Ball State football games will be heard in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne radio markets. Muncie's WLBC will simulcast its broadcasts for home and away games on ESPN affiliates.
With 10 returning players and a strong incoming class, including a freshman from Brazil, the women's volleyball team has the tools to get the job done this season, its coach said. "This team is going to be very difficult to handle because we're so interchangeable," coach Randy Litchfield said.
A federal judge struck down President Bush's wiretaps as being unconstitutional last Thursday. In doing so, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor has taken a large bite into the resources this country has to defend itself. We need every possible resource to keep this country safe from those who wish us harm.
I want to offer an insider's look at some of the fun things to do in Muncie. New residents may have vague ideas as to what your new city offers. Being a native of Muncie, new students and residents often ask if there "are any exciting and fun things to do in Muncie?" I respond with an emphatic, "No!" One can only go bowling so many times, and frequent late night trips to Taco Bell can annihilate an individual's belief in God.
Students and community leaders share information on national and local health care issues at the intersection of McKinley and Riverside avenues Tuesday afternoon. The rally was one of many held nationwide for a day of health care activism.
The prospects of having a wicked movie about snakes on a plane might not have done as well as predicted. Now, the cult movie that was to make $100 million will have to stay a cult movie. While many movies are defined by single scenes, we now live in the age of one-line movies.
It appears linebacker Brad Seiss will return to the Ball State University football team fairly soon, possibly as early as two weeks from now. The senior, who tore ligaments in his knee during spring practice, was originally expected to miss the season. After rigorous rehabilitation during the summer, there was talk that Seiss could be back for the Sept.
Despite a fall and a bruise, freshman Ashley Martin finds the first day of classes not as challenging, and looks forward to learning more at Ball State.
Conventional wisdom states it's beneficial to start off any sports season on a positive note. This belief especially rings true when a new coach comes to a program that had one of the best seasons in the Mid-American Conference during the 2005 campaign. So, while Saturday's pre-season women's soccer match against IUPUI didn't count as an official game, the 4-0 victory certainly wasn't meaningless.
A Ball State senior worked with local firefighters Saturday to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Boot Drive.
In the interest of not breaking the (financial) books, the university has put the lights out on the experimental 24-hour operating times for Bracken Library. The reasoning is clear in the statistics. The number of students in and out of the library was not high enough to warrant extended hours.
Seniors Graham Watson, founder of TheMuncieScene.com, and Jack Shepler, founder of RockMusicReview.com, sponsored a stage at the largest music convention in Indianapolis. About half of the bands that performed at their stage were from Muncie.
University Police made 18 arrests the weekend before classes start, but was slightly more lenient than they will be on future weekends.
So, you want to ditch Governor Mitch Daniels, eh? After all, you hate switching your clock to a new time zone and are even more outraged that he would "sell" the toll road to foreigners. The lines are a bit longer at the BMV and you really miss that rest stop they took down on Interstate-69.
I have a pile. It's random stuff, really: loose pieces of paper, photographs, a few books and odd assortments of half-created to-do lists. Notice I said "half-created" and not "half-finished." There's a difference there. It's called optimism and a bit of a self-esteem problem.
While numbers are not official, Ball State's freshman enrollment for the Fall Semester is up about 280 students from last year.
Ball State is staking its claim in Indianapolis by moving the Indianapolis Center downtown and expanding the programs offered there.
Most of senior Ben Dewhurst's first day of the Fall Semester is spent working, with classes being relaxed and not a large concern.
President Jo Ann Gora and Ball State alumnus Jim Davis, creator of the Garfield cartoon, welcomed freshman to campus at convocation on Sunday.
Bracken Library will not provide 24-hour services to students after administrators found the numbers from a test last spring too low to justify keeping the library open the extended hours.
