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.
The protests in Ukraine have roots in events from nearly a decade ago. Here is how the situation unfolded in the country.
Big Shots Pub Big Shots Pub offers a variety of entertainment, including pool tables and an outdoor party deck.
The Student Government Association denied a nominee to join Senate after members said the candidate was trying to be elected as pro tempore. During the vote Wednesday afternoon, Bryan Kubel recommended SGA Senate not approve sophomore political science major Daqavise Winston’s application. Though Kubel is chair of the credentials board, he made the recommendation as a senator.
LONDON — After all the talk of terror threats, corruption, overspending and anti-gay legislation, the head of the Sochi Olympics is determined to show the world the games will be a huge success. Nine days before the opening ceremony, organizing committee chief Dmitry Chernyshenko said Wednesday that Sochi is “fully ready” and will deliver safe, friendly and well-run games that defy the grim reports that have overshadowed preparations.
Grocery Bingo University Program Board will host Grocery Bingo at 7 p.m. in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom. Students will have a chance to win free groceries, a Keurig, a microwave and a panini maker, among other prizes. Tailgate for Families in Need Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food to families in need at a monthly tailgate. The program runs from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the BorgWarner parking lot in Muncie. The event is first come, first serve and the distribution will continue until supplies run out.
When IPFW hosts Ball State on Friday night, there will be former Cardinals coaching from both benches. Ball State alumni will lead both of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association teams.
ATLANTA — Helicopters took to the skies Wednesday to search for stranded drivers while authorities on the ground worked to deliver food, water and gas — or a ride home — to people who were stuck on highways after a winter storm walloped the Deep South. Students spent the night on buses or at schools, commuters abandoned their cars or stayed idled all night and the highways turned into parking lots with the roads iced over. It wasn’t clear exactly how many people were still stranded on the roads a day after the storm paralyzed the region.
Coming off its strongest meet of the season, the Ball State gymnastics team hopes to carry momentum into the next competition.
Consecutive losses left the Ball State women’s basketball team with its back against the wall, forcing it to change its own momentum. “We didn’t want a repeat performance of what we had the other night [against Buffalo],” head coach Brady Sallee said.
• Cardinals are 0-10 on the road. *• This game has the Cardinals’ lowest scoring output since scoring 50 points Dec.
The Grove, which opened in the fall, still has units available for August, while 17 Hundred apartments are full. Village Promenade will be ready Aug. 16.
WASHINGTON — Seeking to energize his sluggish second term, President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday night in his State of the Union address to sidestep Congress “whenever and wherever” necessary to narrow economic disparities between rich and poor. He unveiled an array of modest executive actions to increase the minimum wage for federal contract workers and make it easier for millions of low-income Americans to save for retirement. “America does not stand still and neither do I,” Obama declared in his prime-time address before a joint session of Congress and millions of Americans watching on television.
