Dear Mom: Well, I did it. I survived a year at college. Literally. It's scary to think that just a year ago I was graduating from high school, and now here I am writing on the verge of my second set of collegiate finals ever. It's been a busy year down here -- but I don't need to tell you that: You get the bills.
Inevitably, every Ball State University student has been in class when someone's cell phone rings loudly and has seen the resulting scramble to find the phone and turn it off before the professor spots the rule-breaker. Cell phones are disruptive in certain settings, but in the case of an emergency they provide an irreplaceable way to get help quickly.
With three second-to-last-place finishes in its last four tournaments, the Ball State University men's golf team will try to gain momentum Saturday at the First Energy Intercollegiate before the Mid-American Conference Championships May 3-5. Joining 16 teams, the Cardinals will compete against MAC teams University of Akron, Bowling Green State University, Eastern Michigan University, Miami University, Northern Illinois University and Ohio University.
Before the Ball State University track and field team will compete at the Mid-American Conference Championships, the team will first head to Indianapolis Saturday for competition. The Cardinals will compete in the Stan Lyons Invitational, hosted by Butler University, beginning at 10 a.
Move over TiVo. Step aside CNN. Interactive television has arrived, and it's making the evening news a lot more interesting. Telecommunications students enrolled in Interactive Video Design, an advanced multimedia class, worked with computer science and journalism graphics students this semester to produce a live, interactive television broadcast that aired at the Center for Media Design on Thursday night.
Sketch comedians will pay homage to the YouTube phenomenon at 11 p.m. Saturday in Ball Gym, as Funtime Comedy, a group started by Ball State University graduate Bobby Richards and senior Tyler Core, takes the stage. The event, which is Funtime's first public performance, will feature video shorts and live sketches written and performed by the group.
Four games out of the final slot in the Mid-American Conference, the Ball State University baseball team is set for an important weekend series in Kalamazoo, Mich. "To get in the tournament, we got to win nine of our last 12 games," coach Greg Beals said.
I have yet to understand what the hell it is that the Federal Communications Commission does. The FCC is charged with regulating all non-federal use of the broadcasting spectrum. The problem is that that spectrum is so wide, diverse and teeming with stuff, there's really no way to effectively regulate it.
The Ball State University women's tennis team will play the University at Buffalo in its opening match of the Mid-American Conference Tournament today at 2 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio. In their regular season match-up, the Bulls defeated the Cardinals 6-1 in Ball State's conference opener.
High school students from six schools around Indiana will participate in the fourth annual Iron Egg Launch competition at 9 a.m. Each high school team made an egg launcher and protective egg container for the event, which is hosted by Ball State University and Purdue University College of Technology-Anderson/Muncie, according to the press release.
A hot dog and nachos. That's the food Ball State University junior closer Kyle Heyne prefers at the ballpark. "Give me a hot dog and maybe some nachos with some jalape+â-¦os," Heyne said. "You got to have some jalape+â-¦os on those nachos." Not only is Heyne Ball State's closer, he also happens to be one of the best in the nation.
Sophomore Alyson Laurencell, a secondary education major, said she never really thought about the book she was using for her PEFWL lecture class. After some contemplation, however, she said she felt slightly cheated because she paid the same teacher twice for the class - once through tuition and a second time when she paid for the required textbook the teacher wrote for the class.
Ball State University's men's tennis team plays in the semi-finals of the Mid-American Conference tournament in Fort Wayne on Friday at 2:00 p.m. against the University of Toledo. The Cardinals beat Toledo 5-2 in the regular season. "Our approach is one match at a time," coach Bill Richards said.
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.
