Ball State University could take a hit to the budget after a series of bad decisions in 2006 that resulted in former men's basketball coach Tim Buckley leaving the university. Now, Buckley is seeking $75,000 in an arbitration with the university because of conflicting opinions about his contract.
First-time Summer Semester students who purchased meal plans noticed a drastic increase in the meal equivalencies. Liz Poore, assistant director of dining operations, said summer dining amounts are greater because students pay more money for summer dining contracts.
Students parking in the University Square parking lot soon won't have to worry about inadvertently parking in a handicap spot and getting towed. The lot, which is behind El Camino and The Bird in the Village, will have its lines repainted sometime in June, Betsy Mills, president of the Student Government Association, said.
Stretching from Maryland to Illinois, the National Road, commissioned by Thomas Jefferson in 1806, is an icon of American transportation. Members of the telecommunication department will film a documentary about the Indiana portion of the road, which runs through Richmond, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, as part of a digital storytelling project.
At the turn of the last century, some researching anthropologists wanted to do a study on the classic American town. This was at then tail end of the industrial revolution, so the researchers wanted to see how an average American city handled the transition from a farming community to a factory-based community.
Sources close to former Ball State University men's basketball coach Tim Buckley said Wednesday he was quietly encouraged to leave the university in 2006 following a reassignment. Buckley, feeling Ball State should pay him the money his contract outlined would be paid if he were fired rather than choosing to resign prior to the contract's expiration date, is headed to arbitration seeking $75,000.
Police officers in full emergency gear stormed two houses on Riverside Avenue east of the Music Instruction Building Wednesday afternoon as part of a training exercise for an emergency response team. The team used Ball State University-owned houses at 1605 and 1609 W.
Muncie's Main Street Studio Theatre showed audiences something normally only experienced in the larger, urban settings of New York and Chicago nightclubs last weekend, Darrin Murrell, executive director for the show, said. "The Great American Songbook Cabaret" will be performed again this weekend with shows at 8 p.
In his May 12 Billboard column "Changes In Attitudes," veteran music journalist Geoff Mayfield mentioned dismal Nielsen SoundScan sales reports, which for the first time in years featured overall sales volume of less than 8 million albums. Mayfield said the music industry's "head in the sand" mentality is speeding up the demise of the CD as a viable sales commodity.
Football players aren't the only student athletes who will be representing Ball State University in a renovated facility next year. Cardinal Creek Tennis Center is being renovated for the first time more than 30 years after it was originally constructed. Ball State officials made the right decision when they allocated money from the budget to renovate a winning sport's facilities - and it's a trend that should continue in the future.
Ball State University student Dannielle Sylvester was crowned the 2007 500 Festival Queen from a field of 33 princesses Saturday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Along with participating in all Indianapolis 500 activities, Sylvester, who will graduate in 2008, was also awarded a $2,500 scholarship.
Jumping out to a 6-0 lead after the first inning, the Ball State University baseball team needed extra innings to win the season-closing series. The Cardinals (20-34, 8-19 Mid-American Conference) allowed MAC-leading Central Michigan University to score four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings squandering their 9-2 lead.
"Four men charged with publicly stoning Iraqi girl." "Father microwaves baby." The above headlines, taken from a recent list of headlines from CNN, seem to tell us just how terrible and savage life really is. It seems little wonder that so many of us simply focus on our day to day lives without trying to worry about the larger world.
Drivers at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were trying to solidify their spot in the starting field Sunday for the 2007 Indy 500. While the Month of May is usually focused on the contenders of The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, it was the smaller teams that stole the spotlight this weekend.
Since the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center opened in 1977, the Ball State University tennis teams have won a combined 19 conference titles and had 71 first-team all-conference selections. After 30 years, the facility is getting its first major renovation. The $850,000 construction project on the Ball State men's and women's team tennis courts, located north of the Duck Pond, started last week, and is scheduled to be completed Aug.
Screw scurvy, we all want to be pirates. We wear T-shirts with the skull and crossbones, participate in international talk like a pirate day - at the moment there are 13 groups on Facebook about pirates or international talk like a pirate day. And rebellious icons like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Che Guevara remain popular for the same reasons pirates do - pirates reflect the rebellious and anarchic desires that lie in all of us.
In its eighth year, the Minnetrista Farmer's Market is blossoming with success. Cathy Kozar, director of the Farmer's Market, said Minnetrista offers two main markets in the summer; the May Market and the regular market, which runs from June till the end of October.
The x-rated film partially shot at Ball State University has created a substantial buzz since its release last week, but has not seen substantial sales. Jeff Ray, director of all Priscilla's stores in Indiana, said "Vampire Diaries" would have been more successful had it come out in February when local media first reported on it.
The Ball State Board of Trustees Monday approved a 4.9 percent tuition increase for in-state students for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, and a 6 percent increase for out-of-state students for both years. The increase will bring tuition for 2007-08 in-state students to $3,336 per semester, a $156 increase, and tuition for 2007-08 out-of-state students to $8,870 per semester, a $502 increase.
With 30 percent of Ball State University men's tennis players coming from Puerto Rico, Cardinals' coach Bill Richards has made use of the country's talent pool. Tuesday, Richards announced the signing of yet another Puerto Rican recruit, Eduardo Pavia from Carolina, Puerto Rico.
