Support for this edition comes from the Art League, presenting Thrift Your Bling on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 20-21, at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. It’s the Art League’s biggest scholarship fundraiser of the year. Shop for gently used costume and fine jewelry, scarves, purses and men’s neckties – all marked at very low prices. All items are donated by friends from the Greater Lafayette area. Money from donated items provide scholarships for local artists and educators to participate in classes at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette and continuing education opportunities.
Support for Based in Lafayette also comes from Purdue Convocations, presenting Gravity and Other Myths. Premiered at the 2024 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Ten Thousand Hours by Australia’s Gravity & Other Myths features eight world-class acrobats honoring the grueling dedication behind physical mastery. Investigating the famous 10,000-hour rule, the troupe delivers a breathtaking, honest love letter to the human body with gravity-defying acrobatics. Thursday, Nov. 19, in Loeb Playhouse. BUY NOW
EXPONENT, PURDUE RETURN TO ‘HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP,’ YEAR AFTER UNIVERSITY WORKED TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM INDEPENDENT STUDENT PAPER
The Purdue Exponent, an independent student newspaper covering the university, and Purdue officials hammered out an agreement over the past several months that wipes out a lingering dispute over newspaper distribution on campus and the use of the university’s name.
The 10-year agreement, which went into effect Nov. 1, comes a year-and-a-half after the university cut all ties with the Exponent, distancing itself from a 120-year-old media operation that had established its independence from Purdue in 1969.
In that move in May 2025, the university sent notice to the Exponent that the university would quit handling some distribution of the twice-week print editions in campus locations – a move the cut off about 30% of the newspaper’s reach, Exponent leaders say – and a request to strip references to the name Purdue from the publication, including in its online address.