Lifestyle 10/17/2017, 12:00pm Dig in with Dani: Solely blaming 'frat guys' for sexual assault belittles the seriousness of the issue By Danielle Rasouli “Oh, it was probably a frat boy.” This is a common reaction across many college campuses within our nation’s borders when we hear about a new case of sexual assault. We point fingers at these “frat boys” for every single sexual assault case that happens at our respective universities.
Lifestyle 10/13/2017, 3:00pm Dig in with Dani: True Fear; being caught in the middle of a terrorist attack By Danielle Rasouli July 18, 2012. I will never forget this day, considering it was the day of the scariest moment I have ever been through. It wasn’t anything like Friday the 13th. On that day, fear was real. It wasn’t the cause of any ghost, demon or witch. Instead, it was one of those moments that you look back on and wonder how you ever survived.
10/13/2017, 3:00pm Demi's Diems: Coming Home By Demi Lawrence I see home in the eyes of my father as he hugs me for the first time in five weeks. I see home in the smiles on the faces of my old high school friends as we embrace and catch up on lost time. I see home in the purple walls of my childhood room, still plastered with One Direction posters that I was too lazy to take down when I moved away.
Lifestyle 10/13/2017, 3:00pm Adult-ish: John Green's 'Turtles All the Way Down' connects to deeper mental health message By Audrey Bowers "Turtles All the Way Down," by John Green is a book that I have been anticipating since its release date was announced.
Lifestyle 10/13/2017, 12:00pm Outta Left Field: Boys will be boys By Kara Biernat Cam Newton, reporter for Cosmopolitan Magazine, approaches me and asks about the process I went through when contouring my face with a pallet of makeup. I look at him, giggle and say, “It’s funny to hear a male talk about makeup.”
Lifestyle 10/13/2017, 12:00pm Pencil Shavings: Rape Culture has reared its ugly head on Ball State’s front door By Justice Amick Every 98 seconds someone in the United States is sexually assaulted, according to the Huffington Post. So in the time that it takes you to read through a paragraph of this article, someone, somewhere, is getting violated.
Lifestyle 10/12/2017, 9:11am Chronicles of the Chronically Ill: Living with cystic fibrosis, breath by breath By Hannah Schau As I sit cross-legged on the floor doing my Spanish homework my hands are vigorously shaking. Not just my hands, my whole body. I’m breathing as deeply as I am allowed with coughing fits in between.
Lifestyle 10/11/2017, 3:47pm Hannah's Hot Topics: The five things we're most excited for this coming fall By Hannah Schau With the summer gone and the school year in full swing, we all hunker down for colder days to come. But as the leaves change and we pull on our flannels, we should get excited for Autumn. Here are the five things we should all be excited for.
Lifestyle 10/5/2017, 9:00am Finding Beneficence: Gunshots Beyond the Horizon By Garrett Looker When you hear a gunshot from far away, it sounds like a firework. It reminds you of when you were younger, memories of popcorn, soda and the Fourth of July.
Lifestyle 10/3/2017, 3:00pm Demi's Diems: Preaching Hate — How far does the First Amendment go? By Demi Lawrence “Well it’s my right to ____!” is something we hear often these days.
Lifestyle 10/2/2017, 3:00pm Never Being Boring: Video game review — 'Golf Story' succeeds in combining golf and RPGs By Evan Hatfield It's not often a game comes out of nowhere and captures a good amount of the gaming public’s attention.
Lifestyle 9/27/2017, 3:00pm Over the Rainbow: Skin Deep - Police brutality has divided America By Crystal Pennell Think of the place where the walls are so thin you could hear the family upstairs argue every night. The place where you would lock your doors and roll up your windows. The place where cops stopped at every day, whether there was a reason or not. The place where the sun doesn’t seem to shine as bright as it does everywhere else. What do you call that place?
Lifestyle 9/27/2017, 3:00pm Abstract Thinking: Life in LaFollette Part 2 By Abby LeClercq Close your eyes and imagine that you are standing in an all white room with orange doors and one window; approximately 150 square feet in size.
Campus 9/27/2017, 9:00am LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Feminists for Action president discusses sexual assault reports By Contributor Ball State University’s recent spike in the reports of sexual assaults around campus pose two different reactions: fear and pride.
Muncie 9/26/2017, 12:50pm LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A Muncie native's take on what Madjax is doing to his community By Contributor As a Muncie native, I have often times driven throughout the city, exploring its many ups and downs, back road and alleyways, abandoned factories and struggling infrastructure.
Campus 9/25/2017, 9:00am LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A student's response to Bracken's Madjax lawsuit By Contributor It’s a pity that certain members of our Trustees don’t share the desire to build our relationship with Muncie, and would rather sue the city instead.
Campus 9/24/2017, 12:27pm LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A letter to President Mearns By Contributor On September 8, 2016, you stated that you are “committed to eliminating sexual-based violence, and all violence, on our campus and in our community."
Lifestyle 9/21/2017, 3:00pm Never Being Boring: Facing and embracing change By Evan Hatfield Few things in college life have ever caused me more unwarranted panic than the time WCRD announced we as anchors would have to start reporting on weeks we aren't anchoring.
Lifestyle 9/21/2017, 3:00pm Abstract Thinking: Life in LaFollette By Abby LeClercq 11 p.m., Thursday night. Sit up in bed. Turn up the fan so you don’t sweat to death in your sleep. Watch centipedes run across the floor and into the closet. Lay down and go back to sleep.
Lifestyle 9/19/2017, 4:26pm Leave it to Levi: Ending racism should be a daily action By Levi Todd When the “Unite the Right” rally took place in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 11, a national outcry flooded against neo-Nazis, white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan members.
News 1/23/2020, 8:00am Ball State student, university discuss incident caught on video By Hannah Gunnell / Reporter
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