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18 women turn out to learn self-defense skills

Along with her classmates, former IU student Alaa Fadag put on knee and elbow pads, a padded helmet and gloves to test her self-defense skills against her rape aggression defense instructors.


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Take down

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While IU Police Department Sgt. David Rhodes has been teaching martial arts since the late 1980s, he didn’t open his own studio until five years ago.






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Spare us the speculation

As an Indiana alumnus, a graduate of the Ernie Pyle School of Journalism and a working journalist, I’m a little disappointed by what the IDS chose to run in its Feb. 25 paper in regards


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Support low-income Hoosiers

As legislators consider property tax reform in HB 1001, they must be mindful that any increased sales tax would have a substantially greater negative impact on hard-working low income


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NBC: nothing but crap

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Recently, I found myself watching the “Knight Rider” remake/TV movie/backdoor pilot on NBC. Though not a fan of the original, I


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Encouraged by Mormon story

This is regarding Ben Phelps’ article, “Mormon missionaries describe daily lives in Bloomington” (Feb. 18). I wanted to thank Ben for writing an uplifting and informative article about


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Gun control doesn’t reduce crime

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As a 2007 Indiana University alumnus, born and bred Hoosier and passionate lover of the U.S. Constitution, I was deeply dismayed by Indira Dammu’s Feb. 13 piece, “Guns



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Follow through

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I am writing in regard to the eating disorder “story” that was recently in the Health and Science section, “Distorting body image” (Feb. 19). I was expecting to find a well


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New e-mail a welcome change

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I would like to start out by commending the powers-that-be who made the decision to allow Gmail and Microsoft to supply e-mail to IU students. The


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Don’t sweat it

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Say, do you know where that cute outfit you have on was made? I didn’t think so. Unless you’re wearing


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Take Action

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More than ever in recent memory, IU needs a student government that really cares about its job.



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Don’t kill Coke

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The IDS ran a story on Feb.13 about the campus group No Sweat! and its goal to persuade IU not to renew an exclusive contract with Coke in 2009. According


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You’ll live in that crappy dorm ...

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We say “dorms.” Now, you say what imagery comes to mind. Bad food. Worse beds. Showers you won’t touch barefoot for fear of athlete’s foot, dysentery or SARS. Now, we say “Arizona State University dorms.” And now? Heated pools. A theater. An 8,000 square-foot gym. Tanning beds. Cabanas. Wait. Cabanas? Wanting slightly higher living standards in one’s freshman year is understandable, but there comes a point when enough is enough. Vista Del Sol, a new dorm option on Arizona State University’s campus, has reached this point.