Loretta Lynn's concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday at John R. Emens Auditorium has been postponed. Darcy Wood, associate director of marketing at Emens, said the event will be pushed back until Feb. 19 because the performer is sick.
The Amelia T. Wood Health Center has received "a small supply" of the H1N1 Flumist vaccine, Kent Bullis, director of the Health Center, announced today.
Perceptions of Ball State University's poor sexual health have been challenged by two recent reports, which say Ball State is on par with other universities.Ball State improved its ranking by one spot in the Trojan Sexual Health Report issued on Oct. 27.
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On Aug. 7, Ball State University's School of Music lost a legendary teacher as well as an amazing professor with the death of Fred "Doc" Ehnes. Ehnes had been the professor of horn at Ball State for 38 years. Today, the Musical Arts Quintet will give a performance honoring the life and work of Ehnes.
Today at 4:30 p.m. in the Alumni Center, students will receive a crash course in business dining etiquette. The career center has the event twice each semester for students and is an opportunity for students to prepare themselves for the working world. Willow King Locke, the assistant director of the Career Center, will be the presenter for the evening.
The complete list of schools that participated in the 2008 Trojan Sexual Health Report Card are ranked from numbers 1 to 139. Of all 12 MAC schools surveyed, Ball State University placed highest on the annual report.
If there is a genre of films I have not viewed enough, it would definitely be documentary. I have seen enough to know which are good and which are bad, and it helps to have a film class with a music documentary filmmaker this semester. All of the back story aside, I viewed "Michael Jackson's This is It" this past weekend and was blown away.
The University Education Committee approved a motion to alter the Fall Semester academic calendar by extending what is now Thanksgiving Break and eliminating what is now Fall Break and Fruesday, said Laura Helms, associate dean and director of academic systems for University College.
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is speaking at 7 p.m. today in Emens Auditorium about the importance of student participation in politics and government. The event is free and open to the public.
This time last year, a lot of us were rejoicing over President Barack Obama's victory over Sen. John McCain. We and other people in our age group turned out in the largest numbers we have seen since 1972.
Muncie has several music festivals every year featuring its many talented bands, giving the Ball State University and Muncie communities to opportunity the experience them.
As a screenwriter, I spend most of my free time doing one of three things: writing movies, watching movies and ‘reading movies.' The first I do for obvious reasons, but the others I do purely for education and practice. They give me a pretty good idea what to do and what not to do when writing a screenplay.
The Ball State University student radio station WCRD has been nominated for the "College Radio Woodie" award at mtvU's annual awards show.The radio station beat out numerous other college radio stations to remain in the top five. The University of Missouri, California State University at San Bernadino, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Puget Sound were with Ball State in the fan voted category, according to the mtvU press release.
There is a Graduate School Fair from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in Bracken Library.
Students and athletics officials from Ball State University were within grasp of the most prestigious individual trophy in college football Monday.The Heisman Trophy was on display for people to touch and take their picture with at three Muncie businesses.
Campus and city police officials said Halloween brought about weird crimes as people enjoyed the holiday.Director of Public Safety Gene Burton said Ball State University Police made 12 arrests on Saturday, and some people were issued more than one citation.
Brian Getz has always been the type of person who likes to make things. As a child he was into toys such as Legos, model rockets and K'NEX. Now he has moved on to balloons.
It's Election Day again. About one year ago at this time, the campus was buzzing with people getting ready to vote, debating and anxiously waiting to see everything from if then-Sen. Barack Obama could beat Sen. John McCain to if Indiana would ditch Gov. Mitch Daniels. This year, though, it isn't that cool. Unless you get excited for dog catcher elections or Indianapolis hospital funding votes, this is not the year for elections.
Senior Spanish education major Jennifer Rusher said she remembered the first time she used her fake ID to get into a bar."I was very nervous at first," she said. "But after I saw there was no problem, I kept going."Rusher said sometimes she was asked for an ID. However, not all establishments verify the age of their clients.Indiana State Excise Police, the law enforcement division of the Alcohol and Tobacco Commission, created the Survey of Alcohol Compliance in 2007, an inspection in which police officers hire decoys of ages 18 - 20 to go to an establishment and try to purchase alcohol.
