Sarah Robbins is Intellagirl. It's a part of her identity. The pink hair, the dark glasses and the suit are all just a part of what comprises her online identity. In Second Life, an online world where people can do almost anything, the visual identity is important.
With the start of the 2005-06 men's basketball season looming around the corner, Peyton Stovall was getting that itchy feeling to get back on the court. It had been a long recovery process since the star guard of the Ball State University Cardinals had injured his Anterior Cruciate Ligament six months before.
Debt and college students are as synonymous with each other as Donald Trump and bad hair. Of recent college graduates, 50 percent have student loans, and their average debt is $10,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In fact, Americans in general are notoriously poor managers of money.
What began as a quiet discussion about a controversial 2005 Danish editorial cartoon featuring the Islamic prophet Muhammad turned into a heated debate Monday night in the Art and Journalism Building. The cartoon, which featured Muhammad with a bomb sticking out of his head, still symbolizes a European lack of respect for Muslims, some Ball State University students, faculty and Muncie residents said.
As a 20-year-old woman, I would have never expected myself to identify with a man suffering from prostate cancer. Yet, it is not difficult to draw a strong parallel between these two roles. One common approach to managing prostate cancer is called "watchful waiting.
Ball State University will debut an interactive wireless sculpture tonight at the base of Shafer Tower that will celebrate the university's technical prowess. The piece tracks wireless network users and elements such as bandwidth displaying them as images and sounds, said John Fillwalk, Ball State associate art professor.
Ball State University students can find some comfort in knowing the number of parking tickets given this academic year has decreased by 18,000 tickets. Gene Burton, director of the Ball State Department of Public Safety, said he attributed the decrease from 44,000 tickets to approximately 26,000 tickets to consistent enforcement by the parking services staff.
Dear Editor, Recently, there was a student kicked out of college for being gay. The student's sexual orientation was discovered by the college through his MySpace Web page. The college that committed this discriminating act is the University of the Cumberlands, formerly Cumberland College.
Ball State plans to start Arabic and Korean language classes because of the increasing importance of countries speaking those languages.
An article in The New Yorker by Seymour Hersh charges that the military has increased "clandestine activities" within Iran, including meeting with leaders from rebel groups and performing reconnaissance missions. The article says the Bush administration has considered using nukes against Iran, which would violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Students in a Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry seminar spent Spring Semester creating structures along the White River. The students used technology to conceptualize their structures and hope their work will draw more people to the river.
A new Wal-Mart Super Center will open Wednesday on Muncie's south side. However, the store will not sell firearms and will not sell alcohol for the first few weeks.
The difference in emotions for the Ball State University softball players as they left the field on Friday and Sunday was symbolic of this weekend's weather. On Friday, with the clouds darkening and a storm approaching, the Cardinals (11-19, 5-7 Mid-American Conference) exited the stadium having been shut out twice, 4-0 and 7-0, in a home doubleheader against Bowling Green State University (25-16, 8-3 MAC).
There are 700 languages in the world, and most Americans will live out their lives speaking only one of them. At Ball State University, only about 300 students - out of the more than 18,000 undergraduates enrolled - are majoring in foreign languages. But with the increasingly global economy and business world most Ball State graduates will be entering, the percentage of graduates who are proficient in a foreign language should be higher - even if that means placing more requirements on students.
Dear Editor, Well, this is great. We all hate hate. Who wouldn't be against hate, with the possible exception of haters? And I wouldn't want to be one of them haters. In fact, I hate them. Does that make me a hater? Although I'm curious if this includes player haters.
As the end of the semester - and for many of us the end of our undergraduate experiences - draws near, I begin to think about how far we students have come in our educations. Having recently learned that one of my former principals is retiring this year, I am reminded of how much teachers and administrators touch our lives.
Junior Kallie Harrison rejoined the Ball State University women's golf team without missing a beat during this past weekend. Harrison tied for third overall at the Illini Spring Classic after missing the Eastern Kentucky University Spring Invitational last week.
Two of the best men's volleyball programs in the country were looking to gain some momentum heading into their conference tournaments. The match would prove to be a classic as it went to five games before No. 10 Pennsylvania State University defeated No. 14 Ball State University 3-2 (19-30, 26-30, 30-26, 30-28, 15-11).
With a share of the Mid-American Conference championship at stake, Ball State University wasted no time in showing Western Michigan University how the conference's preseason favorites would respond. The Cardinals opened the match with a win at No. 2 doubles and Ball State senior Matt Baccarani finished the match with a victory at No.
The streak continues. Ball State University lost its 11th straight regular season match to Miami University as the Redhawks defeated the Cardinals 6-1. "The biggest thing I worry about is that we can't play at this level with the number of unforced errors," coach Kathy Bull said.
