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Three freshmen football players face charges

By Tom Kir · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12:06 a.m.

An IU freshman football player was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, public intoxication and resisting arrest after police found him passed out in a McNutt Residence Center stairwell.

Euchre tourney adds to Fiji's greek club dominance

By Kyle Abrell · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12:05 a.m.

For Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, the 2008 Spring Euchre Tournament was a step toward putting yet another notch in its belt of greek intramural supremacy.

IU club team emphasizes 'next phase of swimming'

By Paul Mattingly · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12:05 a.m.

For one IU club, practice and meets are optional. The coach doesn’t even care if his athletes are terrible. This IU club hopes everyone enjoys themselves and has fun.

IU extends home winning streak to six

By Nathan Hart · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12:04 a.m.

There’s no place like home. For the IU ice hockey team, home – the Frank Southern Ice Arena – has helped revive the team’s season.

A.J. Ratliff latest casualty of '04 class

By Aaron Beard and Jonathan Hines · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12:01 a.m.

And then there was one.

IUSA should not have sponsored religion speech

By Sriram Raghuraman · Wednesday, Feb. 13,2008 12 a.m.

I am a little disappointed to note that your editorial board did not take the IUSA to task for sponsoring “Examining the Evidence: A Serious Look

Class of 2010 prospect 'interested' in Hoosiers

By Jordan Cohen · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:58 p.m.

Two of IU’s four November signees, Devin Ebanks and Terrell Holloway, hail from New York.

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Freshman Jordan Crawford reaches for the basket against Ohio State's Matt Terwilliger Sunday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio. Crawford scored 8 points in the Hoosiers 59-53 victory.

Tough three-game home stand will test Hoosiers

By Chris Engel · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:55 p.m.

The Big Ten basketball championship could be decided at Assembly Hall.

GM posts record automotive losses, offers buyouts to US hourly workers

By Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:52 p.m.

General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help.

Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:51 p.m.

Armored U.N. vehicles guarded East Timor’s leaders Tuesday under a state of emergency declared after rebel soldiers critically wounded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning president and fired at the prime minister’s convoy.

Guard, Reserve troop suicides alarm Congress

By Abisalom Omolo and Kimberly Helfing · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:50 p.m.

More than half of all veterans who took their own lives after returning from Iraq or Afghanistan were members of the National Guard or Reserves, according to new government data that prompted activists on Tuesday to call for a closer examination of the problem.

Speaker threatens to disband Iraq’s parliament

By Abisalom Omolo · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:49 p.m.

The speaker of Iraq’s fragmented parliament threatened Tuesday to disband the legislature, saying it is so riddled with distrust it appears unable to adopt the budget or agree on a law setting a date for provincial elections.

Party poopers

By Tristan Reitz · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:38 p.m.

The idea of the “electability” of certain presidential candidates has been discussed a lot recently. As I see it, electability as a reason to vote for someone is a somewhat shallow argument at best.

A matter of faith

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:38 p.m.

It seems Tom Cruise is still going crazy, or is just further along than we thought he was a few years ago. Many of you have probably already seen the video, prepared for a private Scientology award ceremony, in which Tom Cruise rants about Orgs, SPs and other nonsensical phrases.

Guns blazin'

By Indira Dammu · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:37 p.m.

There are some issues, such as illegal immigration, that Democrats won’t even touch with a 10-foot pole. No issue proves to be as divisive for the party, however, as gun control. Indeed, the last serious debate over gun violence occurred more than 15 years ago with the passage of the Brady Bill.

Donation discrimination

Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 11:33 p.m.

Do you have a history of intravenous drug abuse? Have you lived in countries where there have been outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease? Do you have syphilis? Are you a man who has had sex with a man at any time since 1977? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you cannot donate blood in the United States. Yet, answering “yes” to one of these questions doesn’t indicate the risk one might normally suspect.

Lecture to discuss how to succeed

By Ab D. Phillip · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 10:10 p.m.

Eric Thomas, a motivational speaker, will be speaking to students today in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center about academic, social and professional success.

IU alumnus receives promotion in business

Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 10:09 p.m.

Garry Bridgeman is one of more than 500,000 living IU alumni throughout the world. Bridgeman learned about stocks at the Kelley School of Business. Now he’s president of the Investment Management Consultants Association at Merrill Lynch. The association currently has 7,000 members in the United States, Canada and Australia.

New Voters Project targets students to vote in 2008 election

By Patrick McIntyre · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 10:08 p.m.

Most college students fit into the 18- to 24-year-old age group, which has the lowest voter registration and turnout rate of any age group, according to an Indiana Public Interest Research Group press release. In the 2004 election, 47 percent of 18 to 24 year olds voted, the highest total for the group in over a decade, according to the release.

No Sweat! protests against Coke

By Sarah Hutchins · Tuesday, Feb. 12,2008 10:07 p.m.

After six years of marching, chalking and petitioning, members of No Sweat! are optimistic about their campaign to kick Coca-Cola off campus.

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