One of Ball State University's former bodybuilding champions died last week at age 33 from unknown causes. Close friend Jason Althouse said family and friends are still waiting on the autopsy of 2001 Mr. Ball State Jeffrey Moore. Mr. Ball State is the annual fitness and bodybuilding competition for Ball State students.
OXFORD, OHIO - In the first nine wins of the season, Ball State University established a trend of pulling away late in games. Win No. 10 followed suit. The Cardinals played a lackluster game on both sides of the ball in the first three quarters before comfortably beating Miami University 31-16 at Yeager Stadium.
When campaigning to be elected as leaders of Student Government Association, the Campus Alliance slate promised it would provide fan buses to some of the football team's biggest away games. As the football season has developed into the most impressive Ball State University has ever seen, that promise has become even more important.
It's nice when optimism actually pays off. At college, it's easy to let pessimism morph from an occasional disturbance into an everyday occurrence. That test in a core curriculum class you're probably not learning anything vital from puts you in a sour mood and makes it easier to snap at a good friend.
As the third down conversions went, so did Miami University in its 31-16 loss to Ball State University on Tuesday. In the first half Miami converted seven of nine third downs, allowing the RedHawks to keep the Cardinals' offense off the field for much of the half.
Ball State University football fans didn't need to travel to Oxford, Ohio, on Tuesday to cheer on their Cardinals in a victory against the Miami University RedHawks. Rather than commuting 90 minutes to the watch in person, dozens of Ball State students watched the game at Buffalo Wild Wings on East McGalliard Road.
Put your left foot on red and right hand on yellow to help Kappa Delta sorority raise money for the American Brain Tumor Association on Friday. The event is themed "Bust a Move" and will last from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday at Irving Gym. The sorority's 5th annual Twister Tournament in memory of Lindsey Arnold, a sister who passed away from a brain tumor in 2005 and enjoyed 80s music.
Junior speech pathology major Emily Schott spends most of her academic time in the Arts and Communication Building, as a student and a clinician at the Speech and Language Clinic. During her time spent there, Schott said she has noticed structural and technological voids affecting herself and others.
The reaction to Po Bronson's speech in Pruis Hall on Tuesday was different for each person that attended. About 353 people, consisting of Ball State University students and members of the Muncie community, took part in Bronson's speech about his book, "What should I do with my life?" A confused computer science graduate student Mary Fleming said she believed the speech inspired students.
Ball State University women's volleyball coach Dave Boos usually cringes when the words "five-sets" are brought up. In volleyball, when teams are tied at two sets a piece, the fifth set is a race to the finish line and the first team to reach 15 points, winning by two, then wins the match.
A forum was cut short Tuesday night after two men - one with a concealed handgun in his boot - were asked to leave, then placed in handcuffs by Ball State University police. Whitney Stump, the former manager of Mo's Tavern, and a friend attended the forum in the Village in protest of Myles Ogea, who Stump had a previous business contract with.
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The director of Ball State University's entrepreneurship program said today's business round-table discussion by a Village landlord will be a great opportunity for students. Mike Goldsby, director of the entrepreneurship program, said students are "very good and very capable" of generating innovative ideas.
Students and faculty are invited to donate blood 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Wednesday in Pruis Hall's lobby. Administrative coordinator Kim Hiatt said Ball State University Staff Council and National Society of Collegiate Scholars are sponsoring Indiana Blood Center's blood drive.
For new women's basketball coach Kelly Packard playing the Hoosier Lady Star brought many difficulties, but being nervous was not one of them. With Packard calmly walking the Ball State University sidelines at Worthen Arena for the first time, the Cardinals defeated the Hoosier Lady Star 75-69 in an exhibition game Friday.
When coach Brady Hoke played at Ball State University in the late '70s, there wasn't a bigger rival for the Cardinals than the Miami University RedHawks. The two universities are separated by a 90-minute drive. The two programs have been stumbling blocks for each other.
Home from the fighting and explosions, away from the heat and sand of the Middle East, soldiers become veterans and sometimes become students. Cory Brown and Chris Bowser are two soldiers who left the battlefield and entered the classroom. At Ball State University alone, 206 students are receiving veteran's benefits, John Hannaford, veterans benefits and financial aid assistant coordinator at Ball State, said.
If you're from California, you should be asking what happened Nov. 4. What went wrong? Proposition 8, a ballot measure banning gay marriage in the state, passed with 52.3 percent of the vote. The language of the amendment - now inserted into the state's constitution - reads, quite simply, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.
