Holocaust survivor to share first-hand experience
By Amanda Belcher / April 13, 2015Modern-day knowledge of the Holocaust comes from books or history classes, but Martha Raviv’s knowledge comes from experience.
Modern-day knowledge of the Holocaust comes from books or history classes, but Martha Raviv’s knowledge comes from experience.
Imagine this: graduating from college in four years, debt-free, with an impressive résumé demonstrating involvement, experience and good grades to top it all off. It’s possible to do it on your own, but here are some “college life hacks” to help out with studying, productivity and saving money.
When it comes to fire, some people have the reaction to stop, drop and roll. Kelzie Jo Selch, however, thinks "playtime."
Harry Eggink met with the dean of a college that didn’t yet exist 50 years ago. The College of Architecture and Planning was opening its doors in the fall, and Dean Charles Sappenfieldconvinced Egginkto attend Ball State with promises of a great new college on campus.
The Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Endowed Chair schooled her audience on what it means to be a Foley artist who creates sound for cinema and television in Art and Journalism Building Room 175 April 9.
It’s not every day that a college professor can include iconic television shows and working with directors such as Tim Burton on her résumé. But Vanessa Ament can. She's even worked on "Die Hard" and Disney's "Beauty and the Beast."
Ball State’s 24-year-old improv comedy group has had plenty of time to entertain students over the years, but no improv festival of their own to perform in. So they created one.
In the final Strother show of the season, the Department of Theatre and Dance presents “Iphigenia 2.0” by Charles Mee, a modern-day version of Euripides’ classic, “Iphigenia in Aulis.”
Sheep, to lion, to child: these are the three stages of transcendence which local artist and L.A.M.E. Crew member J.Green said guide his path. And although he is several years out of high school, he said he tries to become more of a child as time goes on.
“I’ve seen someone stop breathing for 90 seconds during a study.”
When Dave and Sara Ring opened The Downtown Farmstand eight years ago on the corner of Main and Mulberry streets in Downtown Muncie, they didn’t know the full impact their Muncie store would leave on the community.
Monte Hitchcock visited what’s now called Kirk’s Bike Shop for the first time as a 9-year-old. Kirk’s has been around since 1865, the same year Muncie was founded. It’s changed names, locations and owners, but Muncie residents like Hitchcock have always been able to enjoy it.
No one can stand still at a Wednesday evening Zumba class in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. That’s not uncommon for an exercise class based on dance movements, but there is something different about the course—the gender of the instructor.
Giuliana Rancic addresses criticism, France continues efforts to rid the fashion world of anorexic models
Elizabeth Bolinger sat on one side of the long and narrow Student Center meeting room. She faced a row of different hair colors: red, blue, blue, purple and blue. Bowling’s hair, long and carefully curled, was an unmistakable natural brown.
Viewers approaching Eric Lawler’s exhibit Thursday at Muncie Makes Lab could have been easily overwhelmed by his display of rich colors filling geometric shapes and broken patterns.
“I think that my religion has been hijacked by some extremist groups,” he said. “People shouldn’t really judge Islam by a small group like ISIS.”
How to tell you're a theatre major as told by theatre majors.
Ball State’s Busted Space Theatre Company will be producing its first full-length show, “Mr. Burns: a post-electric play.” The play delves into the ways that “the human race tells stories and how we keep out humanity in a crisis” by following a group of survivors after a nuclear melt-down, said senior theatre management major Bob Prescott. Prescott is the director for the show and managing director of Busted Space.
Get the artistic blood flowing from 5-8 p.m. April 2, at Downtown Muncie’s First Thursday. Local artists and art students exhibit their work and present meet-and-greet type sessions and purchasing opportunities on the first Thursday of each month in Downtown Muncie, or DWNTWN.
