On warm Monday afternoons, Noyer Field transforms into Stormhaven, the home of more than a dozen characters reminiscent of a J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy. Stormhaven is the Muncie chapter of Dagorhir, a combination of live-action roleplay, martial arts and medieval combat.
Scroll through the map and click on the points to see the crime that has occurred on or around campus.
Ball State University students who are worried that Baskin Robbins on McGalliard Avenue will take its 31 flavors and leave town once its building is leased to other businesses have nothing to fear. Baskin Robbins owner Bob Walsh said that after almost four decades in its Northwest Plaza location, the restaurant began renovations Monday at the former Marathon gas station next to Tire Barn on Wheeling Avenue.
Ball State University will roll out the "Roll out the Red" for Homecoming 2007, as the steering committee has announced the theme and begun planning the week. General Chairman Brian Geiselhart said the Homecoming Steering Committee considered the renovations being made on Ball State's campus while brainstorming theme ideas.
View the slideshow to see images from the Mr. and Ms. Ball State Bodybuilding Competition that happened Thursday night at the Emens Auditorium.
Editor and chief, columnist and graduating senior Dave Studinski compares college living to air travel. Really.
Kyle Brennan's job is full of trouble-shooting. The director of athletics compliance and eligibility gets an average of 20 to 30 phone calls and 50 to 100 e-mails during all hours of the day asking compliance-related questions, he said. In his seven months at Ball State University, Brennan has taken an educational approach to his job.
Most Ball State University students likely think the Writing Competency Exam is just another step on the road to graduation. This year, however, the university started using content from the exams to initiate changes in policy - without telling students their answers would be used in such a way.
I am proud to say I am a member of the Class of 2007. In less than two weeks we will be exiting the hallowed halls of Ball State University. We will be receiving our diplomas and walking out feeling both liberated and quite possibly scared to death. It is the doubt that worries us and it is the thought of failure that makes it hard to sleep at night.
Check out the slideshow to see the photos that were considered to be the best of the week.
I want to thank Joanna Lees for addressing student complacency and the topic of nonviolence in her column "Young adults too complacent" in the Friday edition of the Daily News. Her assertion though, that nonviolence only works if both parties are willing to participate, is incorrect and reflects an all too common misconception of the principles of nonviolence as developed by Adin Ballou, Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
As incoming freshmen enter Ball State University, the predominant thought on many minds is, "How do I avoid the freshman 15?"
For the fifth straight game the Ball State University baseball team lost. Last night the loss was to the University of Notre Dame to the tune of 7-3. Both teams had eight hits, but the Irish had five more runners reach base. The reason was walks, players hit by a pitch and errors.
I bet Michael Jordan watched basketball players with wide eyes when he was a little kid. Robert De Niro certainly loved movies, and I'm sure Barack Obama could recite the American presidents in order by the time he could write in cursive. It's natural for us to surround ourselves with inspirations.
Muncie police are searching for suspects in the theft of a six-foot-tall wooden stork from Expectations Women's Health & Childbearing Center, according to police. Certified nursing midwife Barbara Bechtel said an employee first reported the stork missing on Saturday.
Click here for a DN|interactive presentation about what needs to be done to kosher different kitchen accessories.
The Ball State University softball team was able to park its bus for the last time this regular season after it picked up a win Tuesday. In their final road game of the regular season, the Cardinals (20-28, 6-8 Mid-American Conference) defeated Butler University (21-17, 6-3 Horizon League) 3-1.
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Ball State University football fans should probably get used to hearing Nate Davis and Dante Love's names intertwined. The duo connected for three touchdowns as the White team cruised to a 28-0 victory over the Cardinal team in the annual spring game Saturday.
Nine errors and seven unearned runs led to a pair of losses for the Ball State University softball team against Mid-American Conference foe Miami University Saturday and Sunday. Ball State (19-28,6-8 MAC) committed five errors in Saturday's 5-0 loss to Miami (20-31-1,8-6 MAC).
