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IU smoking ban expected to have gradual effect

By Erica Beringer · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 1:05 a.m.

Complaints from students living in residence halls, faculty and staff have led Provost and Executive Vice President Karen Hanson to “improvise” exceptions to the campus-wide smoking ban that began Jan. 1, she said.

Graduate students to receive dental coverage

By Paul Mattingly · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 1:03 a.m.

After more than four years of appeals, graduate student academic appointees will receive dental insurance for the 2008-09 school year.

Free class teaches women self-defense

Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 1 a.m.

Any woman who feels unsafe at times or simply wants to learn how to better defend herself will have the opportunity to do so this month. Starting Monday, the IU Police Department will offer a Rape Aggression Defense course that will be taught by certified instructors in the Activity Room at Campus View Apartments.

Life sciences conference to take place Friday in Indianapolis

By Lindsay Davis · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 1 a.m.

The Kelley School of Business has teamed with key life science organizations to host a series of four conferences. For the second year in a row, business executives and students alike will have the chance to learn about the impact life sciences have on the business world today.

Trojan condoms teams up with IU to conduct research

Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:59 a.m.

For the next three years, the Center for Sexual Health Promotion will join forces with Church & Dwight Co., the makers of Trojan brand condoms, to do in-depth research on how people protect themselves from disease.

Exhibit of family photos to open

By Patrick McIntyre · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:58 a.m.

The “Bridgewaters Family Photographs” exhibit opens Friday at IU’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, celebrating the famous local family and its influence on the community.

Students, faculty mourn loss of history professor

By Morgan Vanek · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:56 a.m.

On Jan. 24, former professor Irving Katz died in New York City. He was 75. But students and faculty won’t forget the impact Katz had on their lives.

My favorite drug

By Rachel Skybetter · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:40 a.m.

I am beautiful. I am strong. I look amazing in spandex. I am … so, so sore.

Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:11 a.m.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut a key interest rate for the second time in just more than a week, reducing the federal funds rate by a half point. It signaled that further rate cuts were possible.

Senate Democrats accuse attorney general of ducking questions on waterboarding

By Abisalom Omolo and Lara Jakes Jordan · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:09 a.m.

Senate Democrats accused Attorney General Michael Mukasey of ducking questions Wednesday on whether waterboarding is torture despite his promise last year to study whether it is illegal.

Edwards ends presidential campaign in La.

By Abisalom Omolo and Nedra Pickler · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:08 a.m.

Democrat John Edwards bowed out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, saying it was time to step aside “so that history can blaze its path” in a campaign now left to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

Giuliani bows out of presidential race, endorses McCain

By Abisalom Omolo and Devlin Barrett · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12:07 a.m.

Rudy Giuliani was always a long-shot for the Republican presidential nomination, a brash New Yorker who backed gun control, abortion and gay rights in a party dominated by Southern conservatives.

Champs of chumps

By Cory Barker and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

With its debut Controversy Loves Company, The Audition garnered mild success as a simple, carbon copy of emo-scene brethren such as Fall Out Boy.

Yee (Tony Leung) is strictly a Dapper Dan man.

Caution: seduction

By Alex Kopytko · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

The explicit sexual nature of Ang Lee's newest film, which earned it an NC-17 rating, may make or break many theatergoers' opinions of it.

Soft-core steppin'

By Andrea Alumbaugh and Alexandra R. Moses · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

Just as people don't need any complicated plot coming in and mucking up their porn, I didn't need some sappy, convoluted plot unraveling during my step movie.

Sweet satisfaction

By Jenna Blumenfeld · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

It was a dark time in Bloomington when both Jiffy Treet and Cold Stone Creamery abandoned their downtown locations, leaving Kirkwood Avenue devoid of any after-dinner desserts.

Diane Lane and Colin Hanks (center) star in Lakeshore Entertainment and Screen Gems' thriller UNTRACEABLE.

LOL horror

By Heather Haemker · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

Because of the times we live in, I expected a movie about cyber crime to dwell on the moral and legal aspects of such crimes.

Turn up the power

By Stefania Marghitu , Adam Geller and Matt Apuzzo · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

A lot has changed since Chan Marshall, a.k.a., Cat Power, released her debut, the appropriately titled covers album The Covers Record, in 2000.

The Whigs plot against the anti-Federalists.

Whigs whigged out

By Alexandra R. Moses and Mike Smith · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

Mission Control includes Arcade Fire, The Rapture, Modest Mouse, Interpol, The Shins, Coldplay and My Morning Jacket songs.

Rambone-headed

By Gal Shifron · Thursday, Jan. 31,2008 12 a.m.

Hot on the heels of 2006's "Rocky Balboa," the film that resurrected Sylvester Stallone's signature character 15 years after the series' last installment, Stallone's new picture "Rambo" breathes life into traumatized Vietnam veteran John Rambo after an almost-20-year hiatus.

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