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Trees

Students cited for cutting down 40-year-old red oak

John Schoenheit, age 59, was driving down his steep driveway around 2:30 a.m. Thursday when his car windshield nearly collided into the 40-year-old Red Oak that now lay elevated across the road.



Jazz Concert

All that Jazz

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Members of the David Baker Jazz Ensemble trombone section play during the group's performance on Monday at Musical Arts Center.

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Students ‘Reign’ R&B

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What started as a group of strangers in a small studio is now 4 Reign, a band ready to take on the R&B music scene.


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IU sign language class moves from classroom to pottery store

The Latest Glaze, a local pottery store, took a break from the hustle and bustle of children’s birthday parties and greek get-togethers Wednesday when it organized IU’s A300: American Sign Language IV class.


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Hello my name is...

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Around my neck lays a simple gold chain and three somewhat tarnished charms. Admittedly, it’s nothing to gawk at or possibly save the world from doom if replaced in an old Mayan tomb, but it has sentiment. It’s my “Carrie” necklace.



IU v. Akron

Lynch: Football team won't change approach

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IU football coach Bill Lynch said Monday during his weekly press conference that his team’s next game against No. 19 Michigan won’t inspire any difference in his team’s preparation.








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New loophole means political donations rise at cost to transparency

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Since 1907, corporations have been restricted by how much they can give to political campaigns. That is, until now.As of last week, spending by outside organizations to influence congressional elections is up more than 60 percent compared to the same period in 2006, according to a report by the Sunlight Foundation.


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Putting a price tag on a human life

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In reality, however, human life does have a price cap. In fact, it really isn’t that much at all. According to a 2008 article in Time Magazine, insurance companies calculate that to make a treatment worth its cost, it must guarantee one year of “quality life” for $50,000 or less. Medicare, a government-sponsored, publicly-funded health plan that has been in use since the Johnson presidency, also uses the same benchmark.


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Keep Michelle Rhee in D.C.'s schools

WE SAY D.C. should keep Chancellor Rhee at all costs or risk further downturns After Michelle Rhee was named the Chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools by Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007, she began a complete overhaul of D.C.’s educational system.