University officials: IU better than Purdue
Since the days of Reconstruction, IU and Purdue University have been fierce rivals.
Since the days of Reconstruction, IU and Purdue University have been fierce rivals.
Now at the season's halfway point, IU goes into Saturday's match-up against Purdue a completely different team than when it started.
Coaching During the entire offseason, IU coach Mike Davis had doubters and critics in his face at all times.
As the ink dried on the 'Conditions of Participation and Release' form I signed to try my hand at dueling with the IU Fencing Club, I was already ridiculously out of place. Blue corduroys might be the right call if you're trying to score scene points, but they don't fly if you're fencing -- a sport centered on maximizing your agility.
The storied IU-Purdue rivalry will continue Saturday as the No. 18 women's swimming and diving team welcomes its arch-rival, the No. 14 Boilermakers, to the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center on senior day. The Hoosiers will honor seniors Kristin Bradley, Heather Chapman, Doherty Colgin, Lauren Lubus and Lauren Torpey.
Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr once compared an upcoming football season to climbing Mt. Everest. If Carr thinks that's tough, he must never have looked at a Big Ten wrestling schedule.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands -- Indiana freshman forward Lee Nguyen signed a 3 1/2-year soccer contract with PSV Eindhoven.
PITTSBURGH -- Colts quarterback Peyton Manning's arm-waving, finger-pointing and nonstop gesturing at the line of scrimmage seemed especially frantic against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and for good reason.
SEATTLE -- The road to the Super Bowl never leads through Carolina. Instead, it leads the Panthers all over the map. Two years ago, the team went to St. Louis and Philadelphia in the playoffs, won both times and made its first NFL championship game appearance. This winter, the stops have been in the Northeast (23-0 over the Giants), the Midwest (29-21 over the Bears) and, now, the Pacific Northwest, where the Seahawks await Sunday in the NFC title game.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two near-simultaneous bombings targeted a crowded downtown Baghdad coffee shop and a nearby restaurant Thursday, killing more than a dozen people. The attacks came as a foreign assessment team reported evidence of fraud in the Dec. 15 elections, but did not endorse calls for a rerun.
Many people in privileged societies go above and beyond simply sending their child to school for grades K-12. College attendance is now practically a given in middle-class society and above.
"In the beginning, there was Abramoff." -- Frank Rich, October 2005. The story of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has taken Washington by storm. His connections to politicians are still nebulous, but Abramoff's sordid tale reads like something out of "The Sopranos." Consider the following facts from a comprehensive report in The Weekly Standard, listed in the order in which they occurred:
So, we on the editorial board just read that Northwestern University is starting to offer condoms for sale from the residence hall vending machines. Our response is that this plan should be stopped -- it's clearly a sign of moral degradation on Northwestern's campus, and will promote promiscuity and unnatural sexual behavior outside the bounds of God's law.
State Rep. Matt Pierce, D-Bloomington, led a chorus of voices in an impassioned plea during a Bloomington City Council meeting Wednesday to do all that was in its power to oppose a telecommunications bill currently before the Indiana General Assembly.
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Senate advanced a bill Thursday intended to prohibit protests within 500 feet of funerals -- legislation that stems from protests by a Kansas-based anti-gay group at Indiana military funerals. The bill, which cleared the Senate 47-1, now moves to the House, where it could face changes because of confusion about what the legislation would actually do.
IU Police Department officers responded to two separate nonforcible sex-related offenses Thursday in the shower areas of the men's locker rooms at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation within two hours of each other.
The IU Alumni Association has created a Web site dedicated to helping its members find employment in their field. The Web site, www.IUalumnicareers.com, is meant to provide IU alumni access to career guidance and counseling and can notify registered users of any new listings that have been posted in their fields.
In a country where an estimated 4 million women are beaten each year, there is an emerging support structure for domestic abuse victims.
Not many artists do their creative work lying on the floor. Still, members of the InMotion Dance Company lay on the floor Wednesday night, brainstorming moves to include in the dance for their upcoming audition.
Outside the School of Fine Arts, professors in bright greens and purples smoke cigarettes and watch the students: boys in skinny pants and overpriced loafers, girls with chunky glasses and rainbows for bangs. The smoke clouds drift over their heads and dissipate into the rain and wind. Everything in this building is art: the witchy cackles propelling the steam puffs, the swirls in the commercial carpet and the broken-pencil scent filling the hallways.