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IU, National Guard collaborate on language, culture training

By Nick Cusack · Tuesday, April 7,2009 11:36 p.m.

IU signed an open-ended agreement Tuesday to provide language and culture training to the Indiana National Guard. IU President Michael McRobbie and Indiana’s Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. R. Martin Umbarger, signed a document that cemented the institutions’ 3-year-old partnership. The contract gives IU and the Indiana National Guard flexibility if the Guard needs different language trainers, said IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre.

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Baseball teams embrace vintage look

By Amanda Cochara · Tuesday, April 7,2009 11:35 p.m.

With all the excitement around Opening Day and the start of the baseball season, I thought it only appropriate to step up to the plate and focus on some Major League Baseball fashion.

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IU staff works to prevent germs from spreading

By Mickey Woods · Tuesday, April 7,2009 11:35 p.m.

They live and grow on everything you touch, are always nearby and are found on anything you have regular contact with. And they are all around campus – in the dorms, in high-traffic areas like the Indiana Memorial Union and in student-athlete facilities such as Assembly Hall.

Echaka Agaba, as Xindoo of Chicks with Dicks, performs on Tuesday evening at the Bloomington Playwrights Project. The chicks from Bedford battle with canniball sluts in outer space.

‘Chicks’ to take over stage

By Rachel Pankiw · Tuesday, April 7,2009 11:34 p.m.

Six weeks of four-hour-long rehearsals will all lead up to the great stage battle, in which two women take on a tribe of “voodoo vegetarians” to save Planet 19.

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New group’s goal to beautify IU environment

By Mickey Woods · Tuesday, April 7,2009 11:33 p.m.

Junior Patrick Wilson said he wants to erase the stigma associated with picking up trash. “People see us and think that we are picking up trash by some forced hand, either because of a drinking ticket or otherwise,” Wilson said. “We’ve been doing this since we got back from spring break a couple weeks ago, and we want to make headway in providing a cleaner campus.”

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United Way organizes local volunteers

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, April 7,2009 10:47 p.m.

While many in Bloomington volunteer their time, energy and money year-round, the United Way of Monroe County has called out a whole community for its 14th annual Day of Action today.

Then freshman Anna Millies tastes a slice of pizza at Pizza Mania on April 13, 2007 in Dunn Meadow. Pizza Mania is going to be held at 4-7 p.m. on Thursday in Dunn Meadow.

Pizza Mania benefits non-profit

By Morgan Brown · Tuesday, April 7,2009 10:40 p.m.

Pizza Mania will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday in Dunn Meadow and will benefit Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard, a local food pantry.

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Peru court sentences Fujimori to 25 years prison

Tuesday, April 7,2009 10:19 p.m.

A special tribunal has sentenced former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori to 25 years in prison for what it called “crimes against humanity” – death squad activities during his autocratic 10-year rule.

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Demjanjuk tries again to avoid deportation

Tuesday, April 7,2009 10:16 p.m.

The deportation of alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk should be blocked because forcing the frail 89-year-old to go to Germany would amount to torture, his attorney said in a court filing Tuesday.

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Actor Kal Penn joins White House team

Tuesday, April 7,2009 9:40 p.m.

WASHINGTON — The White House has hired actor Kal Penn as a liaison between President Barack Obama's administration and Asian constituents.

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Fraternizing with the enemy

By Jacob Levin · Tuesday, April 7,2009 7:58 p.m.

BEIJING – It was under the awning of a Beijing gas station that the grand, immaterial theories of international relations both began to make sense and sound ludicrous to me. 

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Evangelicals and gay adoption

Tuesday, April 7,2009 7:57 p.m.

Leah Hecht’s letter “Adoption Ban Bad for Children and Gay Couples,” which appeared on April 1, was a pleasure to read – for the most part. While I completely agree with her arguments for gay and lesbian adoption rights, I take issue with one statement: “Ironically, this ban is supported mostly by Christian Evangelicals.”

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Conservatism in academia

Tuesday, April 7,2009 7:55 p.m.

I realize this is a newspaper article for the IDS, and your purpose is to grab attention and create controversy wherever possible and by whatever means – even including spreading some of your own propaganda – but I feel the point of your message loses weight when you engage in the same acts you criticize.

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