In reference to your Op-Ed article Tuesday (Oct. 2) in the IDS, “Cleaning House”: The statement that the GPSO was responsible for getting graduate students dental insurance is flat-out wrong.
It’s nice to know that the Opinion section is keeping in the tradition of hiring one right-wing mouthpiece every year, and this year it appears to be Chase Cooper.
At the top of your Opinion page, above a column bewailing the extinction of languages, “The Living Dead,” is a piece attributed to the IDS Editorial Board titled “Judging Jena”.
In defense of journalists before and after Bob Woodward: In Peter Stevenson’s Sept. 18 article, “‘Bob Woodward: democracies die in darkness,’” IU School of Journalism’s Director of Communications Beth Moellers indirectly stated that, as a compliment to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, “‘Very few people are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists ...’”
In the IDS on Tueday, Sept. 25, columnist Grace Low wrote an editorial titled “Hippie Catholics.” While I was very happy to see Ms. Low take pride in her faith and identify with the Vatican’s eco-friendly future plans, I feel that my fellow Catholic misrepresented the Church’s beliefs in her closing line, “Now can we please have condoms and acceptance for gays?”
A Bloomington resident was arrested Tuesday night after police say he discharged a firearm within city limits.
Hundreds of pet owners and their dogs will gather this Sunday in Karst Farm Park to raise money for the Monroe County Humane Association.
As soon as the lights in the IU Auditorium went down Tuesday night, everyone in the crowd jumped to their feet, screaming. Guster took the stage amid swirling yellow and blue stage lights and quickly began to play. The crowd stayed pumped up throughout the show, dancing and clapping along with the music, and enthusiastic fans punctuated the words of the songs with joyful shouts and screams.
Lisa Ling will share her investigative reporting experiences at 7 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
Spicy dips and shaking hips filled Foster Quad’s Harper lounge Tuesday night when Sigma Lambda Upsilon, Foster Global Village and the Latin Dance Club held their first “Salsa y Salsa” CommUNITY Education Program.
Cheri Daniels, along with IU first lady Laurie Burns McRobbie, will speak about the disease Thursday at IU through Daniels’ “Heart to Heart” program. Daniels encourages women who attend the program to share what they’ve learned about the risks of heart disease with loved ones through heart-to-heart talks.
Students at the University of Memphis returned to class Tuesday without knowing whether the fatal campus shooting of a football player was a targeted or random attack.
Purdue University will focus on increasing retention and graduation rates under a strategic plan taking shape under new President France Cordova.
Following the cliff-hanger ending of the Xbox game “Halo 2,” “Halo 3” came out with a bang. To celebrate the release of the end of the trilogy, California State University at Fullerton students fought each other in a bloody, brutal battle.
A $1 million grant given to sexual health researchers has provided them an opportunity to greatly expand their work through the development of the new IU Center for Sexual Health Promotion.
About 30 students stood holding candles in a nonviolent protest for peace and the well-being of Indian farmers Tuesday at the Sample Gates. Bloomington, along with about 55 other cities all over the world, held a candlelight vigil to spread the news of the ongoing struggle Indian farmers face.
The search for a new School of Optometry dean is underway. A search committee has been formed and the administration hopes to have a replacement for current dean Jerry Lowther by next summer. Lowther will retire after almost 10 years in office, Lowther’s secretary Sue Gilmore said.
I wasn’t excited or nervous; I was eager. Eager to learn. The Bloomington Police Department held their first Rape Aggression Defense course of the year Monday night, and I was one of nine students in the class. Officers Paul Post and Monica Zahasky, both certified to teach RAD classes, will be instructing the class every Monday evening this month.
FLOYDS KNOBS, Ind. – The number of people infected with E. coli in Floyd County, Ind., has jumped to 10, including seven schoolchildren who suffered kidney failure and required dialysis machines, health officials said Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS – A former lab technician faces a battery charge after she was accused of biting a 3-year-old boy’s shoulder during a blood test. Anne McGlorthon, 53, of Indianapolis, could face six months to three years in prison if she’s convicted. The charge was filed Tuesday, the Marion County prosecutor’s office said.
