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During exam week, slip on a dress for a clean, polished look. It takes just as little time as putting on sweats and a t-shirt, and will have you feeling ready for the day.

How to look nice, stay warm for exam week

By Lauren Saxe · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 9:51 p.m.

Looking nice isn't about the time you put into it, but how you style yourself.

Arica is known as the city of "eternal spring," for its constant sunshine and the fact that it never rains.

The final days in South America

By Makenzie Holland · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 9:50 p.m.

Columnist says her goodbyes to South America.

Books serve as perfect holiday gifts

By Madison Hogan · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 9:50 p.m.

Books are a good gift option this season.

?Justin Townes Earle to play at the Bluebird

By Adam Smith · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 9:50 p.m.

Justin Townes Earle will perform 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Bluebird Nightclub.

Casares describes how men often fail, or fall short of understanding what consent is and is not as he talked with reporters in the Student Ethics conference room where hearings are held. Casares was the moderator when Lyndsay’s sexual assault hearing case was heard.

Sexual assault: Larger issues revealed by IU sexual assault case

By Carolyn Crowcroft · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:52 p.m.

Lyndsay Jones’ first-person account is striking because of her willingness to share her story on the record with her name and photo.

Lyndsay sat in this chair during her hearing. The Office of Student Ethics is located in Alice McDonald Nelson Building on the north side of the IU campus. The office conducts about twenty hearings each academic year.

Sexual assault: Limits of the law

By Tori Fater · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:46 p.m.

Sexual assault survivors say restrictive campus and legal policies meant to protect privacy cost them closure and may re-open emotional wounds.

Lyndsay Jones, 22, stands in front of the Pour House Cafe on Kirkwood Ave. on Nov. 8. During her first semester at IU in 2013, she was sexually assaulted by her friend at his apartment. After completing her sophomore year at IU, she returned to Lafayette to earn enough money to return to classes at IU in the spring. She used to hang out with her friends at the Pour House and still stops by when in town to visit with friends. Lyndsay reported being sexually assaulted to the Office of Student Ethics and participated in a hearing, but her case resulted no finding.

Sexual assault: "I am not afraid to tell my story"

By Lyndsay Jones · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:42 p.m.

Fairness. Dignity. Integrity. I stared at the words printed on the wall in front of me. I was in the hearing room in the Office of Student Ethics.

?BPD provides motor safety tips as winter approaches

By IDS staff · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:42 p.m.

As winter approaches southern Indiana, the Bloomington Police Department has released several tips for motorists to keep in mind while traveling

State increases year-to-date revenue despite receiving less than expected

By IDS staff · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 8:41 p.m.

While the state's $1 million revenue is a 47.8 million dollar decrease from estimates made in December 2013, this is a 86 million dollar increase for the year-to-date revenue since October.

Not so humanely raised after all

By Natalie Rowthorn · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 7:11 p.m.

Imagine a chicken farm in Who Knows Where, Middle America, where an abundance of healthy, happy chickens are endlessly frolicking about in the open air, pecking and scratching about to their hearts content.

We are in danger of losing the person

By Cameron Gerst · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 7:11 p.m.

This will be my last column of the season. I thought I would end with a somewhat alarming, somewhat conspiratorial thought I have on the state of our world.