Construction on Indiana’s first wind farm begins
FOWLER, Ind. – Construction has started in the fields of northwest Indiana’s Benton County on building 87 turbines for what would be the state’s first electricity-generating wind farm.
FOWLER, Ind. – Construction has started in the fields of northwest Indiana’s Benton County on building 87 turbines for what would be the state’s first electricity-generating wind farm.
San Francisco-based indie rocker John Vanderslice will play the John Waldron Arts Center at 8 p.m. Oct. 5. Tickets for the show are $5 for IU students and $8 for the general public.
RIAA gold-selling hip-hop artist Redman is performing tonight at The Bluebird with alternative hip-hop artists Kidz In The Hall and Akir.
In the past week, I have had to wear dress pants, a button down shirt, a tie and black socks a total of three times, and I have hated every second of it. There’s something about the age of 20 that suddenly forces you to surrender your youthful whims in exchange for Dockers and professional maturity.
NEW YORK – It’s not like Kanye West needed an ego boost, but here it comes, anyway: His “Graduation” album trounced 50 Cent’s “Curtis” in their much-hyped rap sales showdown, selling nearly 1 million copies in its first week, making it the best debut of the year for the struggling music industry.
IU will host the largest university law fair in the country today, welcoming 108 different law school representatives to the Indiana Memorial Union.
Two greek organizations on campus share the goal of developing their members both socially and professionally. The co-ed business fraternities Alpha Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Pi completed their induction ceremonies this week. With roughly 60 greek organizations at IU, these fraternities strive to be different from all the rest.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon wanted to rebuild a house and a chapter on campus. But they had to get rid of their old house first, said SAE President Ronak Desai. Demolition on the old Sigma Alpha Epsilon house began on Sept. 10 and is scheduled to finish Friday. Desai said the “eyesore” will be replaced by “a modern house with all the modern amenities,” including Wi-fi internet access and more individual rooms.
Jazz Fables Concert Series WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Bear’s Place, 1316 E. Third St. MORE INFO: IU jazz faculty members will be playing an 81st birthday tribute to John Coltrane. Cover charge is $6.
Rob and Jennifer Johansen should have no trouble playing the married couples within Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite,” which opens this weekend at the Brown County Playhouse. After all, off the stage they have been married for two years.
The IU Opera Theater will open its 2007-08 season this Friday with Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Rigoletto.” Conductor Stephen Lord, recently chosen by Opera News as one of the “25 Most Powerful Names in U.S. Opera,” will lead the Jacobs School of Music Symphony Orchestra, accompanying two alternating casts of some of IU’s top operatic singers.
The labor union representing U.S. diplomats called Wednesday for the State Department’s top auditor to step down pending the results of a congressional investigation into whether he blocked fraud probes in Afghanistan and Iraq for political reasons.
After several years of vacancy, a space in Eastland Plaza, located between Third Street and College Mall Road will reopen as a McAlister’s Deli franchise, creating new employment opportunities for IU students and local residents.
You can only watch so much C-SPAN. You can only read so much of the Wall Street Journal with your morning coffee. And while this last one may seem to run contrary to every other column I’ve written, sometimes you can only take so much politics.
Dole announced an international recall of all Dole Hearts Delight bagged salad Monday, almost exactly a year after the spinach recall. A bag of the salad was found to contain E. coli through random screening at a grocery store in Canada, according to a press release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Corporate recruiters ranked the Kelley School of Business as their fifth favorite program in the region, according to a recent survey by The Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive.
Much to the chagrin of senior Hunter Marks, he will have to pay more to get season tickets for the IU men’s basketball team this year. The Los Angeles native has become a Hoosier basketball fan during his first three years in Bloomington, so he will pay the extra $53 for the ticket package.
Even before Tom Chorny recognized that running would be his vice, he knew that he wanted to be in the Olympics. He’s gotten extremely close – closer than most Americans ever dream of.
Police uncovered more information this week relating to two bodies discovered at a Bloomington residence.
The death of IU freshman Kareem Bacchus shocked his friends and family Tuesday morning, when the 17-year-old apparently suffered a brain hemorrhage caused after being treated for an allergic reaction to something he ate on Saturday evening.