Labor Day weekend meant long road trips for Ball State athletics. Football went down to Georgia and beat Georgia State 31-21 in its season opener. Cross country finished third in the Butler Open in Carmel. Field hockey split its games in Louisville, soccer dropped two games in its California road trip and women's volleyball fell to 0-7 on the season.
Seven students received the career experience of a lifetime this summer with an immersive learning class that partnered with Turner Classic Movies.
Whenever a crime or emergency happens on campus, the university alert system has usually been met with criticism.
“I’m eating a nasty pot-pie, it’s like I live here.” Rai Peterson, a professor in the English department at Ball State, instructs an immersive learning class that teaches students to bind books at the Books Arts Collaborative building across form Cornerstone Center for the Arts in downtown Muncie.
Deciding to join a Greek life organization can be a big decision for some students, and formal sorority recruitment begins this week for those who are already set on joining a sorority.
Ball State head football coach Mike Neu held his weekly press conference on Monday after the team started its season with a 31-21 victory over Georgia State.
Ball State couldn’t catch its breath. Four plays into the game, the offense that chose to receive the ball to start the game was running the wrong way, as Jerome Smith’s black No. 20 jersey trotted into the end zone following an interception and sent the lower level at the Georgia Dome into a frenzy. Three plays later, Riley Neal's third down pass was tipped at the line.
First Quarter Ball State got favorable field position after a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the kickoff.
A note containing racial slurs and hateful language surfaced near the Ball State campus on Friday.
When a majority of students graduate, the first thing on their mind is finding the perfect job that is worth the thousands of dollars and countless hours they spent studying to prepare for.
Immersive learning — one of Ball State's notable campus-wide initiatives — attracts students from all disciplines into collaborative classroom settings each year.
Since its grand opening on Aug. 1, Hot Heads has been very busy.
After much practice, Jacob Goodpastor can get ready for a drag show performance in an hour and a half. Goodpastor, known as “Venus” onstage, has been a drag queen for two years and will host Be Here Now’s drag show at 9 p.m. on Sept. 2.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the president of the prominent Jesuit university in Washington announced Thursday.
Ball State is home to over 400 student organizations, but one group, Today’s Black Women (TBW), is hoping to offer black women at the university a place to call home.
Ball State cross country will have a young roster this season — half of its runners are freshmen.
Ball State secondary vs. Georgia State passing game Last season, the Cardinals’ secondary ranked in the bottom 10 in the nation in passing yards allowed per game, yards per attempt and opponent completion percentage.
Newslink: Breaking video coverage Gallery: Images from the scene and campus Students react to lockdown, university notification system It was a long hour and a half. A single report of a man with a gun turned campus upside down Thursday night as Ball State police, Muncie officers and Indiana State Police searched buildings and ordered students to find shelter while they raced to track down two men said to be carrying a gun. Read more: Times Indiana universities saw reports of guns on campus “I was really terrified,” said freshman nursing major Deona Webster.
Gun-related incidents are extremely rare on Indiana college campuses, but hardly unknown. At least a half dozen times in the past four years, authorities have responded to reports of guns on Indiana campuses. Only one case involved a shooting – but every case triggered a university alert or lockdown order.
As police searched campus for a gunman, students away from the potential danger received the emergency alert texts. Some were worried and others were angry, but they generally felt safe.
