WE SAY Although it isn’t a cure-all, the plan to diversify high schoolers’ options in eight states will change education for the better.
The University of Mississippi dumped the mascot Colonel Reb — a caricature of a white plantation owner — in a 2003 effort to distance the school from Old South stereotypes. It’s been without a mascot ever since, but a vote Tuesday could change that.
Major Salou Djibo, the president of the Supreme Council for Restoration of Democracy, has been named as Niger’s new leader of the military junta.
“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”
Watch IU President McRobbie's State of the University address here starting at 2 p.m. The video is streaming live from Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.
More than a dozen students sat in Teter Quad’s Formal Lounge Monday to meet the candidates of the two tickets running for executive positions for the Residence Hall Association.Members of Vote Naked! and [RED]EFINE answered students questions about better programming, campus safety and condoms in the dorms in hopes of gaining support for their tickets.
“Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals, 1933-1945” opened Monday at the Indiana Memorial Union Gallery with a small introductory ceremony and will be at the Union until April 25.
Plagued by injuries and other issues, the IU women’s basketball team had to endure a stretch of two weeks with just seven active players.
With its lecture series currently underway, the India Studies program is hoping to draw in crowds with an outside perspective. Tithi Bhattacharya, an associate professor of history at Purdue University, gave a speech about the concept of modernity in India on Monday.
Inside called Tim Westergren, founder and chief strategist of Pandora online radio. The Stanford alumnus immediately identified IU for its music school. Thank you.
An IU student reported a strong-arm robbery this weekend at the Indiana Memorial Union. The complainant told the IU Police Department he had been at a party at Brownstone Terrace Apartments on Sunday morning before walking to the IMU to call for a cab.
Residents of three Indiana communities are mourning the deaths of three Marines killed in Afghanistan. Their bodies arrived back in the United States during the weekend. The deaths represent the state’s most concentrated losses in that war since four Indiana National Guard soldiers died in a 2005 explosion.
IU Police Department Officer Sam Shahrani witnessed four males streaking near Eigenmann Hall on Saturday.
On Monday afternoon, approximately 120 students showed up to see legendary hip-hop DJ Biz Markie perform in the IU Fine Arts Auditorium. The event was part of a bus tour called “Hip Hop Caucus Clean Energy Now!” and was sponsored by the Hip Hop Caucus and Repower America. The tour aims to merge hip-hop and environmentalism through a panel discussion encouraging student involvement in a clean energy movement. The tour will end Wednesday in Washington, D.C.
The details of how Christopher Raphael’s “Music Plus One” project works include plenty of computer and math jargon like “Gaussian random variables.” Here’s what the project can do for you, the musician.
A homeless man is facing a preliminary charge of criminal trespass after he was found sleeping on the floor of a bathroom in the Indiana Memorial Union on Saturday.
Stop rifling through your iTunes library and take an active approach to music listening.
After students compete for a spot at the Jacobs School of Music and before they compete in festivals around the country, students compete to find an empty practice space. We picked one – room 228 in the Music Annex – and sat outside for 12 hours to see what played out. This is the place where whimsical clarinet, energetic violin, and lyrical arias sweep through the halls. This is also the place where students consider their futures and practice for auditions that will define their careers. About 1,600 students share only 168 practice rooms at the music school. They all wish they could just get a room.
Brady Short keeps a spotless car and an untarnished reputation. Tonight, he's looking for a clean win.
Don't be afraid to ask life's most difficult questions.
