coaches and other personnel dotted the sidelines or sat behind the media table. The final point of a practice game came to a close, with Shane Witmer on the losing end.
Being the new kid is tough for a lot of young people. They wind up in a new place, have to make friends and establish some sort of identity.
Little Red Jessup and the Woofs play “Cast Away” at Kirks Bike shop.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid is headed this way. But even though it will come closer than the moon, astronomers say it will pose no danger. The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between the moon and Earth on Wednesday.
The Catholic Church, its more than 1 billion members and other denominations will celebrate Ash Wednesday today, the first day of Lent. Brogan Drumm, a junior theatrical studies major, called herself as a “cradle Catholic,” which means she was born and raised into the faith. “There have been times where I haven’t wanted to be Catholic, but all in all, I always seem to come back to my faith,” she said.
Live Music Lineup March 5-9 Leisha Jenkins | WCRD reporter lajenkins@bsu.edu TODAY Blue Sky Carnival Band: Band in Residence 10 p.m.-midnight at Be Here Now THURSDAY Little Red Jessop & the Woofs and Apathy Wizards 9 p.m.
A new world opens before your eyes as you are engulfed in the surroundings.
Richard Burkhardt, a former acting president of Ball State and Burkhardt Building’s namesake, died Tuesday morning in Muncie. Burkhardt began his career in higher education as the director of the division of teacher preparation at Syracuse University. In 1952, Burkhardt came to Ball State where he first served as the vice president for instructional affairs and dean of faculties, according to the Ball State website.
UNITED NATIONS — The civil war in South Sudan has left people so hungry and desperate for relief that they are even fleeing across the border into Darfur, a long-troubled region of famine and suffering in neighboring Sudan. Tony Lanzer, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that some 900,000 South Sudanese are homeless since the war erupted in December, and about 195,000 of them have fled as refugees to Uganda, Ethiopia and Darfur.
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VIENNA — A survey of 42,000 women across the European Union suggests that about one in 10 have been the victims of sexual violence, and half of them reported being raped. Described as the largest of its kind, the survey released by the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Rights is the most ambitious effort yet to gauge the extent of sexual violence and harassment experienced by the 186.6 million women in the EU’s 28 nations.
KIEV, Ukraine — In a somber show of U.S. support for Ukraine’s new leadership, Secretary of State John Kerry walked the streets Tuesday where more than 80 anti-government protesters were killed last month and promised beseeching crowds that American aid is on the way. Kerry met in Ukraine with the new government’s acting president, prime minister, foreign minister and top parliamentary officials. Speaking to reporters afterward, Kerry urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stand down and said the U.S. is looking for ways to de-escalate the mounting tensions.
The Ball State men’s basketball team lost its 23rd game of the season Tuesday night. It fell to Eastern Michigan, 58-72.
