One thing freshmen Tashina Finkton and Crystal Franks worry about these days is getting heart problems as an adult.
The Cardinals travel to the lowly University of Toledo — winless in MAC play at 0-14 — Saturday and then travel to Western Michigan in what could be a critical MAC West showdown to end the regular season March 4.
After finishing second in last week's Ball State University Quadrangular, the women's indoor track team will face tougher competition when they arrive on the campus of Central Michigan University for the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships, beginning today in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
Though the lecture is over, the conversation about military members and life on campus is not.
Ball State is led by reigning Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year Elizabeth Milian, who is 2-1 this season with a 0.35 ERA and 35 strikeouts.
As the lights dimmed and acid blues band the Scissormen lead guitarist Ted Drozdowski ripped his first riff on the Key Palace Theatre stage, venue regulars trickled into the vintage auditorium lined with blues legends that had once occupied the stage before them.The 232-seat venue once staged blues legends Eddie Shaw, Delbert McClinton and John Hammond, among countless others, and Wednesday night played host to a student film crew for Robert Mugge's latest project, tentatively titled "Big Shoes: Walking and Talking the Blues."
Ball State could have wrapped up the No. 2 seed and the first round bye that comes with it Wednesday night, as they got help from Northern Illinois University. It defeated Central Michigan University 67-65 on a last second shot, essentially dropping the Chippewas from the race.
Student senators appointed Student Connection as the 2010-2011 slate with a vote of 37-2 during Wednesday's Student Government Association meeting.
Credit, and borrowing in general, is kind of iffy for college-aged people. Some of us are responsible. But it's safe to say some among us aren't fiscally savvy. Either way it's a dangerous endeavor.
It's too bad that we have to look back on the good old days of an arena that's not even 20 years old. But that's exactly what I found myself doing at halftime of last week's crucial Mid-American Conference West Division showdown between Ball State and Central Michigan.
Lynn Nottage's award-winning play "Intimate Apparel" will debut at Strother Theatre tonight at 7:30 p.m. Junior acting major Ashley Harrison will play, Esther, the lead character. Esther is an African American seamstress looking for love. The play takes place in New York City in 1905. "Intimate Apparel" touches on several different ideas including relationships, religion, race and class. The show will be directed by Dwandra Lampkin. Tickets are $8.50 for the general public and $6.50 for students.
ndependent filmmaker Morgan D. Mead had great success last year with his film "My Name is Jerry," which won various awards and honors on the film festival circuit and received widespread praise.
With a new interim director and plans to open a park in the center of Muncie, members of Muncie Downtown Development looked optimistic to take the next steps in revitalizing the city
The Chirp TV crew previews the match between the men's volleyball team and IPFW
Even in the middle of the flat Midwest, far from the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games, there is barely any snow left, but two men snowboard down a hill and onto a pipe near a construction area by the White River. Junior telecommunications major Gregg Bedinghaus and senior public communications major Kyle Harris have lived near slopes for most of their lives but both said snowboarding in Muncie is manageable as well.
Assistant photo editor Sam Householder and chief photographer Bobby Ellis host their weekly entertainmnet-review podcast live from the DN newsroom.
Downtown Development will meet today to address events and financial issues.
The week long anticlimatic Student Government Association executive slate elections will most likely come to a swift and equally anticlimatic ending this afternoon. As the only slate running in this year's race, Student Connection's fate will be decided in a room filled with about 40 student senators deciding whether the slate should be voted into office or given a vote of no confidence. It's not exactly the great democratic process.
Robert Mugge, Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball endowed chair and professional filmmaker, and several of his students will film the blues band's performance at Key Palace Theatre as part of Mugge's newest documentary. The project, tentatively called "Big Shoes: Walking and Talking the Blues," will focus on how blues music has been preserved in the Midwest.
Coach Laura Seibold-Caudill said her confidence in her team has continued to rise over the course of the season as Ball State took the University of Toledo, Ohio University and Michigan State University to the final event of each meet before coming up short.
