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BREAKING: About 50 IUPD and Indiana State Police officers forcefully detained several peaceful protesters and took down the encampment at Dunn Meadow.
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The IDS is still walking out today, but there is a historic protest on campus happening. Given that armed IUPD and state police officers forcefully arrested peaceful pro-Palestinian protestors setting up tents in Dunn Meadow, we are providing a thread of what happened so far:.
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BREAKING: Hundreds of protesters joined the encampment at Dunn Meadow after the faculty and grad worker union rally at Bryan Hall. It is one of the largest crowds at Dunn Meadow since the encampment began.
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BREAKING: Bob Knight, controversial Indiana basketball coaching legend, dies at 83. Knight passed away on Nov. 1, 2023. To read the full obit, click the link below:.
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BREAKING: IU students and community members have set up tents at the IU Divestment Coalitionâs protest at Dunn Meadow. Over 50 people are present. IUPD and university officials are watching over the event.
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The IDS is walking out today. We will not publish content for 24 hours. In case of urgent breaking news, we will post to our X account.
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With Gonzagaâs NCAA Tournament championship loss to Baylor tonight, the 1976 IU menâs basketball team remains the last undefeated menâs basketball team to win the championship.
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The best part of this front page is making the design decision to feature our newspaper as the dominant visual. Thanks for the publicity!
Be sure to pick up a copy of The Exponent this morning. We can send you copy if you want @idsnews đ.
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Our walkout is over. Here's the full story about today's historic protest. The IU Police Department and Indiana State Police arrested 33 pro-Palestinian protestors who were peacefully protesting.
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No. 4 IU womenâs basketball knocks off No. 1 NC State 73-70 to advance to its first Elite Eight in program history. Story to come.
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BREAKING: All Hoosiers 16 and older will be eligible to schedule a COVID-19 vaccine appointment March 31.
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OPINION: America, itâs time to ditch the pickup trucks and SUVs.
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Opinion: IU President Michael McRobbie announced he intends to retire after this academic year. Throughout his tenure, he mishandled many issues the university had and did not follow through with some promises he made.
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If an IU student dies due to COVID-19, they may be eligible to receive their degree if theyâve completed enough of it.
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Kilroyâs Sports Bar is teaming up with Barstool Indiana and Hoosier Chicks to present 18+ âMiley Cyrus Night @ the Atriumâ on April 21.
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Indiana Lieutenant Governor-elect Micah Beckwith threatened the IDS and IU in an X post Tuesday over the IDSâ Nov. 7 front cover, which featured a photo illustration of President-elect Donald Trump with quotes from his former political allies.
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THREAD: This could be the last semester the Indiana Daily Student exists as it has for nearly 153 years. Weâre on track to run out of money by May.
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BREAKING: Pamela S. Whitten will be the next president of IU. She will be the first woman to serve as IU's president. She is currently the president of Kennesaw State. Story to come.
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FROM THE EDITORS: IU student media is under threat by our own university. If we donât act now to fight against potential budget cuts, we may not recover. So, on April 25, the IDS will stage a one-day walkout.
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BREAKING: ICE and DHS have retracted their policies which would have prevented international students from remaining in the U.S. while taking online-only classes. Story to come.
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A beaver has made itself a home on IUâs Campus River. The beaverâs dam is in a lightly wooded are far enough away from footpaths that students should not typically encounter the animal.
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The number of coronavirus cases are rising and the university's isolation center is quickly filling up. Are we facing a public health crisis? No one knows because IU won't make its data public. Pick up today's paper or read it here:
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President Whitten and Provost Shrivastav released their first public statement about the Gaza encampment after four days. Student leaders on campus denounced the letter, saying many of its claims are false and that administration ignores student concerns.
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Breaking: IU All Girl Cheerleading wins its fifth National Championship in the last six years. #iucheer
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BREAKING: The Inspire IU Student Government campaign has been disqualified from the election, according to the IUSG Election Commission. Story to come.
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@ChicagoMaroon @StanfordDaily @dailycal We were gonna say no thanks, but your website DOES look a lot like the Great Value version of the New York Times.
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BREAKING: Menâs basketball head coach Archie Miller is out after four years, IU Athletic Director Scott Dolson said. The team failed to make the tournament during his tenure. Story to come.
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IU defeats Purdue 44-41 in double overtime to win the #OldOakenBucket. The eight win season is #iufbâs best since 1993.
