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IU Parking Operations: just doing their job

By Lindsey Mohlman · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 9:02 p.m.

IU Parking Operations, infamously known as the organization behind the unwelcome ticket envelopes on car windshields across campus, claims that, contrary to popular belief, it isn’t the bad guy.

Indiana smokes itself to second place

By BROOKE LILLARD · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:35 p.m.

Only West Virginia has more smokers than Indiana, says Forbes.com. With 26 percent of Hoosier adults reported as smokers, Indiana has the second-highest smoking rate in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Missing him like sophomore chemistry

By Sarah Hann · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:22 p.m.

“Miss Me Yet?” Nope.

The problem with Bayh

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:20 p.m.

Nobody likes Sen. Evan Bayh.

Anti-DST revolution

By Nick Jacobs · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:18 p.m.

Spring is coming, and this means a few things: namely, it’s going to get warmer, it’s going to rain and the bugs will be back soon.

Sink the Biz Markie

By Eric Cox · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:17 p.m.

As shown by the display at Monday’s panel, however, there is simply no way the movement for clean energy will be able to stand on its own unless those at the forefront rethink their approach to spreading the message to the public.

An auspicious alternative for American education

Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 8:15 p.m.

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.

Ole Miss to vote on new mascot

Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 6:16 p.m.

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.

Niger gains new leader following military coup

By Therese Kennelly · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 6:15 p.m.

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.

For the love of chocolate

By Lauren Clason · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 4:51 p.m.

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.”

Watch McRobbie's State of University speech

Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 1:38 p.m.

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.

RHA tickets discuss goals, platforms

By Vanessa Valentin · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:11 a.m.

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.

Holocaust exhibit opens with speech on Nazi Germany

By Hana Horton · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:11 a.m.

“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.

Playing with 7

By Drew Allen · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:10 a.m.

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.

Modernity: an ongoing global political project

By Rachel Troy · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:08 a.m.

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.

Pause with the founder of Pandora

By CJ Lotz · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:07 a.m.

Inside called Tim Westergren, founder and chief strategist of Pandora online radio. The Stanford alumnus immediately identified IU for its music school. Thank you.

Student alleges robbery

Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:05 a.m.

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.

3 Indiana Marines killed in Afghanistan violence in 1 week

By AP Reports · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:04 a.m.

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.

Four males streak near Eigenmann

Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:04 a.m.

IU Police Department Officer Sam Shahrani witnessed four males streaking near Eigenmann Hall on Saturday.

Hip-hop DJ Biz Markie pushes for clean energy

By Mickey Woods · Tuesday, Feb. 23,2010 12:04 a.m.

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.

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