Mud volleyball is back at Ball State University with Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and FIJI fraternity having their Smackdown Mud Volleyball Tournament at 10 a.m. Saturday at the volleyball courts by Johnson Complex. FIJI philanthropy chairman Tom James said the proceeds from the event will go to the sorority and fraternity's philanthropies, Court Appointed Special Advocates and The Red Cross, respectively.
Ball State University students who take the Writing Competency Exam might find that what they write will affect policies administrators pass. Anna Priebe, Writing Competency Exam coordinator, said while the primary function of the exam is to serve as an educational tool, it also lets students voice their concerns to administrators.
Ball State University punter Chris Miller, who will be a junior this fall, was named to the Playboy All-America Preseason Football team. Miller, who was named All-America Second Team by The Sporting News last season, led the Mid-American Conference and finished second in the nation with a 46.
A Ball State University student has filed a lawsuit against a former student punished for assaulting him and the fraternity house where the incident occurred. According to the Delaware County Clerk's Office, sophomore Zachary Holsinger filed civil charges Monday against Chad Stickley, 22, two "John Does" and the Ball State chapter of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Almost every day, Kent Bullis sees patients who carry some form of the Human Papillomavirus in the Amelia T. Wood Health Center. Bullis, the medical director at the Health Center, said HPV is by far the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.
On warm Monday afternoons, Noyer Field transforms into Stormhaven, the home of more than a dozen characters reminiscent of a J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy. Stormhaven is the Muncie chapter of Dagorhir, a combination of live-action roleplay, martial arts and medieval combat.
Scroll through the map and click on the points to see the crime that has occurred on or around campus.
Ball State University students who are worried that Baskin Robbins on McGalliard Avenue will take its 31 flavors and leave town once its building is leased to other businesses have nothing to fear. Baskin Robbins owner Bob Walsh said that after almost four decades in its Northwest Plaza location, the restaurant began renovations Monday at the former Marathon gas station next to Tire Barn on Wheeling Avenue.
Ball State University will roll out the "Roll out the Red" for Homecoming 2007, as the steering committee has announced the theme and begun planning the week. General Chairman Brian Geiselhart said the Homecoming Steering Committee considered the renovations being made on Ball State's campus while brainstorming theme ideas.
View the slideshow to see images from the Mr. and Ms. Ball State Bodybuilding Competition that happened Thursday night at the Emens Auditorium.
Editor and chief, columnist and graduating senior Dave Studinski compares college living to air travel. Really.
Kyle Brennan's job is full of trouble-shooting. The director of athletics compliance and eligibility gets an average of 20 to 30 phone calls and 50 to 100 e-mails during all hours of the day asking compliance-related questions, he said. In his seven months at Ball State University, Brennan has taken an educational approach to his job.
Most Ball State University students likely think the Writing Competency Exam is just another step on the road to graduation. This year, however, the university started using content from the exams to initiate changes in policy - without telling students their answers would be used in such a way.
I am proud to say I am a member of the Class of 2007. In less than two weeks we will be exiting the hallowed halls of Ball State University. We will be receiving our diplomas and walking out feeling both liberated and quite possibly scared to death. It is the doubt that worries us and it is the thought of failure that makes it hard to sleep at night.
Check out the slideshow to see the photos that were considered to be the best of the week.
I want to thank Joanna Lees for addressing student complacency and the topic of nonviolence in her column "Young adults too complacent" in the Friday edition of the Daily News. Her assertion though, that nonviolence only works if both parties are willing to participate, is incorrect and reflects an all too common misconception of the principles of nonviolence as developed by Adin Ballou, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
As incoming freshmen enter Ball State University, the predominant thought on many minds is, "How do I avoid the freshman 15?"
For the fifth straight game the Ball State University baseball team lost. Last night the loss was to the University of Notre Dame to the tune of 7-3. Both teams had eight hits, but the Irish had five more runners reach base. The reason was walks, players hit by a pitch and errors.
I bet Michael Jordan watched basketball players with wide eyes when he was a little kid. Robert De Niro certainly loved movies, and I'm sure Barack Obama could recite the American presidents in order by the time he could write in cursive. It's natural for us to surround ourselves with inspirations.
Muncie police are searching for suspects in the theft of a six-foot-tall wooden stork from Expectations Women's Health & Childbearing Center, according to police. Certified nursing midwife Barbara Bechtel said an employee first reported the stork missing on Saturday.
