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Runners look ahead to Nationals

Women's basketball hosts 1st round of preseason WNIT Friday

Different day, different Hoosier star

What I know and what I think

Football wracked with injuries ahead of Penn State clash

Last week, both the IU and Penn State football teams had dreams dashed. IU lost its seventh game of the season, making it impossible for them to go to a bowl, while Penn State had its undefeated season busted, likely knocking the team  out of contention for the national championship.

Alvarez: Greenspan good for IU football

When Rick Greenspan cleans out his Assembly Hall office at the end of December, he’ll leave four emotional years and plenty of memories – good and bad – behind him. He’s saddened by the loss of his colleague and friend, former IU football coach Terry Hoeppner, to cancer. He’s frustrated by the IU football team’s regression in 2008, a season many expected to end with a second-straight bowl appearance. Most of all, Greenspan regrets that he won’t be a Hoosier when that program prospers and reclaims Big Ten relevancy. But he’ll also leave the foundation upon which that program must be built, something many fans have overlooked. Inundated with criticism mainly attributed to the sanctions levied on former IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, Greenspan announced his resignation June 26, effective at the end of the calendar year. Even with the cloud hovering over IU athletics, Greenspan’s decision to resign shocked many co-workers. “I didn’t think Rick was going to step down, and neither did a lot of us,” Mark Deal, associate director of football operations, said. “To say Rick Greenspan’s legacy is the whole Kelvin Sampson saga is about one-hundredth of all the good things he’s done here.”When Greenspan stepped foot on the Bloomington campus in 2004, he faced a struggling athletics department welcoming its third leader since 2001.Prior to his arrival, the IU football team wasn’t the primary focus of the department, despite being the top revenue-generating sport at most schools. The program was also in the midst of a lengthy postseason drought.

Students celebrate 25 years of Foster Living Learning Center

The word “mambo” translates to “hello” in English. From what country does the word “mambo” originate? Students from Foster International Living Learning Center and the Global Village partnered Thursday night to test their knowledge and celebrate International Education Week.

Internally, Hoosiers are sound

Emblazoned on a white banner, black letters proclaimed something a growing chunk of Bloomington felt. “Fire Bill Lynch.”

Theatre, drama department takes modern angle on Shakespearean classic

In the Department of Theatre and Drama’s new production of “Hamlet,” Ophelia chills in a beanbag chair; Gertrude reads Vogue and Claudius uses a laptop to order a hit on his nephew after Hamlet takes out Polonius with a gun.

Crean era begins Saturday against Northwestern State

For the past seven months, Tom Crean’s life has been as frantic and high-paced as the “William Tell” overture.

IUDM hits greek community members on a personal level

Sophomore Kelly Thompson would not be here without Riley Hospital.

Former IU students become husband, wife, CIA partners

Jan and Gene Coyle have had a life of missions and undercover investigations ever since their marriage. The tandem couple posed as boyfriend and girlfriend and as an engaged couple throughout their espionage missions in Russia, New Zealand and Greece.

5,000 cans donated in IMU food drive

Students and faculty helped reduce hunger in Bloomington by donating more than 4,596 pounds of food in only 24 hours.

Students explore similarities of American Indian, black histories

The American Indian Student Association and the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center collaborated to show and discuss “Black Indians: An American Story” in honor of National American Indian Heritage Month on Wednesday.

Latvian independence celebrated at IU

Latvian songs of celebration filled the ears of many Thursday night while students rejoiced at 90 years of Latvian independence.

Retired astronomy professor reflects on career

Colleagues honored Edmondson, former chairman of IU’s Department of Astronomy, by naming an asteroid after him. Now 96 years old, he was a vital asset in transforming both IU’s department and national observatories across the country, said Caty Pilachowski, IU’s Kirkwood chair of astronomy.

Nothing to wear and no time to shop? Try these options.

Do you ever wake up in the morning to closet full of clothes, yet nothing to wear? I know I do. Maybe I’m just too picky with what I choose or possibly just too indecisive. Whatever the case, we all have heard the phrase “time is money.” If that were meant literally, I’d be making it rain every morning, as hundreds would be thrown away by the second.

Illinois folk legend to play at Auditorium

For nearly 40 years, legendary folk/rock artist John Prine has been touring and releasing music. On Saturday, he will take the stage at the IU Auditorium.

Cinemat to hold local band’s CD release concert

Locally based indie-rock band Gentleman Caller plans to unleash on fans a new, full-length album Friday at The Cinemat, 123 S. Walnut St.

BPP ‘PlayOffs’ teams to write, act in 24 hours

Imagine what it would be like if a professor assigned a 10-page paper and said it was due by the end of the day. Imagine being unable to procrastinate. Now imagine the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s “PlayOffs”: Playwrights are given just one day to write an entire play. What’s more, the actors must memorize the lines in an even shorter time. The directors must work feverishly to get everything before the just-born play takes the stage – that night.