The Ball State University's women's indoor track and field team is ready for everything that the Mid-American Conference can throw at them. This weekend they travel to Bowling Green, Ohio, to compete in the indoor MAC Championships. The Cardinals are more than convinced in their abilities in bringing home the MAC crown.
This weekend, the torch of the 20th Winter Olympics will be extinguished. Soon, Turin 2006 will be another Olympics for the history books. Hopefully the lessons we can learn from it will carry on much longer. Like most people, I look forward to the Olympics.
When the Ball State University baseball team travels to Charlestown, South Carolina, this weekend, it will be seeing some faces it's never seen before in the opposing dugout. Towson University, The Citadel and Le Moyne College will join Ball State in the round-robin Citadel Tournament.
A lot of effort will go into this weekend for No. 10 Ball State University (12-1, 3-1 Midwest Intercollegiate Volleyball Association) as they host two tough MIVA matches. On Friday the Cardinals will clash with the Quincy Owls. Quincy (7-9, 1-4 MIVA) cannot be overlooked as they have wins against Carthage and Rutgers-Newark.
Yes, it's true. No one's watching the Olympics. "American Idol" has trumped Olympic programming more than once in the ratings. Some believe this is because the Olympic events are not to American fans' liking. However, the lack of interest in the Olympic games has a lot more to do with the attitude and performance of the U.
After the State of the Union and State of the State addresses, it was fairly obvious the condition of higher education was not political leaders' greatest concern. In fact, they hardly mentioned it at all, and that was just days prior to Congress passing the largest-ever cut to student loan funding.
College life has several criteria, such as making new friends, working, going to school and partying. And for many college students across the nation, video games are a quick - and legal - stress reliever from the daily work and monotony of college life. Video game consoles act as an all-in-one entertainment extravaganza - especially with the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation 2 having the capability of playing DVDs.
The number of rapes reported to Ball State University police is surprisingly low compared to the average number of women who say they experience rape on campuses across the nation. There were six forcible sex offenses reported to Ball State police in 2004, according to the school's campus crime report.
After a twelve-day rest, the Ball State University's women's tennis team will head to Chicago to take on DePaul University on Friday. The Blue Demons (7-4) are led by Gergana Ganeva, who is DePaul's number one player and is ranked 75th in the nation. Their number two player, freshman Dunja Antunovic, has been previously ranked in the top 100 this season.
The Mid-American Conference Championships start today for the women's swimming and diving teams and according to graduate assistant coach Erika Janssen, the team is ready to compete. "They've been through a lot this season, and they've practiced hard," Janssen said.
Every year on this campus, residence halls in DeHority Complex put on what many consider to be a "mockery of homelessness" - the infamous Box City. For the annual event, students build "homes" out of boxes, listen to live music and buy hot dogs and cocoa while they spend the night on University Green.
A change to Ball State University's starting lineup could not change the final result. After replacing three starters for the Cardinals' game against Western Michigan on Wednesday, the changes couldn't prevent another lapse in the final minutes of a 62-56 loss at Worthen Arena.
Students who volunteer can gain experience and education that they might not be able get by just being a student. "If you choose wisely, by volunteering you will get back more than what you put in," David LeBlanc, Ball State University professor and former Peace Core officer, said As a part of the Leadership and Service Learning Week of Action, a panel of experts from various community service organizations spoke to Ball State students Thursday.
When you walk into a restaurant and hear, "smoking or non?" it's just a shortened version of, "would you prefer to sit in the pool of smoke on this side of the wall, or would you rather dine in the second-hand smoking section today?" I'm a non-smoker. Or, should I say, I'm a second-hand smoker.
Clark Howland, senior Tom Howland's father, says his son was released from Ball State University's men's basketball team. The DN is working to confirm with the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
Students participated in a poverty simulation to gain first-hand experience in real life situations. The activity was part of the Leadership and Service Learning Week of Action.
I was watching the Winter Olympics last weekend and saw one of the most terrific blunders in the history of sports. If snowboarding were as popular as baseball, football or basketball, what happened in the women's snowboard cross at Torino would go down in history alongside Bill Buckner and Leon Lett.
A resident of Morocco, Indiana, is still in jail after he and a Ball State administrator's son were involved in a fight with a university basketball player Tuesday morning in the Village. ?
Rafael Briones, who moved to the United States from Mexico 12 years ago, considers himself fortunate to be pursuing a college education at Ball State University. That's because, for many first-generation Hispanic students in the United States, going to college is considered a luxury.
Dear Editor, The reason everybody cares about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina is that this is what could be happening here. This is a telling indication of the kind of response we could reasonably expect if we were to suffer a natural disaster or terrorist attack here: dismal failure at all levels of government.
