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New phone app helps students track buses

By Caitlin Ryan · Tuesday, Aug. 31,2010 12:26 a.m.

Students can view the location of campus buses in real time through the Campus Bus Service website and DoubleMap Bus Tracker. Additionally, students with iPhones can access the live view via the IUMobile application.

IUGuides direct lost, confused students

By Margaret Ely · Tuesday, Aug. 31,2010 12:23 a.m.

IUGuides are stationed around campus today, which is good news for the lost, confused and flustered during the first week of classes.

Select students tryout IMU meal points

By Jake New · Tuesday, Aug. 31,2010 12:18 a.m.

A partnership between IU Residential Programs and Services and the Indiana Memorial Union might soon allow students to spend their RPS I-Bucks at any of the 11 venues in the IMU.

Fashion column: lose the high school letter jackets

By Keaira Carr · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:54 p.m.

I realized today that if I had this column in high school, I would have been fired shortly after I gave everyone the thumbs up to wear screen tees from Hot Topic.

USGP to review safety rules following death

By AP Reports · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:53 p.m.

The U.S. Grand Prix Racers Union is promising a review of its motorcycle racing safety rules, conceding it will never be able to eliminate the dangers in a high-speed sport where teenage competitors are the norm.

Songwriter Showcase

By Vanessa Valentin · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:52 p.m.

Sisters Renee Kuhl and Grace Kuhl perform at the Players Pub Monday. Charlie Faye, a songwriter, watches after her performance.

IU receiver Doss out with injury for opener

By Geoffrey Miller · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:46 p.m.

IU football coach Bill Lynch confirmed after Monday’s team practice that junior wide receiver Tandon Doss will sit out Thursday night’s season-opener with a groin injury.

Intramural sports registration deadlines approaching

By IDS staff · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:42 p.m.

What you need to know about registration cost and deadlines for fall intramural sports.

Willis key to IU football success

By Justin Albers · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:17 p.m.

Keep running back Darius Willis healthy and the Hoosiers will win football games. Lose him to the injury bug and all bets are off. It’s that simple.

BPD allows crime reporting online

Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:11 p.m.

The Bloomington Police Department now has an online incident report system to allow people to report crimes online.

Board rejects satellite voting for second time

By Mary Kenney · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:10 p.m.

For the second time in one week Bloomington residents and IU students gathered with hopes of satellite voting sites being added to the area.

Illinois to send $7 mil in toll fines to Indiana motorists

By Colleen Sikorski · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 11:07 p.m.

The Illinois Tollway announced it will send 116,000 Indiana drivers toll violations totaling $7 million in unpaid tolls and fines accumulated during the past two years.

Recession lacks growth necessary to add jobs

By Ben Phelps · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 10:58 p.m.

Consumers aren’t spending, businesses aren’t hiring and neither have any confidence the other will do so. In one of the worst economies in history, everyone wonders (but no one knows) what will happen next.

IU fights ‘brain drain,’ hooks in-state students

By Katie Dawson · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 10:24 p.m.

This year's freshmen class holds higher SAT scores and qualify for more merit-based scholarships than ever before.

Intl. Center to teach culture class norms

By Kevin Wang · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 10:21 p.m.

A workshop at the Leo R. Dowling International Center called “Making Sense of Academics,” will feature a lecture by psychologist Cathy Kocarek of CAPS that will cover topics such as cultural norms.

Two students arrested for theft, mischief following IUPD foot chase

Monday, Aug. 30,2010 10:15 p.m.

Two IU students were arrested for allegedly breaking into cars after they ran from police.

Guest columnist: In defense of high heels

Monday, Aug. 30,2010 9:05 p.m.

In groups of girls, the F-word is often a point of contention. There is a debate amongst young women about whether or not to identify oneself as a feminist. Reactions to feminism often begin with “I believe in equality, but...”

Guest columnist: Beck 2012!

Monday, Aug. 30,2010 9:03 p.m.

Glenn Beck, ever lachrymose and megalomaniacal, appears to be propping himself up for a presidential run. His “Restoring Honor” rally played out a little more than a glorified church service to God and Glenn, who made utterly spurious comparisons between himself and Martin Luther King, Jr., along with other historical greats.

Guest columnist: From across the street

By Matt Straw · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 8:59 p.m.

Garrison Keillor recently wrote in Time magazine that we are becoming a society of “18 million authors ... each with 14 readers ... and yearly income of $1.75.” But I think perhaps he underestimated the severity of this situation. With the rapid advent of social networking, I believe that number is becoming many times larger than what he predicted. Between Facebook, Twitter, whatever the hell Foursquare is and the ubiquity of blogging, we are becoming a society where it is the exception, not the norm, to merely take in and absorb information and try to apply independent thought to this.

Guest columnist: Let boys be boys

By Tyler Chernesky · Monday, Aug. 30,2010 8:58 p.m.

I found a plastic sword the other day. It was buried in the couch under the pillows right next to the stale pretzels. I’m pretty sure my roommate’s little brother left it there. (You know how little guys love swords.) It was late at night, and I was surprised to discover it, so I did what any responsible, mature, college-educated man would do. I attacked my roommate.

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