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INPIRG students to stage book protest at IU Bookstore\nStudents from the Indiana Public Interest Research Group and IUSA are staging a book return today in the IU Bookstore at the Indiana Memorial Union to protest the high cost of college textbooks. The protest coincides with the release of the national study "Rip-off 101: How the Current Practices of the Publishing Industry Drive up the Cost of College Textbooks." \nThat report will show students pay $900 a year on average for textbooks, and publishers use a number of gimmicks to unfairly drive up the cost of textbooks. The report, which was conducted from interviews at colleges across California and Oregon, includes testimonials from faculty members and makes policy recommendations.\nThe students will present copies of some unfairly priced textbooks at the bookstore today. For more information, contact INPIRG at inpirg@indiana.edu.\nPanel to discuss media and war\nIU Professor of Photography Jeffrey A. Wolin will moderate the panel discussion "Killer Shots: Photography, Media and War," Friday. The panel will also feature Claude Cookman, IU professor in the School of Journalism, Vietnam War veteran, photojournalist and photographic historian, Catherine Edelman, the director of Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago and John Lucaites, IU professor of Communication and Culture, who currently teaches and writes on the relationship between rhetoric and social theory, visual rhetoric and U.S. Liberal-democratic public culture.\nThe discussion will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Fine Arts, Room 102. For more information, visit http://www.fa.indiana.edu:16080/~sofa/main.html.\nIU offers vacation package to Italy\nA spring break vacation package to Florence, Italy is being offered through IU's Creative Learning Center. The trip includes airfare and lodging at a four-star hotel near Florence's city center. In addition, there will be one optional, organized trip to Sienna or Pisa, Italy. \nCoordinator Georgianne Marcinkovich has lived and studied in Florence and has degrees in fine arts and Italian. \nThe travel dates are March 13 through 21. Due to circumstances beyond the CLC's control, these dates may vary slightly. \nThe cost is $1,600 for double occupancy and $1,800 for single occupancy. The registration deadline is Saturday. For more information, contact Marcinkovich at gmarcink@indiana.edu.\nUITS to sponsor fair Feb. 18 in IMU\nStudents have an opportunity to learn about OneStart, cybersecurity, Wi-Fi wireless access, IT services, tools, resources and innovations at the UITS' "Making IT Happen" in the IMU. The program, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Frangipani Room, will also feature student showcases showing the use of information technology in academics.\nStudents interested in participating in the showcase can submit a project from any academic area which was completed in the past year and used IT resources for research, compilation or analysis.\nThe information technology fair is sponsored by UITS, as well as the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and IU's corporate technology partners.\nThe program will feature giveaways, food and refreshments. For more information, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~mith/.