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FNECC provides cultural support for American Indian students

By Kevin Wang · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 10:09 p.m.

For nearly four years, the First Nations Educational and Cultural Center has been a hub connecting American Indian students at IU and promoting diversity.

Committees focus on educational trends, evaluate degrees to offer optimal programs

By Lindsey Mohlman · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 10:06 p.m.

Three new committees designed to evaluate the academic functionality and efficiency of IU’s curriculum will spend this semester examining what IU has to offer and how it can be improved.

McRobbie approves 3 academic committees to analyze academics, Old Crescent buildings

By Katie Dawson · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 10:05 p.m.

IU President Michael McRobbie announced last week the creation of three new academic committees.

The Best of What You’ve Never Heard Of: Music

By Brian Welk , Adam Lukach , Max McCombs , Brad Sanders , Steven Arroyo , Katelyn Colvin , Mikel Kjell and Ryan Martin · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 8:15 p.m.

WEEKEND suggests fifteen great underground artists

Best of What You’ve Never Heard Of: Movies

By Brian Welk , Adam Lukach , Max McCombs , Brad Sanders , Steven Arroyo , Katelyn Colvin , Mikel Kjell and Ryan Martin · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7:55 p.m.

WEEKEND runs down fifteen unappreciated gems

Best way to hear what you've never heard, listen

By Steven Arroyo · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7:17 p.m.

Expand your musical tastes

You haven’t heard of it, so now please watch it

By Brian Welk · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7:12 p.m.

Great films don't have to be popular

Staff editorial: France's expulsion of the Roma is racist

By Celia Grundman · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7:02 p.m.

Tempers flared at a recent European Union summit when French President Nicolas Sarkozy argued with President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso about France’s continuing deportation of Roma migrants. Sarkozy took special umbrage to E.U. Justice Commissioner Vivian Reding’s lamentation that “this is a situation I had thought Europe would not have to witness again after the Second World War.”

You’d be crazy to buy the deluxe edition

By Julia Shedlin · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7:01 p.m.

New re-release of classic for die-hards only

Does your Facebook hurt, 'cause it's killing me

By Paige Henry · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 7 p.m.

Facebook in the middle of class. We might not do it ourselves, but we’ve all seen it. Lecture is boring, students opt for Facebook. Woot. Because Facebook gets you to use your brain in ways professor XYZ never will. Facebook gives you skills.

Pondering pumpkins

By Francisco Tirado · Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 6:56 p.m.

Wednesday was the autumnal equinox. With this, I can now comfortably accept the crunchy pile of leaves that collects around the bike racks near the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. I can tape my string of kitschy synthetic leaves above my writing desk.