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News Brief – March 10, 2021

On Thursday March 11th the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition will hold a picket line in front of Indiana University Bloomington Provost Lauren Robel’s office building. The provost rejected the coalition’s request for an in-person meeting to discuss the coalition’s calls to end mandatory fees poverty level wages. The picket line comes on the heels of an exchange of heated letters …

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Daily Local News – March 4th, 2019

County Council considers five-year strategic spending plan; Online pothole and road hazard information now available on County website; State police prepare for spring break sobriety checkpoints this Friday; IUB Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel to deliver the 2019 State of the Campus address tomorrow. FEATURE Director of the Indiana Arts Commission Miah Michaelson talks to Michael Glab about …

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Mural Depicting KKK Stays at IU’s Woodburn Hall

A controversial mural at Indiana University depicting Ku Klux Klan members burning a Christian cross and carrying the American flag during a Klan gathering will remain in Woodburn Hall. IU Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said the mural cannot be removed due to the type of paint used. The mural has created controversy over the past 70 years. …

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Daily Local News – April 6, 2017

Students, faculty and staff at Indiana University have signed an open letter denouncing a social scientist Charles Murray, who is slated to speak on campus; A group of IU students marched through campus and into the provost office to demand more social justice education on campus, along with other demands; The Indiana Senate has approved a bill allowing government agencies …

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Daily Local News – March 8, 2017

Protesters disrupted a State of the Campus speech yesterday by Indiana University Provost Lauren Robel; The City of Bloomington has run into a potential roadblock in its plans to buy a strip club on South Walnut Street; The Bloomington Redevelopment Commission approved amending  the city’s consulting contract with urban design firm Anderson Bohlander to design infrastructure in the Trades District; Bloomington Mayor …

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Daily Local News – February 8, 2017

IU students organized a demonstration today responding to white nationalist flyers posted on campus; As four-year graduation rates on the main Indiana University continue to climb, regional campuses lag behind; The Chocolate Prom will be held at Rhino’s Youth Center this Saturday, February 11th from 7 to 11 pm; Indiana University’s Center of Excellence for Women in Technology will host its fourth annual …

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Daily Local News – January 17, 2017

After a decades-long career at IU Bloomington, the university’s provost and executive vice president Lauren Robel is now a finalist for the position of chancellor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Bloomington’s Interfaith Winter Shelter is attempting to crowdfund 50,000 dollars in order to fund its emergency homeless shelter this year; The final piece of a planned unit development at Patterson …

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