Campus master plan consultants returned to campus Tuesday afternoon in order to begin the “analysis phase” of the nearly $500,000 project.
With a week to go, Ball State Dance Marathon has mobilized social media fliers and more to get 10,000 students to the football game against Central Michigan University. The athletic department will give the group $10,000 if they can get 10,000 students to the Wednesday game. Zach Brown, BSUDM director of media relations, said he still thinks the group will achieve its goal. “It’s definitely surfacing,” he said.
An employee at Pizza Hut was involved in an attempted robbery on a delivery Tuesday, a police officer said. The employee, a young man, delivered to the 700 block of Jefferson Street.
A shot was fired at the intersection of University Avenue and Reserve Street during an attempted robbery, according to a Ball State emergency alert.
Trick-or-treating in Muncie will be pushed back to Friday due to possible hazardous weather Thursday. Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler and Steve Stewart, Muncie police chief, announced this afternoon that trick-or-treaters can go hunting for candy from 5-8 p.m.
The climbing wall in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center will get a frightening makeover Wednesday. From 7-10 p.m.
Alumnus David Letterman gave his view on university President Jo Ann Gora’s retirement announcement for June 2014.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University has joined a bipartisan campaign fighting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages. The university announced Monday it was joining Freedom Indiana, a coalition that includes Eli Lilly & Co., Cummins Inc. and the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. IU President Michael McRobbie says the amendment would turn some prospective employees away from Indiana and increase the state’s challenges remaining economically competitive. The General Assembly approved the proposed ban in 2011, but the current Legislature would need to approve it again before it would go to voters in a statewide referendum.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, a man once revered as a university icon who is now serving what is effectively a life prison sentence.
Retirees in Indiana will receive less money per month from their pension following a change to an Indiana Public Retirement System policy.
The Board of Trustees approved a roughly $800,000 increase in funding for construction on the new planetarium Saturday. Based on construction bids from Oct.
ADEN, Yemen — A large explosion followed by heavy gunfire was heard late Monday near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, security officials and residents said.
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora hosted a press conference Oct. 28 about her impending retirement. Here are some tweets from the event.
The search for the next Ball State president is in its infant stages but it will most likely be a closed one, President of the Board of Trustees Hollis Hughes said. Hughes said the board hasn’t had much time to begin preparing for the search and will likely know more at their monthly meeting in December. Gora said she was a part of a closed search when she was hired by Ball State in 2004 and it allows the best pool of candidates.
The process for finding a new university president is still unknown. The Board of Trustees has not announced its plans for hiring a president following the announcement of Jo Ann Gora’s retirement in June 2014.
Immersive learning defines Jo Ann Gora’s 10 years as Ball State president, some faculty said. “Out of all the presidents I have worked under [for the past 45 years], Jo Ann Gora has been the best one,” said Joe Trimmer, director of the Virginia B.
The Energy Challenge is following up on Ball State’s commitment to move toward carbon neutrality by saving the university an estimated “tens of thousands of dollars.” Students can get involved with the challenge by turning off lights and unplugging appliances when they are not in use.
National Cyber Security Awareness Month is mobilizing information technology experts across the country, but cyber safety is ultimately the responsibility of anybody who touches a keyboard. Deb Howell, assistant director of Ball State information security operations, said students and others need to avoid phishing scams and other common hacking efforts and not depend on others to protect them. “Someone always assumes that someone else is taking care of it,” she said. Hacking victims have included Twitter and some of the country’s other best-known social network companies, as well as units of government including the state courts office in Washington state last fall. In that Washington court case, as many as a million driver’s license numbers and 160,000 Social Security numbers were exposed, according to The Associated Press. “Our country will, for example, at some point, face a major cyber event that will have a serious effect on our lives, our economy and the everyday functioning of our society,” Janet Napolitano, former secretary of Homeland Security, said in August. National Cyber Security Awareness Month is intended to alert computer users to the threat of online attacks and provide advice on how to avoid them. At Ball State, the university reached out to students at Late Nite on Saturday.
Jo Ann Gora’s first days as Ball State president in 2004 weren’t without challenges. The search committee that hired Gora faced complaints from faculty and students about the methods of the search, including the decision not to release any names of the finalists during the process — a first for the university. Jayson Manship, Student Government Association president at the time, criticized student representation on the search committee in a statement during the search.
Both Ball State and IU experienced similar student safety incidents, but the universities reacted in very different ways. Late Saturday night, a Ball State student was stabbed in the Worthen Arena parking lot in an attempted robbery, according to an email the university sent that informed students of the incident.
