Nixon's spirit of moderation
As a liberal, I’m not supposed to be saying this, but we could use more Richard Nixons.
As a liberal, I’m not supposed to be saying this, but we could use more Richard Nixons.
Without a continued and strong presence of the liberal arts in higher education, how will we face the challenges of our shrinking world?
If you were finally ready and able to forget the obnoxious would-be vice president, you’re in for some bad news. HBO Films is releasing a movie about the 2008 election and the part Palin played in changing the the political landscape.
Like many complex and controversial policy issues, the interaction of church and state has been a bipartisan disaster.
This past weekend, the No. 74 Hoosiers took on No. 23 Notre Dame and Kentucky. The action started Friday when IU went to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irish.
The situation was all too familiar to IU’s men’s swimming and diving team.
The IU men’s track and field squad capped its weekend with a team victory at the Big Ten Indoor Championships at Nebraska, while the women’s squad placed eighth.
It was fete. The verb that sounds just like “fate” is what brought University Elementary School sixth-grader Byoul “Star” Han a victory Saturday.
New Orleans might be called the “Big Easy,” but nothing came easy for the IU baseball team this weekend when they were swept by the Tulane Green Wave in three excruciatingly close games (3-2, 9-8, 6-2).
Members of Youth for Ron Paul at IU spread the word about the presidential candidate on Sunday in front of the Sample Gates.
A week after not making a field goal during 46 minutes of action during a road loss to Iowa, IU veterans senior Verdell Jones III and junior Christian Watford made sure that wouldn’t be the case for their final road game of the season.
More than 1,000 people in Bloomington celebrated Shabbat, the Jewish sabbath, Friday as part of IU Hillel’s “Shabbat across IU.”
There was no crowd cheering and no Big Ten championship to claim. They weren’t even wearing cream and crimson. But during the weekend, a team of 11 Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets slipped into uniform to defend their Hoosier pride in the German Armed Forces Badge for Military Proficiency competition.
On Saturday, the IU Swing Dance Club partnered with the Boilermaker Jazz Band for the annual Big Red Swing Weekend. The weekend featured dance lessons and live music — and couples jumped and jived to this old-time sound.
As Bernadette Peters glided onto stage Saturday, the crowd roared with applause, and stage lights sparkled in audience members’ eyes. Conductor Marvin Laird, who has been working with Peters for nearly 30 years, accompanied her onstage.
IU men’s basketball season has been a ball on a roulette wheel. Matters were no different in the Hoosiers’ 69-50 win Sunday in Minnesota.
The winning streak was short-lived. After taking Wisconsin down to the wire and pulling off a 62-60 victory Thursday — the team’s first win in 15 Big Ten games this season — the IU women’s basketball team (6-23, 1-15) fell 90-58 to Purdue (21-8, 11-5) on Sunday at Mackey Arena during its final regular season game.
Following a 1-4 showing this past week, Indiana (7-7) exploded offensively during four wins this weekend, finishing 4-1 in the Phyllis Rafter Memorial tournament in Woodstock, Ga.
Local transportation officials have postponed a decision until March about whether to include the Interstate 69 project in their transportation improvement plan.
Because they support the whole party, the IU College Republicans are not endorsing any state and national primary candidates, but instead are pooling resources and laying the foundation for the general election campaigns for later this year.