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Trustees seek balance in parking efficiency

By Hannah Alani · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12:25 a.m.

If McCourt’s business plan for maintaining operations is not approved in February, the Board may ask her to reconsider privatized parking, Trustee Randall Tobias said at the October Board of Trustees meeting.

Column: Men's basketball needs to build on potential

By Connor Killoren · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12:21 a.m.

Potential. That’s the one reoccurring word that can be appropriately associated with this season’s IU squad, which defeated Hillsdale College, 79-39, Monday evening at Assembly Hall.

Wrestlers succeed at Clarion Open

By Brody Miller · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12:18 a.m.

Junior Taylor Walsh, the No. 9 wrestler in the country at 157 pounds, opened IU’s 2013-14 wrestling season with a first-place finish at the Clarion Open on Sunday in Clarion, Pa.

Glass lights up football stadium with fireworks

By Andy Wittry · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12:17 a.m.

Growing up in Indianapolis near Butler University, Fred Glass would climb out of his window to the roof of his house and watch fireworks shows sponsored by the university. That’s how Indiana University Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass developed his love for pyrotechnics.

Underage addiction up in smoke

By Ike Hajinazarian · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12 a.m.

Some might see New York City’s recent move to raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco up to 21, among other harsh restrictions, as infringing on the free will of adults.I don't.

Let hemp grow

By Edgar Haro · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12 a.m.

Indiana Sen. Richard Young, D-Milltown, is taking a bold step in working towards allowing farmers in Indiana to grow industrial hemp.

For minorities, shop and frisk is the policy

By Eduardo Salas · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12 a.m.

It’s public and ugly circumstances such as these that remind us prejudice is still alive and well in 2013.

Mental scare

By Casey Farrington · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12 a.m.

When we limit our national dialogue on mental illness to when people experiencing mental illness carry out violent acts, we’re equating mental illness with violence.

Don't raise the smoking age

By Dane McDonald · Tuesday, Nov. 5,2013 12 a.m.

A driving force behind underage drinking and smoking culture is the fact that people inherently want to engage in activities in which they aren’t allowed to partake.

Williams Jewelry to close after 102 years

By Alli Friedman · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 11:54 p.m.

For 102 years, Williams Jewelry has been a gem in the Bloomington community and will close Christmas Eve. Owner Mark Thoma decided to close its doors to spend more time with his family.

Grants aim to improve school safety

By IDS staff · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 11:52 p.m.

Gov. Mike Pence announced Friday more than $9 million in grants will be distributed to Indiana schools to increase security.

Progress continues on bus transfer station

By Brett Frieman · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 11:47 p.m.

The Bloomington Transit bus transfer station, being built on the corner of East Third and South Walnut streets, will replace the current station at East Fourth and Washington streets, which opened in 1987.

City of Bloomington completes 2013 Google code program

By IDS staff · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 11:45 p.m.

The City of Bloomington finished participating in the Google Summer of Code program, which matches student programmers with mentor organizations that create open source software.

Students from England visit local middle school

By Stephen Kroll · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 11:43 p.m.

Batchelor Middle School in Bloomington was host to a group of students from across the Atlantic this past week.

Glenn Close introduces ‘The Big Chill’ at IU Cinema

By Rachel Osman · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:44 p.m.

Actress Glenn Close made an appearance at IU Cinema Monday night to introduce her 1983 movie “The Big Chill,” which screened as part of the film series for the College of Arts and Sciences’ Themester 2013, “Connectedness: Networks in a Complex World.”

Four string quartets start Music Mondays

By Janica Kaneshiro · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:43 p.m.

Four quartets played Monday night at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center Miller Gallery under the glowing white Jiang Mei Wu hanging installations. The performances were the first of “Music Mondays” put on by the center.

IU to welcome music meeting

By Carolyn Crowcroft · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:41 p.m.

IU will be the host institution for the Society of Ethnomusicology’s 58th Annual Meeting Nov. 14-17 in Indianapolis.

Bad boy, good chef

By Amanda Arnold · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:39 p.m.

Food columnist Amanda Arnold talks about Roy Choi, a Los Angeles chef with a bad-boy image who's working to change the unequal distribution of food in America.

Study analyzes playground surface safety

By Grayson Harbour · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:30 p.m.

Results from a five-year study analyzing the accessibility and safety measurements of playground surfaces were released last week by the National Center on Accessibility, part of the Department of Park, Recreation and Tourism Studies at IU.

Students create 'stigma free zone'

By Holly Hays · Monday, Nov. 4,2013 10:28 p.m.

Students in the IU Sociology club and the School of Public Health have been working to eliminate mental illness stigma. The effort coincides with a visit by actress and advocate Glenn Close, who will visit classrooms and deliver a lecture at 3 p.m. today at the Whittenberger Auditorium.

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