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Women’s formal recruitment starts Saturday

Any woman in a sorority or interested in joining one has a busy weekend ahead of her.

Pritchard getting ‘star treatment’

During seven games, IU’s offense has gone through freshman forward Tom Pritchard. As a result, Pritchard is leading Big Ten freshmen in scoring and rebounding – averaging 14.1 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. His success has not gone unnoticed.

IU law school renamed

The IU law school will be renamed to the Michael Maurer School of Law after a man who is giving a $35 million dollar gift to go toward scholarships.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Neal-Marshall brings Kwanzaa to IU campus

Unity. Self-determination. Collective work and responsibility. Cooperative economics. Purpose. Creativity. Faith. Through music, food and art, organizers at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center taught the seven principles of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa to participants Thursday night at a pre-Kwanzaa celebration.

5 surefire ways to improve your style

With the new year drawing closer, it’s time to start thinking about resolutions and new beginnings. If you went through 2008 in a fashionless fog, there’s hope for you in 2009. To help you, I’m spotting you five surefire ways to improve your style for the next 365 days.

Folk rock and distortion fill Waldron

It’s a wonder that all of Bloomington wasn’t deafened Wednesday night, considering the barrage of psychedelic music that was pouring out of the John Waldron Arts Center Rose Firebay at Fourth and Walnut streets.

Sharon Jones comes to Jake’s for funk performance

Spin Magazine asked, “Aretha who?” after seeing Sharon Jones perform, and Jones boldly referred to Amy Winehouse as “whats-her-name” in a New York Times article.

2nd-year law students receive scholarships, summer positions

Second-year IU law students Omar Badawi and Gillian Crowl have been named the recipients of the second annual $10,000 Baker & Daniels Diversity Scholarship, which recognizes law students of varied ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds. Lifestyles and unique viewpoints are also considered in determining recipients.

ROTC’s Ranger Challenge tests cadets

ROTC students who want a challenge both mentally and physically are welcome to try the Ranger Challenge, which is often considered the varsity sport in the ROTC.

BFA photography show expresses media neglect

The old Wal-Mart building off State Road 45 has been sitting empty for two years, but last Sunday, a corner of its overgrown parking lot was filled with professional lighting equipment, suitcases and shivering Bachelor of Fine Arts photography students.

Students buy Fair Trade items at IMU from all around world

Bags from Nepal, soap from India, hats from Bolivia and jewelry from Kenya were displayed on tables filling the Georgian room in the Indiana Memorial Union. The products are supplied by Fair Trade and represent dozens of countries from around the world.

Heaven, Earth collide in ‘Marisol’

The Apocalypse is coming, and graduate student Dawn Thomas is right in the middle of it as the title character Marisol Perez in the IU Department of Theater and Drama’s final production of the semester.

Eppley Institute director named 2008 fellow for work with parks, recreation

The American Academy for Park and Recreation Association, a group of professionals devoted to promoting the park and recreation field, inducted Stephen A. Wolter, executive director of the Eppley Institute for Parks and Public, as a 2008 fellow.

IU grad returns from The Gambia after Peace Corps service

Todd Diemer, an IU graduate, spent more than two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in The Gambia and replicating the local holidays, but now Diemer has returned to the States to celebrate in his own home.

A LOOK AT THE ROCK: Glass and I agree: Keep Lynch

RUNNING THE FLOOR: Closer than the experts think?

Risk and reward: Sommer goes from unknown to the World Cup

Momentum carries women's basketball into clash of conferences

Men's basketball faces another tough challenge in No. 5 Gonzaga

Gonzaga’s glass slipper no longer fits. Once an annual Cinderella story, the Zags have evolved into one of the top programs in the country. The northwest school that used to be regarded as the feel-good story of college basketball now has opponents worried sick about playing them. “There really is not anything that doesn’t concern us (about Gonzaga),” IU coach Tom Crean said in a Thursday teleconference. With a balanced scoring attack, talent at every position and “tremendous” chemistry, Crean said he thinks the Bulldogs have been one of the best teams in the nation for more than a decade. “I don’t think you’ll find any college basketball coach or player that has competed against them that wouldn’t refer to them as one of the best programs in the country,” Crean said. On Saturday, the Hoosiers (4-3) will try and create a feel-good story of their own when they face No. 5 Gonzaga at 1:30 p.m. in the Hartford Hall of Fame Classic in Indianapolis.

Britney's circus

My favorite recording artist since 1999 has been Britney Spears. Until the past few years, she was just some bubblegum pop artist, dancing around with boa constrictors, kissing Madonna –  the usual. But then something happened. It appeared that Spears started to go mad. And the world ate it up and wanted more. This past Sunday, Spears’ documentary, “For the Record” premiered for her to set the record straight, just two days prior to the release of her new album, “Circus.” There was something extremely sad about Spears and how we as a culture perceived her. After she married Kevin Federline, who was seen as a talentless nobody, her image was shaken. Spears was seen as a pop princess, and the most extreme thing she’d done to this point was show off skin.