The Muncie City Council voted unanimously Monday night to oppose bill House Joint Resolution 3. The bill, previously known as House Joint Resolution 6, would add an amendment to the Indiana Constitution defining marriage as between a man and woman, effectively banning same-sex marriage in the state. The proposed amendment also would ban anything “similar” to same-sex marriage, including civil unions. Supporters and opponents disagree on whether the proposal would also bar health and tax benefits for same-sex couples.
Hosts Amy Poehler and Tina Fey brought the laughs and the best jokes this year opening up the 71st annual Golden Globes. This is the second time the real life best friends hosted the show joking, “Hollywood keeps doing something till it doesn’t work anymore.”
Students returning to university housing next year will pay about $365 more for regular accommodations. Ball State Board of Trustees voted to raise room and board costs 3.8 percent at a meeting Friday. Rates have increased 2.8 percent on average each year over the past five years.
Amy Poehler made out with Bono, Tina Fey mocked George Clooney’s taste in women and Matt Damon emerged, bizarrely, as the night’s theme.
Tyler Varnau doesn’t buy beer, he brews it. The senior journalism graphics major, is the president of the fledgling student organization Ball State Homebrew Club. The club achieved official approval last spring, but has not been active until this year, said Varnau.
A Ball State alumnus plans to bring free guns and a safety program to Indianapolis in February, in an attempt to prove an armed and trained community reduces crime. The Armed Citizen Project chooses neighborhoods in cities with average to high crime rates and then offers a free pump-action shotgun to any willing citizen in the neighborhood who also passes a background check and takes part in a gun safety program.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s efforts to add high-tech jobs have paid off in Indianapolis and surrounding counties — at the expense of the rest of the state, a newspaper analysis has found. The Indianapolis Business Journal analyzed U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and found Indianapolis had 39 percent more jobs in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — in 2012 than in 2001. That’s more than double the national growth rate of 17 percent.
Monday, Jan. 13 Take Back College Ryan Penneau, award winning public speaker and founder of Take Back College, will present a guide for first-year students at 6:30 p.m.
Unlike most everyday objects, guns are specifically designed to harm. A hammer is intended to beat a nail. A kitchen knife is designed to chop up food. But, guns are intended to hurt.
Tied at 23 with the second set hanging in the balance, Ball State waited for Sacred Heart to serve. Maybe Larry Wrather would receive the serve, pass to Graham McIlvaine, who would set the ball for Marcin Niemczewski to get a kill.
Free throws have been the key to Ball State’s latest victories. After not shooting well from the free-throw line and only hitting 18 out of 33 shots when playing against Eastern Michigan last week, the women’s basketball team had a stronger showing from the line in this week’s game against Kent State. Free throws were a large part of the game, having contributed 25 points to the 31-55 win over Kent State.
It’s a bit of déjà vu for the Ball State women’s basketball team. The Cardinals have won four of five, and now sit on a .500 record.
SECOND HALF FINAL SCORE: Ball State 55, Kent State 31 Ball State’s efficient aggressiveness in the second half led to a game total of 32 free throws.
Usually when a player has career highs in kills, aces and digs, that person was expecting to see a bulk of the offense. Not for sophomore outside attacker Marcin Niemczewski.
Ball State loses to Kent State 74-86, drops 10th straight against Golden Flashes
Ball State women’s swimming and diving head coach Kristy Castillo doesn’t want to stop here.
This is the first Mid-American Conference road game for the Cardinals. Senior Majok Majok is coming off third straight double-double. Senior Chris Bond scored 18 points last game.
Hollis Hughes has stepped down as president of the Board of Trustees for Ball State after three years in the position, but will remain a trustee for two more years to fulfill is term. Hughes called his last three years the “opportunity of a lifetime.” He has served on the board for 25 years- as a member in 1989, as secretary in 2006 and as president in 2011.
Sections of two residence halls faced repairs after freezing temperatures caused pipes to burst Thursday. Studebaker West Complex and Kinghorn Hall are still in need of some repairs after the winter storm.
Ball State’s Board of Trustees voted today to increase the cost of room and board for students not on the Premium Plan. Room and board rates have increased about 3 percent annually for the past five years, according to a university press release. The board voted for those rates to rise to 3.9 percent annually.
