The Office of Inclusive Excellence and the Ball State Center for Peace and Conflict Studies hosted a peace vigil for the Israel-Palestine conflict Nov. 1.
Garrett, a multi-generational football player for the Cardinals, mentors players in the program to help them find faith in God and prepare them for the world outside of football.
Confusion and uncertainty were common refrains from some students who said they didn’t know what to do when a report of a gunshot on campus Sept. 16 sent questions circulating online, especially after videos showing university police officers with visible weapons standing outside one residence hall were shared.
The Ball State Daily News Sports crew of sophomore associate sports editor and football secondary reporter Elijah Poe, opinion editor and photographer Kate Farr, associate photo editor Mya Cataline and reporter Zach Carter share their experience following their trip to Athens, Georgia, to cover Ball State V. No. 1 Georgia.
The long cold hallway. Beeping coming from every room. Fluorescent lights every 10 steps… I counted.
The nomination. Filling out the application. Writing an essay about defining Beneficence. All of it ends in a waiting game. The process for applying to be a top 100 student can be lengthy between recommendations from bosses or professors to having to wait to see if you made it.
Eight women sat around a table at Bracken Library in August 2020 with the same thought in mind: the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot by police, wasn’t as respected as others, and there was no space on Ball State University’s campus to talk about what was happening in the Black community. That day, the eight founders: Star Gooch, Olamide Awoola, Makayla Atwater, Jordyn Owens, Kye Wilson, Trinity Mitchell, Jaylyn McDonald and Francesca Fontus, decided to make that space by creating the Black Women’s Voices organization, official in February 2021.
Euchre nights, cemetery visits, ax throwing, aerial aerobics, glass blowing workshops and community volunteering. This is what it’s like to be a part of Tri Kappa Muncie. “It’s a place where you can socialize with people, but you also feel like you’re doing a service to the community,” Diane Frye, president of Tri Kappa Muncie, said.
Opinion editor and second-year journalism major Kate Farr puts eye cream under her eye Nov. 27 in Muncie, Indiana. Mya Cataline, DN
Head coach Helen Peña poses on the pitching mound at First Merchants Ballpark Aug. 22. Mya Cataline, DN
Graduate student utility Jazmyne Armendariz (left), Head coach Helen Peña (middle) and Graduate student infielder Haley Wynn (right) sit along the back wall at First Merchants Ballpark Aug. 22. Mya Cataline, DN
Head coach Helen Peña looks through the dugout net at First Merchants Ballpark Aug. 22. Peña was announced as head coach on July 31. Mya Cataline, DN
