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Sara Amato

Snap, Crackle, Bloomington POPS

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Tables, blankets, food vendors and families filled the Ivy Tech campus Saturday for the 11th annual Fourth of July event “Picnic with the Pops.”


APTOPIX Bonds Homers Diamondbacks Giants Baseball

Bonds close

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Barry Bonds hit his 750th career home run Friday night, pulling the San Francisco slugger within five of tying Hank Aaron’s record.


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French Lick casino lags state in revenue

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FRENCH LICK, Ind. – The French Lick Resort and Casino – hailed as a key to a potential economy recovery for Southern Indiana – continues to wage an uphill financial struggle eight months after opening.




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What I really, really want

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It was 1994. I was seven years old. It was the year “Dumb and Dumber” premiered and Ace of Base was cool. It was the year that I saw the sign, but OJ Simpson clearly didn’t as he drove past them in his white Ford Bronco while being chased by the police. But most importantly, 1994 was the year the Spice Girls formed and my jump to adolescence became educational.


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NCAA academic requirements too low

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From the time many of us first threw a baseball, picked up a tennis racket, wrapped our hands around the laces of a football or heard the snap of the net as a basketball went through the hoop, dreams of future stardom played out in our heads. For the few athletes around the nation who mastered athletic accomplishments in high school that deemed them athletically capable of jumping to the next level those dreams become realistic. However, even if they impress the recruiters, coaches and national media, judgment on whether or not they will participate will still be pending until they are granted eligibility by the NCAA Clearinghouse.





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Gas the pre-frosh

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I hate pre-frosh. They’re like locusts. They swarm in droves of thousands upon thousands, destroying crops and devouring Burger King as if their parents hadn’t fed them in three weeks. And like locusts, only a small fraction of them are feeding at any given moment, while the rest are buzzing around campus, getting caught in students’ hair, accosting professors on their way to class and splattering their high-school-educated brains all over my windshield.


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Up in smoke

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Hear that? It’s the raspy, repeated, thick-with-phlegm sound from around the corner. Probably a smoker from the smell of things. That’s a wicked cough they’ve got. Wait, it’s someone standing next to a smoker? Dude, weak.


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Highway hellfire

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I always enjoy my drive back home from IU, primarily because of the scenery I pass along the way. I’m not referring to the lush forest preserves along Highway 46 or the rolling Appalachian foothills I encounter on my way through Tennessee; what interests me are the billboards by the side of the road.


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Nomenclature, baby

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The social security administration recently released the top baby names of 2006, proving again people have never seen the film “Splash.” The girl’s name Madison, that ubiquitous name of every new baby about which you hear, is on the decline after sweeping through the naming ranks, taking just number three this year.


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University of Nevada to arm professors

Universities across the country have been feeling the effects of the Virginia Tech shootings. Last month Notre Dame announced it would install an emergency communications system that would send voice and text messages to students in the event of an armed intruder on campus. But we’re not sure how effective that will be. Instead, we should lock our scopes on the solution proposed by the University of Nevada.