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The Big Ten Bargain is well-known to IU students. But Pizza Express has changed the signature special to just the “Big Bargain” after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from attorneys representing the Big Ten and the NCAA.
Claps and yells echoed across 11th Street as about 80 students gathered around a projector to watch what – at least so far – they called the biggest speech of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Sunday is the day of rest, but for religious groups on campus this Sunday will be anything but restful.FaithFest will be at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday in Dunn Meadow. It will feature booths from about 15 campus religious groups eager to share their message with students.
IU President Michael McRobbie stood before the full-capacity crowd at the IU Auditorium on Wednesday and welcomed the incoming freshman to IU, but the family man could just as easily have been on the other side of the stage.
One person was killed and two anthropology faculty members were seriously injured in a crash just after 11 a.m. Wednesday on Old State Road 37.\nWilburn Brown, 78, of Bloomington, died after his north-bound Pontiac Sedan hit the cement guardrail and slid across the south-bound lane, hitting an SUV head on, Monroe County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Scott Mellinger said.\nTwo of the three passengers inside the SUV were seriously injured, including two faculty members at IU’s Stone Age Institute.\nResearch scientist Parth Chauhan, 34, broke both of his arms and administrative secretary Mila Norman, 54, broke her ankle, Mellinger said.\nThe accident happened just north of Bloomington at 11:17 a.m. near the exit for State Road 37.\nMellinger said the reason Brown hit the guardrail is unknown.\nAccording to the Stone Age Institute’s Web site, Norman formerly worked for SPEA and has worked at IU for over 20 years. She is also a life-long resident of Monroe County.\nChauhan is a postdoctoral research fellow with the institute and has studied in the United Kingdom and India.
Bloomington police arrested two IU students Saturday morning at an apartment in the Varsity Villas after one answered the door brandishing a knife at officers.\nPolice originally responded to the 300 block of East Varsity Lane after someone complained about loud music in one of the apartments, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nOfficers had to pound on the door to be heard over the music. According to the police reporter, officers heard two individuals talking on the other side of the door.\nIU student Nicholas Hersberger answered the door holding a large knife shoulder high in a striking position. Canada said the blade was pointed toward the officers.\nAccording to police reports, Hersberger took a half step forward and was warned several times to drop the knife as officers began to draw their own weapons.\nHersberger lowered the knife and turned to walk inside his apartment, where he placed the knife down. He was taken into custody, Canada said.\nOfficers found what they believed to be marijuana and rolling papers in the kitchen, Canada said. The officers arrested him for intimidation with a deadly weapon, resisting law enforcement and possession of marijuana, he said.\nInside the kitchen, officers found IU student John Farrell, who said Hersberger answered the door with the knife because he thought it was a neighbor who had been complaining about the music.\nFarrell was cited for a noise violation and was arrested for illegal consumption, Canada said.
A man was transported to Bloomington Hospital after he was stabbed three times in an incident early Sunday morning at the 300 block of East 18th Street.\nPolice arrested a Bedford man after identifying him as the suspect in the stabbing. Justin A. Blackburn, 26, faces preliminary charges of aggravated battery after he stabbed the man. \nOfficers were able to identify Blackburn from witnesses at the fight. Blackburn told several of the witnesses he was “Justin Black” and lived in a town south of Bloomington, Canada said. Witnesses also accurately described Blackburn and his car.\nBlackburn was reportedly involved in another fight when he hit against the victim’s car. The man and Blackburn began fighting, at which point Blackburn stabbed Lewis, police said.
A Bloomington officer was sent to the hospital Sunday morning after trying to break up a fight at Suburban Lanes bowling alley on North Walnut Street.\nBloomington Police Department officer Amy Romoser was punched by a suspect after officers responded to a call about a fight near the bowling alley at 1:47 a.m., Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nLavan Weir, 20, of Indianapolis was arrested for battery on a police officer, disorderly conduct and illegal consumption.\nAccording to police reports, Weir and Donnell Jackson, 22, were fighting outside the bowling alley near a large group of people.\nWhile Romoser was breaking up the fight, Weir punched her, causing bruising and swelling to the left side of her face and jaw. Jackson was also arrested for disorderly conduct, Canada said.\nAfter going to the hospital, Romoser was referred to an oral surgeon, Canada said.
