Sophomore theater major Laurel Hill sits alone at a table. The dim lights cast a warm glow on the olive-green cash box before her. A tall girl in a black coat bounds up to the table. "Would you like to make a donation?" Hill asks her. Hill is one of the volunteers for Thursday night's performance of "In Darfur" in the Cooper Science Building. She is collecting the Genocide Intervention Network donations that are being collected in lieu of ticket money. "Yes, I would!" the tall girl says cheerfully. But once inside the lecture hall — the makeshift theater — the mood is anything but cheerful.
Students who need a ride to the Indianapolis Airport can buy a one-way ticket for $19.Star of America shuttle service has been in operation for many years and began offering airport rides from Ball State University in September.
Focusing on the little things, the Cardinals got their offense back on track Wednesday night. Ball State defeated Indiana State University 68-63 on the road, snapping a three-game losing streak.
Funding loss for higher education was just one item on the Higher Education Commission's agenda for the working session Thursday night.Commissioner Theresa Lubbers briefed the committee on the status of funding loss to Indiana state universities at the meeting.
Jarrod Jones had 10 first-half points — including three rim-bending dunks — to give the Cardinals the cushion on the road they needed to defeat the Sycamores 68-63 in front of 7,144 fans.
Presidents from eight Chinese universities met with President Jo Ann Gora and university officials this week to discuss China's biggest investment: education.The men traveled about 11,000 miles, witnessing Muncie's first snow of the year, to attend a series of meetings to advance the process of transferring credits in a dual-degree program between Ball State University and Chinese institutions.
Freshman Evan Roberts sat in the Atrium on Wednesday night and studied for a communications class final, one of the six finals he will take next week."I have spent five hours studying today and I'm starting to get burnt out," he said.Roberts said although the upcoming test is not one of his more difficult ones, the fact that he has tests and quizzes to study for this week — in addition to the finals — is overwhelming.Ball State University is one of the few colleges in Indiana without a campuswide "dead week" before final exams. Purdue University and Indiana University — Bloomington both recognize dead week as a week where professors do not assign tests, quizzes or large projects.
The traditional largest sales day of the year is only nine days away as shoppers begin to finalize their gift lists and make one final rush on the Saturday before Christmas. Analysts are unsure if "Super Saturday" will surpass this year's Black Friday sales as consumers tend to look for steep discounts during a recession.
Ball State University's landscape architecture programs have earned the highest distinction from Design Intelligence.Ball State was placed in the top level of the 2010 edition of "The Cramer Report: America's World-Class Landscape Architecture Schools." "The Cramer Report" initiated a classification system for its rankings that looks at multidimensional levels of landscape architecture programs, rather than simply the one-year ranking. The first year for "The Cramer Report" was 2009, when it reported Ball State's architecture program as "world-class."
"Cirque Dreams Illumination" is all about bright colors, passion, light and the extraordinary, where performers dress in dazzling, spectacular costumes to depict everyday objects. There are urban acrobatics, bright illusions, dancing and music, and all are brought about through special effects.However, the show is not just a visual one, but one about music and dance as well. The score for the show contains a variety of genres from jazz and ballroom to pop and "beats from the street."
The Women and Gender Studies National Honors Society is hosting their annual Holiday Wishlist Drive. The drive will be taking donated books, toys and other items from December 11- December 15. Donations will be accepted in Burkhardt Building room 108 at the Women and Gender Studies office.
Sophomore Luke Munz is one man short of bringing Kappa Sigma fraternity back to campus.He said he's looking for men who are hardworking and gentleman-like, who will "open doors for ladies and do things right.""We're here to do community service and make Ball State a better place," he said.
7212. 1805. 0504. These were the three numbers of the songs played by a regular at a bar in New York. She sits down to finish her burger and beer. When the songs come on the bartender sings to her. The middle song "Miss Otis Regrets" sung by Ella Fitzgerald has stayed with the woman even as she left New York."That's where my relationship with the song began," dance instructor Christie Zimmerman said.This specific song became Zimmerman's starting point in the dance concert "Steppin' Out With Gershwin on a Cole Winter's Night" premiering tonight in University Theatre.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana will provide food for families in need at its monthly Tailgate Program today in McCulloch Park, which is located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Centennial Avenue in Muncie.Food distribution will be from 9 to 11 a.m. while supplies last.
COPENHAGEN — Declaring "it's a matter of survival," one of the world's tiniest nations, speaking for imperiled islands everywhere, took on global industrial and oil powers Wednesday at the U.N. climate conference — and lost."Madam President, the world is watching us. The time for procrastination is over," Ian Fry, delegate of the mid-Pacific state of Tuvalu, declared as he asked the full conference for more aggressive curbing of greenhouse gas emissions than is being considered.
Indiana Pacer's representatives will visit Ball State University Dec. 15 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to promote College Night to students.A Pacers Fan Van will be parked between the Teachers College and the Arts and Journalism Building.
Ball State University's Student Government Association met for the final senate meeting of 2009 to discuss the current position of the slate's platform.Some of the points on the platform update included the hours in Bracken Library being successfully extended, Parking Services agreeing not ticket cars during Family Weekend and Homecoming Weekend and streaming live for the first time on SGA's Web site.
