Indiana University alumni have gone on to become famous Hoosiers.
Here at IU, we take Big Ten sports seriously, right down to where our teams practice and perform. Take a look at some of the facilities that are home to our Hoosier athletes. Make sure to attend a home game to witness Hoosier Hysteria firsthand.
IU traditions make the University atmosphere electric. During many sporting events, the crowds are a sea of crimson and cream, with both students and alumni cheering on the team.
To the students of Indiana University, it’s not just a bike race. It’s the Little 500. Each spring, hundreds of students turn into athletes in the largest collegiate cycling race in the country and the biggest intramural event at IU when they ride in the Little 500.
After 2002, the “Little Theatre,” once abuzz with student performances, sat empty. But after a 15-month restoration project, the IU Cinema, which opened Jan. 2011, is now home to the 82,000 movie reels the University has in its archives.
The Indiana Memorial Union is more than just a hotel. It’s the go-to spot on campus for pretty much everything. When completed in 1932, it was the world’s largest student union. We’ve broken down three of the floors to keep you from getting lost.
This is the IU Art Museum, and with a surprising collection of some of the world’s greatest art right in the middle of campus, it’s a great way to spend a day. The art starts before visitors even enter the building.
Indiana University is the alma mater of many iconic and influential students. But two of the most important people to walk this campus left their legacy a century ago. Indiana removed a prohibition from its Constitution in the 1870s, allowing African Americans the right to an education. Not long after, they began to attend college. Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall were the first African Americans to receive a degree from IU.
Sex is usually a pretty taboo subject, but at IU’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, the bedroom is their business.
Before Herman B Wells took charge of IU, the University was just a small Midwestern college with 11,000 students. By the time he died in 2000, it had become a world-renowned institution with more than 90,000 students on eight campuses. “He put Indiana University on the map.”
Several myths surround the fountain, such as beliefs that the statue of Venus will awaken and walk around campus if a virgin graduates, or that former IU Men’s Basketball Coach Bob Knight has one of the stolen fish in his possession.
The IU campus is recognized as one of the five most beautiful college campuses in the country, according to Thomas A. Gaines’ book, “The Campus as a Work of Art.” This picturesque landscape includes the widespread use of limestone.
For anyone who supports the local food movement, loves fresh produce or simply wants an enjoyable weekend morning, the Bloomington Community Farmers’ Market is the perfect venue.
Once considered a health hazard, the multiple construction sites in Bloomington have been deemed safe by new guidelines and safety laws regarding materials for construction sites.
Shelli Yoder, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House’s Indiana 9th District, wandered among guests at the Johnson County Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on Thursday at a Greenwood country club.
A Bloomington man faces preliminary charges of child molestation after admitting to investigators Wednesday he fondled a 7-year-old girl as he made the child watch pornography on his computer.
The public won’t know until at least next Friday the full list of satellite voting sites and operating dates and hours in Monroe County for the 2012 election.
IU’s volleyball team will receive its first taste of competition this season when they fly to the Black Knight Invitational in West Point, N.Y.
Indiana State Excise Police issued a record 258 citations during 2012 Welcome Week. This is more than what was handed out during last year’s Little 500 weekend.
This year’s Themester is scheduled to include a public conversation between political consultant Karl Rove and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
