With Valentine's Day approaching, those couples in long-distance relationships find themselves in a difficult situation. However, the availability of technology such as cell phones, instant messaging and e-mails has allowed students to continue dating despite not being able to see one another very often.
Seven Georgia and six Indiana seniors were among the 22 football recruits announced as members of the 2006 Ball State University football class.-á Fourteen recruits will play on the defensive side of the ball. The Cardinals also picked up players from Ohio (three), Florida (two) and one apiece from Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Former Ball State University student Joshua Springer, 19, 2512 E. 27th St. was arrested for 10 counts of burglary for breaking into several rooms in Studebaker West Complex. Springer was found with items including iPods, books, a calculator, a watch and cash.
I was enjoying the game from my front-row seat in The Nest Saturday with the rest of the crazed basketball fans. It was a close game against Bowling Green, and at one point, we were down by nine. We kept cheering for the players hoping they would somehow come back from their rut.
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will have a tough weekend of competition, where a home pool advantage may be the deciding factor. "We swim well on the road, but we also swim well in our own pool," co-coach Bob Thomas said. "Other teams tend to struggle a little bit in our pool and hopefully that'll be the case on Friday.
With mission names like Challenger, Discovery and Expedition, it's no question where NASA has its eyes set: future accomplishments, not the past. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, U.S. space activities were always to be conducted, at least in part, for "the expansion of human knowledge of Earth and of phenomena in the atmosphere and space.
After revisiting some mistakes from last weekend, the Ball State University gymnastics team made some upgrades to their routines. Specifically, they took part of their practice on Monday to make improvements on the bars, beam and floor. Coach Lisa Simonton said these errors were made from the gymnasts feeling good about their routines and letting up at the end.
How many of the 16.7 million college students in the United States (as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau) have ever watched an entire season of a television show in one sitting? Probably more than will admit to it. College students have turned time wasting into an art form.
OXFORD, Ohio -A furious late rally almost allowed Ball State University to escape with a come-from-behind road victory on Wednesday. But two free throws by Miami's (Ohio) Eve Pyle with two seconds left gave the RedHawks a 66-65 win. "It was too late by the time we started to compete," coach Tracy Roller said.
Work on an expansion of the recreation facilities at Ball State University could move from the conceptual stage to the design stage if approved by the state legislature. To increase the likelihood of the project receiving state approval, Student Government Association is proposing legislation supporting the expansions.
Graduate student Tianyi Zhang remembers growing up in Beijing and ringing in the Chinese New Year with fireworks, Chinese lanterns and dumplings her family made together. She looks forward to getting a taste of the memories Sunday when Ball State University's Chinese Student Association prepares dumplings to ring in the "Year of the Dog" during its Chinese New Year celebration.
It started happening before you were even born - growing, changing and intensifying. You heard the youthful screaming voices of independence. You might not have even been aware of all the changes happening to turn that primitive, crawling caterpillar into the blossoming, floating butterfly it was to become.
The Center for International Programs is offering students a chance to immerse themselves in European culture for a semester. European Studies Center at Toulouse, France hopes to welcome students into its new program as early as the Fall 2006 semester. Jim Coffin, director of International Programs at Ball State University, is the on-campus coordinator of the Toulouse project, located in the southwest part of France.
Recruiting plays a major role in developing and building a football program. Ball State University uses a complex recruiting process to find potential players. The Cardinals will announce their 2006 recruiting class on Wednesday.
The Ball State University men's tennis team will find out how they measure up against one of the best teams in the country this weekend. The Cardinals (2-2) will be traveling to Champaign, Ill., for a match against the University of Illinois on Saturday.
The sweat from the players drips onto the floor of the gymnasium as the sound of a whistle echoes. The competition is thick as the players seek every possibility to steal the ball and weave around their opponents toward the goal. These athletes love the game, the competition and the feeling of being part of a team; the only thing that sets them apart from able-bodied athletes is that all of them are competing from the seats of their power wheelchairs.-á
It's the day before a weekend of back-to-back men's volleyball matches and head coach Joel Walton's squad has been forced to practice in a different venue. Normally practicing in Worthen Arena, the Cardinals are now in Irving Gym because the Harlem Globetrotters took to the hardwood for Thursday night's show.
Twenty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle blew apart in the sky, terrifying witnesses and shocking the astronauts' families. The Challenger mission featured the premiere of the Teacher in Space Project. Commander Dick Scobee, pilot Mike Smith and astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Ron McNair and Greg Jarvis joined Christa McAuliffe, New Hampshire high school teacher, on the 1986 mission.
The last home meet for the 2005-06 Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving season will bring the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis teams to Lewellen Aquatic Center for a rematch between the two schools. "We definitely want to finish up at home with a win," co-coach Bob Thomas said.
In junior and senior high schools today, there are reputable elective courses that are being seen as both fun and educational. Art and music are the cream of the crop when looking at those entertaining classes in which a gift can be explored and nourished amid long hard days ridden with math and science homework.
