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Local program educates inmates

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A local program that meets every Sunday is sending free books to prison inmates in Indiana and nearby states. Pages to Prisoners, which holds meetings every week from noon to 5 p.m., is available to anyone wanting to package books, read letters and write to prisoners. The meetings are held in a small room at the back of Boxcar Books, 310 S. Washington St. Boxcar Books is a nonprofit bookstore serving as the legal umbrella for the Midwest Pages to Prisoners Program.


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Operation Pull-Over ups patrols checks

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Area police departments are increasing enforcement of the "Click It or Ticket" campaign as well as assigning more drunk driving and speeding patrols in preparation for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.


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Tour de chance

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So I took up bicycling. I think it had something to do with the boredom of sitting in an empty apartment with nothing to do but read. I resigned myself to exploring the southern fringes of rural Bloomington. I unlocked the '82 Schwinn Le Tour from the back fence and headed south. After fumbling awkwardly with my gears, I decided that it would be the hills, rather than traffic, that would be my end. I was already thick with sweat when I pedaled by Bachelor Middle School, a daunting building that is almost aggressive in design.


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Jordan River Forum

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Inspiration can be defined much differently I was rather confused after reading "The State of the Game Address" by David Resnik (May 24). I believe that Resnik and myself have extremely differing opinions on what the word "inspiring" means. Resnik had some choice words to describe the recent play of Lakers guard Kobe Bryant: "…his ability to deliver this caliber game while dealing with a much-scrutinized court case in Colorado is astonishing….in fact, it is inspiring."

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Campus to hold UIFI conference networking

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The Bloomington campus has been selected to hold nine sessions of the 15th Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute from May 15 to July 25. This year, 800 students are participating in the UIFI program this year sponsored by the North American Interfraternity Conference to help fraternity and sorority leaders improve their leadership skills and bring positive change to their chapters.


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Humanities professor named to the American Philosophical Society

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Fedwa Malti-Douglas, professor of humanities at IU, recently joined the likes of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Robert Frost as a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the country. Malti-Douglas, a native of Lebanon, became the fourth IU faculty member to receive the honor and is also a professor of gender studies and comparative literature as well as an adjunct professor of law.


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Struggling students look to programs for help

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Academic troubles can plague anyone from new students adjusting to college life to battle-hardened college veterans who have too much on their plate. While these hardships are the bane to the existence of any student, there is help for struggling students vying to get out of academic trouble. One major source of help is the Student Academic Center.


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BLEMF to present 'Solomon' Sunday

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The Bloomington Early Music Festival produces an opera each year. This year, they were given the opportunity to do something similar, but with a twist. While the performances are usually theatrical, this year the featured choir, vocalists and orchestra will perform without the on-stage action. The BLEMF will present composer Georg Frideric Handel's oratorio about the life of King Solomon, as featured in the Old Testament. The production will also hold concerts in Lafayette and Indianapolis, as well as Bloomington.


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Stalking rival politically tacky

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Politics is certainly not a clean game. Sometimes it requires getting your hands dirty. But even politics, amazingly enough, has its limitations. Justin Warfel, a campaign staffer for Illinois Republican Senate candidate Jack Ryan, has been given the assignment of following Ryan's Democratic opponent, state Sen. Barack Obama with a hand-held video camera, documenting his every public move.


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Muncie wrong to ban flags

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The Muncie City Park Department has decided to ban some flags while allowing others in its campground at Prairie Creek Reservoir. Confederate flags, NASCAR flags, Colts flags and Pacers flags are among those banned, while only the American and POW-MIA flags will be allowed.


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FAME IS JUST A DOWNLOAD AWAY

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Despite a seeming barrage of lawsuits aimed to curb illegal filesharing, use of such engines as KaZaA, Morpheus and LimeWire are nevertheless on the rise, and high-profile old stalwarts like Metallica have upped the ante with their anti-MP3 rhetoric



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The problem of Indie rock

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I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties … they lead their country by a short route to chaos."


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'Served' serves up audiences on DVD

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I always wondered how long it would take those boys from B2K and those other boys from IMx to get together and make a really crappy movie about street-dancing.


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'Miracle' shoots, scores on DVD

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Come-from-behind, feel-good, larger-than-yourself stories -- at least the kind on display in "Miracle," the story of the "miracle on ice" 1980 U.S. hockey team which is new to DVD -- are something that will never go out of style in movies.






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A 'Line' you'll want to cross

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L.A.'s heating up again. Bad attitudes are notorious -- a la www.buddyhead.com -- and the guitars are getting just as abrasive.