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New exhibit highlights fashion changes, meanings

By Katie Peck · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:19 p.m.

Fashion is everywhere -- in television ads, in magazines and newspapers and on the internet. As times change, so does the style of clothing that people wear. What was considered to be "in style" or fashionable in 1930 is no longer what the public wants to wear. Looking back over a century and examining the style trends is an interesting way to look at just how much a culture can change.

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Schooling ethnicity

By Alyson Brodsy and Alvin Henry · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:17 p.m.

Was it just me or was President George W. Bush's speech at the Black Expo rather quick, unemotional and impersonal? The African Americans at the event a couple weeks ago deserved much better.

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Crashing Canseco

By Alyson Brodsy and Russell Puntenney · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:16 p.m.

Jose Canseco on the new season of "Surreal Life"? The premise behind the VH1 reality show is placing seven once-popular celebrities in the same house, years removed from the height of their popularity, and watching the mayhem ensue. There have been exceptions to this formula, including models and "Real World" cast members (some of which appear so soon after their "Real World" experiences they might as well have moved from one house to the other), but all have been justified because they were never very popular to begin with. But Jose Canseco?

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Congressman proposes textbook bill to cut costs

By Carrie Ritchie · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:11 p.m.

Buying textbooks is usually the bane of back-to-school shopping for college students. Every year, students spend hundreds of dollars on books that they may hardly ever use, only to get paid back half of the cost of their books upon returning them.

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White House unwilling to release Roberts docs

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 24,2005 9:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration does not intend to release all memos and others documents written by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts during his tenure with two Republican administrations, a White House representative said Sunday.

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Suspect in stadium police assault found not guilty

By Hannah Lodge · Sunday, July 24,2005 9 p.m.

A Noblesville man was found not guilty on charges of assaulting an IU police officer at a 2003 football game. The jury reached its decision earlier this month after a two-day trial, upsetting some IUPD officers.

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'COAS' becoming 'COLL'

By Rami Chami · Sunday, July 24,2005 8:54 p.m.

Meet Amanda Dodds. She is a junior and double major preparing to go to medical school. "I am a COAS student" Dodds said. "I am getting a B.S. in microbiology and a B.A. in French."

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Students meet 'Best Buddies' at IU event

By Hannah Lodge · Sunday, July 24,2005 8:53 p.m.

IU played host to more than 1,200 high school and college students participating in a volunteer program this weekend for intellectually disabled adults known as Best Buddies.

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RPS prepares for new residents

By Kacie Foster · Sunday, July 24,2005 8:51 p.m.

Freshman move-in day on August 24 is a month away, and Residential Programs and Services have been preparing for it all summer long. RPS Associate Director for Apartment Housing Tim Stockton said many campus employees are working overtime to get ready.

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Smokers butted out

By David A. Nosko · Friday, July 22,2005 2:49 p.m.

The City of Bloomington has instituted a smoking ban in most public facilities in an effort to help keep the community healthy and smoke-free. Some Monroe County businesses, as a result, fear their profits might be extinguished in smoke-free indoor air.

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Firefox offers IU alternative browsing

By Michael Zennie · Friday, July 22,2005 1:27 p.m.

Junior Rishi Verma thinks pop-ups are "annoying as hell." So, he was already looking for an alternative Web browser to Microsoft's traditional Internet Explorer when he found out about Mozilla Firefox. Firefox boasted increased security, a built-in pop-up blocker and new features -- all for free. Verma jumped at the chance to use it and has been a die-hard fan ever since.

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North Korea to resume nuclear disarmament talks

By Burt Herman · Thursday, July 21,2005 5:27 p.m.

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea said Tuesday that North Korea will resume nuclear disarmament talks on July 26 after a 13-month boycott, with diplomats from five nations stepping up pressure on Pyongyang to scrap its nuclear weapons program.

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Blair: We must stop extremist attacks

By Thomas Wagner · Thursday, July 21,2005 5:27 p.m.

LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday he was considering calling an international conference on how to eliminate Islamic extremism following the London suicide bombings, while Britain's Muslim leaders demanded a judicial inquiry into what motivated the four "homegrown" suicide bombers.

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Internet security remains a priority at IU

By Hannah Lodge · Thursday, July 21,2005 1:31 p.m.

IU's not the only university frequented by hackers. Officials at University of Southern California are contacting roughly 270,000 people with some bad news: a hacker may have had access to their files.

Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka is no Gene Wilder.

Right ingredients, wrong flavor

By Adam Aasen · Thursday, July 21,2005 12 a.m.

In Tim Burton's latest hyped-up summer blockbuster, he takes the daunting task of trying to follow in the footsteps of the nearly perfect 1971 film classic "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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