OXFORD, Ohio - Walking around the Nixon Aquatic center Friday night, one would have thought the Ball State University swimming and diving team beat Miami University. During and after the meet, the majority of the RedHawk swimmers seemed solemn and downtrodden, while the Cardinals were upbeat and enjoying themselves.
What happened at the Board of Trustees meeting on Friday is the same thing that happens every year: an increase in room and board rates was approved. But with students more strapped for cash than usual this year, the increase seems to matter more than in the past.
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Below is how teams in the top 15 coaches poll have fared this week. No. 13 Ball State University lost to George Mason University and will play Rutgers-Newark University at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Worthen Arena. 1. Penn State (plays Springfield College on Saturday) 2.
The Ball State University gymnastics team fell to No. 26 Northern Illinois University 191.300 to 192.925 Sunday afternoon in Worthen Arena. Ball State dropped its record to 1-4 (0-4 Mid-American Conference) in a meet in which the point margin was decided in large part by pivotal falls.
The No. 13 Ball State University men's volleyball team defeated Rutgers-Newark University 30=23 in game one of their best-of-five match tonight at Worthen Arena. Trailing 9-5, Ball State went an 11-2 run to take a four-point lead. The Cardinals would led by as many as eight points in the game.
Despite a second half performance where it shot 15-of-20 (75 percent) from the field, the Ball State University men's basketball team lost 63-56 to visiting Kent State University in Saturday's Mid-American Conference action at Worthen Arena.
The Ball State University Board of Trustees approved a 4.4 percent increase in room and board costs for Fall 2009 in its meeting Friday. Students who have finished one year of the two-year premium plan will not see an increase, Student Trustee Kellie Conrad said.
The Ball State University men's basketball team has already played the Mid-American Conference's top three overall scorers, rebounders, 3-point shooters and shot blockers this season. Next up on the list? The reigning MAC Player of the Year. Ball State plays host to Kent State University on Saturday.
The Ball State University men's volleyball team did not start off the way coach Joel Walton wanted it to in serving, which led to the team being swept by George Mason University. Ball State started off with six serving errors in the first game and lost by five points.
About 40 minutes after the match finished, coach Joel Walton sat on top of press row staring at the Worthen Arena court. After suffering what Walton called one of his worst losses in recent years, the 11th-year coach said he was still searching for answers.
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The Ball State University swimming and diving team will finish its dual-meet season tonight against Miami University. "Miami is probably the premiere team in the [Mid-American Conference] this year," coach Laura Seibold-Caudill said. "They give us the best competition we have seen all year.
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Below is how teams in the top 15 coaches poll have fared this week. No. 13 Ball State University will play George Mason University at 7:30 p.m. today in Worthen Arena and Rutgers-Newark University on Friday. 1. Penn State (plays Springfield College on Saturday) 2.
Kipp Andrews said he downloads nearly three CDs a day and has downloaded about 20,000 songs since he first began in 1998. He has used nearly every peer-to-peer file sharing software over the years, including Morpheus, Kazaa, LimeWire, Frostbite, eMule and Napster.
Students and local residents walked through the second floor hall of the Cornerstone Center for the Arts building Thursday night, eating cheese and crackers and analyzing paintings and photographs on the walls. The reception for Mary Barczak's first solo art show, "Periodically, Nothing Happens," took place at the center from 6 to 8 p.
"Don Giovanni," one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most prestigious operas, will be performed by the Ball State University Opera Theatre this weekend. "Il Dissoluto Punito," "The Unrepented Rake" is the long name used back in the time Mozart created the opera, assistant professor of voice Joseph Levitt said.
When coach Bill Richards made his schedule during the summer, he was well aware of the challenge he was giving his team this week. For the first time this season, the Ball State University men's tennis team will play match on back-to-back days this weekend.
The jazz ensemble was silenced as senior telecommunications major Raphiael Chester walked onstage, took the microphone and started reading W.E.B. Dubois' essay "Double Consciousness." His own composition, "Dou Consciousness," brought the audience to its feet.
