The Ball State University gymnastics team will compete for the final time before the Mid-American Conference Championship tonight against the University of Denver in Irving Gym. Ball State started the season 0-8 but after picking up its first victory two weeks ago and scoring more than 190 points in each of the last two meets, the confidence is soaring for the team, coach Nadalie Walsh said.
Grades are in and the results are surprisingly good. After analyzing U.N.I.T.E.D. Initiative's campaign platform it appears that the slate worked consistently to change things around campus. However, several of the things they wanted to change were already being changed by the university before the group took office.
The Ball State University women's tennis team opens up its Mid-American Conference schedule at 1 p.m. Saturday when Miami University visits the Muncie YMCA Tennis Center. The Cardinals, who finished their non-conference schedule with a 7-4 record, are hoping the different types of teams that they have played so far will help them post a strong MAC record.
ANDERSON - Snaking in, out and beyond the Anderson High School parking lot, people slowly seeped into the wooden seats of the Wigwam, Anderson High School's gymnasium, to catch a glimpse of the next possible president. Blue signs and matching shirts littered the crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters throughout the stands, as everyone from senior citizens, union workers, college students waited restlessly for the show to start despite a 45-minute delay.
With this weekend's three-game series against the University of Akron the Ball State University baseball team will begin its 2008 Mid-American Conference season. The Cardinals are 8-8 but could have had two more wins if their midweek games hadn't been rained out.
A "State of Ball State University" address: My fellow Cardinals, Everything is fine. Even under the grey skies of another chilly Indiana March, Ball State soldiers on. The Athletics Department continues to impress us both on the field and off. With a departmental restructuring all over our newspaper, a bowl game played in another country attended by more than 2,000 students and the swift and public purgation of many of our fine student athletes because of NCAA-banned substance use, Ball State is gaining national notoriety as an institution devoted to all of the right things: namely, athletics.
On the frigid Wednesday evening of the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, nearly 40 people of all ages stood in a circle in front of Muncie City Hall, some with candles and anti-war signs. One man hoisted an American flag. "We're here to raise the consciousness of what's going on [in Iraq]," Tolu Olorunda, one of the candlelight vigil organizers, said.
A senior from Plymouth High School committed to play for the Ball State University men's basketball team. Randy Davis, a 5-foot-11-inch point guard, said he committed to Ball State for next year after visiting the university Tuesday. "I really enjoyed the visit when I went there Tuesday," Davis said.
With Ball State not making the men's basketball NCAA Tournament, Charlie Cardinal will be sitting on his couch today and Friday watching the first round games. However, Charlie has a rooting interest and connection to all 64 teams. We think he is rooting for his cousin at Louisville.
Despite busy nights at the bars, local police departments arrested few people on alcohol-related charges during St. Patrick's Day celebrations, according to police. First Sgt. Rhonda Clark of the Ball State University Police Department said there were no arrests or citations for alcohol violations Monday night leading into Tuesday morning.
Riding a three-game winning streak, Ball State University softball pitcher Tiffany Garofano won the Mid-American Conference West Division Pitcher of the Week, the conference announced Tuesday. Garofano went 2-0 at the USF Under Armour Tournament last weekend for the Cardinals, picking up a 4-2 win against Georgia Southern University on Sunday and a 1-0 win against Long Island University on Friday.
Indiana ranked fourth for tons of carbon dioxide released by its power plants in 2007, according to a report released Tuesday. The Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington-based advocacy group, said carbon dioxide emissions released by the nation's power plants rose nearly 3 percent last year.
The No. 7 Ball State University men's volleyball team said Tuesday it rescheduled its road match against St. Francis University. Originally scheduled for March 28, the match was moved to 4 p.m. March 30 because St. Francis is playing host to a basketball tournament on March 28, Ball State coach Joel Walton said.
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Despite its best performance in the third round of the Pinehurst Intercollegiate in Pinehurst, N.C., the Ball State University men's golf team finished in a tie for seventh place. With a team-combined score of 299 in the last 18 holes, the Cardinals fell one spot on the leader board.
Students clad in black shirts with "i love vaginas" written in white letters compared the "v-word" to cellars and vacuums at Ball State University's performance of the "Vagina Monologues." The showing was at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center Ballroom, and it was the first of two.
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Ball State University softball coach Craig Nicholson said he was disappointed with the cancelation of today's doubleheader because of how well the Cardinals were playing. The doubleheader against Eastern Illinois University, which was scheduled for 2 p.m.
Despite its former party-school status, it appears Ball State University students are cutting back on the alcohol festivities. Or at least, being more sly about it. St. Patrick's Day 2008 passed through Ball State with no real change in the status quo. Very few people were arrested for minor consumption and driving under the influence, despite the holiday's focus on alcohol.
