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BSU unsatisfied with mural aftermath

Chances are you've watched it. If you haven't watched it, you know someone who has or at the very least have heard someone discuss it. Every student who has any class ranging from H106 to A110 in Woodburn Hall 100 begins each semester with a short informational video on the controversial Thomas Hart Benton Murals.

I may be a preteen girl

My name is Matt Peyton. Some of my favorites include ESPN, the color green and Strawberry Pop Tarts. However, this is not how fellow iTunes users know me. To them, for better or for worse, I am "Jenkinson 106 rocks!"

Jones leads on field, in classroom

In the summer of 2000, the now fifth-year senior Herana-Daze Jones began freshman football camp at IU. His outstanding athletic career in high school would enable him to receive an excellent education all the while playing with the best of the best in Division I football.

The NFL's coming, I can Bear-ly wait

Warning: The following may cause some football fans to become irritable and angry with a certain sophomore sports columnist.

Business in Brief

Employment rates rise slightly WASHINGTON -- Employers stepped up hiring in August, expanding payrolls by 144,000 and lowering the unemployment rate marginally to 5.4 percent. While the figures didn't amount to a national job fair, they did hold the promise of stronger growth following the summer lull, analysts said.

O, brother, where art thou?

Let's take it back, y'all. Back to the days when R. Kelly wore leather vests and "Jodeci" boots -- a couple pelvic thrusts after the "Bump 'n Grind" days but several court dates before he started asking folks to "Step in the Name of Love." I'm talking about the days when "Down Low" was simply the name of a song that had everything to do with cheating and nothing to do with the closeted homosexuality of black men.

Quiet leader speaks volumes

Big, strong, talented and quiet. Four words that are thrown around without reprieve when the IU football team speaks about their defensive captain, senior Jodie Clemons.

Floppy drives no longer PC staple

ATLANTA -- When Michael McCreary bought three new computers for his company, he had no need for one of the oldest and most common computer technologies, the floppy drive. But like many computer customers, he ended up buying floppies anyway. After all, they're cheap, and he still has a few of the 3.5-inch disks lying around.

Jobs depend on credit reports

NEW YORK -- Brenda Matthews thought she had a new job lined up at Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Jersey. After applying online for a position as a patent specialist, she was called in for interviews that seemed to go well.

A student's 'right to furnish'

College. It's a time for learning, a time for personal growth. It's a time for cheap beer, cheap pizza and cheap sex. And, perhaps most importantly, perhaps least importantly, it's a time for cheap students to place dirty, moldy old couches on the dirty, moldy front porches of dirty, moldy old houses. But here at IU, we take this final liberty for granted. Not all schools are so fortunate.

LL still saying 'I'm gonna knock you out'

Some things never die, and James Todd Smith, aka LL Cool J, is proving that with his new release The DEFinition. The heavyweight champion of rap puts his rhyming skills to the test once again and dares anyone to challenge him on this album.

Getting away with a tired genre

Papa Roach seems to have come a long way since its 2000 debut Infest, and yes, I'm saying that with a straight face. They might get pigeonholed as being one of the late-in-the-game nü-metal nobodies, but the fact of the matter is that nothing about them is egregious.

Cashing in on 'The Passion'

Released to counterprogram against Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," South Park's "The Passion of the Jew" offers three funny episodes, and that's about it.

'Vanity' a fair of imagery

Music Wonderland

Bloomington city councilman and volunteer WFHB radio programmer Steve Volan doesn't know where to begin when he talks about the Lotus Festival. "It's overstimulating," the festival veteran finally says. "It's like Bloomington needs a giant dose of Ritalin to deal with the overstimulation Lotus festival causes."

Overblown thriller so bad it's fun

Poor, poor celebrities. They really have it rough, you know: big, beautiful houses; millions of dollars; zippy new cars …

VMAs showcase prevalence of studio magic

Watching this year's MTV Video Music Awards, I couldn't help but notice the large discrepancy between studio artists and true musicians, whose live performances measure up to their album releases.

'CHARIOT' rides into Axis

Last Wednesday night, singer Gavin DeGraw rocked the crowd at Axis Nightclub. His stop in Bloomington was one of many on his college tour, and it was his first show with a 21 and over crowd.

Busting the blockbusters

On most nights of the week, especially on weekends, addicts meet at clubs and bars in Bloomington for their "fix." At all hours of the night, these junkies wait in lines, red-eyed and anxious, to fork over their cash for what they crave.

Christ resurrected on DVD

"The Passion of the Christ" opened to an onslaught of controversy upon its debut this past winter. Some claim the film is anti-Semitic (the notion of which is ridiculous); others demonized the excessive, graphic depiction of violence perpetrated against Jesus.