Indiana University

Indiana U. Pres.: Legislative Attack on Kinsey Institute a Attack on Academic Freedom

Ironically, Alfred Kinsey's work was the subject of moral panics and suppression in his own lifetime. 

Indiana's Kinsey Institute will Have to Carry on Without State Funds

The pioneering research institute for the study of human sexuality has been a victim of the "groomer" moral panic; the legislator introducing the funding restrictions has called the late Alfred Kinsey a pedophile and suggested the institute was "hiding child predators." 

Indiana Legislature Votes to Defund IU's Kinsey Institute

Conservative lawmakers invoked the specter of child sexual exploitation to argue for defunding the leading American center for research on human sexuality. 

Indiana University at Bloomington to keep anti-KKK painting by Thomas Hart Benton

by Lauren Robel

But classes will no longer be held in the room where the mural appears since at first glance it looks like it’s celebrating the Klan.

Mitch Daniels tried to ban Howard Zinn books from Indiana universities

Mitch Daniels, as an unconventional choice to become Purdue University's president, has repeatedly pledged his strong commitment to academic freedom. And many professors -- including some who had questioned the wisdom of appointing a governor as university president -- have given him high marks for the start of his work at Purdue.But on Monday, the Associated Press published an article based on e-mail records it obtained under Indiana's open records laws. Those e-mail records showed Daniels, while governor of Indiana, asking that no public universities teach the work of Howard Zinn, seeking a statewide investigation into "what is credit-worthy" to see that similar works were not being taught for credit, and considering ways to cut state funds to a program led by a professor who had criticized him.

Ancient discovery set to rewrite Australian history

Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an ‘‘X’’ might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia’s history.Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, currently Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the US, plans an expedition in July that has stirred up the archaeological community.The scientist wants to revisit the location where five coins were found in the Northern Territory in 1944 that have proven to be 1000 years old, opening up the possibility that seafarers from distant countries might have landed in Australia much earlier than what is currently believed.Back in 1944 during World War II, after Japanese bombers had attacked Darwin two years earlier, the Wessel Islands - an uninhabited group of islands off Australia’s north coast - had become a strategic position to help protect the mainland....