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(10/20/16 11:04pm)
To prepare for the 2017 IU Student Association elections, the IUSA election commission is reforming its electoral code to be more transparent, to better educate students running for the executive, and to only allow students to vote for Congress representatives that affect them.
(10/19/16 1:44am)
As Tom French and Kelley Benham French’s daughter, Juniper, bounced around the room, images were projected on-screen from her first couple of months of life as a premature baby on the verge of death.
(10/16/16 7:05pm)
The Graduate and Professional Student Government meeting Friday afternoon passed a resolution in opposition to a tuition policy that charges graduate students up to thousands of dollars more if they take even one credit in a school other than the one in which they take most of their
classes.
(10/12/16 11:22pm)
Five IU freshmen returned Sunday from protesting the planned pipeline at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota. They donated supplies collected the week before fall break and volunteered at the camp surrounding the protests.
(10/12/16 2:19am)
The IU Student Association spent the majority of its voting meeting Tuesday night debating the diversity and qualifications of three IUSA Supreme Court justice nominees. After more than fifty minutes of discussion, all three appointees were voted in with only one dissent for each candidate
(10/11/16 1:15am)
Refugee rights should be protected under the principle of universal equality, former French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira said in a talk Monday night.
(10/09/16 8:39pm)
Roger Cohen, the new chair of the Poynter Center at IU, gave a speech Thursday evening on the responsibility of journalists to rely only on facts in a politicized media environment.
(10/12/16 2:42am)
Despite the efforts of campus groups and national political campaigns, some students are choosing not to vote in this November’s election for reasons ranging from ambivalence for major candidates to fear of pushing the country in the wrong direction.
(10/05/16 1:54am)
Three professors came together Tuesday night to discuss the upcoming election and historical voting rights in the first discussions of this year’s series titled Hot Talks put on the by the Office the Provost.
(09/30/16 1:38am)
Six IU freshmen will drive nonstop and unaccompanied for 18 hours to deliver donated supplies to protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.
(09/28/16 2:21am)
The IU Student Association Congress voted in an Election Commission appointee who was involved in two campaigns accused of rule-breaking.
(09/21/16 11:36pm)
The IU Student Association Diversity and Inclusion Department is creating a student committee made up of representatives from various cultural and religious centers and student organizations to influence policy and make sure all students have a voice in student government.
(09/19/16 9:57pm)
Sophomore Maggie Hopkins worked with students and faculty this year to create a student advisory committee on mental health in order to unify mental health messages and better educate students about how to access mental health services on campus.
(09/18/16 6:46pm)
Students lined up Friday to knock bigoted words off the Wall of Prejudice, a wall sponsored by Pi Lambda Phi on which the student body had been invited to write offensive things they had heard directed at them or others.
(09/16/16 1:23am)
Environmental racism, or unequal access to clean resources in minority communities, was the main focus of a discussion hosted Thursday evening by Pi Lambda Phi. The event was part of the Elimination of Prejudice Week, a series of events devoted to increasing awareness of prejudice and cultural issues on campus.
(09/14/16 12:14am)
The IU Student Association added a new executive department to its ranks this year to deal with issues of sustainability on campus.
(09/11/16 10:15pm)
The first Graduate and Professional Student Government general assembly meeting of the year addressed new goals for the year and discussed how to better integrate graduate students into IU’s culture.
(09/10/16 1:07pm)
Interest in studying abroad in European countries such as Spain and the United Kingdom experienced significant increases over the 2014-2015 school year, according to new data from the Office of Overseas Study. Study abroad in Spain, which had lost its place as most popular overseas destination for the 2013-2014 school year, rebounded from the drop in interest.
(09/06/16 9:27pm)
Sara Zaheer had been invested in her community since elementary school. As a senior in high school, Zaheer heard about IU Student Association elections, which prompted her to enroll in the IUSA Freshman Internship Program the following year. This year, as a senior in college, Zaheer took office as president of the IUSA after serving as the chief of staff for last year’s president.