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Senior wins Big Ten Cup Stacking Challenge

E.J. Chung was in a fist-pumping moment of ecstasy. The senior had just won four IU basketball tickets and was entered into a drawing for a pass to the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis after winning the Solo Cup Stacking Challenge on Thursday night at Kilroy’s Sports Bar.

IU prepares for Heisman hopeful Ringer, Spartans

A year ago, the Hoosiers’ weakness was their inability to stop the run. One year has passed, but not a whole lot has changed. And Michigan State knows it.

Serving up soul food

Smoke rises from the red tent on the corner of 17th and Dunn as people line up for a taste of the barbecue that has become a fixture on gamedays for more than a decade.Will Thomas, known to most as Willy T, flips some ribs on the grill, joking with people standing around.“Another game day,” he explains amid tailgaters, a light southern drawl coating his voice. “People come here hungry.” PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Shakespeare Musical defies classic style

The music is original, but the lyrics are pure Shakespeare in the latest Bloomington Playwrights Project production, “Romeo and Juliet: a Shakespearean Music-Drama.”

‘La Traviata’ opens IU Opera Theater’s 60th season

With evocative themes of betrayal, honor and unconditional love, the new production “La Traviata” kicks off the IU Opera Theater’s 60th anniversary season at 8 p.m. Friday at the Musical Arts Center.

Accessories, not just a girl’s best friend

I encourage all guys to be young men of style, and good style is about making a statement. You want to make that statement with confidence. It can be strong or subtle. Adding accessories enables you to add personality to your look by using slight accents.

Pair of ranked rivals invade University Gym as IU opens conference schedule

Back home again in Bloomington

The ring-er of fire, he burns, burns, burns

Powerhouse No. 22 Penn State presents tough opener for IU

If the IU women’s soccer team is looking to take the next step as an elite program, the Hoosiers (5-4) will have to start this process against a team they have only defeated once in the last 17 tries.

Offensive woes a thing of the past

As the fall season officially begins, a change is in the air for the men’s soccer team. After last Sunday’s 3-2 overtime win against Big Ten foe Wisconsin, the No. 14 Hoosiers (4-1-2) are riding a three-game winning streak. IU has scored eight goals in the past three games after finishing three consecutive scoreless matches.

Red-White game kicks off season for club hockey

Moon Festival highlights families, friends, food

Junior Yan Jin, the president of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association, said the Moon Festival is similar to Thanksgiving because it celebrates quality time with family and friends. The festival will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Dunn Meadow.

Deans to set sail in Cardboard Boat Regatta, ‘most rooting for’ McKaig

The Council for Advancing Student Leadership’s eighth annual Cardboard Boat Regatta will feature the first-ever Dean’s Challenge Friday, where the three deans will race each other in boats constructed entirely of cardboard and duct tape.

Birch Bayh moves some to tears

Bayh received a 40-second standing ovation at the IU School of Law after he told the story of how seven Yale law students helped bring down President Richard Nixon’s nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Computers real future of business

Ah, Second Life. Thought of as the virtual-reality stomping ground of weirdos and sketchballs everywhere, the infamous Internet-based, 3-D virtual reality program is about to gain a few new residents. Welcome to the neighborhood, Kelley School of Business. Might we interest you in some virtual real estate?

Well worth the Read

I have a class in Briscoe this semester, and I am not impressed. Everyone who lives there seems to wear the same clothes and come from the same state and have the same recurring phone conversations. It makes me feel lucky that I lived in Read my freshman year. Unlike Northeast campus dorms, Read houses a hodge-podge of fascinating individuals, each one unique and a little bit off in his or her own way.

A new plan

It’s a travesty when nine people die each week in Indiana because they can’t afford health care. Such figures highlight the ostensible flaws of the U.S. health system, a system notoriously known as the most expensive in the world.

Corporate welfare

As the stock market plunges down and more and more firms go under, I am quite surprised and amused by the Bush administration’s handling of the crisis in the form of bailouts. Here we have a “small-government” and “fiscally responsible” Republican president pushing for corporate handouts that cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars. Is this not welfare? According to the conservative philosophy, should these businesses not try to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and take personal responsibility for their past actions?

Obama’s death debate

Barack Obama might have rebuffed McCain’s call to delay Friday’s debate but, really, he should be glad he might not have to take the stage. After spending all of May, June and July dodging John McCain’s challenge of town-hall debates, Obama would have had to face all his demons at the debate in Oxford, Miss. Obama has been all over the place on every issue so far ranging from abortion (It’s above his pay grade)  to the Bush tax cuts (He won’t rescind them anymore) , from the unity of Jerualem (“bad word choice”)  to gun rights and many more.