Ball State University men's basketball coach Ronny Thompson has awarded the final scholarship for next year's basketball team. Zack Garcia, a 6-foot-8-inch, 250-pound center from St. Thomas More School, signed with the Cardinals Tuesday. Garcia, who is from La Crescenta, Calif.
The first time Rod Crossland found a geocache hidden in his community, he knew it was his kind of game. About a year ago, Crossland was hanging out in downtown Muncie when a friend showed him the location of a treasure in Dave's Alley. "So I bought a GPS [global positioning system], and when my nephew got here, we had a pirate day and went geocaching," Crossland said.
Ball State University tennis player Matt Baccarani lost in the first round of the men's singles tournament at the NCAA Championships. He was defeated by Clement Reix of Clemson University 6-4, 6-4. "I thought that Matt played fairly well," coach Bill Richards said.
Do you remember last year when McKinley was blocked off from Petty Road to Riverside Avenue? Do you remember how much of a pain it was just to cross the street from Bracken Library to the Atrium? And with all the complaining from May to August, the end result was worth the hassle and inconvenience.
The Ball State University baseball team got a complete game from its ace, Ben Snyder, and defeated Western Michigan University 6-2 in the opening game of the 2006 Mid-American Conference Tournament Wednesday. Snyder gave up just two runs while striking out 10 batters, and he improved his record to 7-5.
Hunter S. Thompson once famously wrote, "In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are f---ed until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely." Please join me in ushering Rep.
Students in kindergarten to high school can visit museums from Philadelphia to California without ever leaving their classrooms through an award winning program offered by Ball State University. The Electronic Field Trip program, an interactive educational experience, recently won two gold awards at the 2006 World Media Festival the program, "The Holocaust Museum Experience: Exploring Our Daily Decision Making.
Five members of the Ball State University track team will be competing in the 2006 NCAA Mideast Regional Championships Friday and Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. Senior Jill Scully, who was recently named the Mid-American Conference Most Outstanding Outdoor Track and Field Performer and was selected to the All-MAC First Team, will compete in the 5,000-meter run.
Immersive learning programs are at the forefront of Ball State University's attempt to redefine itself, but administrators and organizers must be sure efforts are being made to keep these programs alive. Because of a change in funding, the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry had to cut seminars for at least the next two years.
There's a fine line between confident and cocky. The side of the line that Matt Baccarani and Patrick Thompson are on is up to one's own interpretation. The duo, the No. 1 doubles team for Ball State University, qualified as one of the 32 doubles teams to participate in the NCAA Men's Tennis Championships, which starts Wednesday.
For the second year in a row, Ball State University has proved its departments can come together and produce award-winning work. By bringing together three colleges, the university has given students the resources to produce professional-quailty films worthy of the Student Academy Awards competition.
The Ball State University baseball team finished the regular season Saturday with a loss to Central Michigan University but ended the season on a high note winning 12 of the final 14 games. -á The Cardinals will have the No. 3 seed in the Mid-American Conference tournament and will take on the No.
The Ball State University baseball team went into this weekend's series against Central Michigan University with a chance to win the Mid-American Conference West division, but that title went to the Chippewas as they took two of the three games in the series.
Two Ball State University students are in the running for a Student Academy Award, following in the footsteps of a fellow telecommunications student. Travis Hatfield and Samuel Day, both telecommunications students, will travel to Los Angeles on June 10 to find out if their short film "Perspective" will win either a gold or silver Student Academy Award in the alternative film category.
Ball State University students staying home for the summer can now take classes as if they were still on campus thanks to new technology. The School of Extended Education, the Teleplex and the Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement have joined to offer a different form of Internet classes using Mediasite.
President Bush announced recently that he is sending National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. The troops are not there as part of a militarization of the border, but rather to help train Border Patrol agents, help erect fences, analyze intelligence, operate surveillance systems and perform other tasks to assist the border patrol officers.
Telephones have long been a way to get help in an emergency. All anyone has to do is pick up the phone and dial 911 and help will soon be on the way. Unfortunately, if you decide to subscribe Vonage and make phone calls via the Internet, getting help might not be so easy.
Ball State University Internet access, Web sites and Webmail will be unavailable from midnight Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday. University Computing Services must shut these services down to complete an infrastructure upgrade in its system.
More high school graduates are coming to college without the basic skills they need, according to an Indiana University study. Each year, more college students are signing up for remedial classes - basic-skills courses designed to help prepare students to succeed at the level required by most college classes.
Everyone has a class with subject matter that just doesn't click. Ball State University offers resources to give students the boost they need through whatever course that might be. The university does not, however, offer students an easy way through. A recent study conducted by Indiana University showed more college freshmen are entering college without the skills they need to succeed.
