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(Oxy)morons

By Dave Dawson · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:15 p.m.

For those of you who don’t know, an oxymoron is a contradicting turn of phrase. These quips are typically celebrated by the same unfunny relatives that thrive on puns, generally ranging from stupid (“military intelligence”) to mildly amusing (“Microsoft Works”).

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Move on already

By Tristan Reitz · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:13 p.m.

If there is one thing we Americans love, it is being outraged. Hand wringing, massive protests and boycotts seem to be the norm, even if it is over nothing. No one knows how to use outrage more to their advantage than politicians, and unfortunately, most of it is manufactured to get votes and divert attention from other more important issues.

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Protect the vote!

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:11 p.m.

In 1870, as the country was recovering from the ravages of civil war, the American people ratified the15th Amendment, guaranteeing the rights of all men to vote regardless of ethnicity or previous condition of servitude.

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Dollar Bill Pool Butcher

By Matt Peyton · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:09 p.m.

A headline ran on the Indianapolis Star’s Web page today that read, “Police: Man robs gas station with pool cue, butcher knife.” Now, my first thought was that in listing the weapons used to commit this crime, shouldn’t the butcher knife have been listed before the pool cue? I guess that’s just me being a journalism major, though.

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9/11 must be discussed

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:08 p.m.

I am quite tired of hearing mindless cries from those who wrongly think themselves most qualified to talk about 9/11. The IDS was absolutely not in bad taste to question the official line on 9/11 on its anniversary.

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Cooper’s column nothing but advertisement

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:05 p.m.

Regarding Chase Cooper’s column “Education or Indoctrination,” from Oct. 3, I am forced to wonder why you, the editors, would allow a column-long unpaid advertisement for a film in the IDS.

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IU should make the most of Playboy

By Paul Hamilton · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:03 p.m.

Some might find it racy, and some might think Playboy magazine vulgar and degrading. But are those who say so the same people who sport Playboy tote bags, belly rings, tattoos or those cute little bunny heads on your hip bone to show off the intensity of your tan?

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Democrats fighting through different means

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:02 p.m.

As the president of the IU College Democrats, I would like to respond to the opinion column “War and Peace” that ran Sept.19 in the IDS. The basis of this piece is that Democrats, on both a national and campus level, are not doing anything proactive to end the war in Iraq, and that some may not even be opposed to it.

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“Cleaning house” contains errors

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8:01 p.m.

In reference to your Op-Ed article Tuesday (Oct. 2) in the IDS, “Cleaning House”: The statement that the GPSO was responsible for getting graduate students dental insurance is flat-out wrong.

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Cooper new right-wing mouthpiece

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 8 p.m.

It’s nice to know that the Opinion section is keeping in the tradition of hiring one right-wing mouthpiece every year, and this year it appears to be Chase Cooper.

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Would proper grammar kill you?

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 7:59 p.m.

At the top of your Opinion page, above a column bewailing the extinction of languages, “The Living Dead,” is a piece attributed to the IDS Editorial Board titled “Judging Jena”.

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Plenty of Pulitzers to go around

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 7:58 p.m.

In defense of journalists before and after Bob Woodward: In Peter Stevenson’s Sept. 18 article, “‘Bob Woodward: democracies die in darkness,’” IU School of Journalism’s Director of Communications Beth Moellers indirectly stated that, as a compliment to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward, “‘Very few people are Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists ...’”

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Catholicism misunderstood

Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 7:57 p.m.

In the IDS on Tueday, Sept. 25, columnist Grace Low wrote an editorial titled “Hippie Catholics.” While I was very happy to see Ms. Low take pride in her faith and identify with the Vatican’s eco-friendly future plans, I feel that my fellow Catholic misrepresented the Church’s beliefs in her closing line, “Now can we please have condoms and acceptance for gays?”

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Guster keeps it together

By Rorye O'Connor and Rorye O'Conner · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 12:40 a.m.

As soon as the lights in the IU Auditorium went down Tuesday night, everyone in the crowd jumped to their feet, screaming. Guster took the stage amid swirling yellow and blue stage lights and quickly began to play. The crowd stayed pumped up throughout the show, dancing and clapping along with the music, and enthusiastic fans punctuated the words of the songs with joyful shouts and screams.

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First ladies of Indiana, IU to speak on heart disease

By Michael Reschke · Wednesday, Oct. 3,2007 12:33 a.m.

Cheri Daniels, along with IU first lady Laurie Burns McRobbie, will speak about the disease Thursday at IU through Daniels’ “Heart to Heart” program. Daniels encourages women who attend the program to share what they’ve learned about the risks of heart disease with loved ones through heart-to-heart talks.

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