Local stores and national chains alike are gearing up for the annual holiday rush that begins the day after Thanksgiving. By working extra hours and receiving training in handling pushy customers, retail employees are busily preparing for the season that lies ahead.
Never know what to get your younger siblings for the holiday? Here are some of the hottest toys for the young ones on your list. For the young girls on your list try: The Easy Bake Oven or Real Meal Oven - Both of these ovens allow the girl to cook and make food for herself or others.
The start of the holiday season can mean many things: traveling to visit distant relatives, preparing for family festivities at home and shopping for that elusive perfect gift for everyone on your list. However, nothing captures the spirit of the holidays quite like a unique, handmade present made from the heart.
The holidays are all about family traditions, even if those traditions require getting up early in the morning to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. Millions of people each year get up as early as four in the morning to go shopping on the biggest shopping day of the year.
Each year, members of the Wampanoag Indian tribe and their supporters gather at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Mass. for the National Day of Mourning. The holiday occurs on the third Thursday of November, the same day as Thanksgiving, and it was started in 1970 by the United American Indians of New England in honor of American Indian people and their struggles, according to the UAINE mission statement.
The images portrayed in most cases of Thanksgiving involve the traditional dinner of turkey with all the trimmings, sides and desserts. The fowl has been associated with the day celebrating the Pilgrims' harmonious gathering with the Native Americans for decades - the holiday itself is also unofficially known as "Turkey Day.
More than $50,000 is at stake today in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center as students and community members vie for first place at the second annual The NEXT Big Thing competition. The goal of the event is to find new concepts that have the potential to become practical businesses.
Wing-Out, new to the Village this year, was packed with mostly sorority and fraternity members Thursday night to hold Chi Omega's fundraiser for Chris Horner. Ater breaking his neck, Horner was temporarily paralyzed from the neck down while studying abroad in Australia, and is expected to return in early to mid-December.
Do free speech and communication come with responsibility? It's a question that takes some serious consideration, and in today's society it may be more important than ever. To begin with, the information age has launched a whole new generation of communicators.
College students are known for living risky lives. People perceive students as driving too quickly, drinking too much and taking too many unnecessary risks. But Alyssa Couch was not taking major risks - she was on her way to tutor someone. She was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I'm pleased the Democrats won majorities in the Senate and House this last election. It's not because I necessarily support or oppose either party, but because I now have reason to hope that bigoted "values" politics will return to the 12th century where they belong and we can get our fiscal situation back in order.
Junior Alyssa Couch lived life to help others. She was on her way to help tutor someone when she died Wednesday night. "Everything she ever did was trying to help somebody else," senior friend Stephanie Marks said. Couch was a pre-med major because she wanted to help people.
An Indiana University professor will speak to students about the future of video games and the process of building them. The lecture, sponsored by Freshman Connections, will focus on "Arden: The World of William Shakespeare," a game being developed under a project headed by Edward Castronova, an associate professor of telecommunications at Indiana University.
A list of 599 cigarette additives stretched from the Atrium ceiling to the floor outside the Ball State Bookstore Thursday afternoon, marking the 30th annual Great American Smokeout. The event was started by the American Cancer Society in 1977 to raise awareness about the dangers of smoking and to offer methods for quitting.
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Last year Wright State University beat Ball State University courtesy of a three-point heave at the buzzer. The loss left the Cardinals feeling as though they let one get away against a team they should have beaten handily. According to coach Tracy Roller, the team's mission is make sure history doesn't repeat itself.
After winning at Worthen Arena against the University at Buffalo Tuesday night, the Ball State University women's volleyball team advances to the quarterfinal round of the Mid-American Conference tournament today. The game starts at 1:30 p.m. when the team travels to Toledo, Ohio, to play third-ranked Bowling Green University.
It didn't take long - one game, to be exact - for injuries to derail the men's basketball team this season. Chris Ames, who started Saturday's game against Northern Colorado University, broke his jaw in practice this week after taking an incidental elbow from center Micah Rollin.
Imagine an abandoned airfield, the terminal partially destroyed and the tarmac pockmarked with holes from mortar and artillery explosions. Within three hours of the first arrival of United States troops, holes have been dug to fight from, patrols have been sent out to secure the immediate perimeter, and the tarmac is being inspected for repair.
I love hypothetical questions. I love being posed questions that make me look at myself introspectively, because, through that self-examination, I have the potential to become more self-aware of who I am and what my morals are. There are the standard classics like, "If you could be stranded on a desert island with only one book, what book would you choose?" or "Which would you choose to save from drowning in a river: an elderly hobo or a burlap sack full of golden retriever puppies?" There's one hypothetical question that often gets brought up that I find not to be an actual soul-searching insight, but rather a matter of common sense; that question being, "If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what food would you choose?" The answer, of course, is the sandwich.
