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Senior Night caps off career of four Hoosiers

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Monday, March 2,2009 12:04 a.m.

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.

Note-sharing Web site hopes to expand to IU

By Alex Benson · Monday, March 2,2009 12:03 a.m.

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.

IU alumnus creates online carpooling community

By Marc Fishman · Monday, March 2,2009 12 a.m.

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.

Cardinal Stage performance opens death penalty discussion

By Thomas Miller · Monday, March 2,2009 12 a.m.

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.

UITS urges computer safety to prevent viruses

By Stephanie Doctrow · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:57 p.m.

University Information Technology Services has tips to help students be proactive in protecting their computer from crashing and other security issues.

Angelou reschedules IU visit for Thursday

Sunday, March 1,2009 11:56 p.m.

Famed wordsmith Maya Angelou will speak as a belated part of ArtsWeek at 7 p.m. Thursday at the IU Auditorium.

IU beats Michigan 67-61, finishes out regular season

By Brandon Smith · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:56 p.m.

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.

IU senior forward Kyle Taber grabs a rebound away from Penn State's Stanley Pringle, foreground left, and Jamelle Cornley, right, during the second half Saturday in State College, Pa.. Penn State won 61-58.

Hoosiers drop late lead to Penn State, lose in heartbreaker

By Tom Kirby · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:56 p.m.

Freshman guard Nick Williams’ dejected look after the final buzzer on the floor of the Bryce Jordan Center told the story.

IUSA to conduct clicker voting

By Alyssa Goldman · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:55 p.m.

The IU Student Association is bringing its voting and attendance system into the 21st century.

Members of the step dance group Indiana Revolution kneel during their kung fu-inspired performance in the 25th Annual Statewide Step Show Saturday evening at the IU Auditorium. Eight teams from around the state, including teams from every Phi Beta Sigma chapter in the state, competed for the top prize of $3,000.

IU’s Phi Beta Sigma chapter wins annual Statewide Step Show

By Carrie Schedler · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:54 p.m.

The price – and the steps – were right for IU’s chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at this year’s Statewide Step Show

RPS launches online meal-ordering service

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:52 p.m.

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.

Funding needed for master plan

By Alex Benson · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:51 p.m.

Of IU’s existing 15.3 million square feet, the IU master plan maps out needs totaling to an increase of 4 million.

Siddarth Maini listens as swimming instructor Stephanie Jenkins instructs him at the Feb. 12 at the Counsilman/Billingsley Aquatic Center. The Student Recreational Sports Center is working to help children and adults who never learned to swim, encouraging them to take lessons.

Adult swimming lessons offered at SRSC

By Sarah Hann · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:49 p.m.

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.

New deadline for US hostage

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:23 p.m.

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.

Remnants of French empire feel economic meltdown pain

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:22 p.m.

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.

2 NFL players missing in Gulf

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:21 p.m.

Two NFL players are among a group of boaters reported missing off Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Suspected US missiles kill 7 in Pakistan

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

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.

Shu-Mei Chan Evans, Bloomington resident and co-founder of the Bloomington Clay Studio, looks at a piece of Jeremy Kennedy's "4 Cell" Installation Friday evening at the McCalla Building. The exhibit's focus was the artist's obsession with materialism.

Display features destroyed cell phones

By Mallory Jindra · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

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.

Calif. case highlights use of mosque informants

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:19 p.m.

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.

Panel features alumni literature

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:18 p.m.

A burst of laughter erupted from the audience as one poet and three volunteers performed a piece that demonstrated common annoyances and gibberish transported through cell phones.ArtsWeek’s “The Writer in the World” showcased four published writers and graduates of IU’s MFA Creative Writing Program to read from their works and answer questions. In correlation with ArtsWeek’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” the two poets and two fiction writers read excerpts from their works they believed to be political in some form.

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