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Perfect 10

By Mike Abrams · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:42 p.m.

As poor college students, we always look for the biggest bang for our buck. As poor college students who are diehard sports fans, finding a good steal to satisfy your sporting needs can be difficult. It’s hard for so many reasons. It’s hard because HDTV is expensive. It’s hard because there are no professional teams in Bloomington and the major IU athletic teams – that’s basketball and football for those wondering – are in minor slumps. But most importantly, it is hard because of ticket prices.

Jimmie Johnson leads a group into turn two during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 race Sunday at Phoenix International Raceway. Johnson, who is leading by 141 points with one race to go, is widely expected to win his third-straight championship.

Johnson solidifies Trifecta in Phoenix

By Geoffrey Miller · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:39 p.m.

Carl Edwards had all the momentum he needed to unseat two-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson after winning two weeks ago at Texas Motor Speedway. Not so fast, Johnson said, as the driver from El Cajon, Calif., scored the pole, led the most laps and won convincingly Sunday evening at Phoenix International Raceway. In doing so, Johnson squashed nearly any chance Edwards had at an upset title shot. By the numbers, Edwards fell from a 106-point deficit to a 141-point deficit – meaning Johnson only has to finish 39th or better Sunday afternoon at Homestead-Miami Speedway to clinch the season points championship. It’s been nearly six months since Johnson has finished so poorly.

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Brawled out, IU club hockey zones on games

By Tyler James Perry · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:36 p.m.

With the tumult of last Friday’s brawl at the Frank Southern Ice Arena behind them, the IU club hockey team will get back three of their four players who were suspended last week. Tyler Bohman, Sal Calace and Travis Montembeault will be back after sitting out last Saturday’s game against Wright State. Junior Adam Logue was suspended three games for excessive roughness and still has to sit out both of the team’s home games this weekend. Defenseman Casey Christensen is confident as his team hosts Ferris State, despite the fact the Hoosiers are still looking for their first Great Midwest Hockey League win this season.

Junior midfielder Kevin Alston passes the ball off past a Northwestern defender Friday night at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The Hoosiers defeated the Wildcats 2-0.

IU men's soccer conference tournament kicks off

By Zina Kumok · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:35 p.m.

The end is near. After a 2-0 drubbing of No. 11 Northwestern, IU will head to Madison, Wisc., to take on Ohio State in the Big Ten Tournament, the final stop before the NCAA tournament. While only posting a 3-3 conference record, the No. 3 seeded Hoosiers hope to justify themselves as one of the nation’s top teams.

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N. Korea to halt border crossings

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:28 p.m.

North Korea ratcheted up its threats to sever ties with South Korea by announcing Wednesday it will halt cross-border traffic next month over what it calls Seoul’s confrontational stance against Pyongyang

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UN: Congolese troops pillaged homes

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:28 p.m.

Hundreds of Congolese soldiers rampaged through several villages in eastern Congo, raping women and pillaging homes as they pulled back ahead of a feared rebel advance, the U.N. reported Tuesday.

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Pelosi supports auto industry bailout

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:27 p.m.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants Congress to support a financial bailout for the troubled U.S. auto industry, which is suffering under the weight of poor sales, tight credit and a sputtering economy.

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United States drops key feature in Iraq strategy

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:25 p.m.

The U.S. military in Iraq is abandoning – deliberately and with little public notice – a centerpiece of the widely acclaimed strategy it adopted nearly two years ago to turn the tide against the insurgency. It is moving American troops farther from the people they are trying to protect.

Bloomington resident Althea Crome knits Tuesday afternoon at her home. Crome was recently featured in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” for her tiny knitting.

Nano-knitting

By Melissa Sokolski · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:19 p.m.

Prepare to be shocked. She can knit sweaters so small, six could fit on your index finger with room to spare. She can create cityscapes in socks tiny enough for a doll or famous paintings in cardigans 1/12th the size of a person’s clothing.Bloomington resident Althea Crome has been knitting since her college days, but only in the past seven years has she miniaturized her art form to 1/12 scale – the scale used for doll houses – or even 1/144 scale – the scale used for doll houses inside doll houses.

Fritz Hanselmann prepares to recover one of the Captain Kidd "great guns."

IU discovery of Captain Kidd to be shown on TV

By Sarah Hutchins · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 11:14 p.m.

Charlie Beeker knows shipwrecks. In fact, they’re his job.For almost a year, Beeker, director of the Office of Underwater Science and Educational Resources in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, has been exploring the waters off the coast of the Dominican Republic with the hope of verifying a pirate shipwreck.

Actors in the production Cabaret perform during their dress rehearsal Tuesday night in the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The showings for the musical will be at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Willkommen to the Kit Kat Klub

By Lara Streyle · Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 10:21 p.m.

The image of Liza Minelli dressed in black, complete with bowler hat and garters, dancing seductively across a stage might not resonate with college students today, but it most likely did in 1972 when Minelli starred in the film version of the Broadway musical “Cabaret.”

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Proposition 8 a triumph for families

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 10:20 p.m.

Back in 2000, 61.4 percent of California voters agreed to the traditional definition of marriage by supporting Proposition 22. Then the state Supreme Court struck down the same-sex marriage ban in March 2008. Now, 52 percent of California voters supported Proposition 8. Proponents were vilified, campaign materials were stolen and destroyed, churches were defaced and properties were damaged. Jose Nunez was violently assaulted and received 16 stitches. The amendment in no way interferes with peaceful, private relationships, but guards against activist pressures evident everywhere same-sex marriage is not protected.

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A bone-headed solution

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 10:19 p.m.

Every four or five years IU does something really bone-headed, the latest example being the proposed so-called “renaming” of part of the HPER building. Not content to have a problem on its hands, the administration has compounded it by affixing the good name of an honorable man forever to that of a self-avowed racist. Now Bill Garrett’s name must always be associated with that of Ora L. Wildermuth, who probably wouldn’t have spoken to him in real life, he being of the mind that blacks (Garrett) were inferior as a race and could never therefore be his equal.   But now their names will be in tandem on the signs as if they were somehow alike. What’s next, putting William Lowe Bryan and Heinrich Himmler on the same building?

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Abstinence-only fails

Wednesday, Nov. 12,2008 10:18 p.m.

Sexploration at IU was a week-long, sex-positive educational event that promoted open discourse about a topic that is unfortunately quite taboo in Indiana schools. A sex-positive approach to education teaches young people to respect, celebrate and understand sex, rather than fear or misuse it. Indiana fails dismally to provide appropriate sex education in our schools – “abstinence-only” is only ever an effective method for denial, never for education.   Open discourse in the classroom about sex should occur long before the university level; freshman year of college is a bewildering and disquieting 10 years too late. Sexual development begins in childhood. Why don’t we protect our children’s sexual health just as we protect their physical and mental well-being? Waiting until adolescence to teach sex education is like waiting until after your son or daughter turns 21 to talk to them about responsible drinking.

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