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AsianFest features food, music and dance

By MaryJane Slaby · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:49 p.m.

AsianFest is a chance to look at Asian-American contributions and achievements through family-friendly music, dance and food.

Graduate schools rank high in report

By Alex Benson · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:44 p.m.

U.S. News and World Report released its list of 2010’s best graduate schools. Eight IU schools made it into the top 25. Each year the schools on the lists fluctuate.

The Mathers Museum was recently honored with reaccreditation by the America Association of Museums. The Mathers Museum, along with the IU Art Museum, is one of only 776 American museums recognized with the award.

Campus museums win award

By Drew Daudelin · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:41 p.m.

IU Art Museum and Mathers Museum earn reaccreditation by the American Association of Museums. The museums are 2 out of 776 museums reaccredited nationwide.

4th-annual dance event Sunday at Buskirk-Chumley

By Drew Daudelin · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:41 p.m.

After three years of performing at Willkie Quad, the annual dance event “Set It Off” is leaving campus and taking the Buskirk-Chumley Theater stage at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Graduate students to display robots at annual open house

By Sarah Hann · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:35 p.m.

Robots have always been seen as objects of science fiction or as distant-future technology. Even now, few robots exist, but the chance to see one comes Friday.

Campaign strives to cut down on paper usage

By Stephanie Kuzydym · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:32 p.m.

Laid end-to-end, the number of pages printed on campus in 2008 could stretch from New York to Los Angeles more than six times over.

Gala honors 75th anniversary

By Alexandra Brown · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:31 p.m.

IU’s Department of Theatre and Drama will celebrate its 75th anniversary with a gala event Saturday at the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center.

Seniors feature original 2-D and 3-D designs

By Carly Bassen · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:23 p.m.

Strut down to Rachael’s Cafe on Friday to be awed by the funky fashion show organized by senior fashion design certificate students.

Members of the IU Soul Revue perform in "Seeing is Believing," the 2006 Potpourri of Arts in the African American Tradition November 4, 2006 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Founded in 1974, the Soul Revue is the oldest of the three performing groups of the African American Arts Institute.

Soul Revue to present final concert

By Anna Batcheller · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:20 p.m.

The African American Arts Institute ensemble, IU Soul Revue, will present its final concert of the year at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The theme of the concert is “Sessions in Love” and will feature a storyline based on love with African-American R&B, soul, funk, contemporary urban popular music, dance and dialogue woven in.

Financier pleads guilty in TARP bank fraud case

Thursday, April 30,2009 11:12 p.m.

Prosecutors say a Tennessee financial adviser has pleaded guilty to criminal charges in the first fraud case related to the federal bank bailout program.

12 slain in shooting at Azerbaijan oil academy

Thursday, April 30,2009 11:10 p.m.

A young man armed with an automatic pistol and clips of ammunition rampaged through a prestigious institute in the Azerbaijan capital Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding others before killing himself, the government said.

Supreme Court Justice David Souter to retire

By Jennifer Loven · Thursday, April 30,2009 11:09 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Justice David Souter has told the White House that he will retire from the Supreme Court at the end of the court's term in June, a source said Thursday night.

Fla. boy flies to Calif. without notifying parents

Thursday, April 30,2009 11:08 p.m.

The parents of a 13-year-old South Florida boy are stunned he went unnoticed when he got on a plane to California.

French, Canadian aid workers freed in Darfur

Thursday, April 30,2009 11:07 p.m.

Two aid workers kept hostage for three weeks in Darfur, one French and one Canadian, were freed Thursday, France’s foreign minister said.

N.C. Rep. Foxx calls hate-crime case a ‘hoax’

Thursday, April 30,2009 11:04 p.m.

A North Carolina congresswoman says she made a poor choice of words when she called the infamous murder of a gay Wyoming student a “hoax” to justify passing hate crimes bills.

All this change

By Tyler Chernesky · Thursday, April 30,2009 9:15 p.m.

I always complain about what I don’t have, and I always describe myself as a “poor” college student. But packing up all this junk made me realize I’m not that poor.

Open-eyed historical understanding

Thursday, April 30,2009 9:13 p.m.

The task of developing a new foreign policy toward Cuba must be undertaken with open-eyed historical understanding, including an understanding of whatever problems may have been generated by current and former U.S. policies toward Cuba.

Jumping GOP ship

By Stephanie Kane · Thursday, April 30,2009 9:11 p.m.

Sen. Arlen Specter, whose name one would typically see under the Republican column, has flip-flopped in a bigger fashion than John Kerry could imagine: he’s turning Democrat.

Response to danger

Thursday, April 30,2009 9:09 p.m.

WE SAY On-campus shooting should elicit greater student concern.

What I will miss

By Julia Boriss · Thursday, April 30,2009 9:07 p.m.

In the rare moments these days when I’m not counting down the seconds until graduation or packing up my apartment four months before I plan to move out or rolling down my windows and screaming “Seniors ’09, suckers!” as I drive haphazardly through clusters of frightened underclassmen, it sometimes occurs to me that there are a few things I might miss about college.

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