Two members of the Cutters, the winning team of the men’s Little 500, had their victory celebration cut short just hours after taking the checkered flag Saturday afternoon.\nBloomington police officers arrested Cutters rider Sasha Land and head coach Jim Kirkham for battery around midnight Saturday after the two got into an altercation with an employee of Nick’s English Hut, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Sanders said. The pair were just two of the many individuals who didn’t have the greatest college weekend, as police arrested 40 people and issued more than 200 summonses. \nAccording to BPD reports, Land and Kirkham were asked to leave Nick’s by an employee, who began to escort Land out of the building.\nBelieving that the employee was assaulting Land, Kirkham jumped on the employee’s back, police said. Land then reportedly struck the employee with a pitcher, leaving a cut on his head.\nDuring the fight, the men moved into the fire escape, where officers on foot patrol nearby saw them and arrested Land and Kirkham, Sanders said.\nThe two were booked into Monroe County Jail around 12:15 a.m. Sunday morning on misdemeanor charges and each posted the $500 cash bond around 2 p.m. Sunday, according to reports.\nIn all, the IU Police Department arrested 40 people and Indiana State Excise officers issued 202 summonses during the weekend, including 122 for illegal possession, consumption or transportation.\nIUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said the arrests were comparable to other weekends with big events, including other Little 500s.\n“All in all, it was a pretty good weekend,” Minger said, as IUPD reported no critical incidents or major injuries.\nAccording to an Indiana Daily Student article, IUPD arrested about the same number of people last year. \nExcise officers reported that they issued almost twice as many summonses as last year during Little 500 weekend.\nThirty-one minors were charged with possessing fake IDs, 18 adults were charged with providing alcoholic beverages to minors and nine people were arrested for drug-related offenses, according to a report issued by the excise state police. Big Red Liquors on North College Avenue was cited Saturday for selling alcohol to a minor and allowing a minor to loiter. Uncle Fester’s/Jungle Room on Kirkwood Avenue and The Upstairs Pub on Kirkwood Avenue were cited for over-occupancy and fire code violations as well.
Bloomington police officers arrested Cutters rider Sasha Land and head coach Jim Kirkham for battery around midnight Saturday after the two got into an altercation with an employee of Nick’s English Hut, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Joe Sanders said.
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Bloomington police arrested a man after his girlfriend reported that he grabbed her arm and hair and would not let her leave a bedroom.\nDallas D. Gose, 30, faces preliminary charges of battery and confinement, but denied committing any crime to police.\nPolice responded to the 3100 block of South Walnut Street Pike Wednesday night after a property manager called them because someone had activated an emergency alarm, Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nPolice found the 25-year-old victim at a pay phone in the lobby, where she had also called the police.\nAccording to the report, the woman had a black eye, was extremely upset and had been crying.\nShe told officers that she was talking to her son’s father when Gose became angry, grabbing the phone and throwing it against the wall, Canada said.\nShe then told officers Gose grabbed her and dragged her into the bedroom, and would not let her leave.\nWhile in the bedroom the woman reportedly used the emergency alarm several times and said Gose hit her in the left eye.\nThe woman also reported that she was yelling for help and tried to call 911, but Gose grabbed the phone and threw it against the wall again, Canada said.\nReports indicate the woman was finally able to exit the apartment and went downstairs to call police.\nGose told officers it was a verbal argument and he did not hurt her physically.
A penny on the dollar.\nThat’s what students and faculty are paying extra after Tuesday’s sales tax increase from 6 to 7 percent.\nThe increase will have a minimal impact on students, who don’t have to pay the tax for food on campus.\nJunior Jessie Muehr said most students don’t see the effects of the tax anyway, especially those who still live on campus.\n“It affects those living off-campus a lot more because they’re paying for everything with the sales tax,” Muehr said.\nSenior Kelli Archer said the increase won’t have much impact on how students spend their money.\n“Pennies add up,” she said. “But it’s not going to stop them.”\nAlso affected are local business owners who have to change their cash registers to account for the tax increase.\nAndy Walter, owner of Tracks music store, said that for the most part, small-business owners will not see much change.\n“If you’re staring at a new car, that’s what, $200?” Walter said.\nJunior John Jaskowiak was not in favor of the increase.\n“It just decreases the incentive to spend money,” Jaskowiak said.\nFor the most part, Walter said businesses that sell “small-ticket items” won’t see much difference.\nThe General Assembly approved raising the sales tax to help offset the 30 percent average decrease in property taxes across the state.\nGov. Mitch Daniels signed the bill into law March 19 after it received wide bipartisan support.\nThe bill decreased revenue from property taxes by $870 million, and the 1 percent rise in the sales tax is expected to gross around $900 million, according to government reports.\nThe increase puts Indiana in the top six states for highest sales tax with California, Mississippi, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Tennessee.
