Shafer Tower

Map of Location

Use this map of Ball State to help you locate Shafer Tower.


Clue #1

After leaving Worthen Stadium at the conclusion of the game you make your way up McKinley Avenue until you come up to the Shafer Bell Tower, with all 48 bells looming above. 

Check the benches – One of the benches has an empty Jamba Juice cup on it, you throw it away.

Check underneath – You go to walk beneath the tower but stop when you remember something, the old campus myth that says walking under the tower will cause you to not graduate. You decide not to risk it.

Ask a passerby – You call out to a student sitting at the bus stop in front of the Letterman building and ask them if they sall Charlie pass by. They say they saw him running off across the grass towards Frog Baby.


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Fun Facts

~ Also known as Shafer Tower, it was dedicated in 2002 to Phyllis and Hamer Shafer.

~ 48 custom made bells controlled by a computer.

~ Broke the record for tallest bell tower in Indiana.

~ Unofficial landmark of Ball State University.

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