This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, November 11th, 2025.

In today’s newscast, WFHB News speaks with Maria Bucur, Vice President of the American Association of University of Professors, about a professor who was recently removed from one of her courses while the university investigates a complaint under the state’s intellectual diversity law. More in today’s feature report.

Also coming up in the next half hour, a new edition of Lil Bub’s Lil Show – a co-production between WFHB and Lil Bub’s Big Fund. That’s coming up at the end of today’s broadcast.

A lecturer at Indiana University was removed from one of her courses while the university investigates a complaint under the state’s intellectual diversity law. In today’s feature report, WFHB News speaks with Maria Bucur, the John W. Hill Chair of East European History and Professor in the Department of History at IU. Bucur is also the Vice President of the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP. Bucur says she sees this move as the “nail in the coffin” for academic freedom at the university and she alleges basic due process rights not being followed as well as a conflict of interest into the intellectual diversity investigation. We turn now to that interview on the WFHB Local News.

The Indiana Men’s Basketball Team has started off hot, beating Marquette this past weekend 100-77. Beyond the court there is a team dedicated to making players perform to their best abilities. In today’s feature report, WFHB Sports Correspondent Chase Dodson talks with Owen Baker, an Indiana men’s basketball team student manager. That interview, recorded on November 7th, is coming up next on WFHB.

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