Bills to Watch
Our weekly look at bills currently being discussed in the Ind. General Assembly.
Our weekly look at bills currently being discussed in the Ind. General Assembly.
Given the cumulative experience of the IU water polo team, one might think that it is a win-now team. The 2011 team returned six starters. Four of the team’s seven seniors have combined for 394 goals and 290 starts as Hoosiers entering the season.
Fresh off their third straight conference series win last weekend after taking two of three games from Iowa in Iowa City, the Hoosiers (23-12, 6-3) carry a new all-time hits leader and a Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week today to Louisville.
There’s just something different about the IU football team. When I talk to the players and coaches now, I get the feeling they are no longer the soft little brother that has been toyed with by other Big Ten teams for years.
WE SAY the Libyan rebels need more NATO planes, and it makes sense for us to provide them — but cautiously.
We say education cuts will only further the American economy’s demise.
Huge budget cuts to education are nothing new, but they’ve struck closer to home recently.
After 48 years, an emergency has ended in Syria. At least, that’s what President Bashar al-Assad announced Saturday.
Indiana State Excise Police officers issued 167 summonses to 134 people during Little 500 weekend. Several others were incarcerated. The officers also issued 13 warning tickets.
As some students were having fun at the races and preparing for one of the most epic weekends at IU, others were hastily working before the Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa concert Friday night.
For the second year in a row, Teter Cycling became the champion of the women’s Little 500 race with a time of 1:10.43, with Pi Beta Phi and Delta Gamma rounding out the top three.
A man was arrested early Sunday after police found him with bags of marijuana and cocaine.
IU sophomore and avid biker Juliet Stanton vividly remembers her most terrifying cycling experience. Stanton was riding on Third Street one afternoon in September on her way from class to Target.
The words of civil rights activist Jesse Jackson headlined the itinerary for middle school students attending the Youth Empowerment Workshop at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center on Saturday.
Just a few hours after the final parties of Little 500 fizzled out early Sunday morning, the more than 200 people arrested during the weekend arrived at 8 a.m. at the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office to learn their punishment.
A 125-million-year-old fossil has unveiled new information about the evolution of flowering plants, thanks to an international group of scientists that includes IU biologist David Dilcher.

Eric Young, the four-year Cutters rider, sprinted the final three turns to win the 61st running of the men’s Little 500, earning his team its fifth-straight victory — a feat no other team in Little 500 history has accomplished.
The IU Board of Trustees met Thursday and Friday to discuss current and future construction projects, an update on the new academic directions committee and IU’s cost benchmarking report.
KC Baker doesn’t fit in with most of the candidates for Bloomington City Council. Of the 18 candidates in the May 3 municipal primary election, just one, Baker, is a student.
In a recent research study co-authored by IU biologist Roger Hangarter and Dalhousie University biologist Ryan Kerney, green algae were found inside the cells of spotted salamander embryos.