Bring it on

We admire IU's president-designate Michael McRobbie for a lot of reasons. This is one of them. You want a do-something president who is not afraid of having his work reviewed, publically, year in and year out? Go ahead - make his day. He seems to welcome the scrutiny and thrive on the challenge.

Here's our bet: President McRobbie's annual reviews will be stellar and other universities will begin to demand the same sort of clauses as they hire new presidents. Business as unusual, indeed.

Sad end to Wade Steffey search

As his body is discovered on the Purdue campus. Our sympathy to Wade's family and friends.

No daffodils yet

But spring is definitely heading our way. Bloomington is enjoying mild weather; yesterday we had tons of sun and temperatures above 60. It's spring break this week, so town really started quieting down on Thursday. We were going to post a picture of an empty Bloomington street, but while we were googling around for that, we came up with something much more interesting. See you in a week!

Indiana b-ball is back!

At least it seems so tonight. Indiana KILLED Penn State in the last home game of the season. Assembly Hall was packed to the rafters. The current and soon-to-be IU presidents were both there, sitting on either side of the mayor of Bloomington. Our resident rock star, John Mellencamp, and his wife, Elaine, a former supermodel, were there with their kids.

There was a minor flap in town recently, with people wondering why Coach Sampson always wears blue button-down shirts to the games (side note: has Coach Sampson lost 30 or so pounds since starting at IU?). The hottest fashion item these days is the t-shirt pictured to the right. You can wear it to show your support for the coach.