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Racism isn’t black and white

By Abigail Mitchell · Tuesday, April 21,2009 9:13 p.m.

The United States is no exception to this stubborn thinking. It is so set in its ways that it has chosen to boycott the United Nations’ Durban Review Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

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Time for a 2-way street

Tuesday, April 21,2009 9:12 p.m.

Movie tickets, fancy restaurants and retail therapy aren’t the only luxuries that slip out the window in hard economic times. More and more people have been donating their bodies to science in the last few years. After all, funerals are expensive.

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Of memos and morals

By Nick Wallace · Tuesday, April 21,2009 9:10 p.m.

The four Justice Department memos released last Thursday confirmed what we already knew: Senior officials in the Bush administration authorized the use of torture as a means of extracting information from captured al-Qaida operatives.

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Confessions of a key junkie

By Tyler Chernesky · Tuesday, April 21,2009 6:42 p.m.

Students, on top of $7,000 in room and board, shouldn’t have to buy the limited privilege to a spare key. While charges should be leveled for the replacement of locks, seeing as such action requires new hardware and the cost of maintenance personnel, allowing an individual to enter his or her own room should be free.

Vice President Shobha Pai, President Peter SerVaas, Vice President Jack McCarthy, and Treasurer Jenn Chen take their oath during the IUSA Inauguration on Monday evening in State Room East of the Indiana Memorial Union. They were sworn in by current Chief Justice of the IU Supreme Court Tara Maloney.

In transition, IUSA nods to history

By Alyssa Goldman · Monday, April 20,2009 11:56 p.m.

The IU Student Association Inauguration-Transition Farewell Ceremony Monday not only celebrated the incoming Btown administration and the outgoing Big Red administration, but also the organization’s 62-year history.

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Baseball in the Bronx has 1 problem

By Geoffrey Miller · Monday, April 20,2009 11:07 p.m.

Instead of a bunch of wine-swilling Wall Street execs pushing their fortunes on a bank of unethical business moves, the problem with baseball in the Bronx lies solely with one misguided individual: Brian Cashman.

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Former IUSA leaders share plans, reminisce

By Alyssa Goldman · Monday, April 20,2009 11:05 p.m.

As the Big Red IU Student Association executives leave their titles behind and graduate from IU, they are excited for the experiences that lie ahead and reminiscing on what they are leaving behind.

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Tree giveaways mark Earth Week celebration

By Bailey Loosemore · Monday, April 20,2009 11:04 p.m.

The Environmental Management Association of IU will take part in two tree giveaway events this week in celebration of Earth Week. The first event, organized by the city of Bloomington, will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at People’s Park on Kirkwood Avenue. The other event will take place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

IU senior cornerback Ray Fisher, right, gets physical with wide receiver teammate Damarlo Belcher during practice Thursday at Memorial Stadium. Fisher was a wide receiver last season, but made the jump to the defensive unit this season.

Senior makes switch to cornerback to help team

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Monday, April 20,2009 11:02 p.m.

Last year, senior Ray Fisher caught passes from quarterbacks Kellen Lewis and Ben Chappell. This spring he is trying to intercept them. Fisher switched from wide receiver to cornerback to help the football team’s defense, which ranked near the bottom of the Big Ten in most defensive categories last year.

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Mom loses grip on kids after car falls into Arkansas lake

Monday, April 20,2009 10:03 p.m.

A woman whose car plunged off a dead-end road into a lake in rainy, dark weather reportedly told the sheriff she tried to rescue her three young sons from the vehicle but lost her grip on them in the water.

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Bomber strikes US soldiers meeting Iraqi officials

Monday, April 20,2009 10:02 p.m.

A suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi army uniform struck a U.S. military delegation visiting the mayor of violence-wracked Baqouba on Monday, injuring at least eight American soldiers and killing three Iraqi civilians.

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Iran’s president sparks walkout at UN meeting

Monday, April 20,2009 10:01 p.m.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the West of using the Holocaust as a “pretext” for aggression against Palestinians, prompting European diplomats to walk out Monday from a speech disrupted by jeering protesters in rainbow wigs tossing red clown noses at the hardline leader.

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Zimbabwe governor confesses to raiding bank accounts

Monday, April 20,2009 10 p.m.

Zimbabwe’s central bank governor said Monday that he took hard currency from the bank accounts of private businesses and foreign aid groups without permission, saying he was trying to keep his country’s cash-strapped ministries running.

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Thousands attend opening of Holocaust museum

Monday, April 20,2009 10 p.m.

Thousands of people on Sunday attended the opening of a $45 million Holocaust museum in this Chicago suburb perhaps best known for an aborted march by neo-Nazis decades ago.

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Memorial concert honors Holocaust survivors

By Mickey Woods · Monday, April 20,2009 9:27 p.m.

Those who attended the Holocaust memorial concert in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center likely experienced a real-life example of how the power of memory and music are interconnected.

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The ‘undisputed king of keggers’

By Erica Rogers · Monday, April 20,2009 9:26 p.m.

If you are an IU student, you know how to party – especially when Little 500 rolls around every spring. We take off our winter coats and put on our game faces, and the festivities begin.

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