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BoD: Technology

By Mike Beam · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 3:04 p.m.

Here they are: The most memorable personal technologies of the aughts. Not all of them were good (Windows Vista, I’m lookin’ at you) but most of them were invented in the last 10 years. Those that weren’t hit their popularity peak during that time. Without further ado and in no particular order:

BoD: Best performances

By Brian Welk · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 2:33 p.m.

BoD: Brian Welk looks at the best performances in film.

Obama drops cautious arts policy

By Brett Zongker · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:40 p.m.

Still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes that President Barack Obama, still in his first year, could transform cultural policy, funding and arts education for years to come.

Watch Lin Ostrom accept Nobel Prize

Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 7:03 a.m.

Watch the 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony here from 10:30 a.m. to noon (EST) live from Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.

Union Board kicks off elections today

Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:40 a.m.

All students can begin voting for Union Board directors today.

$10M fund to bring research to the marketplace

By Bailey Loosemore · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:32 a.m.

IU President Michael McRobbie announced Friday a new $10 million venture capital fund, called the Innovate Indiana Fund, which aims to help in the development of innovations and technologies generated at IU.

City commemorates 4th-century bishop

By Liza Giambra · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:22 a.m.

Hundreds of people cram into the brick walls of the Basilica of Saint Ambrose as the smoke from the incense billows into the high ceilings of the church.

Scarred past, hopeful Wednesdays

By Joanna Fearing · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:20 a.m.

“We want justice,” reads the sign of one of the protesters supporting the South Korean “comfort women’s” protest at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

Hoosiers head to Garden for Jimmy V Classic

By Zina Kumok · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:17 a.m.

When the basketball team opens the Big Ten season Dec. 31 against Michigan, IU will be ready.

IU to play Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden

By DeAntae Prince · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:15 a.m.

One of the youngest teams in the country will play Pittsburgh today in one of the oldest and most renowned arenas in America.

Gros Louis talks about IU’s past

By Peter Stevenson · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:11 a.m.

University Chancellor Ken Gros Louis took an audience of professors, students and alumni on a journey through IU history Monday at the DeVault Alumni Center.

IU administrators: no tuition raise despite cuts from state funds

By Nick Cusack · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:08 a.m.

IU administrators said tuition will not be raised this year or next school year after the state cuts about $150 million in funding from Indiana’s seven public universities.

Women’s rugby team develops strength, speed, year-round family

By Haley Adams · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:01 a.m.

It’s about 5:25 p.m. on a Monday in October. The members of the IU Women’s Rugby Club team trickle in from the parking lot behind the North Fee Lane Fields.

‘Palmer Park’ tackles ’60s integration

By Patrick Craig · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:25 p.m.

Black pediatrician Fletcher Hazelton jokes to his white friend Martin Townsend in “Palmer Park,” a play by Joanna McClelland Glass, which was performed as a staged reading Monday.

Chemical found in trendy new water bottles has some calling for better disclosure

By Joe Popely · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:24 p.m.

Recent research has linked negative effects to Bisphenol A, a chemical found in plastics and more recently in SIGG aluminum water bottle liners.

‘Blood’ creates political satire

By Carly Bassen · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:23 p.m.

Instead of giving in to an abusive government, the victims in “Parentheses of Blood” decide to take a stand. The play by Sony Labou Tansi focused on the terrors of government injustice and was performed at the Wells-Metz Theater as the last show of the Theatre and Drama Department’s fall season.

Bands We are Hex, Crystal Antlers, Audacity perform at The Bishop

By Kelsey Finn · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:21 p.m.

Indianapolis band We Are Hex will open for nationally touring California-based bands Crystal Antlers and Audacity at 9 p.m. today at The Bishop on South Walnut Street.

Drugmakers’ support for health overhaul tested

Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:20 p.m.

The pharmaceutical industry may have to cough up more than the $80 billion it agreed to contribute to President Barack Obama’s health overhaul effort, reflecting pressure from Democrats and their supporters for more money to cover older and low-income people.

Neville and quintet ring in holidays at Buskirk

By Keiara Carr · Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:20 p.m.

While the weather outside is frightful, four-time Grammy winner Aaron Neville and his quintet will take the stage with holiday music at 8 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.

State funds help insulate homes

Monday, Dec. 7,2009 11:08 p.m.

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. – Indiana’s stimulus-funded home weatherization program is moving forward after a slow start, and it might reach its goal of improving energy efficiency in more than 8,000 homes by June.

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