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ISA to host talent competition Friday\nThe Indian Student Association is holding an Awaaz Talent Competition Friday as part of MASTI 2004, an intercollegiate conference of ISAs nationwide. The conference, created in 1999, is designed to bring together Midwestern students with South Asian culture.\nThe event will be from 7 to 10 p.m. at the John Waldron Arts Center, 122 S. Walnut St. The first place winner will receive $350, with $150 going to second place.\nFor more information, visit www.indiana.edu/~isa/.\nIU Libertarians to discuss alternatives\nThe IU College Libertarians will meet for the second time in 2004 from 7:30 to 9 p.m., March 1. The meeting, which will be in Ballantine Hall, Room 016, will feature discussions on alternatives to the current two-party system, the national debt and public policy campaigns for promoting Libertarianism at IU. \nFor more information, contact Nick Blesch at 855-1492 or nblesch@indiana.edu.\nInformatics offers XML seminar Friday\nMelanie Yuqing Wu, professor at the University of Michigan, will lead a seminar Friday on the eXtensible Markup Language, a popular data representation and data-exchanging format.\nThe lecture, which begins at 4 p.m. in the Sassafrass Room of the Indiana Memorial Union, is sponsored by the School of Informatics.\nFor more information, visit www.informatics.indiana.edu/colloquia.