Since 1970, UCLA has won a record 19 NCAA men's volleyball championships. In the 2008 season it will play in Muncie for the first time. The Ball State University men's volleyball team announced its 2008 schedule Thursday and plays home matches against UCLA Feb.
John Smith helps eleven year old Sterling Fordham lift a bench to reveal a geocache in a GPS Geocache maze during the Minnetrista Garden Fair on Saturday. Fordham has been geocaching with his father, Steve Fordham for two years, and has found over 2,000 caches.
Although many concert band and jazz ensemble performances carry an air of formality, the Ball State University School of Music's annual concert series provides students and community members a chance to see jazz and wind performances in a more informal setting.
Earlier this year Alison Metzger began the next chapter of her life as a business owner. After working for Hallmark for 15 years, Metzger felt the next logical thing to do was to open her own business. She found a space in the Murray building downtown that fit the atmosphere she wanted to create.
Bracken Library is the first and only Indiana college that offers a service that allows students and faculty to print documents from their laptops to computers in the library. Student Government Association members approached Arthur Hafner, dean of University Libraries, during Fall Semester with the idea for a laptop printing service for Bracken Library, Hafner said.
The Ball State University women's volleyball team announced its 2007 schedule Wednesday. The Cardinals open their season Aug. 24-25, hosting the Ball State Nike/Active Challenge with matches against Maine University, Southeast Missouri State University and Ohio State University.
Parking is already an issue in the high student population areas around campus, and Muncie Sanitary District has just made it worse. Residents of the neighborhood east of New York Avenue and west of Wheeling Avenue are now required to put their trash on street curbs instead of in alleys behind their homes.
R eality TV is the most interesting phenomena to hit the entertainment world in the last twenty years. And what makes reality television such an interesting facet of modern American pop culture is everyone may outwardly despise the overall concept, yet completely adore one of that concept's subtle nuances.
Students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the Arabic culture with two new classes for the upcoming school year. Arabic 101 will be offered in the fall, and Arabic 102 will be offered spring 2008. Ball State University has offered Arabic in the past, but Arabic teachers are difficult to find, Chris Shea, chairwoman of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, said.
During most of Sunday's 91st Indianapolis 500 it looked as though the winning driver would be part of the five-car Andretti Green Racing team. Though Dario Franchitti, the eventual winner of the rain-shortened event, is an Andretti Green member, the dominant car throughout the day was the green-and-white No.
After failing to reach the NCAA Championships last June, Ball State University hurdler Amber Williams will travel to Sacramento, Calif., to participate in this year's event. Williams qualified this past Saturday in Columbia, Mo., at the regional meet in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing in a school-record 13.
Another May has come and gone in the great state of Indiana and that means another Indianapolis 500 is in the books. For many reasons, the greatness that is the Indianapolis 500 makes so many Hoosiers proud of our state. Once every year Indiana has this opportunity to shine on the world's stage.
Hundreds of students living in the neighborhood east of New York Avenue and west of Wheeling Avenue are now required to put their trash on the street curb instead of the alley, where trash is placed in all other campus area neighborhoods. Junior Janelle Cochard, who lives in the affected neighborhood, said having her trash picked up at the curb hasn't been an inconvenience to her or her roommates, but it might become one in the fall when more students populate the area.
Muncie community members can celebrate National Trails Day at the annual Cardinal Greenway 5K run and walk event, which is held the first Saturday of every June. "We thought it was just a natural fit to use the Greenway for the event," Angel Silvers, administrative coordinator for the Greenway, said.
The Mid-American Conference announced Wednesday Ball State University finished 10th in the Reese standings and fifth in the Jacoby standings. The Reese and Jacoby are annual trophies the MAC gives to one of 12 schools with the best overall athletic performance each school year.
This weekend the Minnetrista Cultural Center kicks off its summer events, including the Summerstage Concert Series. The festivities begin with the Garden Fair's outdoor cooking demonstration, "Cooking in the Courtyard" from 6-8 p.m. on Friday. Chefs from the American Culinary Federation will instruct guests on cooking with herbs and wine.
Former Ball State University men's basketball coach Tim Buckley's arbitration against the university has found a date. Beginning July 30th at 1 p.m. Floyd Weatherspoon of American Arbitration Association (AAA) will hear both sides and decide how much, if any, will be awarded to Buckley.
Two award-winning faculty members say they will leave Ball State University in July, but neither have formally resigned. Bob Papper, professor of telecommunications, and his wife, Carole Papper, professor of English, will both take teaching positions at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.
