IU Bloomington
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New Light on an Old Story: The Secret of the Faculty War
By virtue of repetition, stories acquire momentum and thus endure. A story connected with the institutional saga of Indiana University – the “Faculty War” of 1832 – has become a…
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A Day in the Life of a 19th-Century IU Student
Descending from the chugging train, the freshman clutches his trunk. The air is full of ashy fumes. The young man surveys the bustling train station: newcomers like him take in…
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R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.: An Alum’s Ticket Memory
Ross Fazekas, BS’88, has been attending music concerts since 1982. He keeps every ticket stub and proudly displays hundreds of them in poster-size frames on the wall of his office…
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Page Turner
To look through the Indiana Daily Student archives is to look upon the better part of Indiana University’s history. When the past is so neatly preserved and the soft glow…
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Screen Savor
“If the ancient Greeks had invented cinema, they’d have a temple like this,” director Peter Weir mused during his visit to the Indiana University Cinema. When Meryl Streep taught her…
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Studying the Environment—in a Kayak!
Between 2013 and 2016, Columbus, Ind., native Bryan Brown, BA’78, kayaked more than 7,000 total miles as a way to celebrate some of the most magnificent and embattled waterways on…
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Alumni Unscripted
We all know there’s nothing like the IU experience, and these alumni were not shy about telling their favorite stories during a golf-cart ride through the tailgate fields at IU…
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Small House, Big Living
When Laura Yates, MS/MPA’16, came to Bloomington in 2014 for the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs’s grad program, she brought The Little Leaf, the 220-square-foot house she built…
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Five Secrets of Assembly Hall
The summer of 2016 brought about a pretty major renovation for the capital of Hoosier Basketball Nation. Assembly Hall has undergone minor updates in the past, but this one was…
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Six Wonders of the Lilly Library
IU Bloomington’s Lilly Library is home to an impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts, as well as other items that spark curiosity and wonder. In this video, you’ll get…
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Lights, Camera, Hoosiers: IU alumni return to Bloomington to film a rom-com
In late January 2016, a group of IU alumni returned to Bloomington, Ind., with cameras and a production crew in tow. For three weeks, Bloomington served as the backdrop for…
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The Force is Strong with This Hoosier
Seeing 1977’s Star Wars changed David West Reynolds’s life forever. “(It) burst upon my imagination like nothing else I had ever experienced,” explains Reynolds, BA’88, of New Albany, Ind. “What bowled me over most of all was how real those exotic…