Purdue University

In a full-circle moment, the Stranger Things star reveals she’s enrolled in online classes at Purdue University, a very real school in Indiana, where the hit Netflix show also takes place.

This month, former Gov. Mitch Daniels begins his last semester as Purdue’s president, stepping down in December after a decade at the school. But he likely won’t be riding off into the sunset anytime soon.

The aviator spent some of her last days as a career counselor in Lafayette, breaking the university’s stodgy norms.

You got us feelin’ alright

The best of Lafayette’s main drag.

“Back in the early 1800s, when Indiana’s political map was drawn, that many counties seemed about right.”

Nobody expects “perfection” from Ball State. But what I expect—and what I imagine you may also expect—is a willingness to reject not only bigotry, but also deep-seated, intransigent stupidity.

“They’re afraid of competition. They don’t want a charter school cannibalizing their student base.”

“When I was around alcohol, I drank about my writing, not the other way around. Drying out allowed me to start putting words on paper again.”

“I learned how story was always meant to be for Indian women: Immediate, necessary and fearless, like all good lies.”

You may remember him from his kitchen antics on Good Eats, where he extolled the virtues of kitchen scales and probe thermometers. Or you might know him from the more recent Cutthroat Kitchen, where he reduced contestants to cooking meals in cages with lobster claws on their hands. However you know him, Food Network host […]

You may remember him from his kitchen antics on Good Eats, where he extolled the virtues of kitchen scales and probe thermometers. Or you might know him from the more recent Cutthroat Kitchen, where he reduced contestants to cooking meals in cages with lobster claws on their hands. However you know him, Food Network host […]

Roxane Gay’s new book gave me the courage to say, “I’m fat.”

Indiana basketball’s defining rivalry rekindles twice in February with two new episodes of a series Purdue currently leads by a reasonably commanding 115–89. Here’s what got (and kept) the ball rolling:

Created in Indy by Dartmouth grad John Shi, the line includes Indiana’s big two schools, IU and Purdue (sorry, Domers).