When campaigning to become the 2021-22 Student Government Association (SGA) executive slate, Strive promised to concentrate on four different focuses. Strive was the first slate to successfully be elected on focuses rather than platform points, earning 460 votes, or about 70 percent of student voter support, with the remaining votes going to the no confidence option.
Ball State Men's Volleyball (23-3, 12-2 MIVA) has played the University of Hawaii (25-5, 7-3 BWC) twice already this season, running out winners Jan. 29 (3-0) and Jan. 31 (3-2). In less than 24 hours the Cardinals will play the Rainbow Warriors for the third time in 2022, this time with a trip to the National Championship match on the line.
Calling all music lovers! If you are looking for an eccentric sound among the wave of alternative pop and R&B in the Muncie area, look no further than April’s Artist of the Month: Imani.
Ball State Women's Tennis (19-4, 8-2 MAC) to face No. 4 seed Texas (20-4, 8-1 Big 12) May 6 at 2 p.m. ET in Austin, Texas.
GR8 Creations is the name of Rece Barnes’ privately owned business where he sells food to people from his personal grill. He sets up right outside The Chug, a bar in the Village, and at other various locations such as basketball games, street parties and even directly out of his home.
Finals Week Spring 2022 is here! Chief Weather Forecaster Maddi Johnson has a breakdown of what to expect each day of finals week, including the forecast for graduation!
A former 80,000-square-foot laundry facility in Muncie holds limitless possibilities. Boombox music fills the second floor while artists move tables to set up for First Thursday, a monthly event to draw people to explore art and culture downtown. A woodworker helps children build birdhouses while Steven Knipp colors hair in his salon a few doors down. Adjacent businesses invite people in for gift shopping or ax throwing.
Heartstopper season one pushed the comfort show to a whole new level, prioritizing its audience to create something fans of the book could cherish.
Following the conclusion of the 2022 National Football League (NFL) Draft, 262 players were selected and five former Ball State Football players have signed Undrafted Free Agent (UDFA) contracts while two others have received minicamp tryouts.
After three days of competition, Ball State Men’s Golf took a seventh-place finish overall in the 2022 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championship to wrap up their season.
After winning the 2022 Mid-American Conference regular season championship, Ball State Women’s Tennis (19-4, 9-2 MAC) hosted the MAC Tournament as the no. 1 seed April 30 and May 1.
Ball State Baseball (29-14, 23-4 MAC) swept Central Michigan (28-14, 21-5 MAC) in four games to take over first place in the Mid-American Conference.
After years of believing I didn’t deserve to lead this paper, I am proud to say my story has a happily ever after, because now, I finally believe I deserved it all along.
Kris Ball started writing when she was 6 years old — poetry, song lyrics, short stories. Ball said in the opening of one of her books that, sitting at the foot of her bed, her Aunt Janice — a woman 10 years younger than Ball’s “hands-off” mother — encouraged her to write and “would listen to [her] stupid poems.”
A maintenance worker at Ball State's geothermal plant describes the process of geothermal heating and the change it has brought to campus.
It’s never too late to get involved with student media, but my one regret is that I didn’t do it sooner, especially since I am graduating in three years instead of four.
If anything, we give ourselves the gifts of significance in everything we do — college paper included.
Post-graduation depression is defined by Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) as “depression in young adults [that] often occurs right after they complete university coursework, often due to pressure to get a job right away or sadness leaving their college peers and life behind.”
As they've learned from previous mentors, four Ball State Baseball fifth-year student-athletes have grown as people and players, and are leading the Cardinals to a potential Mid-American Conference Championship.
Congrats, Grad! In a year like no other, you should be proud of this accomplishment. Wherever you land next, know that Ball State Online will be here for you when it’s time to fly further in your career and future.
