With eight games remaining on the schedule, the Ball State University softball team is on the outside looking in at the Mid-American Conference tournament. Ball State (20-28, 6-8 MAC) is currently fifth in the MAC West standings and tenth overall in the conference.
This, my second senior year, has been an eventful one for me. I took my capstone classes, I drafted an entire novel in a month, I published a Web site and I received my first hate mail. I'm sorry to see it end, but at the same time I'm looking forward to the summer.
As outside attacker Justin Orr's kill attempt went out of bounds, it meant more to the Ball State University men's volleyball team than just the end of a season. It was the end of the collegiate careers for outside attackers Nick Meyer and Mark Rumschik.
Custodian Debby Hughes was walking down a hallway collecting trash on the morning of March 22 on the third floor of Crosley Residence Hall when a student ran out of the bathroom in a panic. The student told Hughes that freshman Rebekah Dudeck was lying unconscious on the bathroom floor, Hughes said.
THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND FEET ABOVE OHIO - Oh, opportunity. I write from seat 15A of U.S. Airways flight 3108, en route to New York City for a media conference. It's yet another example of how fortunate I've been to serve as editor in chief of The Ball State Daily News since August 2005.
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After the recent shootings at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, officials at Ball State University are considering how to best alert students and staff during a crisis. One option is using cell phone text message alerts and e-mail, a method that will be implemented by fall 2008, Betsy Mills, Student Government Association president, said.
Multiple Sclerosis research supporters will join together this Saturday to raise an estimated $45,000 at the East Central Indiana Multiple Sclerosis Walk inside Worthen Arena. Karen Kovac, director of development for the Indiana chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, said having the walk indoors will allow people with mobility issues easier access to the events.
A Dodge pickup truck's engine erupted in flames, damaging a Ball State University student's Chevy Montecarlo at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in the LaFollette Complex parking lot. The flames burned the Dodge's engine compartment, hood and windshield. Sgt. John Foster of the Ball State Police Department said the heat from the flame also damaged the vehicle's interior.
The Ball State University softball team's (20-28, 6-8 Mid-American Conference) doubleheader against Purdue University was canceled Wednesday due to rain. No make-up date has been announced. The games against Purdue were scheduled to be the final non-conference games of the season for Ball State.
Randy Hyman, associate dean for Student Affairs, was thanked for serving Ball State University. He has accepted the position of vice chancellor for academic support and student life at the University of Minnesota Duluth and will begin July 1. SGA thanked Disabled Students in Action for its work promoting and sponsoring events at Ball State during Disability Awareness Month in March.
During spring practice, first-year coach Dave Boos said the women's volleyball players have improved the way they interact and communicate with each other. In order to make sure the team continues in the right direction, players have developed a summer plan for conditioning, weightlifting and open gym practices.
To help bring some closure to another year of Ball State University sports, the members of the Ball State Daily News sports staff voted on the top five Ball State sports stories of the 2006-2007 school year. While the soccer team's Mid-American Conference championship and the arrest of two freshmen football players were big stories, they were not big enough.
Having beaten Ohio State University once, the Ball State University men's volleyball said it's trying to prove to everyone the first time wasn't a fluke. The No. 4 seed Ball State plays No. 1 seed Ohio State in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association Tournament semi-finals at 7:30 p.
Money is a commodity all Ball State University students wish they had more of. At the beginning of each semester, a large chunk of cash is devoted to an essential aspect of most courses: textbooks. Yesterday, Student Government Association passed legislation supporting a resolution that would eliminate textbook taxes.
When Margo Najera tells most people about the plans she has for her new house, they give her a puzzled look. The reason for their confusion and disbelief: Najera, a 58-year-old Marion County resident, is building her house out of straw. Although likely to invoke images of three pigs and a wolf, straw buildings are not simply part of a fairy tale world.
Well, it has been another drab year in athletics at Ball State University. Last season, only two teams (men's tennis, baseball) won MAC titles. This year saw the same number (soccer and women's basketball) reach the top of the hill in the MAC. Of course, the soccer team abruptly lost in its opening game of the MAC Tournament to Miami University 2-1, three days after defeating the Redhawks 4-2.
Women clad in red and black fishnet stockings and skates latched onto to a motorcycle circling an indoor concrete track can mean only one thing: The Naptown Roller Girls Tornado Sirens have arrived. Masses of cheering people seated around the track act as the only buffer to stop roller derby skaters from taking spills into the crowd as soon as the first jam, or race, begins.
When determining their schedules, coaches have more to worry about than which competitor fits their team best. They also have to work within their budget, which can lead to hard decisions and sometimes fewer long-distance trips. Travel costs are the third largest part of the athletic department's budget, behind student grant-in-aid and salaries and benefits, Ken Brown, deputy athletics director, said.
Over the past two semesters, I have concentrated my columns on current events and politics, usually assuming a stance associated with liberal views. Columnists such as Christopher Flook, Alex Carroll, Jonathan Sanders and others write about similar subjects.
