Senators discuss potential legislation at SGA student senate Wednesday, Sept. 5. SGA has been able to complete three out of 16 platform points. Liz Rieth, DN

Amplify completes 3 of 16 platform points

Amplify, Student Government Association’s (SGA) executive slate, has completed three out of 16 platform points, said SGA president Isaac Mitchell at Wednesday’s SGA senate meeting.



Ball State recently settled with pro-life student group Students for Life. The group said the policy regarding student organization activity fees was not applied on the same basis to all student organizations. Rebecca Slezak, DN
NEWS

Student organization fees policy revised after lawsuit

A policy change that guides what student organizations are eligible to apply to receive in activity fees, is one result of a recently-settled lawsuit brought against the university by a pro-life student group.


ROTC cadets gather for a photo in front of Benny. The ROTC turned 40 this month, while Ball State celebrated its centennial year. Photo provided, Ball State University
CAMPUS

ROTC celebrates 40 years on campus

If you’ve lived on campus, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a large group chanting as they go for a run early in the morning. That group is the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).



One wall inside the National September 11 Memorial & Museum boasts a quote from Virgil’s “The Aeneid.” Though scholars have debated its use, the quote is commonly interpreted to remind visitors of the nearly 3,000 people who were killed as a result of the terrorist attacks on America, on Sept. 11, 2001. Lisa Renze-Rhodes, Photo Provided
NEWS

As real as it was then: A recount of 9/11

Until 17 years ago — Sept. 11, 2001 — Duckham, Ball State’s chief of police and director of public safety, like many other officers working in New York at the time, went to work on a day that would turn out to be one many Americans will never be able to forget. 




Succulents in the Richard Orchid Greenhouse Sept. 5, 2018. Mel Niksich, DN
NEWS

Greenhouse hosts succulent program

Bright, green succulents are a plant that can be seen in the windows of college dorm rooms, soaking in the sun. A plant that you can learn more about at the Orchid Greenhouse on campus.


Then-junior student and Ball State VMC president Mary Posner still has the 'strike' shirt she wore to the Vietnam "teach-in" demonstration Ball State held in response to Kent State shootings on May 7, 1970. Photo provided, Mary Posner
CAMPUS

Kent State spurs Ball State into action

Imagine a sea of Ball State students gathering in front of the Arts Terrace at the David Owsley Museum of Art, not for graduation, but demonstration. At 10:30 a.m. May 7, 1970, a student yelled into a microphone, “Ball State, where are you?” 







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