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New Orleans braces as Hurricane Katrina intensifies off coast

By Alyson Brodsy and Allen G. Breed · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:30 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- Monstrous Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the Big Easy Sunday with 175-mph wind and a threat of a 28-foot storm surge, forcing a mandatory evacuation, a last-ditch Superdome shelter and prayers for those left to face the doomsday scenario this below-sea-level city has long dreaded. "Have God on your side, definitely have God on your side," Nancy Noble said as she sat with her puppy and three friends in six lanes of one-way traffic on gridlocked Interstate 10. "It's very frightening."

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Senators held at Siberian airport

By Alyson Brodsy and Jim Heintz · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:26 a.m.

MOSCOW - Two U.S. senators visiting sites where weapons of mass destruction are being stored were held for several hours Sunday at a Siberian airport while trying to leave Russia, a U.S. Embassy spokesperson said. Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., were held at the airport in Perm but allowed to leave after discussions between U.S. and Russian officials, the embassy spokesperson said on condition of anonymity.

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Congresswoman speaks on suffrage

By Nate Gowdy · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:25 a.m.

Fifty-one percent of America's total population is female -- a five million-person difference between the sexes. Yet women in Congress comprise only 15 percent of the legislative body's 535 members. Members of the Monroe County Democratic Women's Caucus say it doesn't have to stay that way.

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Around the Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:12 a.m.

PHOENIX -- As a professor at Northern Arizona University, Cathy Small was baffled by undergraduates. They seemed less engaged, less likely to do assigned reading and more likely to ask questions like, "Do you want it double-spaced?"

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Drunk driving simulator underscores consequences of dangerous decisions

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Newkirk · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:11 a.m.

Welcome Week -- the first few days of the year set to acclimate freshmen to the perils and pearls of IU life. But when I was a fresh high school graduate in my first week at Arizona State, I got a deeper lesson in life. My brother was in a drunk driving accident and nearly died. His friend was behind the wheel of a loaded Corvette. They had both been drinking. It was merely coincidence that my brother was the passenger and not the offending driver.

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IU Guides introduce freshmen to campus on 1st day of classes

By Ryne Shadday · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 1:07 a.m.

Being a freshman in a campus of nearly 40,000 can be a little scary. Being a freshman looking for his or her first class today can be a little daunting. But the Office of Orientation Programs, in conjunction with the Office of the Dean of Faculties, is making the transition from high school or another college just a little easier for the new students who will flood the campus today for their first class with the inaugural year of IU Guides.

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Toilet 'art' causes neighborhood conflict

By Alyson Brodsy and Pat Milton · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 12:55 a.m.

CENTRE ISLAND, N. Y. - It started with two neighbors talking trash, and spread from there into "Bogey" Seaman's front yard. White toilet seats hang from trees, amid a porcelain garden of junked commodes, urinals and sinks. Nearby sits a discarded refrigerator, tastelessly decorated with a clown's head, totally incongruous in this extraordinarily affluent village.

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Buskirk-Chumley shows Ryder films

By Jordan Majewski · Monday, Aug. 29,2005 12:52 a.m.

For those who've grown tired of the usual summer film fare of Hollywood blockbusters that often place special effects over a quality plot, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater is featuring a summer movie series that might be of interest. In conjunction with the Ryder Films, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater is screening critically-acclaimed films that didn't make the standard run at Kerasotes-owned theaters. Buskirk-Chumley Director Danielle McClelland said she believes the series plays an important role in expanding the cinematic palate of Bloomington moviegoers.

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Group to host black freshman orientation

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Aug. 26,2005 2:47 a.m.

A local group is offering an orientation session to help ease the transition to college for IU's black students. IU's Black Student Union is hosting a black freshman orientation at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Bridgwater Lounge and patio, beginning at 5 p.m. today. Pizza will be served and guest speakers will abound.

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Textbook market evolving

By Cordell Eddings and Cordell M. Eddings · Friday, Aug. 26,2005 2:33 a.m.

In the past decade, the prices of textbooks have increased at four times the rate of inflation. These ever-increasing costs may draw grumbles from many students, but local textbook retailers say increased competition in the industry can be viewed a good thing.

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Sampling Culture

By Nate Gowdy · Friday, Aug. 26,2005 2:33 a.m.

Joel Hernandez, a junior transfer, was all smiles as he passed out fliers at a booth in front of the IU Auditorium Thursday. He is new to IU, yet he was already under a tent.

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Around the country

Friday, Aug. 26,2005 2:03 a.m.

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The tuition increases for Big Ten universities this year have been like riding a rollercoaster through a dark tunnel -- it's impossible what to expect.

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Facebook gets design facelift

By Matt McMullan · Friday, Aug. 26,2005 1:52 a.m.

Just in time for the advent of the fall semester, everyone's favorite online yearbook and social network and has undergone a revamping. Thefacebook.com re-launched last week with a new layout and page design. The new look, intending to give the site a "less cluttered" look, according to a statement from the Web site's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is in response to its skyrocketing popularity.

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Bloomington residents arrested for vehicle theft

Friday, Aug. 26,2005 1:51 a.m.

Two men were found on campus with a vehicle containing stolen stereo equipment Thursday morning, according to an IU Police Department report. Bloomington residents Daniel Lane, 21, and Charles Starks, 23, were arrested for vehicle theft and possession of stolen items after IUPD officers found them in the Campus View Apartments parking lot near a car containing car stereo equipment and two checkbooks.

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