The Editorial Board
Articles
This Student Press Freedom Day, the Daily News Editorial Staff calls for support in student journalism.
The theme for the 2024 Student Press Freedom Day is “Powerfully Persistent.” For those of us at the Daily News, we take that message of being persistent to heart.
On to 100 more
The work doesn’t stop just because we’ve turned 100. In fact, the work has just started.
Our View: Outgoing SGA slate, Atlas, deserves an A -
At issue: Each year the Ball State Daily News assigns a grade to the outgoing SGA slate. Before Jack Hesser and the rest of the Atlas slate took office for Student Government Association, we knew they were going to be ambitious.
OUR VIEW: Cardinal Connection’s SGA report card
AT ISSUE: The Daily News editorial board evaluates the outgoing Student Government Association executive slate Although Cardinal Connection did not accomplish all of its platform points, the slate succeeded by adapting to solve problems and challenges. In some cases, such as the plan to open Bracken Library for 24 hours during Finals Week, the slate decided a point was not possible.
OUR VIEW: Readers must think critically about sources with Pence's planned state-run news service
AT ISSUE: Critics take to social media after Pence announces state-run news service Journalists and citizens alike took to social media to protest Gov.
OUR VIEW: University must keep students aware of crime
Ball State needs to define transparent alerts protocol. The Ball State Alert Twitter page launched a week before it announced there was a possible armed assailant in November 2013 in the Jo Ann Gora Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The first tweet about that occurrence last year received 238 retweets, notifying the Ball State community of the potential danger and spreading knowledge of the Twitter page.