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Library union raises questions

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Tempers flared at Wednesday night’s Monroe County Public Library board meeting as library trustees and community members sounded off about the possibility of unionizing the library.


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The business side of arts

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Since she was a child, junior Samantha Weiss has wanted to work in a museum. Now, after enrolling in IU’s new undergraduate Arts Administration Program, Weiss was granted the chance to intern next summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “I always had an interest in museums, but wasn’t aware of how to study it in college,” she said.



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Spice Girls greatest-hits album to be available in stores Nov. 13

NEW YORK – Wanna be the first to score a copy of the Spice Girls greatest-hits album? You’ll have to go through Victoria’s Secret to get it. The newly reunited British girl group’s CD will be available starting Nov. 13 at Victoria’s Secret stores and on the company’s Web site in the U.S., Capitol Music Group said Tuesday.


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IU reaches record amount of donors, receives $268.5M

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A record number of donors was recorded as IU received $268.5 million in private-sector support in 2007. President Michael McRobbie announced IU’s accomplishment Monday. The large sum of gifts from donors and non-governmental research grants reached the third highest level in IU history, according to an IU press release.


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Course schedule no longer offered in printed form

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News that there will no longer be a print edition of the IU schedule of classes has been met with mixed reactions from staff, faculty and students. From now on, the schedule will only be available on the Registrar’s Web site.



Chris Pickrell

‘The Real Thing’ debuts Friday

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In every healthy relationship, there are said to be several key elements: trust, honesty and respect. But what happens when all of these things are completely thrown out the window?


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Colbert tosses his hat into GOP ring

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NEW YORK – Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on “The Colbert Report,” tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race.



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What is Art?

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After I purchased my tickets for this Friday’s Bob Dylan performance at Assembly Hall, I rushed to catch the 6 bus home, where I did the one thing that dominated my mind – watched all four hours of Martin Scorsese’s, “No Direction Home.”


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Unplug coach Sampson’s phone line

When IU hired Kelvin Sampson in March 2006, it hired a man who brought some baggage to Assembly Hall. Most everyone knows about his teams’ poor graduation rates, as well as the sanctions the NCAA placed on him for impermissible phone calls while at Oklahoma. At first, it was sort of a big deal. Then Sampson pulled the coup of the century by luring Eric Gordon away from Illinois and then followed that up by leading the team into the second round of the tournament. Going into Hoosier Hysteria, asking anyone about the infractions would’ve warranted a response like, “Huh? Eric Gordon? What?”


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Run Al run?

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Al Gore is perhaps the biggest example of what is wrong with modern politics, and the current presidential candidates could learn a lot from him. During his eight years as vice president, he was largely thought of as a bore. He was an intelligent man with an unfortunate knack for putting people to sleep with every speech he gave. Unfortunately, he was so disliked that in 2000 he lost to George W. Bush, one of the most unimpressive candidates we have ever seen. That was Al Gore the politician, the man who followed every safety rule in the political book.


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Those we leave behind

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Generally speaking, it’s not wise to repeat bad ideas. Yet President Bush is pushing for Congress to renew his 2001 “No Child Left Behind” law that created universal standards and tests to measure student proficiency in reading and math. Under the law, schools that fall below the government-mandated standards are dubbed failures.


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Can I get an amen?

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Attention, Jews: Ann Coulter, the strongest case for the abolition of the First Amendment and the self-proclaimed voice of American conservatism, thinks you have some room for improvement. In fact, last week on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” Coulter declared exactly what you have to do to make said improvements – convert to Christianity.


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Don’t jump the gun

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I noticed two articles in the Washington Post early this week that made me think that one of two things had happened: either I had stepped into an alternate bizarro dimension, or the First Amendment had been repealed and the government had taken control of the media.


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Folklore educates students about ghosts, hip-hop

The cobbled streets of Fess Avenue are filled with small, quaint houses that resemble small-town America. Some of those houses hold IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, a nationally known program.