Golf in the U.S. has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic. According to GolfDigest, around 500,000 people picked up golf in 2020 in America. Chain stores like the PGA Superstore reported a 70% increase in sales in the past two years due to the golf wave in America, reported by Forbes.
Found the inside pass. Took it wide. Sent it into the box. Jumped up for a header and suddenly the Cardinal fans are on their feet celebrating a goal.
Though Dave Largent initially secured a social work major in college, he has made a career out of computer science. Largent won the 2022 Ball State University Most Outstanding Faculty Award due to his work for the university and with local K-12 schools.
Sept. 28, the Ball State Student Government Association (SGA) hosted special guests from the Indiana General Assembly and also proposed its first amendments of the year.
Mare Castner of Muncie, Indiana and Susan Smith of Wales have been friends for 47 years. Their only interaction for 25 years was exchanging letters, but even across thousands of miles, they have supported each other through thick and thin.
We talked with pen pals Mare Castner and Susan Smith who talked about their long-lasting friendship while remaining miles apart.
We are a generation that questions everything put in front of us, yet we have failed to question our surroundings and just accept our fates. This is not to say students are lying about their experiences or blowing them out of proportion, but I’m simply trying to say that we as students must provide for ourselves — our education is in our hands.
Ball State is hosting a wetland workshop at Cooper Farm in Muncie Oct. 1-2. John Taylor, land manager and restoration ecologist at Ball State, among others, commented on the project and the importance of wetlands.
Ball State Field Hockey (4-4, 1-2 MAC) fell to Iowa (8-1, 2-0 B1G) 6-1 Sept. 26.
In the fourth quarter between Ball State Football (1-3, 0-1 MAC) and Georgia Southern (3-1, 0-0 SBC) Sept. 24, the lead changed three times in the fourth quarter in what was mostly a one-score game. The Cardinals fell 34-23 to the Eagles.
In its first two Mid-American Conference (MAC) matchups of the 2022 season, Ball State Women’s Volleyball (8-6, 0-2 MAC) dropped a pair of games to Central Michigan (9-4, 2-0 MAC).
Ball State Women’s Tennis opened play for their fall season with the 4th annual Bethany Moore Invitational and picked up right where it left off from last year’s Mid-American Conference championship.
The Yorktown Tigers (6-1, 3-1 HHC) are now winners in their last three games. First, they beat Delta High School (3-3, 1-3 HHC) then New Castle High School (2-4, 1-3 HHC) and this week it was the Shelbyville Golden Bears (1-5, 1-3 HHC).
Ball State Field Hockey (4-3, 1-1 MAC) fell to Kent State (4-4, 2-0 MAC) 7-0 Sept. 23.
6 p.m. Thursday, the Ball State College Democrats, Indiana Democratic Party and College Democrats of Indiana hosted three political candidates that are running in the 2022 midterm elections in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center.
After two years of cancellations, the Muncie Bridge Dinner returned Thursday. The event, held on the Washington Street bridge in Muncie, attracted members of the community, including Muncie locals and Ball State University students.
The Soup Kitchen of Muncie, Panther Pantry and Cardinal Kitchen teamed up for their food drive Sept. 17, "Stuff-A-Bus". While the three organizations serve three different segments of the Muncie community, they all aim to address hunger and food security.
Ball State (1-3-3, 0-0-1 MAC) headed East to their neighboring state, Ohio to battle it out on the field at Miami University (4-2-2, 0-0-2 MAC). The Cardinals scored twice quickly to go up 2-0 before the Red-Hawks swooped in putting two on the board, resulting in a 2-2 draw.
An Owen County judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday in a lawsuit that seeks to strike down Indiana’s near-total abortion ban – halting the state’s new abortion law that officially took effect Sept. 15.
Ball State faculty, students, alumni and president Geoffrey Mearns comment on the significance of Beneficence, the winged statue that has been here for 85 years on September 26.
