A building downtown will once again be a connection between Ball State and the community when renovations are unveiled today. At 5 p.m. during the First Thursday Gallery Walk, the Muncie Makes Lab’s grand opening will show artwork, such as napkin sketches, from a few Ball State students in the College of Architecture and Planning.
Some students are asking for their voice to be heard while legislators meet with university representatives today to discuss Ball State’s stance on teaching intelligent design. Jesse Sallee, a junior advertising major, said even though students may not know as much about the particulars of course content or academic freedom, they still need a voice in the debate.
A recent Ball State graduate was murdered during his morning walk on the west side of Indianapolis on Tuesday morning.
Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler took to Twitter this evening to show his disappointment that the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied Indiana’s petition for federal aid. “FEMA SHOULD BE ASHAMED,” he tweeted at 5:58 p.m. Muncie requested aid for the snow shelters, plowing and emergency services used. “I’m extremely disappointed,” Tyler said to the Daily News.
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The Muncie Makes Lab will have its grand opening at 5 p.m. for the First Thursday Gallery Walk. Muncie Makes, located downtown at 628 S. Walnut St., will show artwork, such as napkin sketches, from a few Ball State students from the College of Architecture and Planning.
A film depicting the lives of an invisible population in India opened to a mix of students and professors Tuesday. Dakxin Bajrange Chhara, the director of “Birth 1871,” said he has no academic training in making films, but that hasn’t stopped him from making movies.
When second year graduate student Emmy Kaiser came to Ball State, she noticed the wheelchair equipment in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The top-20 U.S. Paralympic tennis player decided to put it to good use.
New lights in the Village may help increase safety and energy efficiency. The Village Promenade’s construction company, Investment Property Advisors, plans to replace and install 43 new, LED streetlights in the Village area, said Todd Donati, director of the Muncie Redevelopment Commission.
Students buzzing about Starbucks’ new alcohol and dinner won’t be getting their fix on campus. After 4 each evening, some Starbucks around the country will now serve alcohol and a dinner menu.
At Ball State, American Sign Language isn’t accepted for foreign language credit, but one student is taking it into his own hands to change that. Freshman art education major Jacob Durnen started a petition in early March to persuade the university to accept the language as a foreign language credit toward Bachelor of Arts degrees. There are 63 signatures as of publication.
The Ball State’s wheelchair basketball team played a scrimmage against IPFW tonight. Sarah Sims, one of the students who helps run the team, said the scrimmage was to give the team more experience playing actual games.
A new film depicting the lives of discriminated people in India will show on campus tonight. The South Asia Center’s CapAsia program, the Departments of Sociology and History and Freshman Connections will host the screening of “Birth 1871: History, the State, and the Arts of Denotified Tribes of India” at 7 p.m. in Burkhardt Building Room 100.
Two students admitted to giving false information to The Daily News for an article published March 27.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity will no longer require new members to go through a pledging process. The change in policy, called the True Gentleman Experience, comes after a Bloomberg News article named Sigma Alpha Epsilon, an organization with more than 240 chapters and 14,000 collegiate members nationwide, the “deadliest U.S. fraternity.”
Monday marked the start of Self-Injury and Suicide Awareness Week. The Alive Campaign, a Ball State student organization, is hosting a week of events to raise awareness about suicide prevention.
HealthCare.gov had heavy traffic Monday in the final day for enrollment, with more than 125,000 people on the system at one time and 1.2 million total by noon, The Associated Press reported. Nationally, 6 million people had signed up before the weekend, according to the AP, but the Obama administration has not said how many of those 6 million were previously uninsured.
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Despite this winter’s cold temperatures, construction on Johnson A Complex is on schedule to finish by next spring. Shiel Sexton Company Inc., an Indianapolis contractor, is currently remodeling the Botsford and Swinford halls. The university contracted the company in May 2013. Students will move in for Fall 2015, and there will be 591 beds, said Jim Lowe, director of engineering and construction.
