Column: Voice of Assembly Hall
A native of Brazil, Ind., Chuck Crabb, the assistant athletic director for facilities, has served as the public address announcer for Assembly Hall since 1977.
A native of Brazil, Ind., Chuck Crabb, the assistant athletic director for facilities, has served as the public address announcer for Assembly Hall since 1977.
The 2011 Campus Consciousness Tour brings the funky musician to the IU Auditorium this weekend.
Raising Awareness of Interactions in Sexual Encounters joined the IU Police Department and IU Health Center to present “Street Smarts” Thursday night in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation auditorium. The event, part of IU’s Health and Wellness Week, aimed to encourage students to have a plan for personal safety.
From Oct. 17 to 22, the four greek councils — Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, National Pan-Hellenic Council and Multi-Cultural Greek Council — will sponsor events aimed at supporting and fundraising for a community that greeks sometimes think looks down on them, Finnerty said.
IU was named on a list of colleges with strong ratings in the 2012 U.S. News Best Colleges. However, U.S. News has determined they are less selective than other top universities.
Big Man on Campus, which will take place Friday at 7 p.m. in the IU Auditorium, will raise money to cure breast cancer.
Chad’s Towing and Recovery is primarily known for, as might be expected, towing services. The company also works with several local property owners to manage parking lots.
Bloomington police are investigating an attempted robbery reported Wednesday on the city’s south side.
Indiana State Police officers from the Putnamville post arrested a former youth pastor due to allegations of sexual misconduct with a child.
Spinning — or stationary cycling — might not get someone anywhere quickly, but the owner of a new Bloomington business hopes residents will come along for the ride anyway.
Migrant expert Jacqueline Garcia will give a talk at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in the Bloomington City Hall council chambers.

Former Indiana senator Evan Bayh called accusations that he committed voter fraud by voting in the 2011 Indianapolis municipal primary “baseless” in an emailed statement to the Indianapolis Star.
Long before the days of changing your relationship status on Facebook and tweeting about the romantic things done for you, there were more permanent and public ways to express your feelings for someone. Carving initials into freshly laid concrete and defacing a tree in the heart of campus were just two of the more popular ways to symbolize your love would last forever.
Ethan Uslan will perform a live accompaniment to the 1927 film “Sunrise” on Saturday at the IU Cinema. He said he hopes the screening and his individual musical style will serve as insight into movie-going in the ’20s.
Ziggy Marley, leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Bluebird Nightclub.
And be warned: If it’s been two hours or more and you’re still on a couch, expect a mustache when you wake up, courtesy of yours truly.
As a society, we know how to argue, and we know how to argue well, but we aren’t very good at ?talking to one another. As human beings, part of the way we take in information is to fit our experiences into our existing understanding of the world.
We believe, regardless of the economic situation, that employers deserve some basic rights and that they also have a moral and legal obligation to give their workers similar rights, as well.
Instead of a virtue, though, gay pride has become an event in which people don glitter and rainbow tanks and drunkenly dance down the street to any Gaga song they please.
Stop me if you have heard this story before. Extremely high-paid professional athletes and rich professional team owners can not come up with a deal that makes everyone happy.