Pizza Express, as it has been known since its founding in 1982, will change its name to Pizza X near the end of the spring semester.
Graduate student Brad Kroupa can almost dream in a language that no one speaks fluently – not even him.
Dean of Students Dick McKaig could teach a class on getting pied in the face. The self-proclaimed “expert” could lecture for hours on how the first three or four pies taste good, or how the Cool Whip eventually gets rancid, or how your clothes get stiff. “I’ve had many a T-shirt or hat that came out rather starched from having done a pie-in-the-face routine,” McKaig said.
Now that the dust has settled in Gaza, perhaps only temporarily, what is left? Well, there are currently 372,948 monthly active users of the Facebook application QassamCount, meant to display the number of rockets set off by Hamas in your status. Then there is the “STOP Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza” application, which was developed “to reply to some Zionist developers who developed Facebook applications that update subscribers’ status periodically with the number of missiles launched by Palestinian resistance.” That application currently has 692,610 monthly active users. The Arab-Israeli conflict has never exactly brought out the best in people. Israel’s recent Gaza offensive was ridiculously declared by its critics to be genocide. Michele Malkin’s blog was riddled with comments about a religiously “motivated pogrom against all non-Muslims.” Even here in Bloomington, tension was high as Indiana Students Against War protested the vote of our house representative, Baron Hill, to reaffirm American support for the Israeli government.
In the run-up to the 2006 mid-term elections, when optimism and idealism still hadn’t been driven out of me, a few friends and I drove to South Dakota to campaign against a proposed abortion ban. When we gathered in a room awaiting voter lists, I was struck by how homogeneous our group was – primarily middle-aged white women. The anti-choice groups I had seen protesting, on the other hand, were composed of young women and men. Such a discrepancy in the age and sex of reproductive rights activists has been explored in national polls. A 2003 CBS/New York Times poll, for example, found that 35 percent of young women thought that abortion should be legal, compared to 50 percent of young women in 1993. A more recent poll by the New York Times and CBS News found that 50 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds supported stricter restrictions on abortion.
You don’t have to clean up your hotel room. You don’t have to drive nicely with a rental car. If you don’t have to pay to maintain it, chances are you won’t expend much energy making sure it’s in good shape. That’s someone else’s responsibility. And if many people get their way, the same rules will apply to your body. In with Obama’s presidency is the enduring hope within many circles that he will “fix” the American health care system by making it a universal system, or something similar. “Pay for everybody” sounds like a great, magnanimous solution in virtually every scenario. It takes a real attention to policy to realize why, especially for America, universal health care isn’t a practical solution.
It’s doubtful you missed it; the president’s son caught smoking weed made big headlines on campus last week. I can’t really remember what our first reaction was upon hearing the news. We at the Opinion desk thought about which angle we wanted to take on the matter, addressing whether or not it was newsworthy, if he’d get the same treatment as any other student, etc. But I immediately reacted differently. Oddly, considering how much I like to poke fun at the news, none of that came to mind. Instead, I thought, “God, weed is still bad?”
One of two Florida priests accused of embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from their church pleaded guilty Wednesday, the same day jury selection was set to begin in the case.
China censored its translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, removing references to communism and dissent, and quickly halted state television’s live broadcast of the address when Cold War-era animosities were mentioned.
North Korea and Iran, two nations with nuclear aspirations the U.S. wants to thwart, both signaled Wednesday that they were open to new initiatives from President Barack Obama that could defuse tensions.
Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it’s a victory made hollow by the overall industry’s continued struggle for viability amid one of its worst sales declines ever.
Nationally-known comedian Tom Mabe came to Bear’s Place Monday Night to help celebrate the 26th anniversary of Comedy Caravan by doing his signature stand-up routine.One of his albums, “Revenge on the Telemarketers,” was released on Virgin Records and featured pranks he played on telemarketers who called him. The idea was to waste the telemarketer’s time because he said they were wasting his. His new television show on Country Music Television is called “Mabe in America” and features a combination of Mabe’s pranks and comedy routines.
An exhibit featuring African-American culture as the roots for much of America’s popular music will take place in Bloomington City Hall Atrium through Jan. 26, with a schedule of events including gallery talks and musical performances. The Archives of African-American Music and Culture created “Rock, Rhythm & Soul: The Black Roots of Popular Music,” a traveling exhibit promoting and informing people of the history and roots of black popular music.
Books. The idea of reading them makes some people cringe, but it doesn’t always have to be a negative experience. Although I love watching movies, and I currently have a list five feet long of television programs with which I am keeping up, books have an element that movies and TV will never have.The most recent novel I have read is “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink.
A federal grand jury indicted an Indiana investment adviser Tuesday on charges of deliberately crashing his small airplane in the Florida Panhandle to try to fake his own death as part of a plan to escape financial ruin.
A newborn baby was found in a shoe box on the porch of a home in the northeastern Indianapolis suburb of Lawrence.
Opponents of the state’s plan to close a home for troubled children in Knightstown are planning a Statehouse rally to press their cause.
Indiana would join several states that have public warning systems to help find endangered, missing adults if a bill endorsed by a state Senate committee Wednesday becomes law.
A southern Indiana county might need to repay $123,000 in federal funds if it goes ahead with a plan to give away the surviving sections of a 19th-century covered bridge that collapsed into a river.
