Former IU second baseman Micah Johnson has signed with the Chicago White Sox for $127,600, according to Baseball America.
Homestead Highschool (Fort Wayne) wideout Isaac Griffith became IU's football's first 2013 commit when he accepted his scholarship offer Sunday. Griffith was participating in Head Coach Kevin Wilson's Football Camps, which run through Sunday, June 17 and will attract other IU football recruits to Bloomington.
Elinor “Lin” Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize recipient and distinguished professor of political science, died Tuesday at IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Ostrom, 78, will be remembered for her professional work, her commitment to students and her 47 years at the University.
In early May, IU and Acacia International announced the Indiana Acacia’s charter would be revoked. It was a mutual decision between IU and the international fraternal organization.
Former Hoosier field hockey standout Kayla Bashore-Smedley has been named to the 16-player United States Olympic Team for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, USA Field Hockey announced Monday.
The field beneath his feet helps define who he is. Before Jay McCool was head coach of the semi-professional Indiana Cutters, the desert sand beneath his feet meant he was an infantry soldier.
More than 1,300 local signatures have been collected in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The call for an amendment is a response to the 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission regarding campaign financing.
Five Indiana men accused in last month’s mob attack at a Tinley Park restaurant appeared in court Tuesday with private attorneys who said they are taking the cases for free in order to fight racism.
When the lotus flowers mural on the side of Village Deli was vandalized with graffiti, it needed to be replaced. Johnson, who works full time between her jobs at Laughing Planet and Lennie’s, was commissioned to do the work. Using spray paint as her dominant medium, she began the project almost two weeks ago.
A mix of IU faculty and students from the Jacobs School will join musical guests from symphony orchestras across the United States.
IU has announced the beginning of a collaborative research and development agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., designed to increase IU’s technology presence and create more collaboration opportunities between the two institutions and Indiana’s private business sector.
The IU Summer Festival of the Arts includes “A Tribute to William Zimmerman (1937-2011),” a gallery opening at the IU Art Museum featuring original pieces of Zimmerman’s artwork.
Taiwan is known for its exceptional shopping. — whether it’s at a high-class department store in Taipei 101 or at the Shilin Night Market, where crowds of thousands gather for inexpensive food, fun and fashion after sunset.
Wednesday night’s show at The Comedy Attic kicked off the fourth annual Bloomington Comedy Festival, an 11-week stand-up contest designed to recognize comedy achievement.
It all makes sense, and these are perfectly reasonable results coming out of such a heated election process. You’d think that, with these folks being adults, childish feelings would eventually subside and the representative rulers of our nation could get back to the business of doing what’s best for their people.
The veepstakes, as every news channel affectionately calls it, is basically “America’s Next Top Model” but with Republican governors and congressmen from below America’s Bible belt — ladies, calm down. I’m glad someone else recognized this key, missing market in the 24-hour news cycle.
Weed rap with meaning.
