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Fall in Love with Muncie

Muncie changes with the seasons, and new opportunities pop up when autumn rolls around. Here are a few ideas for exciting things to do this time of year.



Art and All Its Forms

Ball State students in the Ceramics Lab work with lots of different kinds of clay, and for lots of different reasons. Two art students and a ceramics professor share their stories with the Ball State Daily News and reveal what the medium means to them.



Windy conditions continue

Weather Forecaster Rachel Wynalda tracks breezy conditions as well as a Red Flag Warning for October 14. 


Architecture program supports local communities

“I wanted to be able to walk into a room of men and say with confidence that I knew what went into those beams and the rafters and the electrical,” Suding said. “It was really important for me to take advantage of everything Ball State has to offer in their architecture program.”


Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse on Sept. 14, 2022, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/TNS)

AP: Parkland school shooter to get life sentence for killing 17

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A jury spared Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz from the death penalty Thursday for killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018, sending him to prison for the remainder of his life in a decision that left many families of the victims angered, baffled and in tears.



Fourth-year quarterback Christian Abney runs with the football in a game against Lebanon Aug. 27, 2021, at the Zionsville Football Stadium in Zionsville, Ind. Tom Marron, Photo Provided

A dream come true

Joel Abney originally signed his young son up for flag football, but Christian Abney begged his dad to let him play tackle. He told his dad he was ready for the next level. After talking to coaches, he switched his son to tackle.


President of Nu Chapter of Gamma Rho Lambda Audrey Schockett poses for a photo Oct. 12 next to a tree at Ball State. Grayson Joslin, DN

Knowledge in Diversity

After the struggles of the pandemic, Schockett hopes to attract new members with the values of Gamma Rho Lambda: “Truth in tolerance, knowledge through diversity, bonds of unity and strength in trust.”



Brett Farve playing at Lambeau Field for the Minnesota Vikings Oct. 24, 2010. Mike Morbeck, photo courtesy

SCOTT: Brett Farve's career accolades do not outweigh his controversies

Favre's career should never outweigh his controversies. The privilege he has obtained for being a hall of fame quarterback has been developed into a crutch he's used to overlook his wrong doing.  Just because a player has a one in a lifetime career doesn't mean he or she has the right to commit devious acts with the intentions to hide from it and not acknowledge any wrongdoing. 


Community Through Heritage

Dr. Chin-Sook Pak, associate lecturer of Spanish at Ball State University, coordinated a campus visit of 76 students from Warsaw Community High School in order to give her students an opportunity to share their experiences and successes with them.


Ball State Men's Golf Head Coach Mike Fleck (left) and sophomore Kash Bellar look for a shot on the green of hole eleven of the Earl Yestingmeier Invite Sep. 3 at the Delaware Country Club. Hosted by the Delaware Country Club, the 2022 Earl Yestingsmeire Invite had 15 teams from schools across the region competing on the par-70 course. Eli Houser, DN

Men’s golf places 12th at Purdue Fall Invitational

“It was an awful start.” Five words described how head coach Mike Fleck felt about the opening holes for the Ball State men's golf team who opened up their first round at the bottom of the leaderboard at the Purdue Fall Invitational.  Regardless of the start, Ball State was able to turn some problems around.  “I was proud of them, how they played the rest of the day,” Fleck said. “We were probably in the top half of the team scoring-wise if you kind of scratch the start.”


Graduate student Peyton Broce wheels her golf bag on the course during the Cardinal Classic at The Players Club Sept. 20. Broce scored 79 at the tournament. Eli Pierson, DN

Women’s golf takes eighth at Rocket Classic

Ball State's five-person roster consisted of first-year Sarah Gallagher, first-year Jasmine Driscoll, second-year Payton Bennett, first-year Madelin Boyd and graduate student Peyton Broce.  “One of the keys is always to try to minimize any doubles or worse off the card and you know, we still made a few too many of those,” head coach Cameron Andry said. “The golf course just kind of reveals where we are.” Monday - Round One 


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Powerlessness In Politics

I saw what opioid addiction could do. I saw the shaking, tremors and slurred speech. I saw my friends whose parents were laid off and couldn’t afford the Lunchables that many of us had in our lunchboxes. I saw the countless businesses that moved onto the mostly desolate main street – floundering and failing before the end of the year. I saw how hillbilly transplants and middle Americans felt left behind in political endeavors.


Renters want more rights

One council member, Roza Selvey, who is on the board of the Muncie Human Rights Commission offered a way for citizens to hopefully get the solution they need.