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Legend leads ensemble

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Jazz solos and applause filled the Musical Arts Center on Monday night. The Jacobs School of Music Jazz Ensemble, directed by Jacobs faculty member David Baker, performed for the first time this year. Several audience members said they attended the show because of the legendary director.


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Atomic age

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The debate about the best way to replace this country’s dependence on fossil fuels with clean and renewable resources has people scrambling over themselves to hype their favorite pie-in-the-sky alternative. The shift from oil and coal to a power grid that runs on rainbows and a sense of self-satisfaction might take a good while, though, and we need something to power us in the meantime.


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What’s behind Pickens’ conversion?

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Pickens, like the CEOs of Wall Street firms, Big Pharma companies and Detroit’s GM and Chrysler, seems to have decided that instead of taking a principled stand against government intervention in their industries in favor of free markets and individual freedom, he’d prefer to play the game in hopes of bending the legislation in his favor.


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A stepping stone

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Instead of throwing up Hail Mary passes on potential future technologies like clean coal and the like, America should focus on what’s currently viable. This Pickens Plan is just the stepping-stone America needs until better, cleaner energy creation techniques can be developed.

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Cap and trade

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Listen closely: When companies have to pay more to develop and deliver things like electricity, steel and gas, the costs of these things goes up – it’s Economics 101. It becomes only a matter of time before people at these companies start getting laid off, and guess who makes up the majority of energy jobs?


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Who the %$@# are you?

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T. Boone Pickens honored IU last week with a lengthier version of the commercial he so graciously broadcast to the entire country recently, leading me once again to ask myself: “Why do I care what a billionaire ex-oil executive senior citizen thinks about anything?” Oh wait, I don’t.



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IU helps sailors older than 40 get in SHAPE

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The School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at IU signed a contract for the second year in a row to aid the U.S. Navy in its effort to maintain a healthy, fit lifestyle for its sailors.


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Students gain free access to IU Press

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IU Press, the school-affiliated publishing company, has teamed up with University Libraries to give all students, faculty and staff free access to its online collection of texts.


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Miles is first presidential student intern

Senior Miles Taylor was recently named the University’s first Presidential Student Intern, but that doesn’t mean he will be fetching IU President Michael McRobbie coffee or making copies. “But I’d be happy to,” he said, laughing.


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Soccer comes back home to IU

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Nearly one-third of the way through its season, the No. 13 IU men’s soccer team welcomes No. 20 Kentucky today for IU’s first home game since Sept. 6.


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Crabb Band a group of 'faithful fans'

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Throughout the last 15 years, the Crabb Band has sounded the alma mater after every home game. But what these musicians are waiting for is the chance to play IU’s fight song, after earning an eighth national championship trophy.


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Iran’s covert facility

WE SAY A nuclear Iran is scary, but this situation is manageable.



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The threats among us

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There’s nothing like some coffee and a homemade bomb to start off your morning. Najibullah Zazi was a coffee vendor in lower Manhattan before he became suspected of affiliations with terrorism. The New York Times reported that he was always smiling and that he was a seemingly patriotic New Yorker.


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Foreign policy president

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I never drank the Obama Kool-Aid, nor did I ever buy into the messianic personality cult surrounding him, and I have always thought of Obama more as a demagogue than a great leader.  So, now that you know a bit about where I’m coming from, I want to tell you that I genuinely believe that change, that over-used word with an ever-elusive definition, has come to America – in one area of policy, at least.


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Stop Major Proliferation

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There is an alarming trend sweeping our great Hoosier Nation. It’s an arms race, a stockpiling of deadly weaponry set to wipe the entire species of college student off the face of the Earth. It’s called Major Proliferation, and it’s taking us to the brink of disaster.



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Ind. Secretary of State launches fraud program

Americans lose an average of $40 billion a year to investment fraud, Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita said, which is why earlier this month he launched a statewide campaign to educate the public on common types of investment fraud.