Construction advances during summer months
Although summer has begun, IU is anything but inactive. As students relax, work or even attend summer classes, campus has been buzzing with construction.
Although summer has begun, IU is anything but inactive. As students relax, work or even attend summer classes, campus has been buzzing with construction.
A class of unconventional students gathered at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Dogwood Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. Coffee in hand, the members of Adam Langer’s “Writing Like My Dog” class were unlike a majority of students on the IU campus. These classmates were not attending class for credit. Instead, they were attending the 67th annual Indiana University Writers’ Conference.
INDIANAPOLIS – Eli Lilly and Co., which has faced thousands of lawsuits over its anti-psychotic Zyprexa, is taking the fight for its top seller to attorneys, whose ads, the company says, have prompted some patients to discontinue mental illness medications when they shouldn’t.
TIPTON, Ind. – Chrysler Group and Getrag Corporate Group officials will join Gov. Mitch Daniels on Monday to announce plans to build a transmission factory that could eventually employ more than 1,000 people.
INDIANAPOLIS – Democrats have been shooting arrows at Republican Mitch Daniels since the day he became governor, and they think he has wounds that could make him vulnerable if he runs again as expected.
WIUX fans need not fear any longer – the radio station will stay on the FM dial. The station jumped from 100.3 FM to 99.1 FM on June 4, after WYGB, a Columbus, Ind., country station, moved to 100.3 FM, ending months of negotiations with the Federal Communications Commission.
Charlie Nelms will certainly miss spending Sunday mornings at First United Methodist Church in Bloomington.
One of the tough realities about the news media is that while journalistic ideals dictate that you try to inform the public about important things – things they need to know about – what pays the bills is reporting things they want to know about. Although the latter might be interesting, it’s generally unimportant.
Dear Mr. Phillip Mickelson, Remember June 18, 2006? Of course you remember. How could you forget? You will never forget that Sunday. It was late afternoon and you were walking off the 17th green. You had a one-shot lead with one hole to play. You were four measly strokes away from winning the U.S. Open Championship, a title you had dreamed of winning since childhood.
Kurdish separatist rebels Tuesday declared a “unilateral cease-fire” in attacks against Turkey and said they were ready for peace negotiations, but the group maintained the right to defend itself.
His party divided and his polls sagging, President Bush prodded rebellious Senate Republicans on Tuesday to help resurrect legislation that could provide eventual citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.
Last Thursday, I made a bold prediction that Tony Soprano would die in the series finale of “The Sopranos.”
Ed Vande Sande began his position Wednesday as interim executive director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council, following an May 5 announcement by the board of trustees.
Bloomington resident John Linnemeier had to decide whether he wanted to live or die.
Half the people I know are MIA for the summer, having fallen victim to the internship gods who demand loud and clear that it doesn’t matter what you’re doing in that power suit as long as it’s something. As near as I can tell, all one truly needs is a jaded internship coordinator who’ll verify your having worked with company-X for X-number of weeks and you’ll be right in line with the rest of college career hopefuls.
The twang of a banjo, the pluck of the guitar and the experience of a lifetime is music to the ears of Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival attendees. Campsites extend for miles, vendors are plentiful and music is always playing, while people from all over the country reconnect and reminisce during the annual meeting.
Hidden in the back roads of Bloomington lays an area for dogs – somewhat of a safe haven for "man's best friend" and pet owners alike.
If there is a weird theory out there – whether it concerns the assassination of JFK, the virginity of Jesus’ mom, or the whereabouts of some undiscovered Nazi gold – you can bet my dad believes it. He is a conspiracy theorist. There are two ways to look at life: either things happen for a reason or they don’t. People of a postmodern persuasion, such as myself on normal occasions, tend to believe the latter.
In the movie “Saved!” starring super-talent Mandy Moore, a pregnancy-troubled teenage girl named Mary, the film’s protagonist, makes a remark about the biblical Mary’s virgin birth that I’ve always thought solid:
How much would you say you download in a single week? Not just music. Count all the pictures, movies and assorted documents you find while stumbling around The Internet. Don’t forget the links your friends send you in instant messages, which more often than not direct you to some hacker’s Web site in Russia instead of a buddy’s MySpace page. There’s no telling how much you download; you probably don’t notice most of it.