Ball State University police arrested a student on suspicion of resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct Tuesday after an officer said he warned the man to stop skateboarding, but the man ignored the order, police said. Delaware County Jail was holding Drake Turner, 21, on $3,500 bond as of Tuesday afternoon after police arrested him on the respective Class A and Class B misdemeanor charges.
The Ball State University softball team is hoping its opening home game tonight against Valparaiso University is one of record-setting proportions. Only one-third of the way through the season, junior college transfer Jen Reifschneider is one home run shy of tying the Ball State single-season record.
Sophomore interior design major Jennifer Eakins walked in the Indianapolis St. Patrick's Day Parade as a representative of the Indianapolis 500 Festival Tuesday. She passed out candy to children lining the streets, watched the crowd celebrate St. Patrick's Day and said she enjoyed "seeing the hype of the city.
Even though Ball State University did not have much information to give fans Tuesday, the phones in the ticket office were "ringing like crazy." Associate Athletic Director Matt Wolfert said Ball State now has a plan to get fans tickets and travel packages for the women's basketball team's NCAA Tournament game against the University of Tennessee.
Junior center fielder Jeremy Hazelbaker won his second player of the week award of the season and junior pitcher Brad Piatt won pitcher of the week.
Anyone willing to give up an hour and endure the prick of a needle can get a free meal and possibly save a life today and tomorrow. Several Ball State University organizations are having the Angels for Life Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Thursday in Pruis Hall.
Facing a game point and with all of his starters sitting on the bench against a Division III team, coach Joel Walton calmly walked toward the referee and called timeout. During the timeout, though, the coach was not thinking about what starter to put back in the match with the Ball State University men's volleyball team leading by two games.
The History Channel: New faith, Sabbath is Tuesday. Be there. It's a hell of a thing to imagine the last few thousand years of human history as a lie, a misguided attempt at control over society, a total sham. I think most people are content to dawdle through life without thinking about its mysteries.
It is 90 degrees in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the humidity is holding at a balmy 79 percent. There is not an air conditioner in sight, and any relief from the tropical Western Hemisphere comes only when westerly winds decide to approach upon the island nation's 310 miles of green coastline.
Members of the Economic Roundtable Forecast determined Wednesday that this recession is not as bad as the last, but resulting inflation could prove more damaging in the long term. The group of nearly 30 members has met annually for the last 15 years. It includes Ball State University faculty and local nonprofit and commercial business leaders.
MAC East1. Kent State Record: 9-4 2008 MAC Tournament seeding: First Key players: Senior first baseman Greg Rohan - last year's MAC Player of the Year Sophomore outfielder Anthony Gallas - leads team with 25 RBIs Junior starting pitcher Brad Stillings - 2-0, 2.
Ball State defeated Valparaiso 4-3 in the first game of its home doubleheader on Wednesday.
More than 20 people gathered in the Atrium on Wednesday evening to see a mobile art gallery display five performance art pieces. Hannah Barnes, faculty mentor for the Fine Arts League, said she invited Columbus, Ohio, artist Dina Sherman's IMA Gallery to Ball State University to perform the Soap Box Lecture Series.
Students battled a plethora of university-related e-mails Tuesday despite the launch of the new Communications Center Web site that should limit the e-mails they receive. Don't worry, it will get better. Students will receive fewer e-mails, but it will just take a little time.
var uslide_show_id = "b1772c3b-81d7-4588-bef4-5efdcaf2693e";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; Unseasonably warm weather, a new bar, St. Patrick's Day and a hopeful step in reviving the Village drew a large number of students to the four-block stretch of University Avenue on Tuesday night. The Village Merchants Association held the St. Patty's Day Bar Crawl in which the first 100 people to visit and buy a specialty drink from six Village bars won a T-shirt.
Irish eyes smiled on the University of Notre Dame baseball team on St. Patrick's Day against Ball State University. The Fighting Irish (11-5) won 5-4 Tuesday to extend their winning streak against the Cardinals to four games. Three costly errors by Ball State (9-8) led to three runs for the home team, including an unearned run in the seventh and eighth innings.
A $950,000 federal earmark will help Ball State University begin part of the final phase of the McKinley Safety Improvement Project. The funding was part of the $410 billion omnibus appropriations bill President Barack Obama signed last week. Jim Lowe, Ball State's director of engineering and operations, said the money would cover the expenses to install storm drains along Riverside Avenue, which is "a phase of phase three" for the project.
var uslide_show_id = "ddc92aaf-c749-48d6-9273-54fe9ddb79d5";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; Damon's Grill was packed with Ball State University faithful to watch alongside the women's basketball team to find out its fate for the NCAA Tournament. The Mid-American Conference champion Cardinals were projected to play anywhere from Duluth, Ga., to Seattle, but senior guard Porchia Green couldn't care less where they play.
Ball State University police arrested a man on suspicion of resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct when the man ignored an officer's warnings to stop skateboarding today, police said. Police said the man, whose name they would not release at the arrest scene, was skateboarding on campus near the Scramble Light when an officer warned him to stop.
