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Ball State University's Housing and Residence Life is looking for ways to retain more juniors in the residence halls. Alan Hargrave, director of Housing and Residence Life, said research suggests that sophomores have special needs,. If sophomores have a good experience on campus, then housing will be doing its job, and students will be more likely to stay on campus, Hargrave said.
Housing and Residence Life wants to keep more juniors and seniors living on campus. If it wants to do that, officials need to look at reasons why - other than price - students live off campus. In a market with "luxury living," competition is stiff. Money is an obvious factor.
The saying goes something like this: If you have two quarterbacks and can't decide on one, you really have zero quarterbacks. Welcome to Ball State University's current situation. In the past two games, both senior Joey Lynch and freshman Nate Davis have received substantial playing time with mixed results.
Ball State University is one of 80 colleges and universities participating in an initiative to get more college students registered to vote. -á The Young Voter Strategies Project and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities are working together to coordinate the project for Ball State and the other universities.
A lot has changed in the two years since Ball State University and Purdue University last played. It was Joey Lynch's first career start on the road and second overall. Purdue was starting a fifth-year senior at quarterback, Kyle Orton. It was a Purdue team that would be ranked fifth in the nation at one point in the season.
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I've observed a few new aspects to Ball State University, and it hasn't been limited to the construction progress on the Communication and Media Building or the East Residence Park Hall. I've seen an individual in a wheelchair accompanied by a service dog, an individual guiding himself down McKinley Avenue with the help of a walking stick and a person being led by a guide dog.
While summer internships and graduation may seem far away for many students, Ball State University's Career Center is already bringing companies to campus to interview, and possibly hire, students. The Career Center is holding the annual Fall Career Fair in Worthen Arena from 10 a.
Two things are for sure right now in the world of individual sports: Tiger Woods never loses a major on the final day of play, and Roger Federer not only owns men's tennis, but he may soon break all the records the illustrious sport has ever had. Look out Rod Laver and Pete Sampras! Apparently, there is no real chink in Roger Federer's armor, other than maybe Rafa on clay.
The 15-minute walk from Carmichael Hall to North Quad may not seem so far to Ball State University students when compared to the 613 miles Branko Kolarevic, 43, travels to work as a distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Architecture. Kolarevic pays thousands of dollars a semester to fly between Indianapolis and Philadelphia weekly to teach architecture and digital design classes.
Bygones Bar and Grill had both a weekend-sized crowd and protesters Tuesday night because Girls Gone Wild's search for America's Wildest Bar bus tour was in town. Ten to 15 Muncie residents from three churches stood on the sidewalk outside Bygones to protest Girls Gone Wild being in the city.
It takes 158 pieces of glass, eight light bulbs, two people placing the glass and a crew of electricians to bring a new piece of artwork to Ball State University's campus. After two years of preparation, a 23-foot-tall by 40-foot-wide lightpainting is installed in the lobby of the Music Instruction Building at the corner of McKinley and Riverside avenues.
So far this season the Ball State University soccer team has handled everything thrown at them. En route to a 3-1-2 record, the Cardinals have contended with a daunting season-opening road trip, an hour-and-a-half lightning delay in their home opener and the challenge of beating a Big Ten foe on the road.
Tragedy is something our society tries to escape and ignore. As Americans we believe we are impervious to disaster. We too often ignore misfortune as a part of reality. We erroneously believe that human suffering happens only in the third world. No tsunamis here; our government will protect us, right? It can't happen here, television says so and helps us to ignore.
It has been a rough start to the season for the Ball State University football team's defense. After giving up nearly 460 yards per game last year, the Cardinals vowed this year's defense would be much improved. While they have held both Eastern Michigan University and Indiana University under that mark, it hasn't been pretty.
To protest Facebook's addition of news feeds last week, students across the country turned to the one medium they knew best for large-scale communication and networking. Facebook. To voice their opinions, users logged on to the same site they were protesting.
The atmosphere of this past weekend was something Ball State University desperately needed. The past couple of years, there seems to have been a lack of Cardinal pride on campus. Though this year has been considerably better, something has always been missing from Ball State.
We live in a society where perfection seems to be more important than character, integrity or originality. This competitive spirit that resides in us sometimes means clawing out the eyes of our competitors, hiring hit men to get to the top or turning our backs on friendship; and many of us can't get that fire in our bodies to do so.
A Burris Laboratory School teacher arrived at work early, at 6:30 a.m. Monday, to find the school dark and without power and called the police. Ball State University police responded to the call and discovered the electrical room in Burris had been vandalized overnight, causing the school to lose power.
