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Students repack food for needy

Members of the African Student Association and IU professor Vicky Getty’s nutrition class spent Friday evening volunteering at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank, a local organization that repackages prepared food donated by local restaurants and cafeterias. Groups of volunteers meet at the food bank on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings every week to scoop hundreds or even thousands of pounds of food into four-serving bags, which are then sold in bulk to local non-profit organizations such as soup kitchens, emergency shelters and food pantries.

‘It’s crunch time’ for IU Sing competitors

IU Sing is a competition where greek organizations, along with the residence halls and other campus organizations, come together and produce a musical play, Bedal said. IU Sing will be held Friday and Saturday at the IU Auditorium.

Hoosier athletes past and present to attend USA Indoor Track and Field Championships

Hoosier athletes, coaches and alumni will travel to Boston this weekend to compete in the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.

IU encourages students to update contact information in case of emergency

In the wake of the Northern Illinois University shooting in which five students died, 16 were injured and the killer committed suicide, IU is encouraging students and faculty to sign up for the IU-Notify system so that the University can send text message warnings in case of a similar emergency.

Hoosiers blown out at Wisconsin in crushing road defeat

The IU women’s basketball team (15-12, 8-7) started slowly at Wisconsin (14-11, 7-8) on Wednesday night and never recovered en route to a crushing 81-51 loss.

Defending Big Ten champs put 2007 title on the line

IU coach Ray Looze does not like to dwell on the past. He never talks about his previous coaching successes nor does he ever compare his current team to past teams.

In basketball, it’s two ‘T’s,’ not one

In basketball, two ‘T’s’ and you’re ejected. For Josh Tucker, it was just one.

Around the World

Around the World

Fed predicts higher unemployment and inflation in 2008

Central bank anticipates less economic growth

Around the Arts

Faculty/Guest recital What: Guest, faculty and students in the Jacobs School of Music will perform Who: Professor James J. Pellerite (n`ative American flute), Walfrid Kujala (piccolo) and others from the Jacobs School When: 8 p.m. today Where: Auer Concert Hall on the second floor of the Simon Music Center

Stewart to pay $50 million for Emeril franchise

NEW YORK – Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. is bringing in a new celebrity: popular television chef Emeril Lagasse.

What is art? TMZ art history

Looking back over the course of art history, many young people think that there is little to be interested in. We see the wigged out (literally) composers and painters of the past as antique images, their lives uninteresting, their lifestyles out-of-touch and ancient. More often than not, we are taught about their works and how they affected their period and today.

Black theater troupe to perform minstrel show

A minstrel show is usually thought of as an all-white cast dressed in blackface performing as black characters.

Daniels signs Great Lakes Compact bill preventing watershed siphoning

Indianapolis – Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a measure that allows Indiana to join a regional compact intended to prevent water-hungry states from tapping into the Great Lakes Wednesday.

We like Rock Music

If you haven’t yet given a listen to the quirky but stirring sound of England’s British Sea Power, this is the time to start.

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Entertainment news from the Weekend staff.

The rise of hip-hop

It’s not easy trying to create the world’s first hip-hop fraternity. Just ask IU sophomores Keane Rowley and Justin Wolverton who, along with sophomore Quinnton Parker, are the founders of the co-ed, multi-ethnic Greek organization Eta Iota Rho – HIP, for short.

Weekend picks the Oscars

Hip Hop you don't stop

IU Hip Hop Congress Elements Gallery showcases principles of the genre

Break dancing

WEEKEND learns the basics of break dancing from a few of IU's most prominent b-boys