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Nobel nominee speaks on campus

By Carly Dachis · Tuesday, Sept. 26,2006 11:04 a.m.

As Rebiye Kadeer walked into the lecture room where members of her audience watched and smiled, she held both hands to her heart. It was only a year and a half ago in a Chinese prison that she was forbidden to read, write, speak or smile. Those who simply looked at her were tortured. Kadeer, a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, spoke Monday night in Wylie Hall on the state of her oppressed people and the life she led before her imprisonment during a 40-minute lecture. With the help of her assistant and translator Alim Seytoff, Kadeer entertained listeners through her subtle jokes and tales of her rich experiences. "The happiest moment of a person's life is to pay a price for the freedom of her people," Kadeer said during her lecture. "If a person can't love his family, his people or his homeland, he can't love anybody."

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BS doesn't stand for "bus stop"

By Alyson Brodsy and Tyler James Perry · Tuesday, Sept. 26,2006 3:22 a.m.

Sept. 21, the Indiana Daily Student reported that some campus bus routes are going to change starting Oct. 1. Campus Bus Services shortened the B bus route and scheduled the X buses to stop running an hour and a half earlier.

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Iraq moves ahead with constitutional reform

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 26,2006 12:13 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's feuding ethnic and sectarian groups moved ahead Monday with forming a committee to consider amending the constitution after their leaders agreed to delay any division of the country into autonomous states until 2008.

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Bring on the Braille

By Don Kaczorowski · Tuesday, Sept. 26,2006 12:11 a.m.

At many restaurants Mary Stores has to either have a friend read off the menu or have the server tell her what is on it. Stores, a Bloomington resident who is blind, said this isn't a pleasant experience. "The waiter has other things going on, and I get the short version," she said. Stores is just one of the visually impaired persons who will benefit from a recently announced program designed to bring Braille and large-print menus to more restaurants in the Bloomington area.

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IU rugby player punches DePauw opponent

By Kristi Oloffson · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:55 p.m.

A women's club rugby game turned violent Saturday when an IU player allegedly assaulted a player from DePauw University around noon, according to an IU Police Department report.

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Famous Hoosiers form new class of Hall of Fame inductees

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:54 p.m.

Basketball player Alan Henderson, golfer Erika Wicoff and sportscaster Dick Enberg headline this year's class of Indiana University Hall of Fame inductees. The rest of this year's class, announced Monday, includes basketball player Jon McGlocklin, tennis player Dave Power and baseball star Mike Smith. Wicoff, McGlocklin, Power and Smith will all be inducted Nov. 10 and will be recognized at halftime of Indiana's football game Nov. 11 against Michigan. Enberg and Henderson, who still plays in the NBA, will be inducted when their schedules permit.

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U. Penn hiring young professors

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:53 p.m.

Philadelphia -- Crotchety old science professors are becoming a rarer breed, at least for students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the last five years alone, Penn's Engineering School has made a total of 35 new hires, and more than half of the engineering faculty were hired within the last eight years, according to Engineering School Dean Eduardo Glandt. And some of these professors are just a few years older than the students they teach.

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New program will help grad students adjust to campus

By Nick O'Neill · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:53 p.m.

IU's Graduate and Professional Student Organization will kick off a new program Friday geared toward building a stronger community and work environment for those in graduate school. The program, called "Breaking and Entering," a tongue-in-cheek reference to the film "Breaking Away," was created to help students "break" into everyday life on the IU campus as they enter a new phase in their lives.

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'Btown Menus' offers discounts, delivery

By Ryne Shadday · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:07 p.m.

In its second year in Bloomington, Btownmenus.com is continuing to grow. The business, started by juniors Peter Margulies and Michael Rollandhab when they were freshmen, continues to gain popularity as new people find out about the services the Web site offers, they said.

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Starbucks raises prices of coffee drinks

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:06 p.m.

SEATTLE -- Got three bucks? That and a nickel will buy you a coffee drink at Starbucks. Starbucks Corp. said Thursday that it planned to raise the prices of its lattes, cappuccinos, drip coffee and other drinks by 5 cents, an average of 1.9 percent.

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Widow of man mauled by dogs upset upset

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:02 p.m.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. -- The widow of an 83-year-old man killed by dogs said Monday she's dissatisfied that the dogs' owners were sentenced to home-detention. Belva Fiscus, 79, called the attack "murder by dog," as she testified at Monday's sentencing hearing for neighbors Andy and Anita Warren. "They got away with murder," Fiscus said after the hearing. She said the Warrens should go to jail as a warning to others who might let dangerous dogs run loose.

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Woman robs IU student

By Audrie Garrison · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11:01 p.m.

A Bloomington woman robbed an IU student of her purse after she became upset because the student was talking too loudly on her cell phone, police said. Bloomington police arrested Rachel Artis, 23, on preliminary charges of robbery, a class C felony.

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Voting machine glitch in 5,000 machines not reported by company

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 25,2006 11 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A voting machine company is working to fix a software glitch in 5,000 machines in Indiana that forced a voting systems developer to prevent voters from casting a straight-party ballot. Officials with the Indiana Election Commission were upset that MicroVote General Corp. did not tell them sooner about the software problem. The general election is Nov. 7.

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