TOLEDO, Ohio - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an appeal filed by a Roman Catholic priest convicted of murdering a nun in Ohio.
SYDNEY - Chicago might have lost the 2016 Olympic bid, but at least its citizens won’t have an Olympic financial fiasco.
After several tough days in singles competition, the IU men’s tennis team found its rhythm in doubles play.
The IU women’s golf team entered Tuesday’s final day at the Johnie Imes Invitational in Columbia, Mo., in third place and a mere four shots behind the leader, Tulsa University.
Internet connectivity on the IU-Bloomington campus was interrupted Tuesday after the core router and backup systems both failed, said Dennis Cromwell, associate vice president for enterprise infrastructure.
Linda Adebisi was awarded a AMBI scholarship to help realize her childhood goal of becoming optometrist.
The product of the Walt Disney Company has created not only the worst nasal country accent I have ever heard, but also one of the best pop songs of the year. Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA,” has reached No. 1 on iTunes, No. 3 on the Billboard Digital Chart and every computer, iPod and party on campus.
The Kinsey Confidential Web site has gone through an overhaul not only in its appearance, but also in its content.
Last weekend, I went home to get my wisdom teeth removed. After the surgery, I made the pain bearable with mass amounts of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, prescription drugs and plenty of time sitting in front of the television. I happened to flip through the channels and see that the 2009 “VH1 Divas” show was re-airing. Interested, I stayed tuned to see who would be named VH1’s top female performers.
The fast-pace world of graphic design met the slow pace of a small town in Wisconsin to create “Typeface,” a documentary presented Tuesday at the School of Fine Arts. The film was screened free to the public and was followed by a question-and-answer session with panelists, including the film’s director Justine Nagan.
Professor Pravina Shukla received an award after spending 12 years working on a book that examines the role of clothing in Indian culture. Shukla, an associate professor of folklore and ethnomusicology, is the recipient of the 2009 Millia Davenport Publication Award given out by the Costume Society of America for her work, “The Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India.”
Amid oxymoronic creativity and a continuous flow of green beer, Kosher Ham was born. “I was probably about a dozen beers deep during St. Patrick’s Day of ’07 when I started thinking, ‘Everyone gets to be Irish for a day. Why can’t everyone dress Jewish for a day?’” said Jeremy Bloom, founder and president of the ironically named T-shirt company. “I was starving and thought, ‘Kosher Ham – I’ve got a great idea!’”
From her earliest memories, senior Kathleen Clark said she was captivated by the eclectic, eccentric world of garage sales. “I remember waking up early with my parents so we could get there first,” she said. “I told people that I was probably raised on the floor of a garage sale.”
Sustain Bloomington, a celebration of the city’s natural resources, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m today at Peoples Park. The free event is a partnership between Bloomington Parks and Recreation and the IU Office of Sustainability.
Most people satisfy their charitable urges by donating an extra dollar in the collection box at Walmart or volunteering at the local animal shelter, but for IU student Jordan Feldstein, that wasn’t enough. He decided to start his own charity.
Perhaps my favorite and most frequent form of self-torture is my cheapest. All it requires me to do is turn to either CNN, MSNBC or Fox News.
Imagine walking out of a movie theater on a bright summer day. There’s just too much light to handle, because your eyes are used to the dark. So you close your eyelids. But when there’s too much noise, you can’t close your earlids. It’s kind of a bummer, actually.
Now that women have the right to vote, birth control and (supposedly) equal rights in the workplace, the need for feminism might be called into question. Do gender inequalities truly affect us on a daily basis? I say absolutely yes.
The more I see the way people rely upon their cell phones so incessantly for all tasks and can no longer remember seven digits, the more I stand by my decision not to own one. The more I see about tracking people by a triangulation of their cell signal on television, the better off I feel.
WE SAY Three of the 13 points proposed by the Provost’s Task Force are immediate needs.
