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…
WHITE PAPER: Students from China Bring Big Money and Clout to Indiana University
The author, an alumnus of Indiana University, is a veteran journalist now working from Bloomington. She has reported for U.S. News & World Report, the Miami Herald, Columbia Journalism Review, Breitbart, the New York Observer and the American Conservative. by MARGARET MENGE March 6 was a busy morning on the campus of Indiana University. Every seat in Read the full article…
The Outstater
REACTING IN PART to protests hundreds of miles away, our Republican county chairman has asserted his “wokeness” by welcoming the resignation of a county councilman rebuked for a racial comment and nominating a black female lawyer as the replacement. And he pulled the name from an affirmative-action hat, a bipartisan one if that makes any sense. Does this heal our wounds, Read the full article…
Morris: Bob’s ‘Big Boy’
by Leo Morris In 1936, Bob Wian sold his car and used the $350 as a down payment on a 10-stool diner in Glendale, Calif., which he turned into a hamburger joint called Bob’s Pantry. Shortly, thereafter, the story goes, two things happened. Members of an orchestra stopped in and asked if Wian could come Read the full article…
