Live Music Lineup 7 p.m.-2 a.m. downtown Muncie Muncie Gras Light Stage: Pork and Beans Brass Band, Hines Street Sound, Midwest Hype and Losing September Be Here Now Stage: Mud Waters, Apathy Wizards, Paper White, Blue Sky Carnival Band and Diphox On campus: 7:30 p.m.
A fixture of Ball State since 1968, and the pioneer of immersive learning at the university will retire at the end of the semester. Joe Trimmer, director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, started the organization in 2000 with “creative inquiries,” which are now known as immersive learning and have been called the hallmark of a Ball State education by President Jo Ann Gora.
• New resident assistant gave up plans to lead Dance Marathon and rush for sorority for position. • University hired 129 new and returning RAs. • RAs get free room and board and $1,300 stipend from university.
NEW YORK — Organizers of the fast-food protests for higher pay shifted their attention Tuesday to another issue: “wage theft.” Protesters planned to rally outside McDonald’s restaurants in cities including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami to call attention to the denial of overtime pay and other violations they say deprive workers of the money they’re owed.
Two Ball State students opened their closet doors and took to social media to sell their used clothing and knickknacks. Megan Taylor and Jessica Liebeno describe themselves as business partners, roommates and friends.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colts owner and CEO Jim Irsay is known in NFL circles as a tough businessman and eccentric billionaire who enjoys interacting with fans about his beloved team and about his favorite songs from bands like the Beatles and the Grateful Dead. He may end up adding convicted felon to the mix. Irsay was pulled over just before midnight Sunday near his home in suburban Carmel.
The transition to college baseball is one that many high school athletes have trouble with. However, for Ball State freshman Zach Plesac the jump appears to be seamless. Coming out of Crown Point High School, Plesac quickly embraced his role in the Cardinals’ bullpen.
NEW YORK (AP) — A weekend of St. Patrick’s Day revelry and tensions over the exclusion of gays in some of the celebrations culminated Monday in New York, where the world’s largest parade celebrating Irish heritage stepped off without the city’s new mayor and Guinness beer amid a dispute over whether participants could carry pro-gay signs.
NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers said they have spotted evidence that a split-second after the Big Bang, the newly formed universe ballooned out at a pace so astonishing that it left behind ripples in the fabric of the cosmos.
Spring cleaning equals getting rid of junk for many people, and where that junk ends up has an economic impact on local nonprofits.
Putin recognizes Crimean independence; New uncertainty about missing Malaysian plane; Venezuela government moves forces into protest plaza; Paris takes drastic measures to fight toxic smog; Feds: 9/11 mastermind’s testimony should be barred
For the second time in three years, Sbarro filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization March 10. Last month, the company closed down 155 of its United States locations, according to The Associated Press.
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.
