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Spring IUSA election deadlines announced

By Claire Wiseman · Wednesday, Jan. 27,2010 12:57 a.m.

The 2010 IU Student Association Elections Commission has introduced this year’s election timeline. The election will take place March 9 and 10. It also released application due dates and detailed instructions for potential candidates.

Professor reflects upon Holocaust’s importance 65 years later

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, Jan. 27,2010 12:49 a.m.

Question-and-answer with IU professor Alvin Rosenfeld, the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.

Grapplers’ grueling workout regimen paying off

By Sean Morrison · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:51 p.m.

As the wrestlers shuffle along their practice room’s mat-covered floor, IU coach Duane Goldman barks out orders. “Keep your head up,” he implores them. “Touch the ground.” Assistant coach Joe Dubuque, who wrestled for Goldman for two national championships at IU, works with team members, bending low at the knee, lifting his head and showing them proper technique. “Gotta get better today,” he shouts.

Local police join together to help patrol IU, city

By VINCE ZITO · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:48 p.m.

Layers of law enforcement blanket the Bloomington and IU communities, but the IU Police Department’s jurisdiction depends on the surrounding police agencies.

Everhart hopes to end career as nation's best

By Connor O'Gara · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:48 p.m.

When senior Nate Everhart arrived on the IU campus his freshman year, he was far from the physical beast he is today. Weighing below 200 pounds, Everhart was not intimidating many wrestlers with his size. The Tinsley, Ill., native received offers to play baseball at Iowa and Missouri but decided wrestling at a Big Ten school and getting a Big Ten education was the right path. IU coach Duane Goldman knew that he was getting a guy with brains and brawn.

Students start hunt for internships

By Lindsey Mohlman · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:46 p.m.

There will be an Internship Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union for students seeking internships in professional fields.

Greeks strive for a closer community

By Hallie Robbins · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:44 p.m.

Councils like the IU Panhellenic Association, which represents all 19 sororities, and the Interfraternity Council that oversees IU’s 28 fraternities, focus on risk management and communication between the houses, campus and chapters.

IU professor becomes director for national research center

By Lindsey Erdody · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:42 p.m.

School of Education Professor Donald Hossler was appointed executive director of the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center by the National Student Clearinghouse.

IU alumna goes from piano to microphone after wrist injury ends classical career

By Jake Wright · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:41 p.m.

Elizabeth Eckert had her fingers glued to the keys of a piano from age two. On track to become a classical pianist, she was on her way to realizing her dream until her junior year of college, when the keys were ripped from beneath her hands.

The only thing worse than leggings

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:24 p.m.

For more than a year now, my worst nightmare has been sent down runways and displayed in store windows around the world. They’ve been out in public, and apparently fashion designers still want you to buy them because they’ve been in several menswear collections this year.

Indy ad agency invited to State of the Union address

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:10 p.m.

Trevor Yager, the founder of TrendyMinds, an Indianapolis advertising and public relations firm, will attend Obama’s State of Union address tonight.

One year, 800,000 gallons of wine

By Kirk Bradtmiller · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:09 p.m.

Wine is typically not something that is associated with Indiana, but since its public opening in 1972, Oliver Winery has fought that misconception.

Indiana Senate race heats up

By BROOKE LILLARD · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 11:07 p.m.

Will Hoosiers see a ripple effect from Massachusetts’ special senate election in 2010? That is the question on the minds of Indiana politicians after Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts filled the seat of former Democrat Sen. Ted Kennedy.

"Avatar" vs. The People

By John Barnett and Brian Welk · Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 9:07 p.m.

John Barnett and Brian Welk debate the Best Picture chances of "Avatar" in an email discussion.

Fla. woman fights forced hospitalization

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 9:03 p.m.

Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there.

Obama’s speech to tout plans for boosting economy

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 9 p.m.

In tonight’s State of the Union address, advisers say President Barack Obama doesn’t plan to reshape his agenda as much as better explain and defend it.

Hip-hop for peace

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 8:52 p.m.

Esther Bejarano says music helped keep her alive as a prisoner in Auschwitz and ever since. Now, 65 years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp, the 85-year-old has teamed with a hip-hop band to spread her anti-racism message to German youth.

Jordan River Forum

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 8:47 p.m.

Letters to the editor

Jordan River Forum: Long live American- Haitian solidarity

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 8:44 p.m.

As our nation and the world remembered Dr. King’s legacy, what came readily to mind is the Haitian tragedy, in which countless lives and valuable properties have been destroyed due to a natural catastrophe of unlimited proportions.

Jordan River Forum: You’re right. No one cares about Sierra Club or the environment.

Tuesday, Jan. 26,2010 8:40 p.m.

I had a surreal dream last night that our beautiful campus exploded in flames and, to my alarm, the earth was burning. I woke up to find that my nightmare actually exists in reality but has taken the form of coal.