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Use of Twitter varies throughout Big Ten

By Kevin Bowen · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:38 a.m.

In the ever-changing world of college athletics, Tom Crean has used social media to communicate with the Hoosier fan base. With more than 40,000 followers and almost 3,000 tweets, Crean is one of the more active college basketball coaches on Twitter.

Duke’s Coach K breaks Knight’s win record

By Connor O'Gara · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:30 a.m.

Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski surpassed his mentor and former IU Coach Bob Knight with his 903rd career win Tuesday night, becoming the all-time winningest coach in Division I men’s college basketball.

Moore works way from walk-on to scholarship player

By Connor O'Gara · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:30 a.m.

Daniel Moore didn’t pay for the candy-stripe pants he wears at Assembly Hall for IU basketball games. There’s another thing Moore doesn’t have to pay for anymore: tuition. Moore is on scholarship for the first time this year after spending three years as a walk-on.

8 IU employees earn high salaries opposed by Occupy movement

By Kirsten Clark · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:29 a.m.

At IU, eight administrators and athletic coaches fall into that category, including basketball Coach Tom Crean and President Michael McRobbie, earning annual incomes of $600,000 and $533,120, respectively.

Store clerk murdered, suspect turns himself in

Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:27 a.m.

Michael S. Angle, 26, arrived with family members at the Monroe County Jail early Tuesday and admitted to stabbing Laurie Kahn, 47, while attempting to rob the store where she worked, Bloomington Police Captain Joe Qualters said.

University reacts to Penn State rioting

By Michela Tindera · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:24 a.m.

Both small college towns. Both Big Ten schools. Both used to have coaches that were bigger icons than the school itself. These similarities have left campus wondering how IU would handle a situation like that of Pennsylvania State University’s current one.

Ensure a season they won’t forget

By Avi Zaleon · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:20 a.m.

The 2011-12 Hoosiers are the opening act to your favorite band, the name called before yours on graduation day, that passionate kiss leading to — well, you get the point. But this sentiment doesn’t have to overshadow the next five months of basketball. And it shouldn’t.

Fairy tale characters visit IU Auditorium for 'Shrek the Musical'

By Barb Anguiano · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:20 a.m.

"Shrek the Musical” doesn’t start like any of the three movies it’s based on. The show begins with a little, green ogre whose parents kick him out of his home at the age of 7.

Hulls takes lead, fills role of ‘floor general’ for 2011-12 team

By Connor O'Gara · Wednesday, Nov. 16,2011 12:01 a.m.

When IU fans hear the words “The General,” they think of former IU Coach Bob Knight. When they hear the words “floor general” this year, they’ll likely think of Jordan Hulls.

Dorms sponsor Thanksgiving dinners

By IDS staff · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:45 p.m.

Already excited for a Thanksgiving feast? Get an early bite on campus. Check out this list of Thanksgiving meals happening today.

RPS conducts satisfaction survey for dining services

By Rachel Osman · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:42 p.m.

Residential Programs and Services emailed all IU students with meal plans a link to a satisfaction survey. Students could rate as many dining facilities as they wished in six categories: food, menu, service, cleanliness, dining environment and sustainability.

Meet the most powerful faculty at IU-Bloomington

By IDS staff · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:40 p.m.

The Bloomington Faculty Council is a group of elected members responsible for faculty governance on the Bloomington campus.

Campus map design wins competition

By Matthew Glowicki · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:38 p.m.

After more than a month of idea development, a graduate student team’s campus walk map took first place in the IU Student Association co-sponsored sustainability case competition.

Hoosiers traveling to Evansville to face Purple Aces, high scoring guard Ryan

By Connor O'Gara · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:35 p.m.

IU (2-0) will look to break that streak when it travels to southwest Indiana to take on Evansville (1-0) today at 8 p.m.

Column: Reasons for hope on the court, in the pool

By Matt Smith · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:33 p.m.

With a struggling volleyball team, a one-win Big Ten football team led by a new head coach and a men’s soccer team looking toward its 25th NCAA Tournament appearance, it has been a roller coaster fall for IU Athletics. As the leaves fall off the trees, many of IU’s fall sports are concluding their seasons, and that brings a new set of schedules for winter sports.

IU looking for rare road win Wednesday

By Kevin Bowen · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:31 p.m.

IU has won only three games away from Assembly Hall in the Tom Crean era and has only one true road win.

Column: IU vs. Evansville

By Avi Zaleon · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 11:29 p.m.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Don’t sleep on the Purple Aces.

Column: Four tables for thanks

By Nona Tepper · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 10:22 p.m.

My family’s past is a history of separate tables. My parents are divorced, and my paternal grandparents have remarried. During breaks, I usually divide my time between these different branches of my family tree. This Thanksgiving will be no different.

SPEA class organizes musical benefit concert for Harmony School

By Emily Metallic · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 10:21 p.m.

With less than a week until Musication, the Nov. 16 showcase benefiting the Harmony School, students in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs Music Industry I class provided updates about sponsors and musical equipment for the event. The class, which largely consists of arts administration majors and musicians, is currently discussing Musication, its final project, which gives a practical application to the academic material taught in the course.

Hard Candy Hearts to showcase 'swamp rock'

By Celia Grundman · Tuesday, Nov. 15,2011 10:19 p.m.

Finding a niche in Bloomington’s bursting, diverse music scene can be difficult. Birch Miller doesn’t write many songs with sing-along choruses. His brain works in odd time signatures — 7/8, 8/8. His band, Hard Candy Hearts, plays loud music, the music the band members like. He describes it as “swamp rock.” His bandmate, lead guitarist Casmir Lewandowski, calls it “psycho blues.”