LOOKING BACK: Snowpocalypse
By Christopher Stephens / April 24, 2014Look back at the winter you survived.
Look back at the winter you survived.
First day on the job:The search in 2004 for President Jo Ann Gora was closed, which means names of finalists were not released, angering some students and faculty.
After sweeping budget cuts and annual tuition increases of around 4.5 percent, students received a break starting this year.Ball State’s Board of Trustees approved a 2 percent increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15, the lowest increase since 1976.
...ON HER NICKNAME Q: Do you like the nickname “JoGo”? A: Somebody told me that a few years ago that that was my nickname.
While many can fulfill their spiritual needs in a row of pews on Sunday morning, Jackson Eflin can just take a step outside to find his church: nature.Eflin, a senior creative writing major, is the president of Ball State’s Society for Earth-based Religions.
In front of the leather-bound books of the L.A. Pittenger Student Center music lounge, floating lips and the gyrating hips of Frank-N-Furter grace the screen.
The Ball State men’s volleyball team lost to Lewis in five sets in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association tournament 25-23, 17-25, 25-22, 13-25 and 8-15.It was the third time this season Ball State lost to Lewis and the fourth straight season that Ball State fell in the MIVA semifinals.The Cardinals were led offensively by outside attacker Shane Witmer, who finished the match with 12 kills, and Marcin Niemczewski was second with eight.
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s recreation of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s single “Can’t Hold Us” wasn’t easy. Joel Godett, assistant director of broadcast and multimedia services, filmed the parody and came up with the idea after seeing a similar video done at Syracuse when he was in college. The music video follows Charlie Cardinal and various athletes in on-campus areas, such as Worthen Arena, near Beneficence and Frog Baby, Briner Sports Complex and in front of the Bell Tower. The video was shot over the course of two weeks and consisted of at least eight different shoots, Godett said.
All it took to end Ball State’s upset bid of 13th-ranked Indiana was a single bad inning. Indiana used an error on Ball State catcher Sam Tidaback to jump out to a 1-0 lead after the first inning, and the Cardinals received a home run by senior Kyle Raleigh to even the score in the second.Heading into the bottom of the sixth inning the Cardinals and Hoosiers were locked in a 1-1 pitcher’s duel.
In its first year under head coach Max Norris, Ball State women’s tennis set a school record for wins in the Mid-American Conference.
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It was the rain that brought Mrs. Brown’s kindergarten class outside. She was covering science and the forming rainbow was the perfect excuse to go out.The students pointed out the different colors they saw: green, orange, purple.Andrew Neylon said he saw the blue and the green, the red, the orange, the yellow and the purple.
Around President Jo Ann Gora’s office, there is not a single picture of her husband, two children or three grandchildren.Instead, the items that cover the walls and windowsills tell the story of a different family, a decade of Ball State history.
With four months until resident move in, the Village Promenade has filled its first-floor business center and most of the 266 apartment units.The apartment is on track for completion by its Aug. 16 move-in date.
Tears, thanks and lots of references to Disney’s “Frozen” came from the Student Government Association podium Wednesday afternoon as the executive board passed its roles to the successors.Cardinal Connection, consisting of president Nick Wilkey, vice president Carli Hendershot, secretary Rahissa Engle and treasurer Sidney Staples, was sworn-in Wednesday afternoon as the 2014-2015 executive board of SGA.
There are not enough hours in a week for an out-of-state student to work a minimum wage job and pay for one semester’s worth of tuition.To pay for Ball State tuition, an out-of-state student would have to work 206 hours per week during the 16-week semester, and an in-state student would have to work 75 hours per week.
Five candidates have been interviewed to succeed President Jo Ann Gora.Wayne Estopinal, presidential search committee leader and Board of Trustee member, said the candidates were interviewed for about 90 minutes each and the committee has a “short list.”
At the beginning of the academic year, the president of the Student Government Association resigned, following backlash from racially insensitive tweets he published.The incident could easily have isolated SGA from the rest of the student body. Instead, it seems outreach has been this executive board’s strongest platform.
With summer rapidly approaching, it’s time for you to get your ultimate summer playlist ready to be on repeat.
In a show that honors one of its own, the Department of Theatre and Dance presents its last production called “Design & Dance.” Sarah Mangelsdorf, assistant professor of dance, has worked at Ball State for more than 40 years and was an integral part of the process of creating the dance major.
