While the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics is dealing with a two-year probation, multiple NCAA investigations, arrests and allegations of improper procedures from former coaches, it now has more to worry about. Five Ball State University athletes tested positive for banned substances Oct.
Gamma Phi Omega sorority is hosting events all week long to encourage a membership increase, President Sarra Trevino-Norris said. She said the first and only Latina-oriented sorority has hosted this week-long string of events since their establishment on campus in 1994.
While working on a class paper, Carolyn Vallier said, she was interrupted by the one of the fire alarms that have occurred frequently in Noyer Complex this semester. Jim Clevenger, battalion chief for the Muncie Fire Department, said since April 16 Noyer has had 22 calls and more than 15 calls were results of fire alarms.
Ball State University sophomore goalkeeper Tiffany Shifflett was named the Mid-American Conference Defensive Player of the Week Tuesday by the league office. Shifflett made 13 saves in the Cardinals' two games last weekend, pushing her 2007 save total to 140 - fifth-highest in school history.
World-renowned art collector David Owsley visited Ball State University's Museum of Art Monday to deliver a speech on his love of art collecting. The speech was the 19th annual Edmund F. Petty Memorial Lecture, which was donated by the Ball Brother's endowment, Carl Shafer, associate director of the Museum of Art, said.
With more than 3,500 reported uses, corn might just be the world's most widely used crop. But one use in particular - "agritainment," according to cornfieldmaze.com - may be the most fun anyone will ever have playing with food during the month of October.
Muncie police officers and paramedics clustered together on Ball State University's soccer field as a medical helicopter took off, transporting a victim of a fatal traffic accident on Interstate 69 on Sunday. Sgt. Linda Cook of the Muncie Police Department said officers closed University Avenue between Tillotson and Tally avenues to allow ambulances to transport accident victims to helicopters.
Rumor has it, we just missed Fall Break. We realize there was a three-day weekend, but that's not the Fall Break we know and love. That break was four days, a chance to get away and recover from the horrors of the first half of the semester. That Fall Break is gone.
The Ball State University Ultimate Frisbee club defeated its long-time rival, the Indianapolis Masters, to clinch the Indiana State Tournament Championship. The club rushed the field in jubilation after a short completion scored the final point, giving Ball State a 13-11 victory in the 24th annual tournament.
With the presentation of flowers to forward Sarah Leibel, the senior day ceremony ended for the Ball State University soccer team. Leibel then ended the senior day game with a game-winning goal in overtime Sunday. Leibel scored her fourth goal of the season with 4:44 left in overtime to defeat the University of Toledo (11-4-1, 6-2 Mid-American Conference) 1-0 and extend Ball State's (10-4-1, 7-0-1 MAC) lead in the MAC.
Instead of using their Fall Break to relax at home or catch up on homework, six Ball State University ROTC students spent three days at a grueling training event called the Ranger Challenge. The Ranger Challenge is an annual extracurricular activity for ROTC cadets, which takes place at Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Capt.
The Ball State University soccer team is well on its way to winning a second straight Mid-American Conference regular season championship as it is 7-0-1 in Mid-American Conference play. This weekend it defeated the second-place team, the University of Toledo, in a thrilling overtime victory where senior forward Sarah Leibel scored off a corner with 4:44 remaining in the first overtime period.
When Ball State University coach Brady Hoke has his team go through its weekly two-minute drill this week in practice, the players might be a little more appreciative of its importance. Trailing by three points with 3:57 left in the fourth quarter, a weekly practice routine paid dividends in a game situation.
A summer drought is not enough to snuff out this year's pumpkin supply, said Linda Hiatt, co-owner of Hiatt Farm and manager of the corn maze and pumpkin patch. The amount of pumpkins has not been affected by the drought, she said; however, the size of the pumpkins has.
With sophomore Sophie Quist, senior Haly Calderwood and coach Kathy Bull in Ann Arbor, Mich. for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional, the remainder of the Ball State University women's tennis team competed in the Ball State Fall Tournament this weekend.
After hitting .207 in the first game of the match, the Ball State University women's volleyball team suffered a relapse offensively hitting -.044 and -.100 in games two and three of a 3-0 (36-34, 30-14, 30-24) loss to Bowling Green State University Saturday.
The Delaware County Sheriff's Office arrested a former Ball State University basketball player Thursday, Delaware County Deputy Prosecutor Eric Hoffman said. According to the arrest warrant, police arrested Chapman on suspicion of possession of marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance, both class D felonies.
No one was injured in a house fire that burned for about 45 minutes early Friday morning. 303 N. Martin Street caught fire at 12:44 a.m. Friday after a downed power line fell on the abandoned house, Jim Clevenger, Muncie Fire Department battalion chief, said.
Ball State University has planned a week of activities for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, which universities across the country observe on the third week of October, Health Educator Lisa Thomason said The activities begin with a driving-while-intoxicated simulation from 10 a.
An unknown Ball State University student advertised on Oct. 15 the presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican with libertarian qualities, with chalk writing around Teachers College and the Scramble Light. Paul is a long-shot candidate, but the amount of attention he has received indicates a specter is haunting Ball State: the specter of libertarianism.
