The Ball State University speech team finished first at the Indiana State Individual Events Tournament at IUPUI. Beating out rival Indiana University, the Ball State team garnered 10 first place awards and several other awards at the contest on Saturday. Ball State senior Jason Maldonado, who won first place in the After Dinner and Poetry categories, said he was pleased with the team's performance.
The number of 20 to 74-year-olds with obesity doubled between 1980 and 2000. Medical director Kent Bullis discusses the emotional and medical health issues obesity can cause.
When I first heard about the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, I thought it was a joke. I'd heard about the fringe offshoots that claimed being thin was gravely unhealthy and that fat people were inherently better human beings than thin people.
It's been almost a month since the Ball State University men's swimming and diving teams concluded their regular season of competition with a tie against Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.-á However, the team now finds itself back in Athens, Ohio, for the Mid-American Conference Championships.
Spring Break starts this weekend, and students will spend money on everything from travelling to hotel rooms to shopping. Compare prices at local tanning salons and stores for your basic Spring Break needs.
Even though two players scored career-high point totals Wednesday night, the Ball State University men's basketball team still came up short in its final home game of the season, losing to Northern Illinois 78-73. After sharing the lead back-and-forth for the most of the game, the Cardinals couldn't hold on against the Mid-American Conference West leader in the final minutes.
If the men's basketball team wants one last shot at making noise before the conference tournament begins next week, tonight is the night to do it. Northern Illinois, which is tied for the Mid-American Conference West lead, visits Worthen Arena tonight. For Ball State University (9-16 overall, 5-11 MAC West), a win over the top team in the division would be a significant boost to the team's morale, especially following the Cardinals' 27-point loss to Toledo Sunday.
Pizza, soda and laughter filled the Theta Chi fraternity house Tuesday night as The Cardinal Movement and its supporters optimistically awaited the results of the Student Government Association election. But the laughter soon turned into a unified sigh as William Garvey, Elections Board chairman, announced on television that Team Lisec would serve as Ball State University's new SGA executives.
The Mayor's Commission for Ball State Student Relations is working to combat low attendance at this semester's meetings with stricter guidelines for membership, which will go into full force next year. The permanent meeting time is now 9 a.m. on Wednesdays, starting April 5, with meetings taking place every first and third Wednesday of the month.
Having let a 10-point lead slip away, the women's basketball team found itself tied with Northern Illinois seven minutes into the second half in Wednesday's home contest. But Ball State University responded with a 9-0 run and eventually pulled away for a 65-53 victory in the regular season finale.
The roomful of students screamed and Asher Lisec spent five minutes gasping for breath after learning Team Lisec won the Student Government Association presidential election. She will be the new SGA president. Team Lisec won the election by 67 percent, the largest margin in nine years.
Voting dropped by nearly 12 percent in this year's Student Government Association executive board election. In the 2004 election, the last time a vote took place: 4,042 students participated. Monday and Tuesday: 3,567 people cast their ballots. Currently enrolled: more than 20,000 students, counting graduate and undergraduate students.
After a blowout loss to DePaul this past weekend, the University of Cincinnati could be just what the Ball State women's tennis team needs. The Bearcats have not won a match this year, and are 0-9 on the season. The Cardinals will take off on a week-long road trip today.
On June 10, Joseph Bilello, dean of the College of Architecture and Planning, will travel to the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to be inducted into the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows. He is the third inductee in Ball State's history to receive this honor.
Have you seen the new ads for Ball State University that started running during the Olympics? President Jo Ann Gora says the university is "not about to settle for No. 2." Well, the commercials sure look like a bunch of it. A link to the ads is also on the Ball State Web site - but hopefully not for much longer.
Maybe it really is time to start going to church again - it's just so difficult sometimes to find the right one. Here's one that sounds promising: O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal (UDV). According to The Associated Press, on Feb. 21 the Supreme Court decided in a unanimous ruling that the Santa Fe, N.
I went to Muncie Gras this weekend - my bad. I should have known better. It never ends well when I let my desire to see well-kept mullets and drunken exhibitionism outweigh my desire to not die of hypothermia. I'll admit I'm not one for foresight, myself, so this could just be the frostbite talking, but I'd like to go out on a limb and propose that maybe February isn't the most appropriate month to throw an outdoor street festival in East Central Indiana.
When the pressure of athletic performance meets society's emphasis on weight, student athletes sometimes develop eating disorders, Ball State University Counseling Center interns said. Lara Preacco, doctoral intern at the Counseling Center, and Fred Campbell, masters intern at the Counseling Center, presented "Hungry to Win: Athletes and Eating Disorders," Tuesday as part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
Seven Tuskegee Airmen and two widows of Tuskegee team members received the President's Medal of Distinction on Tuesday at Emens Auditorium. The program included the presentation of medals, a luncheon with the Tuskegee Airmen, the showing of an Air Force Tuskegee documentary and an open forum for questions.
Magazine pictures of black women lined the wall as Ball State University students walked into the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Monday night to hear a presentation on body image. Liz Cassidy, Michele Garber and Lara Preacco, doctoral interns in the Counseling Center, used a PowerPoint show and a panel discussion in their presentation "Color Me Beautiful: Women of Color and Body Image" as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
