Study finds smoke-free policy decreases cigarette use on campus
According to an IU study, the smoking ban reduced student smoking during a two-year period and changed students’ attitudes toward smoking regulations.
According to an IU study, the smoking ban reduced student smoking during a two-year period and changed students’ attitudes toward smoking regulations.
In February 2007, a mandate by the IU Board of Trustees banned the use and sale of tobacco products on all eight IU campuses. The mandate took effect Jan. 1, 2008. Nearly four years since the policy was first initiated, Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson said the University is still struggling to develop a way to enforce the mandate.
A newly implemented campus policy, the Hoosier P.A.C.T. or Proactive Alcohol Care and Treatment, is tackling the complicated issue of University discipline concerning alcohol- and substance-related emergencies.
IU Coach Kevin Wilson touched on a number of topics in his weekly press conference Tuesday.
Junior running back Darius Willis will miss the remainder of the 2011 season, a source with knowledge of the situation told IDS football columnist Justin Albers Tuesday.
Since the Hoosiers left South Bend, they have been the team many envisioned at the beginning of the season. The slow start has since become a distant memory after their solid performance in the first seven games.
Eighteen IU athletes will be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame 2011 class on Sept. 30.
The IU Opera Theater will open with W. A. Mozart’s “Cosí fan tutte,” a comedy about two couples and their quest for fidelity.
Presented by IU’s Hungarian Cultural Association, the weekly Hungarian Language Coffee Hour is a chance for new and native speakers to practice the language.
According to the 2012 U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” guide, IU ranks 31st among public universities and 75th among all universities in the United States.
The Disability Roundtable is a coalition on campus that advocates for people with disabilities in the IU community. The organization formed seven years ago to unite IU offices that dealt with disability issues. This enabled these organizations to share resources and ideas.
Men’s Fitness magazine recently rated IU fourth in its rankings of “Fittest Colleges in America.”
The Indiana Hoosierettes is a new pom-style dance team on campus. According to its official statement to the IU Athletic Department, the Hoosierettes formed in 2010 with its first group of girls coming together in the 2011 spring semester.
Nancy Yeite presented the lecture “Collecting the Third Reich: Hermann Goering and Nazi Art Looting” on Friday at Woodburn Hall.
The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld and clarified a controversial ruling on resisting unlawful police entry that many state political figures condemned as too broad.
A mandated population cap was placed on the Monroe County Jail in 2009. The cap resulted from a lawsuit that cited that inmates were subjected to unconstitutional living conditions at the jail due to frequent overcrowding.
Republicans Larry Bucshon, Dan Burton, Todd Rokita and Todd Young of Indiana’s 9th Congressional District, which encompasses Bloomington, used funds from their congressional office accounts to send staffers to seminar training at the Indiana Family Institute in April.
Junior running back Darius Willis will miss the remainder of the 2011 season, a source with knowledge of the situation told IDS football columnist Justin Albers Tuesday.
Tomorrow night, political junkies like me will endure two long hours of a presidential primary debate, the seventh of this election cycle.
The time will come on Friday, gotta get down on Friday. Friday marks the day that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask for full United Nation status for Palestinian statehood and independence through a unilateral declaration.