Website allows students to gamble on grades, earn cash
Creators of the website Ultrinsic want to motivate students to succeed in school — with a financial incentive.
Creators of the website Ultrinsic want to motivate students to succeed in school — with a financial incentive.
IU employees will see a little more money in their pockets come Nov. 1. A 3 percent overall pay increase was approved by the Board of Trustees and announced by President Michael McRobbie Aug. 20. Faculty and staff did not see a raise in 2009.
Let’s be honest, we are a generation that refuses to be inconvenienced. I live in a world where I am allowed to buy books, order food and earn a degree without getting out of my bed. Yet, the one question that I can never seem to Google myself out of is what do I wear?
The Pepsi Refresh project has encouraged individuals and groups to come up with refreshing ideas that will “change the world.” JMUSE (Just Making Use of Soulful Expression) Productionz believes its idea can do just that.
Flowers of all shapes, sizes and colors filled the IU Art Museum this weekend for its second Art in Bloom exhibition. The exhibit consisted of a two-day flower show that contained floral exhibits from 12 different members of the Bloomington Garden Club.
New schedules require new books, and with new books come choices. This semester that choice involves buying versus renting, with both T.I.S. College Bookstore and the IU Bookstore heavily promoting the option to rent this year.
For the third Welcome Week in a row, the IU Health Center is sponsoring the “Sex, Drugs & Rock ’n’ Roll” program to teach incoming freshmen and other students about making responsible choices when drinking, partying and engaging in relationships.
Campus bookstores may be packed this week, but for those who have yet to purchase their books for this semester, there is an alternative to braving the long lines — textyard.com.
From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, many streets throughout campus will be converted to one ways.
Eli Lilly and Co., a pharmaceutical company based in Indianapolis, began research for a breakthrough Alzheimer’s treatment in 2008. Last week, The New York Times reported that Eli Lilly had stopped phase three clinical trials.
The doubles tandem of senior Santiago Gruter and junior Jeremy Langer captured the doubles title of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Summer Circuit in Bloomington.
IU sports headlines you might have missed while you were gone this summer.
Senior midfielder Daniel Kelly netted the Hoosiers’ lone goal with less than six minutes to play as IU lost to Xavier 2-1 in the their first exhibition game of the season.
IU Athletics Director Fred Glass is working hard to make people excited about the university’s football program. At this point, that’s all he can do.
Where some would argue building the Islamic center “down the road” is acceptable, how far is far enough?
My summer agenda quickly attained a monstrous size. It seems I cannot estimate a reasonable number of books to read, the limit to travel before it becomes exhausting or the optimal number of classes for a summer session.
That’s why I watch Glenn Beck. He makes the news interesting by telling me what I should be angry about. I have no time for Wolf Blitzer’s monotone voice, and Anderson Cooper’s smooth features give me a fluttering feeling in my stomach that I suppress by re-reading the Bible.
Hard-nosed Republican John Boehner met his match on “Meet the Press” when NBC News analyst David Gregory repeatedly asked Boehner if the tax cut for the rich would pay for itself.
After two new crosswalks were added to Fee lane this spring, a third has been added between Herman B Wells Library and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs on 10th Street.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden told a military veterans’ convention in Indianapolis that insurgents in Iraq have failed in their efforts to undermine elections and the forming of a new government there.