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IU student trains as cage fighter

By Kyle Meehan · Wednesday, July 18,2007 8:27 p.m.

Cage fighter Luke Taylor manically pounds on the short bag in the balmy confines of the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation’s “Dungeon,” throwing his entire shoulder, hip and torso into each alternating blow. “Take his side!” fellow fighter Mike Griffin yells, and Taylor swings his hips and legs over to the right side of the bag. “Knees!” Griffin shouts as he paces around the bag, keeping one eye on the clock.

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Festival Jazz Orchestra draws large crowd

By Chris Pickrell · Wednesday, July 18,2007 8:22 p.m.

The Festival Jazz Orchestra performed in front of an enthusiastic audience on Tuesday night at the Musical Arts Center auditorium as part of the Jacobs School of Music’s Summer Music Festival.

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Intramural summer season coming to an end

By Linnea Coulter · Wednesday, July 18,2007 7:55 p.m.

After several weeks of flag football, water volleyball, basketball and dodgeball, the incoming freshmen with the Groups program only have one more week of intramurals before the summer season is officially finished.

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Modernized classic

By Sara Amato · Wednesday, July 18,2007 7:40 p.m.

J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” has been mod-ernized to fit our generation in Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

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Prescription-drug abuse on the rise

By Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:46 p.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – Sometimes coffee just isn’t enough. After their energy has perished and they’re in over their heads with finals, some students skip the caffeine and find other ways to stay awake.

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‘Other’ colleges gaining popularity

By Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:46 p.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa – With orientation season well underway across the country, many students are taking campus tours and registering for classes at colleges. That is, community colleges – an increasingly popular option for recent high school graduates.

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The end is nigh

Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:31 p.m.

I was heavily distressed by the attitude expressed toward Earth First! in your opinion section on Monday (“Earth First! Common Snese Last!” July 16). We’re facing major catastrophic consequences due to destruction of and estrangement from the natural environment at levels never before seen in history.

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Soldiers are murderers

By Steve Salter · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:30 p.m.

Loren Steinfeld’s letter to the editor, “Soldiers not Terrorists” (July 5), supporting the slaughter of civilians in Iraq is a typical opinion of those who think the end justifies the means.

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Earth First! radicals a necessary evil

By Steve Salter · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:29 p.m.

I was very amused to read the IDS editorial titled “Earth First! Common sense last!” (July 16). My first smile appeared when I read “... radical environmentalists/anarchists ...”

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Grow up, people

Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:28 p.m.

Classes on Friday? Getting up for an 8 a.m. class? Waaaahh? Folks, this is the real world we are preparing for - a five-day work week with most jobs starting at 8 a.m. My prior schools (University of Texas and Texas A&M) had classes on Friday, and I believe it was good discipline

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Either all lives are sacred, or none

By Aaron Spector · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:25 p.m.

In her letter “Soldiers not terrorists” (July 5) Loren Steinfeldt responds to an editorial by Grace Low, “Wake Up!” (June 25), in which Low criticizes the U.S. military for the deaths of seven teenagers in an air strike that targeted Abu Laith al-Libi, al-Qaida’s leader in Afghanistan.

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Letter proves white privilege is the future of racism

By Aaron Spector · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:24 p.m.

I write in response to Joe Bialek, whose letter to the editor on July 5 (“Affirmative action unnecessary, improper”) championed the recent ruling by the conservative majority in the U.S. Supreme Court limiting the use of race in assigning students to public schools.

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A return to national greatness

By Brian Stewart · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:23 p.m.

Columnist George Will once said that you can tell who the real conservative is by asking, “Who would you have voted for in 1912?” (The conservative’s answer, by the way, is Taft.) Republicans failed to nominate Theodore Roosevelt, who subsequently launched the “bull moose” ticket and split the Republican vote, ceding the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

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Moore facts

By Colleen Carroll · Wednesday, July 18,2007 5:21 p.m.

The Internet’s been all a-titter lately over the Michael Moore-CNN feud. The fight began after Moore objected on live television to a report by dreamy CNN neurosurgery correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta about his film “SiCKO,” which directly preceded Moore’s interview by Wolf Blitzer.

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