Dear Editor, One Saturday night, while taking a walk down McKinley Avenue with my friend, I saw a car full of drunk girls speed by. "Hey fat-ass baby," one screamed out the window. I have heard comments like this many times before, and not a week goes by without some idiot yelling out his window to "Go to Weight Watchers" or something equally demeaning - but it still hurts every time.
Ball State University opens its 2006 baseball season with a trip to the south to play Alabama-Birmingham for the third meeting between the two teams. The Cardinals swept the series last year, 3-0, but the overall series is tied at three games a piece. The sweep should serve as extra motivation for UAB," Ball State coach Greg Beals said.
A Ball State University graduate student running for a seat on the Delaware County Council hopes to bring in young blood and fresh perspectives. Christopher Flook, 25, is running for the District 2 seat, which includes part of Yorktown where he grew up. He is a graduate student in the digital story telling program and received his undergraduate in telecommunications from Ball State in 2003.
Too many students are unaware about women's issues that affect people across the globe, Maude Jennings, assistant professor in English and Women's Studies, said. To help shed light on issues ranging from abuse to abortion, Jennings will facilitate a Brown Bag discussion today as part of Vagina-Friendly Week.
WASHINGTON- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito joined colleagues in the courtroom for the first time Thursday, just for show, before the real work begins next week on issues including abortion, presidential wartime powers and the environment. Less than a handful will likely be picked for oral arguments.
The No. 69 Ball State men's tennis team will be playing two tough in-state matches this weekend. Today, the Cardinals (7-3) travel to Purdue (4-2), which comes into the contest ranked No. 71. The Boilermakers are coming off two straight defeats at the hands of Notre Dame and Western Michigan.
As the regular season winds down and with the conference tournament around the corner, the women's basketball team is looking for a strong finish. Ball State University has four games remaining before the Mid-American Conference Tournament, and has a goal to win all four.
A former Muncie resident wrote and directed a parody of Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday" featuring Muncie. "Garfield" creator Jim Davis appears in the video. In a DN exclusive, meet the man behind the rap and read the lyrics with selected translations.
With four games remaining in the Mid-American Conference season for the men's basketball team, Ball State takes a break from conference play to participate in an ESPN Bracket Buster game on Saturday. For the fourth-straight season, Ball State will be one of 100 schools across the country competing in the annual event.
I'm not expecting this to get fixed any time soon - not with a federal government that looks for nonexistent weapons, "defends" the United States by sending the National Guard to Iraq and Afghanistan instead of to our own flooded backyard and continues letting soldiers blow up over something that isn't making a large-scale difference so we don't "show weakness" or "hurt morale.
Fourteen open mic performances allowed students and V-Week participants to showcase their talents Thursday Night at the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Talley. This was the first time an open mic night has taken place for Vagina-Friendly Week, said Susan Atkinson, the event coordinator who has hosted four other events this week.
In terms of economics, the amount of jobs in a region usually is a good indicator of the strength of that region's economy. If that's true, Delaware County was given the indication of a major upward swing in the local economy this week. Education loan company Sallie Mae announced that it plans to open a "debt-management center" in Muncie.
Ball State University's women's indoor track and field team is anxious but ready for the Mid-American Conference indoor championships, their final regular season test. The Cardinals compete in the Ball State Triangular, with field events kicking off at 4 p.
When 24 ice bags were needed for the 10 gymnasts at practice Tuesday, the team realized that mid-season had arrived. Coach Lisa Simonton recognized it was time to modify the week's schedule in preparation for Sunday's meet with Central Michigan. After Tuesday's practice she changed Thursday's practice from four hours of gymnastics to one hour of conditioning.
Competing views on levels of experience, number of platform issues and efforts to draw student involvement put the two Student Government Association slates at odds during Thursday night's president-vice president slate debate. Asher Lisec, presidential candidate for Team Lisec, emphasized her team's combined experience in 10 Student Senate committees and caucuses and their authoring of nine pieces of legislation while sponsoring more than 20 in SGA.
At Thursday's first debate of the election season, T-shirt-wearing campaign supporters of the two Student Government Association slates took their seats, like die-hard fans filing in on opposite sides of a stadium to watch the Heavyweight Championship of the World.
"The Vagina Monologues" allowed Ball State women to relay the personal accounts of others, focusing on topics the general public often considers "taboo." Find out why some of the students decided to participate in the show and the stories they relayed to the public.
When Ball State University baseball coach Greg Beals looks at his 2006 scorecard, one word comes to mind: Experience.-á A potent Ball State offense that led the Mid-American Conference in team batting average in 2005 returns almost entirely intact for the 2006 baseball season.
When Steve Geraci's Student Government Association slate promised students a campus music server as part of its platform, the slate members probably weren't thinking the downloading service would be entirely free to students. Free to join. Free to download.
Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the Feb. 9 Daily News article "SGA Removes Election Board." My understanding is that William Garvey was entrusted with the responsibility to compile a board to oversee the upcoming Student Senate elections at Ball State University.
