Journalist Lisa Ling's opening remarks were greeted with much applause from her audience Thursday night. "I can't stand the New England Patriots," she said. Aimee Ash, associate director of Student Life, said more than 750 students, some of whom sat in the aisles or stood against the walls, packed into Cardinal Hall at the L.
Despite getting every point from its starting five, Ball State made just enough plays to hang with No. 21-ranked Louisville. Ball State trailed by five points with 6:19 remaining in the second half, even though the team had two players produce minutes off the bench.
After experiencing its most successful season in program history, the Ball State University women's basketball team enters this season with a rougher road to travel in the 2007-08 campaign. Last season, Ball State played one non-conference opponent that participated in the NCAA Tournament.
After an off-season that was memorable for all the wrong reasons, Ball State University is as excited as any team in the nation to stop talking and start playing. "We don't focus at all on last year," first-year Cardinals' coach Billy Taylor said. "We are not at all looking back.
Clinching a first round home match in the Mid-American Conference Tournament is the goal for the Ball State University women's volleyball team this weekend. The way the MAC Tournament works is the top four seeds get first round byes while seeds five through eight host seeds nine through 12.
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Two weeks after finishing fifth at the Mid-American Conference championships, the Ball State University cross country team will face the top teams from the conference and region. The Cardinals will travel to Bloomington for the Great Lakes Regional Championship.
In a world where there was the extension of life, would you defy natural biology? At a time when all diseases are curable, would you prolong your life? If given the opportunity, would you ask for designer children? The "Human Faustus Project," a collaborative effort between director Jennifer Blackmer and 15 student writers at the Virginia B.
For the first time this season, the Ball State University swimming and diving team will travel for a Mid-American Conference event. Last weekend the women's team began its MAC season with a loss to the University of Toledo and a win against Bowling Green State University at home.
Guitar Hero III rocked Ball State University's campus Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Whitinger Business Building Room 302. Eleven men and one boy participated in the tournament, and the winner took home Guitar Hero III. Jackson Moisan, 11, participated in the tournament, and said he has been playing Guitar Hero since he was 9, which was when the first version of Guitar Hero was sold.
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Digital, cross-media projects were shown off during the Institute for Digital Entertainment and Education's digital exchange showcase this week in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building. Production Specialist Jessica Seaton said IDEE had the showcase to inform students and faculty about what the institute does and what it wants to do.
As the season begins for the Ball State University basketball team, allegations by former coach Ronny Thompson still linger and university records indicate at least one of them is true. In a column by Michael Wilbon in the Washington Post, Thompson said the situation at Ball State was so bad he had to buy basketballs for the team.
Severed wooden legs are all that remain of the mascot that nested on the front lawn of Expectations Women's Health & Childbearing Center. Barb Bechtel, certified nursing midwife for Expectations, said employees and the Muncie Police Department are searching for "Gregory Peck," the six-foot-tall, wooden stork that perches outside the center to announce births.
Women will put on their best costumes and evening wear and give it their all in a talent and interview portion of Sigma Nu fraternity's fourth annual Miss Greek pageant. Master of Ceremonies Russ Van Natta said the pageant would be 7 p.m. Saturday in Pruis Hall and 14 women from seven of Ball State University's 11 sororities would participate.
Interfraternity Council appointed three of its members to new positions Thursday. IFC President-elect Cody Willis said he pledged to unite the fraternities from individual houses to a single unit. "If we can learn to grow as a community, the sky is the limit," he said Willis, who is the former vice president of programming at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said he had a goal of "bridging the gap" between the fraternities and the community.
A year removed from a loss in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament, the Ball State University soccer team has something to prove this weekend. Last year the Cardinals won the regular season MAC championship for the first time in school history but lost to Miami University 2-1 in the first round of the conference tournament.
The days following Halloween have always provided one constant. In younger days, the first weeks of November meant stuffing that last Snickers bar down one's throat even though chocolate, nougat and caramel were already practically pouring from the nose. But when that age arrived when it was not socially acceptable to trick-or-treat anymore (ah, to be 16 again), the weeks after Oct.
The Ball State University soccer team received more awards to add to its Mid-American Conference regular season championship Thursday. The MAC awarded eight Ball State players with honors for their play this season. The Cardinals went 9-1-1 in the conference to win the regular season title.
