Students give out hijabs for Islamic Awareness Week
By Laura Arwood / April 6, 2015Students will have the opportunity to try on and keep hijabs regardless of their religion, during the university’s Islam Awareness Week.
Students will have the opportunity to try on and keep hijabs regardless of their religion, during the university’s Islam Awareness Week.
Editor’s Note: This is the second story in a four-part series on campus sexual assault for Ball State’s sexual assault awareness week.
If a person commits sexual assault on Ball State’s campus, they are not likely to ever sit behind bars.
Walking into the Ball State University bookstore, nothing seems out of place. Popular reads on the right, a slew of red and black gear on the left and office supplies in the back. Recently, however, the university added a new addition: Star Wars apparel.
The Sexual Threats and Oppression Prevention (STOP) team is sponsoring a week of events for sexual assault awareness. During one of the events, called "The Talk Show," students will be able to better learn the components of consensual sex, as well as what counts as sexual assault and the effects of it.
Ball State students are creating a new energy plan designed to save the school energy and money while running the Dr. Joe and Alice Rinard Orchard Greenhouse on campus.
The university will tear up and redo Riverside Avenue this summer as they install new geothermal piping.
April is sexual assault awareness month, and Ball State is sponsoring its own week to promote awareness on sexual assault from April 3 to April 10.
Jason Puhr and Mackenzie Klahr
Ball State President Paul W. Ferguson released his statement acknowledging the fix to Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act Thursday night.
The Beneficence dialogues allowed students to express their concerns after recent issues surrounding diversity have surfaced on campus and in the state of Indiana. Following the ceremony of "Hope and Healing" students and administrators must address how they will put their words into action.
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs Jennifer Jones-Hall announces her resignation. This comes after a controversial email sent to a student.
Editor’s Note: This is the second of four stories to run that will feature the slate leading up to their inauguration. The future treasurer of the Student Government Association not only loves the "Harry Potter" series, she sees herself in the characters.
The legacy of a former Ball State professor who was arrested in March on child molesting charges will not be altered while the case is in courts, dean of the College of Communication, Information and Media Roger Lavery said.
Kay Bales has heard the call for significant changes in the selection of student award winners, including the John R. Emens Outstanding Senior Award.
A Ball State student leader finally had the chance to talk about the university’s silencing of multicultural organizations. David Jones, current president of the Ball State Black Student Association, said at the Beneficence Dialogue March 31 that the executive board had its funding threatened for discussing the recent John R. Emens Award controversy with both the media and its members.
Tony Sandleben and Olivi McClellan
As part of Ball State's goal to focus on current sophomore students as they transition to junior year, the university created the first Sophomore Engagement Initiative.
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that the university is allowed to hold graduates' transcripts due to outstanding fees not paid while at Ball State.
