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MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: No change comes for Cards in poll

About being tied with Loyola "I'm surprised. It is unusual to be tied one week, and then be tied with that one team for two weeks." About the poll staying almost the same from last week "There is not going to be much change because you have the same poll voters and there weren't any really significant upsets.


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Going once, going twice... Sold!

In a metal-frame building with cement floors beside the interstate lay a dismantled museum of Ball State University relics. Row after row of old copy machines, residence hall furniture and projector screens filled Emily's Multipurpose Center, and the white rock outside was covered with fitness equipment and lights from Irving Gym, each a few feet across.



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OUR VIEW: Healthy change

As college students, we complain a lot. Maybe it's because we have a lot to complain about as broke kids about to enter a practically nonexistent job market. Maybe it's just our nature to want to talk about all those little things that bug us, a phase we pass through on the way to maturity.


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PARADOX OF A PLAIDED SWEATER: Students need to remember, attend to pets

Flash back to the year 1994. Michelle Spitler, now a 5th-year elementary education student, is walking into the puppy section of the humane society in Centerville, Ohio. Like a typical puppy room, it's complete chaos: dogs barking like mad and the stench of urine reeking through the air.


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Emergency alert test yields positive results

Ball State University's test of its emergency alert system Thursday yielded positive results and gave the university a chance to fix a few small problems, Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president of marketing and communications, said. The university had two goals with the test, he said - giving the emergency response staff practice and checking any problems that may exist.



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BASEBALL: Win streak comes to abrupt halt

The three-game winning streak the Ball State University baseball team carried into its weekend at Bowling Green State University quickly disappeared. For the first time this season the Cardinals were swept, dropping them out of first place in the Mid-American Conference West Division.


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MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: How the top 15 fared this week

Below is how teams in the top 15 coaches poll fared this week. The newest coaches poll will be released at about 5:30 p.m. Monday. 1. Pepperdine (defeated No. 9 UCLA; lost to No. 2 UC Irvine) 2. UC Irvine (defeated No. 4 USC and No. 1 Pepperdine) 3. Cal State Northridge (defeated No.


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WOMEN'S TENNIS: Cardinals remain winless in conference

The Ball State University women's tennis team played its final home match of the season Saturday, and it ended just like the first one. A 4-3 loss. It was the Cardinals' fifth 4-3 defeat this season as Eastern Michigan University came out of Muncie with a win.



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MEN'S TENNIS: BSU cannot break WMU's perfect steak

Senior Jose Perdomo could do nothing but watch as he swiveled his head from sophomore Eduardo Pavia's singles match to sophomore Shaun Bussert's tiebreaker. Both Bussert and Pavia needed a win to secure a victory for Ball State University's mens' tennis team in the biggest match of the season against Western Michigan University.


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Health Center cuts flu shots with thimerosal

Flu vaccines from the Amelia T. Wood Health Center will no longer contain thimerosal, an ingredient that could be linked to autism and Alzheimer's Disease. Dr. Kent Bullis, medical director of Ball State University's Health Center, said the clinic has ordered vials of Fluarix, which does not contain mercury-based thimerosal like the previously-used Fluzone.


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FOOTBALL: Game lacks star power

Coach Stan Parrish left it up to the observers of the Ball State University football team's spring game to determine if freshman Kelly Page would be the starting quarterback Sept. 3 when the Cardinals open the season at home against the University of North Texas.


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TRACK AND FIELD: Senior Williams continues her domination

Ball State University track and field's fifth-year senior Amber Williams took three of the five victories collected at the Miami Invitational in Oxford, Ohio this weekend. Williams picked up right where she left off in the 100-meter race as she again won the event with a time of 12.





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