As we close in on the last month of Spring Semester, a lot of seniors are sick with all too familiar symptoms. But rather than suffering from chills and a high fever, we're plagued by the inability to concentrate in class, to care about completing assignments and to put forth that extra effort to avoid a downward trend in grade point average.
Down 3-1 to Anderson University going into the bottom of the second inning Wednesday, the Ball State University baseball team needed a boost. The Cardinals gave themselves that boost by cranking five home runs in the inning, putting 11 runs on the board and building a lead the Ravens couldn't match, powering Ball State to a 20-12 win.
Campus Alliance held its first Ball State University Student Government Association meeting Wednesday and about 20 senators filled the seats. In previous meetings, about 50 members filled Student Senate. President Frank Hood said Cabinet positions would be filled in the next couple of weeks, and more students would be appointed as senators also.
Regardless of the practices and film sessions, coach Joel Walton said he knows the No. 7 Ball State University men's volleyball team will not be fully prepared for No. 1 Penn State University's offense at the start of Saturday's match. Unlike most teams the Cardinals played this season, the Nittany Lions run a quick-tempo offense with the sets to the outside attackers having a smaller arch and the ball arriving quicker to speed up the game's pace, Walton said.
As Sean Astin preached into the microphone about the Clinton family's strong ability to lead, Chelsea Clinton looked down, rolled her eyes in embarrassment at the comments and walked onto the stage, embracing the crowd. When the former first daughter began to address the room filled with Ball State University students Tuesday about topics such as health care, college affordability and the North American Free Trade Agreement, the slow and steady tone of her voice brought in the crowd at the Atrium.
The actions of few have yielded great consequences for all Ball State University students. In the past week, a handful of students have fallen victim to the efforts of crafty spammers. The spammers have infiltrated the unsuspecting students' inboxes, deleted the content and sent out massive amounts of spam to the students' contacts.
After greeting the crowd gathered on the main floor of the Atrium, Chelsea Clinton looked up the Arts and Journalism building staircase to see three stories worth of students peering back down at her. As Clinton waved to the onlookers lining the staircase rail, she put the microphone closer to her mouth and tried to acknowledged everyone above her within earshot.
The Cardinals' Homecoming game might be half a year away, but students who envision the crown and its glory have a week left to decide whether they want to pursue that dream. Ball State University's Homecoming Steering Committee is accepting nominations until April 2 for the 2008 Homecoming King and Queen candidates.
Student e-mails are still under fire from spammers, causing e-mail accounts to become disabled and putting student messages at risk of being considered spam itself. Loren Malm, assistant director of security, policy, systems and assessment, said spammers infiltrated about 12 student e-mail accounts and Ball State University e-mail accounts had been disabled three times this semester.
Three Ball State University-affiliated women arrested in connection with an assault at a party will return to court to face battery charges this summer, the Delaware County Clerk's Office said Tuesday. A fourth woman who was arrested in connection with the same incident will have her initial hearing on Thursday, according to the Clerk's Office.
For the second time in a week, an e-mail scam has caused Ball State University Computing Services to disable e-mail services for university accounts for several hours Tuesday night. Loren Malm, interim assistant vice president of information technology, said two students gave out their accounts' usernames and passwords, which opened the gates for massive amounts of spam.
Hiatt Printing's campus location has had no complaints this month after closing on a business day for the first time since its opening in 1986. "We're still doing some transitioning," owner Chris Hiatt said. "We're working out the kinks." He said he planned and weighed his options for several weeks before making a tough decision to decrease business hours to 7 a.
With two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning of game two against Butler University on Tuesday, the Ball State University softball team tied the score at 3-3. However, the Cardinals (18-14) could not push across the winning run as Allie Pennock was thrown out at home for the final out of the inning, ending the Ball State rally.
Three days after her daughter's visit to Ball State University, Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Muncie. Clinton's campaign announced Wednesday evening Clinton will attend a "Solutions for the American Economy" rally from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday at Muncie Central High School.
Bracken Library's Bookmark Café celebrated its anniversary Wednesday afternoon. The Bookmark Café supplied participants with complimentary samples of Seattle's Best Coffee and cappuccino muffin shots. Visitors were also able to participate in a raffle for bookmarks and coupons for free coffee, which were drawn every hour.
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign announced Wednesday she will make a stop in Muncie three days after her daughter spoke at Ball State University on her behalf. Clinton will attend a "Solutions for the American Economy" rally Friday at Muncie Central High School, according to a press release from Clinton's Indiana press office.
After averaging 27.1 points and 6.0 assists per game as a senior basketball player at Blue River Valley High School in Springport, graduate student Kyle Cox received a basketball scholarship from Ball State University in 2002. In the spring of 2004, however, after two years with the basketball team, Cox decided to dedicate his time with the men's golf team and head coach Mike Fleck.
Stalk team, assemble. Facebook is currently experimenting with a redesign that will add some radical changes to profile pages as we know them. Via a Facebook Pages account the company is taking user feedback on screenshots of the redesigned profiles expected to launch this spring, according to the group.
At the start of the spring season, coach Bill Richards sat down with his team and ironed out a definite goal for the upcoming schedule: win the Mid-American Conference tournament. The first step to accomplishing that goal comes when the Ball State University men's tennis team plays at Chicago State University Thursday in its first conference match of the season.
A year after winning the Butler Spring Invitational, the Ball State University women's golf team defended its title with a first-place finish Tuesday. The Cardinals finished with a 639, 14 shots better than the second-place team, University of Evansville, at the two-day, 36-hole event.
