The luxury American cruise ship teeming with hundreds of tourists just might have been too much for the Somali pirates to resist.
A special Iraqi court has sentenced Saddam Hussein’s cousin “Chemical Ali” al-Majid to death for his role in the 1991 suppression of a Shiite uprising.
President-elect Barack Obama pledged quick work Tuesday on an economic recovery plan to include tax cuts and increased federal spending, and told the nation’s governors he wants their advice in designing a package to help their hard-hit states.
With the stress of finals, eating routines often do not contain the healthiest of choices. Heidi Titus, registered dietician for Residential Programs and Services recommends increasing serotonin, which is a “happy hormone,” by eating protein and carbohydrates.
Winter break is just around the corner, and many students are looking forward to having homemade food, seeing their families and taking a break from school. But this vacation comes at a cost: Students must face their final exams before they can hit their parents’ couches to channel surf in bliss.
The IU Police Department is investigating the theft of computer equipment from Owen Hall.
Children’s laughter, smells of home cooking and familiar Christmas carols filled Alpha Tau Omega on Tuesday night during its second annual holiday dinner with the Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington.
There’s nothing in the Constitution or Bill of Rights that specifies the word marriage. It isn’t a right, it’s a privilege. Some focus on the 14th Amendment and the equal protection clause.
In many ways Richard F. Syron pursued the dream career of plenty of economics majors.
Thanksgiving week was very good to IU men’s soccer coach Mike Freitag and his team, as the Hoosiers notched two impressive home victories in the NCAA Tournament and received a commitment from one of the top high school soccer players in the nation.
During the 2002-03 school year, Indiana joined the rest of the country in a grand experiment to reform the education system by opening its first charter schools. Education is one of those paradoxical issues where the vast majority of Americans agree the current system is broken, but little ever changes. Given that much of this is the result of a partisan deadlock over issues such as school vouchers and teachers unions, charter schools have steadily grown as the less controversial option. Today some 1.2 million American pupils attend charter schools, and as of this fall, 49 charter schools were in operation across the state of Indiana. Concentrated in the urban areas of Indianapolis, Gary and Fort Wayne, but also scattered in other areas across the state, including Evansville and Lafayette, these schools were supposed to perform better than and spark innovation from their faltering peers. However, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) at the IU School of Education conducted a study concluding that, so far, charter schools haven’t radically shaken things up very much. Charter schools are publicly funded and operate with a great degree of autonomy. Critics often question how accountable charter schools really are to their charters when the penalty of closing the schools is often difficult to enforce, and teachers unions are wary of lost rights under the charter system.
Now the fun begins.
I have a very complicated opinion of President George W. Bush.
On Wednesday, the Hoosiers will face one of the best floor generals in the country. Without an All-American in the backcourt, IU plans to use a point guard by committee approach to run its offense. In search of size and depth, IU coach Tom Crean played freshman Malik Story at the point position for the first time Sunday. Story, a 6-foot-5, 222-pound freshman from Los Angeles, has primarily played frontcourt positions this season, splitting time with freshman Nick Williams at power forward. But Crean said the Hoosiers would take advantage of Story’s versatility, playing him at as many as four positions this season.
I’ve heard plenty of mildly amusing shopping tales, including my favorite of police being called in to break up a fistfight between two women over a purse at a Coach Outlet store. These, coupled with the fact that I’m a big fan of sleeping in, have usually kept me out of Black Friday fray.
I just spent the last hour and a half thinking of something to write about. Sure, I love arts and entertainment. I could write about my love for small, unknown bands on YouTube such as the Florida-based band Boyce Avenue (I own the CD, and I have played all of its videos on YouTube at least 40 times each). I could talk about the passion I hold inside for Brad Pitt and his ever-changing facial hair (sorry Brad, the stach must go).
She toured Europe over the summer and recently released a new CD, but jazz pianist Monika Herzig’s life isn’t all glamour.
ANDERSON – A coroner says a man died of cancer just before his car crashed as he was driving himself to a hospital for treatment.
A Bloomington man was arrested on Sunday after police say he assaulted two individuals for speaking Arabic.