Bloomington police arrested 20-year-old Sean M. Dixon Monday morning after finding him under a boat inside a business on Westplex Avenue.\nPolice were called to the building around 2 a.m. after a witness reported seeing the suspect throwing a large rock through a window and jumping over a ledge to enter the building, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada said.\nAfter searching the building the officers found the man hiding under a boat in the garage.\nDixon admitted to breaking into the building in order to steal items for money, Canada said. \nThe suspect was arrested on preliminary charges of burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief.
Twenty-four years ago, Mike Lorton graduated from IU. After retiring, he decided to come back to Bloomington with his wife. One of the main reasons, he said, was because of the ease of walking in the city. \n“We just like to walk around the campus and see the city,” he said.\nLorton is one of many people who frequently enjoy walking in Bloomington, which was recently named Indiana’s Best Walking City by the health magazine Prevention. \nBloomington ranked highest among Indiana’s 10 most populous cities. Evansville and Muncie rounded out the top three, and Indianapolis came in fifth. \nBloomington received the top honor because of its high percentage of people who walk to work – which ranks eighth nationally – as well as the number of people who use public transportation, which Prevention called “typical rankings for towns with large college campuses.” \nGraduate student Katherine Wiley is originally from New York and said the national ranking is surprising.\n“I definitely think there is a stereotype of Indiana as being not very active,” Wiley said.\nWiley said she bikes almost everywhere from her apartment and has only had to fill up her gas tank once this semester.\nLorton lives near Lake Monroe and said he comes into the city about four times a week. From his experience in the city, he identified different walking environments in Bloomington. He said Bloomington consists of the campus, the Kirkwood area with a lot of stores, students and tourists’ and the downtown square with more locals.\nAccording to Prevention, one of Bloomington’s weaknesses is its low density of parks, but Lorton said he believed this isn’t a big deterrent.\n“The reality is land is at a premium,” Lorton said. “I think Bloomington has done a pretty good job of allocating green space and satisfying the needs of the community for growth.” \nKriste Lindberg, a member of the Bloomington Environmental Commission, said she hopes the city’s new greenway system, which will help connect the parks and add more walking-friendly trails, will encourage even more Bloomington residents to start walking. \n“With these good examples, more will get on the bandwagon and do we can do more collectively,” she said.
An 11-year-old boy was referred to juvenile detention after a 12-year-old girl reported to school officials that he touched her inappropriately.\nBloomington police responded to Templeton Elementary School around 3:41 p.m. Wednesday, said Sgt. Jeff Canada.\nOfficers spoke to the boy with the permission of his parents, and he told officers it was a prank he and four or five of his friends played on the playground.\nAccording to reports, the boys would wait until someone would bend over and they would run up to the person and push their own private parts near the bending person’s head.\nThe boys did not expose themselves in any way or touch the other people, Canada said.
A Gosport man was arrested Wednesday after he threatened a teenager and kicked an officer in the legs.\nMartin Mills, 35, faces preliminary charges of intimidation, resisting arrest and battery on a police officer, Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.\nAccording to reports, police were initially called to the 2600 block of South Southern Pines Court at around 4:40 p.m., where a 19-year-old man reported Mills was harassing him by phone.\nWhen officers arrived, they took the phone and heard Mills threaten to “put a hit” out on the young man. Mills identified himself as Jerry Springer to the officers.\nAt that time, the young man was not sure if he was going to press charges.\nAt 7:30 p.m., officers were called back to the residence, where they found Mills again threatening the young man, Canada said.\nThe victim then decided to press charges against Mills.\nWhen officers tried to pin Mills against the police car, he kicked his feet backwards, striking one of the officers, Canada said.\nReports also indicate that Mills was yelling racial slurs at the young man.\nCanada said this was a continuation of an incident earlier that day when Mills’ 17-year-old son struck the victim.\nThe victim’s friends struck him in defense of their friend, Canada said, and Mills was angry that the victims’ friends hurt his son.\nThe younger Mills was referred to probation on preliminary charges of battery and possession.
