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It’s weed, get over it

By DJ Funkhouser · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:20 p.m.

It’s doubtful you missed it; the president’s son caught smoking weed made big headlines on campus last week. I can’t really remember what our first reaction was upon hearing the news. We at the Opinion desk thought about which angle we wanted to take on the matter, addressing whether or not it was newsworthy, if he’d get the same treatment as any other student, etc. But I immediately reacted differently. Oddly, considering how much I like to poke fun at the news, none of that came to mind. Instead, I thought, “God, weed is still bad?”

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Obama’s inauguration censored

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:11 p.m.

China censored its translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, removing references to communism and dissent, and quickly halted state television’s live broadcast of the address when Cold War-era animosities were mentioned.

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N. Korea, Iran open to U.S. efforts

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:09 p.m.

North Korea and Iran, two nations with nuclear aspirations the U.S. wants to thwart, both signaled Wednesday that they were open to new initiatives from President Barack Obama that could defuse tensions.

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GM falls behind Toyota in annual global sales

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 10:07 p.m.

Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp. sold more cars and trucks last year than General Motors Corp., stripping the Detroit automaker of the No. 1 global sales crown. But it’s a victory made hollow by the overall industry’s continued struggle for viability amid one of its worst sales declines ever.

Comedian Tom Mabe performs Monday evening at Bear's Place. This year marked the 26th year of the Comedy Caravan at Bear's Place, making it the longest running comedy series in America.

Bear’s Place celebrates 26th anniversary with famous prankster

By Tyler James Perry · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:46 p.m.

Nationally-known comedian Tom Mabe came to Bear’s Place Monday Night to help celebrate the 26th anniversary of Comedy Caravan by doing his signature stand-up routine.One of his albums, “Revenge on the Telemarketers,” was released on Virgin Records and featured pranks he played on telemarketers who called him. The idea was to waste the telemarketer’s time because he said they were wasting his. His new television show on Country Music Television is called “Mabe in America” and features a combination of Mabe’s pranks and comedy routines.

People read banners during the opening reception for "Rock, Rhythm & Soul: The Black Roots of Popular Music" Thursday in the City Hall Showers Building. The traveling exhibit features banners highlighting key points in African American music, and was put together by the IU Archives of African American Music and Culture.

Exhibit explores black roots of pop music

By Ashlee Green · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:44 p.m.

An exhibit featuring African-American culture as the roots for much of America’s popular music will take place in Bloomington City Hall Atrium through Jan. 26, with a schedule of events including gallery talks and musical performances. The Archives of African-American Music and Culture created “Rock, Rhythm & Soul: The Black Roots of Popular Music,” a traveling exhibit promoting and informing people of the history and roots of black popular music.

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Read ‘The Reader’

By Erica Rogers · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:41 p.m.

Books. The idea of reading them makes some people cringe, but it doesn’t always have to be a negative experience. Although I love watching movies, and I currently have a list five feet long of television programs with which I am keeping up, books have an element that movies and TV will never have.The most recent novel I have read is “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink.

Members of the National Institute for Fitness and Sport watch as President Barack Obama is sworn into office as they continue to work out on the gym's rowing machines Tuesday in Indianapolis.

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:23 p.m.

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Grand jury indicts man who faked his death

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:18 p.m.

A federal grand jury indicted an Indiana investment adviser Tuesday on charges of deliberately crashing his small airplane in the Florida Panhandle to try to fake his own death as part of a plan to escape financial ruin.

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Newborn abandoned in shoebox

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:16 p.m.

A newborn baby was found in a shoe box on the porch of a home in the northeastern Indianapolis suburb of Lawrence.

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Children’s home faces closure

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:14 p.m.

Opponents of the state’s plan to close a home for troubled children in Knightstown are planning a Statehouse rally to press their cause.

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Proposed bill to protect ill adults

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:13 p.m.

Indiana would join several states that have public warning systems to help find endangered, missing adults if a bill endorsed by a state Senate committee Wednesday becomes law.

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Fallen bridge might relocate

Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 9:11 p.m.

A southern Indiana county might need to repay $123,000 in federal funds if it goes ahead with a plan to give away the surviving sections of a 19th-century covered bridge that collapsed into a river.

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Chaos in Washington doesn’t keep people from having hope in Obama

By Kristi Oloffson · Wednesday, Jan. 21,2009 12:05 a.m.

About 2 million people packed the National Mall on Tuesday to attend the inauguration of America’s first black president. The sea of people extended from the Capitol building to the Lincoln Memorial, nearly a two-mile stretch. But the distance and commotion surrounding Washington hardly mattered to those who turned out, for one reason: history.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

President Barack Obama waves to the crowd just after being sworn in as the 44th president at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in Washington.

Obama takes historic oath

By Audrie Garrison · Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 11:58 p.m.

Barack Obama raised a hand to history as he recited the oath of office as the nation’s 44th president, declaring Americans have “chosen hope over fear” and promising to rebuild the country in difficult times. About 2 million people poured into the National Mall to watch the country’s first black president address the crowd from the Capitol building. The chanting throngs of spectators began to turn out before dawn in sub-freezing temperatures and spanned from the Capitol building past the Washington Monument.

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Civil Rights trip explores American Indian culture

By MaryJane Slaby · Tuesday, Jan. 20,2009 11:56 p.m.

In the spring of 2010, junior Eli Major will escape the winter weather in Indiana and travel west to student teach on a Navajo reservation. But on Thursday, Major and 50 others bundled up against the Indiana cold before traveling to Lawrence, Kan.

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