Little 500 teams forced inside
While Tuesday morning's snowfall darkened the first full day of spring for most IU students, Little 500 and Kappa Delta rider Lauren Ziemba was even more anxious about the precipitation.
While Tuesday morning's snowfall darkened the first full day of spring for most IU students, Little 500 and Kappa Delta rider Lauren Ziemba was even more anxious about the precipitation.
Some professors think a lack of parking spots is adversely affecting their job performances. So a faculty plan, were it ever enacted, would discontinue the sale of A and C parking permits to most students.
Half of Bloomington Hospital's emergency area was evacuated Tuesday after two injured men with a potentially explosive component on their cots arrived by ambulance from nearby Crane Naval Base, a hospital spokeswoman said.
His signature resides on the ankle patch of perhaps the most popular shoe in American history. He's a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame and mingled with such basketball legends as John Wooden, Red Auerbach and Dean Smith. But up until now, nobody knew the true story of Chuck Taylor. Enter Abe Aamidor.
While Tuesday morning's snowfall darkened the first full day of spring for most IU students, Little 500 and Kappa Delta rider Lauren Ziemba was even more anxious about the precipitation.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts are switching from the NFL's most accurate kicker to the best in the clutch.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Jack Keefer's not much of a history buff. What happens to his Lawrence North team for a couple of hours Saturday night means a lot more to him than what happened to Oscar Robertson and Indianapolis Attucks a half-century ago.
In a weekend set that included two wins against ranked opponents and the end of a nine-game win streak, the No. 19 IU water polo team captured its second-straight Collegiate Water Polo Association Western Division regular season title.
Before the Hoosiers headed to Rochester, N.Y., to compete in the 2006 American Collegiate Hockey Association Championship Tournament last week, IU coach Rich Holdeman pointed to one game that would decide how his team would fare throughout the tournament -- its matchup with Oakland University.
Exactly two weeks after finishing its previous tournament, the men's golf team played Sunday in the Pinehurst Intercollegiate. Because of unplayable course conditions, the final 18 holes were canceled, leaving the Hoosiers with a third-place finish.
The National Basketball Association, under Commissioner David Stern, has an image problem. Major League Baseball, under Bud Selig, has a steroid problem. The National Hockey League, under Gary Bettman, has more problems than it does fans. Meanwhile, the National Football League, under Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, has the problem of prosperity, which frankly, is no problem at all.
The recent fallout over an episode of the cartoon "South Park" has Tom Cruise threatening to not promote his most recent movie and sparked Isaac Hayes, who voices one of the characters on the show, to resign from his role.
Caution seniors: Real life is approaching ... and quickly.
It seems like each time IU graduate students reach out for logical benefits from the University, the University never responds in kind.
Let me be blunt: The war in Iraq was despicable three years ago, and it remains despicable today. We justified the war with faulty intelligence and dogmatic propaganda, planned the post-war period with revolting irresponsibility, and severely damaged our credibility and integrity as a moral nation-state with our invasion and occupation. As Iraq boils with civil war and the American public gets increasingly disillusioned, we must ask, "What have we learned?"
As I observed precision-guided bombs strike Baath party headquarters in downtown Baghdad on CNN International in the latter days of March, 2003, I felt a fierce ambition rise in my gut. It was to craft just one air-tight piece in defense of regime change that would run every year on March 19 -- my birthday, but more, the birth of a free Iraq. It seems appropriate -- three years later -- to initiate that process.
DEFENDING THE WAR -- President Bush speaks at a news conference at the White House on Tuesday in Washington. Bush said there will be "more tough fighting ahead" in Iraq, but denied claims that the nation is in the grips of a civil war three years after the U.S.-led invasion.
FORT MEADE, Md. -- An Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib was convicted Tuesday of tormenting prisoners with his snarling animal and competing with a comrade to make the Iraqis soil themselves.
GENEVA -- The human death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu reached 103 after five people died from the disease in Azerbaijan, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents stormed a jail around dawn Tuesday in the Sunni Muslim heartland north of Baghdad, killing 19 police and a courthouse guard in a prison break that freed dozens of prisoners and left 10 attackers dead, authorities said.