Stadium, commuter parking affected by opening game

Students parking in stadium and commuter lots will have to change their routine because of Thursday night's football game. Find out where to move your car so it's not towed. Ball State University requires students who park in the stadium and stadium overflow lots to move their vehicles to commuter lots between 5 p.



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Digital home researches technology

Stepping inside the Digital Home is like walking into a normal new house, except for cameras mounted on the walls, a medical office and exercise bikes hooked to a PlayStation 2. Ball State is using the Digital Home and Health Care Facility just off campus on West Kilgore Street to research technology's affect on people's lives.


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Students plan communities

Ball State University seniors completing urban planning degrees are getting practical experience creating comprehensive plans for three areas in Indiana. Sixteen students will travel to Brazil, Walkerton and unincorporated Lakeview during September, working with public officials and community members to develop an overall vision of what the community wants to become.


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Students speak out about generation

Students sometimes feel as if their voices are not heard by older generations, but Monday through Wednesday they have an opportunity to speak up. Because Ball State University was touted as the most unwired campus in the nation, Generation Next, a project interviewing students for a documentary, came to the university.



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Volunteers from Ball State continue to aid victims

A year after Katrina first hit, long after the national media attention faded, several Ball State students, alumni and faculty are still rebuilding the devastated Gulf Coast region. Ivo Rozendaal and Karli Molter, architecture students who graduated last May, have helped out the small town of Bayou La Batre, Ala.


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Businesses provide discounts

With more than twenty-five local businesses offering discounts to Ball State University students, staff members or alumni, having a Ball State ID card can save money on everyday purchases. Since its election, Team Lisec has been working to develop a list of Muncie businesses that offer discounts.


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WCRD radio show cast to go on stage

Prepare for an night of belly laughs Wednesday as the cast of WCRD's Sunday Night Revival puts on a free comedy show at 7 p.m. in Pruis Hall. John Moore, Jason Quick and Vince Eagan will switch gears from sitting behind a switchboard to performing stand-up comedy in front of a live audience.



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Alumna remembers, learns from first-hand experience

[EDITOR'S NOTE: One year after Hurricane Katrina, Ball State alumna Kimberly Robinson continues to cope with the changes the disaster brought into her life. From rebuilding her family home, to finishing graduate school, to starting a new job, Katrina changed everything.


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FOOTBALL: Athletics department focuses on student attendance

Ball State University athletics is targeting students with promotions and free items, in an attempt to entice them to come to the football team's home opener Thursday. The athletic staff and its corporate sponsors will be giving away free food, mini footballs and other merchandise starting today to promote the 7:30 p.


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Ball State tests WiFi on shuttle

Ball State University's thirst for advancing technology has reached a new height. University Computing Services recently extended wireless access to a shuttle bus with the intention of providing students the ability to travel throughout campus and not lose their mobile connection.


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WATERDAZE

From a balloon toss to a slip 'n' slide to a moon walk, the greek community came together to participate in Water Daze and raise money for Riley Hospital for Children. Theta Chi fraternity hosted the event Saturday on LaFollette Field.



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NewsLink@9 reformats, changes name to NewsWatch

Ball State's revamped student-produced newscast debuts at 9 p.m. as "NewsWatch." Formerly known as "NewsLink@9," NewsWatch hopes to attract attention by providing relevant news to both the BSU campus and Muncie community, Sean O'Key assistant news director, said.


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FOOTBALL: Freshman quarterback impresses Hoke

Taking snaps from under center and reading defenses is standard practice for quarterbacks at any level. Doing these things in college and doing them in high school are completely different, as freshman quarterback Nate Davis will attest to. However, Davis' improvement and natural ability has impressed coach Brady Hoke enough during fall practice that he will play Thursday night against Eastern Michigan University.


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WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Cardinals look for freshman to contribute

Two games into the season, freshman Julie Breivogel has already led the Cardinals, scoring a team high 15 kills in the final match against Michigan State on Saturday. "[The team is] very excited about the way I played and were very happy that I could contribute," Breivogel said.


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A watchful eye

In the 1980s parents used Velcro wristbands attached to a spiral cord to keep track of their children. Two decades later, the technology has increased, but the core concern is still there. Parents want to know where their child is, where he has been and what he is doing.


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SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CYNIC: Portable peanut butter goofy, unnecessary

Get excited, because now, for the first time, you're going to be able to take your peanut butter on the go. Isn't that terrific news? According to a commercial that I heard on the radio, our good friends at Jif are bringing us Jif To Go. Since the inception of peanut butter, peanut butter aficionados have been dipping all sorts of stuff in their peanut butter: carrots, apples, celery, crackers.


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WHO ME?: Off-campus living offers experience better that residence hall gives

My room is bigger than your room. Actually, let me rephrase that. My BEDroom is bigger than your DORM room. And it's all thanks to off-campus living, which is a very rewarding experience if you have the financial means to do it. Granted, I am still in the honeymoon period, as I just moved into my College Park apartment two weeks ago, but already I am finding out what I had always heard but never quite believed - that an apartment beats the pants off of a dorm.


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SPEAK SOFTLY: Politics should stay out of classroom

There is a time and a place for everything in today's society. Whatever your opinions might be, you are - of course - entitled to have them. Having our opinions keeps us unique. People have opinions on almost everything in this country. This keeps us diverse and actually makes our day-to-day lives more interesting.






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