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A good time to be a doctor?

By Ashley Ames and John Brown · Tuesday, Sept. 15,2009 12:03 a.m.

Amid all the voices chiming in on the health care debate, one group of people ought to have a unique perspective on the future implications of reform: pre-med students. As future doctors, should they be concerned about change, or should they embrace it?

Seriously, people?

By Waddell Hamer · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 11:53 p.m.

If you think the president’s plan is a bad idea, that’s fine. Express yourself. I am sure the president isn’t trying to silence you. All I ask, especially of the educated Hoosier state, is to not feed into illogical theories and come up with good fact-based concerns and arguments.

Calling all donors

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 11:40 p.m.

WE SAY Risk perceptions associated with blood donation are misguided.

Extremism in political discourse

By Jared Stancombe · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 11:38 p.m.

Respect your opposition and things will get done. You may not always get your way, but that doesn’t mean America will turn into Russia.

Dirty words

By Sarah Wilensky · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 11:35 p.m.

The words we say (or don’t say) and how we say them influence the way we think about the world. Lets hope that as we switch out our beach bags for backpacks and our chick lit for (way too expensive) textbooks, our vocabularies won’t exclude the words radio “dirtied” this summer.

US, South America share Sept. 11

By Jordan Jacobs · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 11:32 p.m.

The most popular media in the United States remains timid, if not altogether silent, on what many Latin Americans refer to as “the other Sept. 11.”

IU bus plows over stop sign

By Alex Benson · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:50 p.m.

An IU bus ran over a stop sign at the intersection of Kirkwood and Indiana avenues at 2:05 p.m. Saturday.

Intoxicated IU student trashes Geology hallway

By Alex Benson · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:49 p.m.

An IU student is being charged with two class A misdemeanors for vandalism and battery, IU Police Department Lt. Craig Munroe said.

Study finds overall teen drug use down

By Kevin Doran · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:45 p.m.

An annual survey released by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at IU found that overall drug use is down in Indiana adolescents, but marijuana use is on the rise.

Potential greeks scope out frats

By Molly Johnson · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:43 p.m.

“Hair gel, aviators and tank tops.” Alex Segal, member of Sigma Nu, joked about what his fraternity was looking for in potential recruits as other members of the fraternity laughed.

Ind. to receive $11 million in energy grants

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:41 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana is getting more than $11 million to support energy efficiency and conservation projects in Bloomington, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis.

80-year-old Ohio River bridge in poor shape

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:41 p.m.

MADISON, Ind. – Inspectors have found that the condition of an 80-year-old bridge spanning the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky is as bad or worse than it was before being refurbished in 1997.

New Indiana protection forms used 400 times

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:40 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A pilot program in Indiana that allows domestic violence victims to fill out forms to request protective orders online has been used more than 400 times since it debuted in July.

‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:38 p.m.

LOS ANGELES — Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with “Dirty Dancing” and then broke them with “Ghost,” died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

Indiana casinos face rising competition

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:37 p.m.

Ohio plans to introduce 17,500 slot machines at the state’s seven horse racing tracks by the middle of next year – including tracks in nearby Toledo and Cincinna

Debate to focus on nuclear energy in Ind.

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:36 p.m.

Members of the legislature’s Regulatory Flexibility Committee are scheduled to discuss nuclear energy in Indiana on Sept. 22, and panel’s co-chairmen – Rep. Win Moses, D-Fort Wayne, and Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis – have already staked out opposing positions.

Library book sale raises $4,000

By Peter Stevenson · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:33 p.m.

The Friends of the Library Bookstore ended their biannual book sale Monday by giving away free books.

MAC season includes students, faculty

Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:32 p.m.

“L’Italiana en Algeri.” “Romeo et Juliette.” “Die Zauberflote.” A Diaghilev Tribute. All are included in the 2009-10 fall schedule for the IU Jacobs School of Music. “We try to do the most interesting and varied season possible,” Jacobs spokesman Alain Barker said.

IU Auditorium prepares for fall

By Rachel Krasnow · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 10:30 p.m.

The concepts of a show at the IU Auditorium may seem simple to an audience member, but a complex process goes into creating an upcoming season. Doug Booher, director of the IU Auditorium, said the work begins a year before, and programming interns assemble all the performance materials received from different booking agencies.

IU partners to launch Pan-Asian Institute

By Joyce Ong · Monday, Sept. 14,2009 9:58 p.m.

On Sept. 4, IU President Michael McRobbie signed the partnership agreement with Ian W. Chubb, vice chancellor and president of ANU, a 16,700-student institution.

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