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U.S. Army First Lieutenant Dan Choi was in Bloomington Monday to talk about his personal battle with the Army’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Choi is an Iraq War veteran who graduated from West Point Military Academy in 2003 and was one of the few linguists serving the U.S. Army fluent in Arabic. He served his country for nearly 10 …

Dan Savage is an openly gay author and journalist who became popular through “Savage Love,” his sex advice column in Seattle’s alternative weekly newspaper The Stranger. He is author of four novels and has been featured on CNN and MSNBC for his controversial and often humorous views on politics and religion regarding gay marriage, love and sexuality in America. His …

President Obama is pursuing his call for global elimination of nuclear weapons. The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution in September on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and strengthening compliance with international non-proliferation treaties. Last week Indiana University’s Center on American and Global Security and the India Studies Program hosted a panel of experts on “The Future of …

“Hell House” has become an Ellettsville Halloween tradition, but this is not your ordinary haunted house fundraiser. Reverend Larry Mitchell of HOPE Ministries started Hell House in 2000 as a so-called “reality house,” portraying social problems like domestic violence, substance abuse, divorce and teen suicide as a result of demonic influences. People who come out of a trip to Hell …

Several times a year WFHB partners with the Bloomington Storytelling Project to host a live storytelling event, featuring local stories read by the people who experienced them. There are only two rules for story submissions: they must be less than fifteen minutes long, and they must be true. Our latest event ran nearly two hours long, and you can get …

A diverse panel of Indiana University professors spoke on the issue of health care reform Monday in a forum free of bias from the media or political organizations. As the national debate on health care reform continues in Congress, the campus Union Board staffed the panel with policy experts instead of advocates. In order of their appearance on our program …

Legendary Hoosier environmentalist John Blair was in Bloomington last week to talk about “Indiana’s Inconvenient Truth”: world-class pollution. Blair is co-founder and president of Valley Watch, an Evansville-based organization devoted to the health and environmental integrity of the Ohio Valley in southwestern Indiana. He trained with Al Gore’s Climate Project to prepare him for public talks on global warming, but …

On Saturday, people in Bloomington gathered to rally as part of the largest global day of action against climate change ever. The local event was one of more than 2,000 rallies in more than 140 nations to urge world leaders to take fast and effective action on global warming. This is the first global campaign ever organized around a scientific …

Graduate student Shameka Neely is a witness to history. Neely took a camera crew to Washington for the inauguration of President Barack Obama, using the footage in her documentary for WTIU, Witnesses to History. As a follow-up, Shameka Neely organized “Race in the Age of Obama,” a panel forum Wednesday night featuring city and campus speakers, to expound on the …

It took the Bloomington city council less than twenty minutes last night to make our town one of only two Indiana cities to enact responsible bidder laws. After extensive discussion at last week’s session, the council voted unanimously to amend city code with new provisions to make sure taxpayer-funded projects are done by ethical contractors and not just the cheapest …