Expert Bakari Kitwana to discuss hip-hop’s meaning, impact
Hip-hop expert Bakari Kitwana will ask IU students to challenge the true meaning of hip-hop and question its impact in the political realm.
Hip-hop expert Bakari Kitwana will ask IU students to challenge the true meaning of hip-hop and question its impact in the political realm.
Looking for a reason to get out of that math test? Tell your teacher that new research has shown that stressful testing situations may not be the best way to evaluate mathematical ability.
The sun hasn’t even crested on a cool morning in 1956, but 16-year-old Ken is already hurling newspapers out of the passenger window of his $75 dollar Chrysler. When he gets to the Dixon house he shifts his ’38 into park and walks up to the house before stopping next to the car parked in the driveway. For some reason – he’s not sure why – he tries lifting the latch-handled door, and for some reason – he’s not sure why – he grabs the golf clubs out of the back seat and puts them in his trunk.
Mary Morgan Oliver, who started Oliver Winery in 1972 with her husband, William, died Wednesdasy. She was 78. Her son, Bill Oliver, said the family’s Bloomington business began as an outgrowth of his father’s wine-making hobby. “There’s the old cliche that behind every man is an even stronger woman,” he said of his mother. “For many years, she kept the books and held the place together.”
For Shelbyville High School basketball coach Frank Barnes it was about class not color. He needed veterans who work well in the system – players with quick feet and precise jump shots. But he never expected this.
In the wake of serious scrutiny from gender-rights advocates after perceived misogynistic remarks from Harvard’s previous president, Lawrence Summers, the Ivy League school has named Drew Faust as the first female president of the university. The university’s decision means half of the Ivy Leagues are now led by female presidents.
NEW YORK – The six-day siege of angry and disgruntled travelers at JetBlue’s Kennedy airport terminal appeared to ease on Monday as service desks functioned more smoothly and customer calm prevailed despite flight cancellations. The beleaguered company said it was canceling almost a quarter of its flights on Monday but planned to restore full operations on Tuesday, a week after a Valentine’s Day snowstorm created a travel meltdown that virtually paralyzed JetBlue.
More than 200 people attended a Statehouse rally Monday to send a message to lawmakers: If the state’s constitution is amended to ban same-sex marriage, it would affect more than gay couples.
There’s been a lot of talk around the IU campus as of late concerning a somewhat controversial decision from President Herbert to ban smoking. Take, for example, the following overheard conversation between a nonsmoker and a smoker: Nonsmoker: Pretty soon you’ll have to go off campus for that cancer stick. Ha ha.
Lawmakers watched clips of violent beatings, topless strippers and other adult material Monday as they considered a bill that would restrict the sale of certain video games to young people.
School records fell and personal bests were shattered as the IU men’s swimming and diving team competed in the Big Ten championships in Columbus, Ohio.
As human beings we live with fear on a daily basis. Fear is a major factor in our decision-making. We choose careers, goods, even significant others based on these fears. We fear rejection, we fear failing, we fear being outcast from society. As a social defense mechanism, a large percentage of us battle this fear by several means. One way we handle this fear is by becoming cynical. We start to view everything negatively (so as not to get upset) and we find other cynical people that confirm our worldviews. This cynicism is a cancer to society and ironically keeps future generations from conquering their fears.
Three Fort Wayne natives, including one IU student, are facing charges related to the sale of cocaine after an IUPD undercover operation came to an end this weekend.
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. – Three climbers stranded on Mount Hood after a fall were rescued Monday after spending the night amid ferocious winds and blowing snow. “Their condition is very good at this time,” Russell Gubele, coordinating communications for the rescue operation, told CNN.
IU will soon be offering a new language to fulfill undergraduate requirements. Professor Francisco Tandioy, a native speaker, will teach Quechua, the second most-spoken language in South America. Beginning Fall ’07, Tandioy will teach Quechua for four semesters. At that time, these classes will be offered in a quantity large enough to fulfill foreign language requirements, and will also fulfill the language part of the international studies major.
I can tell you exactly what all this snow makes me not want to do: go to the bars, go to class, go to parties, go out to dinner with my Friday night sushi partner, go to work or basically leave my womb-like nest of a bed at all. The clouds, the wind, the freezing rain? I say, “No, thank you” to all that.
It was two very different days for the IU women’s water polo team at the Terrapin Invite in College Park, Md. On Saturday the Hoosiers scored victories against host Maryland and George Washington. On Sunday they dropped their two games against No. 13 Hartwick College and No. 17 Princeton.
After long months of secretly searching for candidates, it appears the IU trustees may soon reach the end of their quest to find IU’s new president. Though the chairwoman of the Presidential Search Committee, IU trustee Sue Talbot, has maintained that the new president would be named by this summer, IU Chancellor Ken Gros Louis believes the decision will be announced before the start of the University’s spring break, March 12.
This weekend signaled the end of the regular season for the IU wrestling team with a pair of crucial road matches. IU defeated No. 22 Michigan State on Friday 23-15 before losing to No. 9 Wisconsin 21-13 on Sunday.
FORT WAYNE – A domestic battery charge against IU wide receiver James Hardy has been dismissed.