More than 90 trees, a load of oyster shells and playground equipment from several Ball State University students were enough to make children in a shrimping town half a mile from the Gulf of Mexico smile during Spring Break. But two architecture students don't plan to let their service work in Bayou La Batre, Ala.
You don't need a celebrity like Ed McMahon to get a full house at a Texas hold 'em tournament, but it doesn't hurt. McMahon made a stop at downtown Muncie's newest business, Royal Crown Hold 'Em Club, for the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday evening.
Six Ball State University students will be treated as royalty when they participate as Indianapolis 500 Festival Princesses. The Indianapolis 500 is one of the greatest spectacles in racing. Beginning in 1957, the 500 Festival occurs the day before the race and includes music, entertainment and celebration.
In January, the life of Ball State gymnast Brittany George took a drastic turn. Her mother passed away from pneumonia, eight months after her father succumbed to liver cancer. Now, George is learning how to cope with the loss.
Barry Bonds is back at spring training and ready to put more balls in the water than there are at a nude beach. Normally what goes on in professional baseball preseason games is not newsworthy unless someone gets hurt, but Bonds has had a media circus following him since he broke the single-season record for home runs five years ago.
Provost candidate Terry King said interacting with students was one of the most gratifying things he could do. While working as Kansas State University's dean for the College of Engineering, King said he also taught a class last semester. "It about killed me because I didn't have time to do it," he said.
Students need to learn how to eat healthy and there is no better time than March, which is National Nutrition Month, vice president of National Nutrition Month for the Ball State Dietetics Association said. "There are the options there," vice president and Ball State junior Rose Lehe said.
You'd think there would only be so many places on a human body that can store varying amounts of sand for more than 14 hours. Well, thanks to the never-ending foresight of the Ball State University scheduling system - which sends students on Spring Break more than two weeks before spring has officially even started - I became intimately familiar with each and every one of these places on my body while enduring the G-force winter winds of Clearwater Beach, Fla.
For children with cancer, experiences are often limited to the sterile boundaries of their hospital rooms. So for her final project, fifth-year landscape architecture student Elizabeth August designed a hypothetical therapeutic garden for juvenile cancer patients.
Fresh from sunny beaches, thousands of Ball State students returned to school this week with a collective groan. Gone is the week of lounging in the sun, enjoying exotic locales or, for some, participating in service learning projects. Even those who stayed in Muncie had a few moments of semi-warm sun to enjoy - and perhaps the pleasure of sleeping in later than usual.
Perfect scores are hard to come by in collegiate athletics, but this year five of Ball State University's sports teams scored as good as they possibly could have - in the classroom. According to the NCAA's annual Academic Progress Report, Ball State's men's golf, men's tennis, women's volleyball, cross country and gymnastics teams earned perfect 1,000s, while 16 sports scored higher than 980.
Entering the final game of its Spring Break trip around the Midwest, Ball State University's baseball team had won three of seven games, including two of its last three. Before the final game against Vermont, coach Greg Beals told his team that the game was a much-needed win.
One of the main reasons Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins wanted the top position in Ball State University's athletic department was because of the high academic standards the school has set for its student-athletes. So when the NCAA announced its second annual Academic Progress Report before Spring Break, it was clear that Ball State still had one of the best student-athlete academic programs in the nation.
An old woman sits on a park bench feeding the birds. She looks just like any other old woman. She has neat clothes, not a hair out of place on her head and expressive laugh lines surrounding her thin lips. Suddenly, you hear a cell phone ringing. It is the newest hit from that flashy rapper you know, and when you see the old woman on the park bench reach into her handbag to answer the phone, your whole viewpoint changes.
The Ball State women's indoor track and field team finished up its season at the Alex Wilson Invitational, March 3-4. Sophomore Amber Williams and Junior Terri Abraham, were the only representatives for the Cardinals at the invitational in Notre Dame. Neither was able to improve their marks, however as the indoor season wrapped up.
It is only the second day back from Spring Break, and my vision is already clouded again with the glaring dots of an unwavering Scantron sheet. As a senior, I thought this semester would be like any other - few official "midterms" would be given, and professors would instead opt for administering exams covering a large chunk of the semester's material before that wonderful week off from classes.
Beth Twitty, mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway, visited Ball State the week before Spring Break to deliver a message to students about staying safe during the week of debauchery. In the 30-minute speech she touched on: not traveling with strangers, not leaving a drink unattended and not getting in situations where you can't exercise your own free will.
The Ball State University men's golf team placed ninth out of 15 teams in Florida at the Orange County National Xavier Invitational over Spring Break. Brandon Boomsma led the Cardinals with a final-round 68 and tied for 23rd finish. Patrick Wilkes-Krier and Wayne Denger tied for 38th, while C.
The future of the MITS Loop remains uncertain, but Ball State University students will probably not see it again this semester, Student Government Association President Steve Geraci said. At a meeting with Ball State President Jo Ann Gora on Monday, Geraci said they spoke about the Loop.
