By Rebekah Floyd | 72HRS

72HRS at Ball State

72HRS PHOTO | REBEKAH FLOYD Thursday hits and you breathe a sigh of relief. It’s finally the weekend. Never mind that you have Friday morning classes, you’re going out.



A student sets up a North American Wiccan spring sage blessing. The ritual is a celebration bringing in the new season after winter. DN PHOTO TAYLOR IRBY
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Blooming religion

While many can fulfill their spiritual needs in a row of pews on Sunday morning, Jackson Eflin can just take a step outside to find his church: nature.Eflin, a senior creative writing major, is the president of Ball State’s Society for Earth-based Religions.



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Winning rhetoric

It was the rain that brought Mrs. Brown’s kindergarten class outside. She was covering science and the forming rainbow was the perfect excuse to go out.The students pointed out the different colors they saw: green, orange, purple.Andrew Neylon said he saw the blue and the green, the red, the orange, the yellow and the purple.



Megan Rybolt, a sophomore speech pathology major, poses with the 28 other women that made the Colts Cheerleading team. The auditions lasted for over a month where they were tested on many different things. PHOTO PROVIDED BY KELLY TILLEY
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Ball State student makes Colts cheerleader squad

Forty-six women anxiously stood backstage at the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis.Megan Rybolt, a sophomore speech pathology major, clutched the hands nearest to her as she waited to hear for her number to be called.Twenty-six numbers were read before Indianapolis Colts cheerleading manager Kelly Tilley reached Rybalt’s.“Number 31 and 36,” said Tilley.



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Pop culture catch up

Erin Gladieux is a junior telecommunications and journalism major and writes ‘Pop Culture Catch Up’ for the Daily News.


 Lacey Lord, a member of the Ball State team, looks at a computer with Ansgar Snetlage at the Dresden Military Museum. Snetlage was of the first people they met in Dresden, Germany.
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'I felt I knew Vonnegut better than I knew myself'

The bells tolled Feb. 13 while the men and women of Dresden, Germany, and beyond stood together with hands joined. The line coiled through the streets to commemorate the city’s destruction at the hands of the American and British forces, 69 years before.


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Weekend bar crawl

Need a few cold drinks to make it through the end of the semester? Check out this weekend’s drink specials in Muncie.Savage’s Ale House FRIDAY $1 off specialty and seasonal draft beers of Savage’s choice SATURDAY $1 off Upland, Guinness and Woodchuck pints SUNDAY $1 off Founders Brewery productsScotty’s Brewhouse FRIDAY $20 101-ounce Domestic table top taps $25 101-ounce Thr3e Wise Men table top taps SATURDAY $6 48-ounce Lime-A-Rita and Straw-Ber-Rita pitchers $20 101-ounce Domestic table top taps $25 101-ounce Thr3e Wise Men table top taps $6 Thr3e Wise Men bullet fills $10 Thr3e Wise Men growler fills SUNDAY $6 48-ounce Lime-A-Rita and Straw-Ber-Rita pitchers $2.50 Thr3e Wise Men pintsThe Locker Room FRIDAY $3 Whiskey U-Calls $6 Red Bull vodka pitchers $8 Captain pitchers $10 Redd’s buckets SATURDAY $2.50 Coronas $3 Long Island Iced Teas $3 Whiskey U-Calls $3.50 Vegas Bombs $10 Domestic buckets SUNDAY $1 Locker Room pints $2 Wells $5 Domestic pitcher $5 Premium mini pitcherWorkman’s Bar FRIDAY/SATURDAY $10 for five 12-ounce domestic beersDill Street Bar and Grill FRIDAY Penny pitchers SATURDAY Long Island Iced Teas and Well pitchers







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