I started writing about my position on recent health care reform, but I've found a topic that is just as heated, just as ferociously debated and has just as many people upset: Muncie train crossings.
Campus may have seemed darker than usual Saturday night as hundreds of students turned off their lights for 60 minutes to participate in Earth Hour.
Kolbrin Vitek shutout the Bobcats for seven innings, allowing just two hits for his first victory of the season. That game, combined with him going 6-for-12 with three runs and two RBIs in the series, netted Vitek national player of the week honors from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper.
As soon as the news broke that attorneys general in 13 states had joined forces in a lawsuit against the U.S. departments of Treasury, Labor and Health and Human Services, there was more than one person who wondered how long it would take Indiana to get involved.
The program director for Women's Week said she couldn't be happier with how it went.
When looking at the legacy that Cardinal Impact will leave behind, it's not clear right now. Many of its initiatives were successful, others were partially completed and some never got far off the ground.
Have you ever wondered how sick you have to be before you forgo the Amelia T. Wood Student Health Center in favor of the emergency room? Many students have had to make this decision — or have someone make the decision for them.
Most people would find it extremely difficult to move away from family, friends and home to pursue an education in another country. Emmanuel Kwame Teye is one of about 500 students at Ball State University who have done exactly that in pursuit of a college degree. Teye, a first-year graduate student, traveled about 5,700 miles to Ball State from Tema, Ghana, to study cellular and molecular biology and to earn a postgraduate certificate in biotechnology.
This evening marks the start of the holy festival of Passover, an important tradition celebrated by Jews all over the world. On campus, University Dining has options available for students celebrating the holiday.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is joining 13 other states in challenging the nearly $1 trillion health care overhaul signed into law last week by President Barack Obama.
More than nine months ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York prohibited schools from selling homebaked goods as fundraisers because he wanted to put a halt to the obesity epidemic. He is now allowing children to sell things such as Doritos and Pop-Tarts, but still restricts the sale of anything homebaked, such as brownies, cookies or apple pies.
The Belly Dance Club participated in last week's Women's Week with a performance in the Fine Arts Building.
If you're like me, you like to occasionally stay home on a Friday or Saturday night to unwind. This means kicking back on the sofa, competing against 8-year-olds on Xbox Live and politely declining when friends invite you to party.
Ball State University will send three gymnasts plus an alternate to the NCAA Central Regionals, as announced by the NCAA today.
Despite Walton not even voting for his team, the Cardinals received 17 votes and were ranked No. 15 in the top 15 coaches poll released Monday — two days after Ball State swept then-No. 3 Cal State Northridge.
Eric Skillman has been the top individual performer for the Cardinals through the first two rounds. Skillman improved his second round score by four strokes to finish tied for 11th with a 148, or +4.
After splitting its first two matches in the invitational on Saturday, Ball State faced California Polytechnic State University in its last match. Cal Poly came into the match with a 3-10 record on year, but defeated the Cardinals 6-1.
Ball State went from being swept by No. 3 Cal State Northridge on Friday night to returning the favor by sweeping the Matadors 30-24, 30-28, 30-22 Saturday night in Worthen Arena. It was Ball State's first victory against a ranked opponent in six attempts this season and the first time the Cardinals have defeated a top-five ranked team since defeating then-No. 4 IPFW in February 1999.
The loss was the third time this season that the Cardinals have been shutout and pushes their overall record to 6-9 overall and 0-2 in the Mid-American Conference.
