The Cardinals released their 2009 schedule Tuesday morning and will play their season opener against Miami (Fla.) - a 2008 NCAA Tournament team.
The current Senate version of the state budget has more modest decreases for Ball State University than the governor's proposed budget. Ball State's operating appropriation is $130.4 million for the 2009 fiscal year, which ends on June 30. The budget advanced by the Senate Appropriations Committee would decrease this to $125.
I was 8 years old when a middle-aged couple walked into my house in Ohio with a Bouvier puppy (a type of Belgian sheepdog) in their arms. He was a black puppy with expressive elegant brown eyes and enormous pupils popping out. His name was Buford, named after a type of hamburger.
I don't know about you, but I love taking a good morning walk around the Ball State University campus this time of year. It's especially lovely to walk down McKinley Avenue, by the duck pond adjacent to the tennis courts. The past week, in addition to the regular company of mallards and crows around the pond, I've stopped to enjoy the company of many of our crimson colored mascots, the Northern Cardinal.
At the mid-point of the offseason for the Ball State University women's volleyball team, sophomore attacker Jennifer Boyd decided to spend a week undergoing a different kind of training. Boyd left her home outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the campus of Colorado State University in Ft.
Last week, Congressman Mike Pence's recent self-imposed ban on earmarks came into the spotlight. As a result of this ban, certain projects at Ball State University lost a likely source of funding as a result. An earmark refers to any part of a spending bill, which lays out the budget for the government, which allocates money for a specific project or institution.
A fledgling urban garden downtown has high hopes of helping to provide affordable food to locals. North Street Urban Garden - the brainchild of Colby Gray, a landscape architect from Ball State University and Jason Donati, the director for the Department of Stormwater Management - is working to provide a sustainable source of vegetables by offering their abandoned house lot for cultivation.
A Ball State University student will be competing in the preliminaries of the Miss Indiana Scholarship Pageant this week. Junior urban planning major Lauren Petersen was crowned as Miss Ball State 2009 earlier this year. In preparation for the pageant, Petersen has trained with pageant director Carol Kosisko and with piano experts to help her with her talent routine.
Minnetrista continued their celebration of 125 years of the Ball Jar with their Can You Can It? competition last Saturday. Competitors entered in three categories - fruits, vegetables and spreads - and were judged on presentation, not taste. All entries had to be canned in a Ball Jar.
Two months after failing to finish in the top 20 at the Mid-American Conference Championship, Ball State University golfer Kristtini Cain is looking for redemption. Cain will begin her first round of golf today in the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship at the Red Tails Golf Club in Devens, Mass.
Ellen Bryan, a junior telecommunications major, was named one of 10 semifinalists for the title tonight in Mansfield, Ohio.
About 40 people held a 30-minute on-campus protest Friday because of recent changes made to the Women's studies program.
Ellen Bryan, a junior telecommunications major, was named one of five finalists for the Miss Ohio title tonight in Mansfield, Ohio.
Ellen Bryan, a junior telecommunications major, was named the fourth runner-up at the sate-wide competition Saturday in Mansfield, Ohio.
Tulsa's athletics director and former Ball State athletics director Bubba Cunningham was named the 2008-09 Football Bowl Subdivision Central Region Athletics Director of the Year earlier this week and will receive the award at a reception today in Orlando.
INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning helped launch a campaign with Ball State University and the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent on Monday to help fight childhood obesity. The initiative, dubbed Project 18 after Manning's number, aims to teach children in grades three through five how to stay active and make healthy choices.
The intrastate rivalry in Div. I golf will get a little bigger this season as Valparaiso University added both a men's and women's golf team. Though Valparaiso is not in the same conference as Ball State University, it can still pose a threat to the team. Ball State women's golf coach Katherine Mowat said Valparaiso's addition will have an affect on her recruiting.
After training for two hours per week for the last nine months, the Ball State University power soccer team will have a chance to play in a national tournament. In the program's first year, Ball State's team was one of 16 teams selected by the United States Power Soccer Association governing committee to compete in the USPSA National Championship starting Friday in Fishers.
Ball State University and local officials are not pleased with Republican Congressman Mike Pence's self-imposed ban on earmarks to specific projects in his district. The three Delaware County commissioners, all Democrats, proposed a resolution that will ask Pence to reconsider his stance on this issue.
