As Valentine's Day nears consumers are craving more than just candy, and Verizon Wireless has unveiled two new phone offerings to help lovelorn techies find gifts for loved ones. The Strawberry Chocolate, announced by Verizon Wireless Monday, is the newest flavor of the carrier's LG Chocolate line of phones, which also includes White Chocolate, Cherry Chocolate, Mint Chocolate and the original Dark Chocolate.
Ohio proved to be a fertile recruiting ground for Ball State University in its 2007 recruiting class, with nine of its 24 recruits coming from the Buckeye State. Those recruits provide a bulk of the talent, ranked fourth in the Mid-American Conference (79th overall) by Rivals.
Ball State University needs student opinion on moving the Multicultural Center into the L.A. Pittenger Student Center. The Campus Action Team will discuss issues involved with the move at an open forum from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday in the Student Center Forum Room.
After winning 10 consecutive games, Ball State University's women's basketball team has lost two of its last three contests. The Cardinals will look to return to their winning ways Sunday at 3 p.m. when Ball State plays Kent State University at Worthen Arena.
var uslide_show_id = "cae15735-8413-42ac-9729-fdc09228be1d";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; In a game that featured 36 turnovers and 55 fouls and lasted more than two hours, Ball State University's men's basketball team won 79-73 against the University at Buffalo.
Check out photos of the Mr. Phi-Nominal Talent Show. The event was hosted by Alpha Phi sorority and all proceeds went to cardiac care.
Motorists better think twice before pushing the pedal to the metal or not snapping in a seat belt during the next two weeks. The Ball State University and Muncie police departments are participating in Operation Pull Over, a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration road safety campaign, Director of Public Safety Gene Burton said.
var uslide_show_id = "22e8f23e-4a0d-4ecf-8dd4-1cc690246a45";var slideshowwidth = "350";var linktext = ""; At about noon, snow began blanketing Muncie and Ball State University, eventually covering roads, cars and buildings with as much as 6 inches of wet packing snow, according to the National Weather Service. It fell too thick for snow plows to keep up, so many roads remained covered until it stopped. Police reported accidents all over the city, and two people died when two semitrailers hit head-on 10 miles north of Muncie on I-69. While most students bundled up in hats, coats and gloves, some still went to class in shorts and T-shirts despite temperatures that peaked at 12 degrees Fahrenheit but dipped as low as -2 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the NWS.
Ball State University's men's basketball team is on the edge of ensuring that the school will have its fourth losing regular season in five years. Should the Cardinals drop one more game, they will have no hope of passing the .500-mark. Ball State (7-15, 3-6 in the Mid-American Conference) will look to end a two-game losing streak as they play the University at Buffalo (10-12, 2-7 MAC) at 7 p.
Senior Derek Brewington, whose family and friends have not heard from him in more than a week, stayed the past eight days at a New York City hostel, Ball State University spokesman Layne Cameron said. The student's father, Dan Brewington, said he spoke to a man in charge of the hostel, who confirmed that 22-year-old Derek Brewington had been at the hostel just that morning.
t's a pain in the apricot. Trying to eat lunch anywhere near the middle of campus, especially the Atrium, is harder for students this semester. Cashiers are struggling to learn new cash register systems after their installation in recent months. Ultimately, student customers are paying the price of time, as well as food - waiting in longer lines than what some students' schedules can budget.
Men reciting poetry and reading minds will be some of the acts Ball State University students can expect to see at Alpha Phi sorority's eighth annual Mr. Phi-Nominal. The talent show will be at 9:30 p.m. today in Pruis Hall. Alpha Phi President Karrah Duvall said the event has 13 men from around campus participating in four categories: an interview, a talent portion, a final question round and a penny wars competition.
o you think about national political issues? Probably not. Should you think about national political issues? That's an entirely different question. The knee-jerk answer is in: after all, how will your position on those issues affect you personally? What good are one mind's thoughts out of a crowd of 300 million, anyway? Really, you might conclude, there's no particular reason to think about politics at all, at least on the national level.
Earning the doubles point at the beginning of a match can pay huge dividends. The victory means that a team needs to win three singles matches instead of four to win the meet. Ball State University coach Kathy Bull stresses the importance of winning the doubles point, which was the Cardinals' focus Monday and Tuesday as the team prepared for Wednesday's match against IPFW.
During the course of a college basketball season, games have a tendency of blurring together. There are rare times, however, whena a regular-season game looms a little bit larger. That's the way it will be when Ball State University travels to Bowling Green State University tonight.
Black people make up 13 percent of the country's population but almost 50 percent of HIV/AIDS diagnoses in the U.S., according to the National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness day Web site. In honor of this day, free and anonymous HIV tests will be given today at Ball State University for its third annual observation of NBHAAD.
Ball State University students who may not have had a reason to go to the L.A. Pittenger Student Center before might want to spend a Friday night bowling, watching a movie or hanging out in student lounges after renovations are made to the more than 50-year-old building.
Eating on campus during lunchtime is so difficult for senior Frank Patterson that he said he would rather not eat lunch at all. "It is awful," he said. "It is no one's fault, but trying to eat in the Atrium or Noyer during lunchtime is next to impossible.
As the temperature plummets and the wind blows, Ball State University students are seen wearing hats, gloves, scarfs and anything else to keep warm. Click here to find out some ways to help fix problems the colder weather might cause.
Crafted out of cigarette boxes, the letters I-M-P-U-R-E dangle from a bulletin board in the Art and Journalism Building, forming a statement with which the members of a Ball State University Business Fellows group can agree. Lax enforcement of the current university smoking policy and health concerns have led the group, including faculty members Jeff Clark and his wife, Susan, along with nine students, to work to make Ball State a smoke-free campus.
