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Disclosure of affair cost Edwards $15K from IU

By Ben Phelps · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:53 a.m.

After Union Board members announced Wednesday that former Sen. John Edwards will speak at IU in November, many in the IU community questioned why he was speaking after admitting to an extramarital affair while his wife battled cancer. Those same discussions took place among Union Board members long before Wednesday’s announcement.

McCain campaign hopes new ads will keep Hoosier state red

By Kristi Oloffson · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:52 a.m.

A recent bout of television spots featuring Republican presidential nominee John McCain have led some to believe the presidential nominee is starting to pay more attention to Indiana. With less than five weeks until the election, the Republican National Committee decided to spend $5 million on the ads in six total states, including Indiana. While Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign has poured millions of dollars into this historically conservative state, Republicans had yet to respond until this week.

Senior Rose Byrne watches the debates with friends Thursday evening at a house on East University Street. Many different groups watched the debates across the city.

Democrats believe debate is a win for Biden

By Sean Morrison · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:50 a.m.

As Sen. Joseph Biden prepared for the debate of his life, his fans prepared to hear him. In a small, cramped room with a creaky wood floor strewn with chairs, they gathered. They met to see a debate. What they got was a performance, as they said Biden sent Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin down a “bridge to nowhere” during Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate.

People watch as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin debates Joe Biden during a watching party on Thursday night in Woodburn Hall. The party was sponsored by the Student Alliance for National Security.

Palin passes test, Republicans say

By Kristi Oloffson · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:49 a.m.

After Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finished the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, junior Justin Hill, chairman of IU Students for John McCain, relaxed. Palin had passed the test. “I think she had two big goals tonight,” Hill said. “One, that she had to come across as still being Sarah Palin – that she could be herself. That she could connect with Americans.”

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, and Republican candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shake hands before the start of a vice presidential debate at Washington University in on Thursday in St. Louis, Mo.

Meet your mates

By JIM KUHNHENN · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:47 a.m.

ST. LOUIS - Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the economy, energy and global warming, then challenging him on Iraq, "especially with your son in the National Guard."PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Honoring the wrong man

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:29 a.m.

While I respect differing views on issues, and support freedom of speech, I do find it sad that Indiana University would award Gen. Peter Pace anything. Mind you, the award is funded not from student fees, but private funds. Regardless, this man is the epitome of bigotry and homophobia.

Nice guys finish last

By Rachel Goldberg · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:28 a.m.

Ever since the 1999 song “Nice Guys Finish Last” by Green Day, a pivotal issue was posed to our generation, and we can take it seriously because this is right before Green Day completely sold out. The question hangs in the head of every kind-hearted boy – must they really finish last?

Slander now, secede later

By Shane Springer · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:26 a.m.

For those of you who watched the presidential debate last Friday, you no doubt witnessed firsthand the “Straight Talk” slandering express that is the McCain campaign. The event was more of a long-running succession of campaign attack ads than it was a debate. A poster child for tax breaks to big oil, McCain once again showed the nation just how out of touch and out of date he is in respect to running this great country of ours.

VP candidates play to strengths

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:25 a.m.

Joe Biden managed to not look like a sexist jerk and had a sensitive moment in which he nearly broke out in tears. Sarah Palin stumbled on the word nuclear and said “maverick” close to a thousand times but came off fairly competent. Yes, it looks like most of the pundits got this debate wrong. The candidates played mostly to their strengths – Biden seemed articulate and knowledgeable, Palin seemed folksy and sometimes down to earth.

Unlimited texts, limited social skills

By Julia Boriss · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:23 a.m.

Unlike you, I’ve never had an unlimited texting plan. My parents are under the laughable impression that texting is unnecessary and not something they should pay for. So I’ve been on a plan called “unlimited texting until Dad notices.” It took a couple years, but he did. So now I am trying to limit myself to sending and receiving 250 texts a month. This might sound reasonable, especially when you consider all the things that most people in this world are forced to live without. But this means I can only send and receive eight texts per day.

Junior Keane Rowley breakdances in front of Ballantine Hall Tuesday afternoon. Rowley and others performed as part of "Breakin Da Ballot," an event organized by several student Hip Hop organizations to draw attention to voter registration. For more information search for the event "Breakin Da Ballot" on facebook.

‘Pop, drop and lock’: Break Dancing Club promotes voter registration

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:55 p.m.

Break dancing, or breaking, is the original hip-hop dance performed throughout the country, from the streets of New York to the warehouses in Los Angeles to its newest home on the curbs outside Ballantine Hall.

Obama’s version of free speech

By Mitchell Blatt · Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:51 p.m.

If Barack Obama needs to send any legal papers my way after reading this column, he can find me in Read Residence Center, floor 5, Curry wing. After all the disruptions, smear campaigns and legal threats that Obama’s campaign has pursued against his critics, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he had something for me as well. Obama has a disturbing record this election season of trying to silence critics with Chicago-style tactics.

2 distinguished professors reflect on President’s Medal for Excellence

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:50 p.m.

Aside from each holding the title of distinguished professor emeritus at IU, Denis Sinor and Harvey Phillips have little in common. But now, both are getting used to being recipients of one of the University’s highest honors.

Cyclists ride in Bucket 100 to raise money for Habitat for Humanity

By Greg Rosenstein · Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:48 p.m.

The third annual Bucket 100 Bike Tour, sponsored by the IU and Purdue University Habitat for Humanity chapters, is an event where cyclists from both schools travel from Bloomington to West Lafayette in hopes of raising awareness and money for their local chapters.

Senior Jason Fried helps students register to vote at INPIRG's "Vote Boat" Thursday outside the arboretum near the intersection of 10th Street and Fee Lane. With the vast effort by several student groups in the last few weeks, INPIRG volunteers wanted to do something different to attract potential voters.

Vote Boat cruises to IU

By Peter Stevenson · Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:47 p.m.

“Arrrghhhh you registered to vote?” he bellowed, clipboard and pen in hand. The pirate, senior Brendon Liner, was just one of many volunteers throughout campus registering students to vote before Monday’s deadline.

U.S. to build new, more secure embassy in London

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:26 p.m.

The United States says it plans to sell its landmark London embassy and build a more secure facility on industrial land south of the river Thames.

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek third term

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:24 p.m.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’s going to ask the City Council to change the city’s term-limits law so he can run for a third term.

Amish school shooting’s anniversary to be ‘normal’

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:22 p.m.

Nickel Mines, Penn.Empty pasture is all that’s left on the site of the one-room Amish schoolhouse where a gunman left five girls dead and five others wounded two years ago, and the anniversary of the massacre was expected to pass quietly Thursday.

Bush on bailout: ‘A lot of people are watching’

Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:20 p.m.

President Bush and congressional leaders lobbied furiously Thursday for enough House support to push the troubled $700 billion financial industry bailout bill to the finish line, and the measure won converts from both parties on the eve of a showdown vote.

Runners compete in 72nd Jamboree

By Kyle Abrell · Thursday, Oct. 2,2008 11:18 p.m.

Looking to make long strides forward in their season, the IU men’s and women’s cross country team will travel to Stillwater, Okla., this weekend, home to the nation’s oldest cross country race.