Still can’t beat Federer? Send in the women!
American tennis has gotten a big boost this week as John Isner and Donald Young, two future stars (hopefully), have made significant noise at the U.S. Open.
American tennis has gotten a big boost this week as John Isner and Donald Young, two future stars (hopefully), have made significant noise at the U.S. Open.
Going in head first, the IU women’s soccer team is looking to not only be physically prepared for the start of their season, but also ready mentally.
It is a dimly lit room coated with lime green walls and lined with antiques and vases. Sixties-style furniture finished with green and orange paint fills the room while a typewriter, fondue set and rotary dial phone are scattered throughout.
Of the 7,000 freshmen who moved into the dorms last week, few know that they have input into decisions about dorm and dining hall policies.
To welcome all students, new and returning, the Asian Culture Center will host its annual welcome reception complete with food, information and fun starting at 5 p.m. Friday, said Babita Upadhyay, program and administrative assistant at the ACC.

When practice for the IU football team came to a close Wednesday night, apparently nobody told Tracy Porter it was over. Even if someone had, chances are the senior cornerback would have stayed out on the field. After the rest of the team left practice, Porter remained to work with junior wide receiver James Hardy and sophomore quarterback Kellen Lewis in preparation for Saturday night’s opener against the Indiana State Sycamores at Memorial Stadium.
“Sex museum.” Eyebrows skyrocket. Faces light up. Heads bob off desks. The term is admittedly crude, but leaves little doubt as to which campus establishment is being referenced.
The IU School of Education is about to get a major overhaul in the form of a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Ever since IU field hockey returned as a varsity sport in 2000, the Hoosiers have played their home games inside Mellencamp Pavilion. After seven seasons playing indoors and sharing the facility with other sports, the Hoosiers now have an outdoor field to call their own.
About two dozen students from Bloomington’s Batchelor Middle School and Bloomington High School South gathered Thursday as part of the IU Art Museum’s Meet the Artist program.
The School of Fine Arts Gallery will host “Club SoFA: 20th Birthday Benefit for the SoFA Gallery” tomorrow night, celebrating 20 years of bringing contemporary art to the community. The benefit will begin at 6 p.m. and is scheduled to end at midnight.
Coney Island beach and amusement park are shown Wednesday in New York.
Stung by the bleak findings of a congressional audit of progress in Iraq, the Pentagon has asked that some of the negative assessments be revised.
Virginia Tech officials could have saved lives if they had quickly warned the campus that two students had been shot to death and a killer was on the loose, a panel that investigated the attacks said Thursday.
NEW YORK – Hilly Kristal had no idea what he was unleashing when he welcomed a rash of unknown bands onstage in his dank Bowery dive: Television, the Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads, the Patti Smith Group
LOWELL, Mass. – Manya Callahan, manager of the Barnes & Noble Downtown store, sees them all the time, young and old, looking for books by Lowell’s most famous citizen.
NEW YORK – JoAnne Worley swirls into Angus McIndoe’s, the Broadway theater hangout, notices a crooked painting on the wall, straightens it and then settles into a back corner table for a light bite.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A mother faces two felony neglect charges after prosecutors said she allowed her 5-year-old son to drive her and his younger brother in the woman’s car.
Local dessert lovers have a new place to satisfy their cravings with the opening of a dessert café and cake shop downtown. Pastry chef and chocolatier David Fletcher opened BLU Boy Chocolate Café and Cakery on Aug. 8 at 112 E. Kirkwood Ave., in a space next to the Buskirk Chumley Theater.
A Bloomington resident was arrested Wednesday night after falsely informing officers he witnessed a robbery.