Decrease in state support leaves IU adapting to losses
The state’s $28 billion budget, introduced in April of this year, left the IU system with considerably less support and created concerns about the performance-based criteria system.
The state’s $28 billion budget, introduced in April of this year, left the IU system with considerably less support and created concerns about the performance-based criteria system.
The Hoosiers will wrestle at 5 p.m. Friday in the University Gym.
As the 16th overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Hoosiers (12-3-5) will play Old Dominion (12-5-1) at home in the second round at 2 p.m. Sunday after their first round bye.
The Hoosiers travel to Penn State and Ohio State for their last two-game weekend road trip of the season.
According to reports by the U.S. Census Bureau, 39.9 percent of Bloomington residents are in poverty. Other reports say rates for income inequality in the area are equally dismal.
Both the men’s and women’s teams will travel to State College, Pa., for a double dual meet Friday and Saturday against Penn State and Virginia.
In the third game of the season, IU (1-1) takes on Belmont at 7 p.m. Friday in Nashville, Tenn.
Once again, IU fans find themselves trying to keep expectations in check for a team that has plowed through early opposition.
Despite a roster depleted by season-ending injuries at several positions, the Hoosiers have more of one thing heading into Saturday’s road contest with Michigan State than they have had all season: time.
The Old Brass Spittoon was put into effect in 1950 as the prize for the winner of the nearly annual game.
After he failed to qualify academically at Ole Miss out of high school and to gain admission to North Carolina out of junior college, Houston constantly wondered if things would ever go his way.
The Indiana Arts Commission is now accepting applications for the Individual Artist Program grants. Each year the program has about $76,000 to give away in grants. This year’s applications are due Feb. 2, 2012.

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Timmy Global Health is an Indianapolis-based, non-profit organization that works to empower student and medical volunteers to participate directly in global development, promote sustainability and tackle international health challenges. Every spring break, students from the IU chapter travel to Guatemala, where they partner with Association Pop Wuj to set up clinics and provide health care for impoverished communities nationwide.
Paul Simon, of the 1960s folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel, has written songs such as “Mrs. Robinson” and “The Sound of Silence.” He will perform at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the IU Auditorium.
After deciding to study abroad in Italy, I was secretly hoping to see a few of the stereotypes prominently featured in the media. Northern Italians, however, are drastically different from their more colorful countrymen to the South, and I’ve spent the past three months searching for the false Italian picture painted by the writers of “The Sopranos.”
Although it is a competitive process, many IU graduates have served or are currently serving in the Peace Corps.
IU’s Thai Student Association is raising money to help flood relief efforts in Thailand, which started in late July and have covered almost one-third of the country.
In a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 10, IU unveiled the Center for Research in Extreme Scale Technologies, a scientific facility created to address the developing challenges of the supercomputing world.
“Robbery by appointment,” a scam most commonly related with Craigslist — a website used to post classified ads in various cities — has University Director of Public Safety Jerry Minger and other Protect IU members alarmed.