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Tickets on sale for annual Kiss Off\nTickets are on sale until April 4 for the second Kiss Off event, sponsored by Delta Upsilon fraternity and Pi Beta Phi sorority.\nTwenty-five finalists will be drawn at random for the chance to win a new 2001 Jeep Wrangler. To win the Jeep, contestants must continuously kiss the vehicle they are trying to win. If at any point during the contest their lips are removed the car, the contestant is disqualified. The last person left wins the Jeep.\nContestants are allowed a 15-minute break every six hours to eat and rest. Last year's winner kissed the Jeep for 31 hours. More than $3,000 was raised last year for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. \nTickets are on sale for $5, and proceeds will go to benefit The Rise, an organization that offers housing to battered women in the Bloomington area.\nFor more information or questions about where to purchase tickets, contact jpaschke@indiana.edu or brlbenne@indiana.edu. \nLaw School to hold panel discussions\nThe Law School will hold a conference Friday in the Moot Court Room on "Moralities of the Public Sphere: Law, Politics and Popular Culture."\nPanel discussions begin at 9 a.m., and the conference is free and open to the public. The first panel, "Politics as Culture as Politics," will feature Catherine Stimpson, a professor at New York University and Fedwa Malti-Douglas, professor of humanities. The second panel, "Law, Politics, and Morality in Popular Discourse," will include Kathleen Woodward, a professor at the University of Washington, Jeffrey Isaac, an IU political science professor. Dan Conkle, a law professor, will speak on "Religion, Politics and the 2000 Presidential Election." \nThe final panel will discuss "Alternative Legal Narratives and Putting Narrative on Trial." Presenters will include Judith Roof, a Michigan State University professor, Susan Jeffords, a University of Washington professor, and Austin Sarat, an Amherst College professor. \nFor more information, visit www.law.indiana.edu.