[AI-Generated Summary] This edition of IU NewsNet highlights a transformative week at Indiana University, lead by the firing of men’s basketball head coach Archie Miller after four seasons without an NCAA tournament appearance. While the university manages a $10.3 million buyout funded by anonymous donors, the women’s basketball team celebrates a record-breaking four seed in their upcoming tournament. Beyond sports, the program covers the expansion of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to Hoosiers aged 45 and older and K-12 educators, the arrival of third-round stimulus checks for students, and the local emergence of Delta-8 THC as a legal alternative to marijuana. Additional campus updates include a statewide tornado drill, the opening of a new indoor bike storage room at Ballantine Hall, and an invitation for citizens to participate in a photographic scavenger hunt for the campus herbarium.
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