Since the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center opened in 1977, the Ball State University tennis teams have won a combined 19 conference titles and had 71 first-team all-conference selections. After 30 years, the facility is getting its first major renovation. The $850,000 construction project on the Ball State men's and women's team tennis courts, located north of the Duck Pond, started last week, and is scheduled to be completed Aug.
Screw scurvy, we all want to be pirates. We wear T-shirts with the skull and crossbones, participate in international talk like a pirate day - at the moment there are 13 groups on Facebook about pirates or international talk like a pirate day. And rebellious icons like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Che Guevara remain popular for the same reasons pirates do - pirates reflect the rebellious and anarchic desires that lie in all of us.
In its eighth year, the Minnetrista Farmer's Market is blossoming with success. Cathy Kozar, director of the Farmer's Market, said Minnetrista offers two main markets in the summer; the May Market and the regular market, which runs from June till the end of October.
The x-rated film partially shot at Ball State University has created a substantial buzz since its release last week, but has not seen substantial sales. Jeff Ray, director of all Priscilla's stores in Indiana, said "Vampire Diaries" would have been more successful had it come out in February when local media first reported on it.
The Ball State Board of Trustees Monday approved a 4.9 percent tuition increase for in-state students for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years, and a 6 percent increase for out-of-state students for both years. The increase will bring tuition for 2007-08 in-state students to $3,336 per semester, a $156 increase, and tuition for 2007-08 out-of-state students to $8,870 per semester, a $502 increase.
With 30 percent of Ball State University men's tennis players coming from Puerto Rico, Cardinals' coach Bill Richards has made use of the country's talent pool. Tuesday, Richards announced the signing of yet another Puerto Rican recruit, Eduardo Pavia from Carolina, Puerto Rico.
All things come to an end and the 2007 Ball State University baseball campaign will end with a three-game series against Central Michigan University that will begin Thursday at Ball Diamond. At 18-33, 6-18 Mid American Conference, the defending champion Cardinals will not make the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
The MITS Late Loop recorded more than 5,300 passenger trips during its trial run from April 5 to May 5, making the program a success for MITS and the downtown businesses that sponsored it. Mary Gaston, MITS assistant general manager, said MITS didn't set any goals for ridership numbers but was pleased with the amount of use the Loop received.
Senior landscape architecture major Francesca Hernandez won the National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Fellowship in April and is planning to create an educational campaign to inform freshmen of the importance of greenhouse gas emissions. National Wildlife campus ecology fellows will battle global warming on their campuses by taking steps to monitor campus energy use and reduce net emissions on campus by about 2 percent per year.
Scoring in all but two innings, Ball State University defeated IPFW 21-10 on a windy Tuesday in Fort Wayne. The Cardinals (18-33, 6-18 Mid American Conference) scored at least two runs on all six Mastodon pitchers.
Summer gives us many opportunities to do things we normally would not have the time or motivation for. We have more time to get back to things we once enjoyed so much, but have lost time for as our lives have gotten busier. One of the greatest forms of self-therapy, for me, anyway, is getting back to the things I once enjoyed.
I can only assume that somewhere there is a Center for the Research of Impractical Studies. This is the center that is in charge of putting together arbitrary data in order to conclude definitively, yet annually, the penultimate list of things like "World's Smartest Animal" and "World's Hardest Miniature Golf Course.
After ending last year near the bottom in the Mid American Conference in offense, the Ball State University basketball team now faces the task of replacing nearly 60 percent of its scoring for the upcoming season. It began with the graduation of Chris Ames, D'Andre Peyton and leading scorer Skip Mills.
After a recent report placed several Ball State University sports among the country's highest academic performers, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tom Collins said the athletics department takes academics seriously, "I think we did an outstanding job academically," Collins said.
Tuition and increase are two words no Ball State University student wants to hear in the same sentence. Tuition increases are a rite of passage Ball State students take in stride, but only when the money tuition hikes bring in is used to fund valuable changes students care about.
Ball State University students could see an increase of up to $525 in tuition and fees next year if the Board of Trustees approves a plan at today's meeting. Ball State officials presented proposed tuition and fee increases at a public forum Thursday. In-state students would see a tuition increase of 4.9 percent
Ball State University trustee Greg Fehribach's lifetime of work facilitating access to buildings for the disabled was recognized with the Unbreakable Spirit Award, given by the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation. The award is given to recognize contributions of groups or individuals that work to improve the lives of people with Osteogenesis Imperfecta and other disabilities through awareness, legislation, education, philanthropy and other forms of service.
The sun shone overhead Saturday as more than 20 Muncie BioLife Plasma Services staff members gathered at a groundbreaking ceremony for a new building. In late October, BioLife will open a new donation center behind Best Buy, moving from its current location on Madison Street on the south side of Muncie.
Ball State University has lost its opportunity to sponsor two Indiana virtual charter schools, as the Indiana General Assembly voted not to grant the schools $21 million in education funding. The schools are exploring alternative funding options. The Muncie-based Indiana Connections Academy and Indianapolis-based Indiana Virtual Charter School were set to open in the fall with a combined enrollment of about 2,200 students said Larry Gabbert, director of the Ball State Office of Charter Schools.
Snapping a six-game losing streak, the Ball State University baseball team defeated Northern Illinois University 2-1 Sunday in ten innings. The win was the second in the last 15 games for the Cardinals. The victory enabled the Cardinals to avoid being swept in the weekend three-game home series after losing the first two games of the series 7-3 and 4-3, respectively.
