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Little 500 First-Timers

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2025/07/22

Spoiler alert: Lexie Parkins and Wenlu She did not win the Little 500 bike race this year. For both women it was their first time competing in Little Five. What possesses someone who has never raced a bike before to compete in the most famous bicycle race of them all? For Parkins and She it …

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Jewish Students at IU: Finding a Home

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2025/07/21

The 2024-2025 school year was a tough one for some Jewish students at Indiana University. In September Hillel, the Jewish culture center on the IU Bloomington campus, hosted a memorial service mourning the deaths of six Israeli hostages in Gaza. Then in March the U.S. Department of Education included IU in its callout of sixty …

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WFHB Local News – July 21st, 2025

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2025/07/21

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 21st, 2025. In today’s newscast, you will hear Jeff Linkon from Hillel, the Jewish culture center on the IU Bloomington campus. The U.S. Department of Education recently included IU in its callout of sixty universities under investigation for antisemitism. Hear more about efforts to make Bloomington …

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WFHB Local News – July 16th, 2025

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2025/07/16

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 16th, 2025. In today’s newscast, Paul Helmke – former CEO of Brady Center to prevent gun violence and former mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana – speaks with WFHB about gun legislation in Indiana. More in today’s episode of Government.exe from WFHB’s Youth Radio. That’s IU baseball …

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IU Baseball: Consistently Inconsistent

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2025/07/16

Sometimes the Indiana University baseball team looks like one of the greatest squads in the country. Other days, not so much. The 2025 season was a great example – while there were highlights, like IU first baseman Jake Hanley receiving the Big Ten Freshman of the Year Award, ultimately the team had a mediocre finish …

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WFHB Local News – July 15th, 2025

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2025/07/15

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025. In today’s newscast, you’ll hear Michael Pezzuto, co-creator of “The Reef” house show venue. Bloomington may have a reputation as a party town, but some young people within the local music scene are living a “straight-edge” lifestyle. Learn more later in the show in …

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Sober Nightlife: Bloomington’s Straight-Edge Youth...

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2025/07/15

Nightlife in Bloomington includes drugs and alcohol for sure, but some youth in Bloomington shrug off the stereotype of the hard-partying twenty-something. A community of young people within the local music scene are living a “straight-edge” lifestyle, especially on the house show circuit. Correspondent Myah Garza has that story in a feature report produced in …

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WFHB Local News – July 14th, 2025

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2025/07/14

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 14th, 2025. In today’s newscast, Cinematic Arts major Evie Mendelsohn talks about an immersive filmmaking class she took this spring, and Suzanne Faulk talks about Opportunity House, the Bloomington Thrift Store run almost entirely by volunteers. Additionally, Local Government Meeting coverage includes the Monroe County Realtor’s Stormwater …

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Learn By Doing: Motion Picture Production at IU

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2025/07/14

Studies show that experiential learning is the most engaging and effective way to learn. Experiential means hands-on training actually DOING the thing you’re trying to learn – pretty much what we do here with volunteers and interns in the WFHB newsroom. On the campus of Indiana University, correspondent Ryan LaPedis (Luh-PEE-diss) discovered an immersive filmmaking …

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Summer Campus News

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2025/07/10

In today’s feature report, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider provides a rundown on campus and local news over the summer. Over 400 degree programs were eliminated or suspended statewide, with IU facing the heaviest blows. IU professor Jeffrey Isaac details the consequences. Mike Braun continues to add members to the Board of Trustees, appointing three …

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Student Groups Grapple with Funding Cuts

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2025/07/09

A number of student-run activities and events on the IU Bloomington campus were blindsided this school year by funding cuts. In the case of University Players, a student-run theater group, total funding was cut by 80%. Correspondent Harley Babbitt has the story of how some of these groups reacted to the cuts and how they …

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WFHB Local News – July 9th, 2025

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2025/07/09

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. In today’s newscast, WFHB News Correspondent Max Schneider provides a rundown on campus and local news over the summer. More in today’s feature report. You’ll also hear from Katelyn Dunivan from University Players, a student-run theater group that saw their funding cut by 80% …

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Barbara Restle’s Childhood Under Hitler and Its...

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2025/07/09

Barbara Restle, a Bloomington resident, witnessed and survived the Nazi regime’s rise and grasp over Europe. Now, she has expressed her deep unease with the current state of American politics as it draws parallels to the totalitarian regime’s ascension to power. Restle grew up in Nazi occupied Austria, watching as Adolf Hilter took control of …

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Can Darian Devries Save IU Basketball?

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2025/07/09

In March Indiana University hired a new basketball coach. Darian DeVries is the 31st head coach of the IU Men’s Basketball program – a program that in many ways is starting over from scratch. In June DeVries hired eight new support staff members ahead of the 2025 season. Who is Darian DeVries, and what can …

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WFHB Local News – July 8th, 2025

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2025/07/08

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 8th, 2025. That’s IU basketball game announcer Jeremy Gray, calling on local fans to rally around new coach Darian DeVries. Gray and another IU expert speculate on what DeVries can do with the men’s basketball program later in the show in a feature report. Also coming …

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IU Students to Pilot AI Race Car

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2025/07/07

Later this month a team of Indiana University students will pilot a race car at an official IndyCar event – but nobody will be actually driving the car. These students aren’t drivers – they’re computer programmers, and they’ve built Indiana’s first autonomous race car. On July 24 the IU Vehicle Autonomy and Intelligence Lab heads …

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WFHB Local News – July 7th, 2025

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2025/07/07

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, July 7th, 2025. In today’s newscast, you will hear Paul Quigley on using AI to pilot a race car. A team of Bloomington students is already doing it, and later this month they take their car to California to race against other prototypes. More later in the …

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WFHB Local News – July 1st, 2025

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2025/07/01

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. In today’s newscast, you will hear Bloomington native Taylor Minnick, a star player on the Indiana University softball team. Minnick just graduated from IU as the softball program’s all-time homerun queen. More from Minnick and head coach Shonda Stanton later in the show in …

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IU Softball and the Home Run Queen

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2025/07/01

The IU softball team made it to the NCAA tournament for the third year in a row this year, but were eliminated on May 17th in the regional finals. Still, it was a historic season for the seniors on the team – Brianna Copeland broke the program’s all-time homerun record, and then star senior and …

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WFHB Local News – June 30th, 2025

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2025/06/30

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 30th, 2025. In today’s newscast, Gerard Pannekoek walks through the mission of the recent Granfalloon Festival. You’ll get a deep dive into the “how and why” of Granfalloon later in the show in a feature report. Also, you will hear Maggie Sullivan, watershed coordinator for Friends …

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