The women's track and field team splits its squad for two competitions this week. Beginning today, half of the team will be competing at the Searay Relays in Knoxville, Tenn. The Searay Relay Invitational is a four-day event concluding Saturday. Ball State University coach Sue Parks said although the meet doesn't offer chances of many individual championships, it offers nice conditions and tough challengers.
Everyone knows that many women throughout the Western world struggle every day, throughout the day, with their weights. A recent study from Great Britain, though, puts the problem in perhaps the most provocative terms possible. According to an article from the Times Online, a survey of 5,000 women in England found that the average woman worries about her weight every 15 minutes.
The T-shirt you're wearing, the soda you're drinking and the textbooks in your bookbag have one commonality: semitrailers. In all likelihood, each of those items, along with many other products you come in contact with daily, arrived at the store by truck.
Sunday, after an exhaustive day of nearly constant battling, David McGill of Omaha emerged as the victor of the first annual USA Rock Paper Scissors Bud Light tournament at the House of Blues in Mandalay Bay of Las Vegas. As a result, McGill walked away with not only what strikes me as perhaps the lamest set of bragging rights in history, but also - as can be verified on the USA Rock Paper Scissors League's Web site - a check for $50,000.
Coming off a tough and close match against the University of Toledo, the men's tennis team left little doubt as to how it would respond. Ball State University dominated Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, sweeping the match 7-0. "We played pretty well," coach Bill Richards said.
Playing in front of 300 people and having the game televised for one of the first times this season, the softball team arrived in South Bend Tuesday with an opportunity to send a resounding statement through Indiana. However, Ball State University (9-17, 3-5 Mid-American Conference) mustered just two hits and was unable to capitalize on this chance as it lost to the University of Notre Dame 6-0.
Katie Papper believes one Ball State University student can help in the international fight against poverty. During the summer, Papper, a junior at Ball State, learned about the national ONE Campaign and international Live 8 concert, which worked to unite the voices of billions of people in the fight against poverty.
A high-definition film written, directed and performed by Ball State University students and faculty is set to premiere today at Strother Theatre. The film "Mahd" is the result of a new program at Ball State, which brought together students from the theater, music and telecommunications departments.
When Ball State University sophomore Jeff Nevolo arrived on campus Tuesday morning, he was stunned to see the word "hate" surrounded by a circle with a line through it on the south side of Bracken Library. "I was a little surprised," Nevolo said outside of the library.
Putting up some big numbers on the scoreboard in two innings, getting some key hits and taking advantage of defensive miscues helped the Ball State University baseball team end a two-game losing streak. The Cardinals (17-14) defeated University of Dayton, 16-5, with five runs in the first inning and eight in the seventh.
Students got the chance to see frogs with stubby, missing or extra legs, missing or moved eyes and jaw problems at the Cooper Physical Science building Monday. In a presentation given by William Souder, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated author and journalist, Souder intended to lay out issues that could come up when reporters try to cover science.
Jennie Hartig makes the trip to Ball State University from her home in Chicago each and every Homecoming. In fact, she hasn't missed one in 12 years. Hartig normally makes the trip with fellow 1998 graduate Jason Kent, her boyfriend of 12 years. The couple met their freshman year, 1993, through a mutual friend who played with Kent on the school's football team.
Dear Editor, A piece of legislation I have been working on for more than a year now - both as a senator and after my term expired - has been tabled in the Undergraduate Education Committee. This piece, titled Dead Week, has been covered by the Daily News in several articles.
Isn't it funny how goals can take on a mind of their own? For example, you can go to the store to get quarters for laundry, only to remember some groceries you needed, which makes you think of a movie you wanted to rent, and at the video store you see that cute someone from class and end up with a date for Thursday night.
Reality TV star David "Kasper" Krich graces Ball State University's campus for the second time. Kasper was hired to teach a Hip Hop and Jazz Funk Workshop for the Department of Theatre and Dance on Saturday and Sunday.
Thousands rallied in Indianapolis streets Monday joining others across the country as a debate over immigration laws continued to heat up. For one Ball State University student, the argument hits close to home. Also, see pictures from the rally in an exclusive DN slideshow.
Dear Editor, The Young Women's Christian Association of Muncie would like to send a huge thank you to all the Ball State University students who volunteered during the week of March 27. We appreciated all of your hard work and dedication. We also would like to thank all of the Ball State departments, staff members, professors, student and greek organizations and everyone else who helped the YWCA find the volunteers for this wonderful program.
Every season teams play games that can be classified as David versus Goliath matchups in the hopes of pulling off the upset. The Ball State University softball team (9-16, 3-5 Mid-American Conference) will look to slay the giant of the University of Notre Dame (23-12, 7-1 Big East Conference) as it concludes a six-game road trip today in South Bend.
Gamers who don't get enough of the gaming experience from actually playing games now have a chance to get a similar experience from their televisions-in high-definition. At the end of March, VOOM HD, an all high-def satellite package of channels, announced the launch of GAMEPLAY HD, a channel that gives the gamer a chance to use his TV for something other than button-mashing.
It's tough to win a tennis match when your team is down 2-0 before it has even begun. That was the story for Northern Illinois University, as they were forced to compete with only four players as Ball State University (8-9, 2-3 Mid-American Conference) defeated the Huskies 7-0.
