Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Indiana Daily Student
Friday, Aug. 14
Subscribe Donate
E-paper
The Indiana Daily Student

Longform

The Indiana Daily Student

Industry check-up

By Sanjay Mohanty · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:13 p.m.

A couple of weeks ago, during a hospital conference, I got a crash course in provider-industry relations from a doctor who spends serious amounts of time researching pharmaceutical companies’ influence on physician behavior. He prefaced his talk by emphasizing that he doesn’t hate the pharmaceutical companies. I guess I’ll do the same.

The Indiana Daily Student

Shh! What abortion policy?

By Ashley Ames · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:11 p.m.

President Barack Obama signaled his stance on abortion Friday by reversing a policy that prohibited foreign non-governmental family planning groups from receiving U.S. aid if they lobbied for or provided abortions. It’s a landmark policy shift. And you probably didn’t even know it happened. The Mexico City Policy, named for the first place it was instated, was established by Ronald Reagan and has since been a manifest divergence between the two parties. Bill Clinton very publicly reversed the policy after just two days in office, causing many pro-lifers to doubt the third word in his “safe, legal and rare” abortion slogan. George W. Bush was also quick to fan the flames of the culture war by reinstating the policy, declaring that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions.

IU Professor and Director of India Studies Sumit Ganguly applauds author and women's rights advocate Taslima Nasrin after she spoke about her life and read one of her poems Friday evening in the IMU University Club Faculty Room. In the lecture, titled "My Life: A Struggle for Equality," Nasrin, a Bengali exile and award-winning author explained her persistent fight for women's rights in the face of death threats and beatings from Islamic extremists, expulsion from her homeland and India and her longing to return to Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi author speaks on time in exile

By Sarah Bloom · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12:08 a.m.

Taslima Nasrin, author and women’s rights activist, described the vast inequalities and injustices fellow Bangladeshi women continue to endure in a speech Friday. Women are barred from being educated, inheriting property and taking legal action against their husbands, all of which are abuses sanctioned by Islamic law and tradition, Nasrin said.

The Indiana Daily Student

Ryan Cabrera to perform at the Bluebird

Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12:05 a.m.

Doors open at 8 p.m. tonight at The Bluebird Nightclub for a performance by singer-songwriter Ryan Cabrera. Some of Cabrera’s hits include “On The Way Down,” “I Will Remember You” and “True,” and according to his Web site, Cabrera has sold more than a million records.

IU's Devan Dumes gets tangled up with two Minnesota defenders during the first half of IU's 67-63 loss to No. 21 Minnesota Sunday at Assembly Hall.

Hoosiers keep it close but get buried by Gophers

By Matt Dollinger · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12 a.m.

A white out couldn't erase the IU men's basketball team's losing streak, which grew to nine after a 67-63 loss Sunday to Minnesota. The Gophers led by five points or less during the final 10 minutes, but the Hoosiers were never able to take the lead. Ultimately, it was the Gophers who were the ones hunting, and the Hoosiers, the hunted.

The Indiana Daily Student

Adults return to continue studies

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:55 p.m.

Older students come to IU to further their education or find a degree. Now, a scholarship newly available to IU students makes continuing studies easier to afford.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Senior Amber Lindgren moves a pot on the stove out of the way while holding a colander of shrimp working with Freshman Marina Karamanis Friday evening in the Tudor Room kitchen at the Indiana Memorial Union. Members of the women's golf team participated in an Iron Chef event, where members split up in to teams and cooked food to be judged by Coach Bill Lynch and other members of IU Athletics coaching staffs.

Team cooks up cohesive recipe

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:46 p.m.

IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman and a panel of judges were treated to a taste of teamwork Friday night.In its fifth annual “Iron Chef” competition, the team was split into three groups to prepare the golfers’ best pasta dishes.Although each team stood proudly by their meals, Wallman said teamwork was the most important recipe of the night.

The Indiana Daily Student

College Mentors collecting textbooks for kids

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:44 p.m.

Even though a new semester has begun, many students are still left with the ghost of semesters past in the form of textbooks they cannot sell back. Junior Katie Smith is organizing a textbook drive to help raise money for the group College Mentors for Kids, a nonprofit organization that gives children, typically from grades one through four, the opportunity to experience how higher education can influence their lives.

Junior Kara Jeffers designs the logo for her line of T-shirts Jan. 19 in the living room of her apartment. Her current line of T-shirts is one year old.

Artist designs logo tees

By Richard Scinteie · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:41 p.m.

Junio Kara Jeffers, an art education, started her her own T-shirt company, Karosene Clothing, with a sharpie and a blank T-shirt.

The Indiana Daily Student

Loss wasn’t so smelly

By Zachary Osterman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:30 p.m.

This one wasn’t so bad. Yes, it was at home. Sure, the crowd was raucous, perhaps even a bit desperate. Obviously, the Hoosiers had their chances and could have won the game had they made only half of their 10 missed free throws.

Freshman Megan Matter serves the ball during doubles matchplay against Ball State Sunday afternoon at the IU Tennis Center.

Around IU Sports

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:24 p.m.

This weekend's results in IU athletics.

The Indiana Daily Student

Ivy Tech opens new life sciences center

By Jef Akst · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:11 p.m.

Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday for a new life sciences center, they hope will help train students to meet the thousand-plus life science jobs they expect to be created in the coming years. Ivy Tech-Bloomington and the Monroe County government had a ceremony Friday for the new Indiana Center for Life Sciences, which opened Jan. 12 – just in time for classes.

The Indiana Daily Student

IU students face drug charges

By Amanda Bridgman · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:09 p.m.

Two IU students were arrested Friday morning after Bloomington police found marijuana in one’s apartment. Sebastian M. Smigielski, 21, faces preliminary charges of maintaining a common nuisance, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana and reckless possession of paraphernalia. Mitchell R. Arnold, 20, faces a preliminary charge of visiting a common nuisance.

Miss Indiana Katie Stam is crowned Miss America 2009 by Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund Saturday in Las Vegas.

Miss Ind. wins national crown

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 10:07 p.m.

Miss Indiana Katie Stam was crowned Miss America 2009 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, fighting off a throat infection, laryngitis and 51 other contestants to win the 88-year-old pageant’s title. The 22-year-old University of Indianapolis student became the first Miss America winner from the Hoosier State. She drew loud applause for her rendition of “Via Dolorosa” during the talent portion of the beauty pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

Trending