Happy Tuesday, Hoosiers!

Need your own health insurance? Here’s what to do once you’re off your family plan.  

Finding health insurance, especially for the first time, can be confusing and complicated. In most cases, you can stay on your parent’s health insurance until age 26, even if you get married, have a child, start or leave school, move out of your parent’s home, or aren’t claimed as a tax dependent. After you turn 26, however, it’s common to lose access. 

A Thousand Wishes

Raven shoves the heavy door open with a thud, puncturing idle chatter in the dressing room with Hinder’s sandpapery rendition of “Lips of an Angel” rocking through the speakers. Spatters of applause and raucous voices fill the room for a moment — until the door closes again, muffling the sound of the club like static inside a seashell.  

IU students attend United Nations COP27 climate change conference in Egypt

Indiana University sent 18 students to the United Nations’ 27th annual Climate Change Conference of Parties, where they met with world leaders and experts to address issues of climate change.  

IU Alumna runs two self-made, self-funded businesses. 

IU alumna Alyssa Baker built her public relations agency, RIOT Media Group, for a decade in Los Angeles before returning to Indiana during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, she continued her PR business and began an entirely different endeavor — her new company Aura Self and Soul Care. 

Experts predict increases in depression in winter months due to seasonal affective disorder  

As temperatures and daylight hours drop into the winter months, many experts are predicting a rise in depression rates correlated to seasonal affective disorder.  

'Balance Week' aims to provide business students the opportunity to practice wellness skills during finals season

Kelley School of Business will host a series of wellness events in Hodge Hall and Prebys Career Center this upcoming week as part of “Balance Week,” an initiative aimed at providing undergraduate business students the opportunity to practice mental and physical health skills during final exams. Balance Week, which takes place from Dec. 5- 8, is a collaboration between the student organization Balance at Kelley and the student-led Mental Health Task Force, hosted under the Kelley Office of Student Support.  

‘Tripledemic’ of respiratory viruses overloads Indiana hospitals

A surge of respiratory viruses has left hospitals across the U.S. flooded with patients.  

OPINION: The added prices of an out-of-state student

It is no secret that out-of-state students pay an exceptionally high amount of tuition, especially compared to in-state tuition. However, that isn’t the only thing they give up.  

Monroe County 2022 school board elections results

Monroe County residents elected new school board members in both of the county’s school corporations Tuesday.  

IU alumnus Kiese Laymon awarded with prestigious MacArthur Fellowship 

Kiese Laymon,  an IU alumnus and author of multiple works including a personal memoir called “Heavy,” was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship on Oct. 12. Laymon graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences with a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing in 2002.  

Mackenzie Holmes is fully healthy and ready to lead Indiana women's basketball in 2022-23

After last season’s final game, when Indiana women’s basketball had its season ended by the University of Connecticut in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament, then-junior forward Mackenzie Holmes was asked if she would be returning to the team next year. Holmes quashed any remaining questions about her future with her reply.

AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on IU’s campus in November

The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt is coming to IU’s campus from Thursday, Nov. 10, through Saturday, Nov. 12. Thirty sections of the 54-ton tapestry have been selected to be displayed at the Indiana Memorial Union, Student Health Center and Monroe County Public Library between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m.  

First Thursdays festivals showcase student businesses with Artists Row

In 2021, IU’s First Thursdays festivals added a new component to the festival called Artists Row. Artists Row is a section of the festival where student and community artists can showcase and sell their artwork. 

Indiana defenders Devon Matthews, Bradley Jennings Jr. detail Hoosiers’ next-man-up mentality

Last week against the University of Michigan, Indiana football took hits on the defensive side of the ball with multiple veterans going down with injuries before and during the game. Senior linebacker and three-time captain Cam Jones was ruled out prior to the game, along with senior defensive back Jaylin Williams. Fellow senior cornerback Tiawan Mullen left the game with an injury in the second half. 

Michigan football coach Mike Hart updates health after medical emergency Saturday

Mike Hart, current Michigan football running backs coach and former Indiana football assistant coach, gave an update on his health via a Michigan football Twitter post Monday morning. This comes after Hart was carted off the field in the first quarter of Indiana’s game Saturday against No. 4 Michigan after suffering a medical emergency on the Michigan sideline.

Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams visits IU as Poling Chair of Business and Government 

Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams began his visit to IU’s campus Wednesday as the Kelley School of Business’ Poling Chair of Business and Government.  

OPINION: Abolish scooters on IU's campus

People proceed to use scooters within the Bloomington community despite recent incidents. Scooter companies, such as Lime and Bird, have rapid expansion at college campuses nationwide.  

OPINION: How capitalism is driving the climate crisis

“I can’t understand how life goes on the way it does… Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?”

Hilinski’s Hope: Parents of late college quarterback turn darkest day into force for good

Every morning before she opens her eyes, Kym Hilinski reminds herself that her son is gone.