The heat of the desert — inside the Indiana Memorial Union.On Saturday and Sunday, “Aida” took the stage in Alumni Hall at the IMU.
If you want to participate in the world’s largest movie festival, get yourself to a computer by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
A central Indiana school district has asked a federal judge whether it should go ahead with a planned high school graduation prayer, which most of the senior class wants but its best and top-ranked student opposes.
This summer, Fairview Elementary School will be demolishing part of its building and constructing a new location for its students in the fall.
Fatal vision goggles can help demonstrate visual impairment to students without them actually being inebriated during IU Police Department alcohol programs.“We try to incorporate the use of the fatal vision goggles for demonstration purposes,” said IUPD Sgt. Leslie Sloan, who coordinates IUPD community programming.The department provides the seminars free of charge to whoever requests them. The seminars include topics related to alcohol purchases, usage and carrying laws in Indiana.The goggles are very similar to those worn in a high school chemistry class. The only difference is a coating of clear film that causes distorted perception and coordination.The goggles simulate a given range of impairment expressed by blood alcohol content.“We have goggles that are clear and tinted, representing both daytime and nighttime impairment,” Sloan said. The goggles are used in conjunction with various activities that would otherwise be simple when done sober.“We will toss a tennis ball at a person and they will find it becomes a real challenge to catch it,” Sloan said. The class is popular among students in residence halls and greek houses.Users of the goggles sometimes express doubt to their validity. Although a pair of IUPD’s goggles represent a BAC level just over the legal limit, the goggles produce a dizzying effect, which makes it complicated to walk even short distances.The idea is to give you a simulation, not demonstrate exactly what happens at a BAC of .08, said Dee Owens, director of IU’s Alcohol and Drug Information Center.“It is much easier to feel impaired when you’re not drinking and by putting on the goggles, than to realize you gradually worked your way towards impairment,” Owens said.Monroe County CARES Inc., a county-funded entity, provides grants to IUPD and other county-wide organizations which promote local efforts to prevent and reduce harmful involvement with alcohol and other drugs.Lisa Meuser is the organization’s sole employee in addition to its 15 board members.The Governor’s Commission for a Drug Free Indiana recognizes Monroe County CARES, Inc. as the local coordinating council that is responsible for developing the local plan to combat substance abuse in the community, Meuser said.Owens discusses the public health and safety issues from a statistical and research perspective.“The truth is that the road to alcoholism starts the younger you start drinking,” Owens said. “If you can postpone drinking until the legal age, it is highly unlikely you won’t suffer any health consequences from alcohol.”Although Owens admits young adults are not completely in the clear if they wait until their 21st birthday to have a alcoholic beverage, the brain is more fully developed and more resilient to toxins.“I am not a prohibitionist, which is what the alcohol industry labels us,” Owens said. Although she made a personal choice to abstain from alcohol years ago, she has been doing work with alcohol in treatment, prevention and education for almost 30 years.“If you’re doing what’s safe and what’s legal — no problem,” Owens said.
Six students at the Maurer School of Law were named Milton Stewart Fellows and will travel to India for internships this summer.
The Commission on Multicultural Understanding will award its 2009-2010 COMU awards Tuesday. The six awards honor those who actively support, participate or encourage cultural diversity on the IU campus.
For unexplainable reasons, tall, dark and handsome has never cut it for me. I am not saying that I would turn Bradley Cooper away if he knocked on my door, but my desire is drawn to abnormally interesting characters and traits.
That’s right: don’t you give the federal government the satisfaction of prying into your personal privacy. Never mind that this is one of the shortest census forms ever. You can’t have Big Government poking around, asking you about your name and stuff.
Before I started studying journalism, the extent of my knowledge about biased reporting was pretty limited.
I am not the next Messiah , but I do have one fundamental truth to bestow unto you: If you’re in college and have not yet held a job, you are not a real person.
What the news cannot answer, and what we are left wondering, is the most basic question of all: What led these people to set aside reality?
WE SAY Pope Benedict XVI needs to take responsibility for the sexual misconduct that has occurred on his watch.
The financial strains of the newspaper industry have led to a noticeable decline in print reporters attending this year’s Final Four, according to several veteran basketball writers — a trend that also was seen at last fall’s World Series, this year’s Super Bowl and February’s Winter Olympic Games.
Two men and three teen boys were charged Saturday with gang raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building, police said.
Using Facebook is simple. One registers and has millions of other users to communicate with right at his fingertips. However, the relative ease of the social networking site has become a significant problem for a much more complex undertaking: marriage. The temptation and subsequent risks caused by the social networking giant are testing marriages nationwide.
A “drunk and belligerent” 17-year-old Notre Dame football recruit was killed in a fall from a fifth-floor hotel balcony during his senior-year spring break in Florida, authorities said Saturday.
The Indianapolis Star newspaper has apologized to Duke University after some of Friday’s editions included an illustration of coach Mike Krzyzewski with horns and a target drawn on his head.
The $5.5 million Wildebeest ride will open May 14 at Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari. The ride is a third of a mile long and will use a conveyor system to take riders up a lift hill before dropping them 38 feet.
