Community Arts

Column: Upgrading the souvenir

Columnist Audrey Perkins discusses the culinary souvenirs she will bring home from Paris.

IU alumna becomes 1st woman in ISSA Hall of Fame

Softball sweeps Valparaiso

IU softball sent its seniors off with a sweep of Valparaiso in the team's last home game of the season.

Learning from Sterling debacle

Donald Sterling's situation shows that even in professional sports, one of the most sterilized and socially cautious aspects of American culture, there are major changes coming that will only serve to better society in the long run.

BPD investigating sexting scandal at second Bloomington high school

The Bloomington Police Department is investigating another case of child pornography dissemination at a Bloomington high school.

Knott to run as Republican

Greg Knott is running for the Monroe County Council District Four seat as a Republican in the primary election instead of as a Libertarian.

New University Plan raises questions at BFC

It’s unclear as to how this new plan will affect the Campus Strategic Plan, and if the Strategic Plan will have to be changed after the University Plan is finished.

State of censorship

If legislators value the future of this nation and the education of freethinking, rational young adults, they best stop using the meager funds they give to public universities as ideological bludgeons.

2014 IREAD-3 results for Ind. schools released by DOE

About 83.9 percent of students passed the IREAD 3 test in the Monroe County School Corporation.

The Baltimore blues

According to the Baltimore Sun, a man named Brandon Jenkins is suing a Baltimore community college, claiming he was denied admittance because he mentioned God during an interview.

Welcome to affirmative inaction

Society has shackled people of color with unnecessary wage, employment and education gaps. And now the Supreme Court wants to only tighten the cuffs.

Assaulting sexual assault

The Obama administration issued aggressive guidelines to combat sexual assault on college campuses. Meanwhile, reform of the way the military handles sexual assault among its own ranks continues to languish in Congress.

Ostrowski, out

I’ve never been good at writing thank you notes.

Re: Opera is a white man’s game

I was extremely disappointed and angered upon reading the column “Opera is a white man’s game.”

Landlord abuse

We have experienced bullying from our landlord. And we’ve had enough.

Re: Opera is a white man’s game

Sometimes in journalism, just as in politics, it’s easiest to go for the lowest-hanging fruit.

Child abuse in Indiana

About 80 percent of the substantiated acts of child abuse and neglect in Indiana are committed by parents or family members.

OK to date your own race

My mother was harassed throughout high school for dating black men. She was labeled a “nigger-lover” and even people in our family looked down on her.

Re: Opera is a white man’s game

Ostrowski would do well to examine the history and the heritage of the art form of which he claims to have thoroughly unmasked a seedy, racist underbelly.

Progressive religion gives hope, yo.

Those of differing religious beliefs (i.e. Secularists, the United Church of Christ, and individuals of any denomination having a personal belief in equality) are forced to adhere to the bigoted religious preferences of an uninformed majority.