Crean reaches 200th win
Crean’s win came on the biggest stage of his coaching career at IU. The Hoosiers faced a team that had received votes in the top 25 only a week ago. And it came just before a Saturday bout with No. 4 Kentucky.
Crean’s win came on the biggest stage of his coaching career at IU. The Hoosiers faced a team that had received votes in the top 25 only a week ago. And it came just before a Saturday bout with No. 4 Kentucky.
The NCAA is looking into it behind closed doors – at least preliminarily. Rekindling discussion of a popular topic outside the organization, the NCAA has held early-stage talks about expanding its men’s basketball tournament and possibly moving it from broadcast to cable. But don’t worry, purists. No changes are imminent.
The Hoosiers will take their two-game win streak to St. Louis at 3 p.m. Sunday against the Billikens. As a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, St. Louis boasts a 3-5 record this season.
When Angel Escobedo was a redshirt freshman, he watched Joe Dubuque win the second of his back-to-back National Championships at 125 pounds. Dubuque might not have realized it, but he was setting the bar for Escobedo’s future with IU wrestling.
Nazif Shahrani, chairman of the department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, questioned President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy in a speech at the Monroe County Public Library on Thursday.
A man was arrested in the Shalom Community Center for dealing prescription drugs after a two-month Bloomington Police Department investigation.
Bloomington Hospital’s Children’s Therapy Clinic will be hosting its annual Snowflake Festival holiday party for the children and families served by the clinic.
The African American Dance Company mixed bongos, genre-bending music and various styles of dance at its annual Studio Concert at Willkie Auditorium Thursday.
India plans to seek access and eventual extradition of a Chicago man arraigned by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, a top Indian official said Thursday.
A construction worker imprisoned for nearly three years was cleared by an apologetic judge on Thursday after his accuser admitted she lied about being gang raped to make her friends feel sorry for her.
Acrobatics, magic and fantasy will make the way to Bloomington at 8 p.m. Friday at the IU Auditorium. “Cirque Dreams: Illumination" was produced by Cirque Productions, the first American company to perform European “cirque style” for the theater and on tour, according to the Web site, www.cirqueproductions.com.
Ahh, Paris – could this city get any better? If Nicolas Sarkozy has his way, the city will undergo some drastic changes and restructuring – changes the likes of which have not been seen in Paris in more than 150 years.
From hip-hop to ballet, contemporary dance majors will do it all during “Unfolding Elements,” the IU Contemporary Dance Program’s final performance of the semester. The showcase will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at the John Waldron Arts Center and is free, but gift donations will be taken to benefit Bloomington’s Middle Way House.
Herman B Wells Facebook profile, created by IU librarians, is just one of the many approaches Wells Library employees are using to reach out and connect with the student community. As part of this multi-faceted approach to become more accessible, Wells Library staff members introduced an IUCAT Facebook application last month, allowing users to access and search IU’s online database of books.
Within the Renwick Development, a group of neighborhoods located in Bloomington, is the environmentally friendly house that is the setting for “The Green House Project,” a TV show that brings realistic, green building solutions to present and future houses.
The Business/School of Public and Environmental Affairs Information Commons will close for renovations at 5 p.m. Dec. 23 and reopen at the end of August 2010.
Though drinking citations are commonplace at IU and nothing shocking for the city of Bloomington, the sheer number of students that excise police “cracked down” on made the event a great headliner for the media – but what does this party bust represent for Bloomington or even the country as a whole?
A man’s home is his castle, or at least a place of warmth. We are firmly reminded of just how reliant we are on our houses this time of year when frost and snow greet us in the mornings.
WE SAY There’s no good way to soften IU’s sorority selection process.
They love us even when we act like idiots. They miss elimination night of “So You Think You Can Dance” to stay on the phone with us until our problems are resolved. When a pair of jeans make our rear ends look a little bit too bootylicious, they let us know.