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Students hang out outside Hartzell’s Jiffy Treet after eating ice cream on Kirkwood.

Mild West show

By Alberto D. Morales · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 12 a.m.

Vince Vaughn -- comedy's fleshy white everyman, object of admiration for dudes and bros the world over and eager heir to Will Farrell's throne -- should not be considered a sage giver of advice.

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Underwater Archeologists discuss Captain Kidd shipwreck

By Kalyn Hippleheuser · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:49 p.m.

Cannonballs, jars and rum bottles. These artifacts were found at the site of the Captain Kidd shipwreck in the Dominican Republic and sat on display outside the Whittenberger Auditorium Tuesday night after the hour-long lecture, “Columbus and the Taino to Captain Kidd and the Golden Age of Piracy.”

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Women to gather, wear red, learn to be heart smart

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:44 p.m.

Women clad in red clothes will take over the Wildermuth Gym beginning at 2:30 p.m. this afternoon. The “Go Red for Women” event will raise awareness about women’s heart health and will feature tables for free health screenings, makeup tips from Clinique representatives, snacks and door prizes for attendees. Door prizes will include a dinner with Mayor Mark Kruzan, T-shirts, restaurant gift certificates and a basket of red items.

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Group to pass out condoms, candy

By Lauren Savitskas · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:43 p.m.

One in four girls in college will be raped before she leaves school, according to Robin Warshaw’s book, “I Never Called it Rape.” The IU group RAISE, which stands for Raising Awareness of Interactions in Sexual Encounters, is trying to spread the message about consent and sexual assault throughout campus today by passing out condoms and candy to people passing by Ballantine Hall at 11 a.m.

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Angus Shaw · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:38 p.m.

Barack Obama powered past Hillary Rodham Clinton in the race for Democratic convention delegates Tuesday on a night of triumph sweetened with outsized primary victories in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

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Bush insistent on new wiretapping bill

By Angus Shaw · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:37 p.m.

WASHINGTON – President Bush pressured the House of Representatives on Wednesday to pass new rules for monitoring terrorists’ communications, saying “terrorists are planning new attacks on our country ... that will make Sept. 11 pale by comparison.”

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Green campus won't deter students

By Carley Knapp · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 11:25 p.m.

I was disappointed and confused when I read last week’s staff editorial about making IU more sustainable (“Shades of green,” Jan. 30).

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Testing officials

By Nick Nichols · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:45 p.m.

I’m a 1979 IU graduate and was one of only four people in the room when former coach Bob Knight signed his first IU recruit (Steve Green, Silver Creek H.S., Sellersburg, Ind.) in June 1971, so it’s safe to

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Ignorance isn’t bliss

By Jeff Moerchen · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:45 p.m.

I am writing in response to an opinion piece by Nicholas Wallace in the Feb. 11 IDS. I realize that the way newspapers largely define themselves is through their opinion sections, which are

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Hamer falls short

By Brad Snyder · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:43 p.m.

Waddell Hamer’s opinion article on the legacy of Ronald Reagan is one of the stupider things I’ve seen in the news in some time. He leads with a blow against

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Duke it out

By Elliot Hayden · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:42 p.m.

Editors note: The statistical figures in this letter were provided by the author, not the IDS editorial staff. The misinformation and distortion of facts presented in the Jan. 31 edition of the Indiana Daily Student in an article titled “Duke Energy to build new Edwardsport coal

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Don’t wait to reform Farm Bill

By Isabel Estevez · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:40 p.m.

Every five years the Farm Bill is revised and re-approved by Congress. And for many years, the farming community has been fighting a losing battle to achieve much-needed reform to

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Be kind to Ratliff

By Matt Adams · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:39 p.m.

Why does the staff at the IDS always have to bash A.J. Ratliff? Whenever his name is in the paper that is all that is said about him

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Take away foulmouth fans’ tickets

By Rochelle Tinsley · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:36 p.m.

I would be interested in knowing the demographic makeup of the current student ticket holders who blatantly display their ignorance by their vulgar chants at our

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IU should honor Knight

By Chuck Lichtman · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:34 p.m.

It’s time IU makes its peace with Bobby Knight. Perhaps no single person contributed as much to IU as did coach Knight. Three national

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Striking out?

By Cory Barker · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:32 p.m.

It’s been more than 14 weeks since the Writer’s Guild of America decided to strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television

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Ban up in smoke

By Jacob Levin · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:31 p.m.

More than a month into IU’s first tobacco-free semester, I’ve yet to notice any change. Walking to class most days I still have to find creative routes around people who walk with cigarettes, and every so often I cut through whole

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Tainted love

By Jonathan P. Rossing and Jonathon P. Rossing · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 10:30 p.m.

Welcome to the most anticipated, dreaded, loved, feared and cherished day of the year. Call it Valentine’s Day, Singles Awareness Day, a “Hallmark Holiday” or simply Feb. 14, but everyone has an opinion about this blessed or cursed day.

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