The Ball State University baseball team finished the regular season Saturday with a loss to Central Michigan University but ended the season on a high note winning 12 of the final 14 games. -á The Cardinals will have the No. 3 seed in the Mid-American Conference tournament and will take on the No.
The Ball State University baseball team went into this weekend's series against Central Michigan University with a chance to win the Mid-American Conference West division, but that title went to the Chippewas as they took two of the three games in the series.
Two Ball State University students are in the running for a Student Academy Award, following in the footsteps of a fellow telecommunications student. Travis Hatfield and Samuel Day, both telecommunications students, will travel to Los Angeles on June 10 to find out if their short film "Perspective" will win either a gold or silver Student Academy Award in the alternative film category.
Ball State University students staying home for the summer can now take classes as if they were still on campus thanks to new technology. The School of Extended Education, the Teleplex and the Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement have joined to offer a different form of Internet classes using Mediasite.
President Bush announced recently that he is sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. The troops are not there as part of a militarization of the border, but rather to help train Border Patrol agents, help erect fences, analyze intelligence, operate surveillance systems and perform other tasks to assist the border patrol officers.
Telephones have long been a way to get help in an emergency. All anyone has to do is pick up the phone and dial 911 and help will soon be on the way. Unfortunately, if you decide to subscribe Vonage and make phone calls via the Internet, getting help might not be so easy.
Ball State University Internet access, Web sites and Webmail will be unavailable from midnight Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday. University Computing Services must shut these services down to complete an infrastructure upgrade in its system.
More high school graduates are coming to college without the basic skills they need, according to an Indiana University study. Each year, more college students are signing up for remedial classes - basic-skills courses designed to help prepare students to succeed at the level required by most college classes.
Everyone has a class with subject matter that just doesn't click. Ball State University offers resources to give students the boost they need through whatever course that might be. The university does not, however, offer students an easy way through. A recent study conducted by Indiana University showed more college freshmen are entering college without the skills they need to succeed.
Summer blockbusters are like supernovas: They explode onto the scene, burn brightly, then fade away before anyone notices they're gone. The summer 2006 schedule includes the return of familiar faces, but will the heroes of the 2006 season outlast their week-by-week 2005 counterparts? Only time will tell.
As cars wait the 20 seconds for the Scramble Light to change, chances are not even 20 people pass through the intersection. During the second week of May, Ball State University's campus could have been confused for a ghost town - deserted save for the contracted construction crews and the occasional jogger.
The Ball State University baseball team enters Thursday's three-game series with a chance to win the Mid-American Conference West division. The Cardinals play Central Michigan University at 3 p.m. on Thursday, and 1 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. The winner of the three-game series will be crowned MAC West champion.
As cars wait the 20 seconds for the Scramble Light to change, chances are not even 20 people pass through the intersection. During the second week of May, Ball State University's campus could have been confused for a ghost town - deserted save for the contracted construction crews and the occasional jogger.
I sent my iBook to the Apple doctor a few days ago. It was sad to see him shipped off in the brown box the UPS man gave me, but he needed to be fixed - thanks to the nitwits working airport security at the Air Canada terminal in Toronto. I had an amazing week in Toronto, where I met tons of people only familiar to me through the Internet.
It's ironic that for an administration that has been defined by its divisiveness and willingness to play partisan politics, its watershed moment - at least domestically speaking - has come on an issue that hasn't been split along party lines. The immigration debate is like a maze: Navigating it requires a sharp mind and a high tolerance for political spin.
With one scholarship filled and five to go, Ball State University men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson had a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. With so little time left in the recruiting season, there was not much talent left still unsigned. But Thompson filled four of those slots with guys who he thinks can contribute right away.
With the arrival of summer, many students have taken long-awaited trips abroad or to big cities such as Indianapolis and Chicago. Meanwhile, some students remain in Muncie for summer classes, work or internships. But Muncie isn't the middle of nowhere and the town offers a wide variety of entertainment opportunities.
The first week of construction on Ball State University's campus went a little slower than expected, Jim Lowe, director of engineering and operations, said. "Mother nature wasn't good to us," he said. Despite the rain, construction for phase two of the McKinley project, as well as several other projects, began last week.
Construction on Woodworth Commons, Woodworth Complex's dining hall, is slated to begin this summer, ultimately creating new dining choices and removing stress from existing facilities, Jonathan Lewis, director of Dining Services, said. "[Woodworth] was dated and needed an upgrade," Lewis said.
