The homecoming season brings plenty of energetic events jam-packed with school spirit. Every year, Ball State hosts the annual Air Jam in Emens Auditorium. Air Jam features different student organizations like residence halls, independent organizations, and Greek life. The groups choreograph and lip-sync to popular music. At the end of the show, the performers receive awards like fan favorite, Independent winner, and overall winner.
Ball State’s Homecoming Court continues to hold seats for more than just college students as four children take up royal roles for the third year in a row.
Since first getting involved in theater his junior year of high school, junior theater major Chase Strange said his role in the upcoming Department of Theatre and Dance play, "Dead Man's Cell Phone" allows him to explore areas as an actor he has never had the opportunity to delve into before.
Under the red and blue stage lights of Emens Auditorium, Homecoming General Chair Hanna Kadinger crowned members of the 2019 Homecoming Royalty Court during the 35th annual Homecoming Talent Search.
“Michael Martone was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, or maybe Scott County, Iowa … His nickname was Dolly or peanut or bug or Michie. He’s written more than a dozen books, maybe more. He might be a fiction writer or nonfiction hybrid."
On a given day, Henry Velandia could be more than 600 miles from his husband.
“Everybody needs something to take care of.” For Melanie Turner, advisor for communication studies and journalism, she chose to care for dogs.
Three days a week, the sound of trumpets honking, drums clashing and color flags whipping through the air echoes through campus from the lawn outside Worthen Arena as Ball State’s Pride of Mid-America Marching Band practices.
“Painting isn’t only about self-expression, and it’s not only about translating experience into form. I think making art really has to do with advocating a position.”
When junior acting major Ogunde Snelling found out he was cast in the Department of Theatre’s upcoming production, “Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet,” he said it was insane how similar he was to his character, Marcus, a young black man coming to terms with his sexuality.
From family reunions to casual games with her friends at Ball State, sophomore marketing major Courtney Berger said she has been playing ping pong all her life.
From one of the 150 reclining seats under a 52-foot dome, Ball State students and the Muncie community can explore the cosmos during five free shows offered at the Charles W. Brown Planetarium this semester.
In an older Foz do Douro neighborhood near a beach on the North Atlantic Ocean, eight Ball State students explored city sights along cobblestone paths while discussing neuroscience research in Porto, Portugal.
Ball State students can enjoy a night of popcorn, snacks and a movie with University Program Board’s Friday Night Filmworks fall 2019 schedule.
Hannah Fluhler, a Ball State nursing graduate, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to work for 10 months at a medical research institute in Melbourne, Australia.
After his 10 month stay, one soon-to-graduate Ball State student intends to learn and teach about the culture of a region once marked by conflict and war.
It might not be the Chicago Cubs, but for one Ball State senior, it might be one step closer to Wrigley Field.
While some might consider salespersons to be aggressive, only looking to turn a quick buck, for one Ball State professional selling major “sales is one hundred percent a communication thing.”
Summer at Ball State might be a time with fewer students on campus, orientation tours and conferences, but the planetarium still has events scheduled, mostly revolving around the theme of the 50th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing.
