IUSA amends Iran resolution
Given the recent political turmoil in Iran, student activists are now pushing the IU Student Association to show its support for Iranian students.
Given the recent political turmoil in Iran, student activists are now pushing the IU Student Association to show its support for Iranian students.
Indiana’s largest data center, a $32.7 million facility that will serve as a safe house for IU’s computer processing and data storage equipment, will be dedicated today.
During this time last year, IU organizations were by the sides of Barack Obama and John McCain during one of the toughest presidential elections to date.
To illustrate our collective apathy as university students and the need to come together to manifest for much needed and justifiable change, let us focus on the issue of tuition.
“This Is How I Pink” is co-sponsored by WIUX and VS PINK and will feature students modeling styles from Victoria’s Secret Pink Collegiate Collection, as well as local vendors Cactus Flower, Cha Cha and In Seam Denim Supply. “This Is How I Pink” Runway Show is 7 p.m. today at the Indiana Memorial Union, Alumni Hall.
After six seasons on MTV’s “Road Rules,” a stint as a “Last Comic Standing” finalist and appearing on VH1’s “Reality Bites Back,” comedian Theo Von will perform at the Funny Bone Bloomington Comedy Club this week.
But Jacobs School of Music brass department professor Carl Lenthe has given another definition to the term with the Jacobs Trombone Choir, whose 12 members will perform for the first time this year at 8:30 p.m. today at Recital Hall.
Before he wrote the musical “Rent,” a Broadway hit that won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1996, composer and playwright Jonathan Larson produced and acted in his own one-man show, “Tick, Tick ... BOOM!”
After being delayed nearly a month because of an illness in the cast, Canadian playwright Lynda Martens’ “Naked in the Kitchen” will premiere tomorrow at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. Winner of the 2009-10 Season Reva Shiner National Full-Length Playwriting Contest, “Naked in the Kitchen” was selected as the best play from the submissions.
A 14-year-old girl was approached in the Crestmont Park area by a man claiming to be a modeling agent.
“Feed the Hungry, Feed yourself” is Fazoli’s 2009 canned food drive and will continue until Nov. 25.
The Monroe County Public Library on Kirkwood Avenue started a renovation this month that is scheduled to last for up to 12 months.
WE SAY Secretary Clinton should be more diplomatic when engaging with everyday people in nations like Pakistan.
In light of the information last week involving the CIA working with Hamid Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, for the last several years, and that he may be intricately involved with the Afghanistan opium trade, I thought a few words were necessary.
“This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity,” President Obama said on Aug. 17. They say actions speak louder than words, and based on the lack of action that the Obama administration has taken during the last few months, all I hear is silence.
College Mall has never been a place I associate with wise financial decisions, but if the last time I was there is any indication, the place has taken a turn for the worse. It isn’t necessarily anything to do with the stores inside, but rather its recent spat of “Cash for Gold” events, a setup where people bring their gold jewelry, watches and such to a merchant who will make them an offer and if it’s accepted, pay them in cash.
IU Athletics Director Fred Glass’ visit to the IMU Market on Wednesday, sponsored by the IMU Board, was a chance for him to go directly to the students.
Countless apocalyptic prophecies have been made throughout the course of history, each with its own bandwagon of followers. But nothing can compare to the magnitude of the 2012 phenomenon and those in preparation for its arrival.
With John Cusack’s upcoming movie, yet another entry to the already abundant amount of 2012-related media, it’s time we take a step back and carefully look at why some are looking to Dec. 21, 2012, as “the end of the world as we know it.” Whether their belief rests on the astronomical calculations of the Maya, or on the quatrains of Nostradamus, anticipation is high that our world will see a catastrophic end in 2012.