It started happening before you were even born - growing, changing and intensifying. You heard the youthful screaming voices of independence. You might not have even been aware of all the changes happening to turn that primitive, crawling caterpillar into the blossoming, floating butterfly it was to become.
The Center for International Programs is offering students a chance to immerse themselves in European culture for a semester. European Studies Center at Toulouse, France hopes to welcome students into its new program as early as the Fall 2006 semester. Jim Coffin, director of International Programs at Ball State University, is the on-campus coordinator of the Toulouse project, located in the southwest part of France.
Recruiting plays a major role in developing and building a football program. Ball State University uses a complex recruiting process to find potential players. The Cardinals will announce their 2006 recruiting class on Wednesday.
The Ball State University men's tennis team will find out how they measure up against one of the best teams in the country this weekend. The Cardinals (2-2) will be traveling to Champaign, Ill., for a match against the University of Illinois on Saturday.
The sweat from the players drips onto the floor of the gymnasium as the sound of a whistle echoes. The competition is thick as the players seek every possibility to steal the ball and weave around their opponents toward the goal. These athletes love the game, the competition and the feeling of being part of a team; the only thing that sets them apart from able-bodied athletes is that all of them are competing from the seats of their power wheelchairs.-á
It's the day before a weekend of back-to-back men's volleyball matches and head coach Joel Walton's squad has been forced to practice in a different venue. Normally practicing in Worthen Arena, the Cardinals are now in Irving Gym because the Harlem Globetrotters took to the hardwood for Thursday night's show.
Twenty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle blew apart in the sky, terrifying witnesses and shocking the astronauts' families. The Challenger mission featured the premiere of the Teacher in Space Project. Commander Dick Scobee, pilot Mike Smith and astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Ron McNair and Greg Jarvis joined Christa McAuliffe, New Hampshire high school teacher, on the 1986 mission.
The last home meet for the 2005-06 Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving season will bring the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis teams to Lewellen Aquatic Center for a rematch between the two schools. "We definitely want to finish up at home with a win," co-coach Bob Thomas said.
In junior and senior high schools today, there are reputable elective courses that are being seen as both fun and educational. Art and music are the cream of the crop when looking at those entertaining classes in which a gift can be explored and nourished amid long hard days ridden with math and science homework.
Illness, emergency and not doing the homework are common reasons to skip class, but students are increasingly using a new excuse: "The notes are already online." As more professors have been posting lecture notes or PowerPoint presentations - and at some schools, even Podcasts - of their classroom materials, students have been skipping class because they can access all the covered material from their home computers.
Terri Abraham has led the women's indoor track and field team in a big way, and with another meet this weekend, she and the rest of the team will look to improve yet again. This week Abraham won the Mid-American Conference Field Athlete of the Week following back-to-back NCAA provisional qualifying standard marks in the long jump.
By working with new media companies, Ball State University hopes to help build a media industry that will prevent brain drain by making jobs available to college graduates. Brain drain is a phenomenon where a state's college graduates move to other states to find work.
Erica Cotton's confidence is at an all-time high. Cotton has scored a career-high 17 points in each of the last two games and has recently emerged as a scoring threat for the women's basketball team. "I've just been playing with a lot of confidence," Cotton said.
It was back to basics this week for Ball State University's women's tennis team. After getting shellacked by Kansas 7-0, Coach Kathy Bull wanted her team to work on two facets of their game in particular. "We had to get consistent with deep ground strokes," Bull said.
KALAMAZOO, Mich.-¡-For the first time in 23 games, junior Skip Mills failed to score in the double-digits and his teammates couldn't seem to help him out. Western Michigan's stifling defense not only held Mills in check Thursday night but also caused Ball State to play impatiently, forcing them to take bad shots consistently during the Broncos' 68-59 win.
When sophomore Kalee Waltemath couldn't find her car keys last week, she didn't panic about missing class. Instead, she just downloaded the lecture notes off the Internet. Programs like Blackboard are making it easier for professors to post class notes online so that students can download them to supplement classroom instruction.
Ball State University's self-proclaimed "premiere comedy troupe" welcomes change. With a new style, new venue, new member and new Web site to their credit, Abso, formerly known as Absolunacy, will present their revamped brand of long-form improv comedy this Saturday in the Ball State Museum of Art room 217.
The grade point averages of Ball State University's fraternities for Fall Semester were higher than they've been in more than 10 years, according to a report by the Interfraternity Council. "It definitely shows improvement," Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity President Matt Heffernan said Tuesday, "and I can only see it getting better because the houses are doing a lot internally to advocate grades much more.
Julie DeMuth led four Ball State University players in double-figures with 18 points as the Cardinals beat Ohio on the road Tuesday, 80-63. DeMuth grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds and played 32 minutes despite drawing four fouls. It was her seventh double-double of the season.
The Delaware County Board of Health voted unanimously Monday night to recommend a public smoking ban to county commissioners - bringing Muncie a step closer to becoming smoke free. "It was what I was hoping for," Tom Bennington, president of the three-member board of commissioners, said after more than an hour of suggestions were made to amend parts of the ordinance.
