From Staff Reports Get ready for the camera before you go out to the bars this weekend, as Trish Stratus and Wee Man have arranged to hit the Village bars with a camera crew in tow. Producers of "Armed and Famous" talked with managers of Dill Street and The Chug about bringing some of the show's celebrities out to drink with Ball State University students and Muncie residents.
Even if they technically pass, students may fail classes if they don't take the required pre-requisite courses. University Senate passed a motion on Thursday to possibly install a pre-requisite tracking system for the whole university that would prevent students from enrolling in incorrect classes.
The chance of someone between the ages of 13 and 24 getting HIV increased 42 percent between 2000 and 2004, according to the Center for Disease Control. To raise awareness of the issues involved with HIV and AIDS, faculty from the Amelia T. Wood Health Center, along with several student organizations, have arranged a campus-wide commemoration of World AIDS Day today.
A Ball State University student remains at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis in stable condition after crashing into a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction on Interstate-69 Tuesday night, according to a press release from the Indiana State Police and hospital officials.
While students have been attending the Ball State University Indianapolis Center since May, community leaders and faculty celebrated it Wednesday night at the grand opening ceremony. President Jo Ann Gora and Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson attended the opening, which included a multimedia presentation highlighting partnerships between businesses and the university.
To help keep future problems with Student Government Association Senate appointments from happening, legislation amending the bylaws is being voted on by senators next week. If passed, the amendment, which was proposed at the weekly meeting Wednesday, would create a checks and balances system for the credentials boards to follow when looking at student applications.
While many Ball State University students began making their trip home last week for Thanksgiving Break, Muncie officials announced that a new reality television show would be filmed in Muncie tentatively titled "Armed and Famous." The show's premise includes celebrities training with the Muncie Police Department to become short-term officers - enacting swift justice on townies willing to stand in the face of the law.
Imagine you're 16 and have spent your life being beaten by your father and molested by both parents. You've run away from home repeatedly, going to friends whose parents defend you to the police, urging they intervene. Yet the cops return you every time to your sadistic parents, saying all they're trying to do is turn you into a "good Christian.
Expo magazine and Daily News staff combine forces to investigate the bars of Muncie to add some variety to those monotonous Saturday barhopping nights.
Most Mid-American Conference schools have multi-use aquatic facilities where classes, athletic practices and community activities can take place at the same time. Ball State University has Lewellen Aquatic Center, a single-use facility. This means if the swimming and diving team practices, no one else can use the pool, Bob Thomas, co-coach for the men's and women's swimming and diving teams, said.
I've recently applied for a newspaper internship at my hometown newspaper. The purpose of the internship, at least as it would seem, is to get reporting experience for a future job. One of the qualifications for the internship? You guessed it: News reporting experience.
Ball State University's Bracken Library Bookmark Cafe's opening continues to be postponed because of delays in delivery of refrigerator compression parts. The initial planning for the caf+â-¬ began in September 2005, but delays have caused the caf+â-¬'s opening to be postponed, Liz Poore, assistant director of Residence Hall and Dining Services, said.
Nearly 1,000 swimmers, including three Ball State University athletes, will compete this weekend in the U.S. Open for men's and women's swimming at Purdue University. Michael Phelps, Lenny Krayzelburg and Amanda Weir are a few of the 20 current or past Olympians who will also compete in this pre-qualifying event for the Olympics.
Arms and legs will twist and tangle while finding colored dots as Ball State University students compete in Kappa Delta sorority and Sigma Nu fraternity's Twister tournament Friday at 6 p.m. in Irving Gym 2. For its third year, Kappa Delta's philanthropic Twister tournament will be held in memory of former Kappa Delta member Lindsey Arnold who died of a brain tumor in November 2005, tournament co-chair Jessica Dinkelman said.
After the flops that were the Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea dollars, the Department of the Treasury needed to decide whether or not they were once again going to try to get Americans to embrace the dollar coin. It is a question to which there is no simple answer.
Twelve students in an architecture class are creating a building with straw, a material not often associated with buildings. This unique fabrication process is common in the western states, but is not accepted yet in the Midwest, senior Dan Chase said. Students spent last semester researching the process of building a straw house, and over the summer professor Tim Gray received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, which made the construction possible.
It's possible, but not likely, that the new Ball State University Core Curriculum will be implemented by Fall 2008, as subcommittees of University Senate are still discussing the changes. The University Core Curriculum for the 21st Century proposal has been under review since Sept.
Ball State University will officially unveil its Indianapolis Center on Meridian Street at 5 p.m. with a ribbon cutting. However, there will be no ribbon involved, President Jo Ann Gora said. "They have been working on doing something unusual with digital technology to call attention to the fact that this is a high-tech center," she said.
A group of 15 Purdue University student protesters are left with growling stomachs as they remain in a standoff trying to convince university officials that the school's bookstore should not purchase merchandise produced in sweatshops. The protesters began a hunger strike on Nov.
Use all the sports clich+â-¬s you want. It's crunch time. We're at the two minute warning. Down the stretch we come. There's only a few weeks left in the semester and students are opening their textbooks for the first time. It's time to buckle down and get serious.
