TOWER OF BABEL: Three highlights from the latest Democratic debate
By Anna Wiegand / November 15, 2015Anna Wiegand is a senior integrated studies major and writes ‘Tower of Babel' for the Daily News.
Anna Wiegand is a senior integrated studies major and writes ‘Tower of Babel' for the Daily News.
An active reserve officer with the Muncie Police Department was arrested Nov. 14 in Fishers, Indiana, on charges of rape, battery and human trafficking.
Kara Berg is a junior journalism major and writes "Berg's Eye View" for the Daily News.
Stephen Lang has been an actor so long he doesn’t remember how he got into it.
Losing a loved would have been devastating enough for Shane Bitney Crone, but the legal troubles that followed made his pain much worse.
Points were hard to come by in Ball State’s season opener at Bradley on Friday, Nov 13. The Cardinals made 20 field goals on 55 attempts, good for a 36.4 percent from the field.
The Ball State women’s basketball team dropped its season opener in Charlotte, N.C., 72-66, marking the ninth straight season-opening loss for the Cardinals.
Most college students aren’t saving for retirement, but one alumna began thinking about her future during her sophomore year of high school.
Country artist Chris Young played an audience-centered show at John R. Emens Auditorium Nov. 14—just one day after the release of his newest album. Young made sure to perform songs from the musician’s fifth album, “I’m Coming Over, but he didn’t stop there.
A series of attacks targeting young concert-goers and Parisians enjoying a Friday night out at popular nightspots killed as many as 120 people in the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. President Francois Hollande pledged that France would stand firm against what he called terrorism. The worst carnage was at a concert hall hosting an American rock band, where scores of people were held hostage and attackers hurled explosives at their captives. Police who stormed the building, killing three attackers, encountered a bloody scene of horror inside.
Ball State football has had several ups and downs this season, and the team sits at 3-7 overall and 2-4 in the Mid-American Conference. One area the team has excelled at offensively is the low amount of penalties they give up. Head coach Pete Lembo attributes the low number to the high expectations he set for the team. “If you set the standards and expectations and expect your guys to live up to those every day then you have a much better chance of going out there and not committing foolish turnovers, foolish penalties,” Lembo said.
Due to an influx of animals and a lack of funds, the Muncie Animal Shelter's board voted to charge people who drop off animals at the shelter a fee of $25.
Picture this: A girl who is intoxicated is being led out the door by a guy at a party. You’re in their way. Do you move to let them go through or confront the people you don't know?
A high school in Indiana has changed its Christmas program after being sued by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but a biology professor said students should not be afraid of challenging their beliefs. Concord High School in Elkhart is being sued by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) after a complaint was made by the "Doe" family about a Nativity scene in its holiday program, the Christmas Spectacular.
For the first time since 2009, the Ball State gymnastics team will host the Mid-American Conference Championships at Worthen Arena on March 19. Ball State has hosted the tournament five other times in its history and will once again hold home-court advantage.
This is what Shay Haneline knows about her life before America: She was found in a train station in Yangzhou, China.
Upgrades and renovations of Ball State athletics facilities have been in process this school year because of donations from friends and family to the Cardinal Commitment campaign. The campaign rose $20.6 million for facility improvements for Ball State athletics across the board.
Students go to college assuming they will earn a degree that will make them employable, but for people with physical disabilities that’s not always the case. Around 18 percent of people with physical disabilities are employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Of people without disabilities, around 94 percent of people are employed.
An international piano competition will have auditions here in Muncie, one of four stops around the world and the only one in North America. Auditions for the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition will take place Nov. 13 through Nov. 15 at Sursa Hall, according to a Ball State news release.
More than 70 Ball State students and faculty joined at the Frog Baby fountain for a prayer vigil Nov. 12 to show support for recent incidents of racial conflict at the University of Missouri.
