MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: The benefits of doing nothing

TeamRecord Votes1. Pepperdine 18-22362. UC Irvine 20-42233. CS Northridge21-52044. USC 16-71855. Stanford 19-81806. BYU15-10165 7. Penn State10-121388. Long Beach St.11-131349. UCLA12-1311510. UC San Diego11-139711. Ohio State12-97012. Lewis19-66113. Santa Barbara8-165314.



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BASEBALL: First-place Cardinals sweep Bulls in rain

After a weekend in Buffalo, N.Y., the Ball State University baseball team boarded the bus home with two victories and a trip to Niagara Falls under its belt. The Cardinals (14-12, 5-2) swept Sunday's doubleheader against the University at Buffalo (10-17, 1-7) with victories of 15-9 and 3-2.



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BOOZERS AND LOSERS: Why hide sex-for privacy or social norms?

I was sitting on the toilet, minding my business, when a dog barked. Strange, I thought, because dogs, or pets of any kind, are forbidden from this apartment complex. The bark seemed to come from the kitchen. Also strange, I thought, because I've lived with my Viennese host family for three weeks now, and somehow, this dog has escaped my attention.


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SOFTBALL: Milian throws one-hitter shutout victory

Even when things were at their worst for pitcher Elizabeth Milian this weekend, everything seemed to work out to her advantage. Milian gave up five runs in the second inning of Sunday's game against Kent State University only to have the stats washed away by the thunderstorm that canceled the game.



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WOMEN'S GOLF: Big Ten teams beware of Cards

After a second place finish in the Southern Illinois Saluki Invitational a week ago, the Ball State University women's golf team will head to Columbus, Ind., for the Indiana Invitational. The field contains six Big Ten teams, including the University of Wisconsin and the University of Iowa.


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OUR VIEW: Right to know

You've just been pulled over. You're sitting in your car in the dark waiting for the police officer to walk up to your window and wondering what in the world you did wrong, because you're sure you weren't speeding. You hand over your license and registration when the officer asks for it.


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Student arrested on suspicion of armed robbery

Police arrested a Ball State University student after an armed robbery Sunday at the Marathon gas station at the intersection of Tillotson and Bethel avenues, according to police reports. Chadwick Nash, 20, was arrested after Muncie police received a report from staff at the Marathon that a man matching Nash's description walked out with a case of beer, according to the Muncie Police Department's arrest report.


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HIPSTER IS THE NEW HIPPIE: Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album risks

When the Yeah Yeah Yeahs arrived in 2003 with "Fever to Tell," the band's dirty art punk style helped move rock 'n roll from the trendy, swank The Strokes to deadlier, more subversive territories. They did it rashly - with singer Karen O's vicious power yelp, Nick Zinner's icy, gigantic guitar sound and a rhythm section that felt as if it were constantly veering off the tracks.



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SOFTBALL: Tuesday's game canceled

Tuesday's softball game at IPFW has been cancelled because of expected poor field conditions. Coach Craig Nicholson said Sunday's rain has made the softball fields at IPFW and at Ball State University unusable. The Cardinals will use the day to work on their hitting before trying to return outside Wednesday.


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THE BOGEYMAN: Automakers, banks should be regulated

Government must keep large companies from failing. This is the nature of externalities. As every first-year economics student learns, the costs incorporated into the supply and demand curves, which set the equilibrium prices in free markets, sometimes do not adequately reflect the true cost to society of the good's production.


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MEN'S TENNIS: Cardinals withstand marathon meet vs. UT

The Ball State University men's tennis team is two games away from winning the Mid-American Conference championship. With a 6-1 win against the University of Buffalo on Friday and a 4-3 victory against the University of Toledo on Sunday, Ball State controls its own destiny for the conference championship.


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SOFTBALL: Sibling rivalry flares up at BSU

For the week leading up to the Ball State University softball game against the University at Buffalo, Ball State catcher Natalie Bejarano has been keeping in contact with her younger sister Alex Bejarano. Alex Bejarano is a sophomore at Buffalo and the starting shortstop.


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OUR VIEW: Money matters

Pre-approval. Free pizza. Free Subway. Free T-shirt. And a ruined credit score. College students are bombarded with credit card offers and incentives. We're easy targets. Students have to pay rent, utilities, tuition and food on limited funds. As student loan money and jobs become more scarce, the lure of credit cards becomes harder to ignore.