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Head-to-Head

By John Wustrow · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The IU football team has seen it all since it started spring practice four weeks ago. The first day of practices saw spring-like warm weather and clear skies. Last Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage saw snow as the temperatures dipped below freezing. “Any weather’s football weather for me,” said senior cornerback Leslie Majors. “We play in it all. It’s hot in the summer, then it gets cold in the winter. It’s the whole season combined in three little short weeks; we got the heat and the cold.”

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Agencies try to raise $70K for homeless

By Shannon McEnerney · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Joel Rekas has his walking shoes out for Sunday. The fifth annual Homeward Bound Walk will take place in the Bloomington, and will benefit the Shalom Center, along with 12 other agencies, from the money and awareness raised.

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Minnesota, Wisconsin await Hoosiers on road

By Joel Sanders and Joel Sansers · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

IU softball coach Stacey Phillips said road trips can be one of two things: They can be long and difficult or they can be important bonding moments for the team. As the Hoosiers prepare for their first road trip of the Big Ten season, they said they hope it’s the latter of the two.

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IU looks for 3rd tourney win of spring season

By Mandy Eid · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The IU men’s golf team looks to improve its record this weekend at the Kepler Intercollegiate tournament in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by Ohio State. The team hopes to play 54 holes, but weather might prevent two full rounds of play on both Saturday and Sunday.

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Rubber ducks to race in Jordan River Sunday

By Whitney Mitchell and Mandy Hyndman · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Although it’s not commonly used as a bathtub, the Jordan River might look like one on Sunday during Alpha Phi Omega’s 17th annual Rubber Duck Regatta. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Dunn Meadow. Proceeds from the philanthropy will be donated to the March of Dimes campaign.

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I'm broke!

By Kirk Nathanson · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Christ on crutches, haven’t you trustees taken enough from me? You told me this would be the most rewarding experience of my life, so I put my whole life on hold for you, and now look at me. I’m eating Ramen noodles out of an old recycled beer-pong cup. The label is so faded that I don’t even know which pizza company delivered it. For all I know it was here when I moved in. If it weren’t my last fully intact dish I would have burned it for warmth last week.

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Officials: Ohio man aided al-Qaida plot

By Abisalom Omolo and Matt Leingang · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal grand jury indicted an Ohio man on charges of joining al-Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas, officials announced Thursday.

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Whitney ‘acts’ on her instinct

By Lindsey Landis · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

Whitney first tried to break into the modeling world in her hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. She explained that the agents were looking for stick thin Brazilian girls, so the plus-size black girl just didn’t stand a chance. She auditioned for cycle seven of America’s Next Top Model, giving up her position on the Dartmouth women’s basketball team. She didn’t make the seventh cycle, but was called back for the eighth. She landed a spot on the show, and abandoned her studies at Dartmouth. She has since returned and will graduate with a degree in sociology in June.

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IU set to face Notre Dame in Indianapolis

By Linnea Coulter · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

This weekend the IU men’s soccer team will travel up to Indianapolis to take on in-state rival Notre Dame. Although the game will be played on neutral ground, it’s not the venue that will be a challenge for the Hoosiers – it’s the competition.

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Second King of the Court is Saturday

By Heather Haemker · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

For basketball enthusiasts, the Business Careers in Entertainment Club will be holding the second annual King of the Court basketball tournament this Saturday at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation building from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Group collects furniture, appliances for the poor

By Heather Haemker · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

It’s the end of the year, and students all over campus are finding ways to get rid of unwanted furniture. Rather than throwing it away, some students are donating it to a good cause. This Saturday, St. Vincent de Paula faith-based charity, is opening a furniture distribution center, where students can donate furniture they no longer want to less-fortunate people.

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Event to highlight Africa’s cultural achievements

By Emily Spitz · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The IU African Students Association’s goal is to “uplift the African consciousness” about Africa’s cultures, said President Axelle Atchade, which is why the group is hosting an African Culture Night this weekend that focuses on Africa’s cultural achievements.

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Duke DA apologizes to lacrosse players after pursuing case for year

By Aaron Beard · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

DURHAM, N.C. – The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes Thursday and said the North Carolina attorney general’s decision to drop the case was right. “To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said.

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Hoosiers face pair of rivals this weekend

By Kevin Kane · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

The toughest weekend of the season has passed, but the IU women’s tennis team can’t fall asleep on this weekend’s opponents. The No. 33 Hoosiers lost to No. 2 Notre Dame and now-No. 9 Northwestern last weekend in what was the team’s most difficult pair of matches this season. IU’s schedule eases up this weekend, but only by comparison.

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Around the World

By Abisalom Omolo · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

A Norwegian oil rig support vessel carrying 14 people capsized off northern Scotland on Thursday, and four crew members were missing, the coast guard said. Ten crew members were rescued after the Bourbon Dolphin capsized off the Shetland Islands, said Mark Clark, a coast guard spokesman.

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Changing our priorities

By Indira Dammu · Friday, April 13,2007 12 a.m.

America is a country of contradictions. We might be a nation of immigrants, but we actively condemn those who cross borders for a better life. We might be the freest nation in the world, but we are also home to its largest prison population. As a society that has greatly neglected the needs of the poor, we are quick to express moral outrage towards same-sex marriage, drug users and murderers. And perhaps no group receives such denunciation like sex offenders.

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