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.
Five candidates have been interviewed to succeed President Jo Ann Gora.Wayne Estopinal, presidential search committee leader and Board of Trustee member, said the candidates were interviewed for about 90 minutes each and the committee has a “short list.”
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.
Farm-based ammonia pollution costs Americans more than $36 billion annually in health impacts, and Indiana is in a high-risk zone because of its location, farming and weather, a new study says.East-central Indiana, including Delaware County, could be especially at risk, said Harvard researcher Fabien Paulot, co-author of the study. The report said the cost of ammonia pollution may even outweigh the net value of U.S. farm exports.
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.
Some students crave doughnuts enough to climb inside of dumpsters to get them.
In show of defiance, thousands run Boston Marathon; Biden in Ukraine to show support as tensions rise; Families’ hopes for ferry victims painfully humble; Syria elections set for June 3 amid civil war; Stowaway teen stirs concern about airport security
Over the next 20 years, Ball State could see a new East Quad, more lab and immersive learning space and an East Mall to connect campus.
• A Ball State group stood for 27 hours to bring awareness to slavery.
Sisters Jenna and Erin Kessler woke up on Friday to get honked at.Jenna Kessler, a senior nursing major, and Erin Kessler, a freshman nursing major, joined members of the International Justice Mission to take a stand against human trafficking and modern slavery.The group is standing for 27 hours in honor of the estimated 27 million slaves in the world.
The bodybuilders of the 2014 Mr. and Ms. Ball State made an entrance. The orchestra pit lifted the competitors up while music surged on a background of purple lights.
The football team joined the pledge to prevent violence against women by getting their nails painted red Tuesday and Wednesday.
President Jo Ann Gora has made meeting with students her priority since becoming president of Ball State in 2004.
