IU to honor John Mellencamp with statue on Bloomington campus

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8 thoughts on “IU to honor John Mellencamp with statue on Bloomington campus

  1. Yeah…IU should be honoring a former titan of industry whose company ripped off consumers, or made them ill…or maybe someone whose family fortune was made on the backs of slaves.

    Mellencamp is rough on the edges, and didn’t graduate from IU. But he has financially supported IU, his band members supported IU, and maybe it’s okay once in a while to have a rough around the edges person honor. Keeps a Hoosier perspective…small town boy quits drugs and alchohol, goes to the big city, becomes a star, and comes back and supports his local university.

  2. Last time I saw JM was a Irsay’s memorabilia event. I thought he looked like he just changed the oil in a 72 Pinto and sounded like a small block Chevy with a rod knocking.

    Small town boy makes it to the big time and become a big-time socialist jerk!

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