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IU Women's Basketball

Offseason includes arrival of new coaches

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Summer and the true off-season for IU women’s basketball are approaching their final hours as the team prepares for a new year. The past few months provided the Hoosiers time to rest and recover before the hard work of a new season begins.


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Ind. artist presents lecture on artist Alice Neel

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Spanger repeated her presentation for an audience at an Arts Work Indiana meeting Tuesday in Bloomington City Hall. This organization helps mentally handicapped artists gain employment and support for their work and creativity.


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Bloomington booms with music for welcome week

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Local venues around town are bursting with acts for your enjoyment during the week before the academic grind commences. We’ve compiled a few of our most anticipated artistic events and are hoping to get you acquainted with some of Bloomington’s favorite artists, musicians and venues.


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Songs of old crooner come to life Thurs. at the Buskirk-Chumley

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“Splish Splash,” “Dream Lover” and “Beyond the Sea” are a few of the many songs that made Bobby Darin a legendary entertainer.  This vocal powerhouse may no longer be living, but his hits will come to life on stage this week at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Robert Shaw, a southern Indiana native, will be performing “Dream Lover — A Salute to the Music of Bobby Darin” at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday. 




Board of Trustees Meeting

Trustees govern the IU body

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The IU Board of Trustees made two controversial decisions this summer, and light has been shed on a committee that technically has no legal power.



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Sig Ep wins national Buchanan Cup award

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This summer, the chapter members of the reestablished IU fraternity accepted the prestigious Buchanan Cup, which honored the organization for its progress, strong leadership foundation and adherence to fraternity-wide principles.    


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Absurdity and suicide

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The “relationship between the absurd and suicide” has unfortunately taken on global implications, particularly in recent months, with the United States’ economy in apparent turmoil once again. “Suicide” is perhaps too extreme language when describing the decline of the American economy.


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Failure to load

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If you’re going to do something, do it well. What’s the point of doing a half-assed job? If you put forth the effort to do something — whatever that something may be — then why would you not put forth the effort to make it good?



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New around here?

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From Bus schedules to dining halls and working out. We've got the schedules you need. Plus check out the first events of Welcome Week.



Spring Football Game

Starting quarterback competition down to 3 underclassmen

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The IU quarterbacks remain a long way from where IU Coach Kevin Wilson said he would like them to be by the season opener Sep. 3 against Ball State University. At this point in the fall practices, the competition has effectively been narrowed down to sophomores Dusty Kiel and Edward Wright-Baker and true freshman Tre Roberson.


Graduation rates graph

IU works to improve US university graduation rates

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While most research about graduation rates focuses on the students, a new survey, conducted by the Project on Academic Success at IU and the Center for Enrollment Research, Policy and Practice at the University of Southern California, explored the policies and programming different institutions nationwide are implementing to improve student persistence.


Map of busy roads

Places to avoid during Welcome Week

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With Welcome Week fast approaching and thousands of students about to move in to Bloomington, things can get a little hectic. These are some roads you may want to think twice about before using.