Four games out of the final slot in the Mid-American Conference, the Ball State University baseball team is set for an important weekend series in Kalamazoo, Mich. "To get in the tournament, we got to win nine of our last 12 games," coach Greg Beals said.
I have yet to understand what the hell it is that the Federal Communications Commission does. The FCC is charged with regulating all non-federal use of the broadcasting spectrum. The problem is that that spectrum is so wide, diverse and teeming with stuff, there's really no way to effectively regulate it.
The Ball State University women's tennis team will play the University at Buffalo in its opening match of the Mid-American Conference Tournament today at 2 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio. In their regular season match-up, the Bulls defeated the Cardinals 6-1 in Ball State's conference opener.
High school students from six schools around Indiana will participate in the fourth annual Iron Egg Launch competition at 9 a.m. Each high school team made an egg launcher and protective egg container for the event, which is hosted by Ball State University and Purdue University College of Technology-Anderson/Muncie, according to the press release.
A hot dog and nachos. That's the food Ball State University junior closer Kyle Heyne prefers at the ballpark. "Give me a hot dog and maybe some nachos with some jalape+â-¦os," Heyne said. "You got to have some jalape+â-¦os on those nachos." Not only is Heyne Ball State's closer, he also happens to be one of the best in the nation.
Sophomore Alyson Laurencell, a secondary education major, said she never really thought about the book she was using for her PEFWL lecture class. After some contemplation, however, she said she felt slightly cheated because she paid the same teacher twice for the class - once through tuition and a second time when she paid for the required textbook the teacher wrote for the class.
Ball State University's men's tennis team plays in the semi-finals of the Mid-American Conference tournament in Fort Wayne on Friday at 2:00 p.m. against the University of Toledo. The Cardinals beat Toledo 5-2 in the regular season. "Our approach is one match at a time," coach Bill Richards said.
With eight games remaining on the schedule, the Ball State University softball team is on the outside looking in at the Mid-American Conference tournament. Ball State (20-28, 6-8 MAC) is currently fifth in the MAC West standings and tenth overall in the conference.
This, my second senior year, has been an eventful one for me. I took my capstone classes, I drafted an entire novel in a month, I published a Web site and I received my first hate mail. I'm sorry to see it end, but at the same time I'm looking forward to the summer.
As outside attacker Justin Orr's kill attempt went out of bounds, it meant more to the Ball State University men's volleyball team than just the end of a season. It was the end of the collegiate careers for outside attackers Nick Meyer and Mark Rumschik.
Custodian Debby Hughes was walking down a hallway collecting trash on the morning of March 22 on the third floor of Crosley Residence Hall when a student ran out of the bathroom in a panic. The student told Hughes that freshman Rebekah Dudeck was lying unconscious on the bathroom floor, Hughes said.
THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FEET ABOVE OHIO - Oh, opportunity. I write from seat 15A of U.S. Airways flight 3108, en route to New York City for a media conference. It's yet another example of how fortunate I've been to serve as editor in chief of The Ball State Daily News since August 2005.
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After the recent shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, officials at Ball State University are considering how to best alert students and staff during a crisis. One option is using cell phone text message alerts and e-mail, a method that will be implemented by fall 2008, Betsy Mills, Student Government Association president, said.
Multiple Sclerosis research supporters will join together this Saturday to raise an estimated $45,000 at the East Central Indiana Multiple Sclerosis Walk inside Worthen Arena. Karen Kovac, director of development for the Indiana chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, said having the walk indoors will allow people with mobility issues easier access to the events.
A Dodge pickup truck's engine erupted in flames, damaging a Ball State University student's Chevy Montecarlo at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the LaFollette Complex parking lot. The flames burned the Dodge's engine compartment, hood and windshield. Sgt. John Foster of the Ball State Police Department said the heat from the flame also damaged the vehicle's interior.
The Ball State University softball team's (20-28, 6-8 Mid-American Conference) doubleheader against Purdue University was canceled Wednesday due to rain. No make-up date has been announced. The games against Purdue were scheduled to be the final non-conference games of the season for Ball State.
Randy Hyman, associate dean for Student Affairs, was thanked for serving Ball State University. He has accepted the position of vice chancellor for academic support and student life at the University of Minnesota Duluth and will begin July 1. SGA thanked Disabled Students in Action for its work promoting and sponsoring events at Ball State during Disability Awareness Month in March.
During spring practice, first-year coach Dave Boos said the women's volleyball players have improved the way they interact and communicate with each other. In order to make sure the team continues in the right direction, players have developed a summer plan for conditioning, weightlifting and open gym practices.
To help bring some closure to another year of Ball State University sports, the members of the Ball State Daily News sports staff voted on the top five Ball State sports stories of the 2006-2007 school year. While the soccer team's Mid-American Conference championship and the arrest of two freshmen football players were big stories, they were not big enough.
