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Birdman is refreshing

By Riley Zipper · Wednesday, Nov. 19,2014 11:23 a.m.

“Birdman,” the comedy-drama starring Michael Keaton as washed-up ex-superhero actor Riggin Thomas, signals a new criterion of filmmaking.Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has thrown out everything you learn in film school with his latest film.

Anything Purdue can do we can do better

By Andrew Guenther · Wednesday, Nov. 19,2014 11:19 a.m.

Indiana University is a world-class institution that must keep reinventing itself in order to break the barriers that many believe exist.With this constant reinvention, the university must keep in mind that the world is an ever-changing landscape.

Helping the nation next door

By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez · Wednesday, Nov. 19,2014 11:13 a.m.

Trouble lies just beyond the southern border.Mexico faces internal strife as the populace riots against government corruption in response to the kidnapping and alleged killing of 43 students in the state of Guerrero.

Grades for dating

By Nancy Wu · Wednesday, Nov. 19,2014 11:04 a.m.

Just when you think that there comes a time when grades stop mattering, you’re wrong: behold, The Grade, a phone dating app that algorithmically assigns letter grades to users.

Affirmative action is still necessary

By Lexia Banks · Tuesday, Nov. 18,2014 12:57 p.m.

Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill find themselves in court defending their affirmative action policies.

The human element

By Emma Wenninger · Tuesday, Nov. 18,2014 12:46 p.m.

Sometimes it’s hard, not matter how much we talk about it, to understand how immigration reform could and does affect American citizens. We don’t often get to hear someone other than a politician talk about illegal border crossings and deportation.

Roger Goodell steps it up

By Elisa Shrack · Tuesday, Nov. 18,2014 11:39 a.m.

Adrian Peterson, running back for the Minnesota Vikings, has been suspended for the whole season without pay after being charged with child abuse of his son.

Dead white men tell a lot of tales, actually

By Casey Farrington · Tuesday, Nov. 18,2014 11:37 a.m.

Indulge me, for a moment, in a thought experiment.Have you been assigned any readings by a woman this semester? How about by a person of color?

Boobs by the hour

By Tracy Johnson · Tuesday, Nov. 18,2014 11:35 a.m.

Imagine, living in a world where you can have bigger boobs, just for a day, or a few weeks.But wait, you can!Plastic surgeon, Dr. Norman Rowe, has already developed a saline injection that will make breasts bigger for a period of 24 hours.

Bill Cosby's past needs to be discussed

By Claire McElwain · Monday, Nov. 17,2014 12:56 p.m.

Bill Cosby’s rape allegations have bombarded news media, and rightfully so.

A change in heart is needed

By Cameron Gerst · Monday, Nov. 17,2014 11:21 a.m.

We hear horrible things all the time.If you look, and our media looks, you can find without general difficulty things that make you sick.

Not all about that poor body image

By Natalie Rowthorn · Monday, Nov. 17,2014 11:18 a.m.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Meghan Trainor discussed her musical success, as well as a more personal topic of body image.

How to build a safer campus

By Jordan Riley · Sunday, Nov. 16,2014 1:08 p.m.

As an IU student, you probably received an email this week regarding a sexual assault awareness survey from the provosts office.

Big talk, no action

By Sarah Kissel · Sunday, Nov. 16,2014 11:24 a.m.

President Obama announced Saturday that the United States will contribute $3 billion to an international fund intended to help the world's poorest countries address the effects of climate change.

Made by me makes good

By Lucas Burch · Sunday, Nov. 16,2014 11:02 a.m.

Mike Pence is a lot of things and right is not often one of them.

Sometimes, satire comes with a price

By Michael Homan · Sunday, Nov. 16,2014 10:49 a.m.

Recently, Daily Show how Jon Stewart made his directorial debut with the film Rosewater. Stewart took time away from his regular comedy writing to film a drama inspired by his comedy writing, but not in the way you might think.

A fly on the wall, the bus, on the street, on Twitter

By Jessica Karl · Thursday, Nov. 13,2014 10:36 a.m.

It’s funny how people talk about world events that they don’t understand. Conversations range from forgetting your exes name to the most recent developments in ISIS.

Exploring the final frontier

By Stephen Kroll · Thursday, Nov. 13,2014 10:34 a.m.

For the first time, makind has landed on a comet.

'Duck Dynasty' goes to Broadway

By Joshua Allen · Thursday, Nov. 13,2014 10:33 a.m.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/theater/duck-dynasty-musical-las-vegas.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0Let’s try to think of the dumbest idea for a musical.

Not a cure-all

By Nancy Wu · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2014 11:53 a.m.

I’ve always been a skeptic about how technology has the potential to solve all basic human problems.

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