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Dealership offers free car to ‘Be Cool, Stay in School’

By Jessica Anderson · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:59 p.m.

While college professors struggle to keep daily attendance high throughout the semester, Monroe County high schools have a new incentive to encourage students to stay in the classroom. Students from the Monroe County Community School Corporation who have perfect attendance records will be entered to win a 2007 Pontiac G5, with a price tag of around $16,000, from Curry Buick Cadillac Pontiac GMC Inc. in Bloomington. “It’s really cool for whoever wins,” said Mari Welton, a junior from Bloomington High School South.

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Detained Iranians released after Iraqi intervention

By Bassem Mroue · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:57 p.m.

Eight Iranians, including two diplomats, were released by U.S. forces Wednesday after being detained because unauthorized weapons were found in their cars, the U.S. military said. An adviser to the top U.S. general in Iraq called the detentions “regrettable.”

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Second anniversary of Katrina brings celebrations, anger

By Cain Burdeau · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:56 p.m.

As bells rang out, honoring the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans, residents paused from their grim rebuilding efforts Wednesday to remember the dead and all their neighbors who are still unable to return.

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How to succeed in auditions*

By Leah Linder · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:27 p.m.

Roles in IU Department of Theatre and Drama productions are available to any student. Check out the director’s notes below to learn the ins and outs of auditioning for IU productions.

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Issues of stereotyping, judging confronted in ‘cowboyily’ at BPP

By Ashley Craft · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:25 p.m.

It has been over a decade since Steven Cole Hughes last visited Bloomington, but this time he will not be sitting in a classroom. Instead, he will be relaxing and watching his play “cowboyily,” opening tonight at 8 p.m. on the Bloomington Playwrights Project stage. Hughes, a playwright and IU alumnus, created “cowboyily,” a play that shows the clashing of two different characters: the “city mouse” and the “country mouse,” and examines how they coexist.

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Around the Arts

Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Dirty Projectors with Yacht, Vampire Weekend and Normanoak When: 8 p.m., tonight Where: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. More Information: Over three full length albums, an EP, and five different live bands in four years, David Longstreth has created in Dirty Projectors a body of music that’s original and beautiful. The breadth of his talents as a songwriter, arranger, bandleader and singer call to mind Prince, Joni Mitchell and Bjork. Tickets are $5 for IUB students, $10 for the general public.

Burning Man Burned

Burning Man torched prematurely in Nev.

By Lisa Leff · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 11:19 p.m.

Burning Man became Burnt Man four days early on Tuesday. A San Francisco performance artist was arrested on suspicion of igniting the signature figure of the counterculture festival in the remote Nevada desert.

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8 IU students win Fulbright Scholarships

By IDS staff and Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 10:02 p.m.

Eight IU students received U.S. Student Fulbright Awards. Selected from the 1,300 Fulbright award recipients for the 2007-2008 school year, the students will travel abroad and participate in research or education projects of their choosing.

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McRobbie to hold office hours

By IDS staff and Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 10:01 p.m.

Now, professors aren’t the only ones with office hours. On Friday students can stop by IU President Michael McRobbie’s office in Bryan Hall 200 from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.

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Report: Cybersecurity breaches common at universities

By IDS staff and Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, Aug. 29,2007 10 p.m.

IU’s computer systems are protected by passwords and firewalls, but that doesn’t mean users are safe. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an article advising that many of the millions of online security breaches reported nationally in the past three years occurred at colleges and universities.

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