A group of Ball State University students will screen a rough cut of a film they produced and offer the public a chance to critique it today. The screening is at 7:30 p.m. in the David Letterman Communication and Media Building Room 121 and admission is free.
Anybody interested in investing $1 million in the stock market can do so online. Investors are offered $1 million of virtual money, however, which is offered to members of the Web site www.theupdown.com. The Web site was launched Sept. 5, CEO and co-Founder Michael Reich said.
Returning to Worthen Arena for the first time in two weeks, the Ball State University women's volleyball team completed a 3-0 (30-17, 30-17, 30-25) sweep of the University at Buffalo Saturday to improve to 2-2 in the Mid-American Conference, 3-13 overall. The victory is the Cardinals' second in a row after defeating the University of Toledo Thursday.
var uslide_show_id = "99cab6f8-d93e-4a66-b581-896ea4695a0c";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; Saturday's football game had been over for more than 30 minutes, but about 40 students lingered outside Fisher Football Training Complex to cheer the Ball State players leaving the facility. It isn't unusual to see a crowd, mostly composed of family and friends, hang around after a home game to offer support to the players. This time, however, a small smattering of the 3,800 students that attended the game scattered in the after crowd.
MiQuale Lewis, Frank Edmonds, Nate Davis, Dante Love and even Doreen Burch, the third string running back, have gotten carries for Ball State University football, and they have all thrived with their opportunities. That's three running backs, a quarterback, and a wide receiver if you're wondering.
At times, the social atmosphere surrounding Ball State University becomes routine and boring. For example, a typical weekend for some students is attending Late Nite for free food, watching a free movie rented from Bracken Library or going to Dill Street Bar & Grill and throwing the dice on the dance floor.
Great news! Ball State University is getting a $2.5 million grant for safety. We first thought the university was getting more lights, police officers, cameras and who knows what else. However, it turns out that $2.5 million isn't really for campus safety, but instead for national safety.
Playing without MiQuale Lewis for the first time in 2007, the Ball State University football team rushed for a season-high 274 yards in the 49-14 victory against the University at Buffalo Saturday. In four games Lewis was averaging more than 110 yards a game with a 4.
The Sports Administration Club hosted their annual "Chase Charlie," which included a 5-kilometer run or walk, the Mile Mania and the Kiddie 100 for Ball State University students and the Muncie community Saturday. Jessica Smith, Sports Administration Club spokeswoman, said the event was created to promote health and wellness in the community.
As the season begins, the three youngest players on Ball State University's women's tennis team are starting to achieve success. Sophomore Sophie Quist won the singles flight A consolation bracket, freshman Hayley Hall advanced to the finals of singles flight C and freshman Georgina Thomson advanced to the semifinals of the singles flight D in the Ball State Fall Invitational Friday and Saturday.
The month of October serves as an incentive to give greener grub a try while learning about its many health benefits as an alternative to meat-based diets. Sponsored by the North American Vegetarian Society, World Vegetarian Day has kicked off a month of meatless meal parties, potlucks, presentations and food tasting displays around the world for the past 30 years.
Saturday's football game against University at Buffalo started strong and ended beautifully. Not only did the final scoreboard show a Ball State University win of 49-14, but the fans still filled the stands during the final minutes. In recent years fans started filtering out about halftime, leaving a handful of die-hards to witness the end of losing games.
There was Charlie Cardinal, the Pride of Mid-America marching band, screaming fans and tackles, but it was not a Ball State University football game; it was Ball State f+â-¦tbol. The Ball State soccer team (5-4, 2-0 Mid-American Conference) celebrated its 2006 MAC championship Sunday in front of a record number of fans, 759, including President Jo Ann Gora and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins.
Going into the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Qualifying and Pre-qualifying Tournament Saturday, senior Jarrod Epkey gave junior Jose Perdomo one piece of advice. "Do your thing, just play tennis," he said. Perdomo made it into the fourth round, before losing to University of Arizona senior Bruno Alcala, 6-3 7-6(3).
Doc's Music Hall is donating 10 percent of its bar sales after 10 p.m. this Thursday and next Thursday in order to raise money for the Late Loop trolley. Doc's owner Mike Martin said local musician Derek Jones will play and there is no cover charge for the event.
After weeks of practice, the Ball State University women's tennis team will finally be able to host a competition at its newly-renovated facility. The Ball State Fall Invitational takes place today and Saturday at the reopened Cardinal Creek Tennis Center, with additional matches being held at Northside Middle School.
James "Yusuf" Yee, a former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay Detainment Camp in Cuba, said he hopes that after hearing his story, people are inspired to protect civil rights in the United States. Yee, a third-generation Asian-American and Muslim convert, said he was wrongly accused of espionage and kept in solitary confinement for 76 days.
After three Mid-American Conference home games ended in one-goal defeats, two of them with a goal that abruptly ended the game, Ball State University had a week to collect itself and prepare. At the end of all that preparation, the Cardinals get to match up with Central Michigan University, who defeated Michigan State University Wednesday, the fifth-ranked team in the country.
Do you remember when Ball State University was everything you needed? Or when it was cutting edge cool to balance out Indiana University's red hotness? Now, here on the Ball State campus we're redefining education. What does that even mean? Education: The act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life.
Ball State University's sophomore running back MiQuale Lewis' season has ended prematurely because of an injury for a second year in a row, Cardinals' football coach Brady Hoke said Thursday. The results of an MRI Lewis underwent Wednesday morning showed he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.
