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Don’t be fooled

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 10:34 p.m.

With the recent attention on Sarah Palin being chosen as Sen. McCain’s running mate, I would like to know why phrases like “Governor Palin is pulling the woman vote” are being used. The word woman is clearly standing in for white, upper-middle class, heterosexual women. I find this shocking. I don’t think anyone could make the argument that a politician was pulling male votes. This statement just seems too broad. Why is it okay then to generalize women or people of color? Just because all women share the same sex organ or black people share the same skin color does not mean these groups will vote the same way or for the same reason.

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Multicultural benefits

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 10:31 p.m.

The Journal of the American Medical Association published an article this week showing the results of a study that found “white students at the most racially diverse medical schools are more likely than students at other schools to report being prepared to serve people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.” While the findings of this result are not surprising by any length, the fact that such a study is still newsworthy highlights the inherent obstacles minorities still have to confront on a day-to-day basis. Of course, our society has made great advances in the past year alone. One of the major political parties has nominated a black man to its ticket, and the other responded by choosing a female running mate.

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Crash course

By Cory Barker · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 10:29 p.m.

The world could have quite literally ended Wednesday morning, and chances are you had no idea anything deadly was even happening. A doomsday situation involving a global catastrophe or the appearance of an enormous black hole was actually possible. But again, you more than likely had no clue about any of this. It’s extremely disappointing that the majority of the mainstream media glossed over the fact that scientists flipped on the largest, most powerful particle-blaster in history 100 meters underground early Wednesday morning.

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External bus revenue necessary

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 10:28 p.m.

Recently, the public transportation provided by both IU Campus Bus Service and Bloomington Transit have been cut by about 19 percent and 3 percent, respectively, due to the rising cost of diesel fuel and other expenses. Both transportation operators have had to cut services because of a lack of additional revenue to cover rapidly increasing costs.

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Status: Facebook doomed!

By Brian J. McFillen · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 10:26 p.m.

The end is nigh! Robert Frost suggested the world would either end in fire or in ice, and T.S. Eliot postulated it would end not in a bang but in a whimper. They’re both wrong: It ends with a click! This week, the mad demigods of technology have unveiled an “advance” that holds the potential to destroy humankind and all we hold dear. Once activated, there will be no stopping it, no negotiating with it, merely the icy hand of death as our world is ripped apart by forces beyond our comprehension. Oh, sure, they might claim that this is all doom-mongering, that their intentions are benevolent and the experiment harmless, that everything is under control. But such arrogance shall reap naught but tragedy, and the piper will demand payment of us all!

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Former official: Bush OK’d U.S. raids in Pakistan

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 9:16 p.m.

President Bush secretly approved U.S. military raids inside Pakistan against alleged terrorist targets, according to a former intelligence official with recent access to the Bush administration’s debate about fighting al-Qaida and the Taliban inside the area.

Nation remembers WTC attack’s 7th anniversary

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 9:12 p.m.

The nation paused Thursday morning to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with heartfelt remembrances at the World Trade Center site, the dedication of a memorial at the Pentagon and a planned visit to ground zero by the presidential candidates.

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John Myers' attorneys file petition to transfer

By Emily Gibbons · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 5:20 p.m.

Defense attorneys for the man convicted of murdering an IU student in 2000 submitted a petition Wednesday to appeal the decision to the Indiana Supreme Court, alleging juror misconduct and constitutional violations.

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7 IU women to be featured in Playboy

By IDS staff · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 2:16 p.m.

Seven IU female students will hit the stands in Playboy’s "Big 10" issue Friday. These women are seven of about 100 who auditioned to be Playboy starlings last October in Bloomington and of 48 Big Ten women featured in the issue.

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Scientists beaming after testing big atom smasher

Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 12:28 a.m.

GENEVA – A small blip on a computer screen sent champagne corks popping among physicists in Switzerland. Near Chicago, researchers at a “pajama party” who watched via satellite let out an early morning cheer.The blip was of cosmic proportions, representing a new tool to probe the birth of the universe.The world’s largest atom smasher passed its first test Wednesday as scientists said their powerful tool is almost ready to reveal how the tiniest particles were first created after the “big bang,” which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the stars and planets.

Firefighters raise a flag late in the afternoon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, in the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in New York. In the most devastating terrorist onslaught ever waged against the United States, knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center toppling its twin 110-story towers.

Defining a generation

By Ben Phelps · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 12:21 a.m.

Everybody remembers what they were doing seven years ago today when they heard, or saw, that terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “Older people say they remember when JFK got assassinated,” said sophomore Jennifer Marinaro. “That’s now our thing. We’ll always remember where we were and what we were doing when that happened.”

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Students for McCain, Obama to debate today

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, Sept. 11,2008 12:02 a.m.

There might be eight weeks to go until Election Day, but students at IU are already prepared to face off.IU’s Students for John McCain will debate Students for Barack Obama at 7 p.m. today in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. The debate will cover topics including the economy, the war in Iraq, energy policies and national security among other issues.

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