As the Munsee Lanes manager feared, the Delaware County smoking ban has lost him many of the customers at his bowling alley and his business is suffering. "We have estimated 30 percent decrease of the revenue since July 15," Marshal Willis said. Willis bought the alley in 1986, and since then approximately 75 percent of his customers have been smoking in there, he estimated.
Legend has it that Halloween began as a druid holiday in order to keep the evil spirits and demons at bay. And it is said that people would wear masks or other disguises and sometimes even blacken their faces to try and pass unnoticed by the spirits that would come visiting on the day of the Celtic festival of "Samhain," marking the first day of winter and the start of the Celtic New Year.
In a season that has had few bright spots, the Ball State University defense hit a low Saturday afternoon against Western Michigan University. The Cardinals gave up 457 yards of total offense, which is nothing new for a defense that gave up 462.3 yards per game entering Homecoming.
For the second time this season, Ball State University's soccer team is stringing together an impressive winning streak. The Cardinals, fresh off a 1-0 victory Friday at Northern Illinois University, won their third straight match Sunday afternoon at Western Michigan University, 3-0.
The Ball State University men's tennis team played well this weekend but had some tough breaks, coach Bill Richards said. The Cardinals competed at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. to finish the fall season.
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The pop-culture look of ultra-thin bodies may finally be going out of style. According to BBC News the weight debate began when Madrid fashion week announced a ban on runway models with a BMI - a calculation based on height and weight - of less than 18. The concern for this may have been prompted by the death of a 22-year-old Uruguayan model who collapsed after a catwalk show.
Hundreds of police officers, nuns, zombies and other strange characters ran down Riverside Avenue Friday afternoon pushing wheeled beds while students watched. Find out who won the 26th annual Homecoming Bed Race.
The future is finally here. Not today's future, but the one from about 8 years ago. It was at that point everyone started announcing the Internet was the wave of the future and we would be able to do everything we would ever want in this brand-new and exciting way.
For the past 15 years October 23 has been recognized and celebrated as National Mole Day - not to celebrate the furry ground-dwelling creature, but to pay homage to chemistry. Mole Day began as a way to create interest in chemistry and to celebrate Avogadro's Number, a unit of measurement in chemistry, according to the National Mole Day Foundation's Web site.
Shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday a trash fire occurred at 1515 W. Riverside Ave., Jim Clevenger, battalion chief for the Muncie Fire Department, said. A dumpster in the alley behind the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was intentionally lit on fire by unknown individuals, Clevenger said.
Ask most Ball State University students, and they'll say that the food on campus isn't exactly fine dining. In fact, they'll probably say it's far from it. However, at the Allegre Restaurant, in the Applied Technology Building Room 167, students have offered fine dining for 15 years.
Nov. 7 is just a few weeks away. We will finally be rid of the political ads that have been overwhelming us on television and radio, for a short while at least. We just have to do our research to decide which candidates best represent our views and ideals.
Check out a list of winners from Ball State University's Homecoming events.
The Ball State University women's tennis team concluded its fall season with both positive results and areas of weakness to improve on next spring. The Cardinals competed at the University of Memphis Lady Tiger Invitational this past weekend and yielded results much like the rest of the fall.
In the standing room only audience surrounded by warm wood tones and glistening pipes of the organ above the stage, the Sursa Family Concert Organ was inaugurated in a concert performed in the David and Mary Jane Sursa Concert Hall. James David Christie, international organist, performed the bulk of the concert while Ann Sursa Carney, daughter of the benefactors, David and Mary Jane Sursa, performed solo on one piece and in a duet with Christie on another.
Although state funded, Ball State University could not function without the generosity of individuals across the country. While Ball State provides students' education, much of the extra and co-curricular enrichment is a result of the money given by alumni and benefactors.
Goalkeeper Caroline Lehman had a career-high 15 saves, but the Ball State University field hockey team needed her to make one more. The Cardinals lost their final home game of the season to Miami [OH] University in overtime, 1-0. Miami's Danielle Perrecone scored the game's lone goal less than four minutes into the first overtime session after her shot deflected off Ball State forward Carla Chiampi and went into the back of the cage.
To help the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, more than 200 Ball State University students will write letters to family members and friends tonight asking them to donate money. The Ball State's Up 'til Dawn organization is having the letter-writing event from 7 p.
Ball State University's athletic department was one man in the beginning. Paul Billy Williams, who founded the athletics department in 1921 and served as athletic director until 1958, did it all, including coaching all five sports of football, basketball, baseball, track and tennis one year.
