Queer politics
Just when I thought Washington couldn’t become more of a circus of petty power struggles and refusal to cooperate for progress, I’ve been proven wrong again.
Just when I thought Washington couldn’t become more of a circus of petty power struggles and refusal to cooperate for progress, I’ve been proven wrong again.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted to give Oscar De La Hoya a beating. He had to settle for just getting a win. Mayweather won one of boxing’s richest fights ever Saturday night by using his superb defensive skills and superior speed to take a 12-round split decision and win the WBC 154-pound title in his first fight at that weight.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Around 20 people, including students and other members of the Harvard University community, protested Thursday afternoon in front of Mass. Hall, marking the kickoff of a widely publicized hunger strike aimed at convincing the University to support better working conditions for security guards.
WEST LAFAYETTE – A soldier from West Lafayette has been killed in Iraq. Army Spc. Andrew R. Weiss, 28, died Thursday in Baghdad after an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, military officials said. He was one of four soldiers in the vehicle.
DALE, Ind. – Spencer County officials haven’t succeeded in shutting down an adult bookstore, and neither has a court order.
INDIANAPOLIS – Gov. Mitch Daniels signed several bills Friday, including one that would tie Indiana’s minimum wage to the federal rate and another that would make it a crime to commit sex acts with animals.
Graduate Danny Barrido arrived at the IU Auditorium on Friday wearing his graduation cap and gown a day before the actual commencement ceremony. He made a point to express that he wasn’t going to take it off, except maybe to sleep. In a sense, Barrido was merely prepping himself for what was to come on Saturday when he graduated.
It was a weekend that the Hoosiers had hoped to use to climb back into contention for the Big Ten Tournament, but by the time it was over, IU was even further away from its goal.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Smokers might be allowed to light up again in Champaign, Ill., bars and restaurants – for another seven months, at least.
A car bomb ripped through a wholesale food market in western Baghdad on Sunday, flattening cars and shops and killing at least 30 people in the deadliest of a wave of attacks across Iraq that killed at least 50 people.
College may not always be fun and games, but considering the average student spends a mere 12 to 18 hours in actual class, let’s face the facts: for undergraduates, this place is basically a summer camp.
Mi Hyun Kim won a playoff on the first extra hole with Hall of Famer Juli Inkster to capture the SemGroup Championship on Sunday, the South Korean’s first LPGA Tour victory of the year.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind.– A Montgomery County resident slipped in a winning bid of $50,100 in the waning seconds of an online auction last week to nab the motorcycle that rode onto the field before Indianapolis Colts games last season.
The media calls her the D.C. Madam; her clients use the pseudonym “Miz Julia”: she’s poised, provocative, mysterious, and oh so metropolitan. Sexy, savvy, and just a little dangerous, she’s the hottest little thang to come out of Washington since, well, Valerie Plame, really. Known to her friends, family and government prosecutors as Deborah Jeane Palfrey, she is accused of operating a $300-an-hour prostitution ring under the guise of a legal escort and massage service to the District’s movers and shakers.
Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell has joined the Jacobs School of Music faculty, University officials announced Thursday.
NOBLESVILLE, Ind.–A television comedy writer and producer was arrested and charged Thursday with murder in the death of his wife, whose decomposing body was found in their home. John James “J.J.” Paulsen , 47, was served with the warrant at the Hamilton County Jail, where he had been held since the discovery of his wife’s body, said Carmel Police Department spokesman Lt. Jeff Horner.
Dear IU, For four years now, we have been together, making this journey down that long and winding road that is college. This weekend, that road splits and both of us will have to go our separate ways. But before we do that, I wanted to tell you what you have meant to me.
Fred Cate, an IU law school professor, will chair a search and screen committee appointed by Interim Provost and IU President-elect Michael McRobbie tasked to review and select candidates for the new position of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for the Bloomington campus.
As the final season of the “The Sopranos” winds down, fans of the HBO drama are abuzz online about their last glimpses of the New Jersey mafia family and theories on the show’s upcoming finale.
A day of mostly calm immigration rallies around the nation ended with a clash in Los Angeles, where officers fired rubber bullets and used batons against demonstrators. The police chief said officers may have used inappropriate force and promised a review.