Bloomington: 2nd best destination
Collegia, Inc. has ranked Bloomington as the second-best college destination in its first annual College Destination Index grading.
Collegia, Inc. has ranked Bloomington as the second-best college destination in its first annual College Destination Index grading.
Today, prospective doctors will get a taste of the future. Project SEEK, a program within the Career Development Center, gives students the opportunity to shadow professionals in their chosen field.
Freshman Marisa Churchill broke it off with her boyfriend of one month after arriving in Bloomington. Her now ex-boyfriend attends college in Grayslake, Ill. "It was very stressful for me to leave home and I didn't want the pressure of a relationship on top of that," Churchill said. Like Churchill, most college students don't think romantic long-distance relationships will work. A 1996 study sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University showed 66 percent of college students in long-distance relationships believed the relationship would not last through the academic year.
Even though children in Bloomington's Urban Enterprise Zone live in low- to moderate-income households, that won't stop them from advancing their technology skills.
Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez will have no trouble keeping a busy schedule after he ends his two-term tenure at the end of December.
BURBANK, Calif. -- From featherhead to virtual-reality savior of humanity. What an odd set of bookends to the career of Keanu Reeves.
celebrates 41st birthday The IU African Students Association will present a night of African food and music to celebrate its 41st birthday at 6 p.m. Saturday at Forest's Greenleaf Dining Hall, 1725 E. Third St.
Pro-life and pro-choice students reacted to President Bush's signing of legislation banning late-term abortions Wednesday afternoon. The bill, passed by the House in early October and by the Senate late last week, prohibits doctors from performing the procedure anti-abortion activists call "partial-birth abortions."
The last time Bloomington saw a Republican mayor, Richard Nixon was president of the United States, Watergate was gaining public attention and the country was consumed by the Vietnam War. Since then, Bloomington has been run by a string of Democratic mayors, beginning with the election of the late Frank McCloskey in 1972. Tuesday's election guaranteed another four years of a Democratic mayor in Bloomington.
An unidentified man exposed himself to two female Collins Living-Learning Center residents Tuesday night near the intersection of Woodlawn Avenue and 11th Street, IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger said.
Local and regional musicians have turned Bear's Place into a jazz club for the almost 15 years that Jazz Fables has played there.
Let's get things straight. I don't like Robert Johnson, the creator of Black Entertainment Television, nor do I like the Reverend Jesse Jackson. But before we discuss Johnson and Jackson, let's play a little game of "Ghettopoly."
It sounded like a bad sketch comedy routine.
The economic news cycle experienced a bit of a change of pace last week. For once, it was good. The news was that our Gross Domestic Product (GDP -- the measure of economic output) grew by 7.4 percent in the third quarter of this year.
While the Feds are spending all their time scoping out Tony Soprano's house, they are totally unaware of a racket taking place far away from the battleground of New Jersey.
NASHUA, N.H. -- Howard Dean's rivals sought to undercut his front-running status Wednesday, criticizing the former Vermont governor's comments on the Confederate flag and his unwillingness to apologize.
You won't find their names on the stat sheet following a game. In fact, they haven't seen action in a match in their college careers. Yet they are considered members of the team. Many fans might take for granted the job they do. They get equipment for players both before and after games and practice. They are the managers for the men's soccer team, and they happen to be brothers.
In a whirlwind of emotion, the dancers of the African American Dance Company are eager to express the historic and holistic nature of their performance.
Horror is described in the dictionary as an intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear. By that definition, horror is definitely not something viewers feel in today's so-called "horror" films.
What R.E.M. is and what R.E.M. was are two different things. They're an album-oriented band. Putting out a best-of album doesn't get close to their real identity.