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'The Magic School Bus' remake and how to cater to millennials 101

Just give us an opportunity to relive our childhoods and escape the world we were raised in for a few hours and we’re good to go. And studios everywhere have picked up on this: that the most appealing element to millennials when it comes to the media we consume is nostalgia. 



Stephanie Amador

Cafe con Leche: DACA is the American Dream

It was 6:30 am on Monday.  Following my natural habit, I pulled my phone out and snoozed the alarm. Since I was already up, I looked on social media. I started scrolling down videos on Facebook and then I jumped on to my newsletter app. 


Demi Lawrence

Demi's Diems: Way Up High, Way Up Front

Denver, Colorado.  Upon first thought, the Mile High City doesn’t seem like a place where a five-day Christian church conference would be held. Yet, there I found myself for exactly that event this past June.



IUPUI student and Latino community leader Maria Chavez sheds tears while giving a speech at the DACA rally on Sept. 8 at the Beneficence statue on Ball State's campus. The Indianapolis resident talks about her education and the fear, “All of it might be taken away.” Grace Hollars, DN

Students protest DACA at Beneficence

A crowd of about 40 students and faculty gathered today at Ball State's landmark beneficence statue to protest the Trump administration's decision to rescind DACA. 



David Ober worked in the Department of Physics and Astronomy for 39 years, spending 16 of those years as the department chairperson. Photo provided

Chairperson Emeritus dies

On Thursday, the university sent out an email informing students that David Ober, former chairperson emeritus, died Wednesday. 


Conor McGregor works out at UFC Performance Institute on Aug. 11, 2017 in Las Vegas. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

The reality of kicking butt: media vs real martial arts

Martial arts is a term synonymous with combat and spirituality that every person has heard about through one media source or another. Often the arts are portrayed in movies, anime and art as a path to enlightenment and supernatural abilities. However, while the former is true to a degree unfortunately there is no way for a person to fly or shoot Kamehameha waves from their hands.