Just in time for Homecoming weekend, Vince Gill will be gracing Emens Auditorium this Saturday at 8 p.m. with an array of country music. Gill started his musical career during high school, where his bluegrass band, Mountain Smoke, cultivated a large following and eventually opened a concert for popular country band, Pure Prairie League.
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Swallows, Quick Salutes, Happy Springs, Colors of the World, Golden Waterfall, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, Coconuts, Willow. At about 6 p.m., Ron Evans and his crew begin setting them all up. Out of a long white van, he and his four employees started unloading about 29 boxes of fireworks - or "cakes," as they called them - and about 96 two-inch shells, a loot totaling $2,000.
A study by two Ball State University faculty members show that students may not be the only sleep-deprived people in the classroom. Ball State health professors Denise Amschler and James McKenzie conducted the study of 109 Delaware County educators in an unnamed school district.
The Ball State University swimming and diving teams will get their first chance to compete today as the Cardinals play host to their annual Red & White Meet. The men's and women's teams will take to the waters of the Lewellen Aquatic Center at 7 p.m. for the university's first meet of the 2008-09 season.
Weeks of preseason preparations are officially over with the start of the season for the Ball State University women's tennis team. The Ball State Invitational starts today and concludes Saturday at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center and Northside Middle School.
Homecoming festivities will play second fiddle this weekend for coach Dave Boos and the Ball State University women's volleyball team. Coming off a satisfying 3-0 sweep of George Mason University in its last match Saturday, Boos is eager to play host to Central Michigan University tonight and Eastern Michigan University on Saturday in the Cardinals' Mid-American Conference opening matches at Worthen Arena.
Fans choiceMIQUALE LEWIS Receiving 94 votes and 48 percent of the popular vote, running back MiQuale Lewis is this week's Fan Choice Player of the Week. Lewis had a school-record four touchdowns in the Ball State football team's 42-20 win against Indiana University Saturday.
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Life is full of twists and turns, and Violet Karl's life has had some interesting ones. After being terribly scarred from a horrible accident, Violet sets out on a mission to find healing and, in the process, comes across some fascinating people. Junior musical theatre major Bridget Gillenwater brings the title character to life in the musical "Violet.
Cecil Bohanon has been a professor of economics at Ball State University for more than 25 years. He gives insight into the state of the economy after the events of the last two weeks. Daily News: Put this economic situation in context historically. Cecil Bohanon: In terms of the real economy, goods and services being traded, people getting jobs, folks going to the grocery store and buying things, nothing's really happened yet.
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At the third annual Music on McKinley event, students wandered over to the University Green to listen to tunes other than the bell tower's chimes. They sat in the grass or stood to watch students do what they enjoy most: performing. At one of the music stations, audience members watched as third-year telecommunications major T.
Almost 10 years ago during the Ball State University football team's historic 21-game losing streak, David Letterman used his late-night show to give the team a pregame pep talk. He had a more positive reason to mention the Cardinals though on Tuesday's episode of The Late Show with David Letterman.
Ball State University seniors Maggie Stutesman and Allison Griner came prepared to win Touch the Tower. Clad with sweatshirts and blankets in case the competition stretched into the night, Stutesman said winning something for her residence hall - Studebaker West - would be easy.
With the start of Mid-American Conference play, the Ball State University soccer team is looking to make a statement to the rest of the league that it is still at the top of the MAC. The Cardinals (4-4, 0-0 Mid-American Conference) are the two-time defending regular season MAC champions and the one team in conference history to win back-to-back outright titles.
Ball State University freshman Chelsea Turner, 20, grasped her Polaroid camera as she scooted through Vera Mae's Bistro in downtown Muncie, waiting for singer and songwriter Carole King to show up. "I learned of her when I was 7 and I've been in love with her ever since," the early childhood education major said.
Ball State University's players still worried about Dante Love's health less than 24 hours after beating Indiana University on Saturday. They didn't allow their concern to detour them from focusing on the rest of the season. "We had a tremendous practice last night," coach Brady Hoke said at his press conference Monday.
For the second time in his career, Ball State University running back MiQuale Lewis was named the Mid-American Conference West Division Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. Lewis scored four touchdowns Saturday in Ball State's 42-20 victory at Indiana University, the team's first ever victory against a BCS school.
As Homecoming showed Monday, a bonfire can be a great way to get together with friends to relax. Students can also celebrate the first week of autumn with a campfire. Along with ghost stories, s'mores, song singing and hotdogs, a campfire can be the perfect place to relax and watch the seasons change.
