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Country star to perform at Bluebird

By Meredith Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:17 a.m.

Musician Phil Vassar will take over a local club come Thursday night. Vassar will bring his first-ever acoustic tour to Bloomington at 9 p.m. Thursday at The Bluebird.

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Fencing club prepares for tournament

By Adam Long · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:16 a.m.

The average student at IU has limited knowledge about the ancient sport of fencing. While it has been a pastime for centuries in countries like France and Russia, the same level of mainstream interest in fencing has never quite materialized in the U.S.

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Badgers face Hoosiers on the bubble in key Big Ten match

By Zachary Osterman · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:12 a.m.

Entering the critical back stretch of its season, the IU women’s basketball team will travel to Wisconsin today looking to sweep the Badgers for the first time since 2003. The Hoosiers (15-11, 8-6) currently reside at the edge of the bubble for the NCAA Tournament, and wins in all four remaining games would be a big step toward getting into the field.

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Center to host ‘A Call for Peace’

By Anna Radtke · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:51 a.m.

Part of Bloomington’s ArtsWeek 2008, “A Call for Peace” will feature performing artists including Tom Roznowski, Scott Russell Sanders and Carolyn Dutton. The event will showcase poems, music, pictures, story-telling in song, readings and visual art.

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IU professor to relive CIA experience tonight

By Beth Evanson · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:42 a.m.

Professor Gene Coyle has taught a variety of subjects at IU for the past four years, but his previous job is what sets him apart from the rest of IU’s staff. Before he started teaching, Coyle was a CIA officer living abroad in countries such as Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Brazil, and convincing people to become spies for the U.S. government. Now he will relive his experiences in a speech to students Wednesday.

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INPIRG screens film featuring fair trade coffee

By Jeff Lipps · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:41 a.m.

Armed with mugs and a desire to learn about the coffee market, IU students gathered Monday night in Collins Living-Learning Center to watch the screening of “Black Gold.” “Black Gold” chronicles the crusade of one Ethiopian, Tadesse Meskela, in his quest to liberate fellow Ethiopian coffee farmers from a market that fails to consider the farmer and his living conditions.

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Film series focuses on cultural lifestyles

By Elvia Malagon · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:40 a.m.

The third annual Native Film Series will focus on contemporary Native American life. Rebecca Riall, co-chair of the Native American Graduate Association, said the film series is meant to show students the history and contemporary lives of Native Americans through visual means.

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Kicked while you're down

Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 12:05 a.m.

For Denisha Dennis, it had been a rough semester. Her GPA had dropped a bit, and she needed to work hard to get it back up. But as she moved back to campus after break, imagine her surprise when her dorm key didn’t work. It wasn’t an accident. The State University of New York at Old Westbury decided to kick any student with a GPA below 2.0 out of the dorms until they raised their GPA.

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 19,2008 11:37 p.m.

Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.

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