'Goongate' finally settled
PHILADELPHIA -- The peace treaty was signed Wednesday afternoon near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Chaney-Martelli War is over.
PHILADELPHIA -- The peace treaty was signed Wednesday afternoon near the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Chaney-Martelli War is over.
NEW YORK - Roger Federer sure knows how to kill a party. Federer's quiet brilliance tranquilized U.S. Open fans one night after they roared nonstop for Andre Agassi and James Blake. Watching Federer, the defending champion and top seed, roll past Argentine David Nalbandian 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 Thursday night was like watching a rerun of a mediocre movie that has one star, no plot and no drama.
The IU women's volleyball team will travel to the Winthrop Invitational in Rock Hill, S.C. this weekend, where it will face the University of North Florida, Furman University and Winthrop University.
Saint Louis University was IU head soccer coach Mike Freitag's team growing up in the gateway to the West. His father Charles would take Mike to all of the Billikens home soccer games. The current Hoosier coach would often go back to his neighborhood playground and imitate the players on Harry Keough's legendary teams -- winners of five NCAA titles.
An article appeared in the Indiana Daily Student Wednesday that discussed a new tailgating strategy the University will implement starting with Saturday's game versus Nicholls State.
BLOOMFIELD, Ind. -- A pilot kicked his way out of a twin-engine plane as it burned following a crash shortly after takeoff from the Shawnee Field Airport in southern Indiana's Greene County. Sten Walls, 60, of Bloomfield, suffered severe burns over 80 percent of his body in the Wednesday afternoon fire, state police said. He was taken by helicopter to Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was listed in critical condition yesterday in the burn unit.
INDIANA - Game Week: "Hoosier Fridays." Local businesses have created incentives for fans showing their "true colors" of cream and crimson.
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana began a statewide marketing campaign Sept. 1 to alert people of the changes the school is undergoing. John Whikehart, chancellor of the Bloomington Ivy Tech campus, said the school recently changed its name from Ivy Tech State College to Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana after Senate Bill 296, formally recognized Ivy Tech as the state's official community college system, July 1. "This name change is symbolic of the transformation the school has been making in the past years," Whikehart said. "The school is now formally recognized by the state as a community college."
INDIANAPOLIS - All but one member of Indiana's congressional delegation voted Thursday to send an additional $51.8 billion to help victims of Hurricane Katrina in the ravaged Gulf Coast.
Students who want to be excused from class for religious holidays must inform the University today.
IU officials have instituted some new safety policies after two IU plumbers were exposed to mercury this summer, while some in the worker's union are claiming that more precautions could have been taken.
IU has won 23 NCAA Championships and 158 Big Ten Championships in more than a century of collegiate athletics, but Hoosier football tradition might be best known for losing seasons, fired coaches and tailgating.
IU's contest with Nicholls State University this weekend isn't just the team's first chance to defend its home turf. It's the first opportunity for IU fans to experience a program that spent the entire off-season marketing itself to the Hoosier community.
NEW YORK -- World premieres of operas by John Adams, Tobias Picker, Elliott Goldenthal and Kaija Saariaho will compete for attention this season with celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.
After walking around with my head hung and feet dragging for the past six months, I finally have a spring back in my step. "Excited to be back in classes?" you may ask. Not a chance. "Told some freshman wrong directions to Sycamore?" Not today, my friends. Last night began the most glorious part of the year: the start of the NFL season.
The Bloomington Area Arts Council has named two interim directors to replace outgoing Executive Director Sally Gaskill.
NEW YORK -- The tourists from California peered through the slats of a metal fence surrounding the World Trade Center site, looking down into the nearly empty 16 acres for a sign of what happened here on Sept. 11.
The date the United States began its counteroffensive against terror was Sept. 11, 2001. That was the day an ad hoc squad of citizen soldiers aboard Flight 93 rose to thwart terrorists. It seems fitting, even necessary, for me to make a few swift points about those who have drawn the wrong lessons from that day, if I may.
Just as endangered birds in the wild flock together, endangered minorities, in this giant bird cage called IU, flock together. Because the vast majority of IU is populated by Christian Caucasian Cardinals, an astoundingly prolific breed, all the religious, racial and sexual minorities tend to nest in groups on campus.
I guess I'm a dork. When people ask me where I live, I say "Ashton." And the response I get is usually a sympathetic, pity-filled "Aww, that's terrible! I bet it sucks living with all those geeks and weird people." Umm ... not really.