With the score tied 2-2 in the eighth inning Ball State University pinch runner Brian Meyer scored the game-winning run on pitcher Chad Buchignani's wild pitch. The win over Xavier University gave the Cardinals their fourth win in the last six games. "It wasn't one of our prettiest wins by any means," designated hitter Matt Gard said.
Biographer and friend of Bob Marley speaks about the famous musician's life to students. He says Marley was more than just a musician; he was also a generous, caring man.
Wise-asses whining about the "stop hate" campaign and taking it in an absurdly literal fashion are so pathetic they aren't even worth hating. In the past few weeks, there has been some campus activism as a response to numerous incidents of racial harassment.
Sustainability is becoming more than just a buzzword on this campus - it's becoming a mission. Ball State has been in the sustainability game for years, doing everything from bringing in speakers to buying a hybrid bus. A large portion of the students, faculty and staff at this university understand that the way people are consuming resources right now will not sustain the world's population infinitely.
Ever wonder how police, firefighters and ambulances get to the places they're needed quickly in big, busy cities? In some cities, it's because they can change traffic lights to green with the push of a button. This technology is all well and good - but not when it gets in the hands of civilians.
The word "sculpture" doesn't usually bring to mind a set of bells, four projection screens and a complex network of computers and speakers. However, in a celebration of Ball State University's technological prowess, a few Ball State professors are putting up an interactive, multimedia art installation right on McKinley Avenue.
The name of the game is baseball, but the Ball State University baseball team has been doing anything but get on base in recent games. The Cardinals (19-16) have started the past four games slowly and were only able to win two. Last week, Ball State beat Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne, 17-15, after falling behind 7-0 in the first three innings.
Completely exhausting himself for the second time today at the treadmill's mercy, 21-year-old senior exercise science major Jeffrey S. Meding must check his bodily inventory to ensure his eligibility to compete in the bodybuilding competition. Off comes the white, long-sleeved shirt and navy blue sweat pants to reveal the weapons he conceals.
One of the beauties of capitalism is that, supposedly, everyone has a chance to strike it rich. Through healthy competition, product development, marketing and many other tricks of the business trade, any average citizen with The Next Great Idea and elbow grease to spare can suddenly find himself realizing his entrepreneurial dreams and making mountains of revenue.
Sarah Robbins is Intellagirl. It's a part of her identity. The pink hair, the dark glasses and the suit are all just a part of what comprises her online identity. In Second Life, an online world where people can do almost anything, the visual identity is important.
With the start of the 2005-06 men's basketball season looming around the corner, Peyton Stovall was getting that itchy feeling to get back on the court. It had been a long recovery process since the star guard of the Ball State University Cardinals had injured his Anterior Cruciate Ligament six months before.
Debt and college students are as synonymous with each other as Donald Trump and bad hair. Of recent college graduates, 50 percent have student loans, and their average debt is $10,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In fact, Americans in general are notoriously poor managers of money.
What began as a quiet discussion about a controversial 2005 Danish editorial cartoon featuring the Islamic prophet Muhammad turned into a heated debate Monday night in the Art and Journalism Building. The cartoon, which featured Muhammad with a bomb sticking out of his head, still symbolizes a European lack of respect for Muslims, some Ball State University students, faculty and Muncie residents said.
As a 20-year-old woman, I would have never expected myself to identify with a man suffering from prostate cancer. Yet, it is not difficult to draw a strong parallel between these two roles. One common approach to managing prostate cancer is called "watchful waiting.
Ball State University will debut an interactive wireless sculpture tonight at the base of Shafer Tower that will celebrate the university's technical prowess. The piece tracks wireless network users and elements such as bandwidth displaying them as images and sounds, said John Fillwalk, Ball State associate art professor.
Ball State University students can find some comfort in knowing the number of parking tickets given this academic year has decreased by 18,000 tickets. Gene Burton, director of the Ball State Department of Public Safety, said he attributed the decrease from 44,000 tickets to approximately 26,000 tickets to consistent enforcement by the parking services staff.
Dear Editor, Recently, there was a student kicked out of college for being gay. The student's sexual orientation was discovered by the college through his MySpace Web page. The college that committed this discriminating act is the University of the Cumberlands, formerly Cumberland College.
Ball State plans to start Arabic and Korean language classes because of the increasing importance of countries speaking those languages.
An article in The New Yorker by Seymour Hersh charges that the military has increased "clandestine activities" within Iran, including meeting with leaders from rebel groups and performing reconnaissance missions. The article says the Bush administration has considered using nukes against Iran, which would violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Students in a Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry seminar spent Spring Semester creating structures along the White River. The students used technology to conceptualize their structures and hope their work will draw more people to the river.