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Bloomington City Council overrode Mayor Kerry Thomsonâs veto of a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas War, two days after it sent a letter to IU administrators criticizing IUâs response to a pro-Palestinian encampment in Dunn Meadow.
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BREAKING: Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton is issuing an emergency executive order which goes into effect Friday, August 21, at noon. The order limits the size of private gatherings to 15 from 50 within city boundaries. Story to come.
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Since it is Friday, the IDS' 24-hour walkout period has officially ended. Thank you to everyone who supported us yesterday. This is not the end of our fight to protect the IDS from threats of budget cuts. We will continue to update the community & push for university investment.
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BREAKING: Associate professor Murray McGibbon has left IU. The IDS published an investigation Monday detailing years of sexual harassment allegations against McGibbon.
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đ¸ Professor Glenn Gass will retire at the end of the school year after almost 40 years of teaching.
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IU professor Eric Rasmusen has been under investigation by IU since last fall. Rasmusen is on unpaid leave for this academic year.
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Letter from the editors: The IDS has no confidence in the Media Schoolâs plan for student media. The Media School is cutting a profitable newspaper produced by an editorially independent news organization.
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IU đ isđ nowđ ađ footballđ schoolđ.
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BREAKING: Associate professor Murray McGibbon has left IU. The IDS published years of sexual harassment allegations against McGibbon on Monday.
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IU was voted second most beautiful college campus in USA Todayâs 10 Best poll.
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The federal government has revoked several IU studentsâ visas, though the exact number is unknown. Hereâs what we know:.
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BREAKING: IU faculty have voted yes on no confidence motions for President Whitten, the provost and the vice provost for faculty and academic affairs.
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BREAKING: The fall semester on all IU campuses this year will be in person, according to an email from IU President Michael McRobbie. Story to come.
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Meet Sampson. The IU Squirrel Club can always recognize him by his oversized testicles.
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The student-made YouTube series âWhatâs Black About Itâ has been added as a part of a class on race. The show promotes inclusion for Black students at IU.
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THREAD: IU determined associate professor Murray McGibbon sexually harassed a freshman in 2018. Evidence revealed a âconcerning pattern,â a Title IX investigation report said. McGibbon still teaches theater classes at IU. (1/x).
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We have reporters on the ground covering the second day of protest after yesterday's clearing of the Gaza encampment and student & faculty arrests.
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Opinion: Bring back the bison as IU's mascot in 2020.
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BREAKING: The Elevate IU Student Government campaign is the preliminary winner of the IUSG election. Story to come.
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BREAKING: IU said in an email there has been an alarming increase in positive COVID-19 tests within Greek housing. Eight Greek houses are required to quarantine, according to the email. Story to come.
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IU sophomore Lilly King takes the gold in the Rio Olympics in the 100-meter breaststroke.
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The IDS fears losing its editorial independence, which affects the stories we tell. Read our editorsâ note here:
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Hopefully no one steals this graphic đ¤.
IU released new guidelines for how campus operations will function in the summer and fall. Here they are:
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Congratulations to @Matt_Rasnic who was selected today to be the @idsnews editor-in-chief for the spring semester. đ° đ
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The university said an IU-Notify alert wasn't sent out because the party shooting wasn't on campus. The shooting was in front of an IU Real Estate property and now its tenants must choose to be evicted or terminate their lease.
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Dawn Johnsen, a professor in the Maurer School of Law, was chosen as a member of President-elect Joe Bidenâs Department of Justice agency review transition team. The goal of the presidentâs transition team is to help ensure a smooth transfer of power.
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Candles and IU Police car lights illuminated Sample Gates late Sunday night as around 40 IU faculty and students gathered for a vigil âmourning the loss of freedom of expressionâ at IU.
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Kilroys on Kirkwood will open Saturday for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic for IUâs football game against Penn State.
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Governor Eric Holcomb announced a five-step plan to open Indianaâs economy. Starting Monday, all Indiana counties except Cass, Lake and Marion will move into stage two of the plan.
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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun is set to have total control over the IU Board of Trustees selections, doing away with alumni-elected positions.
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After 55 years, IUPUI is no more. IU Indianapolis and Purdue University Indianapolis each officially launched Monday.
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After a video surfaced yesterday of a large gathering going on in Bloomington, IU Bloomington said in a tweet they are investigating the large gathering that violated county and state regulations, stating it was a threat to the IU community.
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All IU in-person classes will be cancelled Apr. 8. as five IU campuses will fall inside a total solar eclipseâs path of totality.
