The 2014 In Print Festival began Tuesday as authors read excerpts from their works to students and faculty. The English department hosted event is in its ninth year to showcase authors whose first book was published in the past year.
A fixture of Ball State since 1968, and the pioneer of immersive learning at the university will retire at the end of the semester. Joe Trimmer, director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry, started the organization in 2000 with “creative inquiries,” which are now known as immersive learning and have been called the hallmark of a Ball State education by President Jo Ann Gora.
• New resident assistant gave up plans to lead Dance Marathon and rush for sorority for position. • University hired 129 new and returning RAs. • RAs get free room and board and $1,300 stipend from university.
Two Ball State students opened their closet doors and took to social media to sell their used clothing and knickknacks. Megan Taylor and Jessica Liebeno describe themselves as business partners, roommates and friends.
Stakeholders in the Student Government Association election process said changes need to be made to the current elections code to combat problems seen in this year’s election. Alex Sventeckis, elections board chairman, said the code does not cover everything that happened during the election.
Seventy-two African high school students and mentors will come to Ball State this year as part of the Pan-Africa Youth Leadership Program. The first group of three will arrive April 3 and stay at Ball State for two weeks.
A Ball State representative says there are no new developments concerning the letter sent by Indiana legislators regarding a professor that was accused of teaching intelligent design last summer. Joan Todd, a university spokesperson, said “there is nothing new to add,” regarding the letter sent March 10 by four Indiana senators who question Ball State’s respect for academic freedom and religious liberty in its treatment.
Two new fraternity chapters have joined Ball State this academic year: Kappa Alpha Psi, which was reactivated, and Pi Kappa Phi. Greek Life on campus makes up 12.31 percent of all students.
MUNCIE, Ind. — Four conservative Republican Indiana legislators are questioning Ball State University’s decision to prohibit the teaching of intelligent design in a science course. The legislators sent a letter this week to Ball State President Jo Ann Gora, saying her decision last summer raised questions about whether the school had violated the religious and academic freedom of the professor involved, The Star Press reported. Gora’s decision followed complaints that the “Boundaries of Science” class taught by Eric Hedin, an assistant professor of physics, was promoting the idea that nature displays evidence of intelligent design, as opposed to evolution.
Ball State issued an all-clear at about 11:45 a.m. after alerting students to a bomb threat at Burris Laboratory School just 15 minutes prior.
At his funeral today, friends and family remembered freshman Elija Swager as the kind of guy who never met a stranger.
The line stretched to the door of Fairview Missionary Church in Angola, Ind., as people arrived to remember a Ball State student who died Saturday. Freshman Elija Swager was found dead Saturday at an off-campus apartment.
At the start of Missouri’s Community Action Poverty Simulation on Wednesday night, I stared into the face of four strangers. For the next hour, these people would become my family as I role played a 7-year-old boy with ADHD who lives with his impoverished grandparents and hearing-impaired sister. “Once you’re done here tonight, you get to go,” the woman running it said. “You don’t have to live this life.”
Changes to the Indiana Lifeline Law could expand caller immunity coverage to those who report offenses including drug overdoses and sexual assault. On Feb. 26, the House passed the changes, Senate Bill 227, unanimously with an amendment. The bill will return to Senate.
Richard Burkhardt, a former acting president of Ball State, is remembered by faculty members for his dedication to the university and his compassion. He died Tuesday morning in Muncie at the age of 95, a little more than a month after his wife of 27 years died.
Richard Burkhardt, a former acting president of Ball State and Burkhardt Building’s namesake, died Tuesday morning in Muncie. Burkhardt began his career in higher education as the director of the division of teacher preparation at Syracuse University. In 1952, Burkhardt came to Ball State where he first served as the vice president for instructional affairs and dean of faculties, according to the Ball State website.
The Unified Media Lab was officially dedicated today in a ribbon cutting ceremony that involved student leaders, alumni and President Jo Ann Gora
Despite the amount of snowfall this winter season, one little known law isn’t being enforced in Muncie. City law dictates that by 10 a.m. each day, residents must shovel sidewalks in front of their house or face a $20 fine.
President Jo Ann Gora was honored by the Muncie Common Council this evening and received a key to the city. Councilman Julius J. Anderson presented the award and lauded Gora’s efforts with immersive learning to get students involved in Muncie.
The campus master plan will not be complete until next year, and one consultant said there is “still a lot to be done.”
