An on-campus office looks to support the health and well-being of Ball State employees
By Trinity Rea / November 10, 2024Engagement, Wellbeing and Culture aims to help Ball State employees be their best selves.
Engagement, Wellbeing and Culture aims to help Ball State employees be their best selves.
“I’ve seen someone stop breathing for 90 seconds during a study.”
No one can stand still at a Wednesday evening Zumba class in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. That’s not uncommon for an exercise class based on dance movements, but there is something different about the course—the gender of the instructor.
Four energy drinks, a bag of Doritos, Easy Mac, and a whole pizza at 2 a.m. Welcome to the diet of a college freshman. Foods like these make up the recipe for the "freshman 15," the amount of weight college students are expected to gain their freshman year.
“To put it simply, I feel like a girl trapped in a boy’s body, and I’ve felt that way ever since I was four.” Leelah Alcorn, a 17 year-old transgender teen, committed suicide in December 2014 – but not before leaving this note behind.
Kayla Johnson was walking back to her dorm alone at 9 p.m.; a 2012 Welcome Week event had just ended. It was her freshman year, and classes had not even started yet. As she approached Lafollette, a tall, at least 300-pound white, bearded man with shaggy, brown hair was belligerently slurring words while talking on his phone. He was clearly upset about something.
Gardy Gilbert has a blackboard account and a student I.D., but unlike some of his peers, he also needs a special backpack designed to help spine alignment. Gilbert is a freshman acting option major in Ball State’s Department of Theatre and Dance. All performance majors are required to buy a BackTpack, a T-shaped backpack that features two saddle style bags on either side.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages 15 – 24.
In a society often preoccupied with physical appearance,Psychology Today found that 38 percent of women and 34 percent of men are not satisfied with their body image.
Yoga, an exercise that has been used for thousands of years, is one way that aerobics instructor Shannon Powers has been working to improve her body and mind for more than 20 years.
Husband. Father. Grandfather. Professor. Diabetic. All these words describe Srinivasan Sundaram, a Ball State finance professor, who has been diabetic for 33 years. In his first semester teaching at Ball State in 1991, he had a triple bypass, an open-heart surgery in which blood vessels are taken from one part of a person’s body and transferred to heart vessels to prevent blockage. Sundaram, who suffered kidney failure, underwent dialysis treatments, which are typically over three hour treatments, three days a week.
When you pile homework on top of extra-curricular activities on top of a side job, getting your full amount of Z’s might be pushed to the bottom of your to-do list. And when you do finally decide to take a snooze, maybe you lie awake for hours, unable to turn your busy brain off. So, what then?
Although tofu is often thought of as a bland alternative for meat, with spices and preparation it can be a healthy treat. Learn how to prepare a new source of protein out of soymilk over at BallBearingsMag.com
Wolfe watched her mom suffer, knowing that these particular headaches were hereditary and that she was next.
The cushioned chairs sit in a near perfect circle in a room right next to the Counseling Center office.
Zach Roach sits back on his couch, his tone sounding somewhat annoyed. He, like many others, is tired of hearing about the Ebola virus from every mass media source in America.
After hitting the opposite player, Cooper fell to his knees and blacked out for a few minutes. After he gained consciousness, he walked to the sideline and tried to remember where he was.
Large racks of e-cigarette oils line a section of the wall, organized by flavors. A central display case houses different modules and batteries for the e-cigarettes, and a tasting station is assembled for customers to try as many flavors as they want.
The clanging of metal against metal and the rubbery squeaks of Chuck Taylor sneakers filled the room as students dueled, shuffling back and forth and brandishing their weapons.
Though juices shouldn’t be used as a meal replacement, nutrition professors agree they are a great way to add fruits and vegetables to a diet.
