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Baffled by smoking ban

Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:16 p.m.

Having just transferred from a small liberal arts college where smoking was a favorite pastime of a majority of the students, I was shocked to discover that IU is attempting to become a tobacco-free campus. Being new here, however, I have to ask: What exactly are the reasons for this ban? Cigarette butts littering the ground? The health and well-being of students who choose not to smoke? If indeed these are at the heart of the issue, then my response is this: preposterous!

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Indiana legislature opts out of transparency

Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:15 p.m.

Transparency in government is a fundamental element of a healthy democracy. It is of the utmost importance that democratic citizens hold their government responsible, which requires knowing what their government is up to. President Barack Obama has taken decisive and encouraging steps toward transparency. He has issued some of the tightest restrictions of any administration on lobbyists, including banning anyone who leaves his administration from lobbying the executive branch for the rest of his presidency. This is a step up from Bush’s yearlong ban. He instructed federal agencies to err on the side of openness when it comes to releasing records. Moreover, he reversed Bush’s executive order that provided veto power over which executive archives are made public to past presidents, vice presidents and their heirs.

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The great runaround

By Erin Chapman · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:14 p.m.

Lately I have found myself in a difficult runaround. When I am not going on dates I dream up this romantic notion of how wonderful dating is, and then the second I get asked out, I remember that it isn’t always no-strings-attached wonderful. The same thing with relationships. Even though I think that something more long-term could be fun, when I’m single I always forget about the fights and the compromises that come as part of the package. I mean, even among us relationship lovers, who hasn’t found themselves three months into a perfectly good relationship only to discover that what you are really itching for is a little more excitement and a few random dates?

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Industry check-up

By Sanjay Mohanty · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:13 p.m.

A couple of weeks ago, during a hospital conference, I got a crash course in provider-industry relations from a doctor who spends serious amounts of time researching pharmaceutical companies’ influence on physician behavior. He prefaced his talk by emphasizing that he doesn’t hate the pharmaceutical companies. I guess I’ll do the same.

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Shh! What abortion policy?

By Ashley Ames · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 7:11 p.m.

President Barack Obama signaled his stance on abortion Friday by reversing a policy that prohibited foreign non-governmental family planning groups from receiving U.S. aid if they lobbied for or provided abortions. It’s a landmark policy shift. And you probably didn’t even know it happened. The Mexico City Policy, named for the first place it was instated, was established by Ronald Reagan and has since been a manifest divergence between the two parties. Bill Clinton very publicly reversed the policy after just two days in office, causing many pro-lifers to doubt the third word in his “safe, legal and rare” abortion slogan. George W. Bush was also quick to fan the flames of the culture war by reinstating the policy, declaring that taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for abortions.

IU Professor and Director of India Studies Sumit Ganguly applauds author and women's rights advocate Taslima Nasrin after she spoke about her life and read one of her poems Friday evening in the IMU University Club Faculty Room. In the lecture, titled "My Life: A Struggle for Equality," Nasrin, a Bengali exile and award-winning author explained her persistent fight for women's rights in the face of death threats and beatings from Islamic extremists, expulsion from her homeland and India and her longing to return to Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi author speaks on time in exile

By Sarah Bloom · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12:08 a.m.

Taslima Nasrin, author and women’s rights activist, described the vast inequalities and injustices fellow Bangladeshi women continue to endure in a speech Friday. Women are barred from being educated, inheriting property and taking legal action against their husbands, all of which are abuses sanctioned by Islamic law and tradition, Nasrin said.

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Ryan Cabrera to perform at the Bluebird

Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12:05 a.m.

Doors open at 8 p.m. tonight at The Bluebird Nightclub for a performance by singer-songwriter Ryan Cabrera. Some of Cabrera’s hits include “On The Way Down,” “I Will Remember You” and “True,” and according to his Web site, Cabrera has sold more than a million records.

IU's Devan Dumes gets tangled up with two Minnesota defenders during the first half of IU's 67-63 loss to No. 21 Minnesota Sunday at Assembly Hall.

Hoosiers keep it close but get buried by Gophers

By Matt Dollinger · Monday, Jan. 26,2009 12 a.m.

A white out couldn't erase the IU men's basketball team's losing streak, which grew to nine after a 67-63 loss Sunday to Minnesota. The Gophers led by five points or less during the final 10 minutes, but the Hoosiers were never able to take the lead. Ultimately, it was the Gophers who were the ones hunting, and the Hoosiers, the hunted.

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Adults return to continue studies

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:55 p.m.

Older students come to IU to further their education or find a degree. Now, a scholarship newly available to IU students makes continuing studies easier to afford.PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Senior Amber Lindgren moves a pot on the stove out of the way while holding a colander of shrimp working with Freshman Marina Karamanis Friday evening in the Tudor Room kitchen at the Indiana Memorial Union. Members of the women's golf team participated in an Iron Chef event, where members split up in to teams and cooked food to be judged by Coach Bill Lynch and other members of IU Athletics coaching staffs.

Team cooks up cohesive recipe

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:46 p.m.

IU women’s golf coach Clint Wallman and a panel of judges were treated to a taste of teamwork Friday night.In its fifth annual “Iron Chef” competition, the team was split into three groups to prepare the golfers’ best pasta dishes.Although each team stood proudly by their meals, Wallman said teamwork was the most important recipe of the night.

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College Mentors collecting textbooks for kids

Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:44 p.m.

Even though a new semester has begun, many students are still left with the ghost of semesters past in the form of textbooks they cannot sell back. Junior Katie Smith is organizing a textbook drive to help raise money for the group College Mentors for Kids, a nonprofit organization that gives children, typically from grades one through four, the opportunity to experience how higher education can influence their lives.

Junior Kara Jeffers designs the logo for her line of T-shirts Jan. 19 in the living room of her apartment. Her current line of T-shirts is one year old.

Artist designs logo tees

By Richard Scinteie · Sunday, Jan. 25,2009 11:41 p.m.

Junio Kara Jeffers, an art education, started her her own T-shirt company, Karosene Clothing, with a sharpie and a blank T-shirt.

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