Congressman Luke Messer to speak at Spring Commencement
By Ashley Dye / April 28, 2014Congressman Luke Messer will be the Spring Commencement speaker.
Congressman Luke Messer will be the Spring Commencement speaker.
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Glance back at the renovations and changes the last four years have brought to campus.
Look back at the winter you survived.
First day on the job:The search in 2004 for President Jo Ann Gora was closed, which means names of finalists were not released, angering some students and faculty.
After sweeping budget cuts and annual tuition increases of around 4.5 percent, students received a break starting this year.Ball State’s Board of Trustees approved a 2 percent increase for 2013-14 and 2014-15, the lowest increase since 1976.
...ON HER NICKNAME Q: Do you like the nickname “JoGo”? A: Somebody told me that a few years ago that that was my nickname.
Around President Jo Ann Gora’s office, there is not a single picture of her husband, two children or three grandchildren.Instead, the items that cover the walls and windowsills tell the story of a different family, a decade of Ball State history.
Tears, thanks and lots of references to Disney’s “Frozen” came from the Student Government Association podium Wednesday afternoon as the executive board passed its roles to the successors.Cardinal Connection, consisting of president Nick Wilkey, vice president Carli Hendershot, secretary Rahissa Engle and treasurer Sidney Staples, was sworn-in Wednesday afternoon as the 2014-2015 executive board of SGA.
There are not enough hours in a week for an out-of-state student to work a minimum wage job and pay for one semester’s worth of tuition.To pay for Ball State tuition, an out-of-state student would have to work 206 hours per week during the 16-week semester, and an in-state student would have to work 75 hours per week.
At the beginning of the academic year, the president of the Student Government Association resigned, following backlash from racially insensitive tweets he published.The incident could easily have isolated SGA from the rest of the student body. Instead, it seems outreach has been this executive board’s strongest platform.
Students destroyed a car Tuesday night to release end-of-the-year stress.University Program Board hosted the event, Smash Bash, in the University Green for students to relax before finals.
Bodybuilding often conjures up images of orange glow tans and masculine bulk. But for two women on campus, the large, rippling muscles don’t stop them from being feminine.Ashley Farley, a junior human resources major, and Anika Matsenko, a graduate actuarial science major, found friendship while participating in amateur bodybuilding competing.
Starting next January, students may be able to chose a brand new major — one that looks to help save the planet.If the major is approved, students would have the option of taking one of five tracks: social, environmental, business, build environment or an interdisciplinary. Some classes will have to be created, but a large portion already exist through the minor.
The presidential search committee is currently interviewing candidates for Ball State’s next president.
This semester, students learned how to connect and develop a relationship between music and art in a new immersive learning course.
The names started with Emmett Till and finished with Jordan Davis. Black students, wearing hoodies in honor of Trayvon Martin, marched out in a line. White students with “justice” spelled out in red letters on their backs mimicked shooting a gun and one by one, each black student fell down as a representative of the names.
When a student dies, on or off campus, the university decides on a case-by-case basis whether to announce it.
When friends and family met Saturday to commemorate the life of Ball State student Toby Wilt, they did it how he would have preferred: privately.
The university is looking at ways to deal with a small number of professors who “retire in office” after receiving tenure.
