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Improve trans policies

By Andrew Guenther · Wednesday, Oct. 29,2014 11:24 a.m.

In the interest of full disclosure, it is important that I am forefront about the fact that I am an Indiana University Student Association Congressman and that my views are not necessarily representative of IUSA or associated groups.In the past month or so, I have introduced two resolutions to help transgender students across our campus.

HIV/AIDS is deadlier than Ebola, let's act like it

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez · Wednesday, Oct. 29,2014 10:52 a.m.

As of Oct. 25, the Ebola virus has sickened over 10,000 people around the world and killed nearly half of those infected.

INDOT, do your job

By Riley Zipper · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2014 9:07 p.m.

A recent article in the IDS by Brian Seymour about Pamela Davidson, a local Democrat, who took down signs that urged people to vote Republican got me thinking: where did all these signs come from?

Solving nature's rubix cube

By Emma Wenninger · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2014 1:20 p.m.

Well ladies, looks like you can never orgasm.Or at least, according to a Yale study published in January of this year.

That blood is pretty gay

By Tracy Johnson · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2014 1:03 a.m.

By donating blood you can save someone’s life, or someone can save yours.There is a list of rules and regulations to determine eligibility to donate blood.

Who is Tom Steyer?

By Michael Su · Tuesday, Oct. 28,2014 12:26 a.m.

Environmental concerns are crucial here at IU, but it appears that some people’s efforts are rewarded far more than others.

Talking fat

By Elisa Shrack · Monday, Oct. 27,2014 11:45 a.m.

“Does she already know that she’s fat, or do one of us have to tell her?”I overheard it next to me in a restaurant.

The exorcism of Latoya Ammons

By Edgar Haro · Monday, Oct. 27,2014 11:42 a.m.

I don’t know about children, but the number one thing scaring college students stiff these days are ethnically or culturally indicative costumes.

Whats with Renee?

By Claire McElwain · Monday, Oct. 27,2014 11:38 a.m.

Breaking news struck the country last week, shocking millions, sparking a frenzy of media coverage.

Doing what's right

By Cameron Gerst · Monday, Oct. 27,2014 11:31 a.m.

I recently finished a fine book on World War II. It is called the "Deadly Embrace," by Robert J. Mazrek.

When the unexpected happens

By Natalie Rowthorn · Monday, Oct. 27,2014 11:22 a.m.

As college students, we pretty much believe we are invincible, even untouchable. We allow ourselves to get comfortable and cozy under that cream-and-crimson-colored blanket that shelters us from the outside world.

The ISIS factor

By Michael Homan · Sunday, Oct. 26,2014 1:18 p.m.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has recently become particularly adept at recruiting impressionable westerners into their sect.

They're athletes, but students first

By Michael Su · Sunday, Oct. 26,2014 1:17 p.m.

The final investigation into the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s scandal has concluded that several courses that its athletes were enrolled in were, in fact, entirely fictitious.

We need to pay them to play

By Lucas Burch · Sunday, Oct. 26,2014 12:43 p.m.

One of most heavily debated topics in not only college athletics, but athletics in general, is if varsity college athletes should receive monetary compensation.

Cheater cheater pumpkin eater

By Jessica Karl · Thursday, Oct. 23,2014 2:15 p.m.

I dread those cold winter mornings when my alarm goes off, and my body just lies in the confines of my warm covers for a few extra minutes, which eventually turns into a few extra hours.

Stop sweating about Ebola

By Joshua Allen · Thursday, Oct. 23,2014 2:04 p.m.

If you were to walk down a street in some towns, you would believe you were in the middle of a viral apocalyptic movie.

Limits of art

By Editorial Board · Thursday, Oct. 23,2014 1:52 p.m.

When does art go from avant-garde to aggravating?

New Florida

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2014 12:12 p.m.

Florida is at it again.

Freedom to comply

By Andrew Guenther · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2014 12:10 p.m.

Freedom of speech is a right that we champion as an inherent license that all Americans are afforded from birth onward.

The homophobic hitchin' post

By Riley Zipper · Wednesday, Oct. 22,2014 12:05 p.m.

Owners of the Hitching Post wedding chapel in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, are supposedly facing jail time and fines for refusing to marry same-sex couples.

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