With uncertainty at the goalkeeper position due to injury, coach Michelle Salmon said, the Ball State University women's soccer team took all three goalkeepers on this weekend's road trip. Starting goalkeeper Rachael Murphy is questionable for today's game at Eastern Illinois University and Sunday's game at Indiana University after being kicked in the head Sept.
The Monday after the Nike Active Ankle Challenge in August, sophomore for the Ball State University women's volleyball team Madison Monk decided she no longer wanted to play volleyball. Instead she has decided to be just a student. "She's done playing volleyball," coach Dave Boos said.
Everyone needs a soapbox. During the weekend a mild war of words took place in the faculty and staff inboxes. The All-BSU e-mail list, an easy way for faculty and staff to e-mail everyone at once, filled with conversations about the impending vote on a campus-wide smoking ban.
For the first time since Ball State University coach, Brady Hoke, came to Muncie five years ago, the Cardinals will play a team with a true triple-option offense when it meets the Naval Academy Saturday. Hoke said Navy is one of a small handful of teams, including Army, Air Force and Rice, that continue to run a triple-option offense.
Do you remember? It's the week of the sixth anniversary of those attacks on secular, Western, capitalist culture. Do you remember? Six years ago Tuesday, nineteen fundamentalist Islamic terrorists hijacked four airplanes, three of which reached their targets as fuel-laden kinetic missiles.
In an attempt to retrieve his confiscated IDs, Ball State University basketball player Kevin Ford called the police to Dill Street Bar & Grill on Sunday morning. However, Ford's IDs ended up being shredded and he ended up in jail. According to police documents obtained Thursday, Ford was arrested at 2:44 a.m.
After losing their previous five games, the Ball State University field hockey team gets to reset its record at 0-0 with the opening of Mid-American Conference play Saturday. The Cardinals will face Miami University at 1 p.m. Saturday at BSU Turf Field to open league play.
After a three-month investigation into who placed racist notes around the men's basketball offices, the Ball State University police department announced Thursday it was closing the case even though it was unable to find out who did it. Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president for marketing and communications, said all available leads in the case were exhausted and new evidence will be needed to find the source of the notes.
Guitar Hero, slide shows, cookouts and songs were all part of the week-long process for Ball State University's fraternity and sorority recruitment. Panhellenic Council President Deanna Pogorelc said recruitment was a week-long, formal process where all potential new members who sign up for sororities rotate in groups, visit and learn about each one.
Two members of the Ball State University men's basketball team arrested in the last week are no longer with the Cardinals. Forward Kevin Ford was dismissed from the team and guard Jalon Perryman voluntarily decided to leave the program, according to a statement Friday by coach Billy Taylor.
A Ball State University basketball player was released on a $6,000 bond from Delaware County Justice Center at 12:51 a.m. Wednesday after being arrested on multiple charges, according to jail officials. Junior Jalon Perryman, 20, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, minor consumption and failure to appear in court late Tuesday, according to jail officials.
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Ball State University students interested in business attended an organizational fair coordinated by the Miller College of Business Thursday. There were 12 organizations at the event, which was from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the second floor of the Art and Journalism Building.
An advisory board of the White River Watershed Project partnered with Ball State University students to improve the quality of the White River, Muncie's primary drinking water source. Holly Challie, Watershed coordinator for the Delaware County soil and water conservation district, said a watershed is a water-gathering area that might flow into the main body of the White River and bring pollutants such as pesticides, carcinogens and mercury.
I like to believe I'm pretty hip. I'm dope, illin' and poppin' fresh...yo...or whatever it is the youngin's are saying these days. I'm 22 years old already, I'm beginning my fifth year of college and I've hit that age where I'm close to telling kids to kindly remove themselves from my lawn, but I've still got the 4-1-1 on trends around campus.
The inclusion of Ball State University students, prison inmates and nursing home residents might have skewed results in a survey that stated Muncie had one of the highest poverty rates in the nation, Clive Richmond, senior program analyst for the American Community Survey, said.
The Muncie police officer involved in the "joyride" that ended when he crashed his squad car into a light pole in front of LaFollette Complex Aug. 28, has resigned. Six-year veteran Jason Lyons, 38, submitted his resignation letter Friday at the end of his 10-day suspension, Muncie Police Chief Joe Winkle said.
Ball State University students can attend a Student Organization Fair put on by the Miller School of Business from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday on the second floor of the Art and Journalism building. Emily Walter, adviser for student services at the Miller School of Business, said the fair will feature representatives from Miller to discuss job and internship opportunities with students.
The Ball State Daily News editorial board does not support a campus-wide smoking ban. That, however, does not mean everyone supports smoking. Here's the breakdown: 18 out of 19 editorial board members voted against the ban at a Wednesday night meeting. Out of those 19 voters, three smoke about three packs a week, one smokes approximately a cigarette a day and one quit less than a week ago.
The elevator that trapped more than 16 Ball State University students Tuesday night was caused by overcrowding, not a mechanical error, Alan Hargrave, director of housing and residence life, said. "The people who overloaded the elevator, that was the problem," Hargrave said.
