For minorities, shop and frisk is the policy
It’s public and ugly circumstances such as these that remind us prejudice is still alive and well in 2013.
It’s public and ugly circumstances such as these that remind us prejudice is still alive and well in 2013.
When we limit our national dialogue on mental illness to when people experiencing mental illness carry out violent acts, we’re equating mental illness with violence.
A driving force behind underage drinking and smoking culture is the fact that people inherently want to engage in activities in which they aren’t allowed to partake.
For 102 years, Williams Jewelry has been a gem in the Bloomington community and will close Christmas Eve. Owner Mark Thoma decided to close its doors to spend more time with his family.
Gov. Mike Pence announced Friday more than $9 million in grants will be distributed to Indiana schools to increase security.
The Bloomington Transit bus transfer station, being built on the corner of East Third and South Walnut streets, will replace the current station at East Fourth and Washington streets, which opened in 1987.
The City of Bloomington finished participating in the Google Summer of Code program, which matches student programmers with mentor organizations that create open source software.
Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington was host to a group of students from across the Atlantic this past week.
Actress Glenn Close made an appearance at IU Cinema Monday night to introduce her 1983 movie “The Big Chill,” which screened as part of the film series for the College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester 2013, “Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World.”
Four quartets played Monday night at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center Miller Gallery under the glowing white Jiang Mei Wu hanging installations. The performances were the first of “Music Mondays” put on by the center.
IU will be the host institution for the Society of Ethnomusicology’s 58th Annual Meeting Nov. 14-17 in Indianapolis.
Food columnist Amanda Arnold talks about Roy Choi, a Los Angeles chef with a bad-boy image who's working to change the unequal distribution of food in America.
Results from a five-year study analyzing the accessibility and safety measurements of playground surfaces were released last week by the National Center on Accessibility, part of the Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Studies at IU.
Students in the IU Sociology club and the School of Public Health have been working to eliminate mental illness stigma. The effort coincides with a visit by actress and advocate Glenn Close, who will visit classrooms and deliver a lecture at 3 p.m. today at the Whittenberger Auditorium.
Mickey Fearn, former National Park Service Deputy Director for Communications and Community, gave a speech Monday exploring outdoor recreation participation among African-American students at IU. The lecture took place as part of Race in Place, a week of inaugural events exploring complex issues related to outdoor recreation participation among African-American students at IU.
Prominent voices in Indiana’s marriage equality debate gathered at the IU Maurer School of Law Monday to argue against the proposed House Joint Resolution 6 constitutional amendment. HJR 6 would void all same-sex marriages or civil unions in Indiana, even those solemnized in other states.
The board proposed some changes to its constitution that will be ready for a student body vote Nov. 19 and 20.
After a slow start, the IU men’s basketball team found strength from behind the arc to distance itself from the Hillsdale College Chargers for a 79-39 victory at Assembly Hall in the Hoosiers’ final exhibition test of the season.
Primarily, of course, the most prevalent “reasoning” preventing Saudi women from driving is religious sexism.
Though some blatant racists do exist, the far more realistic perspective is that racial stereotypes are a subconscious response to information we receive.