Extreme temperatures and warnings of frostbite kept students indoors Monday and today as many Ball State facilities and surrounding restaurants temporarily closed their doors.
While campus is closed for another day due to snow and freezing temperatures, some local businesses and services are still open.
Maintenance personnel repaired DeHority Complex’s broken radiator this morning, after negative temperatures caused it to break yesterday. The radiator provides heat to the vestibule and surrounding area of DeHority complex, so the whole complex was not affected. George Edwards, the associate director of facilities, estimated that the radiator caused flooding about 10 feet in diameter in the front lobby of the building. Edwards said a custodian, who was considered essential personnel, had been planning to spend the night in DeHority due to an inability to drive, when the radiator broke.
A look at some of the things SGA may address this semester.
A radiator in DeHority Complex broke Monday night causing flooding in the front lobby of the residence hall. The flooding stretched from the front doors of the building to the office doors located a few yards back. Staff set up six fans in the lobby to dry the carpet and two space heater in the vestibule. Most students seemed unconcerned with the breakage. “I can’t believe the radiator exploded but it doesn’t really concern me since it was in the front lobby and we have been snowed in,” Ben Mcintosh, a freshman speech pathology major.
Unexpected challenges categorized the first semester of activity for the Student Government Association after the former president’s remarks led to his resignation and a restructuring of the executive board.
A snowstorm that dumped a foot of snow on Muncie and caused lingering subzero temperatures caused Ball State to cancel classes for a second day.
The presidential search committee will host open forums for students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to discuss what attributes the next university leader should have.
The same search firm that brought President Jo Ann Gora to the university in 2004 will aid in the search for her replacement.
Dressing up Frog Baby and building snowmen are typical Ball State student antics when snow hits the campus, but some students got creative with their winter games.
Ball State will be closed Monday due to the continuing snow and predicted cold weather. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning that will be in effect through late tonight and a wind chill warning in effect beginning late tonight through Tuesday. Temperatures Monday are expected to fall to -15 degrees with a wind chill of between -25 and -40 degrees which, according to the National Weather Service, can cause frost bite on exposed skin in 10 minutes. [View the story “Weather where you are” on Storify]
Unlike a typical move-in day, there were few cars lined up by Woodworth Complex, Park Hall and DeHority Complex as many students took advantage of Saturday’s move-in. Molly Sitz, a junior and a resident assistant at Woodworth Complex, said she was surprised that so many people moved in Saturday. “I have 52 people on my floor and more than half of them moved in on Saturday,” Sitz said.
Ball State canceled classes for Monday ahead of a cold snap that is expected to push temperatures to the lowest in 20 years and present a threat to health. Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler said he plans to call a snow emergency for the city, ordering all but emergency traffic off the streets.
Winter storms will be moving into the WCRD listening area late Saturday night. Yet, students want to know, what will it take for Ball State to shut down? Zach Huffman has the details.
Ball State has announced it will allow students to move in one day ahead of schedule in anticipation of Sunday’s potentially hazardous snowstorm.
Ball State employees who currently have health care benefits will not lose those benefits because of the new health care law. In an email sent out this week, Randy Howard, vice president of Business Affairs and treasurer, said one of the guiding principles of Ball State’s compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to avoid reductions in health care.
With Winter Break right around the corner, houses and residence halls are going to be empty for nearly a month. To the unprepared, this could mean a higher than expected electric bill, a messy return and a flood of water on the floor. Not to mention, an empty house is a perfect opportunity for theft.
A Ball State group chose an older approach to raising awareness of sexual assault, dressed in early 1900s clothing giving adapted speeches from the women’s suffrage movement. The Amnesty International chapter hosted a demonstration Wednesday to encourage the administration to give students more resources to deal with sexual assault and violence.
While most students will be traveling home to their families, students in Ball State’s chapter of Global Brigades, a student-led global health organization, are voyaging to Panama on Dec. 14 to participate in a humanitarian project for a week. “We are all inspired to go out there and learn something new and different,” said Aisté Manfredini, president of Ball State’s Global Brigades.
Since switching to walk-in only at the beginning of the semester, the longest wait for the testing labs has been 20 minutes, said the director of Unified Technology Support. Fawn Gary, the director of UTS, said the reaction to the change throughout the semester has been overwhelmingly positive.
