VINCENNES -- A new student-retention program aimed at preventing students from dropping out at Vincennes University is drawing national interest.
Philadelphia 76ers coach Larry Brown was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on Wednesday.
FBI agents fanned out Sunday over the site of a deadly car bombing outside the U.S. Consulate, seeking clues as investigators tried to reconstruct how the attack took place.
The IU basketball team and Hoosier faithfuls have nothing to worry about tonight. Duke has Jason Williams, a unanimous All-American and Naismith Award winner. And incredibly he makes every single shot he takes.
WASHINGTON -- The Senate is ready to take up broad energy legislation that has caused splits over automobile gas mileage, drilling in an Arctic refuge and electricity competition in the shadow of Enron's collapse.
With a smile and a warm greeting, John Fluke held the door for Collins Residence Manager Sara Ivey Lucas on many mornings at the Collins Center loading dock.
About three months ago, Phil Kasper, Bloomington resident and volunteer at both the Bloomington Playwrights Project and the Community Kitchen decided he would try to pull together a benefit event that would help both of the needy not-for-profit agencies. "We both recognize the need for it because we both need a great deal of support. I am constantly aware of the needs of the community kitchen. We are in a time of some economic distress and arts organizations are very hard hit when it comes to government funding," Kasper said.
After receiving a prestigious $1 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, a team of IU scientists will begin a five-year research project in the remote and preserved area of Warner Valley, Ore.
LONDON -- Northern Ireland's rival outlawed groups cannot continue to violate their cease-fires and will face more rigorous scrutiny by Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair declared Wednesday in a bid to bolster the province's Catholic-Protestant government.
With less than five minutes remaining in Saturday's contest with Northwestern, many of the 26,000 at Memorial Stadium got up from their seats and made their way to the parking lot. With the Hoosier offense compiling 316 rushing yards, 246 passing yards, six touchdowns and a defense that stumped the Northwestern offense four times inside the IU 10 yard line, what else was there to watch?
IU is in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament, did anyone else notice? I did, maybe you did. But nationally it seems people have overlooked the upstart Hoosiers. IU is not an eleventh seeded sleeper and there was no breathtaking buzzer beater to propel the team into the next round. The game was played late on the west coast and the average middle age college basketball follower had the next day's suit on the hanger and was snoring before tip off of IU's first round game.
While many students were out of town or fighting Bloomington summer road construction, a few campus construction projects began to materialize into new campus landmarks. While the Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center is set to open, the Graduate Executive Education Center has another year until it's completion. In the planning stages are a Multidisciplinary Science Building and a new classroom building near the Arboretum.
Team Major Taylor will not be disqualified from the Little 500, an arbitration panel announced yesterday. It was a reconvening of the arbitration panel that ruled unanimously on April 4 to keep the team in the race after new evidence surfaced from USA Cycling suggesting Team Major Taylor captain Joshua Weir was ineligible under Little 500 rules.
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Saturday morning's cold front made for tough riding conditions in the women's Little 500 qualifications at Bill Armstrong stadium. Some riders described track conditions as the worst they had ever seen. Despite the poor conditions, the Roadrunners, an independent team, took the pole for the 14th running of the women's race with a time of 2 minutes, 52.75 seconds. Last year's pole setters, Delta Zeta qualified second at 2:56.94 and Phi Mu completed the front row at 2:57.37.
As public outrage mounts, various law enforcement agencies have opened investigations into the arrest of a teenager who was videotaped being slammed onto a police car and punched in the face while he was handcuffed.
BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan declared Monday that the operation to destroy Taliban and al Qaeda in the eastern mountains was "an unqualified and absolute success" despite claims by Afghan allies that most of the enemy fighters got away.
There are not many times in life when such a clearly defined ending point is in front of you. Graduating college is one of those times. Yet for many seniors, graduation marks a time for choosing which door to go through. It is a time to take all the knowledge acquired during undergraduate years and apply them to their new lives. This is especially true for students who are graduating with an arts degree.
SAN DIEGO -- Kent State is right where they want to be: in San Diego, as the underdog. "We really thrive in this role," guard Trevor Huffman said. "You can't be in a better spot than being the underdog because there's no pressure on you, it's all on the other team. We just go out there and play free." The Hoosiers, seeded No. 4, face Kent State, seeded No. 13, in the first round of the NCAA championships at 8 p.m. today in Cox Arena.
