There's been a lot to celebrate this academic year in Ball State University athletics. Our fighting Cardinal football team's tremendous success put the athletics department in the spotlight for a good reason. Quite a change from recent years. The stories were no longer about scandals and losing streaks, but of victories and camaraderie.
After garnering votes from more than half of the participating student body, Cardinal Impact officially took office at Wednesday's Student Government Association inauguration. But before installing the new slate, members of outgoing Campus Alliance used the opportunity to recollect the past year.
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity's canceled week of events won't stop the men from cracking smiles. Kappa Alpha Psi president Loren Ray said the fraternity will have Def Jam comedian Marcus Combs at 7 p.m. Friday in the Art Museum Rm. 217. The fraternity is co-sponsoring the free event with the Campus Activities Funding Board.
1) vs. Bowling Green in Mid-American Conference Championship Game Sunday: The first ever for the program, Ball State came into the game as a slight underdog to the Falcons, who have dominated the MAC in women's basketball during the past few seasons. Also, the win gave Ball State 25 wins on the season, the most ever for the program.
The opening weekend of Mid-American Conference action has treated the Ball State University baseball team well throughout the years. Since 1995, the Cardinals are 30-10 in the first weekend of conference games and have swept their past two opening MAC opponents.
Fans can gather Friday at Worthen Arena to send off the Ball State University women's basketball team as it travels to Bowling Green, Ky., for its NCAA Tournament game against the University of Tennessee.
Ball State University will be the first university in the U.S. to utilize a new software kit for interactive television. OCAP/EBIF Development Network (OEDN), an industry group made up of developers for interactive television, worked with Comcast Media Center and Ensenquence to make an Academic ITV Software Developer Kit program available to schools.
After seven months of research and work, Marciel Greene, senior theater design and technology major, was invited to the American College and Theater Festival in April at the Kennedy Center in New York. Greene received recognition for her work on the lighting crew for the play "In the Blood," which was performed last fall.
In honor of Yom Ha'Shoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, a Holocaust survivor and Monuments Man came to Ball State University Wednesday to help people remember the art and culture lost during Adolf Hitler's regime and share his story. Harry Ettinger spoke about his experience in the Monuments Men during and after World War II.
The Mid-American Conference representative in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament was eliminated tonight.
Ball State University police arrested a student on suspicion of resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct Tuesday after an officer said he warned the man to stop skateboarding, but the man ignored the order, police said. Delaware County Jail was holding Drake Turner, 21, on $3,500 bond as of Tuesday afternoon after police arrested him on the respective Class A and Class B misdemeanor charges.
The Ball State University softball team is hoping its opening home game tonight against Valparaiso University is one of record-setting proportions. Only one-third of the way through the season, junior college transfer Jen Reifschneider is one home run shy of tying the Ball State single-season record.
Sophomore interior design major Jennifer Eakins walked in the Indianapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade as a representative of the Indianapolis 500 Festival Tuesday. She passed out candy to children lining the streets, watched the crowd celebrate St. Patrick's Day and said she enjoyed "seeing the hype of the city.
Even though Ball State University did not have much information to give fans Tuesday, the phones in the ticket office were "ringing like crazy." Associate Athletic Director Matt Wolfert said Ball State now has a plan to get fans tickets and travel packages for the women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament game against the University of Tennessee.
Junior center fielder Jeremy Hazelbaker won his second player of the week award of the season and junior pitcher Brad Piatt won pitcher of the week.
Anyone willing to give up an hour and endure the prick of a needle can get a free meal and possibly save a life today and tomorrow. Several Ball State University organizations are having the Angels for Life Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Thursday in Pruis Hall.
Facing a game point and with all of his starters sitting on the bench against a Division III team, coach Joel Walton calmly walked toward the referee and called timeout. During the timeout, though, the coach was not thinking about what starter to put back in the match with the Ball State University men's volleyball team leading by two games.
The History Channel: New faith, Sabbath is Tuesday. Be there. It's a hell of a thing to imagine the last few thousand years of human history as a lie, a misguided attempt at control over society, a total sham. I think most people are content to dawdle through life without thinking about its mysteries.
It is 90 degrees in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the humidity is holding at a balmy 79 percent. There is not an air conditioner in sight, and any relief from the tropical Western Hemisphere comes only when westerly winds decide to approach upon the island nation's 310 miles of green coastline.
Members of the Economic Roundtable Forecast determined Wednesday that this recession is not as bad as the last, but resulting inflation could prove more damaging in the long term. The group of nearly 30 members has met annually for the last 15 years. It includes Ball State University faculty and local nonprofit and commercial business leaders.
