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Sophomore guard Jori Davis, 32, guards Jenna Smith, 13, Sunday at Illinois. The Hoosiers lost 61-52.

Women's basketball drops from Big Ten's top spot with loss to Illini

By Brandon Smith · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12:04 a.m.

The IU women's basketball team lost the Big Ten lead after a loss Sunday to Illinois, a team previously winless in conference play. IU's loss snapped The Hoosier's four-game winning and Illinois' 10-game losing streaks.

IU's Devan Dumes gets tangled up with two Minnesota defenders during the first half of IU's 67-63 loss to No. 21 Minnesota Sunday at Assembly Hall.

Hoosiers keep it close but get buried by Gophers

By Matt Dollinger · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12 a.m.

A white out couldn't erase the IU men's basketball team's losing streak, which grew to nine after a 67-63 loss Sunday to Minnesota. The Gophers led by five points or less during the final 10 minutes, but the Hoosiers were never able to take the lead. Ultimately, it was the Gophers who were the ones hunting, and the Hoosiers, the hunted.

Adults return to continue studies

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:55 p.m.

Older students come to IU to further their education or find a degree. Now, a scholarship newly available to IU students makes continuing studies easier to afford.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Students dance during the Hutton Honors College Association Inaugural Ball Saturday evening in Alumni Hall. The event was put on to celebrate the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

Honors college students attend mock inaugural

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:50 p.m.

Saturday’s Mock Inaugural Ball gave students outside of the greek system a chance to don their formal wear and join their friends at a dance.

IUPD searches for purse

By Lindsey Erdody · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:48 p.m.

The IU Police Department is investigating a purse-snatching case.

Senior Amber Lindgren moves a pot on the stove out of the way while holding a colander of shrimp working with Freshman Marina Karamanis Friday evening in the Tudor Room kitchen at the Indiana Memorial Union. Members of the women's golf team participated in an Iron Chef event, where members split up in to teams and cooked food to be judged by Coach Bill Lynch and other members of IU Athletics coaching staffs.

Team cooks up cohesive recipe

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:46 p.m.

IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman and a panel of judges were treated to a taste of teamwork Friday night.In its fifth annual “Iron Chef” competition, the team was split into three groups to prepare the golfers’ best pasta dishes.Although each team stood proudly by their meals, Wallman said teamwork was the most important recipe of the night.

College Mentors collecting textbooks for kids

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:44 p.m.

Even though a new semester has begun, many students are still left with the ghost of semesters past in the form of textbooks they cannot sell back. Junior Katie Smith is organizing a textbook drive to help raise money for the group College Mentors for Kids, a nonprofit organization that gives children, typically from grades one through four, the opportunity to experience how higher education can influence their lives.

Artist designs logo tees

By Richard Scinteie · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:41 p.m.

Junio Kara Jeffers, an art education, started her her own T-shirt company, Karosene Clothing, with a sharpie and a blank T-shirt.

IU guard Devan Dumes goes up for a shot during the first half of IU's 67-63 loss to No. 21 Minnesota Sunday at Assembly Hall. Dumes had 19 points in the game.

Hoosiers felled by Gophers, sustain 9th straight loss

By Tom Kirby · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:33 p.m.

A near sell-out crowd in matching T-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight-point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak on Sunday.

Loss wasn’t so smelly

By Zachary Osterman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:30 p.m.

This one wasn’t so bad. Yes, it was at home. Sure, the crowd was raucous, perhaps even a bit desperate. Obviously, the Hoosiers had their chances and could have won the game had they made only half of their 10 missed free throws.

Freshman Megan Matter serves the ball during doubles matchplay against Ball State Sunday afternoon at the IU Tennis Center.

Around IU Sports

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:24 p.m.

This weekend's results in IU athletics.

Ivy Tech opens new life sciences center

By Jef Akst · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:11 p.m.

Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday for a new life sciences center, they hope will help train students to meet the thousand-plus life science jobs they expect to be created in the coming years. Ivy Tech-Bloomington and the Monroe County government had a ceremony Friday for the new Indiana Center for Life Sciences, which opened Jan. 12 – just in time for classes.

IU students face drug charges

By Amanda Bridgman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:09 p.m.

Two IU students were arrested Friday morning after Bloomington police found marijuana in one’s apartment. Sebastian M. Smigielski, 21, faces preliminary charges of maintaining a common nuisance, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana and reckless possession of paraphernalia. Mitchell R. Arnold, 20, faces a preliminary charge of visiting a common nuisance.

IU students try to steal alcohol from grocery store

By Amanda Bridgman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:09 p.m.

Three IU students were hoping to drink Crown Royal, Jagermeister and Amaretto for free Saturday night.

Miss Indiana Katie Stam is crowned Miss America 2009 by Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund Saturday in Las Vegas.

Miss Ind. wins national crown

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:07 p.m.

Miss Indiana Katie Stam was crowned Miss America 2009 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, fighting off a throat infection, laryngitis and 51 other contestants to win the 88-year-old pageant’s title. The 22-year-old University of Indianapolis student became the first Miss America winner from the Hoosier State. She drew loud applause for her rendition of “Via Dolorosa” during the talent portion of the beauty pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Afghan president: U.S. forces killed 16 civilians

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:55 p.m.

President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday.

Bolivians vote on new Morales-backed constitution

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:54 p.m.

President Evo Morales’ quest to transform Bolivia on behalf of its long-suffering indigenous majority is on the line Sunday as voters consider a new constitution that could keep the leftist leader in power through 2014.

Texas’ Baby Grace case sees first trial this week

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:53 p.m.

Even the most grizzled investigators were reduced to tears by the disturbing details of the death of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers.

Art students use technology, ordinary objects in works

By Jackie Kochell · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:26 p.m.

Challenging traditional beliefs about what belongs in an art gallery, an iPod, rubber bands and a necklace are used to create artwork in a new display at the SoFA Gallery.The Ceramics, Graphic Design, Metals, Sculpture and Textiles Area Show features work from students in those fields created in their courses or spare time.

IU alumnus performs video game music at the Chesh

By Brian Welk · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 9:24 p.m.

He calls himself “Spiral Cheese Horizon,” and as of now, he’s an up-and-coming artist of a unique sort.Thursday night’s gig at the Cheshire Cafe in Collins Living-Learning Center happened to be his first performance under the stage name, but with a calling card like that, IU alumnus Ryder Timberlake might not be unknown for long.