Upward Bound gets $2M to help students prepare for college
A program that helps disadvantaged high school students prepare for college will receive $2 million in grants.
A program that helps disadvantaged high school students prepare for college will receive $2 million in grants.
IU is down by one point. One-and-two-tenths seconds remain in overtime. Junior forward DeAndre Thomas is on the line about to shoot two free throws. After a couple of dribbles, Thomas calmly sinks the first free throw. One shot remains to give the Hoosiers the victory.
For some cultures, the Festival of Lights has not yet faded. The Indian Student Association will host its annual Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, celebration Friday evening.
Three IU students are working to create a hip-hop fraternity on campus. They’ve laid the foundation and created a plan, and now their dream is becoming a reality.
Jake Peavy has been one of the best pitchers in the National League for years. This season, he pulled away from the pack.
With its season on the line, the IU women’s soccer team will battle the University of Toledo on Friday in the Hoosiers’ first NCAA Tournament game since 1998. The Hoosiers travel to West Lafayette to take on the Rockets at 11 a.m. The winner of Friday’s match and the winner of the Purdue-Oakland contest will face each other Sunday. The winner of that game will travel to College Station, Texas, and continue in the tournament.
It’s been a long time since the Hoosiers played a “must-see game.” But if you’re in Bloomington on Saturday and not inside Memorial Stadium, I feel bad for you. Stop talking about Eric Gordon for 48 hours. This weekend belongs to the football team.
The year was 1967. Already up 13-7 against Purdue, Hoosier running back Terry Cole sprinted 48 yards up the middle to give IU a commanding 19-7 lead, ultimately culminating in the program’s only Rose Bowl berth.
Benazir Bhutto said she is seeking an alliance with other opposition leaders Thursday to form a caretaker government that could replace President Gen. Pervez Musharraf ahead of January elections.
Ahead of the holiday travel crunch, President Bush ordered steps Thursday to reduce air traffic congestion and long delays that have left passengers stranded.
A report from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency on Thursday found Iran to be generally truthful about key aspects of its nuclear history, but it warned that its knowledge of Tehran’s present atomic work was shrinking.
NEW ORLEANS – The Neville Brothers are returning to New Orleans next year to assume the role they held for more than a decade – the closing act of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
TAMPA, Fla. – Some people will do anything to make a kid happy. Jody Powell, 35, hung on to a 12-foot statue of “Hannah Montana” for the better part of six days to win tickets to a sold-out concert by Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel TV show. The concert will be held next week in Tampa.
After nearly 50 books, New York Times bestselling-author Meg Cabot is at it again. Her well-known series “The Princess Diaries” made a splash at the box office with every teenage girl’s favorite royal Princess Mia, but tiaras will be taking a backseat in Cabot’s new novel “Big Boned.”
Last summer, 11 IU undergraduates, graduate students and professors traveled thousands of miles to Osaka, Japan, with one thing on their minds: communication. The group of Americans aimed to capture “communication” in photographic form, and they only had four weeks to do it.
Finals week, so often marked by tedium, monotony and studious work, is quickly approaching. So, who wouldn’t desire a break from such a time?
It’s pretty simple, really. I’d like increased government spending, I just don’t want higher taxes. I want all bad things ended immediately, and the number of good things to increase 10-fold. Also, I should really mention that I want to feel safe – all the time. But I don’t want my civil liberties encroached upon, and I don’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Thank God Election Day 2007 is finally behind us. Now we can forget about all the city council members and mayors we just elected and return our focus to national politics.
Sky-high executive pay at Fortune 500 companies is nothing new, and although many of us might not like it, CEOs receive gargantuan compensation packages even if they send their companies diving into the dirt.
Outside of our hatred of buying overpriced books at the bookstores, I cannot think of a single campus cause that can unite students more than our fight for a better student section at IU basketball games.