Three Ball State University sporting events were postponed due to inclement weather. The Ball State baseball (11-16, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) game against Indiana University was canceled Tuesday. The game had been moved to Tuesday because of forecasted weather issues.
March Madness is dead. The National Basketball Association killed it.-á I don't mean to be a pessimist but the landscape is forever changed.-á What has made past tournaments more an out-of-body religious experience than merely 40 minutes of college basketball? It's the element of surprise, notably missing during that past three weeks.
Ball State University students could be responsible for fulfilling a new set of University Core Curriculum requirements as soon as Fall 2008. University Senate's core curriculum subcommittee spent last semester reviewing the complex proposal for a new University Core Curriculum, UCC-21, and is expected to vote on the plan soon.
The Ball State University women's golf team shot a 315 on the first day of competition to finish in the top three, two shots behind the leader. The University of Detroit Mercy finished the day on top of the leaderboard, and the host school, University of Cinncinati, placed second.
The array of colorful flags in LaFollette Field this week is more than a pretty sight; it is a way for Ball State University students to remember the 12 million people who died during the Holocaust. Junior Tim Boswell coordinated Holocaust Awareness Week, which began Monday with the placement of more than 2,000 flags in LaFollette Field.
Ball State University's baseball game against Indiana University has been moved up one day. Originally scheduled to be played tomorrow at 3 p.m. the game will now be played at 3 p.m. today. The reason is because of weather concerns. According to the National Weather Service, Indiana has a Hazardous Weather Outlook, with a 32-degree drop in temperature Wednesday.
Ball State University's Bowen Center for Public Affairs will train community members and officials to be better public servants like Otis R. Bowen, former governor of Indiana. The center, co-directed by Raymond Scheele and Sally Jo Vasicko, will include an Institute for Public Service, a Bureau for Policy Research and the Bowen Institute on Political Participation, Scheele said.
If you're a student in Indiana and a school administrator doesn't approve it, you can't say it. That's the message the school board at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School in Allen County has sent to Amy Sorrell, a teacher and newspaper adviser. Sorrell could be fired for allowing students to publish an editorial advocating tolerance toward homosexuality.
Congratulations to the women's basketball coach Tracy Roller on a successful season and contract extension. Tom Collins, director of Intercollegiate Athletics, made the right decision in keeping Roller, as she has built a strong foundation for the basketball program.
Ball State University's Abby Perkins models a colorful dress at the fashion show Saturday afternoon. Fashion majors decorated the gym for their annual Fashion Show, which is a chance for them to show of everything they made during the past four years. Seventeen seniors presented their lines, which included items such as business wear, gowns, skirts, bras and sexy jackets.
If you followed the news over the past week, you surely saw the capture of several British navy personnel supposedly found in Iranian waters. Reminiscent of the 1979 Iran Hostage crisis, these crewmembers were taken into custody against their will. This crisis might be resolved by armed intervention into Iran from British troops to free the captured crewmen.
WOODLAN - National and state free-speech groups are rallying to support a northeastern Indiana high school journalism teacher who faces firing for a dispute that began when a student newspaper published an editorial advocating tolerance of gays. Amy Sorrell, who has been a teacher at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School for four years, was notified Thursday that the school board will vote May 1 on terminating her contract.
ATLANTA - It's no accident that they are meeting again for a championship. Calling it pure coincidence might not be totally right, either. Florida and Ohio State are dominating marquee college sports like no two programs ever have. Their meeting today for the basketball title comes three months after they played for the football championship.
Ball State University's chapter of College Mentors for Kids had a successful turnout Saturday at the fifth annual Walk for Kids. President Lindsey Koetter said 85 people attended, and it was the chapter's best turnout in the event's history. "Overall, it was a success and everyone had a lot of fun," she said.
[Editor's note: The following editorial was written by Woodlan Junior-Senior High School sophomore Megan Chase.] We live in a world where we grow up being taught that it is only acceptable for a boy and a girl to be together. So how do you think you would feel if as you grew older and more mature you started noticing people of the same sex as you, rather than the opposite? I can only imagine how hard it would be to come out as homosexual in today's society.
Two thousand and sixteen tiny, bright spots of color decorate the Quad's green grass. The shining sun in a clear, blue sky casts shadows of tall, leafless trees onto the ground. Children clutch colorful woven baskets and plastic grocery bags that blow in the wind.
Coming off a first-place finish at the Butler Spring Invitational, Ball State University women's golf coach Katherine Mowat said the team is in a good place for its next tournament. The team will continue its season Monday in the first of a two-round tournament hosted by the University of Cincinnati.
A season of highs and lows concluded Saturday as the Ball State University gymnastics team placed fourth out of seven schools in the Mid-American Conference Championships. "Honestly, it was such a surreal feeling," coach Lisa Simonton said. "It was so amazing.
Middle attacker Ben Irwin doesn't play much, but when he plays at Worthen Arena the crowd is aware of it. Coming off the bench in game two of Saturday's match, Irwin received one of the largest reactions from the 327 people in attendance during the No. 15 Ball State University men's volleyball team's sweep against Mercyhurst College (30-22, 30-18, 30-27).
Entering a weekend series at Miami University, the Ball State University baseball team had a chance to climb above .500 for the first time all season and improve to 5-1 in the Mid-American Conference. Instead the Cardinals got swept by the Redhawks, putting them five games below .
