Erica Cotton's confidence is at an all-time high. Cotton has scored a career-high 17 points in each of the last two games and has recently emerged as a scoring threat for the women's basketball team. "I've just been playing with a lot of confidence," Cotton said.
It was back to basics this week for Ball State University's women's tennis team. After getting shellacked by Kansas 7-0, Coach Kathy Bull wanted her team to work on two facets of their game in particular. "We had to get consistent with deep ground strokes," Bull said.
KALAMAZOO, Mich.-¡-For the first time in 23 games, junior Skip Mills failed to score in the double-digits and his teammates couldn't seem to help him out. Western Michigan's stifling defense not only held Mills in check Thursday night but also caused Ball State to play impatiently, forcing them to take bad shots consistently during the Broncos' 68-59 win.
When sophomore Kalee Waltemath couldn't find her car keys last week, she didn't panic about missing class. Instead, she just downloaded the lecture notes off the Internet. Programs like Blackboard are making it easier for professors to post class notes online so that students can download them to supplement classroom instruction.
Ball State University's self-proclaimed "premiere comedy troupe" welcomes change. With a new style, new venue, new member and new Web site to their credit, Abso, formerly known as Absolunacy, will present their revamped brand of long-form improv comedy this Saturday in the Ball State Museum of Art room 217.
The grade point averages of Ball State University's fraternities for Fall Semester were higher than they've been in more than 10 years, according to a report by the Interfraternity Council. "It definitely shows improvement," Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity President Matt Heffernan said Tuesday, "and I can only see it getting better because the houses are doing a lot internally to advocate grades much more.
Julie DeMuth led four Ball State University players in double-figures with 18 points as the Cardinals beat Ohio on the road Tuesday, 80-63. DeMuth grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and played 32 minutes despite drawing four fouls. It was her seventh double-double of the season.
The Delaware County Board of Health voted unanimously Monday night to recommend a public smoking ban to county commissioners - bringing Muncie a step closer to becoming smoke free. "It was what I was hoping for," Tom Bennington, president of the three-member board of commissioners, said after more than an hour of suggestions were made to amend parts of the ordinance.
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Two separate incidents in which Ball State students were harassed by unknown people in vehicles near campus were reported at the Student Government Association meeting Wednesday. The problems were raised when Senator Josh Daugherty presented a letter from sophomore Katie Milligan detailing a situation she experienced before Winter Break.
As an English major, I have never considered the subject of math to be one of my strong suits. I experience the same kind of awe-struck dumbfoundedness when someone converts a decimal into a fraction that most would reserve for slightly more grandiose achievements, such as the invention of cloning or the unfathomable way in which Paris Hilton continues to get acting work.
Since Facebook.com was introduced to Ball State University more than a year ago, thousands of students have been sending messages, expanding their network of friends and posting personal information online. In fact, the Web site has grown so popular, it is now the ninth most trafficked site on the Internet.
With the second half of the conference season beginning tonight at Northern Illinois, the Cardinals are reviewing what has worked and what hasn't through their first nine Mid-American Conference games. Ball State University has won only three of the nine MAC games and has yet to pull out a victory on the road.
With the emergence of Ball State University's young freshmen in the past two games, coach Tim Buckley is getting scores from players other than scoring leader Skip Mills for the first time this year. Getting those freshmen, such as Landon Adler and Jalon Perryman, to begin playing with some consistency has been a long process for the Cardinals this season.
The largest-ever cut to student loans comes before the U.S. House of Representatives today. If passed, the bill will increase the upper limit for student loans but will cut $12.7 billion in federal student aid while increasing interest rates. The bill passed in the Senate 51-50 - with the deciding vote cast by Vice President Dick Cheney - and it's been endorsed by the president as well as congressional Republicans, who currently command the House majority.
Ball State University senior Brian Bell plans to turn his entrepreneurship project into a university-wide Spring Break relief effort more than 800 miles away. But Bell and four other entrepreneurship students are looking for at least 35 students who are willing to help small businesses in Hancock County, Miss.
Lately, I find myself completely uninterested in the world of politics. This is probably partially due to the fact that midterm elections are not for another nine months, so it's just not a very politically-charged time. But I think my disinterest is mostly because political debate as we used to know it has devolved into a mud-slinging marathon - where everyone is reaching for the same material to volley toward the other side.
The Ball State University football team has added another opponent to its non-conference schedule for 2007. The Cardinals will travel to Lincoln, Neb., to take on the University of Nebraska on Sept. 22, 2007. This is the second non-conference game Ball State has scheduled for 2007.
There's now an intense battle going on at our Statehouse. Often incendiary volleys are now being exchanged between the supporters and opponents of Senate Bill 245 - the "Telecommunications Reform" legislation on its way to the Indiana House. Many of the attacks on the legislation target the small stuff, such as arguing that some local telephone rates of a relatively tiny number of customers could go up a bit.
It's generally a pretty good axiom that one should not rejoice in the sufferings and misfortunes of others. That's especially hard to do, though, when the one who's fallen face-first is someone - or in this case, something - you've been longing to see get its comeuppance.
