by Leah Heim, Ball State University And to think that we complained about that Fort Wayne tournament. None of the parents went. Pendleton to Fort Wayne on a Thursday night? Give me a break. Parents had a hard time going to home matches. Overtime isn’t optional when the droughts last summer exploded food prices, or when […]

by Taylor Baugh, Ball State University Movies have the power to truly move a person – and children’s movies are no different. Movies like Wall-E, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, Chicken Little, and Ice Age all have a similar message. These movies depict an apocalypse-level event for the characters, but the characters are given […]

by Tynan Drake, Ball State University Dr. Vanessa Rapatz, Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ball State University, obtained her BA at San Francisco State University; her MA at the University of California, Santa Cruz; and her PhD at the University of California, Davis. Her area of expertise is Early Modern Literature with emphases […]

by Savana Newton, Ball State University It’s down to survival of the fittest in AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD), where only those with the loosest morals can make it out alive. The characters in the show adhere to virtually no moral rules, either in the ways they torture/kill the walkers (zombies) and or they brutally […]