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New SGA leadership chooses cabinet members

Only a third of the members of this year's Student Government Association executive cabinet were a part of the organization before accepting their leadership roles, making this year's SGA executive leadership one of the youngest in terms of SGA seniority.



Ball State EIL program connects with Muncie library

The Excellence in Leadership program and the Muncie Public Libraries are working as partners on a project that will help both students and the Muncie community learn about globalization and its effect on small towns and cities in the Midwest.


Wife: 'Kony 2012' director suffers from psychosis

SAN DIEGO - The director of a wildly popular video about brutal African warlord Joseph Kony has been diagnosed with brief psychosis and is expected to stay in the hospital for weeks, his wife said Wednesday.




Stage rigging builder seeks Sugarland depositions

INDIANAPOLIS - The company that built stage rigging involved in August's Indiana State Fair stage collapse wants a judge to order members of country band Sugarland to provide depositions in lawsuits filed over the deadly accident.


VIDEO: Wheelchair Slalom

The Adapted Physical Activity Club held a wheelchair slalom to give students an idea of the different activities that can be done in a wheelchair.



Romney routs Santorum in GOP primary in Illinois

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Front-runner Mitt Romney won the Illinois primary with ease Tuesday night, defeating Rick Santorum in yet another industrial state showdown and padding his already-formidable delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.


Children from tornado-hit Indiana town back in school

NEW ALBANY, Ind. - Hundreds of children returned to the business of reading, writing and arithmetic on Wednesday for the first time since a tornado tore through their school nearly three weeks ago.


Israeli law eyes super-thin models as bad examples

JERUSALEM - Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalized twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of it back if she wants to work again.