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Elkhart woman charged with killing her 4 children

By Alyson Brodsy and Tom Coyne · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:59 p.m.

ELKHART, Ind. -- A prosecutor is considering seeking the death penalty against a mother charged with strangling her four young children. Angelica Alvarez, 27, of Elkhart, was ordered to be jailed without bond on four counts of murder during a court hearing held Wednesday just hours after she was released from Elkhart General Hospital. She had been in the hospital since being found unconscious with a faint pulse Nov. 14 next to the bodies of her children, ages 2 to 8.

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Lilly gives philanthropy center $40M

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:56 p.m.

A $40 million endowment grant to the Center on Philanthropy at IU will help certify the center as one of the nation's top institutions of its kind for years to come.

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Alternative spring break offers Jamaican trip, opportunity to learn foreign culture

By Andrea Knapp · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:51 p.m.

For the third year in a row, students will be jetting off to Jamaica for spring break to earn IU credit. Roots, Fruits and Jamaican Ecologies: Cultural, Agricultural and Environmental Initiatives in the Blue and John Crow Mountains is a three-credit, service-learning course being offered again this year as an "alternative spring break."

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I fought Black Friday, and I won

By Alyson Brodsy and Teri Rosenbaum · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:48 p.m.

Everyone has a time of year that's special to them. For some, it's Restless Leg Syndrome Education & Awareness Week; for others, it's Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month. Well, this weekend was my special time.

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Center may expand senior art options

By Lindsey Landis · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:46 p.m.

Plans are in the works for a Bloomington center where senior citizens can stay active in the arts. On Nov. 19, the director for the National Center for Creative Aging, a New York-based initiative to create arts programming for older adults nationwide, Susan Perlstein, held a workshop at the John Waldron Arts Center to launch a local chapter of the Center for Creative Aging. She presented examples of work that senior citizens have done in creative aging centers around the country.

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Jacobs School of Music makes 10 sound investments

By Kevin Caldwell · Sunday, Nov. 26,2006 10:44 p.m.

The fingers of some of the finest piano students have new reason to tickle the ivories: The Jacobs School of Music has added 10 new Steinway & Sons pianos to its collection. Unlike years past, these pianos are not on loan but were purchased after the school's loan plan with Meridian Music fell through in July.

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UPDATE: Commission recommends increase of funding for IU

By Brian Spegele · Wednesday, Nov. 22,2006 5:50 p.m.

IU saw a promising first step in attaining a greater portion of state funds Monday when the Indiana Commission for Higher Education made their state budget recommendation. The executive-appointed committee called for a 2.5 percent increase in state operating appropriations in 2007-08 for the University, said J.T. Forbes, IU director of state relations.

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Boiling Point

By Tim O Brien and Tim O'Brien · Tuesday, Nov. 21,2006 4:11 p.m.

WEST LAFAYETTE -- IU senior safety Will Meyers ran off the field Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium as Purdue fans and players celebrated all around him and his Hoosier teammates. Playing in his last collegiate game, Meyers felt the emotions run through him -- disappointment, disbelief and anger. But most of all, he felt aggravation. "The tears hadn't really started yet. It was more frustration," Meyers said. "I just wanted to get off (the field) before anything worse happened." Meyers is one of 21 seniors who played their last game as Hoosiers on Saturday, a 28-19 loss against Purdue in West Lafayette.

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32 U.S. college students named Rhodes Scholars

By David Weber · Monday, Nov. 20,2006 4:53 p.m.

BOSTON -- Harvard senior Parvinder Thiara's life was reshaped when his beloved grandfather died of infectious diarrhea from drinking tainted water in India while Thiara prepared to begin his second year in college.

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IU Cancer Center receives $50 million gift

Monday, Nov. 20,2006 4:53 p.m.

The IU Cancer Center received a $50 million gift to support both cancer research and patient-care initiatives, IU President Adam Herbert announced Monday.

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