Join Indiana Daily Student reporters Ryan Gregg and Lee Hurwitz, and columnist Dave Leno in Happy Valley as they blog during the Hoosiers' game against Penn State.BLOG: UNDER THE ROCK
Last week, both the IU and Penn State football teams had dreams dashed. IU lost its seventh game of the season, making it impossible for them to go to a bowl, while Penn State had its undefeated season busted, likely knocking the team out of contention for the national championship.
When Rick Greenspan cleans out his Assembly Hall office at the end of December, he’ll leave four emotional years and plenty of memories – good and bad – behind him. He’s saddened by the loss of his colleague and friend, former IU football coach Terry Hoeppner, to cancer. He’s frustrated by the IU football team’s regression in 2008, a season many expected to end with a second-straight bowl appearance. Most of all, Greenspan regrets that he won’t be a Hoosier when that program prospers and reclaims Big Ten relevancy. But he’ll also leave the foundation upon which that program must be built, something many fans have overlooked. Inundated with criticism mainly attributed to the sanctions levied on former IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson, Greenspan announced his resignation June 26, effective at the end of the calendar year. Even with the cloud hovering over IU athletics, Greenspan’s decision to resign shocked many co-workers. “I didn’t think Rick was going to step down, and neither did a lot of us,” Mark Deal, associate director of football operations, said. “To say Rick Greenspan’s legacy is the whole Kelvin Sampson saga is about one-hundredth of all the good things he’s done here.”When Greenspan stepped foot on the Bloomington campus in 2004, he faced a struggling athletics department welcoming its third leader since 2001.Prior to his arrival, the IU football team wasn’t the primary focus of the department, despite being the top revenue-generating sport at most schools. The program was also in the midst of a lengthy postseason drought.
The word “mambo” translates to “hello” in English. From what country does the word “mambo” originate? Students from Foster International Living Learning Center and the Global Village partnered Thursday night to test their knowledge and celebrate International Education Week.
Emblazoned on a white banner, black letters proclaimed something a growing chunk of Bloomington felt. “Fire Bill Lynch.”
In the Department of Theatre and Drama’s new production of “Hamlet,” Ophelia chills in a beanbag chair; Gertrude reads Vogue and Claudius uses a laptop to order a hit on his nephew after Hamlet takes out Polonius with a gun.
For the past seven months, Tom Crean’s life has been as frantic and high-paced as the “William Tell” overture.
Sophomore Kelly Thompson would not be here without Riley Hospital.
Jan and Gene Coyle have had a life of missions and undercover investigations ever since their marriage. The tandem couple posed as boyfriend and girlfriend and as an engaged couple throughout their espionage missions in Russia, New Zealand and Greece.
Students and faculty helped reduce hunger in Bloomington by donating more than 4,596 pounds of food in only 24 hours.
The American Indian Student Association and the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center collaborated to show and discuss “Black Indians: An American Story” in honor of National American Indian Heritage Month on Wednesday.
Latvian songs of celebration filled the ears of many Thursday night while students rejoiced at 90 years of Latvian independence.
Colleagues honored Edmondson, former chairman of IU’s Department of Astronomy, by naming an asteroid after him. Now 96 years old, he was a vital asset in transforming both IU’s department and national observatories across the country, said Caty Pilachowski, IU’s Kirkwood chair of astronomy.
