Pacers hope new identity pays off for playoff run
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers waited until the end of the regular season to figure themselves out, and what they've found doesn't resemble what they once were.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indiana Pacers waited until the end of the regular season to figure themselves out, and what they've found doesn't resemble what they once were.
DURHAM, N.C. -- Two Duke University lacrosse players were arrested on rape charges Tuesday in a scandal that has rocked one of America's elite campuses and has raised explosive questions of race, class and the privileged status of college athletes.
The IU baseball team improved its record to 4-4 against in-state opponents and swept the season series against Indiana State University after an 11-5 victory Tuesday over the Sycamores at Sembower Field. Freshman Eric Wagner pitched three scoreless innings of relief in his first collegiate victory, and junior second baseman Keith Haas went 4-for-5 with two runs and one RBI to lead the Hoosiers in the win.
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The IU softball team broke its three-game losing streak with a win against IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne, although it was not exactly how they wanted to do it.
The very first Little 500 race champions were almost predictable.
LOS ANGELES -- The Tomkitten has arrived. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the public lovebirds dubbed TomKat by the media, had a baby girl Tuesday, said Cruise spokesman Arnold Robinson. The baby, named Suri, weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 20 inches long, he said.
The attorney for John R. Myers, II, the man charged with the 2000 murder of IU student Jill Behrman, is asking for his client's trial to be moved out of Morgan County.
It looks like there could be another successful member of the Mellencamp family in Bloomington.
Watching the 2005 Little 500 inspired senior Wes Michaels.
Alumni Hall was packed Tuesday night as an anxious crowd awaited the arrival of spoken word artist Saul Williams. After a collaborative audience clap, Board of Directors-Diversity Performance Alfonso Lerma assured the audience members that Williams would grace the stage shortly. As others in attendance grew rowdy, junior Derrin Granger came to the stage. Granger, an active poet on campus, competed last week in the Hip Hop Congress' poetry slam competition, which won him the opportunity of opening for Williams. While waiting for the main event, the audience had watchful eyes on the nervous newcomer. Granger introduced his first piece, "Another one bites the dust," by expressing his opinion that many of his peers were choosing destructive paths leading to drugs, crime and jail time. He shared some of his writing inspiration.
The actress gave birth Tuesday to Grier Hammond Henchy, who weighed 7 pounds, spokeswoman Pat Kingsley said.
For 20 seconds, senior Alpha Tau Omega rider Hans Arnesen knew what it felt like to be a Little 500 champion.
Jamie Chen crouched near the fence at Bill Armstrong Stadium, her feet firmly planted in the cinder that covers the bicycle track as she surveyed the women riding around it.
Prior to this year, senior Jaimie Hewitt had only been an observer of the Little 500 race. This fall, she decided to get out of the stands and onto the track.
SAUL SLAM -- Junior Darren Granger talks about his life experiences and presents some of his poetry while opening for poet Saul Williams.
The formation of uniform degree requirements has stalled amid disputes between officials at IU-Bloomington's separate degree-granting schools. Disagreements have arisen because each school believes its requirements are the most appropriate for their degree. Bloomington Faculty Council President Ted Miller told members of the council that an approval on a general education draft would be delayed because of disagreements on which requirements would fit each school's agenda. The announcement came Tuesday at the last BFC meeting of the academic year.
Doom should be inevitable to businesses who stop paying their employees. But the note-taking branch of IU's Disability Services for Students' new, more efficient business plan has done exactly that -- stopped paying its employees.
Indiana Daily Student Editor in Chief Rick Newkirk has had a good run. He has overseen some big news -- a restructuring of the University and a men's basketball coaching shakeup come to mind. But with the semester drawing to a close, Newkirk and his management staff are leaving us for the brave world of professional journalism -- I wish them well.
IU professor Portia Maultsby reaches across the table and plucks a few pieces of candy from a small bowl. She unwraps a Hershey's Kiss and pops it in her mouth.