Program helps students find majors
Many students come to IU with a good idea of what major they want to pursue, but for others, this decision is not so easy.
Many students come to IU with a good idea of what major they want to pursue, but for others, this decision is not so easy.
It's 3:55 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and Julie Thomas should be sleeping.
The rioting crowd that surrounded Showalter Fountain Sunday not only tore the bronze fish from their moorings, but dismantled the last remaining original sculpture. Kathy Foster, curator of 19th and 20th century art at IU, reacted with dismay. "I just groaned," she said. "I knew we didn't have any spare fish."
With the appointment of assistant basketball coach Mike Davis as interim coach, IU has made it over one hurdle.
The best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores, men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley said about sophomore forward Michael Bock in August.
Bob Knight still used the possessives "we" and "our" as he reminisced about his first 25 years as a coach at IU and the factors that contributed to his decision to stay as long as he did.
Sunday, IU President Myles Brand laid out the reasons 29-year basketball coach Bob Knight was fired. Wednesday, Knight will tell his side of the story in a forum sponsored by the Indiana Daily Student.
BLOOMINGTON — Indiana headed off a possible player revolt over Bob Knight's dismissal by hiring assistant Mike Davis as interim basketball coach, a source told The Associated Press. Davis was expected to be introduced as the new coach Tuesday at a news conference, said the high-ranking University source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Players on the IU basketball team are unsure of their future after Bob Knight's dismissal Sunday. Junior guard Dane Fife said he will transfer, as did freshman guard A.J. Moye.
As I woke up this morning, I was dismayed to hear about the recent decision of President Myles Brand. As a student at IU, I came to Bloomington because of one reason: Indiana basketball. Even more than the fact that the state of Indiana is known for basketball, it is known for one man. A man who revolutionized college basketball, and even more, the state of Indiana ' Coach Knight.
Regardless of the truth of the various allegations against Mr. Knight, or of the appropriateness of his dismissal, there is one moral duty he must face, and it is by no means an easy one: He must stand up and condemn the threats that are being made against the students involved in the alleged incident, and he must do so vocally and unambiguously.