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Suspect shoots at cop

By IDS staff · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:56 p.m.

An Indiana State Trooper chased and returned fire at a man after he drew a gun, on Tuesday evening in Indianapolis.

Hospital receives HIV/AIDS grant funds

By Mary Kenney · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:51 p.m.

Positive Link, a Bloomington Hospital program, is intended to help shoulder the burden on HIV and AIDS patients by paying for housing, connecting patients to doctors and offering support groups.

Moving on: parents say goodbye

By Carrie Schedler · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:28 p.m.

Jean and Ken Lawrence are leaning against their red sedan in front of Collins Living-Learning Center, waiting for their son John to come back with his key.

IUPD keeps campus traffic moving

Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:21 p.m.

IU Police Department Officer Brian Oliger spent move-in day biking around campus, talking with the cops scattered throughout Bloomington to make sure traffic was under control.

CultureFest to maintain core spirit

By Kevin Wang · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:20 p.m.

Food, music, speakers and performances have demonstrated the success of IU’s CultureFest. But as a Welcome Week tradition, CultureFest represents deeper messages behind those backdrops.

Academic website to provide college career roadmap

By Katie Dawson · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:18 p.m.

The Office of the Provost’s Enhancing Undergraduate Education at IU Bloomington is creating a website to help students map out their college careers from start to finish in the form of a roadmap website.

Women's soccer preps for Kentucky, Butler this weekend

By Kevin Wang · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:15 p.m.

The IU women’s soccer team is off to a quick start with two road wins — winning an exhibition and its season opener — in the past two weeks. But for head coach Mick Lyon and his players, the test continues with two more road games this weekend.

BEAD and BPP offer grant for Bloomington artists to go green

By Therese Kennelly · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:06 p.m.

Bloomington Playwrights Project and Bloomington Entertainment & Arts District are trying to establish Bloomington as a green community. They have teamed up with local non-profits to begin an annual AwareFest and to offer grants to community artists, who will exhibit their crafts during the month of October.

Radiohead’s hotel room is too plain

By Dan Alten · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:04 p.m.

Where have all the rock star antics gone? Why have the musical giants of our generation left us with nothing but music, no myths to build legends upon, no stories of excess or debauchery to discuss in record stores or concert parking lots? It’s quite boring really.

Column: Message to Woods: Bury 2010 in the bunker

By Frank Therber · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 11:02 p.m.

This summer, there was ample time to watch the most scrutinized and controversial return to golf — and maybe all of sports — in history. Tiger Woods'.

Main Squeeze to play for returning students

By Vanessa Valentin · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 10:58 p.m.

As IU students head back to town or are already unpacking, parties are being planned, bar specials are being announced and bands are preparing to entertain. The Main Squeeze, the headliner for Friday’s welcome back concert at the Bluebird Nightclub, is one of them. The funk/rock band is scheduled to play at midnight.

Guest columnist: critics of capitalism, beware

By Jarrod Lowery · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 8:58 p.m.

The notion of market failure is often labeled by critics of unfettered capitalism as a devastating example of the folly of leaving people free to trade with each other with no oversight from the state.

Letter to the editor: nuke atomic energy

Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 8:56 p.m.

Writing in the August 12 issue of the IDS, columnist Henry Alderfer makes a case for expanded use in the United States of nuclear energy. His main point is that nuclear plants do not emit greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. However, Alderfer fails to mention a number of problems with nuclear energy, which, in my opinion, make using it unwise.

Changing the discussion

By Danielle Fleischman · Wednesday, Aug. 25,2010 8:55 p.m.

The discourse over these events has turned Islam into a four-letter word here in the U.S. This is a world that is hyper-globalized, so it is amazing that we still cower in our boots about a religion that shares roots with our own Judeo-Christian heritage. Instead of reaching out to our neighbors in humanity, we have neglected them in their time of need, using their religion of peace as a slur against them.