Today, students dressed in 1918 attire will quote famous women’s suffrage speeches, looking to draw parallels to a movement aimed at sexual assault education and action.
INDIANAPOLIS — Supporters of ending Indiana’s longtime ban on Sunday retail alcohol sales are hoping a change in leadership of a key legislative committee has improved their chances of success. That change is the appointment of Republican Rep.
Instead of scouring Muncie bookstores and online prices, the university will automatically bill students for e-textbooks for some courses. In the spring, Ball State will formally adopt an e-textbook program, called the Courseload eContent Readiness Program, which places the e-textbook on students’ Blackboards.
INDIANAPOLIS — One of three men who were with an Indiana University student when she disappeared in 2011 was dismissed Monday from a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for her death. Michael Beth offered 20-year-old Lauren Spierer a place to sleep after his roommate, Corey Rossman, brought her intoxicated to their apartment, U.S.
Hawaii has issued 40 licenses for same-sex marriages in the first hours since the state began allowing the unions.
YONKERS, N.Y. — A commuter train that derailed over the weekend, killing four passengers, was hurtling at 82 mph as it entered a 30 mph curve, a federal investigator said Monday. But whether the wreck was the result of human error or brake trouble was unclear, he said. Asked why the train was going so fast, National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener said, “That’s the question we need to answer.”
NEW YORK — Fast-food workers in about 100 cities will walk off the job Thursday, organizers say, which would mark the largest effort yet in a push for higher pay. The actions are intended to build on a campaign that began about a year ago to call attention to the difficulties of living on the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, or about $15,000 a year for a full-time employee.
More students are staying in Indiana after graduating, which may be a reason for a drop in unemployment, a Ball State economist said. Michael Hicks, director of Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research, released a report saying Indiana is recovering from the recession better than the national job market. The state unemployment rate dropped from 8.4 percent in July to 7.5 percent in October, in part to the growth in the manufacturing industry.
The Blue Loop started Monday to give students off-campus a ride during the winter. The bus runs every 10 minutes from 7:40 a.m.
A new legislature targeting “pill mills,” which supply pills to people hooked on prescription medications, will limit the amount of prescription pills doctors are allowed to prescribe. The legislation will go into effect this month. Before prescribing drugs, doctors will have to do more screening on patients and track the prescriptions they give out with a program called INSPECT. Patients might have to submit to drug tests before and during their prescription.
NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw passengers from the toppling cars and left a snaking chain of twisted wreckage just inches from the water. Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, four or five of the seven cars had lurched off the rails. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced a passenger death in an accident in its 31-year-history.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A former Indianapolis police officer who killed a man and seriously injured two others when he was driving drunk and crashed his police cruiser into two motorcycles stopped at a traffic light was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison. David Bisard was convicted last month on nine counts, the most serious of which was driving with a blood-alcohol content above 0.15 percent while in a fatal accident. The legal limit in Indiana is 0.08.
The U.S. State Department estimates that 27 million people around the world are in slavery today. At Ball State, International Justice Mission tried to raise awareness for this little known statistic, said vice president Stephanie Metzger, because many people assume slavery stopped after the Civil War. The group is a Christian human rights organization that focuses on human trafficking.
TODAY Bead for Life The Social Justice League will sell beaded jewelry made from recycled paper with proceeds going to women in Uganda, who hand made the jewelry.
A Ball State student activism group has joined a national movement to start conversations on campus about ceasing university investment in fossil fuels.
About 106,000 people have signed up for the Affordable Care Act since exchanges opened on Oct. 1, far below the Obama administration’s expectations.
Police: Yale campus safe, no gunman found NW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Yale University was locked down for nearly six hours Monday as authorities responded to a phone call warning that an armed man was heading to shoot up the school that they are investigating as a likely hoax. Police did not find a gunman after SWAT teams searched the Ivy League campus and a lockdown was lifted Monday afternoon.
Ball State’s reported statistic of 11 sexual offenses in 2012 tells a very small part of the story.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Police have not found a gunman at Yale University and are leaning toward a call warning of an armed man heading to shoot up the school being a hoax, as a lockdown was lifted for most of the Ivy League campus Monday. “New Haven is safe.
MISHAWAKA, Ind. — Failed referenda in two Indiana communities are forcing school officials to regroup as they assess their needs for everything from leaky roofs to bus transportation. Mishawaka voters this month rejected a $28 million referendum that would have helped upgrade security and technology, replace aging boilers, fix roofs and make other repairs.
