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Thursday, May 2
The Indiana Daily Student

Controversy lives on after we are gone

IU, like most college campuses, has always been a hotbed of controversy. The past four years have been no different. And through that time, the IDS has covered these controversies, local and national. In light of recent events, and as a farewell to this beautiful campus, I'd like to remind everyone that the IDS usually doesn't make the news. We just try to cover it the best we can, objectively and with the utmost respect to freedom of speech.\nThe following musical tribute is set to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire":\nAlfred Kinsey, Herman B, Roe v. Wade, Bill Mallory\nThomson plant, King Day, Bill Armstrong Stadium\nIUSA, ZBT, Damon Sims, Steve Birdine\nValentine can't referee, asbestos in the library\nGorbachev, People's Park, Take Back the Night after dark\nMatt Hale, Cam Cameron, Auditorium construction \nBruce Jacobs, meal plan, parking lots, Brother Dan\nJoe Bisanz, CALMfest, "roofies"; you know the rest\nWe didn't start the fire\nIt was always burning\nSince the world's been turning\nWe didn't start the fire\nNo we didn't light it\nBut we tried to fight it\nAugust Smith, Won-Joon Yoon, Boy Scouts ban, Elian\nGriffy Lake/golf course, Bill and Monica\nMurray Sperber, bus plan, Bursar office break-in\nHackers in the B-School, Melissa virus, ILOVEYOU\nNapster, logger spikes, abortion pill, protests on bikes\nUnion Board, Tom Petty, COAS is losing money\nLuke Recker, Neil Reed, Kent Harvey burns in effigy\nKnight fired, riots, Myles Brand a target\nWalbridge, Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell--man of action\nElection night, what a fright; who won Florida?\nChuck D, tax cut, Little 5, now what?\nGraduation coming soon, finals first, then end the tune.\nWe didn't start the fire\nIt was always burning\nSince the world's been turning\nWe didn't start the fire\nNo we didn't light it\nBut we tried to fight it

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