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BREAKING: A woman has been charged with criminal recklessness and leaving the scene of an accident after accelerating her car into a crowd of protesters, injuring two people, police say. Story to come.
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Column: âMelt My Eyez, See Your Futureâ marks a new era for rapper Denzel Curry with an ambitious dive into lyricism about cultural hardships and mental health.
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Fred has been an IU fan for 65 years. But he never thought it would be possible to visit Assembly Hall. That was until his daughter, Michele Reed, and her husband Robert, decided to get him a special Christmas gift this year.
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THREAD: We suspended regular coverage in our print newspaper to give the stories shared in @emilyisaacmanâs reporting on sexual harassment allegations against IU theater professor Murray McGibbon the space they deserve. (1/x)
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1/ A former Kappa Kappa Gamma member alleges her pledge class was hazed. Five women from three different pledge classes described similar experiences as Kappa pledges that a psychologist and expert witness described as hazing.
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THREAD: The Indiana Daily Student is not a perfect organization. In the past, we have failed to feature Black students in our reporting and our staff. We apologize for any who we have hurt.
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Ladies, if he:.-Keeps you regularly updated on whatâs going on at IU.-Brings you story from the Bloomington community.-Gives you free access to all stories . Heâs not your man. He's the Indiana Daily Student.
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BREAKING: Face-to-face classes at all IU campuses have been canceled for two weeks after spring break. Classes will take place online from March 23 to April 5. Story to come.
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IU graduate student Yi Jia has a new liver and a second chance at life thanks to a donation from a stranger, Christian Daake, a 25-year-old IU School of Medicine student and IU alumnus.
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BREAKING: Monroe County commissioner and Bloomington mayoral candidate Amanda Barge is being accused of sexually harassing a county contractor for more than a year.
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We know you're missing campus as much as we are, Hoosiers. (1/2)
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Reports: Yogi Ferrell to return to IU for senior season. | http://t.co/DnsxC1VdXZ
#iubb
http://t.co/MiaEYrG9Of.
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Look, I know we said that weâre a football school and that weâre a soccer school, but weâre actually a womenâs basketball school. Sorry for all the confusion. Go women.
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BREAKING: At least one protester has been struck by a vehicle in Bloomington at a protest following a weekend attack against Black activist Vauhxx Booker. Story to come.
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Since they couldnât get the traditional picture next to Ernie Pyle in person, we got creative! Congratulations to the summer 2020 editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student @tristan_jackso and the fall 2020 editor-in-chief @jacob_decastro!
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Faculty will hold a vote of no confidence in the president, provost and vice provost for faculty and academic affairs Tuesday. Here is a breakdown of Whittenâs controversial tenure as president of Indiana University.
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The Monroe County Prosecutorâs Office will not file charges against 55 protesters arrested in Dunn Meadow on April 25 and 27 for criminal trespass, Chief Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Kehr said in a statement Friday. 57 total protesters were arrested.
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More than 100 people in masks attended a sit-in protest against sexual assault Thursday outside Eigenmann Residence Hall. The protest was in response to a reported rape at Eigenmann Hall.
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Will the bison return as the ânatural choiceâ for IUâs mascot?
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An IDS throwback Thursday, featuring the Godzilla Cicadas! This front page is from 2004.
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BREAKING: IU expects to have in-person, outdoor commencement ceremonies on all of its campuses for 2020 and 2021 graduates, according to an email from IU President Michael McRobbie. Attendance will be limited to graduates only. Story to come.
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There's only one school in the U.S. that allows students to work as police officers. That school is Indiana University.
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2,977 flags were placed in Dunn Meadow this morning for the 2,977 lives lost on 9/11.
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The IU Media School plans to eliminate the Indiana Daily Studentâs weekly print edition beginning this spring, in addition to making a converged IDS, WIUX and IU Student Television operation revenue neutral within three years.
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Congratulations to Izzy Myszak, who has been elected as the Indiana Daily Student editor-in-chief for Spring 2022. She has been a photo editor, general assignments editor, special publications editor, managing editor, photographer, videographer, and reporter.
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Joma Leonardo has been described by loved ones as a dedicated RA, an involved student and a beloved friend. âHe was a guy who was very kind and just a person who was nice to everybody no matter who or what kind of person you are,â a friend said.
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FINAL: No. 4 IU womenâs basketball defeated No. 12 Belmont 70-48 to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history.
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