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By Rebecca Brumfield and Zoey Spengler / February 25, 2015With Spring Break coming up next week, students all across campus are preparing to pack their bags and travel.
With Spring Break coming up next week, students all across campus are preparing to pack their bags and travel.
“To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and I’ve felt that way ever since I was four.” Leelah Alcorn, a 17 year-old transgender teen, committed suicide in December 2014 – but not before leaving this note behind.
With more than 1,300 at Ball State, it can be hard to spot a fellow telecommunications major or minor, but that might be because of all the equipment they're carrying. Here are nine signs that you're a TCOM major.
Tonight is the end of an era for NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” fans. Avid followers of the latest Pawnee happenings, might be having a hard time coping with the fact that seven seasons of hilarity is coming to an end tonight. To help keep it together when the final episode begins at 10 p.m., here are 12 times season seven of Parks & Rec made us cry.
She has a bachelor’s degree in history from Yale University, a master’s degree in choreography from Purchase College Conservatory of Dance, is an adjunct professor at Barnard College in New York City, and has worked with Juilliard. Now she’s at a different university: Ball State.
Hallo, Ball State. No, that’s not a typo, but it is a Germanic hello according to Michael Werning, a graduate student and English literature and international studies major.
Over 100 students gathered for the seventh annual Black Leadership Empowerment Summit (BLES) on Sunday to interact with motivational speakers and performers. The Black Student Association (BSA) hosted the event with help from the Multicultural Center and SGA sponsors.
Thick, velvet curtains that match plush, red chairs greet patrons of the Muncie Civic Theatre in downtown Muncie. From the back row, audience members can see everything: the lights, the décor and the grand stage.
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A "surprise" proposal at Saturday's BSUDM elicits many heart emojis.
At 25, Kathrynne Horine met her first real role model on a screen. They never actually talked. In fact, Horine doesn’t even remember the other person’s name. But whoever it was, this internet stranger, she had made a YouTube video detailing her process transitioning from male to female.
Being the youngest child in her family meant freshman public relations major Riley Breen didn't get to share many milestones with her two older siblings.
Senior Jackson Berry is 21, in a fraternity and he’s got a dream for his life. But almost five years ago, Berry suffered a severe brain injury, needed multiple medications to get through each day and spent six weeks in intensive rehab after losing proper function of his mind and body.
All you need to know about the Oscars in this weekend's Pop Culture Catch Up.
Kayla Johnson was walking back to her dorm alone at 9 p.m.; a 2012 Welcome Week event had just ended. It was her freshman year, and classes had not even started yet. As she approached Lafollette, a tall, at least 300-pound white, bearded man with shaggy, brown hair was belligerently slurring words while talking on his phone. He was clearly upset about something.
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Golden Dragon Acrobats, a trained acrobatic group hailing from China, are the exception to the rule of what the human body is capable of handling. They jumped, twisted, juggled and teetered to a pulsing and majestic soundtrack that elegantly showcased what their website calls the country’s 2,500-year-old tradition.
Sylwia Hodorek started Meditation at the Museum during the fall semester. Each session has a different theme, but Hodorek said she hopes faculty and staff can leave each session with methods for managing stress, balancing their lives and enjoying the present.
In June 2014, Abbas Jammali was on his way to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to collect his visa and passport to attend Ball State. “When I was going over [to the embassy], I saw ISIS killing Iraqi soldiers, behead them in front of me,” he said. This is the Iraq he left behind.
Presented by the Department of Theatre and Dance, “Equus” utilizes ritual, psychology and sexuality, including a scene containing nudity, to examine the meaning of what it is to be normal.
