Students come to hear policy
More than 1,000 people packed into the IU Auditorium on Tuesday night to hear former Sen. John Edwards speak – despite the controversy surrounding his personal life.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines
More than 1,000 people packed into the IU Auditorium on Tuesday night to hear former Sen. John Edwards speak – despite the controversy surrounding his personal life.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines
Former Sen. John Edwards said Sen. John McCain had a weight around his neck in the final days of the presidential campaign.That weight, he said, was President Bush.Edwards spoke Tuesday at the IU Auditorium as a part of the Indiana Memorial Union Board’s speaker series. The talk was his first public appearance since August, when he admitted to having an extramarital affair with a campaign staff member when his wife was battling cancer. During that three month period, Edwards remained out of the public eye as Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency.
IU Police Department is investigating the theft of missing artwork from Ballantine Hall.
After a disappointing 2008 election, the IU College Republicans on Monday voted in new leadership for the upcoming year.
A $2.7 million grant might seem like a large amount for something as small as an embryo, but IU’s biophysicist James Glazier plans to achieve great things with it. This grant from the National Institutes of Health promises about $675,000 every year for the next four years during Glazier’s research of early development in animals.
The racquetball club at IU is led by faculty adviser Jim Tippin and a handful of student administrators. Tippin said he has been delighted to see this year’s officers especially interested in leaving behind a legacy for future racquetball enthusiasts at IU.
Guitar in hand and stories abounding, southern singer-songwriter A.A. Bondy will take the stage at Bear’s Place tonight, doling out his distinctive take on the blues-folk revival.
Every Monday evening, I sit down at my computer and conjure up some random nonsense about music. I enjoy the freedom that comes with a weekly column assignment – I can write about anything. Even music some people find terrible.
It’s the year’s guiltiest literary pleasure: Stephenie Meyer’s series of teenage vampire romance novels, “Twilight.”
INDIANAPOLIS – Transplanted organs from a single donor spread skin cancer to two recipients who then died, claim two medical malpractice complaints against the Indiana Organ Procurement Organization.
HAMMOND, Ind. – The Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the classic holiday movie “A Christmas Story” with a display in Hammond.
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INDIANAPOLIS – Descendants of World War I flying ace Harvey Weir Cook celebrated the Veterans Day dedication of a new passenger terminal bearing his name, a belated consolation for the removal of his name from the airport that he helped develop more than 60 years ago.
Two years of election coverage accomplished what had previously been unheard of in Indiana. The coverage brought political candidates to rallies in the Hoosier state and engaged residents in the election process.The elections gave Indiana the chance to make its mark on the rest of the nation. For the first time in years, we were considered a swing state, and presidential candidates ran ads here. And even though Indiana hadn’t gone blue since Lyndon B. Johnson ran for office in 1964 , we were once again on the map in yellow, instead of dark red, during the final weeks of the campaign.
Nov. 4 was a bittersweet day for many. The election of Barack Obama, a black man, was a sign of major social progress. However, there was a measure that passed in the West Coast that effectively stripped many of their rights. That measure was Proposition 8, an amendment that added 14 words to the state constitution defining valid marriage as between a man and a woman. In a 52 to 48 percent vote, California voted in favor of Proposition 8. In effect, this measure halted the four-month period of time where homosexuals could legally wed in the state. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints spearheaded the proposition, along with other Catholic and evangelical interest groups. Together supporters of Proposition 8 raised nearly $38 million.
I am outraged at the comments of IU College Republicans chairwoman Chelsea Kane. In the article “IU voters increase by 287 percent,” she states that she was disappointed in students who voted for Obama because they were captivated by his rhetoric.
It’s a sign of the times that almost everything comes in a light version. Some loser who graduated in the bottom of his class with a marketing degree from a sub-par university decided that it would be clever to spell it “lite” and ended up making the greatest career move of his life. We now have lite radio, lite beer, lite cream cheese, Nintendo DS lite, and the list goes on.
Congratulations are truly in order for President-elect Barack Obama. Congratulations must also be given to his committed, hard-working volunteers who surely played as important a role in last week’s victory as the candidate himself. One might rightly wonder whether our economy would be suffering if these tireless Obamaniacs would show the same effort working at real jobs as they did in campaigning, but I’m trying to be magnanimous, so I’ll just leave that there.
Lyndon B. Johnson, despite his major civil rights legislation and his war on poverty, is not as well-known in American politics as he probably should be. Yet lately his name has been tossed around a lot. That’s mostly because of Johnson’s victory in the 1964 presidential election. Until last Tuesday, 1964 was the last time a Democrat had won several conventionally Republican states including Virginia and Indiana. With Johnson’s devastating 486 electoral vote victory over Barry Goldwater – one of the early proponents of modern conservatism – and the election of John F. Kennedy, a man who has probably sold the message of his party better than any man since, the early ’60s were good to the Democratic Party.
Tuesday night, former Sen. John Edwards said that Sen. John McCain had a weight around his neck in the final days of the presidential campaign.That weight, he said, was sitting President Bush.