Ball State University's campus is being invaded. The invaders aren't trying to take over the university, but their presence is hard to miss. Freshman orientation has begun and droves of incoming students and their parents will be roaming around campus whether we like it or not.
With 84 days until the home opener, the Ball State University athletic department said it anticipates a higher football attendance this season, despite selling less than 100 tickets at Wednesday's Summer Kickoff. Cody Lantz, associate ticket master, said between six to 12 season tickets were sold at the two-hour event, which was the first time the public could buy them.
Though Wednesday's Summer Kickoff was centered around Brady Hoke's football program, several other coaches in the Cardinals' athletic department were in attendance to offer their support. "It's kind of the Ball State way," women's basketball coach Tracy Roller said.
When Anna Vanesyan came to Ball State from Armenia in 2002, she was surprised to find that despite Muncie's cultural and geographic distance from her home country, students in the School of Music both embraced her culture and the music that came from it. Vanesyan was able to transition to the new country while resting in the comfort of familiar sounds.
Dear Editor, In the Daily News article last Thursday on the departure of telecommunications professor Bob Papper, a reference is made about the departure of two other TCOM faculty members that should not be misinterpreted. In a sentence where Bob indicated his decision to leave involved "frustrations" with the department, it was also noted that two other "nationally recognized" TCOM professors also "resigned" this year.
Ball State University is full of cheaters. If you believe the polling prowess of the comedy site CollegeHumor.com, that is. In the site's recent online survey, 71.9 percent of Ball State respondents claimed they had cheated in college. Although Ball State officials are questioning the validity of the survey, there's no doubt that cheating, and subsequently cheating prevention measures, can both be found at Ball State.
A woman who says she was publicly humiliated by the CBS television show "Armed & Famous" has decided to sue Jack Osbourne, Muncie police officer Michael Edwards, Muncie Police Chief Joe Winkle, Mayor Dan Canan and CBS, among others. But is she entitled to a million dollars? Let's allow the content of the episode in question to do the talking.
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.
