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.
Since becoming president of Ball State in May 2004, Jo Ann Gora has won multiple awards and has been involved in five large projects, including two strategic plans and two capital campaigns. According to the university, during her 10 years as president, campus has seen $520 million of construction and renovations, some of which are ongoing. PROJECTS Education Redefined Strategic Plan In 2007 Gora launched the first strategic plan, Education Redefined.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Two Indiana University students were charged Sunday morning in connection with a stabbing that injured another student at a campus apartment building, school officials said. University police arrested 18-year-old Zesen Shen and 21-year-old Kaiyu Lao, IU spokesman Mark Land said in a news release.
The student who was stabbed in the upper arm during an attempted robbery at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday came forward to discuss his injuries and try to keep campus safe.
The best replacement for Jo Ann Gora would be a clone of Gora, said Jim Lowe, director of engineering and construction operations. “You want that person that’s in that leadership role,” he said.
Community leaders were surprised to hear that Ball State President Jo Ann Gora announced her plans to retire in June 2014.
Students take to Twitter to discuss Ball State President Jo Ann Gora’s plans to retire.
Ball State President Jo Ann Gora, one of the university’s most prolific presidents announced plans today to retire next summer.
Ball State’s campus radio station celebrated its 25th year of broadcasting by launching a new mobile app and free food today. WCRD began broadcasting in 1988 as an AM station with the support of Ball State alumnus David Letterman and Ball State professor emeritus Darrell Wible.
TOKYO (AP) — An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck Saturday morning off Japan’s east coast, the U.S.
The Haunted Ball will spook up the campus with a new theme this year, a masquerade. Masked students are invited from 9 tonight until midnight to the L.A.
Students will have a few more choices of groups to join as the Office of Student Life approves new organizations for this year. A student organization must apply to become officially recognized to receive benefits from the university.
Power outages throughout Muncie should be fixed by 3 p.m., a spokesperson for Indiana Michigan Power said. Tracy Warner, a spokesperson for Indiana Michigan Power, said the outages left around 2,300 without power, including the Muncie Mall. Warner said the largest area without power was about 1,500 people near the intersection of Bethel and Tillotson avenues. The outages were caused when snow weighed down trees to touch and interfere with the power lines. “We have tree crews working as quickly as they can to clear those, but the snow and the leaves on the ground make it more time consuming,” Warner said. He said the power near Bethel and Tillotson should be restored by 2 p.m., and other areas, including the Muncie Mall, should be fixed by 3 p.m. Warner said outages may be possible as Muncie moves into the winter season. “It’s just hard to say the extent to which you can predict the weather,” he said.
Members of Student Government Association will reexamine a co-sponsorship bill that requests $6,000 for Greek Life organizations at their meeting Wednesday.
Apple gears up for holidays with new Macs, iPads BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writers MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writers SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple Inc. is refreshing its iPad lineup in hopes of reclaiming lost ground in the tablet market and slashing the prices of its Mac computers to intensify the pressure on the beleaguered makers of PCs running Microsoft’s Windows. Tuesday’s unveiling of Apple’s latest products primes the company for a holiday shopping season onslaught aimed at a list of rivals that includes Google Inc., Samsung Electronics, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. A thinner, lighter and faster-running tablet computer called the iPad Air highlighted the event in San Francisco.
SPARKS, Nevada — A middle school student opened fire on campus just before the starting bell Monday, wounding two boys and killing a staff member who was trying to protect other children, Sparks police said Monday.
Ball State named Beth Nue as the new director of the Fort Wayne office of Building Better Communities Friday. Building Better Communities is an immersive learning program that pairs Ball State students with community members to work to solve community problems with students ideas, according to the website. “We could do community outreach, make sure the community and alumni know about the programs,” Nue said. The new office in Fort Wayne offers the community ideas on how to create business connections for students and provide them with field experience. Nue’s goals are to interact with the leadership of the community and ensure they know the types of programs Ball State has to offer, such as media, art and architecture. Kelli Huth, director of the BBC fellows program, said the program looks to allow students to work in the Fort Wayne community and offer their expertise to those community members who could use it. Nue said this program exists to help increase involvement, improvement, advancement and development in Fort Wayne. “Basically we want to improve the economy as a whole with Ball State expertise,” Nue said.
