Walking through the construction area at Scheumann Stadium, one will find it filled with Shook Construction workers plugging away during 10-hour shifts and six-day work weeks. There is also dirt. Lots and lots of dirt mixed in with some steel beams that will eventually comprise the Kozell Communications Center; however, many of those are still sitting on the ground.
One of the hot button issues this semester has been whether or not smoking should be banned on campus. On the forefront of the anti-smoking machine are President Jo Ann Gora and Provost Terry King as well as various campus groups. The campus group that seems to be working the hardest toward making Ball State University smoke-free is Smokefree Indiana.
Has anyone noticed the recent fad to be unhappy? I feel like everywhere I turn there are more advertisements for depression, more people moping and craving for more love. No one is ever satisfied. Why do we think that is? Recently, I've had to evaluate where I am in this world.
Bad weather forced the University of Cincinnati's Spring Invitational to be called after 13 holes. After the first nine holes of the day, the Cardinals had moved from third place to second and were two strokes behind host school Cincinnati. The Cards would have finished the tournament in second if the NCAA recognized nine-hole rounds.
In today's world, the idea of a massive holocaust seems almost foreign. For some students, the Holocaust is nothing more than a few pages in a history book devoted to an explanation of a horrible situation that took the lives of millions. Junior Tim Boswell wants to help students remember the atrocity and its lessons by creating Holocaust Awareness Week at Ball State University.
Ball State University sophomore Andrew Shade will host a concert he organized at 7:30 p.m. in Pruis Hall. The concert, titled "This is My World, My Musical: This Is Me," is part of Soulful Awareness Week, a series of events organized by Shade and sophomore Chadae McAlister.
After returning from a weekend road trip in Ohio, the Ball State University softball team has little time to rest as it hits the road again today. The Cardinals [11-19, 2-2 Mid-American Conference] will play a double header at Eastern Illinois University (13-17) after coming off a four-game roadtrip last weekend.
Three Ball State University sporting events were postponed due to inclement weather. The Ball State baseball (11-16, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) game against Indiana University was canceled Tuesday. The game had been moved to Tuesday because of forecasted weather issues.
March Madness is dead. The National Basketball Association killed it.-á I don't mean to be a pessimist but the landscape is forever changed.-á What has made past tournaments more an out-of-body religious experience than merely 40 minutes of college basketball? It's the element of surprise, notably missing during that past three weeks.
Ball State University students could be responsible for fulfilling a new set of University Core Curriculum requirements as soon as Fall 2008. University Senate's core curriculum subcommittee spent last semester reviewing the complex proposal for a new University Core Curriculum, UCC-21, and is expected to vote on the plan soon.
The Ball State University women's golf team shot a 315 on the first day of competition to finish in the top three, two shots behind the leader. The University of Detroit Mercy finished the day on top of the leaderboard, and the host school, University of Cinncinati, placed second.
The array of colorful flags in LaFollette Field this week is more than a pretty sight; it is a way for Ball State University students to remember the 12 million people who died during the Holocaust. Junior Tim Boswell coordinated Holocaust Awareness Week, which began Monday with the placement of more than 2,000 flags in LaFollette Field.
Ball State University's baseball game against Indiana University has been moved up one day. Originally scheduled to be played tomorrow at 3 p.m. the game will now be played at 3 p.m. today. The reason is because of weather concerns. According to the National Weather Service, Indiana has a Hazardous Weather Outlook, with a 32-degree drop in temperature Wednesday.
Ball State University's Bowen Center for Public Affairs will train community members and officials to be better public servants like Otis R. Bowen, former governor of Indiana. The center, co-directed by Raymond Scheele and Sally Jo Vasicko, will include an Institute for Public Service, a Bureau for Policy Research and the Bowen Institute on Political Participation, Scheele said.
If you're a student in Indiana and a school administrator doesn't approve it, you can't say it. That's the message the school board at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School in Allen County has sent to Amy Sorrell, a teacher and newspaper adviser. Sorrell could be fired for allowing students to publish an editorial advocating tolerance toward homosexuality.
Congratulations to the women's basketball coach Tracy Roller on a successful season and contract extension. Tom Collins, director of Intercollegiate Athletics, made the right decision in keeping Roller, as she has built a strong foundation for the basketball program.
Ball State University's Abby Perkins models a colorful dress at the fashion show Saturday afternoon. Fashion majors decorated the gym for their annual Fashion Show, which is a chance for them to show of everything they made during the past four years. Seventeen seniors presented their lines, which included items such as business wear, gowns, skirts, bras and sexy jackets.
If you followed the news over the past week, you surely saw the capture of several British navy personnel supposedly found in Iranian waters. Reminiscent of the 1979 Iran Hostage crisis, these crewmembers were taken into custody against their will. This crisis might be resolved by armed intervention into Iran from British troops to free the captured crewmen.
WOODLAN - National and state free-speech groups are rallying to support a northeastern Indiana high school journalism teacher who faces firing for a dispute that began when a student newspaper published an editorial advocating tolerance of gays. Amy Sorrell, who has been a teacher at Woodlan Junior-Senior High School for four years, was notified Thursday that the school board will vote May 1 on terminating her contract.
ATLANTA - It's no accident that they are meeting again for a championship. Calling it pure coincidence might not be totally right, either. Florida and Ohio State are dominating marquee college sports like no two programs ever have. Their meeting today for the basketball title comes three months after they played for the football championship.
