Bloomington is a funny place. It’s a relatively small town, but as the home to Indiana University it offers a mix of people that is hard to find anywhere else in the United States. We’ve got a lot of rich, snobby students, a lot of well-educated workers and business men and women, and a lot of good old rural Indiana farm folk. As a result, we get a lot of interesting news. Here are some examples:
Reenacting a scene from "A Christmas Story," two local boys got their tongues stuck to a flagpole. Front page news? You bet!
Indiana University is teaming up with Trojan condoms
The Bloomington Herald-Times
reported today that IU and Trojan condoms have signed a three-year agreement. Does that mean free condoms for students? Not exactly. Because of IU’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion and the world-famous Kinsey Institute, the university has been chosen as a site for upcoming research projects about condoms. Trojan is interested in developing better condoms and studying why people choose the condoms they do. They are also interested in educating the public about how to properly use condoms. According to the article, a 2005 study showed that many rural Hoosier men don’t know how to correctly use a condom, so Trojan wants to help. Like I said, Bloomington is an interesting place—I can’t wait to see news footage of school officials going around the countryside outside Bloomington showing 40-year old men how to put a condom on a banana.
Isiah Thomas’ son charged with under aged drinking in Bloomington
I guess it makes more sense now knowing that Joshua Thomas goes to IU. Before the reading
the article, however, I had no idea. But what other small towns in Indiana make headline news for celeb’s kids getting in trouble. Not many that I can think of. The younger Thomas, who is 19, was caught drinking in Kilroy’s and is being charged with a illegal consumption of alcohol and being a minor in a tavern as well as disorderly conduct. It’s like our own version of Paris Hilton!
Two boys left with bleeding tongues after licking flagpole
Alright, so this happened in Chesterton, Ind. But where else would a story like this make the
front page? Is this published with the goal of public education?—“Rural Indiana citizens: though tempting, please do not lick frozen flagpoles!” The two kids, who were fourth-graders, were on flag-raising and lowering duties for the day when they got the brilliant idea to lick the pole. “I decided to try it because I thought all of the TV shows were lies, but turns out I was wrong,” said Gavin Dempsey, one of the boys. Ahhh…. Only in Indiana could such a thing happen
and be big news. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
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