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Coach: ‘Ladies became women’ with win

By Brandon Smith · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 10:02 p.m.

Despite senior forward Whitney Thomas and sophomore guard Jori Davis going a combined 3-for-19 from the field and combining for just 15 points, the IU women’s basketball team overcame a four-point halftime deficit to defeat Miami (Fla.) 69-54 in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge. In the second half, the Hoosiers (5-2) outscored the Hurricanes 41-22 and shot 52 percent from the field.

We can stop climate change

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:59 p.m.

We have known about global warming for years now, and yet we have failed to properly address the solutions to the problem. I support the simple and effective platform 1Sky has proposed that could solve both the global climate change and the economic crisis.

NBC names David Gregory host of ‘Meet the Press

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:58 p.m.

David Gregory’s new job as moderator of “Meet the Press” was made official Sunday with an announcement on the long-running NBC interview program that he will take over starting next week.

Obama got it right with Gates

By Christian Hines · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:58 p.m.

Gates has established himself, in the words of IU junior Miles Taylor, as a “post-partisan pragmatist.”

A sting leads to a planned tragedy

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:55 p.m.

Few organizations find themselves quite in the eye of the storm like Planned Parenthood. While protests outside the clinic and threats against employees are standard fare, clinics nationwide will now have to contend with the latest development – undercover video sting operations. Bloomington’s Planned Parenthood learned this the hard way. In June, a 20-year-old UCLA student, Lila Rose, visited the Bloomington Planned Parenthood Clinic posing as a 13-year-old pregnant from consensual sex with a 31-year-old man. In an undercover video Rose took, Rose asked the nurse, now suspended, about having an abortion.

Woman arrested after lighting marijuana joint in front of state trooper

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:54 p.m.

MUNCIE, Ind. – Police said a Muncie woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke – and then tried to light up a marijuana joint.

Jayden Boyer, left, Andrea Dahl, James Boyer and Tyler Davis sit and wait for soldiers to arrive on Monday, Dec. 1 at Camp Atterbury near Edinburg, Ind. The children had no relatives serving. Their father, Andrew Long, who now lives in Bloomington, served in the Australian Air Force 492 Squadron and came to show his support to all the returning soldiers.

Troops prepare to readjust to civilian life

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:53 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – For Indiana troops back home from Iraq, there are no more roadside bombs or insurgent gunfire. But the taut readiness that comes from being on guard against attacks remains and can be an obstacle in adapting to civilian life.

Consumed by monstrous merriment

By Abby Schwimmer · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:53 p.m.

During the holiday season, the nation as a whole seems to come to the conclusion that the bigger, the more elaborate and the more overdone things are, the better.

Mom charged with child neglect in daughter’s death

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:52 p.m.

MUNCIE – A woman failed to manage her 8-year-old daughter’s type 1 diabetes, leading to the child’s death, police said.

Dead week social scene

By Jordan Zaslow · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:52 p.m.

Many students might find themselves socializing more this week than they have all semester. After all, this week an on-campus venue promises to be a hotspot from 8 a.m. until midnight.

Stay in your pants

By Danielle Fleischman · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:51 p.m.

Apparently, we are living in an increasingly sexless world.

Get it together, ‘Friends’

By Sara Amato · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:51 p.m.

This Christmas I asked Santa for “Sex and the City.” If there was one thing Hollywood did right, it was making that movie. Since its opening weekend, the movie has made more than $415 million at the box office. Now, I’m begging for another sitcom gone big screen: “Friends.”

Funk revival singer Sharon Jones performs Saturday night with her band the Dap-Kings at Jake's Nightclub. Jones, who grew up in Augusta, Georgia, the same town where founding father of funk, James Brown, grew up, learned to imitate Brown's dance moves and hard-work ethic at a young age, and is now receiving acclaim for her energetic live shows.

Sharon Jones, Dap-Kings bring soul revival to Jake’s

By Kelsey McArdle · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:50 p.m.

Daptone Records’ soul and funk revival was in full swing Saturday night as the fiery sounds of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings took over, shaking the stage at Jake’s Nightclub.

From left to right: seniors Abby Haler, Allyson Kennard, and Bree Haler, observe the BFA painting, "All the Good Ideas are Gone" by Annalea Van Nes, during the BFA Painting and Overseas Study Exhibitions at the SoFA Gallery on Friday.

Annual painting and overseas study exhibition drew crowd at School of Fine Arts Gallery

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:48 p.m.

Paintings, photos and drawings with subjects ranging from nude women to an original take on the famous painting “American Gothic” spanned the walls at the Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting and Overseas Study Exhibition.

Friends look at art during the "No Man Is Island" BFA Show Friday evening at the Art Hospital on Allen Street. The students worked together on various projects, themed on issues the media ignores.

Students’ photography project sheds light on social-political problems unrecognized by media

By Katie McKenna · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:47 p.m.

The color photography at Friday night’s bachelor of fine arts show shed light on social-political problems in the United States that otherwise have remained in the dark.

Inmates perform Shakespeare to help at-risk kids

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:44 p.m.

CARLISLE, Ind. – Inmates at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility hope their performance of Shakespeare adaptations will help at-risk kids stay out of prison. Inmates in the Shakespeare in Shackles program recently adapted and performed scenes from “Romeo and Juliet” to highlight the violent society Romeo lived in and the consequences of his choices.

Police investigate Friday robbery

By Elvia Malagon · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:43 p.m.

The Bloomington Police Department is investigating a night deposit robbery. BPD officers were dispatched at about 9:30 p.m. Friday to the Monroe Bank in the 2000 block of E. Buick Cadillac Blvd., said Sgt. Shane Rasche, reading from a police report.

Alumni Association chooses President’s award winners

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:19 p.m.

The winners of the IU Alumni Association’s 2008 President’s award took unusual routes after their college days at IU were over. The eight recipients received the award for their courageous volunteer efforts in the IU community as well as in their own communities.

IU, Purdue, IUPUI join together for energy research

Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:18 p.m.

The Indiana Consortium for Research in Energy Systems and Policy is a joint effort of faculty members at IU, Purdue and IU-Purdue University Indianapolis to bring researchers from all three campuses together to come up with projects and research related to energy issues.

Pinon, Ariz., students visit IU from their classroom

By MaryJane Slaby · Sunday, Dec. 7,2008 9:16 p.m.

Instead of taking a plane, train or bus from Pinon High School in Pinon, Ariz., students brought their entire classroom to a conference room in the School of Education through a video chat on Nov. 25.

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