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TELEVISION HISTORY

By Linnea Coulter · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:55 p.m.

Five national championships. A 32-0 season record in 1976. Bob Knight and Branch McCracken. The Hoosiers have a timeless reputation in the basketball world. Recently, the Hoosiers publicly revealed the little-known but quietly celebrated fact that a plaque has been added to the west wall of the Wildermuth gym to mark the location of the first-ever televised regular season collegiate basketball game: IU vs. Valparaiso, played Dec. 6, 1951.

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Scooter Libby sentenced to 2 1/2 years in CIA leak case

By Abdullah AlShihri and Matt Apuzzo · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:36 p.m.

Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Tuesday for lying and obstructing the CIA leak investigation, the probe that showed a White House obsessed with criticism of its decision to go to war. I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the highest-ranking White House official sentenced to prison since the Iran-Contra affair, asked for leniency, but a federal judge said he would not reward someone who hindered the investigation into the exposure of a CIA operative.

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Books not fries

By Jacob Stewart and Jake Stewart · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:08 p.m.

IU President Adam Herbert, in the waning days of his tenure, recently instituted a course-credit policy that will give Ivy Tech students easier access to the University. Herbert, along with Ivy Tech President Gerald Lamkin, signed what has been dubbed a “memorandum of understanding” that outlines more than 100 courses which will carry credits transferable to IU.

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Little red look

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:07 p.m.

Picture this: You’re walking down the streets of Beijing, minding your own business, not paying much attention to anything, when all of a sudden you see the imperious gaze and the unmistakable balding head of Chairman Mao.

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Illegal Education

By Amanda Lowry · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:04 p.m.

Last week, the Connecticut Senate passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, will allow residents who are the children of illegal immigrants to attend the state’s public universities at the same tuition rates as in-state citizens.

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Years in review

By Brian McFillen · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:03 p.m.

Starting this week, USA Today will begin celebrating its 25th anniversary by publishing 25 lists over the course of 25 weeks, each consisting of 25 things from the last 25 years. (Get all that?) The first list is 25 things that have died out since 1982.

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Mr. Globalization and the protestors

By Edward Delp · Wednesday, June 6,2007 7:02 p.m.

Here we go again. In scenes reminiscent of Seattle and Edinburgh, Scotland, anti- G-8 protesters in Rostock, Germany, this past week turned violent. They found creative ways to assault police officers and attacked the hotel where the American delegation was rumored to be staying. Talks about global warming, anti-AIDS and poverty efforts in Africa and the world economy were said to be on the agenda.

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Evals flawed, but fixable

Wednesday, June 6,2007 6:59 p.m.

The scenario is the same every semester. On one of the last days of class, the instructor passes out course evaluation forms, which are met with cheers from some students who are grateful not to have to sit through the rest of the class lecture, and groans from others who are reluctant to put in the effort of filling in the 25 or so bubbles on the questionnaire and inevitably wind up bubbling Mickey Mouse faces in the ovals.

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Adams’ death ruled accidental drowning

By Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, June 5,2007 12 a.m.

David Toumey, the Monroe County coroner, declared IU Student Media Director David L. Adams, an 18-year member of the Indiana Daily Student newsroom professional staff, dead from accidental drowning. Adams, who was pronounced dead at 10:37 p.m. on June 2, was found facedown in a koi pond in his backyard.

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‘He knew so much, and in him passing we will lose so much’

By Kaitlin Shawgo and Kailtin Shawgo · Monday, June 4,2007 5:17 p.m.

The impact of IU Student Media Director Dave Adams’ passion for free student press extended far beyond IU. He acted as executive director of the Journalism Education Association, faculty adviser on the Indiana Collegiate Press Association board, leader of College Media Advisers and held various other positions, making him well-known as an advocate for students’ First Amendment rights.

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4 charged, 3 arrested in JFK Airport terror plot

By Abdullah AlShihri and Adam Goldman · Sunday, June 3,2007 11:41 p.m.

Federal authorities announced Saturday they had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a “chilling” attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods.

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RPS updates, renovates dormitories

By Nadia LaMantia · Sunday, June 3,2007 10:14 p.m.

While many IU students are relaxing this summer, Residential Programs and Services is working hard to fix up the residence halls in time for the fall semester.

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Rockin' Tooth and Nail

By Sarah Neely and Sarah A. Neely · Sunday, June 3,2007 10:05 p.m.

Those who thought Blink-182’s slow descent from raw punk rock to a watered-down, made-for-MTV version of the same genre signified the end of the in-your-face music were wrong.

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