Smith waits on pitching decisions
With the 2010 season just two weeks away, the team has been in full practice mode, taking batting practice and running situational drills inside Mellencamp Pavilion every afternoon since Monday.
With the 2010 season just two weeks away, the team has been in full practice mode, taking batting practice and running situational drills inside Mellencamp Pavilion every afternoon since Monday.
Losing seven players from last year’s squad, the IU baseball team certainly needed to reload in a quick fashion if it wanted to improve on last year’s Big Ten Tournament championship. Fortunately, it didn’t have to look too far to find a talented new pitcher for the 2010 campaign.
With the 2010 season just two weeks away, the team has been in full practice mode, taking batting practice and running situational drills inside Mellencamp Pavilion every afternoon since Monday.
Last Sunday’s stunning victory over then-No. 4 Ohio State has the IU women’s basketball team believing in itself.
It was a familiar scene watching the IU men’s basketball team leave the court after the game, only this time it was a different setting.
IU’s 78-75 loss to Purdue proved the term “free throw” to be quite a misnomer. What is known as the easiest shot in basketball can be downright costly – if you miss it.
While at a tailgate, I was approached by a tall, decent-looking guy bearing a smirk that revealed sneaky intentions. His overconfident introduction sent up red flags but did not prepare me for what he said after our brief name exchange.
Graduate student Amy Wolff is working with the Chicago-based nonprofit organization zy0zy Foundation to raise money for Haiti.
About three dozen faculty members from IU campuses received New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities grants for 2010.
IU received $247.6 million in support from the private sector in the 2009 fiscal year, ranking 21st in the nation for Total Voluntary Support. The money benefited all IU campuses with non-governmental research grant funds.
Mycoskie, founder and chief shoe giver of TOMS Shoes, will be one of five speakers at the “Check Your Label” event by the Kelley School of Business on Friday at the IU Auditorium.
Racism is not going away anytime soon unless there are more conversations, according to a panel discussion sponsored by the City of Bloomington Black History Month Committee.
Cancer researchers at IU and Purdue University are getting a $1 million boost to train a new generation of scientists.
Rhino’s Youth Media Center and All-Ages Club will present its 4th annual Chocolate Prom from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday. The prom is featured in conjunction with the “Week of Chocolate,” which benefits nine not-for-profit organizations.
The Shams Band, with musical colleagues The Future Laureates and Knifey Spoonie, will perform at 10 p.m. Friday at Bear’s Place. The bands are part of the Chicago Roots Collective, a collaboration of 10 midwestern-based, indie-rock bands.
That is the “play within a play” of the performance titled “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade,” better known as “Marat/Sade.” The IU Department of Theatre and Drama will have performances Friday, Saturday and Feb. 9 to 13 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on Feb. 13 at 2 p.m.
It ain’t easy being white during Black History Month.
Facebook just got a lot easier on the eyes.
I believe that the average individual wants to be a good person and occasionally considers whether or not they are one.