Horning: Where the Law Meets the Virus
by Andrew Horning My first job in healthcare was in the arbovirus surveillance unit of the Indiana Board of Health in the mid 1970s. My job was all about the flaviviruses carried by birds and mosquitos. As a young man thus indoctrinated in the hemorrhagic syndromes, fatal mucosal disease, birth defects and encephalitis caused by Read the full article…
Morris: Decency — a Word to Live By
by Leo Morris I’d like to confess something I feel guilty about. It happened a long time ago, back in high school. One of my classmates – I won’t give his name or even a pseudonym, for obvious reasons – was a gangly, pimply wreck of a teenager. His walk was a shambling lurch, his Read the full article…
Suit Against IU alleges Violation of Public Records Act
MARGARET MENGE, an alumnus of Indiana University, has filed a complaint against the university in Monroe County Circuit Court alleging violation of the state public records law. Menge, a freelance journalist, is researching the policy of state universities regarding students from China. According to the complaint, the university denied Menge’s request for emails unless her formal request stated both the sender and Read the full article…
Menge v. Indiana University
STATE OF INDIANA In the Monroe Superior Court, July 2, 2020 MARGARET MENGE, Plaintiff, v. INDIANA UNIVERSITY and IU BOARD OF TRUSTEES, Defendant. COMPLAINT Margaret Menge is filing this complaint against Indiana University for its violation of the Indiana Access to Public Records Law. She is seeking declaratory relief. She states and alleges the following: Read the full article…
The Outstater
Solipsism, the late Charles Krauthammer liked to say, is the belief that the whole world operates pretty much like suburban Boston, his euphemism for any place in America where self-satisfaction and shallow thinking rule. Indiana has a bad case of self-satisfaction and shallow thinking, particularly in the governor’s office in Indianapolis and with the trustees at Indiana University. Read the full article…
News Advisory: China Has Plenty of Clout on IU Campus
BEGINNING WITH the Coronavirus outbreak here, Margaret Menge, an adjunct scholar for the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, began researching the policy of her alma matter on students from China. She learned that in the 2019-2020 academic year, students from China paid just over $80 million to IU-Bloomington in tuition and fees alone. This is close to Read the full article…
