The men's and women's soccer teams both have unbeaten records this spring, and both teams look to continue their success Saturday.
Another weekend means another pair of talented opponents for the softball team. Two weeks into Big Ten play, the Hoosiers (12-25, 2-6 Big Ten) are behind in their quest to reach the Big Ten tournament. This weekend, IU looks to get back on track against two teams in the upper-echelon of the conference.
The final two conference road games of the season are in store for the women's tennis team this weekend as they travel east to challenge two Big Ten foes.
Golf is a game of tradition. This weekend, the men's golf team will see plenty of it when the Hoosiers compete in the 16-team Kepler Invitational Saturday and Sunday at Ohio State's Scarlet Course.
Baseball coach Bob Morgan said his team won't get Easter baskets when it travels to Evanston, Ill., this weekend for a four-game series with Northwestern. Instead, he said he hopes the Hoosiers find presents elsewhere -- such as winning their first Big Ten series this season against the last-place Wildcats. The four-game series opens at 3 p.m. Friday at Rocky Miller Park.
Row 7 is mixed with experience and newcomers, but each team has confidence in its capability. One team boasts three experienced riders, while the two other squads didn't field a team in last year's women's Little 500. Despite low qualification times, the teams are ready to show their stuff in the race.
Lack of experience, poor exchanges and uncertainty as to who will ride come race day played into where the teams in Row 7 will line up for the men's Little 500. But the teams said they refuse to believe starting from the middle of the pack will hurt their chances to speed toward the front of the field. Some even think the less-than-stellar starting position will help.
For four members of the men's tennis team, this weekend will serve as more than just two more scrappy, endurance-testing conference matches.
Coach Cam Cameron said it isn't often a college football coach gets 15 "excellent" practices out of his team during the spring. He also said his Hoosiers have a shot at making it 15-for-15 Saturday at the Red-White Spring Game. IU began spring practice March 21 and will conclude its spring training Saturday with the spring game, its final NCAA-allotted practice. Cameron said he has been pleased with what he's seen so far.
State Sen. Lawrence Borst, R-Greenwood, said he crafted a lean budget that reflects a slowing economy and dwindling revenues. But his handiwork will have to be scrapped. The state will bring in $923 million less than lawmakers expected, the state forecast committee announced Thursday. With the shortfall, lawmakers will have to shave up to $600 million from the proposed two-year budget.
An ordinance to be presented to the Bloomington city council next week could provide better access to some of the city's public records via the Internet. The ordinance will be up for public comment Wednesday.
In a society that praises the appearance of sun-kissed skin and bows before bronze beauties, indoor tanning has become increasingly popular. But in the endless quest for beauty the harmful effects of indoor tanning are often overlooked. "Everybody just wants to be tan," junior Tiffany Cumby said. "Because you feel better, you think you look better … it's all about beauty."
The Monday, April 9 staff editorial ("Execution on the Web harmful to society") argued that broadcasting the execution of Timothy McVeigh was in "poor taste and harmful to society." The reason why this broadcast would be detrimental is because its subject, the death penalty, is an unjust and cruel practice.
It's hard to get any rest in Bloomington lately. The radical, uppity left has woken up yet again from its hibernation and are sprouting up like weeds -- with the help of hijacked trees -- all over the Monroe County area.
It's impossible to open the pages of the newspaper, turn on the news or open a magazine without reading or hearing something about the Middle East peace process, or lack thereof. The public is informed of who died and what's going on in Washington affecting our friends in the Middle East.
What is the purpose of a university? A surprising number of students and alumni seem to think the purpose is to support athletic programs. This way, students will have something to cheer for, to set random fires for, to smash windows for and to tear the dolphins out of Showalter Fountain for.
Students pursuing degrees in both the College of Arts and Sciences and another school will find it significantly easier to graduate in four years because COAS changed some of its requirements.
In sequence with many independent productions done at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St., the most current production from the B-Town Players, "A Chorus Line" is likely to find full house audiences standing well before the finale has ended. Such was the case Wednesday night for Michael Bennet's tour-de-force musical about out-of-work dancers who "have to get this show".
