September 18, 2017
This article originally appeared in Ball Bearings magazine
For those who are transgender, maintaining their health requires additional care cisgender people may not consider.
Jordan White was in high school when he first came out. He was in the car with his sister and ha...
August 13, 2017
During my time interning with PATTERN Magazine, I had the opportunity to interview and write about some incredibly interesting and talented people from around Indianapolis.
Breaking Gender Norms in a Conservative Community
This story focuses on two men in Indianapolis an...
April 4, 2017
This article originally appeared in Ball Bearings magazine.
In death, we live on through social media as loved ones preserve accounts and cope with loss in new ways.
As we become more dependent on the Internet, and find ourselves constantly connected through apps and soc...
November 7, 2016
This article originally appeared in Ball Bearings magazine
“Stairway to Heaven” played backwards supposedly sounds like a satanic message. Rachel Kraus, a sociology professor at Ball State University, grew up in a time when this theory was new. Parents didn’t allow thei...
August 26, 2016
Eighteen-year-old Tara Adkins attended her first Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 with her mom and aunt. One of the days there, they split up and agreed to me
April 18, 2016
This article originally appeared in Ball Bearings magazine
At 5 p.m, Serria Thomas got up from her desk and walked to the office kitchen. The work day was winding down at Derris & Company, a public relations firm in New York, and Serria knew she would be in the office f...
February 29, 2016
This article originally appeared in Ball Bearings magazine
“I accidentally fell in love with this town,” Carolyn Case thought as she tried to figure out her post-grad plans. “I kind of don’t want to leave.”
Throughout her time as an undergraduate and as a graduate studen...
December 7, 2015
This article originally appeared in the Ball State Daily News
Nineteen years ago, a 22-year-old Scott Wise embarked on a risky journey. He opened his own restaurant, Scotty’s Brewhouse, in Muncie—his hometown.
Wise now owns 13 Scotty’s locations in Indiana. He announced...
November 15, 2015
This article originally appeared in the Ball State Daily News
Stephen Lang has been an actor so long he doesn’t remember how he got into it.
He always felt a calling to be one, and no one ever tried to talk him out of it, he said.
This calling is bringing him to Ball Stat...