Hillel, a Jewish student organization, will provide students the chance to smoke flavored tobacco with hookahs on Ball State University's campus as part of its annual Jewish Heritage Week event. To celebrate Israeli Culture Day, which is planned for Thursday, Hillel members will set up tents and bring in exotic smoking devices, called hookahs.
The loud booming sound woke Zoran Grabovac out of a deep sleep. The nine-year-old ran to the window and pulled open the curtains to see flames streaking across the sky. For the first time in his life, Grabovac knew what war looked like. Grabovac, a fifth-year student pursuing his MBA from Ball State University, is in his fourth season as a Ball State Volleyball player, and at 6 feet 8 inches tall, he towers above his competition.
Critiquing the government is no longer a socially acceptable action. The knee-jerk response from most people - supporters of the current government or not - is usually: "If you don't like the way things are, why don't you run for office and change things?" Of course.
In 1938, people assumed that once Adolf Hitler took the Sudetenland, he would stop there. Now, everybody knows that assumption was wrong, but we haven't learned from that history lesson. Recently, voters in South Dakota passed a ban on almost all abortions, and Gov.
For years, greeks around the nation have been seeing a steady decline. They have seen chapters dissolved and brothers jailed, expelled or killed - or so the press would have you believe because, hey, there's no news like bad news, right? Well, what about the millions of dollars raised each year for philanthropies, or the hundreds of thousands of hours spent giving back to local communities for the sheer sake of the betterment of society? What about the countless business and political leaders who developed their skills and passions through their collegiate fraternity experiences? So why spoil the whole basket when there are just a couple of bad eggs? Why is there so much negative press for greeks? All notable groups or industries can find themselves with similar problems, as we have seen through the Enron and WorldCom debacles and throughout society as a whole.
CLEVELAND, OHIO -- There's a reason Kent State's Lindsay Shearer was named Mid-American Conference Player of the Year. Shearer scored 26 points to lead the Golden Flashes as they defeated Ball State 69-52 in the quarterfinals of the MAC Tournament. If you can think of a way to score points, Shearer did it.
Randy Litchfield has spent his 17 years at Ball State University crafting the women's volleyball team into a mid-major conference powerhouse. His staff's effort has racked up numerous awards and championships. Five-time Mid-American Conference coach of the year.
Despite Skip Mills career-high 38 points, Ball State was unable to overcome the Bulls in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
Don't let the conference standings and records fool you. Ball State University's opponent in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament, Akron, finished with a 5-22 record on the season. However, when the Zips and the Cards squared off in late January at Worthen Arena, Ball State (16-11, 9-7 MAC) squeaked out a 67-66 win.
A Ball State University graduate will appear on the ballot of this year's Delaware County congressional election. Barry Welsh, a 1981 alumnus, is running against Republican Mike Pence for the 6th District spot in U.S. House of Representatives. "It's an important race because the congressional representative controls a lot of the federal budget," junior Matt Kuhnz, vice president of University Democrats, said.
The men's basketball team ended its four-game losing streak against Eastern Michigan and now awaits Buffalo in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
Each week more than 150 women make their way down Highland Avenue in search of more than a new hairstyle. They come from across Muncie and its surrounding areas, each hoping to put a little life back into their hair and strength into their spirit. To anyone passing by Moore Hair Care, it appears as just another structure.
A Ball State Cardinals becomes the fourth player in school history to earn Freshman of the Year honors. He joins Ray McCallum, Bonzi Wells and Theron Smith.
Ball State advances to the second round of the Mid-American Conference tournament where it will play Kent State on Wednesday.
When junior Chris Ames eyes the Mid-American Conference Tournament, the forward only has one thing to say - watch out. One game remains in the regular season for the men's basketball team, but Ames realizes the importance of what the tournament can mean to Ball State University.
Emily Ortman n News Editor Provost candidate Y.T. Shah answered questions Thursday about his main priorities for Ball State University - many of which dealt directly with students' educations. The first of four provost candidates to visit campus for open forums, Shah is provost and executive vice chancellor for the University of Missouri-Rolla.
Beth Twitty never imagined she would be at a Ball State University podium telling hundreds of students how her daughter was kidnapped, raped and most likely murdered. But Thursday night, the mother of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, who has been missing since May 2005 after a graduation trip with friends to Aruba, encouraged students to remain alert over Spring Break.
The Ball State University women's basketball team did not want this Akron game to come down to a last-second shot, and Tina Bolte and Raechelle Hampton made sure it didn't. Bolte and Hampton combined to score the first 13 points of the game to give the Cardinals more than enough cushion as they cruised to a 71-46 victory in the first round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
After a slow start to a still-young season, the Ball State University baseball team looks to rectify its hitting woes and erase mental mistakes on defense during its Spring Break travels to Tennessee, Minnesota and Southern Indiana. The Cardinals (1-4) will start the road trip with a visit to Nashville, where they'll play Vanderbilt in a three-game series, followed by a game against Belmont.
Dear Editor, I was distressed when I read The Loop was being cancelled because Ball State University is refusing to fund it. For those of us who live far past campus, The Loop has made the trek to campus much less painful. All Ball State students pay transportation fees, yet not all of them are getting adequate transportation.
