Your community bulletin board for June 12-15
By Staff Reports / June 11, 2014Check out events in and around campus for the weekend of June 12 through June 15.
Check out events in and around campus for the weekend of June 12 through June 15.
The university took home eight regional Emmy Awards on Saturday night. Projects from the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry and Ball State Sports Link took home a few Emmys as well as others from the university.
A Ball State study found 95 percent of university presidents oppose concealed handguns on campus with 91 percent citing accidental shootings of students as the primary concern for their opposition.
Forgetting a charger at home is one less thing to worry about.
As professors begin updating their course calendars and syllabuses, faculty and students at a few universities are adding trigger warnings to protect victims of violence and abuse from being forced to relive the experience in the classroom.The Associated Student Senate at the University of California Santa Barbara recently issued a resolution to mandate warning students when a class will include topics like rape, sexual assault, suicide and graphic violence.Trigger warnings are given to prevent victims of past trauma from being exposed to material that may bring up memories of the experience.
TROUTDALE, Ore. — A gunman shot and killed a student today at a high school in a quiet Columbia River town in Oregon, shortly after classes started. The gunman was found dead as police arrived, authorities said.
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For her decade of service, Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler honored President Jo Ann Gora with the Spirit of Chief Munsee Award.“I can’t think of anybody more deserving,” Tyler said.The outgoing Ball State president received a plaque for the highest award the mayor can give a citizen in a small ceremony Friday morning in City Hall.Gora was honored for “her caring of the citizens of Muncie ... her wisdom and council and her unselfish leadership to her community,” according to the inscription on the plaque.Tyler said the plans to give Gora the award began not too long ago.“I just started thinking about it a [few] weeks ago,” Tyler said.
Many medics, injured “victims” and ambulances came to campus Saturday for an emergency drill, but one element wasn’t on hand — preparation for the type of “active shooter” events that have devastated college campuses.
Ball State’s next president will inherit a university that has lost more than $15 million in yearly research funding since 2009, according to the Ball State Fact Book.
CUMMING, Ga. (AP) — A man armed with guns, explosives and other supplies shot and wounded a deputy today outside a Georgia courthouse and was equipped to take hostages once he got inside, officials said.
An investment adviser was sentenced Thursday to four years and three months in prison in a Manhattan federal court for defrauding Ball State.
Today is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings of Allied troops in Normandy, the largest amphibious invasion in history and a turning point in World War II.
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Pacific University has confirmed the identity of the student who stopped a gunman on campus, possibly saving lives.
Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler honored Ball State president Jo Ann Gora with the Spirit of Chief Munsee Award this morning.
Negotiations between Muncie and Indiana Michigan Power have yielded new plans for a new substation.
Focusing on youth and youth issues, Muncie’s Black Expo will begin its annual summer celebration 5 p.m. Friday in Heekin Park.
As incoming freshmen begin their orientation this summer, they will be the first class to learn about a law that could help save their lives.
The visitors paced themselves through Ball State’s new greenhouse Saturday, examining the vibrant variety of orchids. However, some people took the time to congratulate an emotional Cheryl LeBlanc, the greenhouse’s curator.
Completion rate of course evaluation forms has ranged in the 60 percent area since Ball State started its grade holding policy two years ago.