A woman told Bloomington police Tuesday afternoon that a man attempted to expose himself to her near the Marathon service center on Kinser Pike.\nThe 29-year old woman said she pulled into the gas station where a man drove up beside her and began talking to her, said Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Jeff Canada.\nShe reported that he told her he saw her on the highway and thought she \nlooked pretty.\nHe then made reference to his penis and asked her to grab her breasts, while he attempted to expose himself to her, Canada said.\nThe woman told officers the man was a white male with brown “floppy” hair in his mid-20’s and was wearing a blue button-up shirt.\nThe woman also reported that the suspect began following her north on Walnut Street but she lost sight of him.
Police are looking for a Bloomington man after numerous drugs and paraphernalia were found in his vehicle Wednesday night.\nBloomington officers pulled the suspect over near the 1100 block of West Meadow Lane for broken taillights and an expired license plate.\nPolice cited the man, and while towing his car found drug paraphernalia, including syringes, pills, several glass smoking devices, three spoons with residue, six plastic bags with residue, a razorblade, two cigarette rolling devices and a prescription bottle with a dark liquid.\nOfficers also found a .22 caliber Heritage Rough Rider handgun in the man’s car along with loose bullets.
“Still functioning.”\nThis simple phrase became the mantra of Wednesday’s Women’s History Month Luncheon after several speakers used it to refer to themselves, including Liz Kirkland, recipient of the Woman of the Year Award at the Bloomington/Monroe County Convention Center. The 23rd annual luncheon was held to honor women in Bloomington for their services to the community.\nKeynote speaker Allida Black used the words to talk about women’s and human rights.\n“Revolution keeps you young,” Black said. “And that’s why all the women in this room are still functioning.”\nSue Berg was honored with the Lifetime Contribution Award.\n“They’re doing the basic ground work,” Black said of Berg and Kirkland. “They’re doing the bedrock. Without their work, the community will implode.”\nKirkland received the award for her work with women and children at Middle Way House. As a children’s advocate, she works with parents and kids in difficult situations to make sure they have the resources and community support they need.\nKirkland said she doesn’t consider herself “special.” Rather, she said she is proud that people consider what she does noteworthy.\n“My goal and my passion is to make a difference in the lives of women and children,” Kirkland said.\nCharlotte Zietlow, who works with Kirkland at Middle Way House, said Kirkland brings joy to everything she does.\n“Liz is also the woman of the year every year in the eyes of many mothers and kids,” she said.\nZietlow, who introduced Kirkland as “our hero,” recounted last November when she kept answering the door at Middle Way House as people were dropping off Christmas presents as a result of a program Kirkland had coordinated.\n“The stream kept flowing,” she said of the wave of gifts.\nThen in December, “the tide turned” as parents arrived to pick up gifts for their children who otherwise would not have received any, Zietlow said.\n“Day after day, the gifts rolled out of the door into the arms of joyful mothers,” Zietlow said.\nMayor Mark Kruzan presented Berg with her award and spoke about her 22 years of educating the county on everything from “soup to safety tips.” Berg received her award for her work as a county extension educator, where she oversees homemaker clubs and organizations in Monroe County.\nBerg’s leadership and sense of community service began with her grandmother and was translated to her own daughters, who she said are a counselor in Cleveland and a social worker in New Jersey.\nBerg told the audience of mostly women’s organizations and involved city members to “live with your passion and go for it. It doesn’t matter if it’s popular or not.”\nBlack ended the luncheon with a talk about Eleanor Roosevelt and her own work with human and women’s rights. Black is a professor at George Washington University who studied Roosevelt for 20 years and edited the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. \nShe has also helped with PBS documentaries and curated exhibits about the former first lady.\nBlack put a twist on the afternoon’s theme, saying she was “barely functioning” after spending the previous night in Texas with the Clintons and receiving three hours of sleep in the past three days.\nShe said Roosevelt would have been proud of the luncheon and the award winners.\n“She would be euphoric,” Black said. “She worked in a soup kitchen, she worked in an alcohol center, she grew up in a home that was violent.”
