Hallelujah, it's raining men. Miss Gay IU 2001, OUT's 10th annual drag show competition, will take the Auditorium stage at 8 p.m. Friday.
Lynn Plummer said she is pleased with herself. The junior apparel merchandising major won a $1,500 Vera Wang gown during the raffle just before Wednesday night's fashion show in the Frangipani room of the Indiana Memorial Union. The show is an annual event held by the Apparel Merchandising Organization to raise money and showcase the work of student designers.
One of today's biggest names in metal will rock Louisville Gardens Saturday. Touring in support of its latest album, Awake, Godsmack brings two platinum-plus albums to a show that promises plenty of angst-ridden rock.
According to state figures, unemployment in Bloomington stands at 2.6 percent, well below the 4.6 national percentage. But another longtime Bloomington company announced layoffs Tuesday. Within 60 days, Columbia House will close its compact disc order processing center just west of town. The company will lay off 190 workers from the Bloomington facility and 500 at a distribution center near Pueblo, Colo. Operations will be consolidated at the company's main facility in Terre Haute, which has 2,270 workers.
While covering the Xtreme Football League might not be the most exciting or prestigious position the Indiana Daily Student has to offer, I have learned something through this position. I would have liked to keep my wrestling column.
Senior Milan Rakvica's two convincing wins this past weekend earned the Hoosier a share of the Big Ten's weekly Athlete of the Week for the men's tennis team.
The final score might not show it, but IU's women\'s tennis team gave seventh-ranked Notre Dame quite a scare Wednesday evening at the IU Tennis Center.
With a seven-run outburst in the first inning, the men's baseball team took command Wednesday afternoon at Sembower Field and never looked back in a 10-1 shelling of Indiana State.
Sophomore Irina Kharun -- in only her second week of competition this season --was named the Big Ten Conference Player of the Week. Her winning javelin throw of 153 feet, 10 inches at last weekend's Florida Relays marked her second consecutive victory.
Even Cam Cameron admits it's no secret that the IU football team's downfall last season was its defense. The Hoosiers allowed 39 points per game and more than 40 points in seven of their eight losses.
French and Italian graduate student conference to occur The graduate students of the Department of French and Italian will host the 10th annual graduate student conference April 6-8 in Ballantine Hall. The conference will include presentations on French, Francophone and Italian literature, French linguistics, cultural studies and instructional technology.
A $234,000 contract between the Indiana Department of Workforce Development and the IU School of Continuing Studies will provide training opportunities for about 1,200 state employees.
To keep up with rapidly changing technology, the school of journalism will soon eliminate the age- old system of developing photos in a darkroom. For Associate Professor Claude Cookman, a "romantic attachment" could be lost. Beginning during fall semester 2001, the School of Journalism will go digital to keep up with the latest technology.
While the rest of the nation set its clocks forward this week, a group of Bloomington professionals are turning Bloomington's clocks back. But they're not dealing in terms of mere hours. The group, led by Cha Cha owner Jeff Green and local lawyer Stan Hirsch, is taking Bloomington's music scene back 33 years by sponsoring a free performance by Roger Salloom at the Waldron Arts Center.
