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On the Run

By Amanda Day · Thursday, April 8,2010 10:58 p.m.

Flowers are in bloom, the birds are chirping and the sidewalks have been taken over by runners. Whether they are training for a marathon, Little 50 or running just to stay in shape, they can be found all over Bloomington.

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Closeted prom

By Stephen Hammoor · Thursday, April 8,2010 6:34 p.m.

After weeks of being in the news for wanting to attend prom with her girlfriend, Constance McMillen finally saw the truth of her community emerge as they celebrated a secret prom while she, her date and five other students were sent to a “fake prom” at a local country club in Fulton, Miss.

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Finance needs to be a focus

Thursday, April 8,2010 6:31 p.m.

WE SAY to prevent another financial meltdown, new laws must be put into place.

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Former first lady on campus for benefit dinner

Thursday, April 8,2010 5:12 p.m.

Laura Bush will be on campus today for a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall. The dinner is sponsored by Ivy Tech’s O’Bannon Institute for Community Service and attendees must have a ticket.

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Former Kirkwood ticket discusses political future

By Claire Wiseman · Thursday, April 8,2010 12:09 a.m.

It’s been nearly a month since the Kirkwood ticket was defeated by iUnity in the IU Student Association election. After reflecting on their experiences in the intense and often personal campaign, members of the defeated ticket considered the possibility of finding their way back to IUSA by another road.

Marine Biologist

Far from coastline, IU student majors in marine biology

By Molly Johnson · Thursday, April 8,2010 12:08 a.m.

Josh Stewart dreams of going to South Africa and researching the current sardine migration; he hopes to help save the leatherback turtle in Indonesia; and he aspires to film thought-provoking documentaries about environmental conservation. But his dreams are different than most because his are now a reality. About to become IU’s first marine biology graduate, Stewart, a senior was recently named the Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society’s 2010 North American Rolex Scholar, an honor given to one student a year. Scholars are also chosen from Europe and Australia.

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Fall break: Could it actually happen?

By Brad Zehr · Thursday, April 8,2010 12:05 a.m.

The BFC Calendar Committee released its proposal to revise the campus calendar and opened the council floor for discussion on the proposal’s four recommendations, one of which was a two-day, mid-October fall break.

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Energy Challenge halfway complete

By Caitlin Peterkin · Wednesday, April 7,2010 10:42 p.m.

The third annual Energy Challenge is almost halfway over and the Geology Building leads the academic competition, Zeta Tau Alpha leads the greek competition and Collins Center leads the residence hall competition.

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Spreading awareness with coal

By Julianne Watterson · Wednesday, April 7,2010 10:41 p.m.

Junior Cristina Vanko, also an Indiana Daily Student editorial cartoonist, printed more than 1,000 stickers that read “I am coal” and sent them to family and friends around the world. She asked them to stick them on anything that used electricity and e-mail a photo to her. The stickers appeared throughout New Zealand, Japan, Peru and even Iraq and continue to spread across the world.

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Bus driver ensures laughs for students

By Tim Dunn · Wednesday, April 7,2010 10:38 p.m.

Curt Cox, 63, drives the Bloomington Transit 9 route and incites an uproar of laughter on the bus. He is informally known throughout the student community as the “funny” bus driver. He tells jokes and has casual conversations with students while transporting them from building to building.

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24-year-old man stabbed 4 times

By VINCE ZITO · Wednesday, April 7,2010 10:36 p.m.

Jeffery Abel was arrested and preliminarily charged with a Class B felony count of aggravated battery Wednesday after repeatedly stabbing a 24-year-old male Tuesday evening in the 2400 block of South Winslow Court.

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