Bloom Archives
Category: Community
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The Good Deeds of Student Volunteers Win Praise from President Obama
Forty-five local students are recipients of the 2012 President’s Volunteer Service Award, which “rewards and encourages young people who contribute to meeting the needs…
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Saving the Lakota Language: A Bloomington-based Initiative
BY DAN COLEMAN Time has robbed many Native American cultures of their languages. The Bloomington-based Lakota Language Consortium (LLC) is working to bring one…
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Sunday Nights at The Switchyard Music, Supper, and Fun for All
BY BRIDGETT HENWOOD From the street, nothing about the house at 1417 W. Monon Dr. appears out of the ordinary. But every Sunday night…
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B-town Has Sister Cities In Nicaragua and Cuba
BY JEREMY SHERE From IU’s diverse faculty and student body to East 4th Street’s bevy of ethnic restaurants, Bloomington has a strong multicultural flavor.…
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Bloom’s 7th Annual Holiday Party
December 6, 2012 The Tudor Room at the Indiana Memorial Union was the site of Bloom’s 7th annual holiday party. Two hundred and fifty…
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Service-Learning Program: IU Students and Local Agencies Benefit from Working Together
BY BRIDGETT HENWOOD The symbiotic relationship between Indiana University and the Bloomington community at large expresses itself in myriad ways. One of the most…
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Chocolate Models Steal the Show at PRIDE Festival (Photo Gallery)
BY ADAM KENT-ISAAC At the after-party for the 2013 PRIDE Film Festival at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, chocolatier David Fletcher of BLU Boy Chocolate Café…
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‘The Sun Never Sets on IU’ Says J T. Forbes, Alumni Head
BY JANET MANDELSTAM When J Thomas Forbes became executive director of the Indiana University Alumni Association in 2010, he set out to meet his…
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Giving Back to Africa: Teaching Leadership to Congo Kids
BY JEREMY SHERE Since 2007, the Bloomington-based nonprofit Giving Back to Africa has worked to improve education for school children in the Democratic Republic…