The NCAA will provide financial backing for Ball State University junior Amber Williams and coach Randy Heisler's trip to Sacramento, Calif., the site of Wednesday's 2007 NCAA Track and Field Championships. Due to its financial policy, the NCAA will pay for two of the four Ball State affiliates making the trip.
Twenty-three years after graduating from Ball State University, Timothy Andrews was named chief executive and president of the Advertising Specialty Institute on May 29. ASI is the largest marketing and media agency using print and electronic forms to publish for specialty advertising products.
President Franklin Roosevelt is famous for the line, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." However, when he said it he spoke to an audience in the grip of the Great Depression, and was talking about America's fear of poverty. However, in a different context today, his words about fear being our enemy ring with even more truth.
In a time of presidential debates and an unpopular war, the First Amendment, which says Congress can make no law prohibiting freedom of speech, is a hot topic. With the goal of spreading information regarding the importance of the First Amendment, J-Ideas, a Ball State University student journalism organization, has formed the Principles Coalition for the First Amendment.
CollegeHumor is no authoritative academic research source, but according to the multimedia comedy Web site, Ball State University students have a cheating problem. An online survey of 29,176 college students found that Ball State was first in cheating among universities with 30 or more survey respondents.
Four major campus construction projects costing more than $60 million combined are scheduled to be completed by the end of Summer and will be operational during the Fall Semester. Although temperate weather and an empty campus makes summer a prime time for construction at Ball State University, Jim Lowe, director of engineering and operations at Ball State, said this summer is particularly eventful.
Since 1970, UCLA has won a record 19 NCAA men's volleyball championships. In the 2008 season it will play in Muncie for the first time. The Ball State University men's volleyball team announced its 2008 schedule Thursday and plays home matches against UCLA Feb.
John Smith helps eleven year old Sterling Fordham lift a bench to reveal a geocache in a GPS Geocache maze during the Minnetrista Garden Fair on Saturday. Fordham has been geocaching with his father, Steve Fordham for two years, and has found over 2,000 caches.
Although many concert band and jazz ensemble performances carry an air of formality, the Ball State University School of Music's annual concert series provides students and community members a chance to see jazz and wind performances in a more informal setting.
Earlier this year Alison Metzger began the next chapter of her life as a business owner. After working for Hallmark for 15 years, Metzger felt the next logical thing to do was to open her own business. She found a space in the Murray building downtown that fit the atmosphere she wanted to create.
Bracken Library is the first and only Indiana college that offers a service that allows students and faculty to print documents from their laptops to computers in the library. Student Government Association members approached Arthur Hafner, dean of University Libraries, during Fall Semester with the idea for a laptop printing service for Bracken Library, Hafner said.
The Ball State University women's volleyball team announced its 2007 schedule Wednesday. The Cardinals open their season Aug. 24-25, hosting the Ball State Nike/Active Challenge with matches against Maine University, Southeast Missouri State University and Ohio State University.
Parking is already an issue in the high student population areas around campus, and Muncie Sanitary District has just made it worse. Residents of the neighborhood east of New York Avenue and west of Wheeling Avenue are now required to put their trash on street curbs instead of in alleys behind their homes.
R eality TV is the most interesting phenomena to hit the entertainment world in the last twenty years. And what makes reality television such an interesting facet of modern American pop culture is everyone may outwardly despise the overall concept, yet completely adore one of that concept's subtle nuances.
Students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Arabic culture with two new classes for the upcoming school year. Arabic 101 will be offered in the fall, and Arabic 102 will be offered spring 2008. Ball State University has offered Arabic in the past, but Arabic teachers are difficult to find, Chris Shea, chairwoman of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, said.
During most of Sunday's 91st Indianapolis 500 it looked as though the winning driver would be part of the five-car Andretti Green Racing team. Though Dario Franchitti, the eventual winner of the rain-shortened event, is an Andretti Green member, the dominant car throughout the day was the green-and-white No.
After failing to reach the NCAA Championships last June, Ball State University hurdler Amber Williams will travel to Sacramento, Calif., to participate in this year's event. Williams qualified this past Saturday in Columbia, Mo., at the regional meet in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing in a school-record 13.
Another May has come and gone in the great state of Indiana and that means another Indianapolis 500 is in the books. For many reasons, the greatness that is the Indianapolis 500 makes so many Hoosiers proud of our state. Once every year Indiana has this opportunity to shine on the world's stage.
