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(01/28/19 5:00pm)
For many, like director Michael Daehn, “Winnie the Pooh” is bringing nostalgia with it to Ball State, but not for sophomore Jake Letts, who ironically plays Pooh. Letts said he never grew up watching the Disney originals or reading the books.
(01/28/19 8:00pm)
For the past week, Ball State and the Muncie community have welcomed open conversations about biases, stereotypes and oppression with the 39th annual Unity Week.
(01/25/19 5:42pm)
From a young age, Ball State junior Jalen Lee has had a gift for speaking.
(01/24/19 8:00pm)
From February to April, the Charles W. Brown Planetarium is offering five free shows for the Ball State and Muncie community to travel the galaxy from their seats in Indiana’s largest planetarium.
(01/24/19 4:20am)
To celebrate the Department of Journalism’s 50th anniversary, Ball State hosted Gene Policinski Wednesday night in the Student Center Ballroom.
(01/23/19 5:28pm)
Photographs of the Civil War taken by photographers Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady and Timothy O’Sullivan showed battlefield results in the 1860s. In the 1940s, the live radio coverage of the London Blitz, “London After Dark” with Edward R. Murrow, allowed listeners across the Atlantic to hear Germany’s bombing campaign against Britain. In the later half of the 20th century, the Vietnam War became known as the first television war, as reporters like Morley Safer showed viewers the brutality of the war.
(01/22/19 11:42pm)
Within the last week, it has finally begun to look and feel like winter on campus. Students now have to bundle up in coats, beanies and gloves to travel the long walks to class in the slushy snow, while cold air whips around them.
(01/21/19 6:21am)
On Thursday, Jan. 17, Travis Abels gave a talk titled “Throw Away the Process and Just Play” in the Student Center ballroom.
(01/19/19 8:00pm)
Popcorn is one food that many like to enjoy both sweet and salty. Often paired with butter and salt or chocolate, popcorn can easily adapt to most flavor palettes.
(01/19/19 6:13pm)
While students may often think of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a Monday free from classes, it can also be an opportunity to give back to their community through service.
(01/18/19 9:30pm)
Inside the Robert Bell testing lab, young Travis Abels sat mesmerized by Jay Z’s newly-released “99 Problems” music video. As the bass of the music mimicked the energy of the rapper and the scratch of the record played in sync with a break dancer’s spin, Abels pressed play over and over again, feeling an unbearable spark of interest.
(01/13/19 1:06am)
After the recent accumulation of snow, the Rinard Orchid Greenhouse offered Muncie community members a warm escape with its Winter Greenhouse tour.
(01/10/19 8:11pm)
Every semester, the Ball State Late Nite committee creates designated themes for Saturday night entertainment on campus.
(01/10/19 3:00pm)
Every January, the Charles W. Brown Planetarium hosts family month, where they feature two family shows Fridays and Saturdays. All of the showings are free to the public, and families are welcome to bring members of all ages.
(12/04/18 3:45pm)
This weekend, Bracken Library will have extended hours on Friday and Saturday, according to a Student Government Association (SGA) email.
(12/03/18 5:17pm)
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson will be speaking at Ball State on Jan. 22 in Pruis Hall according to the university’s calendar of events.
(11/16/18 2:27pm)
by Shwetha Sundarrajan
International Games Day was celebrated in an open play event on Saturday, November 10th at Bracken Library in honor of International Board Games Week. The event featured tabletop and board games for casual and competitive patrons to play. Games such as Settlers of Catan, Risk, Scrabble, and Tikal were available for eventgoers to play. Joseph Roberts, an Information Services Librarian, says that he was inspired to host this event at Ball State after doing a similar one as a graduate student.
“We started doing these five years ago around this time of year. It ties in with a larger international event called International Games Week that is organized by the American Library Association,” Roberts said.
Although turnout had been pretty light for the event, there was still a group of students enjoying a game of Catan. “We have a Settlers of Catan tournament that we run on these Saturday events, so there are a few people who are playing Catan now and they’ll ultimately all play four games and no one is eliminated,” Roberts said. Contrary to the ever-growing digital game era, board games have actually grown in popularity. In the last year, board game sales in the U.S. grew by 28 percent, per NPD Group, and global sales increased to $9.6 billion.
And that’s what Roberts aims to do with the International Games Day event. “In keeping with the larger purpose of International Games Week is to celebrate the intellectual, social, and recreational value of all sorts of games. We happen to do board games because we have quite a bit of them around here and because of the ongoing popularity,” Roberts said.
However, the fun doesn’t end there. Students can check out various board games for up to two weeks, said Head of Educational Technology and Resources Collection Lisa Jarrell. “All students need to bring is their student ID, come to the lower level of Bracken to the Educational technology and resources center and they’ll be able to rent any board game for 2 weeks.”
The Educational Technology and Resources Center has over 200 board games for students to check out, including both educational and children's games. According to Jarell, Settlers of Catan is one of the most popular game to be rented.
(11/15/18 9:10pm)
Ball State University student organization Music & Memory held its annual ‘A Night to Remember’ fundraiser on Nov. 14th in Pruis Hall, raising a total of $1550 for the cause.
(11/08/18 1:25am)
Spectrum, one of Ball State’s LGBT+ student groups, hosted their semi annual drag show in Ball Gymnasium on Saturday, Nov 3, which in total raised $1504 for Muncie OUTreach, a non-for-profit LGBT youth group.
(11/07/18 11:12pm)
by Eben Griger
Spectrum, one of Ball State’s LGBT+ student groups, hosted their semi annual drag show in Ball Gymnasium on Saturday, Nov 3, which in total raised $1504 for Muncie OUTreach, a non-for-profit LGBT youth group.
This year's theme was Breaking the Binary, featuring technologically oriented decorations. The drag show featured a multitude of queens lipsyncing, dancing and, in one case, actually singing along with music. In addition to the choreographed numbers, announcers would crack jokes about the event and poke fun at themselves and other queens while giving introductions
Throughout the acts, spectators gave donations in the form of tips, either given to the queens themselves or put into buckets placed around the stage. The show also featured a booth with merchandise available, where Spectrum members were selling shirts. Proceeds from that were also added to the donation total at the end of the night.
The show ended with the regular awarding of sashes, but to crown the true queen, contestants were treated to a lip sync battle between the two finalists.
After the winner was decided, the hosts congratulated everyone who participated, both onstage and off, and announced the total raised. As the crowd filed out, they were able to chat with some of the queens and continue making donations.