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Saturday’s Mock Inaugural Ball gave students outside of the greek system a chance to don their formal wear and join their friends at a dance.
The IU Police Department is investigating a purse-snatching case.
IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman and a panel of judges were treated to a taste of teamwork Friday night.In its fifth annual “Iron Chef” competition, the team was split into three groups to prepare the golfers’ best pasta dishes.Although each team stood proudly by their meals, Wallman said teamwork was the most important recipe of the night.
Even though a new semester has begun, many students are still left with the ghost of semesters past in the form of textbooks they cannot sell back. Junior Katie Smith is organizing a textbook drive to help raise money for the group College Mentors for Kids, a nonprofit organization that gives children, typically from grades one through four, the opportunity to experience how higher education can influence their lives.
Junio Kara Jeffers, an art education, started her her own T-shirt company, Karosene Clothing, with a sharpie and a blank T-shirt.
A near sell-out crowd in matching T-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight-point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak on Sunday.
This one wasn’t so bad. Yes, it was at home. Sure, the crowd was raucous, perhaps even a bit desperate. Obviously, the Hoosiers had their chances and could have won the game had they made only half of their 10 missed free throws.
Officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday for a new life sciences center, they hope will help train students to meet the thousand-plus life science jobs they expect to be created in the coming years. Ivy Tech-Bloomington and the Monroe County government had a ceremony Friday for the new Indiana Center for Life Sciences, which opened Jan. 12 – just in time for classes.
Two IU students were arrested Friday morning after Bloomington police found marijuana in one’s apartment. Sebastian M. Smigielski, 21, faces preliminary charges of maintaining a common nuisance, dealing marijuana, possession of marijuana and reckless possession of paraphernalia. Mitchell R. Arnold, 20, faces a preliminary charge of visiting a common nuisance.
Three IU students were hoping to drink Crown Royal, Jagermeister and Amaretto for free Saturday night.
Miss Indiana Katie Stam was crowned Miss America 2009 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, fighting off a throat infection, laryngitis and 51 other contestants to win the 88-year-old pageant’s title. The 22-year-old University of Indianapolis student became the first Miss America winner from the Hoosier State. She drew loud applause for her rendition of “Via Dolorosa” during the talent portion of the beauty pageant at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
President Hamid Karzai condemned a U.S. operation he said killed 16 Afghan civilians, while hundreds of villagers denounced the American military during an angry demonstration Sunday.
President Evo Morales’ quest to transform Bolivia on behalf of its long-suffering indigenous majority is on the line Sunday as voters consider a new constitution that could keep the leftist leader in power through 2014.
Even the most grizzled investigators were reduced to tears by the disturbing details of the death of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers.
Challenging traditional beliefs about what belongs in an art gallery, an iPod, rubber bands and a necklace are used to create artwork in a new display at the SoFA Gallery.The Ceramics, Graphic Design, Metals, Sculpture and Textiles Area Show features work from students in those fields created in their courses or spare time.
He calls himself “Spiral Cheese Horizon,” and as of now, he’s an up-and-coming artist of a unique sort.Thursday night’s gig at the Cheshire Cafe in Collins Living-Learning Center happened to be his first performance under the stage name, but with a calling card like that, IU alumnus Ryder Timberlake might not be unknown for long.
They shredded and squealed, whammied and wailed their way to the top in a contest akin to American Idol.The crowd packed themselves in Friday night at Max’s Place to see the third annual Hoosier Guitar Idol, sponsored by IU’s Business Careers in Entertainment Club.
Last Thursday, following months of negotiations with his own security advisers, President Barack Obama announced his BlackBerry is here to stay.
