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By Staff Reports / October 19, 2013Check back for ongoing updates, live from Western Michigan.
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Ball State defensive coordinator Jay Bateman isn’t looking at Western Michigan University’s 0-7 record as he and his defense prepare for the upcoming game Saturday. Instead, he’s looking at the best way to go after the Broncos’ offense — forcing them to turn the ball over.
Freshman Keegan McKinney was named Mid-American Conference golfer of the week after last weekend’s tournament.
The Ball State cross country team finished with one of its strongest races this season. The Cardinals took fifth place out of 34 other teams in the Jenna Strong Fall Classic, hosted by Wilmington College. Together Ball State’s five scored runners posted a time of 19:16.25, earning them 170 points.
Ball State named Beth Nue as the new director of the Fort Wayne office of Building Better Communities Friday. Building Better Communities is an immersive learning program that pairs Ball State students with community members to work to solve community problems with students ideas, according to the website. “We could do community outreach, make sure the community and alumni know about the programs,” Nue said. The new office in Fort Wayne offers the community ideas on how to create business connections for students and provide them with field experience. Nue’s goals are to interact with the leadership of the community and ensure they know the types of programs Ball State has to offer, such as media, art and architecture. Kelli Huth, director of the BBC fellows program, said the program looks to allow students to work in the Fort Wayne community and offer their expertise to those community members who could use it. Nue said this program exists to help increase involvement, improvement, advancement and development in Fort Wayne. “Basically we want to improve the economy as a whole with Ball State expertise,” Nue said.
“If you outlaw pit bulls, then only outlaws will own pit bulls,” read the first slide during a class to help Delaware County police officers to recognize organized animal fighting. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals hosted classes aimed to train more than 80 local law enforcement agents in effective ways to investigate and handle organized animal fighting today. This class comes in response to last year’s trial of Rahsaan Johnson, a Muncie man found guilty of 14 felony accounts of possession of an animal for fighting, according to the L.A.
BAGHDAD – A barrage of car bomb and suicide bomb blasts rocked Baghdad and two northern Iraqi communities Thursday, killing at least 61 people during a major holiday period and extending a relentless wave of bloodshed gripping the country. The bulk of the blasts struck in mainly Shiite Muslim parts of the Iraqi capital shortly after nightfall, sending ambulances racing through the streets with sirens blaring.
WASHINGTON — The federal government is back open for business. The Obama administration changed the government’s status to “open” early Thursday, more than two weeks after a partial shutdown took hold when funding from Congress ran out. Minutes after President Barack Obama signed a hard-fought deal struck in Congress, the White House directed all agencies to reopen promptly and in an orderly fashion.
After canceling its Ball State Invitational for this Friday, the women’s cross country team will travel to Wilmington, Ohio, to compete in the Jenna Strong Cross Country Invitational at Wilmington College. The women’s 5k race will take place at 4:40 p.m.
After a two-week break, the Ball State women’s tennis team is back in action this weekend, as the squad travels down to the University of Memphis to participate in the ITA Ohio Valley Regional.
With only five games left in the regular season, the Ball State field hockey team is in control of its own destiny. With roughly three weeks left, Ball State is 0-2 in Mid-American Conference play and 5-8 on the year.
Joshua Sullivan stood on a balance board juggling three multicolored balls. The sophomore biology major has been juggling for five years, describing one year as “a whole year of pathetic.” After juggling, he started preparing for a fire breathing demonstration.
Patricia Nelson stood in the back room of Art and Journalism Building Room 123, dipping her gloved hands in a tub of sulfuric acid.
_John Vellenga is a junior journalism major and writes ‘John the Gamer’ for The Daily News. His views do not necessarily agree with those of the newspaper.
There will be no lull in the schedule, no chance for Ball State to wander into a trap game. Facing off against two of the top teams in the Mid-American Conference West last weekend apparently wasn’t enough for the women’s volleyball team. A road trip east is in order for the team, who will travel to Kent State University Friday and then take on Ohio University Saturday. Ohio boasts a 15-3 record and leads the conference with a .833 winning percentage.
Every match is important but as the season winds down, wins and losses seem even more significant. After splitting a pair of crucial matches against top-tier Mid-American Conference last weekend, Ball State’s soccer team is searching for two victories and stability in conference standing against University of Toledo (5-9, 2-4 MAC) and Northern Illinois University (4-8-2, 2-3-1 MAC). Ball State (9-4-1, 4-2 MAC) dropped its match against Western Michigan University (7-3-3, 5-0-1 MAC) on Sunday, and is now in a five-way tie behind Western Michigan. “A good team always responds to a loss,” head coach Craig Roberts said.
A bill is in the works that would require Student Government Association to reserve $6,000 in its co-sponsorship budget for Greek Life.
During the month of October, the sound of screams coming from haunted trails takes over Piney Acres Farm. With clowns, gorillas and demons, there is a little bit of something to irk everyone’s fear.
20 and younger As students settle into routines and gear up for midterms, many also think about Halloween.
One couple said they added to their family collection at a book sale hosted by the Phi Sigma Tau, a philosophy honors society.
