Community Arts

The worst comic book flicks

By Cory Barker , Megan Clayton , Brian Marks , Kaleb Havens and Brian Welk · Tuesday, April 27,2010 5:27 p.m.

The WEEKEND staff lists the worst comic book movies ever.

The best comic book flicks

By Cory Barker , Doug Evans , Megan Clayton , Brian Marks , Brian Welk and Mikel Kjell · Tuesday, April 27,2010 5:22 p.m.

The WEEKEND staff takes on the best comic book films.

Hoosiers to face U-20 Mexican Youth National Team today

By Drew Allen · Tuesday, April 27,2010 12:23 a.m.

The men’s soccer team will end its six-game spring season with some international flavor as it welcomes the Under-20 Mexican Youth National Team for a 7 p.m. scrimmage.

Bookstore announces textbook rental deal

By Claire Wiseman · Tuesday, April 27,2010 12:20 a.m.

The IU Bookstore announced Monday it will lower all new textbook prices and offer a textbook rental option to students on all IU campuses beginning next fall.

Going all out

By Lauren Clason · Tuesday, April 27,2010 12:18 a.m.

Clad in a red T-shirt that screams “I’M IN BTOWN BITCH,” Kaelan Barowsky seems pretty ordinary. But the senior telecommunications major has built up an impressive reputation as one of IU’s grand masters of drunken revelry.

Kahn’s comeback culminates with award

By Caitlin Ursini · Monday, April 26,2010 11:26 p.m.

Diving again was all junior Cassidy Kahn wanted. But during the past year, she has gotten more than that. Kahn’s accomplishments reached their peak for the 2009-10 season when she was awarded the 2010 Thomas A. Brady Comeback Award last week. The award is given to someone who overcame adversity or injury and returned to excel beyond expectations in their respective sport.

Greetings from Australia

By Kevin Loughery · Monday, April 26,2010 11:23 p.m.

Dear Bloomington,As you know, this past weekend was The Greatest College Weekend Ever. Snoop Dogg came, and so did rain storms and about 10,000 cops. There’s nothing like Little 500 in Bloomington.Well, except maybe for Little 500 in Wollongong, Australia.

Clausen’s past puts him rightfully below Tebow

By Frank Therber · Monday, April 26,2010 11:21 p.m.

About a year-and-a-half ago, it was Tim Tebow standing at the podium, pledging to push his team harder than no one ever had in the past — to work harder than anyone ever had. And this past Friday, it was again Tebow at the podium pledging to the world. Although this time, it was pledging to do something much more challenging than working hard or speaking louder — playing quarterback in the NFL.

Alumni law magazine receives gold award

Monday, April 26,2010 10:46 p.m.

The IU School of Law-Indianapolis won a Gold award in the 25th-annual Educational Advertising Awards competition for its 2009 alumni magazine/dean’s report for the school. The publication has received three additional national awards in the past 18 months.

Fashion design to launch new major program

Monday, April 26,2010 10:45 p.m.

For the past 20 years IU students have been using the Individualized Major Program to obtain a bachelor’s degree in fashion design, but that process could become a lot easier. Fashion design could be an official major within the next few years.

School of Education announces Martha Lee and Bill Armstrong Teacher Educators

Monday, April 26,2010 10:43 p.m.

The School of Education announced six Martha Lea and Bill Armstrong Teacher Educators. All are Indiana public school teachers and will be a part of professional development opportunities as well as work with IU faculty and students in multiple ways including courses, panel discussions and research projects.

Film series: 19th-century boarding schools used to assimilate Native Americans

By VINCE ZITO · Monday, April 26,2010 10:42 p.m.

The Native Film Series, which took place Sunday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, highlighted incidents occurring in Native American boarding schools from the late 1800s to the 1960s.

Woman says ex-boyfriend hit her with Chihuahua

By VINCE ZITO · Monday, April 26,2010 10:40 p.m.

On Saturday morning, Bloomington Police were dispatched to the 500 block of South Lincoln Street in response to a female complainant who informed police that her ex-boyfriend had attempted to forcibly remove her from the residence and four days previously had thrown her pet Chihuahua at her head.

Radish: Bipartisan bill passes

Monday, April 26,2010 9:04 p.m.

The bill? Reinstatement of Pluto to official status as a standard planet.

Radish: University to open college for Magic

Monday, April 26,2010 9:03 p.m.

Called the College of Black Arts and Mad Sciences, its focus will lie on topics typically thought by the mainstream academic community to be too taboo or idiotic for serious study, including alchemy, necromancy and supply-side economics.

Radish: The real Tea Party

Monday, April 26,2010 9:02 p.m.

“What is the proper thing to put in a cup of tea?”

Radish: SPEA reveals XCORE

Monday, April 26,2010 9:01 p.m.

The end goal is to try and save your agency from being written out of the federal budget by putting together a series of PowerPoint presentations.

Radish: Fuck the water Temple

Monday, April 26,2010 8:59 p.m.

Can we just skip the next three hours of me adjusting levers until I get the specific amount of fluids some deranged engineer thought was necessary?

Startup Camp seeks new tech ideas from college entrepreneurs

By Anish More · Monday, April 26,2010 8:37 p.m.

Educational institutions such as IU are the birthplace for many newborn tech ideas, and Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play Tech Center offers a venue for those ideas to develop into full-fledged companies.

Local company inks DOE deal

By Kevin Knight · Monday, April 26,2010 8:31 p.m.

PartTec, a local physics research and manufacturing company, announced this month that it reached an exclusive licensing agreement with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee to develop and apply new neutron detector technologies.