Twelve teams are set to compete in this year's Cardinal Chili Challenge on the University Green. Judging begins at 10:45 a.m. with Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora and members of the university staff, who will determine the champions. The competition spans three categories - spiciest, most original and best overall.
Students will no longer have Saturday finals as of Fall 2007, according to a revised academic calendar approved by University Senate on Wednesday. The plan also eliminates a day of Fall Break, and students will attended Friday classes on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.
Eight years ago, Paul Buis put a small digital recorder in his right shirt pocket, hit play and began lecturing his class. When he finished, the Ball State University associate professor of computer science took the recording and uploaded it into his computer, compressing the file to conserve hard drive space.
Ball State University graduate student Michael Gary Lee died March 18 after a two-week battle with pneumonia. But the influence he had on people throughout his educating and coaching careers will live on. Find out more about his passion for kids, his love of sports and his faith.
For bar patrons and owners, the glass went from half empty to half full Thursday. The switch of Indiana's clock to daylight-saving time in the midst of Saturday night's drinking hours would cause bars to close an hour early. The bar hours exemplify problems many Hoosiers will face when they change their clocks in the first observance of daylight-saving time in 30 years.
Sue Errington, Democratic candidate for the Indiana Senate District 26, will discuss today how she got involved with politics, why she decided to run for Senate and how other women can get involved in politics. Errington will present "Women and Politics: An Inside Look at a Campaign" at 10 a.
Plagiarism is wrong. It is perhaps one of the greatest sins a student could commit in the sanctuary of the classroom. All college students should know that, yet several cases of plagiarism occur at Ball State University each year. But that's, at least in part, because the leaders of today are not giving us the proper role models.
Things aren't going to get any easier for coach Kathy Bull and the Ball State University women's tennis team. After starting off conference play with two losses last weekend, two tough opponents travel to Muncie for matches. On Friday, Ball State (6-8, 0-2 Mid-American Conference) plays Bowling Green, which is 13-4 (2-0 MAC) on the year.
After a sluggish offensive start, a trio of seniors on the Ball State University baseball team has started to produce results. First baseman Brad Miller, center fielder Mike Sullivan and second baseman Kyle Dygert have been key contributors during Ball State's four-game winning streak.
This year's Cinderella story in the NCAA basketball tournament is George Mason University. So when the history-making 11th-seeded Patriots made it to the Final Four in Indianapolis and tickets were made available, members of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at George Mason jumped on them.
In exactly 36 days, more than 2,800 Ball State University seniors will turn the tassel on their college careers. I am one of them, and my senioritis has officially set in. In my experience, senioritis typically shows itself in a number of ways. Those seniors who never before were seen in public in sweatpants begin rolling into class looking as though they are still sleeping - at 2 in the afternoon.
A semester-worth of hard work paid off for two Ball State University students who won two awards at the Regional Addy Awards. Jon-Tyler Core, a junior telecommunications major, and Bobby Richards, a senior theater major, received the Gold Award and Student Overall Best-of-Show for their promotional DVD for Reflex, an improvisational/sketch comedy troupe at Ball State.
With the start of Mid-American Conference play this weekend, the Cardinals have a chance to prove they belong at the top of the conference standings. After losing three of their last five matches, the Ball State University men's tennis team dropped out of the rankings this week for the first time all season.
Athletes agree to a number of stipulations before they sign their contracts and receive their scholarship money. For example, they agree to restrictions on their substance use and gambling, as well as monitoring of their academics. What they don't sign off on is censorship of their personal Web spaces.
In the past few weeks, administrators in the Ball State University athletic department have asked student-athletes to clean up their Facebook profiles or to get rid of them entirely. While coaches feel it's the right thing to do, player reaction has been mixed. Earlier this month, coaches at Ball State University were contacted by athletic administrators and asked to deal with the issue.
Vivian Vahlberg spoke Tuesday night about innovation and women in the workplace, in light of Ball State University's Women's Week. During the speech, she described her experiences as a female journalist. According to Vahlberg, women are not held back by institutional barriers today - they're held back by emotional barriers.
March Madness has come and gone, and the Final Four is upon us. I'm sure many of you understand the draw of the NCAA tourney. I have read that businesses expect to lose millions of dollars due to lost productivity during the NCAA tournament. Born in Kansas City, Kan.
Defensive and pitching miscues by Purdue University and some timely hitting by the Ball State University offense delivered the fourth win in a row for the Cardinals in a 3-2 victory over the Boilermakers.-á Down 2-0 in the top of the seventh inning, the Cardinals (11-11) evened the score with two runs.
Dear Editor, I'm confused. Is the campaign to "Stop Hate" really to stop hate or to stop racism and discrimination? Personally, hate is a human emotion, and without hate, I inherently give up part of my humanity. Giving up a natural human emotion that is what makes us all human is ridiculous.
Vaudevillian music and scantily clad men and women will fill the John R. Emens Auditorium tonight, with the opening performance of "Cabaret." The classic musical is set in 1930 in Berlin before Adolf Hitler's rise to power. It begins with writer Cliff Bradshaw (freshman Curtis Becht) remembering the time he spent in Berlin, specifically in the Kit Kat Club, a night club host to decadence of all kinds.
