Today begins a Week of Action for Ball State University. It's a week of blood drives and cell phone collections, speakers and panel discussions, a craft night, a concert and even a poverty simulation. It's a week for students to realize they have voices and find ways to use those voices, Kathy Smith, associate director of Leadership and Service Learning, said.
A Ball State University student posed as a doctor's assistant to illegally acquire prescription drugs, state police reports. Arthur James Kistner, 21, 11329 Rolling Springs Road, Carmel, was arrested on charges of obtaining and attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud or deceit.
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The slogan around Bloomington is "IU is red hot." If that's true, at least on Sunday, it was Cardinal red that was hot.-á The No. 69 Ball State University men's tennis team demolished No. 60 Indiana 6-1 to earn their seventh straight victory and third consecutive win against a ranked opponent.
Jack Shepler got his start in rock journalism at an early age. As an eighth-grader, he ran a Geocities-hosted music Web site called FreakCentral.com, which featured album reviews of Christian rock bands. Today, Shepler is the editor, web developer and main promoter for rockmusicreview.
The IPFW Mastodons started the match off strong and the Cardinals were unable to recover in a 3-1 defeat.
With targets on their backs, Ball State University is now on the wrong side hunting season.-áAs the only undefeated team in the nation, the Cardinals have a bull's eye on their back. The No. 8 men's volleyball team has a tough road weekend ahead of them starting in Fort Wayne as they battle IPFW.
Dear Editor, One Saturday night, while taking a walk down McKinley Avenue with my friend, I saw a car full of drunk girls speed by. "Hey fat-ass baby," one screamed out the window. I have heard comments like this many times before, and not a week goes by without some idiot yelling out his window to "Go to Weight Watchers" or something equally demeaning - but it still hurts every time.
Ball State University opens its 2006 baseball season with a trip to the south to play Alabama-Birmingham for the third meeting between the two teams. The Cardinals swept the series last year, 3-0, but the overall series is tied at three games a piece. The sweep should serve as extra motivation for UAB," Ball State coach Greg Beals said.
A Ball State University graduate student running for a seat on the Delaware County Council hopes to bring in young blood and fresh perspectives. Christopher Flook, 25, is running for the District 2 seat, which includes part of Yorktown where he grew up. He is a graduate student in the digital story telling program and received his undergraduate in telecommunications from Ball State in 2003.
Too many students are unaware about women's issues that affect people across the globe, Maude Jennings, assistant professor in English and Women's Studies, said. To help shed light on issues ranging from abuse to abortion, Jennings will facilitate a Brown Bag discussion today as part of Vagina-Friendly Week.
WASHINGTON- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito joined colleagues in the courtroom for the first time Thursday, just for show, before the real work begins next week on issues including abortion, presidential wartime powers and the environment. Less than a handful will likely be picked for oral arguments.
The No. 69 Ball State men's tennis team will be playing two tough in-state matches this weekend. Today, the Cardinals (7-3) travel to Purdue (4-2), which comes into the contest ranked No. 71. The Boilermakers are coming off two straight defeats at the hands of Notre Dame and Western Michigan.
As the regular season winds down and with the conference tournament around the corner, the women's basketball team is looking for a strong finish. Ball State University has four games remaining before the Mid-American Conference Tournament, and has a goal to win all four.
A former Muncie resident wrote and directed a parody of Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday" featuring Muncie. "Garfield" creator Jim Davis appears in the video. In a DN exclusive, meet the man behind the rap and read the lyrics with selected translations.
With four games remaining in the Mid-American Conference season for the men's basketball team, Ball State takes a break from conference play to participate in an ESPN Bracket Buster game on Saturday. For the fourth-straight season, Ball State will be one of 100 schools across the country competing in the annual event.
I'm not expecting this to get fixed any time soon - not with a federal government that looks for nonexistent weapons, "defends" the United States by sending the National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan instead of to our own flooded backyard and continues letting soldiers blow up over something that isn't making a large-scale difference so we don't "show weakness" or "hurt morale.
Fourteen open mic performances allowed students and V-Week participants to showcase their talents Thursday Night at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Talley. This was the first time an open mic night has taken place for Vagina-Friendly Week, said Susan Atkinson, the event coordinator who has hosted four other events this week.
In terms of economics, the amount of jobs in a region usually is a good indicator of the strength of that region's economy. If that's true, Delaware County was given the indication of a major upward swing in the local economy this week. Education loan company Sallie Mae announced that it plans to open a "debt-management center" in Muncie.
Ball State University's women's indoor track and field team is anxious but ready for the Mid-American Conference indoor championships, their final regular season test. The Cardinals compete in the Ball State Triangular, with field events kicking off at 4 p.
