Features & In-Depth

‘The program is doomed’: Players say Indiana volleyball coach Steve Aird created a culture of fear

By Evan Gerike and Cate Charron · Monday, May 9,2022 9 a.m.

Multiple student-athletes allege Aird caused players to leave the Indiana volleyball program.

Bloomington witches find supportive community online

By Katy Szpak and Hali Tauxe · Monday, April 25,2022 1:22 p.m.

Local witchcraft practitioners connect with one another in the “Bloomington Witch Collective” Discord server.

From kids’ stuff to billion-dollar blockbusters: How America came to love the weird world of superheroes

By Bradley Hohulin , Hali Tauxe and Molly Miller · Monday, April 18,2022 3:10 p.m.

The characters that once embarrassed their creators now generate billions of dollars.

On strike

By Kaitlyn Radde , Helen Rummel , Evan Gerike , Nadia Scharf , Emma Uber and Nic Napier · Thursday, April 14,2022 12:59 p.m.

IU students and faculty picket to demand union recognition for graduate student workers.

Everything to know about the IU graduate worker strike

By Cate Charron , Emma Uber , Hali Tauxe and Jacob Day · Wednesday, April 13,2022 1:29 p.m.

The IDS has organized its coverage to catch you up and keep you up to date on this multi-year dispute.

‘Let’s go finish the mission’

By Evan Gerike · Tuesday, April 12,2022 1:46 p.m.

Phi Kappa Psi finished fifth in 2021 and eighth in 2019.

As graduate workers contemplate strike, Bloomington campus officials announce raises

By Hali Tauxe · Tuesday, April 5,2022 7:30 p.m.

The announced increases have not deterred graduate workers’ preparations for a strike.

‘You need to let go of control’: Perspectives from the pandemic

By Christina Avery · Monday, April 4,2022 2:49 p.m.

Many people spent quarantine reexamining their lives. Three IU students share what they've learned.

‘In prison, knowledge is power’: How publications are restricted in Indiana prisons

By Kaitlyn Radde and Unsplash Photo · Sunday, March 27,2022 12:23 p.m.

In prison, books provide education and entertainment.

Six students lost their home and many possessions to a fire, but it wasn’t their fault

By Helen Rummel , Unsplash Photo and Deepak Singh Bhadoriya · Monday, March 14,2022 4:47 p.m.

IU students still face thousands of dollars of damages from a house fire they didn’t cause.

How IU used the code of conduct to intimidate a student pushing critical open letter

By Cate Charron · Wednesday, March 9,2022 3:50 p.m.

Administration said the letter and the student’s actions border on harassment toward Chris Parker.

Sixty-five years after winning his Olympic gold medal, IU’s Greg Bell has barely slowed down

By Evan Gerike · Tuesday, March 1,2022 3:57 p.m.

Bell was inducted into the inaugural IU Athletics Hall of Fame class in 1982.

IU graduate workers continue fighting for unionization despite tough legal environment

By Wei Wang · Wednesday, Feb. 23,2022 2:25 p.m.

Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition organizers plan to continue pressuring IU to recognize their union.

‘A Pandora’s box’: Kite Line Radio airs the voices of people affected by the prison system

By Kaitlyn Radde · Monday, Feb. 21,2022 9 a.m.

Inside prisons, a kite is a message.

After 'Dissonance in due process': Where are we now?

By Cate Charron · Sunday, Feb. 6,2022 1:07 p.m.

The IDS created a landing page for related coverage to the 'Dissonance in due process' investigation.

Last line of defense: Katie Norris offers time, money and support to those without refuge

By Madison Smalstig · Wednesday, Feb. 2,2022 8:48 p.m.

Norris considers herself a reliable resource to those who have nowhere else to turn.

Dissonance in due process

By Cate Charron · Thursday, Jan. 27,2022 9:49 a.m.

An IU student was readmitted in 2020 after serving two suspensions stemming from a sexual assault. To find all related content to this investigation, this landing page will be updated frequently with new information and articles.

Hiring shortages, 70-hour weeks, reduced hours: How the Trojan Horse is surviving the Great Resignation

By Carson TerBush · Wednesday, Jan. 5,2022 10:45 a.m.

Last spring, no one applied to work at the restaurant for six months.

Wasted

By Evan Gerike · Tuesday, Dec. 14,2021 6:27 p.m.

IU produces nearly 9,000 tons of trash each year. But after the student throws it away, where does it go?

Masks made it harder for the Deaf community to communicate. Here’s how one school adjusts

By Lizzie Kaboski · Tuesday, Dec. 14,2021 4:22 p.m.

ASL speakers rely on facial expressions to communicate, but with masks, this is more challenging.

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