New tax credits to assist eligible students
New federal tax credits have been expanded for 2008 and will allow eligible students in Monroe and other Indiana counties to offset their qualified tuition rates.
New federal tax credits have been expanded for 2008 and will allow eligible students in Monroe and other Indiana counties to offset their qualified tuition rates.

Of the 11 banners hanging from the rafters of Assembly Hall, 10 belong to the accomplishments of men’s teams. Members of the women’s basketball team said IU coach Felisha Legette-Jack does not let them forget that fact, but the current senior class might reverse that trend. Legette-Jack said she wants the tradition and legacy to be about an all-around approach.
GradeGuru.com, which was launched within the past couple of years, allows students to submit their notes, which they can receive money for through a PayPal account. IU is one of the universities to which GradeGuru wants to expand its users.
David Potter, who graduated from the Kelley School of Business in 2006, recently co-founded a new carpooling Web site that matches its users with others who share the same or similar routes.
The Cardinal Stage Company presented Thursday and Friday a reading of “The Exonerated,” a play that tells the story of five men and one woman who are wrongly imprisoned on death row.
University Information Technology Services has tips to help students be proactive in protecting their computer from crashing and other security issues.
Famed wordsmith Maya Angelou will speak as a belated part of ArtsWeek at 7 p.m. Thursday at the IU Auditorium.

In basketball, March signifies one thing: the NCAA tournament. With no spot solidified for the Hoosiers, a win against the 10th-place team in the conference would only help their case to get in. The Hoosiers got that win Sunday, defeating Michigan 67-61 on Senior Day.
Freshman guard Nick Williams’ dejected look after the final buzzer on the floor of the Bryce Jordan Center told the story.
The IU Student Association is bringing its voting and attendance system into the 21st century.
The price – and the steps – were right for IU’s chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at this year’s Statewide Step Show
Students can now order food through Residential Programs and Services’ new online program to avoid lines and the hustle and bustle of crowds in the dining halls and food courts.
Of IU’s existing 15.3 million square feet, the IU master plan maps out needs totaling to an increase of 4 million.
Some students take swim lessons and summers by the pool for granted. However, there are plenty of children who never learn to swim. The Student Recreational Sports Center is trying to change that.
A suspected separatist group holding an American U.N. worker in Pakistan says it will kill him in four days if its demands are not met.
Christine Pochot buys croissants in her corner bakery, votes in French elections and is as French as her president – but lives a hemisphere away, on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
Two NFL players are among a group of boaters reported missing off Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Suspected U.S. missiles killed seven people in a Pakistani Taliban stronghold Sunday, officials said, while an attack on a military convoy and a cleric’s two-week deadline for the creation of Islamic courts rattled peace talks with militants elsewhere in the country’s northwest.
The opening reception of Jeremy Kennedy’s exhibition “4 Cell” on Friday night at the Fuller Projects showed off his amusement with cell phones and the way people interact with them.
The revelation that the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque was explosive news in a Muslim community that has long suspected the government of even broader surveillance.