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VA doctors prohibited from prescribing medical pot

Wednesday, March 31,2010 1:27 p.m.

When Paul Culkin came home to New Mexico after serving with an Army bomb squad in Iraq, he tried counseling and medications offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cope with his post-traumatic stress disorder. Nothing worked very well. Then he found a new alternative: marijuana. New Mexico is the only state that explicitly allows people with PTSD to smoke pot under its medical marijuana law — an issue that is getting attention around the country at a time when traumatized vets are coming home from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in large numbers.

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Holocaust survivor visits Union

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, March 31,2010 12:41 p.m.

From atrocity and tragedy comes forgiveness and healing. Holocaust survivor Eva Kor’s message is not always popular, but she is determined to raise awareness and understanding. She will speak in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Alumni Hall today about her survival and answer questions.

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Kiley talks comedy with Conan

By Mickey Woods · Wednesday, March 31,2010 12:22 a.m.

The music preceded the entrance of Brian Kiley, a comedy writer who worked for Conan O’Brien for 16 years during his “Late Night” run. Kiley’s appearance was sponsored by Union Board Comedy and consisted of a question-and-answer session about Kiley’s rise to prominence, the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike and the battle between NBC and O’Brien.

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IUPD offering seminar in self-defense

By VINCE ZITO · Wednesday, March 31,2010 12:12 a.m.

Verbal judo, crime prevention through environmental design and self-defense tactics will be the topics of discussion at Thursday’s on-campus crime seminar.

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Butler confiscates 178 Final Four tickets

Wednesday, March 31,2010 12:07 a.m.

NDIANAPOLIS — The feverish contest among students at hometown favorite Butler to score NCAA Final Four tickets took an unusual twist Tuesday when the school confiscated 178 tickets and redistributed them.

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IU celebrates role in physics milestone

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, March 30,2010 11:29 p.m.

The second floor of Swain Hall West was a scene of celebration Tuesday morning. Non-alcoholic champagne flowed as a TV played coverage of a scientific milestone: beams of protons collided together at energy levels of 7 trillion electron volts at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, three times the previous best.

Little 500

Meet Little 5's fifth men

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Tuesday, March 30,2010 11:11 p.m.

Months of night riding, running stairs at Ballantine Hall and rolling on trainers ends with a spot in the Little 500. But not for sophomore Adam Fish, at least not last year.

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Fashionable final four

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, March 30,2010 10:50 p.m.

The Final Four tournament is this weekend, and besides wondering who will win or how to possibly salvage your complete failure of a bracket, there is an important question that presents itself before major events such as this — what will I wear?

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Students break into world of modeling

By Kelsey Finn · Tuesday, March 30,2010 10:42 p.m.

Sophomore McKenna Penley grew up 20 minutes away from the IU campus in Nashville, Ind. She sat in the audience of every Retails Studies Organization fashion show throughout high school and her freshman year of college. This year, she will be taking to the catwalk.

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Police begin ‘quiet night’ program

By VINCE ZITO · Tuesday, March 30,2010 9:02 p.m.

The Quiet Nights program, which will call for increased patrolling of high-density student areas in Bloomington, has been initiated until the conclusion of Little 500 on April 22.

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