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Well, as an alum of Ball State, I can speak about some of the positives of the university: its architecture school is well regarded, it has a top 5 ranked entrepreneurship program in the school of business. It was a top "Playboy Party School" fifteen years ago, but the decline from those dizzying heights began over a decade ago (I go back for homecoming and its like a different planet!) We used to have a great basketball team (3 NCAA Sweet Sixteen, one Elite Eight), but that was over a decade ago.
What really started this off this year was the fatal shooting of an intoxicated student (three times in the chest, once in the head) by a rookie University Police officer who hadn't been to the academy yet, wasn't allowed to carry mace because he hadn't received training, but was authorized to use a gun. This was followed up by the murder of a student by three local youths who attended an off campus party and asked him for a ride home. The student gave them a ride, and they murdered him for $2.00. The city and the university are putting all of the blame for both of these incidents on the alcohol/party scene at the university. Funny how even though they have been clamping down hard at BSU this stuff is happening now. We didn't seem to have nearly as many problems back in the "bad (Bad students! Bad!)
old days."
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