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Buskirk-Chumley presents 'The Welcome Table'

By Kelsey Finn · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 10:33 p.m.

Malcolm Dalglish’s “The Welcome Table” will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets for the event are $18 and $25.

Farmers and actors collide in ‘Drawer Boy’

By Melissa Sokolski · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 10:31 p.m.

The play opens Friday and runs through March 7, with performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, along with 2 p.m. shows each Saturday and Sunday, at the John Waldron Arts Center. The show is part of ArtsWeek 2010.

Local woman planning community orchard

By Kevin Doran · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 10:05 p.m.

Bloomington resident Amy Countryman is trying to set up a completely free and publicly maintained fruit-tree orchard in the City of Bloomington.

Board of trustees to meet, discussing important projects

By IDS staff · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 8:43 p.m.

The IU board of trustees met Thursday and will meet Friday at the IU-Kokomo Kelley Student Center.

Pro-lifers co-opt race

By Stephen Hammoor · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 7:52 p.m.

“Every 4 days in American more black children are killed through abortion than the KKK killed in 144 years.” This is a base-energizing, factually misleading, hardly original and grammatically challenging tidbit given front-page billing on the Georgia Right to Life’s Web site.

Courting on campus

By Jordan Zaslow · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 7:51 p.m.

If a journalist from the New York Times came to Bloomington and asked me how I felt about the men on IU’s campus, I would have to plead the Fifth.

A required class we actually need

By Tyler Atkins · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 7:50 p.m.

I propose that a required course be created that is targeted at soundly instructing students on the crucial aspects of science.

Minimum wage hike is good politics, bad policy

Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 7:45 p.m.

WE SAY Members of Congress should focus more on the minimum wage’s adverse effects on the poor than on its shallow political appeal.

HPER professor selected as Fellow

Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 5:13 p.m.

Professor of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, Barbara Hawkins, was selected as Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education.

Bio-diverse?

By Molly Johnson · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 4:32 p.m.

2010 is International Biodiversity Year for advocacy and education, but for IU professor Vicky Meretsky, every year is biodiversity year. “We hope this will give us an opportunity to reach out, an opportunity for educating,” Meretsky said. “The people who work in conservation can only do so much without expanding the number of people involved.”

Missionaries freed by Haitian judge back in US

Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 3:56 p.m.

MIAMI — Eight American missionaries were back on U.S. soil Thursday but still faced possible child kidnapping charges in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-ravaged country. The group’s leader, Laura Silsby, and her former nanny, Charisa Coulter, remained in a Port-au-Prince jail because a judge said questions still remained about their plans to set up an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

NJ bridge searchers: Baby’s survival odds are slim

Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 3:54 p.m.

NEWARK, N.J. — Officials searching for a baby believed to have been thrown off a bridge by her father acknowledge her chances of survival are slim by now. Teams with boats, dogs and helicopters have found no sign of 3-month-old Zara Malani-lin Abdur in their third day of searching under a river bridge on the Garden State Parkway.

NY questions health claims of some 9/11 responders

Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 2:03 p.m.

NEW YORK — Lawyers defending New York City against thousands of lawsuits filed by Sept. 11 emergency responders say many of the claims are baseless and have asked a judge to dismiss some of the first cases headed toward trial.

Snygg’s laugh still resonates through ArtsWeek

By Mickey Woods · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 12:24 a.m.

Fran Snygg had a laugh that rippled through every corridor she walked down. It was childlike, the kind of uproariously whimsical sound that would inspire laughter from others. The outgoing New York dancer, choreographer and artist never met a stranger. But Fran died at 53 in 1996 of diabetic complications. Today marks the beginning of the 26th-annual ArtsWeek, a project Fran pioneered and directed during the final 10 years of her life as a tribute to the diverse artistic culture in Bloomington.

Celebrate YourBody week panel discussion

Panel: Students should celebrate their body size

By Amanda Day · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 12:20 a.m.

This week students are urged to celebrate their bodies — no matter what the shape or size. To emphasize this message a panel discussion took place Wednesday night at the Student Recreational Sports Center auditorium focusing on body image and eating disorders.

Students dine, donate to Haiti

By Nick Cusack · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 12:18 a.m.

Student volunteers manned the food tables a little before 5 p.m. as the Haiti Benefit Dinner was about to begin in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall. They stood at the vegetarian table, the non-vegetarian table and the dessert table amid the pre-start panic. “Where’s the bread?” someone yelled.

Shalom Center denied funds

By IDS staff · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 12:17 a.m.

The City Council approved a grant Wednesday giving $133,000 to community organizations. However, the grant leaves out funding for the Shalom Community Center’s Hunger Relief Project.

Tell me your turn-off

By Carly Bassen · Thursday, Feb. 18,2010 12 a.m.

Pussies. From their claws and fangs to their mysterious prowl, I hate cats. Who knew this fear would follow me to college?

Students promote conservative party during political action conference

By Lindsey Mohlman · Wednesday, Feb. 17,2010 11:46 p.m.

Political commentator Glenn Beck, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and IU College Republicans will be together at the Conservative Political Action Conference sponsored by the American Conservative Union Foundation today through Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Student assaulted in McNutt Quad

By VINCE ZITO · Wednesday, Feb. 17,2010 11:43 p.m.

Two unidentified men assaulted an IU student in his dorm room Wednesday, police said. IU Police Department officers arrived at McNutt Quad at 2:48 a.m. in response to a call from a male complainant in McNutt-Bocobo.