Features & In-Depth

Your local guide to the 2022 midterm elections

By IDS staff and Servane Cloteaux · Tuesday, Oct. 4,2022 2:48 p.m.

All the IDS election coverage you need before Nov. 8, in one place

Meet your candidates for local Bloomington and executive state office

By Carson TerBush and Nadia Scharf · Monday, Oct. 3,2022 1:52 p.m.

Read about their top priorities before you vote in the Nov. 8 midterms

PHOTOS: 29th Annual Lotus Festival showcases 23 artists

By Haripriya Jalluri , Olivia Bianco and Alayna Wilkening · Wednesday, Sept. 28,2022 9 a.m.

The 29th Annual Lotus Music and Arts Festival took place Sept. 22 to 25, 2022

Catch up on the IU graduate workers coalition before the strike vote

By Haley Ryan · Sunday, Sept. 25,2022 5:57 p.m.

Despite pushback from IU, IGWC-UE members continue their union push

Meet Monroe County’s 2022 school board candidates

By Carson TerBush and Emma Uber · Wednesday, Sept. 21,2022 4:34 p.m.

Both of Monroe County’s school corporations have school board seats up for election.

Meet Bloomington’s 2022 state and federal Congressional candidates

By Carson TerBush and Nadia Scharf · Wednesday, Aug. 31,2022 12:44 p.m.

From key issues to political history, here’s everything you need to know.

A day in the life of an elf: Inside the Lothlorien Nature Sanctuary

By Lauren Ulrich · Monday, June 6,2022 11:34 a.m.

The group attempts to live a nontraditional, sustainable lifestyle in the forest.

No shirt, no shorts, no shame: inside Bloomington’s decades-old nudist club

By Bradley Hohulin · Sunday, May 29,2022 11 a.m.

Nudists in southern Indiana have gathered at the Fern Hills Club since 1947.

Demolition underway on campus neighborhood, home to international graduate students, families

By Hali Tauxe · Thursday, May 19,2022 8:04 p.m.

Former tenants face a tough affordable housing market.

‘The program is doomed’: Players say Indiana volleyball coach Steve Aird created a culture of fear

By Evan Gerike and Cate Charron · Monday, May 9,2022 9 a.m.

Multiple student-athletes allege Aird caused players to leave the Indiana volleyball program.

Bloomington witches find supportive community online

By Katy Szpak and Hali Tauxe · Monday, April 25,2022 1:22 p.m.

Local witchcraft practitioners connect with one another in the “Bloomington Witch Collective” Discord server.

From kids’ stuff to billion-dollar blockbusters: How America came to love the weird world of superheroes

By Bradley Hohulin , Hali Tauxe and Molly Miller · Monday, April 18,2022 3:10 p.m.

The characters that once embarrassed their creators now generate billions of dollars.

On strike

By Kaitlyn Radde , Helen Rummel , Evan Gerike , Nadia Scharf , Emma Uber and Nic Napier · Thursday, April 14,2022 12:59 p.m.

IU students and faculty picket to demand union recognition for graduate student workers.

Everything to know about the IU graduate worker strike

By Cate Charron , Emma Uber , Hali Tauxe and Jacob Day · Wednesday, April 13,2022 1:29 p.m.

The IDS has organized its coverage to catch you up and keep you up to date on this multi-year dispute.

‘Let’s go finish the mission’

By Evan Gerike · Tuesday, April 12,2022 1:46 p.m.

Phi Kappa Psi finished fifth in 2021 and eighth in 2019.

As graduate workers contemplate strike, Bloomington campus officials announce raises

By Hali Tauxe · Tuesday, April 5,2022 7:30 p.m.

The announced increases have not deterred graduate workers’ preparations for a strike.

‘You need to let go of control’: Perspectives from the pandemic

By Christina Avery · Monday, April 4,2022 2:49 p.m.

Many people spent quarantine reexamining their lives. Three IU students share what they've learned.

‘In prison, knowledge is power’: How publications are restricted in Indiana prisons

By Kaitlyn Radde and Unsplash Photo · Sunday, March 27,2022 12:23 p.m.

In prison, books provide education and entertainment.

Six students lost their home and many possessions to a fire, but it wasn’t their fault

By Helen Rummel , Unsplash Photo and Deepak Singh Bhadoriya · Monday, March 14,2022 4:47 p.m.

IU students still face thousands of dollars of damages from a house fire they didn’t cause.

How IU used the code of conduct to intimidate a student pushing critical open letter

By Cate Charron · Wednesday, March 9,2022 3:50 p.m.

Administration said the letter and the student’s actions border on harassment toward Chris Parker.

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