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Not so humanely raised after all

By Natalie Rowthorn · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 7:11 p.m.

Imagine a chicken farm in Who Knows Where, Middle America, where an abundance of healthy, happy chickens are endlessly frolicking about in the open air, pecking and scratching about to their hearts content.

We are in danger of losing the person

By Cameron Gerst · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 7:11 p.m.

This will be my last column of the season. I thought I would end with a somewhat alarming, somewhat conspiratorial thought I have on the state of our world.

Ending campus rape

By Editorial Board · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 7:10 p.m.

Together, we know a lot of victims of rape and sexual assault. Curiously, none of us seem to know any rapists.

?Pizza X launches new competition, poll

By IDS staff · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 4:39 p.m.

The scratch-off competition and cup color poll both began Monday.

Senior Lexii Alcaraz performs at the Twin Lake Recreation Center on Sunday night in honor of her late boyfriend and IU classmate Brian Maclafferty, 21. “Brian loved me doing aerial and watching me doing aerial,” she said. “I had to send him a picture anytime I had a class. He was really supportive of it. We used to talk about opening a studio, because he liked business and I liked aerial.”

?Aerialist performs in memory of Brian MacLafferty

By Ashleigh Sherman · Monday, Dec. 8,2014 1:12 a.m.

Alcaraz dedicates performance to boyfriend, Brian MacLafferty.

Shelby Wilson with the gold medal that he won at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympics.

Bloomington grandfather recalls his Olympic gold story

By Lionel Lim · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 11:19 p.m.

Shelby Wilson is an Olympic champion. He also just happens to live in Bloomington.

'Nutcracker' sold out performances

By Alaina Milazzo · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 10:47 p.m.

The applause began before the curtain opened and long after it closed.

Grace and Bobbie Saccone get their faces touched by BFA students as the students attempt to sculpt their faces. Grace said her sister is one of the students making the sculpure.

Sculptors interact with attendees through exhibit

By Amanda Marino · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 10:46 p.m.

Sculpture exhibit bridges gap between art and viewers.

Emily Smith, 23, remembers the night she woke up in her bed to a man on top of her. In the months after, she withdrew from classes at Indiana University Bloomington, slept in her roommates’ bed and searched for control of the life she remembered before everything changed.“It’s not stranger danger," she said. "It’s your neighbor, it’s your friend. It’s the cute guy you met at the party who you’re really hitting it off with. It went further than you were comfortable with. You feel taken advantage of. You feel like you didn’t have a say in the matter."

Sexual assault: Caught in the gray zone

By Samantha Schmidt · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 10:32 p.m.

Hours are missing from her memory of that Saturday night.

People dress up as demonic followers of Krampus, the "Bad Santa," during the Krampus parade Saturday in downtown Bloomington. The creatures walked down Madison Street and taunted people wearing "Naughty" stickers.

Krampus beasts terrorize Bloomington

By Amanda Marino · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 9:49 p.m.

Hundreds of people lined Madison Street Saturday evening to watch as a dozen ferocious beasts were unleashed on Bloomington’s naughty.

Three-year-old Chloe Patton tells Santa her Christmas wishlist Saturday at Fountain Square Mall. Many of the kids that attended Holiday Hoopla, an annual event hosted by Girls Inc., got to speak with Santa.

Holiday Hoopla celebrates a kiddie Christmas

By Jamie Zega · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 9:47 p.m.

TiAnna Wallace, 10, meticulously worked to perfect the Skittles and candy canes on her gingerbread house.

Locals of Bloomington decorate a record-breaking ginger bread house at Dunn Meadow on Saturday. This was a fundraising event, which raised over $1600, held by IU’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Daniel Nix, friend of Christina Zerfas, director of fundraising, grouped his friends together to perform at the event despite the cold weather.

Students build Indiana’s largest gingerbread house

By Neha Ramani · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 9:31 p.m.

Habitat for Humanity organized the building of Indiana's largest gingerbread house.

IU professors to create computational model to study liver failure

Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 9:21 p.m.

Three professors received a $2.1 million grant from the NIH.

Policy on teacher evaluations reviewed

Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 9:20 p.m.

The education researchers evaluate Indiana teachers.

Sophomore guard Taylor Agler dribbles around IUPUI defender Sunday at Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers won 68-55 and will return to Assembly Hall next Wednesday to play Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW).

13-0 first-half run sparks IU win

By Brody Miller · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 7:13 p.m.

A late run in the first half sparked an IU victory.

Sophomore guard Alexis Gassion and IUPUI forward Nevena Markovic wait for a rebound Sunday at Assembly Hall. Indiana won 68-55 and will return to Assembly Hall next Wednesday to play Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW).

Moren concerned with rebounding

By Grace Palmieri · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 7:02 p.m.

In an easy 68-55 victory over IUPUI, the Hoosiers allowed 18 offensive rebounds.

California's law is the revenge of revenge porn

By Jordan Riley · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 6:58 p.m.

Thanks to California’s law banning what is termed as Revenge Porn, a recent conviction will hopefully lead to the end of the trend.

The privilege of being white

By Michael Homan · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 6:58 p.m.

There’s been so much discussion around race relations recently that I thought I would impart an interesting concept introduced to me within the past week. So many people seem to be focusing on African American problems and injustices, how the legal system could be tweaked to work against minorities.

Expecting justice

By Sarah Kissel · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 6:57 p.m.

In this country, women are left at a distinct professional disadvantage by their physiological ability to become pregnant and give birth. Of course, this disadvantage is entirely unwarranted; not all women become pregnant or give birth, and those who choose to become mothers are not made less capable, intelligent or professionally valuable by their decisions.

Immigration nation

By Editorial Board · Sunday, Dec. 7,2014 6:57 p.m.

There is no question as to how conservative Indiana is. In comparison to Illinois, Michigan, and even Kentucky, Indiana politics are as red as red can be. A couple weeks ago, President Obama revealed his executive order to offer temporary legal status to millions of illegal immigrants. The executive order does not grant amnesty to illegal immigrants, nor does it give any immigrants citizenship.

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