GMAC Financial Services and Ball State University is sponsoring a giveaway for a student to win a $1,000 scholarship. Chris Taylor, director of Athletics, Communication and Marketing, said students who sign up from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Scramble Light will receive a wrist band.
When the new Ball State University Web site starts running Oct. 1 students can expect to see more pictures, graphics and other more flexible applications than the current site has. University Web Coordinator Nancy Prater said the new Web site is visually more modern and reflects where Ball State is heading in the future.
Each Sunday, the Ball State University football team meets at the John W. and Janice B. Fisher Football Training Complex to give out its weekly awards and put a close to the week that came before it. After a 41-40 loss last week at the University of Nebraska, Cardinals' coach Brady Hoke said it was even more important for his team to focus on its next opponent.
After 13 consecutive losses, the Ball State University women's volleyball team ended the streak 34 days after it started with a 3-2 (30-28, 20-30, 30-22, 27-30, 19-17) victory against the University of Toledo. The win makes the Cardinals 2-13 on the season and 1-2 in the Mid-American Conference.
Drugs, alcohol, dancing, tragedy, humor and passionate scandals await the audience of University Theatre's production of Andrew Lippa's "The Wild Party" at 7:30 p.m. "The Wild Party," originally a poem written by Joseph Moncure March in 1928, is based on the darker side of the Roaring '20s, said Michael O'Hara, associate professor of theatre.
Two games into the Mid-American Conference season the Ball State University women's volleyball team is yet to pick up its first win. However, they play another team who is 0-2 in the MAC as the Cardinals travel to Toledo University for a match against the Rockets tonight.
Ball State University students can donate blood from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom. Student Government Association Treasurer Zac Davis said SGA was sponsoring and supporting the American Red Cross blood drive. The goal was to get at least 75 students to donate, he said.
Ball State University students who have on-campus jobs will need to set up direct-deposit accounts in order to be paid. Marie Kavanagh, director of payroll and employee benefits, said it is not mandatory to have a direct-deposit account at this time, but payroll will require students to set one up in the future.
The administrator who led the project that earned Ball State University the title of No. 1 wireless campus in the nation announced Thursday that he will step down from his position. O'Neal Smitherman, executive assistant for President Jo Ann Gora and vice president for Information Technology, said after working at Ball State since 2001 his last day will be Nov.
Get to bed early tonight, Cardinals fans. Saturday's going to be a big day with the football team playing at home for the first time since the season opener. And what a great season it's been so far. The team is 2-2, but both loses were by only one point, instead of the 30-point massacres of previous seasons.
After about two months of construction, Qdoba Mexican Grill is open for business at 720 E. McGalliard Road. Qdoba came to Muncie as part of a goal to have a store near every college in Indiana, Qdoba Area Director Bryan Brooks said. "We are everywhere now.
As the Ball State University women's soccer team enters Mid-American Conference play this weekend, it will be reminded of last year's conference championship. Following the Cardinals' (3-4) game against Eastern Michigan University (2-3-2) Sunday, Ball State President Jo Ann Gora and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins will lead a ceremony and present last year's team with their conference championship rings.
The Ball State University men's tennis team enters the Tom Fallon Invitational at the University of Notre Dame shorthanded this weekend. Most of the Cardinals will travel to Notre Dame to face Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, the University of Iowa and conference foe Western Michigan University.
The American Red Cross provided Ball State University students with a chance to help those in need this week. Jessica Detmer, communications coordinator for the Hoosier Heartland chapter of the American Red Cross, said 245 Ball State students donated and about 230 units of blood were collected.
Two weeks ago, Brady Hoke sent a campus-wide e-mail thanking students for their support and attendance in the home opener against Miami University. Not only did this establish the rising likability of the team, it also helped bring more clarity to an athletics department that is in shambles.
America is known the world over for inventing two major art forms: jazz and the Broadway musical. The latter will be celebrated at 7:30 p.m. in Emens Auditorium. Neil Berg and a cast of five Broadway performers will give their regards to the famous stage, as Berg's touring production of "100 Years of Broadway" stops at Emens as the first event in its Performing Artist Series.
Ball State University students found out what life at the poverty line is really like at the poverty simulation Wednesday. Simulation Facilitator Kyra Hainlen said the Department of Social Work and TEAMwork for Quality Living held the event. "The exercise is designed to give students a hands-on look at the realities of living in poverty," she said.
The Giant Locker Room might have a new location, but it still remains a favorite place for Ball State University students and the Muncie community, who have anticipated its opening, which was Tuesday. The Locker Room's owner Scott Dalton, said the new location has provided a lot more room.
Because it's Family Weekend, your mom, dad and 1.5 siblings must be coming to visit. You all are going to attend every activity Ball State University has planned. Or not. Many students and families will bond at the many activities, ceremonies and campus events throughout the weekend, embracing the university where the students are living.
After students filed into Ball State University's Emens Auditorium on Tuesday author James McBride captivated an audience of hundreds with stories about his life as a musician and writer. McBride, who wrote "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother," also spoke and answered questions about topics such as race and politics, including his criticisms of Rudy Giuliani in which he said "Big Bird could have been mayor of New York.
