As Ball State beat Southeast Missouri 87-83 Monday, seniors Chris Bond and Jesse Berry achieved new personal bests as they led their team to a 2-1 record on the year. Bond, who was last year’s Mid-American Conference leader in steals, scored a career-high 20 points, grabbed three rebounds and handed out an assist and as he carried his team to victory. “I was just playing throughout our offense, trying to stay in attack mode and crashing the offensive boards,” Bond said about his performance.
This men’s basketball team will go as far as the seniors carry it, head coach James Whitford has said.
She knows things are going to happen before they do. Sherita Campbell said there is no fanfare to these visions — no trumpets or angels heralding — just a matter of fact knowledge that these events she has seen must come to pass.
The Muncie Community School Board voted 4-1 tonight in favor of closing one of its two high schools. Central High School will remain open while Southside High School will become a middle school. Many members of the crowd responded with cheers to the single member of the board who voted against the proposal.
This afternoon, the Interfaith Coalition on Non-Discrimination, made up of Indiana clergy members spoke at the Indiana Statehouse against House Joint Resolution 6, which would define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, and write that definition into the state’s constitution.
The Board of Trustees met Friday to begin looking over nine search firms before selecting one to use to find a successor for President Jo Ann Gora, who announced her retirement for the end of July.
@ballstate_alerts had an impact on informing students about the emergency situation with a report of an armed assailant on campus Friday. The account tweeted 25 times over the 3-hour scare.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University fraternity group says a new policy limiting how much hard alcohol is allowed at fraternity-sponsored parties was well received during its first test earlier this month. The IU Interfraternity Council says it implemented the hard alcohol limitations in hopes of creating a safer, more responsible drinking atmosphere on the Bloomington campus. The new limits got their first test during IU’s homecoming weekend during the first weekend in November. Interfraternity Council vice president of communications Jordan Shwide says that while the new policy was well received, its success is difficult to measure. The Council’s vice president of risk management, Ben Weisel, tells The Herald-Times the group is receiving positive feedback from fraternity chapters.
LEBANON, Ind. — A shift supervisor at a central Indiana Starbucks store damaged by a suspected tornado says she rode out Sunday’s storm in the coffee shop’s small bathroom with 10 other people. Melinda Wissig tells The Indianapolis Star she looked up Sunday to see the tornado approaching the Lebanon store after a customer yelled about a tornado. Wissig rushed to the drive-thru and told customers to come inside, where she and 10 others huddled in the store’s bathroom as the storm swept through. Once the sounds of breaking glass subsided, she says they emerged to find the floors strewn with debris and the store’s windows blown out. Outside the Starbucks, a car had flipped onto its side on the sidewalk and the windows of Wissig’s car were blown out.
KOKOMO, Ind. — Kokomo police say nearly three dozen people were injured when a suspected tornado swept through the north-central Indiana city, leaving a trail of destruction. Major Brian Seldon of the Kokomo Police Department says Howard County emergency management says 32 people were injured in Sunday’s storm, but that only three of those people were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization. Seldon says most of the people injured in the suspected tornado suffered only minor injuries. He says officials are still assessing how many homes and businesses in the Kokomo area were damaged by the storm, which swept through Kokomo’s southeast side along U.S.
The text message alert popped up on Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler’s phone. He read the words “alleged gunman,” and began to worry, as several students, professors and parents did Friday evening when they became aware that there might danger. “Of course, I’m always concerned,” Tyler said.
From the fourth floor of the Architecture Building, junior architecture majors Maya Bird-Murphy and Ellen Forthofer gathered against a wall of windows to watch the flurry of police across the street.
Sitting underneath his desk in the darkness, Dan Tracy listened to every noise outside of his office in the Health and Physical Activity Building. “Every step or shuffle of feet, it could be a guy out there with a gun,” he said. His worry began at about 4:30 p.m.
Three shouts of “gun” began three hours of at least six different police departments searching about 500,000 square feet in four buildings, evacuating an unknown number of occupants, finding zero suspects or threats. Students were locked down in the facility as the University Police Department, the Muncie Police Department, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana State Police, Homeland Security and Delaware County Emergency Management secured the perimeter and searched the area.
For six years, the director of John R. Emens Auditorium has tried to get comedian Jim Gaffigan to campus. “[Gaffigan] has a limited tour schedule, he’s been too expensive or dates have not been available,” Robert Myers said.
At least three people in Indiana died from Sunday’s storms while Ball State remained relatively unscathed.
The Ball State cross country team finished its season Friday at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional hosted at Wisconsin’s Zimmer Championship Course. The Cardinals had a strong showing in the women’s 6K with five of its six runners posting career-best times.
By the end of Saturday’s match against Western Michigan University, Lauren Grant had 10 kills. That would normally put a player at or near the top of the kill lead in a match. Not this time, though, not when four other players finished with even more in one of the strongest offensive performances of the season by the Ball State women’s volleyball team. But it wasn’t holes in the defense that Ball State was seeing that spurred the offense, said sophomore middle blocker Hayley Benson. “[It was] a lot of determination,” she said.
When news broke of a possible armed assailant Friday evening, the Ball State women’s basketball team was at practice inside Worthen Arena. “A couple policemen came out and said, ‘Coach, you need to get your team in the locker room and lock the doors,’” head coach Brady Sallee said.
MARION, Ind. — At least four people are reported injured from the severe thunderstorms that have swept across Indiana. Kokomo city development specialist David Tharp says there’s multiple minor injuries there.
