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IU places 4th at Nationals in San Jose, Calif.

By Josh Sacks · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:33 a.m.

Although the Frank Southern Ice Arena -- where the IU figure skating team practices -- closed a month before its season ended, it did not prevent the team from practicing. Whether it was carpooling to Indianapolis or finding another sheet of ice, team members searched for places to go to refine their skating skills.

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Hoosiers end 11-game road trip at Xavier University

By Jake Brown and Jacob Brown · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:28 a.m.

Since conference play started, the mid-week non-conference games have been a struggle for the IU baseball team. Two weeks into the Big Ten schedule, the Hoosiers have lost both weekday games and have gone on to drop three of four games to conference opponents that weekend.

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Blame the dream job

By Alyson Brodsy and Ryan Corazza · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:28 a.m.

This one hurt. Just when the IU faithful thought the women's basketball program had received a wave-up from the bouncer guarding the door at the club of emerging basketball programs, we were promptly given the boot once we reached the front of the line.

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Relaxed IU hosts Kentucky

By Chris Sauer · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:27 a.m.

Stuck on a five-game losing streak, the IU softball team decided to play a new game in practice yesterday -- kickball. The game of kicks was not just for kicks, though. The team's members said they hope yesterday's loose practice atmosphere will go a long way to break the current slide the Hoosiers are on.

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The joy of sharing

By Alyson Brodsy and Drew Smith · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:24 a.m.

The great thing about being on a campus this big is that it seems that there is always something to do, whatever type of person you are. If you like sports, go and play intramural soccer, basketball, dodgeball or a wide array of other activities. If you love helping out the community in anyway possible, as this columnist does, last weekend proved that there were many different contributions one could make on a small level of society.

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Not just a pretty face

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Dorman · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:23 a.m.

In the olden days when families tuned in to the nightly news while eating their TV dinners, the anchor was most likely a somber, gray-haired white male. His persona evoked feelings of confidence and calmness. So as Katie Couric prepares her move from the "Today Show" to anchor CBS Evening News, Americans can't help but ask: during a time of national emergency, wouldn't we be better off with a mature, established male anchor -- one who provides calm and control amid the chaos of daily events?

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Deserving greeks

By Alyson Brodsy and Christina Galoozis · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:22 a.m.

I have been at the Indiana Daily Student for a while now. Four years to be exact. Every year, we get the same complaints -- our coverage of minorities sucks, a new reporter misquoted an important source, the Opinion page is too far to the left and we pay too much attention to one party over the other during the Student Association elections.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:20 a.m.

I've been all over, and so far I've found cultural stereotypes' accuracy levels to be pretty disappointing. I've known polite, friendly French people (who like Americans!), Germans with senses of humor, laid-back Brits, Italians who aren't in the Mafia (as far as I know -- wink, wink) -- the list goes on. And when it comes to regions within the United States, the stereotypes do even more poorly. Thanks to free movement, mass media and the fact that we didn't spend 1,000 years as tiny, antagonistic kingdoms -- the cultural differences just aren't strong enough (with a few exceptions: Texas, Louisiana, New York City, etc.). Even the red state/blue state distinction is vastly exaggerated. Opinion polls show that the real splits are generally between urban, rural and suburban voters -- not the middle of the country vs. the coasts.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Ayesha Awan · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:19 a.m.

Attempting to determine the start of the East Coast-Midwest beef here at IU would be much like trying to figure out which came first: the chicken or the egg. Of course, not everyone fits a mold -- people from the Midwest aren't all hicks and people from the East Coast aren't all spoiled, stupid conformists.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Sedia · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:18 a.m.

"East-Coaster" is a far too generic term. It really means this: an irresponsible, self-absorbed, boorish, spoiled rich brat from within a 100-mile radius of New York City who looks at"the locals" the same way an 18th-century British lord would look on the American colonists. Every time you see a BMW with Connecticut plates parked with an E-pass, an address in one of the swanky new downtown apartment complexes or full expenses (including bail) paid from daddy's credit card, you've found a genuine East Coaster. It's hard not to show contempt for this type of person, and though I described the East Coasters in the worst of terms, there are degrees of acuteness in their various traits.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Obermeyer · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:18 a.m.

I was never aware of any antipathy toward East Coasters until I came here. And even then, for awhile I thought it was a joke.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Bryan Schmidt · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:17 a.m.

The fact that we are having this "debate" might appear silly or even amusing at first, but it's more pathetic than anything else. What both sides fail to realize is that they are guilty of the same irrational, absurd prejudice toward another group. With all the hate in the world stemming from differences in class, gender, sexual orientation and race, do Americans really need to include geographical origin as yet another means to typecast and divide ourselves? There is no East Coast vs. Midwest problem on campus. IU is home to all kinds of people from every state. The problem here is that such a student body will sadly always contain both those from Indiana and elsewhere who are too immature to get along.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:16 a.m.

I don't believe this campus has an East Coast/Midwest divide. In reality, students congregate around those with whom they feel comfortable, which needn't be based on geography. Friends are forged from similar backgrounds, personality traits, drug habits, etc. That said, I do believe there's a nice/jerk divide that has nothing to do with where you lived before. I've been here for four years. I wish I had more friends from all over, but face it: A lot of you are jerks. From east to west, north to south, left to right, here and abroad, forget cultural stereotypes: We're just massive jerks to people we don't know. It doesn't need to be this way. We don't need to drudge up cultural stereotypes, we need etiquette classes.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Joanna Borns · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:16 a.m.

I was in Hawaii during spring break and I told someone I was from Indiana. She said, "Oh, you're from the East Coast." Maybe she was too busy eating poi and hula dancing to study geography. But if you're in the Pacific, the entire mainland United States seems like the East Coast.

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Where's the beef?

By Alyson Brodsy and Peter Chen · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:14 a.m.

Regionalism happens. As long as there are people, there will be regional factions. We always need to have an adversary. Every green lawn needs the other side of the fence. Every Cub needs a Cardinal. Every IU needs a Purdue. Unfortunately, when these differences become the grounds for any conflict more than a playful jest, we have a serious problem.

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Pakistan bombing kills 41 during prayer service

By Alyson Brodsy and Zarar Khan · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:12 a.m.

KARACHI, Pakistan -- A suicide attacker detonated a bomb during an outdoor Islamic prayer service Tuesday, killing at least 41 people and wounding dozens, police said. An angry mob burned cars and threw stones at police, who fired into the air to disperse the crowds, a witness said.

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Iran announces nuclear milestone

By Alyson Brodsy and Ali Akbar Dareini · Wednesday, April 12,2006 1:10 a.m.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran has successfully enriched uranium for the first time, a landmark in its quest to develop nuclear fuel, hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, although he insisted his country does not aim to develop atomic weapons. In a nationally televised speech, Ahmadinejad called on the West "not to cause an everlasting hatred in the hearts of Iranians" by trying to force Iran to abandon uranium enrichment.

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