Community Arts

Here, There and Everywhere

I have spent countless hours listening to them, tattooed one of their lyrics on my wrist and traveled across an ocean to learn about their lives. It has to be obvious at this point that my love for them has no bounds.

John, Paul, George and Glenn

Every Tuesday and Thursday night from 7 to 9 p.m. in the fall of 2008, loud guitar riffs float out of Ballantine Hall. A round of applause sounds every time Glenn Gass enters the room, and as the lights go down, the 60s pop up through the music of the four gents from Liverpool.

Housing Fair allows students to explore more than 100 options

Don't Pass It By

The Beatles’ self-titled 1968 release, known as “The White Album,” is considered one of the 10 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone and Time magazines.

Would you ‘friend’ your professor?

What was started in 2004 as a Web site for students has expanded into a worldwide network for all age groups. More professors are creating their own accounts, including those at IU.

Teachers comment on preferred method of running the classroom

Between endless equations and ongoing class readings, students can struggle to make relationships with their professors and can have trouble understanding whether their professors are there to help them succeed or to make their lives more difficult.

Teens earn education credit at IU High School

The IU High School is a type of distance education in which students from 48 different states and 13 different countries can receive high school credit through either Internet courses or other types of correspondence without actually having to sit in a classroom every day, said Bruce Colston, director of the IU High School.

An Epic Stroll

Although “Let It Be” would be The Beatles’ last released studio album in 1970, the last actual recordings they did as a band were in 1969 for the “Abbey Road” sessions. 

The Night Goes On

After decades of scholars, music critics, parents and other assorted baby boomers hyped The Beatles as the greatest rock band of all time, it’s tempting to see their work as a museum piece to be admired from a distance, but not loved. And some of their later music fits that mold. But not “A Hard Day’s Night.”

NBC looks to improve post-Super Bowl

This coming week is a big one for TV with the Super Bowl on Sunday.  NBC has the highest-rated TV event of the season this year, and it looks like a big week for them altogether. Obviously the Super Bowl is a must-see, so we’re just going to ignore that. Here are four shows to get through the post-Bowl hangover.

With wild turkeys thriving in Ind., it’s open season twice a year on the birds

The Dept. of Natural Resources reported last week that 610 wild turkeys were killed during the 2008 fall hunting season, a 4 percent increase in success since 2007.Once completely wiped out from most of the Midwest, wild turkeys have fought their way back into Indiana’s backyard and now draw more than 50,000 hunters annually.

Buskirk-Chumley grant offers applicant winners free rent for a day

One lucky winner will get to rent the Buskirk-Chumley Theater for free. With the introduction of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater Grant Program, Bloomington residents can apply for a grant to use the Buskirk for a day.

France to withdraw 1,900 troops from Chad, Ivory Coast

France plans to withdraw 1,900 of its soldiers from the African nations of Chad and Ivory Coast to reduce its foreign troop deployment, Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced Wednesday.

China detains 81 in Tibetan crackdown

China is launching a security sweep in Tibet ahead of one of the region’s most sensitive anniversaries in years, with state media saying at least 81 people have been detained.

Offshore Calif. drilling deal could be scuttled, experts say

An agreement paving the way for the first oil drilling off of the California coast in nearly 40 years has run into unexpected opposition that may sink it altogether Thursday.

‘Bob the Builder’ encourages kids to go green

Student organizations and Al Gore aren’t the only ones worrying about the environment. Bob the Builder and his crew will urge kids to go green and recycle during a performance at the IU Auditorium today.The 90-minute show will include Bob and his team singing and dancing through 10 songs as they work to create a recycling center, said Maria Talbert, the events manager for the auditorium.

Night comes alive in BPP’s ‘Nocturnal’

Night is a time of darkness, mystery and illusion in the Bloomington Playwrights Project’s upcoming production of “Nocturnal,” a new play by writer Ramon Esquivel. In what begins as an innocent prank, four teens challenge each other to new levels of risk and danger. “These young people are trying to find themselves, but they’re still hidden in some ways and each one of them has dark corners of their personality and their psyche,” Esquivel said. “It’s not something that’s talked about onstage, at least not any stage high schoolers see.”

HBO comedian to make cracks at Funny Bone

Arj Barker of “Flight of the Conchords” will start the first of three consecutive performances at The Funny Bone Comedy Club today. The show is only available for those 18 or older. Baker himself even questioned the appropriateness of his material. “Is it for all ages?” Barker asked. “It’s not appropriate for a person of my age to be telling these jokes.”

Commitment to our founding principles

Last week I watched as another man took the highest office in the land. This magnificent display is one that has been replayed in various forms and fashions 44 times in our nation’s dynamic history. This consistently peaceful process is one of the hallmarks the United States has built. Though the fanfare may be different, the words are the same: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The maintenance of our Constitution and its principles is essential to the longevity of this nation that is so dedicated to the liberty of its citizens.

Planned Parenthood flop

The dust has barely settled on Planned Parenthood and its previous brush with the law in Bloomington before the organization finds itself in another legal scandal, this time in Indianapolis. You may remember that in December 2008, Live Action Films, an anti-choice group based in California, released video of an undercover sting operation in Bloomington. The video showed a 20-year-old woman posing as a 13-year-old pregnant girl after sexual relations with a 31-year-old man. In the video, an employee at the S. College Avenue clinic is seen advising the woman to lie about her age in order to protect her from being reported to Child Protective Services. In Indiana, any sex act between an adult and a person younger than 14 years must be reported to the department or a law enforcement agency. Although the employee was fired, Planned Parenthood is still dealing with the attack on its credibility, most notably in Indianapolis. Indiana Health Commissioner Judith Monroe recently warned the clinic there that its incomplete “terminated pregnancy reports” were grounds for prosecution.