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(04/07/21 11:51pm)
The IU Student Government Election Commission finally announced the preliminary results of last week’s elections Tuesday night. The Elevate campaign, led by juniors president Ky Freeman and vice president Madeline Dederichs, won.
(03/29/21 8:42pm)
Students will vote in IU Student Government elections for student body president and vice president at the end of this week. The Indiana Daily Student spoke with all three tickets about the issues we thought were most important to IU students.
(03/29/21 3:31pm)
Presidential and vice presidential candidates for the IU Student Government executive branch participate in a town hall March 23. Students will vote for student body president and vice president April 1 and 2.
(02/24/21 11:26pm)
The Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce, an organization stacked with some of the city’s richest and most influential people, released a statement Tuesday detailing just how much they hate poor people.
(02/11/21 12:50am)
Education is expensive. On top of six-figure tuition bills, every IU student must also pay an onslaught of mandatory fees. But as the cost of higher education steadily grows, the brunt of fee payments hit our most impoverished students the hardest.
(01/27/21 10:20pm)
As a key feature of his “2020 Next Level Agenda,” Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a goal to triple defense spending in Indiana by 2025. As of last month — now facing both health and economic crises — he said his sights “stay focused” on tripling the already $5.4 billion Hoosier military-industrial complex.
(12/03/20 2:01am)
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice announced new regulations in late November allowing the federal government to execute death row inmates using firing squads, electrocution and poisonous gas. After a 17-year pause on federal executions, the United States killed a man by lethal injection in July.
(11/09/20 11:03pm)
At the time of writing this piece, four Monroe County residents have died within the past two weeks from COVID-19. The first was reported four days after IU football’s season opener against Penn State, the second on Halloween and the remaining two the day after election night.
(11/04/20 4:14am)
Oh, to be “Tennessee Trey.”
(09/22/20 11:53pm)
The United States Department of Justice announced its intention to resume capital punishment for federal inmates last year. After various courts temporarily blocked the measure, the first federal execution in 17 years occurred just two months ago. Since then, the Trump administration has executed four inmates and plans to execute two more before the end of this week. All seven will have taken place on Indiana soil at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute.
(09/14/20 1:37pm)
Last month, President Michael McRobbie announced his retirement, concluding his decades-long service to IU. He held key administrative roles, working his way up from the vice president of information technology in 1997 to university president in 2006. While McRobbie is hailed as a harbinger of technological innovation and international recognition, his tenure represents a history of empty promises and priorities that ignored a decaying campus life.
(09/09/20 11:28pm)
COVID-19 continues to expose the inequities bolstering the foundations of American society.
(08/24/20 9:20pm)
The graffiti “Fuck the Police” centered on the Monroe County Courthouse’s Spanish-American War statue found itself surrounded by rally-goers supporting the police on Saturday. The orange, faded "FTP" tag now served as a monument to the Black Lives Matter protests of this summer. Hours later, as the sun set and after the protest turned violent, Thomas Byrd, a Black counter-protester, stood in the memorial’s shadow with a singular demand.
(04/30/20 1:27am)
Despite historic job losses caused by the COVID-19 crisis, millions of Americans will owe rent May 1. Economic instability may leave many of them wondering if they can afford it.
(04/15/20 9:31pm)
Nearly half of Americans might not have access to the internet at speeds considered standard, according to a 2020 Microsoft report. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to expose the longstanding inequalities of our society, and the United States’ digital divide is among them. Without reliable internet, millions of Americans struggle to attend online classes, work from home or stay connected to the outside world.
(04/09/20 2:28am)
As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, President Donald Trump is exploiting the crisis to pursue his own dangerous agenda. His recent actions on pandemic response, the environment, foreign policy, immigration and education all seem likely to benefit himself and make the crisis worse.
(03/29/20 10:31pm)
Many of Bloomington’s nearly 5,000 food and beverage workers have been left without a paycheck for the foreseeable future. After Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered restaurants and bars to cease dine-in services nearly two weeks ago, tens of thousands of workers across Indiana, particularly service workers, were told they were laid off or would stop receiving pay.
(03/12/20 5:17am)
The COVID-19 outbreak has led to the stockpiling of masks, hand sanitizer and toilet paper around the country. Bloomington residents have reported toilet paper shortages at Target, Kroger and Walmart. Charmin’s online store is temporarily out of stock of all items.
(03/09/20 12:46am)
Indiana might be the "Crossroads of America," but the state's aging infrastructure and poor climate change preparation should make residents concerned about its future.
(02/27/20 4:34am)
President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs in the 1970s, vastly increasing the federal government’s drug enforcement capabilities. The policy relentlessly targeted minority communities and resulted in a massive expansion of the United States prison population.