As the saying goes, when it rains, it pours. And when the wind blows toward the outfield at Ball Diamond, it can produce an offensive explosion. Three Ball State University records were tied against Valparaiso University (4-15) in the Cardinals' 31-19 win, a win that extended their winning streak to eight.
Amy Schatz, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, described to an audience Tuesday javascript:replaceBreaks();night what it took to report and write a prize-winning story starting with only an obituary and a few notes. Schatz's story, titled "Joe's Van," won her the 2006 Eugene S.
Umbrellas are easily one of the world's most overlooked fashion accessories. It's a rainy-day essential - and though they have been around for hundreds of years, not much tweaking has come the way of man's preferred mode of rain cover. Deciding to shake things up a bit, the women at umbrellastand.
It all came to pinch-hitter's Katelyn Gunderson at-bat with two outs in the top of the seventh inning. Ball State University was seemingly desperate for her to get a hit, but as what happened to most of the Cardinals batters Tuesday, Gunderson grounded to the first-baseman to end the game.
Ball State University freshman Maurice Acker has signed a scholarship letter of agreement to transfer and play basketball for Marquette University, according to Marquette's Web site. The Mid-American Conference Freshman of the Year will have three years of eligibility remaining in his college career, but he will not be available for game competition until the 2007-08 season.
When Erica Thompson started dating her future husband Ronny Thompson, she was just a fan of basketball. The two met in college at Georgetown University when Ronny Thompson was a player on the men's basketball team. Now, nearly 16 years later, Erica Thompson has gotten used to being around a basketball coaching family.
The Ball State Daily News comes to campus every morning uncensored by faculty or administrators. According to a statement President Jo Ann Gora made at Tuesday's Journalism Alumni Awards Luncheon, it's going to stay that way. Likewise, DN student media partners Newslink@9, WCRD, expo and Ball Bearings have been and will remain censorship-free.
For several players on the men's basketball team, just the sight of legendary coach John Thompson sent adrenaline running through their bodies. It's not everyday that the son of a Hall of Fame coach is named to the head coaching position at a university. Junior Charles Bass said he can't wait to begin playing under Ronny Thompson.
In response to Joshua Rowe's letter to the editor on Thursday: The purpose of the "Stop Hate" banner is to raise awareness about injustices in our university community. Obviously, raising a banner with signatures will not "stop hate." This is not the intent.
Civil rights leader Hurley Goodall recalls a time when blacks in Muncie were excluded from the classic sociological studies on Muncie as Middletown. However, the work of 15 Ball State University students, the contributions of 50 black residents such as Goodall and the help of multiple scholars paved the way for the first publication examining the black population.
The Ball State University men's basketball team will announce former Arkansas assistant coach Ronny Thompson as its latest head coach. Thompson was an assistant at Arkansas for three years and is the son of legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson. Ball State is holding a press conference today at 2 p.m.
Ball State University students and faculty members will volunteer to spend an hour in "jail" to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Muncie Lock-up event. The event will last from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. today. Cari Peterson, a Ball State alumna and program coordinator for the North Central District of MDA, said drivers would pick up local business professionals and Ball State students who had volunteered their time to be locked up.
I used to kick myself for not working harder in high school. I thought that if I had gotten better grades and test scores, I might have gotten into a place like Duke University. Well, a couple of weeks ago, I visited Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina.
Facing a school from the Big Ten Conference is no small challenge for any softball team. However, when a team could possibly be without two of its best players, the task can become an even bigger challenge. The Ball State University softball team (8-12 overall, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) will travel today to Purdue University (21-18, 2-2) for a game against the Boilermakers and might be without starting pitcher Amanda Pick and catcher Abby Gross.
Elements Alternative Gifts has reopened after closing its Muncie store in January. But this time, it's all on the World Wide Web. Carolyn Stellwag, one of the owners of the business, said Elements was online when it was open in the Village. "We had customers from all across the country," she said.
Dear Editor, I am writing as a parent concerned for the safety of my daughter who attends Ball State University. My daughter, Eden South, is under constant harassment from community members who call her and her friends "niggers," from uninterested police - both local and campus - who discount complaints from black students regarding harassment and who badger any groups of more than 10 black students.
When Brendan Powell Smith, nicknamed The Reverend, first read the Bible - while attending college at Boston University - he thought to himself, "Has anyone actually read this book?" Smith estimated the stories people are familiar with comprise about 5 percent of the book and decided he should educate people on the other 95 percent.
Ball State University's secondary education and entrepreneurship graduate level programs are on the list of America's Best Graduate Schools. Find out where they stand and what the university is doing to make its programs stand out from that of other schools.
Amid the excitement of the NCAA Tournament's last game, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics had a whole different kind of buzz going on. The department was planning today's announcement: Ronny Thompson will fill the top coaching spot for the men's basketball team, a position left vacant when Tim Buckley was reassigned March 15.
You'd think from the hubbub caused by Indiana adopting daylight-saving time that a biannual changing of the clocks is equivalent to giving up one's firstborn child. And even though I know a few people who wouldn't mind giving up their firstborn children, the time change seems to have gone off with relatively few hitches.
