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Caroline Hand, associate director of bands, looks on as Ball State football played Indiana University in Lucas Oil Stadium, Aug. 31, 2019. The band practices three times a week. Eric Pritchett, DN

Charting her own course

Three days a week, the sound of trumpets honking, drums clashing and color flags whipping through the air echoes through campus from the lawn outside Worthen Arena as Ball State’s Pride of Mid-America Marching Band practices.

Unspoken: The other white meat

Getting your protein from animals is just so 2000s nowadays, and Burger King is keeping up with this trend. On August 8, the fast food chain announced it would start serving a meatless, plant-based patty called the Impossible Whopper for a limited time at more than 7,000 locations across America. I decided to try this new plant-based patty out.

Unspoken: Summertime blues

This summer, I decided to go into the great unknown, and in all honesty, it sucked. But I learned more than ever that it is the small, redeeming moments you have to latch onto to make the mundane, everyday moments seem a little more worth it.

Unspoken: Homophobia in the archdiocese

On June 23 a letter posted to the Cathedral High School website by the school’s Board Chairman Matt Cohoat and President Rob Bridges explained that after 22 months of discussion with Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, it would be no longer employing a teacher in an open, same-sex marriage.

(Left to right) Michael Harless, Shannon Fouce, Joy Wegener, Tisha Stone, Melissa Bjerke and (not pictured Zeke Bautista) are part of Crossfit White River's coaching staff. A sense of community is one of the reasons people like coming to the Crossfit in the Village. Tisha Stone, Photo Provided

Muncie Origins: Crossfit White River builds fitness, community

The 9 a.m. sunshine beat down on several Crossfitters running from the corner of Dicks and North Streets to University and Dicks Streets for their first of three warm up sets.

Ball State's 1969 Varsity baseball team poses for a team photo April 17, 1969. This team would go on to the District 4 Regionals, just two wins away from going to the NCAA College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, making them one of Ball State Baseball's most successful teams. Digital Media Repository, Photo Courtesy

Ball State’s 1969 baseball team to reunite after 50 years

With Apollo 11 landing on the moon, the original Woodstock taking place, the Stonewall riots breaking out in New York City — 1969 paid witness to many events of significance in American history. At Ball State, the year saw one of the most successful baseball teams in the university’s history.