The recent rise in parking meter fees was not done to increase revenue but to make meter prices consistent throughout campus and in parking garages, Director of Public Safety Gene Burton said Wednesday. "The decision was made with members of the university administration, Public Safety and finance offices," he said.
With five Ball State University players on 2007 National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars Tuesday, the Cardinals tied six schools for the most scholars among NCAA Division I teams. Along with Ball State, Appalachian State University, Indiana State University, Sana Clare University, the University of Southern Alabama and the University of South Carolina had five recipients.
More than a week after rumors surfaced that men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson wanted to quit, Thompson has yet to make a statement about his desire to remain at Ball State University. Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins said Wednesday he has been communicating with Thompson via e-mail in attempts to meet media requests for an interview.
Students looking to make use of the Ball State University Web site Friday night will have to wait. The site will go offline at 5 p.m. Friday, according to a campus-wide e-mail sent by University Web Coordinator Nancy Prater. University Computing Services will conduct scheduled maintenance procedures while the site is down.
Coach Michelle Salmon said her biggest concern selecting the Ball State University soccer team captains wasn't the upcoming season, but preparing her players for when they left the team. After going through a process similar to a job interview, Salmon announced Wednesday seniors Laura Bandy, Sarah Leibel and Lindsay Martin will be the Cardinals' 2007 team captains.
More than seven months after his abrupt firing in December, former Ball State women's volleyball coach Randy Litchfield said he feels his coaching days are over. "When a male who has coached women is fired under mysterious circumstances I can personally confirm the fact that that male's coaching days are over," Litchfield said Wednesday.
Hoosier property owners are being pinched. Property tax bills are out and they are high. Thousands of Hoosiers are looking at their bottom lines and shaking their heads. Many don't know how they will cope with this economic blow. In some cases, property taxes were more than doubled, leaving home owners wondering how they are going to meet this debt.
It's fair to say that over the course of human history, no other group has been oppressed more than women. Their plight is cross cultural; there are evidences of women being repressed in nearly every major civilization and society. This is a little astonishing, considering that women make up 51 percent of every large population.
Recent regional Emmy nominations will give Ball State University a great deal of visibility, Jacquelyn Buckrop, assistant dean of the College of Communication, Information, and Media, said Wednesday. The Department of Telecommunications has received 11 regional Emmy nominations for their student programs, student production work and documentaries.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - This isn't New York. It is the Meadowlands Sports Complex, home to Giants Stadium, where Live Earth "New York" is taking place. Tens of thousands of sweaty, sunburnt yet energetic individuals surround me under a mostly clear sky with a temperature in the 90s.
Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Thursday that sophomore Kellie Conrad will serve as student representative on the Ball State University Board of Trustees for the next two years. Conrad, a telecommunications major, said she hopes to help Ball State receive more recognition as a top-notch university and to continue to attract quality students.
While police try to determine who left harassing notes in men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson's office, his boss said Thursday that rumors indicating Thompson wants to leave the university are false. "Ronny Thompson is our men's basketball coach," Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins said.
Our whole lives we grow up in search of who we are. When we get into high school we're more than likely to go through some sort of mini-crisis in which we have to find out who we are at that very moment, cry for about an hour and then go out with our girlfriends and everything is fine.
Members of the Department of Anthropology are conducting a systematic survey of East Hamilton County's Stony Creek in order to determine the history of people who have lived in the area. The survey is funded by a $15,446 grant from the U.S. Department of Natural Resources Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology "We're trying to figure out the pre-contact period before the Europeans were there, back when Native Americans lived in the area," Beth McCord, assistant director for research in the Department of Anthropology, said.
Ball State University men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson has not been on campus all day, his secretary said at approximately 2 p.m. Monday. Rumors that Thompson wants to leave the Cardinals' men's basketball head coaching position have spread throughout the Muncie area after racist notes were found in his office June 27.
Effective this week, college freshmen and sophomores can receive more help in paying for school and expenses through federal Stafford loans. Federal legislation passed earlier this year and effective July 1 adds $875 for freshmen and $1,000 to sophomores maximum loan limits.
[Editor's note: A story that ran in the June 28 edition of the Daily News contained numerous errors. To fix the errors, the Daily News worked with Michelle Prieb and Patricia Hogan to produce this piece.] Ball State University has begun using mFinity, a new mobile application platform to conduct research as part of its mobile media research initiative, said Michelle Prieb, project manager for research and communications at the Center for Media Design.
Dear Coach Thompson, It's been a little more than a year since you were named coach of Ball State University's men's basketball program. Since you took the helm there have been some good times, but most everything we hear now, facts and rumors alike, have been negative.
From 1999-2001, Marsha Frese and Tracy Roller spent two years with the Ball State women's basketball team as assistant coaches under Marsha's sister, Brenda Frese. After seven years, the duo's paths have crossed again. Roller, now the Cardinals head coach, announced Thursday that Marsha will be joining the program again as an assistant coach.
