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Monrovia teen still missing after Lake Monroe accident

The Monroe County Dive team and Indiana Conservation Officers are currently investigating a possible drowning that took place earlier this afternoon at Paynetown State Recreation area.

Shoulders elected to 3rd trustee term

After being chosen for a third term as trustee on Monday, Patrick Shoulders said he has both long- and short-term goals he hopes to achieve.

Suggestions for improving campus to go to McRobbie soon

After sending a survey to 5,000 students on campus, members of IU’s Vision of the Ideal College Environment hope to change IU-Bloomington for the better.

IU Parking Operations encourages alternative transportation

IU Parking Operations is encouraging IU employees to consider cheaper, more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.

The sequel Hollywood needs to avoid

This week, the contract between the Screen Actors Guild, the primary labor union representing actors, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the organization consisting of producers and power players, ended. Yet another strike looms within the film and television industries, which are still recovering from the Writer’s Guild strike that ended only five months ago. Just like any sequel, the details this go-around are a bit different, and the stakes have been raised. Although SAG represents about 120,000 members of the acting community and roughly 90 percent of film and TV actors, another similar labor organization known as the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists represents the other 10 percent. Making matters worse is that 44,000 of AFTRA’s 70,000 members are members of both that organization and SAG.

Party like it’s 1776

From fireworks to floats: WEEKEND compiles your Independence Day itinerary

The essentials for your Independence Day playlist

WEEKEND compiles the best patriotic and rebellious tunes for the upcoming holiday

If you build it, they will protest

On Wednesday, June 19, a county judge in California placed a moratorium on the construction of a new university gymnasium, the Student Athlete High Performance Center at Berkley University in Cal, for its incompatibility with state seismic law.

Practical patriotism

The last few days have brought with them an onslaught of criticism directed towards both Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and John McCain, R-Ariz., regarding their level of patriotism. Retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark suggested Sunday that McCain wasn’t adequately tested as a wartime commander. Obama has been generating heat over his background, religion and lack of American flag lapel pin.

Policy solutions on wheels

Where I come from, people don’t ride bikes. Unless you’re the rare health nut trying to get a workout or someone who can’t afford the costs of driving, you wouldn’t be caught dead pedaling around town. However, cycling can jeopardize more than social standing. Motorists’ lack of respect for two-wheeled, carbon-neutral transportation is so great that ending up flattened on the pavement is a risk not to be taken lightly. My father epitomizes our town’s attitude when he says he’d like to ride more, but he’s afraid his old-school refusal to don biking shorts and a helmet will lead everyone to think he’s homeless. So he, and the vast majority of residents, rely on their automobiles even when they’re headed somewhere only a few blocks away.

The final frontier

Last night I turned 21. I went out, I took immense pride and satisfaction in pointing out to the bouncer who so rudely and ignorantly proclaimed, “This is an under-21 license” that I was indeed 21 and drank a whole lot of free booze. I even got a free T-shirt that reads “Hey! It’s my birthday!” It was, in a word, awesome. This was the final frontier, the last coming-of-age birthday that’s really any fun. All I have left to look forward to now is cheaper car insurance and the senior citizen’s discount.

Founding facts

In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, WEEKEND has assembled a list of facts about the founding of the US

Poetry reading tradition continues at the Spoon

People sit outside strumming guitars, and the restaurant’s atmosphere is created by the decor of older distinct wooden furniture and a multitude of books. The Runcible Spoon is a place where artists and writers are always welcome to share their work with each other.

Summer concert series features local artists

It’s summertime in Bloomington again and that means it’s time for the Parks and Recreation department’s Performing Arts Series. Among other thing

Work it: the rulebook to firing it up

WEEKEND investigates the laws, regulations behind a holiday favorite

Something to write home about

IU junior endures poverty and 'piropos' while studying in the Dominican Republic

Law restricting sale of "sexually explicit" material overturned

A new state law that would have gone into effect Tuesday was overturned by a federal judge on Tuesday because of its unconstitutionality. Read the summary judgment of the case

New administrators in School of Education start today

Four faculty members on the IU-Bloomington campus are starting new administrative positions in the School of Education today.

Longtime Bloomington restaurant closing

After 38 years in Bloomington, MCL Restaurant and Bakery will be closing July 14.

Come on get happy: the American pursuit