Hoosiers creamed ... and crimson
It all began like your first taste of alcohol. A 3-yard touchdown run by sophomore Marcus Thigpen put an easy seven points on the board, an IU lead and the satisfying feeling that things would be looking up.
It all began like your first taste of alcohol. A 3-yard touchdown run by sophomore Marcus Thigpen put an easy seven points on the board, an IU lead and the satisfying feeling that things would be looking up.
Youth came up big for the Hoosiers this weekend. Freshmen accounted for two goals and an assist for the IU women's soccer team in a pair of 1-1 ties against teams from North Carolina over the weekend.
Making his first collegiate start, IU freshman quarterback Kellen Lewis expected a better result.
Down seven points in the final five minutes of Saturday's game, the IU football team had two chances to tie the game against Southern Illinois. Despite those chances, the Hoosiers came up empty in their 35-28 loss to the Salukis.
ST. LOUIS -- A dejected Brad Ring kept his head down as he answered questions in the shadows of Robert R. Hermann Stadium Friday night. The sophomore midfielder stood outside the IU men's soccer team's locker room, lamenting the team's third loss in four games.
INDIANAPOLIS -- All Texans cornerback Dunta Robinson could do was shake his head after the Colts poured 43 points on him and his team. Houston just wanted to contain the Colts' dangerous offense.
The IU Ethics Bowl is looking for students to apply to compete with the team in their annual intercollegiate tournament. Thirty-two teams from different colleges around the country take part in the event to tackle hypothetical ethical situations in a head-to-head debate.
The Democracy for IU group held its first ever meeting Thursday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union State Room East. The four people in attendance discussed various goals, political views and how they could influence the community.
In celebration of the beginning of National Hispanic Heritage Month, La Casa, the Latino Cultural Center, held a kick-off gathering Friday afternoon to relish the spirit of Hispanic history, achievements and culture.
The football rivalry between IU and Purdue might have begun with the introduction of the Old Oaken Bucket in 1925, but a more recent tradition between the schools has created a rivalry that truly runs in the veins of fans.
INDIANAPOLIS — Two premature infants died after receiving adult dosages of a blood thinner, a hospital said Sunday.
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. -- The FBI is investigating the death of a diabetic man who lapsed into a coma after a beating by police and died when he was taken off life support.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A statewide poll has found a majority of Hoosiers disapprove of the leasing of the Indiana Toll Road to a private operator, a plan pushed through the General Assembly this year by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The anxious wait is over for Daniel Eliot's friends and family. Eliot, an IU student who went missing at the end of August, was found in Manhattan Saturday, said Ronald Eliot, his father. Tracing his ATM account and the global positioning system in his phone brought police to him and he is currently being held at a center in New York until his parents bring him home.
Starting Tuesday, Bloomington residents will have more resources for reproductive health. The Futures Family Health Clinic, 338 S. Walnut St., will have its grand opening from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, offering tours and refreshments. The clinic's focus is promoting healthy lifestyles for young adults and family planning.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested Friday after police say he fired a handgun just off Bloomington High School North property before school started to scare another student, police said.
In the wake of last week's docudrama "The Road to 9/11," criticism from the left has rained down like patriot missiles on an al-Qaida barbecue. On the Web sites of liberal media criticism outlets such as Media Matters for America and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, the docudrama is attacked as conservative propaganda that put the Clinton Administration in a disproportionately bad light in comparison to how the Bush Administration was portrayed.
Ladies get in free! Logically it seems wrong for me, a "lady" by society's definition, to question such an offer -- usually promoted by sports bars or any other location that aims to capitalize on women's sexuality. It's easy on my wallet, after all.
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy-- Pope Benedict XVI said Sunday that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his recent remarks about Islam, which he said came from a text that did not reflect his personal opinion.
Last week I sat down to write my view of Sept. 11 as a call to defend liberty with something more than the half-baked phrases so prevalent in the commemorative discourse. Although very few people were in agreement with the basic but useful assertion that consolation was to be found in the assault on American civil society, I'm not sure what I wrote requires any revising. But I would like to take some time to complete and round off the argument I only begun.