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Walk your wheels

October 23rd, 2008 by Dave Studinski

Ball State Daily News | Bewildered Society: Note to Bikers
Your “ride” does not have bumpers.
I’ve lost track of the times I’ve seen a bicyclist nearly make contact with someone or something else during walks along McKinley Avenue. And not crotch rockets, I mean pedal-powered mountain bikes and similar sets of wheels cruising down Ball State [...]

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Go-go Google Goggles!

October 9th, 2008 by Dave Studinski

At some point in the process today’s Daily News column was severely truncated from it’s full version, likely just a copy/paste glitch. These things happen. The good guys there have some bigger fish to fry today, so no hard feelings of course.
Here’s the column in its entirety, as submitted:
It’s 11 a.m. Saturday morning. Last night [...]

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The Ball State Daily News | BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Homecoming dos and don’ts for young, old
This week creates more memories than most.
Giant bonfires. Fireworks. Air Jam. They’re events we see in university marketing material, joke about on Facebook and will remember long after we’ve left here.
This is Homecoming. At a school where athletics never routinely rule [...]

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The Ball State Daily News | BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Warning: T-shirts might corrupt youth
With one Indiana high school’s close-minded approach to a popular Ball State University logo, we might have to place a new sign outside Worthen Arena and Scheumann Stadium soon:
“WARNING: This event may contain or incite loud chants with double meanings, some sexual in [...]

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The Ball State Daily News | BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Ode to a bubbling romance
An open letter to the one who left me:
I don’t recall the first time we met, although the experience was as invigorating to my soul as it was my heart.
I was young and empty inside; deprived of a basic need too often we [...]

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The Ball State Daily News | BEWILDERED SOCIETY: Be careful what you wish for
In the midst of a campus stroll late Sunday night, two friends and I perched ourselves on the ledge of Frog Baby’s fountain. We lay motionless one-by-one around the fountain’s bed. Muncie was treating us to a beautifully crisp, comfortable and clear [...]

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