Genealogists have found that civil-rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton is a descendent of a slave owned by relatives of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond.
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Whether or not the IU men’s basketball team believes in superstition, the number 13 proved to be unlucky for the Hoosiers on Saturday night. For the 13th straight time, the IU men’s basketball team lost at the Breslin Center in East Lansing, Mich. This time, however, the Hoosiers led the Spartans by 13 points shortly after halftime, only to surrender 46 second-half points to Michigan State en route to a 66-58 defeat Saturday night.
If Facebook is any indication, it looks like some of us need a refresher course in what it means to have a flourishing marketplace of ideas.
A Latin phrase states “De gustibus non est disputandum.” This translates to: “There’s no accounting for taste.” A more figurative example is expressed in the saying, “Another man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
The Indiana Daily Student celebrated its birthday last week. With 140 blown-out candles – and 140 years of various editors and writers, designers, advertising employees, photographers and columnists – the IDS has walked a path that has been at times bumpy, at other times victorious.
BAGHDAD, Iraq – A suicide bomber triggered a ball bearing-packed charge Sunday, killing at least 41 people at a mostly Shiite college whose main gate was left littered with blood-soaked student notebooks and papers amid the bodies.
In September 2006, Tony Smith was released from Putnamville Correctional Facility after serving three years of a six year sentence. He was charged and went to jail for dealing look-alike drug substances – drugs made to look like crack cocaine, among other things. Now out on parole Smith is trying to rebuild his life.
The environment inside IU’s Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse had all the ingredients of a high-powered action movie as it hosted the men’s Big Ten indoor championships, complete with gunshots, foot-races and a lot of screaming.
With its 7-0 loss at No. 23 Tennessee, the IU women’s tennis team demonstrated the importance of home-court advantage this season. The No. 29 Hoosiers (9-3) won their first eight games of the season for the first time since 2002, but after losing three of the last four – with each loss being on the road against higher-ranked teams – the team has proven that playing at home really
Despite some strong individual performances, the IU women’s golf team placed a disappointing 11th in a 16-team field in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic in San Juan, Puerto Rico this weekend.
On Thursday evening residents of Teter Quad huddled outside, anxiously waiting to return to their dorm rooms.
It’s everybody’s favorite time of year. The SRSC is busier than a couple of Mormon lovers, anyone who’s anyone is getting their lattes made nonfat, and HydroxyCut is being passed around like joints at a Bob Marley show. Yes, spring break is almost here. It’s so close, you can feel the Mexican busboys undressing you with their eyes from here.
Police are searching for suspects in a shooting that occurred on Bloomington’s west side Saturday.
He spent Friday battling flulike symptoms, and well, he just doesn’t look like a basketball player. But there Drew Neitzel was in the second half, crossing up IU’s senior guard Errek Suhr and nailing a tough jumper from just right of the free-throw line. And there he was, nailing 3 after 3, seemingly dissolving IU’s halftime lead to nothing in an instant.
Students looking for classes that offer a wide range of topics can turn to one of IU’s top-ranked programs – the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology. The department focuses on material culture, tradition and heritage.
IU senior Jamie Lober is very interested in who will be elected as the Republican candidate for Mayor of Bloomington this May. That’s because Lober will be running against fellow Republican and current City Council member David Sabbagh in the primary elections.
Some people think that the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl For Kids’ Sake is kicking off its events this weekend, Feb. 24 and 25. But Lee Ann Jourdan, the associate development director and full-time fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ Sake, started this campaign before Thanksgiving.
