Less than a week after Ball State University's first-ever ranking in a national poll, we've already seen the effect a successful Cardinals football program can have on this university. Ball State's No. 25 ranking in the Associated Press Poll aroused the most school spirit in years.
Statistics and guns do not mix well. Ponder this for a second - three-fifths of convicted felons would not "mess around" with a person they thought was packing heat, according to statistics provided by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. Makes you want to have a gun on you to protect yourself, doesn't it? But that also means two-fifths of all felons wouldn't care if you had a hand cannon tucked away in your backpack.
Ball State University once again has an opportunity to make a splash nationally. This time, though, it is in men's tennis. The Cardinals will have a chance to knock off nationally ranked teams this weekend in the Notre Dame Fall Invitational as three of the participating schools finished last season in the top 75 rankings.
With the emergence of fall, so comes the flu. Ball State University students soon will have the opportunity to receive their flu shots at the Amelia T. Wood Health Center. "We will be sending out e-mails soon telling students when we're going to have flu clinics," Kent Bullis, Health Center medical director, said.
var uslide_show_id = "68ef2b6a-4aa5-41ff-a01b-1733a0c5df01";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; Inside the front doors of the Muncie Children's Museum, a group of men dressed in head-to-toe black are idling on the stairs. One man wears heavy eyeliner and a choker, and others fill the corridor clad in variations of this black uniform for one purpose: they want to terrify you. Every year, students from Ball State and local high schools spend their evenings portraying the mutilated humans, aliens and ghouls that terrorize guests at The Basement, the museum's annual haunted house.
When Scott Anderson helped organize the "Farewell to the Wasteland" exhibition, he said he believed art should be more than decoration. "Art's higher calling is to create dialogue and to ask questions," Anderson, assistant professor of art at Ball State University said.
If there is ever a campus emergency, Ball State University students and faculty will receive alerts in as early as 8.5 minutes and as late as 24 minutes, according to a test conducted by University Communications on Tuesday. Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president for Marketing and Communications, said Tuesday's test is the most comprehensive measure of the university's Web site, text, e-mail and voice mail emergency response time.
A former Ball State University student awaits a Delaware County judge's decision later this month to determine if she will spend up to a year in prison, according to Delaware County officials. Amanda Polson, 20, pleaded guilty Monday to a charge of criminal recklessness resulting in serious bodily injury.
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Fans choiceMIQUALE LEWIS Receiving 42 votes and 64 percent of the popular vote, running back MiQuale Lewis is this week's Fan Choice player of the week. Lewis had three touchdowns in the football team's 31-0 win against Toledo on Saturday. To vote in next week's Fan Choice poll, go to bsudailynews.
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Despite being denied an on-campus voting booth, Ball State University's Student Government Association will continue to encourage students to vote. SGA President Frank Hood said this denial was a disappointment to the organization, but it would ultimately affect the community on a broader scale.
Ball State University women's volleyball coach Dave Boos goes into each match with a hole on his lineup card. The second-year coach made defense a priority when recruiting for this year's team and now finds himself with three libero candidates that are ready to play at any point - and only one can play at a time.
Space - the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Ball State University Planetarium. Its three-weekend mission: to show a live presentation of stars, to talk about the history of Mars and show pictures of possible life and terrain features - to boldly go where no planetarium has gone before.
Ball State University experienced record crowds during Homecoming not only for the Sept. 27 football game, but also for the week of events. Michelle Johnson, adviser to the Homecoming Steering Committee, said Ball State's undefeated season, the earlier week of Homecoming during the football season and the weather contributed to the records.
In the days following Ball State University football team's first ever appearance in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll, the university continued to receive national attention on television. Defensive end Brandon Crawford made an appearance on Tuesday's episode of the ESPN2 morning show "First Take.
"Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" brings the John Hughes' teen comedy/romance into 2008. Like the classic films, "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles," awkward teenage love is established during a single wild day, and the characters learn a hell of a lot about themselves along the way with the obligatory indie-rock soundtrack playing throughout the whole ride.
Flash back to Sunday night's football lineup on either the local broadcast stations or ESPN. Your friends begin to arrive for what looks to be the second chance the Colts have at winning a game this season, an obvious cause for celebration. As the last guests arrive and the barbecued chicken wings and chips are consumed, one of the guests requests a frosty, domestic beer.
Bill Barich's rhythmic voice filled a conference room in Bracken Library on Monday night as the audience enjoyed cookies, punch and a reading from Barich's novel "Carson Valley." The book, published in 1998, follows the stories of workers of the Torelli vineyard.
Ball State University is 6-0 and ranked in the Associated Press national poll for the first time in school history. Many Cardinal supporters saw this coming, but did anyone see it going this smoothly? Sure, everyone knew Ball State's offense would be able to score, but how easily it has come to Ball State has been a bit surprising.
