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INPIRG screens film featuring fair trade coffee

By Jeff Lipps · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:41 a.m.

Armed with mugs and a desire to learn about the coffee market, IU students gathered Monday night in Collins Living-Learning Center to watch the screening of “Black Gold.” “Black Gold” chronicles the crusade of one Ethiopian, Tadesse Meskela, in his quest to liberate fellow Ethiopian coffee farmers from a market that fails to consider the farmer and his living conditions.

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Film series focuses on cultural lifestyles

By Elvia Malagon · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:40 a.m.

The third annual Native Film Series will focus on contemporary Native American life. Rebecca Riall, co-chair of the Native American Graduate Association, said the film series is meant to show students the history and contemporary lives of Native Americans through visual means.

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Kicked while you're down

Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:05 a.m.

For Denisha Dennis, it had been a rough semester. Her GPA had dropped a bit, and she needed to work hard to get it back up. But as she moved back to campus after break, imagine her surprise when her dorm key didn’t work. It wasn’t an accident. The State University of New York at Old Westbury decided to kick any student with a GPA below 2.0 out of the dorms until they raised their GPA.

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 11:37 p.m.

Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.

Jon Twurog, left, of Noblesville, Ind., and Steve Adams, right, of Indianapolis, applaud while attending an “Equality is a Hoosier Value!” rally at the Statehouse Monday in Indianapolis. Indiana Equality staged the rally to denounce Senate Joint Resolution 7, which would ban same-sex marriages.

Lawmakers show support for amendment to ban gay marriage

By Deanna Martin · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:59 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A majority of lawmakers in the Indiana House have signed a petition showing their support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage – despite a decision by House leaders not to give the proposal a hearing this year.

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Acting out ‘slavery’

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:58 p.m.

On Wednesday’s episode of “Conversations,” host Brian Spegele welcomes Bloomington resident and amateur actor Barry Grooms to discuss the importance of Black History Month in a 21st-century context.

Rachael’s Cafe owner and founder Rachael Jones prepares vegetables Tuesday, Feb. 5, for the cafe’s Fat Tuesday celebration.

Beyond the beverage

By Zach Schalk · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:57 p.m.

Running a cafe was not always the career path Rachael Jones pursued, but now she owns and runs Rachael’s Cafe, located on the southeast corner of Third and Lincoln streets.

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Lead with green

By Tristan Reitz · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:22 p.m.

If Democrats want to mobilize large numbers of voters, they will have to do one thing that the Republicans have done very well, and that is pick an issue that strikes a nerve with its base. Republicans this year seem to have picked immigration, and the Democrats should respond with hammering away at something that not only excites its base, but also independents.

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Britney's shame

By Jennifer Miller · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:22 p.m.

It’s hard to pass a magazine rack without seeing the pop princess splashed across cover after cover, probably doing something embarrassingly contrary to her once squeaky clean image. But the racks look different lately: Many headlines have a sense of urgency instead of smug amusement.

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Breaking free

By Thomas Wachtel · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 10:20 p.m.

One of my early political memories was the NATO action in Kosovo in 1999. That was when I, along with many other politically inclined youths, learned the name Slobodan Milosevic and what “ethnic cleansing” meant. We learned the difference between Serbs and Albanians. We learned that sometimes the world community needs to step in to stop a human disaster.

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Cuban President Fidel Castro resigns

By Associated Press · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 3:28 a.m.

Ailing leader Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president early today, saying in a letter published in official online media that he would not accept a new term when the newly elected parliament meets on Sunday.

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Eyes to the sky

By Trevor brown · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 12:57 a.m.

The distant call of a red-shouldered hawk pierced the crisp morning air Saturday at the Beanblossom Bottoms Nature Preserve. Hearing the screech, Nancy Martin clutched her binoculars to her face, scanning the barren tree line before finally spotting the elusive raptor darting from tree to tree. Martin, a local middle school teacher, and several members of Bloomington’s sizeable bird-watching community braved the cold Saturday, counting and identifying birds as part of the Great Backyard Bird Count, an annual event during which thousands across the U.S. and Canada gather data about their local bird populations.

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The road to the best seat in Assembly Hall

By Dave Leno · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 12:37 a.m.

Sporting their classic candy-striped warm-ups, the Hoosiers emerge through an array of cheerleaders onto the court – the cue for public address announcer Chuck Crabb.

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