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I put a spell on you

By Mike Abrams · Thursday, Sept. 18,2008 12:03 a.m.

Expelliarmus. Wingardium Leviosa. Expecto Patronum. Lumos. Well, crap. I’m still in the dark, my computer is not levitating, I don’t have an extremely bright blue streak coming out of my pencil and my roommate is still holding the butter knife I tried to disarm him of. I guess my Harry Potter spells didn’t work. Now stay with me here.

Junior defender Christie Kotynski moves the ball during the Hoosiers' 3-1 loss to Cal Poly Sept. 7 at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Kotynski sisters set to face off

By Brandon Smith · Thursday, Sept. 18,2008 12:02 a.m.

When the IU women’s soccer team (4-3) plays at 7:30 p.m. today against Butler (3-4) at Bill Armstrong Stadium, one Hoosier player will be doing something she has never done before – play against her sister. Junior defender/midfielder Christie Kotynski will face her younger sister, Mandi Kotynski, who is a freshman defender/midfielder for the Bulldogs, a team IU has beaten the last seven times they’ve faced off. “It’s going to be a lot different,” Kotynski said. “I never really played against her. We did a one-v-one thing in high school, and that was really the only time we played against each other, and we really didn’t talk to each other on the way home.” Kotynski said she expects to see her sister often, considering they play the same position.

IU freshman Andy Best and IU sophomores Patrick Vollmer and Annie Lyon race to put on a condom Wednesday afternoon in Dunn Meadow. Students participated in the race as part of a Trojan Condoms Evolve Tour to educate students about proper condom use.

Trojan comes to IU

By Zina Kumok · Thursday, Sept. 18,2008 12:01 a.m.

Wearing fuzzy pink pig ears and a rubber snout, the couple hurriedly ripped open the condom wrappers. Trying to beat the record time of 14 seconds, they quickly placed them on the fake bananas. The activity was one of several exercises in sexual health that took place during the Trojan “Evolve” Bus Tour’s stop in Bloomington.VIDEO: Trojan Evolve

Former men's basketball interim head coach Dan Dakich shows frustration during the Hoosier's 103-74 loss to Michigan State on Sunday, March 2, 2008 in East Lansing, Mich.

‘I never felt like I had to be vindicated’

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, Sept. 18,2008 12 a.m.

Dan Dakich has regrets. He regrets putting a man on the ball in the Big Ten Tournament against Minnesota, a game the Hoosiers lost when Blake Hoffarber’s desperation shot dropped in the basket during the game’s dying seconds. “I’ve never lost not putting a guy on the ball,” Dakich said, “and twice I’ve lost putting that guy on the ball.”AUDIO: Full interview with Dan Dakich

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You can learn a lot from New York

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:11 p.m.

Welcome New York students! Having lived in your state for 30 years, happily and productively though being a native Hoosier, I am familiar with both. I lived all over Manhattan during the early years of my career. As a young girl, provincial and unsophisticated, N.Y.C. might have swallowed me. Such was not the case. Not only did it accept me – it gave me space and I was happy.

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Not the Rage

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:09 p.m.

Thursday’s Indiana Daily Student column was “Teen mothers are all the rage” by Claire Burke. ‘All the rage’ I would hardly say only because this is what sells in my opinion. It starts off by saying, “The Spears family has done it again”. Why must we keep relating everything back to Jamie Lynn? Is it because here she is, another young female that lives the life of fame and at the age of 17 had a baby? Oh, well she made the decision to have unprotected sex – the same as people do everyday and the outcome was that she got pregnant just as ordinary people do.

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Columnist misrepresents liberals

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:08 p.m.

It’s unfortunate that the “political” director of the IU Republicans doesn’t know the difference between a monarchy and a socialized republic. The first takes your money and land and keeps them, allowing certain citizens to starve. The latter takes a part of your money and uses it to feed those who are starving. One could call it “institutionalized charity.”

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Health care in rural Indiana must accommodate everyone

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:06 p.m.

The caliber of Indiana’s health care system has been called into question. An IU study led by Michael Reece, director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion in the University’s School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, found that medical providers in rural areas of Indiana felt impeded in their ability to offer quality care to some of their patients: those who suffer dually from HIV and substance abuse or a mental disorder due to significant stigma and discrimination in the rural medical referral system.

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Missed opportunities

By Nathan Dixon · Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:05 p.m.

The man crusaded against the Federal Reserve System, hinted about a plan for a North American Union and claimed that the Federal Income Tax was unconstitutional. When Ron Paul ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, he inspired legions of followers and for a time was raising more money than John McCain. I can truly say that Ron Paul was the phenomenon of our campus last year. Ron Paul carried on his campaign after it was really over, securing plenty of votes in primaries long after McCain was the presumptive nominee, and holding a Rally for the Republic during the Republican National Convention that attracted almost as many people.

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Innocence matters

By Indira Dammu · Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:04 p.m.

When the notion of “cruel and unusual punishment” was conceived in the 17th century, it was probably hoped the phrase would be more broadly applied and understood in later years. While many European countries have taken the cue, promoting rehabilitation as an alternative to jail stints, the American view of crime is increasingly regressive. Our support of capital punishment, despite doubts over the prisoner’s guilt, is particularly troubling.

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Treasuring the truth

By Nick Wallace · Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 10:02 p.m.

Monday evening, I went to the IU College Republicans call-out meeting. Of course, I had no intention of joining the party. But I had heard that a special guest, ex-congressman Mike Sodrel, would be there to greet students. I thought it would be worth my time to become a little more familiar with the man who represented me on Capitol Hill for two years.

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Man attacks couple at Kroger

By Emily Gibbons · Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 9:53 p.m.

A 29-year-old Bloomington man was arrested after he attacked a young couple at Kroger. Michael Morgan faces preliminary charges of aggravated battery.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, left, and libertarian candidate Andy Horning, right, listen to comments by democratic candidate Jill Long Thompson during the Indiana Gubenatorial Debate on Tuesday at the Star Plaza Theater in Merrillville, Ind.

Daniels, Long Thompson debate

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 9:52 p.m.

MERRILLVILLE, Ind. – Democratic challenger Jill Long Thompson and Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels clashed over the economy, taxes and privatization Tuesday night, seven weeks before the Nov. 4 general election.

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Sidetracked

Wednesday, Sept. 17,2008 7:16 p.m.

Three WEEKEND Reviewers cuss and discuss the newest tracks in music.

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