The gray areas in university policies regarding protests are minimal but intentional, said an administrator involved in policy development.
John R. Emens Auditorium celebrated 50 years of laughter Tuesday night as smash hit musical “Hello, Dolly!” filled the building with comedy, love and music.
Over the summer, I received multiple emails from Ticketmaster about the History of The Eagles tour. At first, I deleted them, blaming my lack of money and friends interested in the band for not attending.
Apple gears up for holidays with new Macs, iPads BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc. is refreshing its iPad lineup in hopes of reclaiming lost ground in the tablet market and slashing the prices of its Mac computers to intensify the pressure on the beleaguered makers of PCs running Microsoft’s Windows. Tuesday’s unveiling of Apple’s latest products primes the company for a holiday shopping season onslaught aimed at a list of rivals that includes Google Inc., Samsung Electronics, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. A thinner, lighter and faster-running tablet computer called the iPad Air highlighted the event in San Francisco.
SPARKS, Nevada — A middle school student opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a staff member who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police said Monday.
With one swift swing of her arm, Mackenzie Kitchel ended Ohio University’s time at number one in the conference. Ball State’s five-set win at Ohio wasn’t just a road win for head coach Steve Shondell and his women’s volleyball team.
Cardinals fall to Kent State, drop fifth straight Inconsistency has proven to be the Ball State field hockey team’s Achilles’ heel all season.
After placing five singles participants and two doubles teams into the main draw of the Ohio Valley Regional on Friday, the women’s tennis team was back in action Saturday in Memphis. In singles play, the Cardinals posted a 2-3 record with Courtney Wild and Courtney Earnest advancing to the round of 16. Earnest defeated Chattanooga’s Kaylene Chadwell 6-2, 6-2, while Wild slipped by Miami of Ohio’s Andreea Badileanu by a score of 6-4, 6-4. Day two of the regional did not fare as well for the other three Ball State participants, as Bethany Moore, Ashlyn Rang and Kristel Sanders failed to defeat their round one opponents.
Ball State knocked off Ohio in five sets Saturday night, winning the first, third and fifth sets. The win puts the Cardinals in first place in the Mid-American Conference. The teams traded points in the first set, until Ball State opened up a 19-13 lead that brought an Ohio timeout.
Sometime down the road, senior quarterback Keith Wenning might look back on Saturday’s game at Western Michigan University with a sense of nostalgic pride.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Most games this season, it seemed like only one facet of Ball State’s offense was running on all cylinders, despite its 6-1 record. However, in Saturday’s 38-17 win over Western Michigan, Ball State was able to use both a rushing attack and an aerial assault to clinch the win. Despite only scoring three points in the first quarter, Ball State had over 100 yards of offense, thanks to 80 yards passing from senior quarterback Keith Wenning. In the second quarter, Ball State finally got its vaunted scoring offense underway.
Western Michigan deferred to open the game, and Ball State’s first drive stalled.
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Ball State defensive coordinator Jay Bateman isn’t looking at Western Michigan University’s 0-7 record as he and his defense prepare for the upcoming game Saturday. Instead, he’s looking at the best way to go after the Broncos’ offense — forcing them to turn the ball over.
Freshman Keegan McKinney was named Mid-American Conference golfer of the week after last weekend’s tournament.
The Ball State cross country team finished with one of its strongest races this season. The Cardinals took fifth place out of 34 other teams in the Jenna Strong Fall Classic, hosted by Wilmington College. Together Ball State’s five scored runners posted a time of 19:16.25, earning them 170 points.
Ball State named Beth Nue as the new director of the Fort Wayne office of Building Better Communities Friday. Building Better Communities is an immersive learning program that pairs Ball State students with community members to work to solve community problems with students ideas, according to the website. “We could do community outreach, make sure the community and alumni know about the programs,” Nue said. The new office in Fort Wayne offers the community ideas on how to create business connections for students and provide them with field experience. Nue’s goals are to interact with the leadership of the community and ensure they know the types of programs Ball State has to offer, such as media, art and architecture. Kelli Huth, director of the BBC fellows program, said the program looks to allow students to work in the Fort Wayne community and offer their expertise to those community members who could use it. Nue said this program exists to help increase involvement, improvement, advancement and development in Fort Wayne. “Basically we want to improve the economy as a whole with Ball State expertise,” Nue said.
“If you outlaw pit bulls, then only outlaws will own pit bulls,” read the first slide during a class to help Delaware County police officers to recognize organized animal fighting. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hosted classes aimed to train more than 80 local law enforcement agents in effective ways to investigate and handle organized animal fighting today. This class comes in response to last year’s trial of Rahsaan Johnson, a Muncie man found guilty of 14 felony accounts of possession of an animal for fighting, according to the L.A.
BAGHDAD – A barrage of car bomb and suicide bomb blasts rocked Baghdad and two northern Iraqi communities Thursday, killing at least 61 people during a major holiday period and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed gripping the country. The bulk of the blasts struck in mainly Shiite Muslim parts of the Iraqi capital shortly after nightfall, sending ambulances racing through the streets with sirens blaring.
WASHINGTON — The federal government is back open for business. The Obama administration changed the government’s status to “open” early Thursday, more than two weeks after a partial shutdown took hold when funding from Congress ran out. Minutes after President Barack Obama signed a hard-fought deal struck in Congress, the White House directed all agencies to reopen promptly and in an orderly fashion.
