The first of two Ball State University Student Government Association election debates was marked by agreement on three main topics - the Multicultural Center, slate workloads and student, administrator and Muncie relations. The Presidential/Vice Presidential Debate on Monday night included the two top members of each slate, while the Slate Debate at 7:30 p.
Text messaging is a popular way to market things in our society, and a Ball State University professor wants to know how students are reacting to it. Michael Hanley, assistant professor of journalism and advertising sequence coordinator, said he and the Center for Media Design researched this for two years, and he has seen significant increase in acceptance of text messaged ads.
Cigar and tobacco selection is going to be slimmer in Muncie once Little Havana Tobacco Cabana officially closes on Saturday. After almost two months of clearance sales, Little Havana, the tobacco shop in the Ball State University Village, has cleared out most of its inventory and therefore is closing, student manager Mike Dean said.
About 10 years after digital media programs became available, Ball State University is one of the 10 percent of schools nationwide where students can take the courses. The Center for Information and Communication Sciences conducted a survey of 400 schools nationwide, which began in September and ended in November, Ray Steele, CICS director and research leader, said.
Student Government Association presidential candidates met Monday to debate issues they will focus on if elected. The first prompt issued to the presidential hopefuls questioned the past, not the future. Vote Bare's Matt Bare and U.N.I.T.E.D. Initiative's Betsy Mills were given two minutes to respond to the challenge: What part of current SGA slate Team Lisec's platforms do they consider most important to continue? In possibly the most distinctly different responses of the debate, Bare and Mills responded with separate priorities.
Though the Ball State University men's tennis team lost Saturday, the team saw some encouraging signs on the court, coach Bill Richards said. Ball State lost to No. 34 University of Kentucky 4-3, as the Cardinals fell to 3-5 on the season. Ball State won the No.
Originally set as a three-way meet, prior to the inclusion of Northern Illinois University, the Ball State Quadrangular delivered the last test for the Cardinals prior the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships. The women's track and field team ended up taking third in its own meet while fellow MAC counterpart Western Michigan University won the meet with a score of 155 points.
Student Government Association is discussing a plan to lower the grade point average requirements to graduate with cum laude honors. Its proposal would lower the standard for graduating cum laude to a 3.5 GPA. Currently, the requirement is a cumulative GPA between 3.
Junior Jesse Bontrager holds up a "Shut up Larry" sign Saturday to protest Larry the Cable Guy who was putting on a show at Emens Auditorium. Bontrager and seven other Ball State students and recent graduates gathered at the corner of Riverside and McKinley avenues yelling phrases like "Don't get 'er done!" and "Don't encourage unfunniness" at ticketholders as they passed by.
When Charlotte Bront+â wrote "Jane Eyre," few women published novels, let alone bestsellers. Because she and her sisters had previously released a book of poetry published under male pseudonyms with limited success, Bront+â decided to publish the book under her own name.
There's a reason why Western Michigan University's Carrie Moore is the leading scorer in the nation. The senior can fill up the scoring column quickly. Ball State University held Moore, who averages 25.3 points per game, to 17 points in a 76-60 victory earlier in the year.
Last week Nielsen, the company responsible for telling you what everyone's watching on TV, began to factor college students into their ratings system for the first time. The change could increase the 18-24 demographic's viewing power by as much as 12 percent, raising ratings for some programs by as much as 1 percent, according to the New York Times.
The Ball State University women's swimming and diving team ended its 2006-07 season with a seventh place finish at the Mid-American Conference Championships. The four-day event started Thursday and concluded Saturday with all eight MAC women's swimming and diving programs competing.
Ball State University will open the digital doors to two virtual charter schools in the fall, but not without facing opposition from the state legislature and Indiana's largest teachers union. Last week, Democrats in the state House of Representatives proposed provisions in the budget that could ban virtual charter schools, said Dan Clark, deputy executive director of the Indiana State Teachers Association.
The cost of a basic room and meal plan at Ball State University will increase approximately 5 percent for the 2007-08 academic year because the Board of Trustees approved a housing budget increase of 3.7 percent Friday. Rate increases vary depending on where a student lives, said Tom Kinghorn, vice president for Business Affairs and treasurer.
Ball State University's men's basketball team continued its struggles in ESPN Bracket Buster games as it dropped to 0-5 all time in the event by losing to Illinois State University 70-57. The Cardinals (9-17) were again without leading scorer Skip Mills and featured an unusual Cardinal lineup.
A recent U.S. Surgeon General report indicated that secondhand smoke represents a greater threat to non-smokers than previously thought. The number of deaths related to environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, total 3,400 for cancer and another 36,000 deaths for heart disease, according to the American Cancer Society.
Creating a resum+â-¬ to show to potential employers can be an overwhelming task, Ball State University junior Nora Hall said. "There is a pressure that people, like counselors or professors, seem to give off that a resum+â-¬ has to be perfect," she said. Because of the stress of organizing such an important document, Hall said she would probably attend Resumania, a Career Center event that helps students craft their resum+â-¬s.
Despite sickness, the Ball State University gymnastics team recorded a season-high score, but still lost for the sixth time in its seventh meet of the season. Competing at Eastern Michigan University, the Cardinals lost 189.450 to 191.700 Saturday. It was the third-straight competition on the road and third-straight loss for Ball State (1-6, 0-4 Mid-American Conference).
The roofs of a Muncie school and a skating rink collapsed just days after the area was hit by about a foot of snow, and a Johnson County man died after having been run over by a plow truck clearing snow from his driveway. While Indiana continued digging out from a storm earlier in the week that dumped as much as 17 inches of snow at Lafayette, an additional 2 to 3 1/2 inches of snow fell across parts of the state, the National Weather Service said.
