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Column: IU’s season lies within its defense

By Justin Albers · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 11:43 p.m.

The fact is, IU has always had a pretty good offense. The Hoosiers lose because they rarely have a defense to match it.

First meet of season not by Hoosiers’ choice

By Matt Spears · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 11:38 p.m.

Yes, it’s on the schedule, but that doesn’t mean it actually matters. That is the stance IU Coach Ron Helmer is taking as his team prepares for Saturday’s Indiana Open in Bloomington.

Local stonecutters helped rebuild Pentagon after 9/11 attacks

By Charles Scudder · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 10:30 p.m.

Pat Riley was out of his element.A stonecutter from southern Indiana, Riley was climbing over broken stone and piles of debris to measure blocks of limestone strewn across the grounds of the damaged Pentagon in Arlington, Va.

Jacobs organist shares personal chronology for love of music

By Brittany Tempest · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 10:04 p.m.

Janette Fishell began playing piano at age five.Fishell now works as a professor in the Jacobs School of Music. She recently embarked upon a 21-concert, three-year project, “The Seasons of Sebastian,” in which she performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach for the first time on campus and in the Bloomington community.

MAC welcomes a full ballet and opera schedule

By Brittany Tempest · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 10:01 p.m.

IU Opera and Ballet Theater Production Director Tim Stebbins said he is confident everyone can find something to enjoy this season, from comedies to dramas. “There’s going to be a little bit of something for everyone this season,” Stebbins said. Favorites like “The Nutcracker” and “Candide” will be joined by new productions such as “The Sleeping Beauty” and “Der Rosenkavalier”.

Hollinden delivers bonus set

By Barb Anguiano · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 9:44 p.m.

Every semester for four years, Andy Hollinden has been playing the Bluebird the Friday before finals week. This time, however, he’ll be playing early in the semester.

Bloomington uses alternative trash system

Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 9:11 p.m.

Moving to off-campus housing oftentimes allows additional freedom for students, but it can also create unexpected expenditures beyond rent and electricity. For many students in Bloomington, this includes a fee to remove junk they don’t want — their garbage.

Ind.’s new private, parochial school vouchers start slow

By Celia Grundman · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 9:08 p.m.

Since its passage in May, school voucher legislation HEA 1003 has gradually been implemented across Indiana and in Bloomington.

Campustown, local IU wares store, to close its doors after 40 years

By Jessica Contrera · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 9:06 p.m.

Jim Cushing remembers when CDs sold like wildfire. He remembers when an IU T-shirt cost $3.99. He remembers when physically going to a store was the only way to buy things. A lot has changed since those days, but Cushing has been manager of Campustown, an IU goods and apparel store, through it all. Now Cushing must manage the store through its biggest change — its closing.

A plea for respect, political decency

By Jon Todd · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 7:45 p.m.

Last week, Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina announced to ABC he was not planning to attend the president’s speech about his job creation proposal. He’s not alone, either — Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois also announced last week that he would not be attending. You might be thinking, “So what?” Well, stop thinking that.

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Looking back and looking forward: the post-9/11 era

By Christopher Babcock · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 7:43 p.m.

Exactly ten years ago on this date, our world entered a new era.

Is that a bird on your head or are you just being trendy?

Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 7:38 p.m.

They’ve recently shown up in the hair of 99 percent of the women I see on campus. This is a grossly exaggerated approximation borne of personal bias.

IU alumna looks back

By Mary Kenney · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 6:30 p.m.

It was 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday in September. Rachel Jacobson, a freshman at IU, was still asleep. A native of the Lower East Side of New York City, Rachel had been in Indiana for only two weeks.

Pearl Harbor, 9/11 attacks are more than memories

By Lindsey Erdody · Thursday, Sept. 8,2011 6:28 p.m.

On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four passenger airplanes. On Dec. 7, 1941, Japan attacked the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. These attacks on American soil left a profound mark in the memories of those who were young adults at the time.