Ball State University students interested in losing unsightly pounds and inches can take advantage of a free physical fitness challenge the State Department of Health is offering. More than 40,000 Indiana residents rose to Gov. Mitch Daniels' challenge to lose 10 pounds in 10 weeks.
1 Microwave it (be prepared for a mess) 2 Experiment with your PEEPS at peepresearch.org 3 Think outside of the box and turn your PEEPS into interpretive art 4 Play Fuzzy Bunny: Players take turns putting a PEEPS in their mouth then attempt to say the words "fuzzy bunny.
Despite the historic divide between Ball State University and the Muncie community, a group of students is venturing outside its comfort zone to help fight local poverty. In a seminar called "Voice and Vision: Poverty from the Inside Out," 10 students are learning about the poverty that people overlook everyday.
For junior Hilary Gordon, observing Jewish kosher rules during Passover is an important part of faith. Gordon, who is vice president of Ball State University Hillel, a chapter of the national Jewish campus organization, has followed kosher style for Passover her whole life.
Although some students might lament attending classes on Good Friday, Ball State University has held school consistently on Good Friday for at least the past 15 years, Mike McCauley Director of Academic Systems, said. A possible reason for the consistency is that the academic calendar is made by replicating the calendar from the year before, he said.
The Ball State University softball team's double-header against IPFW was postponed Wednesday due to cold temperatures and a wind advisory. The double-header is rescheduled for April 20 in Fort Wayne. Ball State (11-20, 2-2 Mid-American Conference) lost to Eastern Illinois University 4-3 Tuesday.
Art lovers and the general community who explore the top floor of the Ball State University Museum of Art in April will be greeted by paintings with provocative content, steel structures and the occasional sounds of television static.-á The Ball State Museum of Art will showcase selected works from 85 student artists as part of its 72nd Annual Student Art Show.
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You've seen the questions before. "Did this course help me develop professional skills?" "Did the instructor use class time effectively?" "Would you recommend this course to a friend?" These are just a few examples of the questions Ball State University students could be asked in the next four weeks when student evaluation forms are distributed.
John McCain had a busy weekend - an armored vehicle tour of Baghdad from the airport to the downtown shopping district where shopkeepers gave him gifts of souvenirs. Accompanying him were several Republican politicians, his new best friends - a platoon of fully armed soldiers - and some of the best aerial reconnaissance in the world.
Ball State University's slogan, 'Education Redefined,' isn't limited to the classroom. It also applies to athletics. The Ball State athletic department is currently reviewing its plan toward the Education Act of 1972, more commonly known as Title IX. The Act states no person in the United States can be prevented from participating in activities of any program funded by the U.
It has been a rough start to the Mid-American Conference season for the Ball State University women's tennis team. After dropping two matches last weekend, the Cardinals (6-10, 1-3 MAC) hit the road for matches against conference leader Western Michigan University Friday and Bowling Green State University Saturday.
With four matches remaining in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association regular season, coach Joel Walton's Cardinals are right where he wants them to be, controlling their own fate. Currently one match out of first place, the No. 15 Ball State University men's volleyball team will play No.
Tiny green plastic army figurines and a Dungeons & Dragons map board sit on a shelf in a small, partitioned room in the Abso office in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center basement. Members of Abso, Ball State University's self-proclaimed "premier comedy troupe," often reference them and use them in some of their sketches, group members said.
Once a semester, at least some Ball State University students get to participate in a role-reversal and assign grades instead of receiving them. As it stands, too few students get this opportunity, and the university suffers as a result. With a few changes, professor evaluations could be a more valuable tool and students could help Ball State keep good professors and weed out the poor performers.
Most people think pretzels are food. They are, but they can be much more. Pretzels are also salsa moves where dancers twist and tangle their bodies together without letting go of each other's hands. It's similar to the game Twister, only sexier. "It's difficult, but it can be a lot of fun," Sarah Mangelsdorf, director of dance at Ball State University, said.
When Jim Nyce and his wife Gail Bader went to Romania for a holiday trip in 2003, they were surprised by the differences in technology among people living in the same villages. The Ball State University anthropology professors witnessed some Romanians using cell phones while others used horses and carts to travel.
Ball State University is one step closer to approving and implementing a new core curriculum. The Ball State University Core Curriculum for the 21st Century was approved by the UCC subcommittee of University Senate after six months of discussion and deliberation.
Tim Boswell, the Ball State University student who organized the vast display of flags in LaFollette Field, said the largest motivation for this undertaking was to give all Ball State students a small picture of how powerfully destructive hate can be. Looking across the sea of flags of different colors, it's easy to get an overwhelming sense of the devastation and pain that came from the Holocaust.
President George W. Bush set the lofty goal of America reducing its dependence on foreign oil by 20 percent in his Jan. 23 State of the Union Address. Since then, biofeul and corn production have become two of the fastest growing industries in the nation. Ethanol is the popular solution to reducing oil consumption at this point, but students have the power to use other, more efficient solutions to the problem.
