Christmas charity offers chance for students to buy presents for children
By Jacob Burbrink / November 20, 2013A Ball State student organization is looking to bring the Christmas spirit to children in need with a little help from students.
A Ball State student organization is looking to bring the Christmas spirit to children in need with a little help from students.
A development that will house Dick’s Sporting Goods and four or five other businesses is expected to be completed in six months, a city official said. The project, located on the 600 block of East McGalliard Road, is one in a string of developments that could offer future opportunities for Ball State students in architecture or engineering design, said Todd Donati, president of Delaware County Commissioners. “We are not just looking into labor forces entirely,” he said.
Late Nov. 17, tornadoes swept across the Midwest. The storms struck Kokomo, Ind. particularly hard, prompting officials to temporarily place it under a state of emergency.
An Eaton, Ind., police officer said the department is investigating the accidental firing of a gun into Neely Avenue on Friday during a search for a potential armed person in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center.
• Culver’s will host a ground-breaking ceremony Friday on the corner of Wheeling Avenue and McGalliard. • Dick’s Sporting Goods will be part of the multi-million dollar development being built off McGalliard. • Chick-fil-A has seen success after opening in August.
KOKOMO, Ind. — The buzz of chainsaws cut through the chill Monday as shaken Indiana residents began cleaning up from at least 11 tornadoes that carved an angry path of destruction across 12 counties, injuring dozens but miraculously sparing lives.
Muncie’s supposed lack of tornadoes has been attributed to Indian roots and luck, but some experts explain Delaware County is no exception to twisters. Cailin Murray, an associate professor of anthropology, said she heard the myth that Chief Munsee blessed the area to keep severe weather away when she first came to Muncie. “I was very concerned about tornados coming from the Pacific Northwest,” she said.
The Muncie Community School Board voted 4-1 tonight in favor of closing one of its two high schools. Central High School will remain open while Southside High School will become a middle school. Many members of the crowd responded with cheers to the single member of the board who voted against the proposal.
This afternoon, the Interfaith Coalition on Non-Discrimination, made up of Indiana clergy members spoke at the Indiana Statehouse against House Joint Resolution 6, which would define marriage as strictly between a man and a woman, and write that definition into the state’s constitution.
The Board of Trustees met Friday to begin looking over nine search firms before selecting one to use to find a successor for President Jo Ann Gora, who announced her retirement for the end of July.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University fraternity group says a new policy limiting how much hard alcohol is allowed at fraternity-sponsored parties was well received during its first test earlier this month. The IU Interfraternity Council says it implemented the hard alcohol limitations in hopes of creating a safer, more responsible drinking atmosphere on the Bloomington campus. The new limits got their first test during IU’s homecoming weekend during the first weekend in November. Interfraternity Council vice president of communications Jordan Shwide says that while the new policy was well received, its success is difficult to measure. The Council’s vice president of risk management, Ben Weisel, tells The Herald-Times the group is receiving positive feedback from fraternity chapters.
LEBANON, Ind. — A shift supervisor at a central Indiana Starbucks store damaged by a suspected tornado says she rode out Sunday’s storm in the coffee shop’s small bathroom with 10 other people. Melinda Wissig tells The Indianapolis Star she looked up Sunday to see the tornado approaching the Lebanon store after a customer yelled about a tornado. Wissig rushed to the drive-thru and told customers to come inside, where she and 10 others huddled in the store’s bathroom as the storm swept through. Once the sounds of breaking glass subsided, she says they emerged to find the floors strewn with debris and the store’s windows blown out. Outside the Starbucks, a car had flipped onto its side on the sidewalk and the windows of Wissig’s car were blown out.
The text message alert popped up on Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler’s phone. He read the words “alleged gunman,” and began to worry, as several students, professors and parents did Friday evening when they became aware that there might danger. “Of course, I’m always concerned,” Tyler said.
From the fourth floor of the Architecture Building, junior architecture majors Maya Bird-Murphy and Ellen Forthofer gathered against a wall of windows to watch the flurry of police across the street.
Sitting underneath his desk in the darkness, Dan Tracy listened to every noise outside of his office in the Health and Physical Activity Building. “Every step or shuffle of feet, it could be a guy out there with a gun,” he said. His worry began at about 4:30 p.m.
Three shouts of “gun” began three hours of at least six different police departments searching about 500,000 square feet in four buildings, evacuating an unknown number of occupants, finding zero suspects or threats. Students were locked down in the facility as the University Police Department, the Muncie Police Department, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana State Police, Homeland Security and Delaware County Emergency Management secured the perimeter and searched the area.
For six years, the director of John R. Emens Auditorium has tried to get comedian Jim Gaffigan to campus. “[Gaffigan] has a limited tour schedule, he’s been too expensive or dates have not been available,” Robert Myers said.
At least three people in Indiana died from Sunday’s storms while Ball State remained relatively unscathed.
A look at the severe weather as it unfolds in Central Indiana.
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora spoke against House Joint Resolution 6 for both moral and economic reasons, saying the university will reaffirm it’s commitment to diversity and tolerance. HJR-6 would write Indiana’s law banning same-sex marriage into the state constitution, also jeopardizing civil unions and domestic partnerships.
