Two undefeated teams that have continually battled for the top spot in the Mid-American Conference will meet this weekend when Ball State University plays No. 50 Western Michigan University at home. "Definitely we are excited about the match; it is for first place in conference," coach Bill Richards said.
Along with its 9-22 record, the two glaring weaknesses for Ball State University's men's basketball team last season were a lack of perimeter shooters and size in the low post. Cardinals coach Ronny Thompson received national letters of intent Thursday from guard Rob Giles, forward Kevin Ford and forward/center Robert Martina.
Compulsive away message checkers and YouTube junkies who use class time to feed their habits are one step closer to being officially at the mercy of their professors. University Senate reworded a bill that will give professors the authority ban laptops and other electronic devices in their classrooms if President Jo Ann Gora approves it.
Trips to China. Memoirs of motherhood. The life of a former baton twirler. These are just a few of the stories that Ball State University students have written for a creative writing class that partners students with members of the Muncie community. Professor Barbara Bogue, who has been at Ball State for 14 years, started the "Writing in the Community" class in 2002.
The Ball State University School of Nursing has found an innovative way to use Mediasite recording technology and is saving the university more than $1 million. "From a technology standpoint, it's kind of an all-in-one recording studio," Brandon Campbell, technology services specialist for the School of Nursing, said.
On Tuesday the Ball State University men's tennis team fell 7-0 to No. 6 University of Notre Dame. Ball State is now 9-11 on the season. But even though the team lost, coach Bill Richards said he wasn't too upset. "It's done and over with," Richards said.
Even though coach Dave Boos has coached the women's volleyball team in a spring tournament and received commitments from two players since he came to Ball State University in January, he has not signed his contract. Boos said a typo in the contract caused him to send it back to the university, but would not say what the typo was.
One thing that first-year coaches Randy Heisler and Sunder Nix bring to the Ball State University track team is experience. The team is using this experience as it enters its outdoor season, and with both coaches being accomplished athletes, it's Nix who is leading by example, the team said.
Randy Hyman, associate dean for Student Affairs, has accepted the position of vice chancellor for Academic Support and Student Life at the University of Minnesota Duluth, according to the UMD Web site.
Indiana will become a more film-friendly state after this year, and Ball State University's award winning telecommunications programs could reap the benefits. Ball State's Department of Telecommunications was honored as the TV School of the Year on March 3, and a bill passed this year could bring in more TV talent, internships and job opportunities for students.
Scroll through the map and click on the points to see what crimes have happened on or around campus.
The addition of a new sport program could come with the new plan for compliance toward the Education Act of 1972 at Ball State University. A plan was drafted in 2001 but expired at the end of 2006. Ball State hopes to have a new five-year plan in place by the end of this summer.
The opera "53rd Street," which shows tonight and Sunday, will allow students to get a glimpse of life on the streets of New York City. The opera was composed by Jody Nagel, associate professor of music theory and composition. "53rd Street" is the story of two homeless men living on the streets of New York and their treatment by various groups of society.
Surfing in Australia, frequenting the pubs in Ireland and looking at the lights of the Eiffel Tower in France sound like a vacation, but they can also help students find a job after graduating college. Even getting hopelessly lost on the London Underground subway can show impressive problem solving skills during an interview.
It's crazy to think that another school year has gone by. I feel like I just moved into my dorm room, took the time to make my room look swank and was getting ready for another year of tough classes and new adventures. I know at the time days passed like molasses, but now that the end is in sight, you come to understand that these college days do not go on forever.
Ken Burns has his next 14-hour epic documentary, "The War," ready to air on PBS. He hopes it will eventually become the definitive record of the World War II experience once it airs in September. But Burns didn't count on hearing vocally from several Latino leaders and military veterans who argue his film fails to consider the Latino experience in the war.
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound? Everybody look what's going down. That's right; it will soon be here, that most dreaded time of the semester - finals. Even now, professors are piling it on us and we have no choice but to do the best we can to plow ahead.
Muncie police continue to search for a suspect involved in an assault that led to the arrest of a Ball State University student Friday morning at Linden Place Apartments, police said. Investigator Darrin Clark said someone pistol-whipped apartment resident Anthony Lee in the head, then fired a single shot through Lee and roommate Stephen Brandon's apartment door.
After spending countless afternoons standing in the rain, snow and freezing cold due to a construction project setting off the fire alarm, the women of Woodworth Complex are looking forward to the opening of the dining location in the Fall. The campus police as well as the local firefighters had their work cut out for them, having a fire drill at Woodworth Complex several times a week and several times a day on certain occasions, junior Kesley Hoover, Brady Hall resident assistant, said.
