'Survival Week' to assist graduate students
For some, life as a graduate student can seem lonely and unguided, but the Graduate and Professional Student Organization has a solution -- Graduate Survival Week.
For some, life as a graduate student can seem lonely and unguided, but the Graduate and Professional Student Organization has a solution -- Graduate Survival Week.
IU President Adam Herbert is appealing to the IU community for the return of his digital camera.
I've always found that common sense is useful in life -- which, in a university classroom, often puts one in the minority. One such moment occurred roughly one year ago this week -- in an introductory journalism course, of all places. This still ranks as one of the most infuriating conversations with a professor I have ever been party to (and I'm something of a connoisseur).
After getting a tip that two men were making trips to Bloomington to sell cocaine and other drugs, officers arrested two Mooresville, Ind., residents at 4 p.m. Thursday outside Foster Quad, police said.
The School of Informatics has created a new research institute for data analysis that will give students additional skills to make them more attractive to prospective employers.
Thirty-six percent of American high school students believe that the media has too much freedom and should be screened by the government before going to press. This figure represents the most troubling facet of the trend I touched on last week: the growing attraction toward censorship. More than one in three students fail to recognize the intent of the First Amendment and the protection the press affords. Granted, teenagers aren't exactly the most wise or experienced demographic (when I was their age, I thought communism was a good idea and pleather pants looked fantastic), so they are not to be held fully responsible for their horribly skewed perception of freedom. They are quick to band together against the establishment when freedom of expression is threatened, but so many are now calling for a nasty concept known as prior restraint. Why? Because children learn by example.
My eyes produce more eye crust than the average person's -- I could bake pies with the amount I pick from my eyes some mornings.
Rain and wind might have kept some fans away from Sunday's football game against the University of Connecticut, but it did not stop several IU ROTC cadets and cadre members from showing up.
Is IU turning into just another white-dominated institution? A Sept. 15 Indiana Daily Student story concerning a lower amount of black student enrollment this year has people asking whether IU is becoming less diverse. We contend that it is much too early to make any hasty generalizations. At its base, the fact that the black freshman population declined from 412 last year to 345 this year could be alarming. But it is necessary in these instances to step back and take a full view of the situation. Certain questions must be asked.
CLASH -- People run past burning debris after clashes between police and protesters who were staging a sit-in Sunday in Copenhagen, Denmark. Police detained more than 200 people Sunday after a youth demonstration in Copenhagen turned violent, with protesters hurling cobblestones, bottles and eggs at officers in riot gear. The demonstrators were protesting a court ruling last month ordering a group of young squatters to leave a downtown building and hand it over to a Christian congregation that bought it five years ago.
Check out what's going on with the arts around Bloomington.
WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in the November elections.
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups agreed Sunday to consider amending the constitution and begin debating legislation to create a federated nation, while the Shiite prime minister appealed for an end to violence during Ramadan.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint who killed three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment home, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus.
SAILING -- Participants in the Lake Lemon Open Regatta brave the Sunday morning winds during the last competition of the year. The event was sponsored by the Bloomington Yacht Club and is the last racing event of the 2006 season.
Every time I head back home to what has inevitably become "my parents' house," I have to face the nightmare of my past: my old bedroom.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — More stormy weather was forecast Sunday after two days of high winds, heavy rain and tornadoes were blamed for at least nine deaths in the Midwest and the South.
As is the style of many operas, IU Opera Theater's production of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" explores the ins and outs of love and relationships through the lens of melodrama. From men as lotharios to identities hidden by makeshift disguises and love portrayed as a casual emotion, the stereotypes abound.
FORT WAYNE -- A man reported missing by relatives was found more than a day later hiding in a ventilation shaft at Fort Wayne's Shrine Temple.
INDIANAPOLIS -- A Virginia company that makes automated political phone calls is suing the state of Indiana, saying its ban on such calls violates its right to free speech.