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Stacy Steggs, assistant lecturer of special education Deaf and Hard of Hearing, signs "Hello" in American Sign Language. Steggs was born Deaf, and she learned ASL from attending the Nebraska School for the Deaf.

Stacy Steggs, assistant lecturer of special education Deaf and Hard of Hearing, signs "Hello" in American Sign Language. Steggs was born Deaf, and she learned ASL from attending the Nebraska School for the Deaf.

Campus 4/19/2021, 12:06pm

Immersed in Deaf culture

By Nicole Thomas

Professors and alumni of Ball State’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing major reflect on how the program prepares students for their future as educators.

When Stacy Steggs was about 8 years old, her grandmother was her first student she taught sign language to.

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Communities 1/29/2020, 3:00pm

Writing their next chapter

By Tier Morrow

There’s Sarah, whose mother tries to drown her; Bruno, who sneaks into a concentration camp to help a Jewish boy; and Katniss, who volunteers to take her sister’s place in an annual event where 24 kids fight each other to their deaths.

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News 12/6/2019, 10:00am

Decade in review

By Staff Reports

With the 2020s soon approaching, Ball State President Geoffrey Mearns reflected on the successes of the university in the past decade, things to improve on and the roadmap for the future.  

Kileah Adkins tickles Lucien Miller after putting on his pajamas April 11, 2019, at their apartment in Muncie, Indiana. Rebecca Slezak, DN

Campus 5/3/2019, 10:00am

The balancing act

By Tier Morrow

At nearly 5 a.m. every morning, Kileah Adkins’ alarm — a small voice full of more energy than she’ll have all day — sounds from beside her bouncing in bed waiting for mommy. 

Then-junior student and Ball State VMC president Mary Posner still has the 'strike' shirt she wore to the Vietnam "teach-in" demonstration Ball State held in response to Kent State shootings on May 7, 1970. Photo provided, Mary Posner

campus 9/7/2018, 12:31pm

Kent State spurs Ball State into action

By Carli Scalf

Imagine a sea of Ball State students gathering in front of the Arts Terrace at the David Owsley Museum of Art, not for graduation, but demonstration. At 10:30 a.m. May 7, 1970, a student yelled into a microphone, “Ball State, where are you?”