For one international student at Ball State, coming to a new country didn’t mean going without a family. Three years ago junior architecture major Sasha Mballa joined the program after coming to the United States from Africa, which connects international students with local families, when he came to Ball State. Mballa said he stumbled upon the program by accident and decided to try it out. Since many international students come to school without any established friends, the program can provide support while they adjust to an American lifestyle. Of the more than 800 international students who attend Ball State each year, only 131 take part in the program.
There are two types of people in this world. There are the those who watch the Super Bowl for the game and those who watch the Super Bowl solely for the commercials.
I was a junior in high school out to eat with a big group of friends. Half of the table was chatting about the latest gossip while the other half was a group of guys discussing the games from last weekend.
In the old days, the only way to watch the Super Bowl was either in person or through a broadcast television — that thing with the rabbit ears.
Many professors taught to nearly empty classrooms today in an effort to make up for lost time. Professors were forced to find a way to make up instruction time after the extreme cold caused the university to cancel two days at the start of the semester. Ciera Davis, a freshman theatre design major, went to her personal finance class because it only meets once a week.
The women’s tennis team continued to perform well early this season, winning its fifth match of the season today against Cleveland State, 6-1. Ball State started off by winning the doubles point with a 6-3 win from the team of Toni Ormond and Kristel Sanders, a 6-3 loss by the doubles team of Bethany Moore and Courtney Earnest and a close 7-6 win from Courtney Wild and Ashlyn Rang.
Muncie, IN (WCRD Weather) — Ever wonder why model forecasts and extended forecasts change? Michael Behrens has the explanation.
David K. Jones | @dkjones_BSU | Chief Reporter Most of the 2,786 people in Worthen Arena stood in shock after seeing Ball State blow its lead with just seconds remaining. With 16.3 left in the fourth quarter, Ball State was ahead.
With 16.3 seconds left in regulation, Northern Illinois was down by two as guard Travon Baker drove to the rim, making contact with Ball State’s Majok Majok. Majok blocked the shot, but he fouled Baker in the process for his fifth and final foul of the game.
• Ball State seniors compete in final home meet. • The Cardinals grab four event wins. • Four Cardinals set season-best times.
Sometimes, feet work better than hands. With his team leading in the fifth set 12-8, Ball State’s David Ryan Vander Meer charged the net. An IPFW player threw down an attack.
Though the Ball State gymnastics team set a season-high mark of 193.025 on Friday, it couldn’t defeat visiting Bowling Green. “We are getting better little by little, we just have to stay on our game,” head coach Joanna Saleem said. After setting a season-high mark last week as well, the Cardinals kept momentum rolling.
The committee searching for Ball State’s next president met today to discuss the evaluation of future candidates.
Ball State named a new defensive coordinator, former Georgetown head coach Kevin Kelly. “We are very fortunate to bring a defensive coach with Kevin’s experience, expertise and integrity to the Ball State football program at this time,” Ball State head coach Pete Lembo said in a press release. Kelly was the head coach of Georgetown from 2007-13.
Now, the Super Bowl is a stimulation extravaganza. Watching the big game is about high-contact sports, alcohol and the proud American tradition of advertising. So take some time away from looking at a giant screen by looking a smaller one — a cellphone with some of the following apps.
Ball State University Dance Marathon set a new group record of registered dancers after surpassing 1,316 dancers.
The ongoing protests in Ukraine have a Ball State professor and Ukrainian native feeling isolated and removed from his homeland. Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators continue to fight against the Ukrainian government after Tuesday’s repeal of anti-protest laws.
Valerie Solodarenko is from Poltava, Ukraine, and is a sophomore business communication major studying in Riga, Latvia. In high school, Solodarenko was an exchange student in North Judson, Ind. In this Q-and-A, Solodarenko discusses her reaction to the events in her home country.
