Vandalism reported Sunday
Two buildings were discovered vandalized on campus Sunday evening, according to IU Police Department reports.
Two buildings were discovered vandalized on campus Sunday evening, according to IU Police Department reports.
IU was included in a list of the 25 universities with the most notices of music copyright infringement this school year. The Recording Industry Association of America released the list in February. Ohio University and Purdue University topped the list with 1,287 notices and 1,068 notices, respectively. IU was listed as No. 21 with 353 notices.
A female student was fondled while trying to get a drink from a water fountain Sunday morning at Forest Quad, according to IU Police Department reports.
The weather in Carbondale, Ill., may have been too cold to play in, but the Hoosiers’ offense heated up at just the right time. Sophomore infielder Stephanie Pellerito hit a grand slam in the sixth inning, as the Hoosiers (3-4) rallied for a 6-2 win Sunday against Ball State, splitting two games at the Kay Brechtelsbaur Southern Classic. The Hoosiers were defeated by Western Illinois by the same score Saturday.
It’s no small task to examine how vulnerable individuals have become to the mass media that saturates our lives on a daily basis, but Bloomington artist Brian Chase has come convincingly close. And he has photos to prove it. Chase’s most recent exhibit, “Tube Fed,” is a collection of 12 black-and-white photographs that reflects the evolution of television from innocent invention to media machine. Central to the theme of the collection are figures of both male and female nudes, seemingly captured in empty rooms with nothing but televisions before them.
BEDFORD – Indiana State Police said a pilot who crashed a plane into a house near a southern Indiana airport Monday, killing himself and his 8-year-old daughter, may have hit the home deliberately.
It was the first time that a cook-off was held in Bloomington for a famous Central Asian and Uralic dish. Seven countries competed but only one would take home the trophy for best pilaf – a rice and meat dish.
A 20-year-old IU student was punched by another woman early Tuesday morning during a fight that stemmed from pictures on Facebook, Bloomington Police said.
More than 100 students from 11 elementary schools were honored at the Youth Art Month awards presentation Saturday. There was standing room only as the students and their families packed the lecture hall in the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts to its maximum capacity of 300 people. The IU Art Museum hosted the event with the Monroe County Community School Corporation to honor the students whose artwork their teachers selected to be displayed in the atrium of the IU Art Museum.
During Little 500 weekend, students will have the opportunity to attend a Three 6 Mafia concert, in addition to performances by Yellowcard and O.A.R.
A Bloomington man was arrested after trying to hit a police officer with a coffee mug Sunday, police said. Dan L. Schoolcraft, 34, was arrested for battery on a police officer, resisting law enforcement and disorderly conduct, Detective Sgt. Jeff Canada said, reading from a police report.
After playing its first six games in the relatively warm weather of Memphis, Tenn., and Dothan, Ala., the IU baseball team heads to Indiana State today to compete in the slightly cooler temperature of Terre Haute. Fresh off a 4-2 win Sunday against Northern Iowa, the Hoosiers enter today’s contest against the Sycamores – a team that started the season with a 4-1 record and averages almost eight runs per game.
Benjamin Franklin, while a minister to France, first suggested the idea of daylight saving time in an essay titled “An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light.” That was in an essay published in the Journal de Paris in April 1784. But it was more than a century before an Englishman, William Willett, suggested it again, in 1907.
With ultraviolet colors, contortionists and aerialists, Neil Goldberg’s “Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy” will morph the IU Auditorium into a whimsical dreamscape tonight. Taking place in a magical forest, performers from around the world bring the jungle to life using special effects and creative choreography on a multi-million-dollar set. The 90-minute show features gravity-defying aerial acts, vine swinging and puppeteering.
MARION, Ind. – A waitress remained in critical but stable condition Monday after being shot in the head over the weekend by her estranged boyfriend inside the restaurant where she worked, authorities said.
Life has a funny way of crapping on us when we least expect it. (So do birds, but a little shotgun action takes care of that problem. It’s much harder to punish life for taking a big No. 2 all over our aspirations.)
MIAMI – Dwyane Wade’s dislocated left shoulder is so fragile there’s a risk of aggravating the injury when he sleeps. But come April, Wade figures he might be up to the rigors of the NBA playoffs. The All-Star guard said Monday he has decided to delay surgery and rehabilitate his shoulder with the goal of returning to help the Miami Heat defend their league title.
Scantily clad women. Arson. Average Joes beating the crap out of each other. Characters urinating on cop cars. No, this isn’t just your run-of-the-mill weekend debauchery. This is the content of many of today’s video games, which lawmakers fear might influence the behavior of the impressionable young people who take in these images day after day.
$1 million will be distributed nationwide to hunger-relief organizations participating in the 10th annual Feinstein Challenge this spring.
EVANSVILLE – The owners of a southwestern Indiana mobile home park have given each of its 120 residents weather radios to help give them adequate warning in the event of an approaching tornado like one that killed 20 people at another trailer park.