In America, biggest is better, pop artist Roy Lichtenstein said. However, in the Ball State University Art Museum's newest exhibit, "A Matter of Size," it is proven that the smallest can have an equally powerful impact as the biggest. "A Matter of Size" premiered on Saturday with a special preview held on Friday.
To get into the spirit of summer fun, and before we move on to more serious topics in subsequent weeks, I want to give my devout followers their "homework" for our informal summer studies. It's an easy assignment. All you have to do is have a heck of a time - and when you've been at the lakes or golfing all weekend and your liver is on strike - watch the new season of Squidbillies on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup.
Students who have the luxury of buying meals on campus with meal cards will now have the added comfort of an additional hour for lunch. Ball State University Dining Services extended the lunch meal period from 3:29 p.m. to 4:29 p.m. starting this week. Elizabeth Poore, assistant director of operations, said this change will be a permanent one.
Ball State University announced Tuesday afternoon that a Ball State server was hacked into early this week and some Web pages on iWeb accounts were defaced.
Three Ball State players were named to the All-MAC First Team and one Cardinal was selected to the All-MAC Second Team on Tuesday.
A recent Ball State graduate won a national award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for her lighting design in a play performed in Strother Theatre last fall. Marciel Greene won the Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design from the American College Theater Festival, after graduating in May with a bachelor's degree in theatre with a design and technology option.
The Ball State University Alumni Association recognized eight graduates as 2009 recipients of the Graduate of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award. This award is presented to alumni who have shown exemplary personal and professional achievement, community involvement and a commitment to Ball State in the ten years since graduating.
Students move into residence halls, anticipate working hard at jobs, class while staying in Muncie this summer
The longest active dean on campus is stepping down from his position and will be replaced beginning July 1. John Jacobson was named the Dean of Teachers College on Friday, replacing Roy Weaver, who has worked as dean for the past 16 years at Ball State University.
The long time voice of the Cardinals will be inducted into the Indiana Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in October. Morry Mannies has been the Ball State University play-by-play announcer for men's basketball and football since his freshman year at Ball State in 1956 and was named an inductee to the hall of fame last week.
OK, we know this is probably not how you would want to spend a summer. Rather than returning to your warm bed at home, going to a foreign country or even relaxing somewhere on a beach, you get to spend the summer at Ball State - where the closest thing there is to a beach are the sand volleyball courts by Noyer Complex.
The Ball State University basketball team will have to start the 2009-10 season short-handed after losing two scholarships. The NCAA released its Academic Progress Rate Report, which cited the basketball team fell below the required score of 925, scoring 873.
The entire Mid-American Conference baseball season came down to a three-game series for Ball State University. Trailing the University of Toledo by one game, the Cardinals played host to the Rockets on the final weekend of the regular season. The winner of the series would take the MAC-West crown and the two seed in the MAC Tournament.
The Ball State University women's track and field team ended its season with a sixth place finish in the 2009 Mid-American Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the University of Akron this weekend. Host Akron won the meet with 147 points.
Elizabeth Milian was named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V First Team on Monday.
While away at college, many students find comfort and companionship in owning a pet. But for some, the commitment to their animals only lasts as long as the school year. During this time of the year, the Muncie Animal Shelter has an increase in the number of pets being abandoned either at the shelter or on the street, Julie Smith, office manager for the shelter, said.
A Ball State University men's golfer is looking to take his off-season training to a new level after a recent tournament. Anthony Novak will compete in U.S. Open sectional play May 25 in Purchase, N.Y., in hopes of qualifying for the mid-June tournament.
In art, the element of scale is often disregarded. However, in an effort to emphasize the importance of scale, The Ball State University Museum of Art opened their latest exhibition, "A Matter of Size." The Museum of Art hosted the exhibition's preview this past Saturday.
Brother, can you spare $3.8 Million? If the city of Muncie is a human body with a failing heart, then Ball State University is the expensive, top-of-the-line pacemaker that has kept that body alive. But now, not only is the heart failing, but so are the kidneys, lungs and nearly every other vital organ in an already broken body.
One of the greatest gifts in life is learning. The idea of processing new information, then applying it to a situation is beautiful and enriching. I have always been the student who eagerly asked questions in school and tries to see the importance in every subject.
