Buckley reassigned after six years

After six seasons, men's basketball coach Tim Buckley has been reassigned to a different position within the university. Athletics Director Tom Collins made the decision to make the change Wednesday morning. Collins will meet with President Jo Ann Gora on Friday to discuss the next move.



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Expert discusses electronic media

The future of TV is in "information architecture," a design expert and creative director from Los Angeles said Wednesday night. Dale Herigstad of Schematic discussed exploring the interactive components of electronic media and it's fast-growing expansions with Ball State University students and faculty in the Arts and Journalism Building.


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Team Lisec takes office as Team Us says goodbye

As Student Government Association's Team Us steps down and the former president receives a key to the city of Muncie, Team Lisec is stepping up with a vow to build communication throughout campus.



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OUR VIEW: A for effort

Most representatives wouldn't be proud of achieving less than 50 percent of their platform goals - but Team Us deserves to be. Of the slate's 20 platform issues, seven were either impossible to achieve or the officers abandoned them before the end of their term in office.


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FOOTBALL: Team names, promotes assistant coaches

The Ball State football team named two assistant coaches and promoted two others. Sidney Powell and John Powers join the Cardinals' staff. Powell will coach the secondary and Powers will coach the offensive line. Stan Parrish was promoted to offensive coordinator after serving as the quarterbacks coach last year.


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SWIMMING IN BROKEN GLASS: Beliefs multiply like bunnies in the brain

Recently, South Dakota grabbed the nation's attention by passing a bill criminalizing virtually all abortions. What struck many observers is just how far the bill goes. Many pro-lifers are troubled by the fact the bill denies abortion even to women who have been victims of rape or incest, and the bill only grants exceptions for health reasons if the mother's life is in danger.



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Students build park in Alabama during break

More than 90 trees, a load of oyster shells and playground equipment from several Ball State University students were enough to make children in a shrimping town half a mile from the Gulf of Mexico smile during Spring Break. But two architecture students don't plan to let their service work in Bayou La Batre, Ala.


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McMahon about town

You don't need a celebrity like Ed McMahon to get a full house at a Texas hold 'em tournament, but it doesn't hurt. McMahon made a stop at downtown Muncie's newest business, Royal Crown Hold 'Em Club, for the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony yesterday evening.


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Six Ball State students crowned for 500 Festival

Six Ball State University students will be treated as royalty when they participate as Indianapolis 500 Festival Princesses. The Indianapolis 500 is one of the greatest spectacles in racing. Beginning in 1957, the 500 Festival occurs the day before the race and includes music, entertainment and celebration.


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Working through tragedy

In January, the life of Ball State gymnast Brittany George took a drastic turn. Her mother passed away from pneumonia, eight months after her father succumbed to liver cancer. Now, George is learning how to cope with the loss.



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CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG: Steroids ruin players, not baseball success

Barry Bonds is back at spring training and ready to put more balls in the water than there are at a nude beach. Normally what goes on in professional baseball preseason games is not newsworthy unless someone gets hurt, but Bonds has had a media circus following him since he broke the single-season record for home runs five years ago.


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Candidate to participate in open forum

Provost candidate Terry King said interacting with students was one of the most gratifying things he could do. While working as Kansas State University's dean for the College of Engineering, King said he also taught a class last semester. "It about killed me because I didn't have time to do it," he said.


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Dining Services offers students healthy options

Students need to learn how to eat healthy and there is no better time than March, which is National Nutrition Month, vice president of National Nutrition Month for the Ball State Dietetics Association said. "There are the options there," vice president and Ball State junior Rose Lehe said.


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DIET WATER: Lent only encourages short-term devotion

You'd think there would only be so many places on a human body that can store varying amounts of sand for more than 14 hours. Well, thanks to the never-ending foresight of the Ball State University scheduling system - which sends students on Spring Break more than two weeks before spring has officially even started - I became intimately familiar with each and every one of these places on my body while enduring the G-force winter winds of Clearwater Beach, Fla.


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Ball State student designs therapeutic garden for children

For children with cancer, experiences are often limited to the sterile boundaries of their hospital rooms. So for her final project, fifth-year landscape architecture student Elizabeth August designed a hypothetical therapeutic garden for juvenile cancer patients.


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TRAVELING RIVERSIDE BLUES: Post-Spring Break apathy could hurt students in future

Fresh from sunny beaches, thousands of Ball State students returned to school this week with a collective groan. Gone is the week of lounging in the sun, enjoying exotic locales or, for some, participating in service learning projects. Even those who stayed in Muncie had a few moments of semi-warm sun to enjoy - and perhaps the pleasure of sleeping in later than usual.


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Oink!

Spend some time on the farm with fourth generation farmer Jerry Warren.