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$500 million super-imaging satellite launched into orbit

By Associated Press · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 9:03 p.m.

A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond’s home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the central California coast.

SoFA Gallery opens its doors for the fall ’08 season

By Haley Adams · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 9:02 p.m.

The School of Fine Arts Gallery was divided between the abstract and the familiar Friday night as visitors viewed the gallery for the first time this season. The opening kicked off two shows: “Vacation ’08” and “HUB: A Collaboration of Art and Space.”

Gallery North’s ‘Storytellers’ here through September

By Erica Beringer · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 9:01 p.m.

The walls of Gallery North were adorned with 3-D pieces of art Friday evening. In front of them, the guests stood speechless, many with dropped jaws. Behind them was the artist, with a grin on her face as she watched everyone attempt to search for a way to somehow describe her work. Catherine Burris struggles to find the words herself.

Canada PM seeks Conservative majority, early election

Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:59 p.m.

Canada’s prime minister dissolved Parliament on Sunday and called an early election next month in hopes of strengthening his Conservative minority government’s hold on power.

Laura Brikmanis, a 2001 IU graduate with a bachelor’s degree in English and studio art, shows her mom, Ellen Brikmanis from Carmel, Ind., her mural for the first time Friday outside of the Bloomington Playwrights Project.

New mural brightens Playwrights Project

By Allison Tyra · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:59 p.m.

Formerly a nondescript beige building, the Bloomington Playwrights Project has undergone a makeover, courtesy of artist Laura Brikmanis and a grant from the Bloomington Entertainment and Arts District.

Iraqi parliament resumes, focuses on election bill

By Qassim Abdul Zahra · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:56 p.m.

Iraqi lawmakers end their summer break this week facing urgent tasks of approving a new election law and signing off on a still-unfinished security pact with the U.S. – key steps in laying the foundation for a lasting peace.

Sustainability: What is it, anyway?

Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:11 p.m.

IU President Michael McRobbie’s announcement last week of the need to appoint a full-time director of sustainability strikes the editorial board as both practical and heartening, if not a bit overdue.Just a couple of autumns ago, green plastic water bottles with the slogan “I Give A Sh*t” became almost as common a sight on campus as textbooks, backpacks or whatever else students carry around daily. They symbolized what seemed like a popular and powerful sentiment at the time: that nothing should stop one of the country’s largest and most wired universities from becoming more ecologically aware. Yet such short-lived campaigns (in spite of the popular price discount any bottle-bringers received at dining halls) proved nothing when it came to the airy issue of sustainability.

Column skewed evidence

Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:05 p.m.

In a Sept. 4 commentary, Chelsea Kane, chairwoman of the IU College Republicans, writes, “The top four of five states for gun ownership (in which Indiana is second) are also in the top five states with the lowest rates of gun violence.”

Pro-Lifers feminists too

Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:04 p.m.

In the Indiana Daily Student of Sept. 3, Indira Dammu wrote in the opinion section that pro-life Gov. Sarah Palin and feminists like her are “masterful at appropriating the word ‘choice,’ casting it as a catchall phrase for abortion.

How’s your history?

By Erich Reinhard · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:03 p.m.

If you’re like me (younger than 25), your most reliable sense of history probably begins around the time you were born. Even so, our generation has filled out voter registration paperwork, watched CNN or Fox News daily and often perused USA Today or the New York Times (because, as students, we get it free) so as to pretend we’re reading something not spooned out for us on a digital platter.

Swept under the rug

By Abby Schwimmer · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8:01 p.m.

Kids are slobs. Think about your room when you were younger, carpeted with Legos or those pointy little Barbie shoes or any number of other things that would send a barefooted passerby who didn’t watch his step to the emergency room. Even so, when your mom told you to clean your room up, it seemed pretty illogical, didn’t it? If you trashed your room, as long as you kept the door closed, what did it matter? And if company came over, why put on a front of cleanliness? Why run the risk of creating unrealistic expectations for the future?

Girl power? Not so much

By Jordan Zaslow · Sunday, Sept. 7,2008 8 p.m.

The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote in a presidential election. Since then, it’s taken 88 years for a woman to actually be a serious contender for presidency. The year 2008 could go down in history as a great year to be a woman, though Bristol Palin might disagree.

Senior running back Marcus Thigpen scores a touchdown during the Hoosiers' 45-3 win over Murray State on Saturday night at Memorial Stadium.

Plethora of rushing scores squash Racers

By Lee Hurwitz · Saturday, Sept. 6,2008 10 p.m.

Last week, it was Kellen Lewis owning all of the yards on the ground. On Saturday, IU coach Bill Lynch split it among a tandem of running backs. The Hoosiers (2-0) easily beat Murray State, 45-3, and commanded the game throughout the evening. Murray State, a Football Championship Series school, was overmatched against an IU team that wracked up 477 yards of total offense.

Obama event in Terre Haute draws 1,000

By Kristi Oloffson · Saturday, Sept. 6,2008 7:13 p.m.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind.- Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made a campaign stop in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday afternoon, just two days after Republicans concluded their convention in St. Paul, Minn.

This is a composite of the suspect who assaulted three IU students on their walk back to their residence halls. He is an 18 to 20-year-old slim, white male who was wearing a white hoodie, a yellow T-shirt and jeans at the time of the assaults.

3 IU students assaulted with sharp-edged weapon

By IDS staff · Saturday, Sept. 6,2008 7:53 a.m.

UPDATED: After an attack on three students early Saturday morning, the IU Police Department has received several calls from people who have seen the composite of the suspect. IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said one individual saw someone who matched the composite running away from the scene.

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$500 million super-imaging satellite launched into orbit

SoFA Gallery opens its doors for the fall ’08 season

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Canada PM seeks Conservative majority, early election

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Pro-Lifers feminists too

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