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Sustainability: What is it, anyway?

IU President Michael McRobbie’s announcement last week of the need to appoint a full-time director of sustainability strikes the editorial board as both practical and heartening, if not a bit overdue.Just a couple of autumns ago, green plastic water bottles with the slogan “I Give A Sh*t” became almost as common a sight on campus as textbooks, backpacks or whatever else students carry around daily. They symbolized what seemed like a popular and powerful sentiment at the time: that nothing should stop one of the country’s largest and most wired universities from becoming more ecologically aware. Yet such short-lived campaigns (in spite of the popular price discount any bottle-bringers received at dining halls) proved nothing when it came to the airy issue of sustainability.

Column skewed evidence

In a Sept. 4 commentary, Chelsea Kane, chairwoman of the IU College Republicans, writes, “The top four of five states for gun ownership (in which Indiana is second) are also in the top five states with the lowest rates of gun violence.”

Pro-Lifers feminists too

In the Indiana Daily Student of Sept. 3, Indira Dammu wrote in the opinion section that pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin and feminists like her are “masterful at appropriating the word ‘choice,’ casting it as a catchall phrase for abortion. 

How’s your history?

If you’re like me (younger than 25), your most reliable sense of history probably begins around the time you were born. Even so, our generation has filled out voter registration paperwork, watched CNN or Fox News daily and often perused USA Today or the New York Times (because, as students, we get it free) so as to pretend we’re reading something not spooned out for us on a digital platter.

Swept under the rug

Kids are slobs. Think about your room when you were younger, carpeted with Legos or those pointy little Barbie shoes or any number of other things that would send a barefooted passerby who didn’t watch his step to the emergency room. Even so, when your mom told you to clean your room up, it seemed pretty illogical, didn’t it? If you trashed your room, as long as you kept the door closed, what did it matter? And if company came over, why put on a front of cleanliness? Why run the risk of creating unrealistic expectations for the future?

Girl power? Not so much

The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote in a presidential election. Since then, it’s taken 88 years for a woman to actually be a serious contender for presidency. The year 2008 could go down in history as a great year to be a woman, though Bristol Palin might disagree.

Plethora of rushing scores squash Racers

Last week, it was Kellen Lewis owning all of the yards on the ground. On Saturday, IU coach Bill Lynch split it among a tandem of running backs. The Hoosiers (2-0) easily beat Murray State, 45-3, and commanded the game throughout the evening. Murray State, a Football Championship Series school, was overmatched against an IU team that wracked up 477 yards of total offense.

Obama event in Terre Haute draws 1,000

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.- Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made a campaign stop in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday afternoon, just two days after Republicans concluded their convention in St. Paul, Minn.

3 IU students assaulted with sharp-edged weapon

UPDATED:  After an attack on three students early Saturday morning, the IU Police Department has received several calls from people who have seen the composite of the suspect. IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said one individual saw someone who matched the composite running away from the scene.

IUPD investigating stabbing

The IU Police Department is currently investigating a possible stabbing Friday night at Briscoe Quad. No other information is available at the time.

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Georgetown transfer part of IU’s future

Doc Rivers had just finished restoring Boston’s rich basketball tradition when it hit him. Hot Pockets.

Bomb kills 2 U.S. soldiers in Iraq

A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat deaths in the capital in a week.

Hanna devastates large Haitian city

Floodwaters frustrated efforts by Argentine peacekeepers to distribute food at orphanages marooned by Tropical Storm Hanna on Thursday.

Detroit mayor pleads guilty

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to felony charges Thursday in a sex scandal, forcing him out of office after months of defiantly holding onto his job leading the nation’s 11th-largest city. He was ordered jailed for four months and fined $1 million.

IU uses past upset as incentive to keep focus

Last week, the IU football team made a mockery out of its season opener against Western Kentucky, a team just recently inducted into college football’s top tier. On Saturday, the Hoosiers host a team that didn’t quite make the cut.

IU students, other young Republicans believe GOP can prevail in November

ST. PAUL, Minn. – They absolutely love Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Their goal is to convince everyone else their party will prevail. But these Republicans attending the convention this week aren’t older than 50, and many have their own definition of change. Meet the young Republicans.

IU Republicans applaud ‘sincerity’

When Arizona Sen. John McCain asked them to stand up, leaders of the IU College Republicans rose to applaud the “straight talk” approach.

Ready to fight

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Sen. John McCain urged Americans to fight with him Thursday night as he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for president of the United States.

Young Hoosiers set for next big test