Spring Semester is upon us, which means the hunt for next year's housing is well under way for many Ball State University students. Some are considering changing dorms and moving in with new roommates, some are shifting between off-campus locales, and graduating seniors might even be considering apartments and homes wherever their first "real" jobs will take them.
The average student attends class for between 12 and 18 hours a week and adds several hours of homework time to that. Many students have part-time jobs, and some even work 40-hour weeks on top of getting an education. But for Ball State University's 121 resident assistants, work is a 24-hour commitment and school, social events and family time have to fit in around that schedule.
Since 2004, many Ball State University and Ivy Tech students who grew up in foster care have found comfort through the Guardian Scholars program. A Ball State-based service, the program helps students make the transition from foster care to college by giving them personal attention and some financial support.
Accreditation for Ball State University's Teachers College has been under fire in the past few years, though not many people know it. The institution could even lose its accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in March if it does not meet certain standards.
Losing in the playoffs - better yet, choking in the playoffs - for what seems like the past decade is really beginning to take its toll on this demoralized Colts fan. "Wait until next year" is becoming a tired expression that won't hold up unless there are shake-ups in the offseason.
iPods. iMacs. iBooks. The i in Apple's most popular products stands for Internet. It is a play on the iGeneration, referencing the Internet generation (1985-1995). It may also have been a play on Steve Jobs's title at the company at the time of the introduction of the i.
Seven former Ball State University athletes will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame this weekend. The inductees include four field hockey players and three men from basketball, tennis and swimming and diving teams. Cathy Basso, Gina Lucido, Mindy Pretzman and Ashleigh Schoultz were seniors on the 1994 Mid-American Conference championship field hockey team.
Ball State's 2006 Miss Unity Pageant took place Saturday night at Pruis Hall. The pageant was one of the events commencing this year's Unity Week.
For the first time this season, women's basketball coach Tracy Roller has every player on her roster available to play. Ball State University (10-6, 3-2 Mid-American Conference West) has had at least one player in street clothes because of injuries every game this season.
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Kansas University made the trip to Indiana this weekend to take on both Indiana University and Ball State University. Unfortunately, this guest was not so nice to the Cardinals. The Jayhawks overpowered Ball State on their way to a 7-0 victory Sunday afternoon at a match in Bloomington, Ind.
The White House is planning its annual Easter egg roll, an event for the general public that is designed to spread good will. The big day is still months away, but plans are very much in the works, and there is already hot debate over who will be attending.
Inspired by his friend, Eric Ballenger decided to create his own project and see how people would react. He made a series of buttons and left them laying around the Art and Journalism and Robert Bell buildings and observed.
Freshman Anthony Newell had been playing only 10 minutes a game prior to Saturday's contest against Bowling Green, and very few of those minutes came during the final stretches of close games. Yet after a scorching first half when he scored eight straight points for the Cardinals, Newell received the chance to play late in the game, something he rarely gets to do.
The women's basketball team found a way to win on Saturday without its two leading scorers. Erica Cotton scored a career-high 17 points and Lisa Rusche grabbed a team-high six rebounds as Ball State University (10-5, 3-2 Mid-American Conference) beat Northern Illinois 68-62.
The University Film Committee kicks off its spring series with a taste of Hong Kong tonight in Pruis Hall. "Hero," the Academy Award-nominated martial arts drama directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Jet Li, shows at 7:30 p.m. The film, which is the highest-grossing and most expensive film in Chinese history, tells the story of a series of assassination attempts on a Chinese king by a group of warriors during the Warring States period of Chinese history.
Both the men's and women's swimming and diving teams suffered hard-fought losses to Mid-American Conference opponent Eastern Michigan on Saturday afternoon. "Even if you don't win the meet, you can always look at your [individual] performance times, and judge your [team] performance based on that.
Young adults in Indiana decades ago could land a job with a good income, health care benefits and paid vacation without ever setting foot on a college campus. But Ball State University students today face a work force where the value of a college degree is becoming more like that of a high school diploma, and where work benefits are declining as unions fall by the wayside.
Honors students are one of the largest collective groups on campus, yet they are never heard from and are rarely featured in the news or around campus for anything honors-related. Along with approximately 1,500 other honors students at Ball State, I am sometimes portrayed as a mere character of the Honors College, instead of as who I truly am.
