Campus master plan consultants returned to campus Tuesday afternoon in order to begin the “analysis phase” of the nearly $500,000 project.
With a week to go, Ball State Dance Marathon has mobilized social media fliers and more to get 10,000 students to the football game against Central Michigan University. The athletic department will give the group $10,000 if they can get 10,000 students to the Wednesday game. Zach Brown, BSUDM director of media relations, said he still thinks the group will achieve its goal. “It’s definitely surfacing,” he said.
An employee at Pizza Hut was involved in an attempted robbery on a delivery Tuesday, a police officer said. The employee, a young man, delivered to the 700 block of Jefferson Street.
A shot was fired at the intersection of University Avenue and Reserve Street during an attempted robbery, according to a Ball State emergency alert.
Trick-or-treating in Muncie will be pushed back to Friday due to possible hazardous weather Thursday. Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler and Steve Stewart, Muncie police chief, announced this afternoon that trick-or-treaters can go hunting for candy from 5-8 p.m.
The climbing wall in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center will get a frightening makeover Wednesday. From 7-10 p.m.
Alumnus David Letterman gave his view on university President Jo Ann Gora’s retirement announcement for June 2014.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University has joined a bipartisan campaign fighting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages. The university announced Monday it was joining Freedom Indiana, a coalition that includes Eli Lilly & Co., Cummins Inc. and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. IU President Michael McRobbie says the amendment would turn some prospective employees away from Indiana and increase the state’s challenges remaining economically competitive. The General Assembly approved the proposed ban in 2011, but the current Legislature would need to approve it again before it would go to voters in a statewide referendum.
HONOLULU — Hawaii’s battle over gay marriage brought state lawmakers back to work Monday after the governor called a special session that could make the islands a wedding destination for more couples. Some 1,800 people signed up to testify in person at a Senate committee hearing, which was carried live on TV and local news websites.
LUBBOCK, Texas — The only abortion clinic in a 300-mile swath of West Texas can resume taking appointments Tuesday, after a federal judge struck down new restrictions that would have effectively shuttered it and at least a dozen other clinics across the state. Lubbock’s Planned Parenthood Women’s Health Center had stopped making appointments last week, bracing for this week’s scheduled enforcement of a new requirement that all doctors performing abortions in the state must have admitting privileges at a hospital less than 30 miles away. Supporters who sued to block the requirement, part of a broad series of abortion limits the Legislature approved in July, argued it was meant to outlaw abortions, not make them safer as state officials had claimed.
At the end of Jo Ann Gora’s 10 years as president of Ball State, she will leave behind a focus on immersive learning, more than $520 million worth of construction and renovations and a renewed interest in athletics. But mostly, Gora will leave behind big shoes to fill. The goal for the 2008 Ball State Bold campaign was $200 million by 2011.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a man once revered as a university icon who is now serving what is effectively a life prison sentence.
The Cardinals reached into the playbook in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s win over the University of Akron with a trick pass play from senior wide receiver Jamill Smith.
Layout was not the only new aspect of the Fan Jam 2013 in Worthen Arena. In previous years, fans were able to remain on the court and interact with the men’s and women’s basketball teams as they shot around.
With just one conference game left the in the season, the shuffling atop the Mid-American Conference has started to shake out tournament seeds. In a league full of parity, Ball State (10-5-3, 5-3-2 MAC) jockeyed with five other teams for a top-four finish and the first round home game that accompanies it for its first 10 MAC matches.
Maybe it’s in the genes. Ball State women’s volleyball outside hitter Alex Fuelling has carried her team’s offense this season, just one attack attempt shy of 700 and leads the team in kills with 285. For her, it isn’t just practice that’s brought her to where she is today.
Tarantulas are the heaviest, hairiest, scariest spiders on the planet. They have fangs, claws and barbs. They can regrow body parts and be as big as dinner plates, and the females eat the males after mating. But there are many people who call these creepy critters a pet or a passion and insist their beauty is worth the risk of a bite.
Ball State’s Japanese Animation Society has powered up TVs and video players for 21 years to get together and enjoy anime.
Two Ball State students took the stage at Pruis Hall Saturday for a chance to compete in the Miss Indiana Pageant.
Retirees in Indiana will receive less money per month from their pension following a change to an Indiana Public Retirement System policy.
