The Bloomington Police Department is still investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Kmart Pharmacy, 3175 W. 3rd St.
Chaos and traffic lined up along the busy streets of campus as freshmen move in Wednesday.
The world weighs on the mind of Kathleen Robbins, who was announced Tuesday as the new director of the undergraduate program for the Kelley School of Business.
Four days before the IU football team starts its season, IU coach Bill Lynch named junior Kellen Lewis the team’s starting quarterback.
DENVER – Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, declaring in a Democratic National Convention speech that the man who defeated her “is my candidate and he must be our president.”
DENVER – Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., hoped to arrive at the Democratic National Convention here under different circumstances.
DENVER – Three men who authorities initially feared were plotting to assassinate Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention are facing only gun charges – signaling they never posed a real threat.
From the simply embarrassing – like public indecency – to the dangerous, such as assaults and vehicular collisions – IU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger said the overwhelming majority of incidents involving his department can be attributed, at least in part, to excessive drinking, not merely underage drinking.
The ninth annual CultureFest promises to give newcomers a colorful display of the many different cultures that inhabit IU’s campus.
Additional IU Police Department officers, Bloomington Police Department officers and Indiana State Police officers will try to make move-in day for the biggest freshman class, plus returning students, as smooth as possible.
Today is the official day students can check into residence halls on campus and start moving into their rooms. Often, this day is full of stress and confusion, especially for freshmen and transfer students who are new to Bloomington.
Brian J. McFillen’s missive “Street stress,” published by the IDS on Aug. 6 might be well-intentioned, but the author would do well to take a more critical look at the situation. He grumbles that bicycles are “gumming up” traffic and endangering lives. I travel the stretch of road in question both by car (frequently) and by bicycle (occasionally). In my experience the traffic is being “gummed up” not by bicycles but by large numbers of cars. Buses stopped to load and unload passengers also apparently contribute to congestion. I say, apparently because while it appears that way to the casual observer, those buses represent cars that are not on the road – cars that would be in front of Mr. McFillen and causing him further delays. The same argument applies to bicycles.
As students are welcomed back to IU, ready to settle into their usual Bloomington routine, I find myself having a harder time readjusting than in years past. It’s not because I’m having some sort of existential crises or anything, but because I haven’t been back to Bloomington in more than nine months. In December, I left IU to go home to Chicago, and I boarded a plane to Cairo, Egypt, a month later.
I hoped. I believed. Barack Obama let me down. Earlier this summer I donated $5.80 to Obama’s campaign. For those of you who’ve had the pleasure of reading my columns in the past may wonder why I, a committed conservative Republican, would do such a thing. The reason is that the campaign was giving anyone who donated at least $5 a chance to win a trip to the Democratic National Convention in Denver to meet Obama and watch his Thursday night speech in person.
About this time last year, I was in the same place as the many freshmen arriving on campus today. I hadn’t yet done things that have ended up shaping my past year as a university student: I hadn’t read the Indiana Daily Student or attended lectures in Ballantine Hall. But most importantly, I’d never lived in a dorm room.
You normally log on before class to see who has changed their relationship status or if new photos from the weekend’s party have made their way online. Facebook, a self-proclaimed “social networking tool,” has traditionally served as a way to keep tabs on your friends. But now, some college administrators hope to use it as a method for alerting students to dangerous situations as they arise on campus.
Strap in as the Indiana Daily Student’s Geoffrey Miller talks NASCAR with a recap of last week’s race at Bristol and looks ahead to Sunday’s Sprint Cup race in California.
The IU soccer team looks to translate preseason success to the regular season.
Senior forward Kyle Taber injured his knee last week and will have to undergo surgery today, according to a statement from IU Athletics media relations director J.D. Campbell. Taber is expected to miss 10 weeks while he recovers.
