WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Dave Chappelle has broken his own Laugh Factory endurance record.
Tuesday, China said it welcomes journalists covering the 2008 Beijing Olympics, responding to complaints by a media rights group that the Communist regime has decided to clamp down on reporting in the run-up to the games.
The 17-year-old suspect in the death of Sean Taylor was accused Tuesday of firing the shot that killed the Washington Redskins safety. A Miami-Dade grand jury identified Eric Rivera as the gunman in its indictment. Rivera and his three co-defendants were indicted by the grand jury on charges of first-degree felony murder and armed burglary.
While the Boston Red Sox appeared to be closing in on Johan Santana, an even bigger trade emerged Tuesday at the winter meetings: The Detroit Tigers reached a preliminary agreement to acquire Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis from the Florida Marlins for a package of six players.
The College Football Hall of Fame news conference already started by the time Joe Paterno showed up and grabbed his seat at the end of the dais. “I apologize for being one year and 20 minutes late,” the 80-year-old Penn State coach said.
A new U.S. intelligence review that concludes Iran stopped developing a nuclear weapons program in 2003 is consistent with the U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s own findings
The IU football team paid a price all season, and their reward is a 13th game on New Year’s Eve against Oklahoma State in Tempe, Ariz. Die-hard IU football fans have also paid a price for 14 years, watching team after team fall short of a bowl game before this year’s success. The reward for current IU students is a free ticket to the Insight Bowl. Any IU student can reserve their free ticket by calling 866-IUSPORTS or 812-855-4006. Check out the Under the Rock for more Hoosier insight.
While December usually finds IU students and faculty pushing through crowds to get to their seats at basketball games, this year, several organizations are pushing crowds to take action against genocide in Darfur.
When Menahem Pressler bowed his first notes on a violin as a child in Germany, he had no idea that nearly 80 years later he would be awarded with his own day in Bloomington.
The IU women’s basketball team will take its 4-3 record on the road Wednesday afternoon to face a stiff test from the Dayton Flyers at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio. The team is coming off a tough home loss to then-No. 21 Florida State in the inaugural Big Ten/ACC Women’s Basketball Challenge. The Hoosiers kept the game close throughout the contest Nov. 30 against the Seminoles, leading for a good portion of the game and losing by only seven.
On a Thursday evening, music blares from the student activities room in Briscoe Quad. As the IU Breakdance Club practices, students walking by stop to watch the team twist and turn to the beat.
With an 0-2-2 record in the Greater Midwest Hockey League going into a two-game weekend series against Grand Valley State, the IU hockey team was worried, but not overly concerned that it didn’t have a league win. After losing twice last weekend, that concern is growing.
Every year, thousands of American children go through the tearful, teeth-gritting ordeal of getting their vaccinations, only to be forced to do it all over again.
Last Sunday, I braved the rain and cold, got out of bed before noon and drove up to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. I was going to complete an assignment for my oh-so-interesting art history class and was planning on going through the exhibit about Roman Art from the Louvre Museum in Paris as quickly as possible, as I wanted to get home in time to catch a small nap before going to work later that evening.
Sixty years after its establishment in 1947, the IU Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures recently received an honor in the form of a two-year, $400,000 federal grant given by the U.S. Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education.
Visions of Pacman and yellow rocking ponies filled the dining hall of Alpha Tau Omega on Tuesday night when the fraternity hosted a holiday celebration for the kids of Bloomington’s Boys and Girls Club.
Reading through the Indiana Daily Student the other day, I stumbled upon an interesting feature regarding hate-crime laws. The article covered recent efforts by Indiana legislators to introduce “bias” laws. Rep. Greg Porter (D-Ind), author of a new hate-crime bill, said Indiana was one of only five states without hate-crime legislation. I wondered, is this such a bad thing?
You’ve really got to hand it to the Sudanese. My first thought when I heard that thousands of them marched Friday in Khartoum was “Oh, maybe they have finally decided to hold their government accountable for Darfur.” I couldn’t have been more mistaken. Apparently these upstanding citizens of Khartoum were marching against Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old school teacher from England.
During the 1980s, a significant divestment campaign was established to end investments in South Africa, whose apartheid policies represented a human-rights nightmare. On college campuses, university trustees began to explicitly divest from South Africa, and along with other organizations, they helped impede the apartheid regime and eventually lead to its downfall. Divestiture did not repair apartheid on its own, but it certainly helped bring international attention to the problem.
1. Jose Gonzalez, “In Our Nature”
