Juniors assume leadership on team without seniors
Last season ended with a thud for the men's basketball team. Former coach Bob Knight was accused of choking Neil Reed, just in time for the first-round NCAA tournament game against Pepperdine in Buffalo, N.Y. Junior Kirk Haston was forced to watch his team lose 77-57 from the bench because he tore the lateral meniscus in his right knee during a collision early in the game.
Since setting attendance records in 1989, the IU Auditorium's most requested show will return with revolutionary glory Tuesday night for eight shows.
Through two-way screens, students from across the state will be able to interact live and learn about the heritages of the most prevalent immigrant peoples in Indiana.
Last night, the Binford Elementary School auditorium was filled to capacity with drunken driving offenders who had been court-ordered to attend a panel discussion as part of their probation agreement.
The men's soccer team usually watches the NCAA tournament draw to see what seed it will get. Or who it will be host to in the first round. Monday, the Hoosiers, NCAA champions the past two seasons, tuned in to the draw to see if they made the tournament at all. They did.
The hockey team split its series with Central Michigan University this weekend after two overtime battles. Even though its loss was to one of the top-ranked teams in the country, the Hoosiers (7-2, 6-0 Midwest Collegiate Hockey League) had hoped for a better performance.
From here on out, IU football and my column will be tossed on the backburner. Let me be the first to sigh for relief and throw on a pair of candy cane striped pants because basketball has finally arrived.
After years of success in Canada, Doug Flutie shocked us all, as the 5-foot-10 quarterback came to an aging Buffalo Bills team. Predicted to go nowhere in 1999, the Bills bolted into the playoffs under Flutie's endless fighting and remarkable leadership
Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland already had a headache when trying to replace Helen Darling and Andrea Garner, two All-Americans who guided Penn State to the Final Four last season.
Freshmen Christine Boone and Shanda Sasse are proud of their dorm room. "You have to be in our room to see the ultimate coolness of it," Boone said. The decoration of their room was somewhat of a compromise.
Union Board has announced it is taking applications for its 16 directorships until 5 p.m. Wednesday.
She lost her job over network television's first interracial kiss. In 1977, nurse Valerie Grant, an African-American character on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives," kissed Richard, a white character, causing a deluge of criticism from angry viewers.
The atmosphere of La Torre is appealing. Decorated with bright paper banners and tiled walls, the interior of the restaurant is deceiving. You might think you're in for a treat, but you'll be wrong.
The election results aren't finalized, but voters in Palm Beach, Fla., are demanding a revote, based on an allegedly confusing ballot used in the Nov. 7 election in that county.