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What is Art?

By Ryan Brown · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 10:03 p.m.

After I purchased my tickets for this Friday’s Bob Dylan performance at Assembly Hall, I rushed to catch the 6 bus home, where I did the one thing that dominated my mind – watched all four hours of Martin Scorsese’s, “No Direction Home.”

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Unplug coach Sampson’s phone line

Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 8:34 p.m.

When IU hired Kelvin Sampson in March 2006, it hired a man who brought some baggage to Assembly Hall. Most everyone knows about his teams’ poor graduation rates, as well as the sanctions the NCAA placed on him for impermissible phone calls while at Oklahoma. At first, it was sort of a big deal. Then Sampson pulled the coup of the century by luring Eric Gordon away from Illinois and then followed that up by leading the team into the second round of the tournament. Going into Hoosier Hysteria, asking anyone about the infractions would’ve warranted a response like, “Huh? Eric Gordon? What?”

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Run Al run?

By Tristan Reitz · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 8:32 p.m.

Al Gore is perhaps the biggest example of what is wrong with modern politics, and the current presidential candidates could learn a lot from him. During his eight years as vice president, he was largely thought of as a bore. He was an intelligent man with an unfortunate knack for putting people to sleep with every speech he gave. Unfortunately, he was so disliked that in 2000 he lost to George W. Bush, one of the most unimpressive candidates we have ever seen. That was Al Gore the politician, the man who followed every safety rule in the political book.

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Those we leave behind

By Johnathan P. Rossing and Jonathan P. Rossing · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 8:31 p.m.

Generally speaking, it’s not wise to repeat bad ideas. Yet President Bush is pushing for Congress to renew his 2001 “No Child Left Behind” law that created universal standards and tests to measure student proficiency in reading and math. Under the law, schools that fall below the government-mandated standards are dubbed failures.

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Can I get an amen?

By Dave Dawson · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 8:30 p.m.

Attention, Jews: Ann Coulter, the strongest case for the abolition of the First Amendment and the self-proclaimed voice of American conservatism, thinks you have some room for improvement. In fact, last week on Donny Deutsch’s CNBC show, “The Big Idea,” Coulter declared exactly what you have to do to make said improvements – convert to Christianity.

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Don’t jump the gun

By Thomas Wachtel · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 8:20 p.m.

I noticed two articles in the Washington Post early this week that made me think that one of two things had happened: either I had stepped into an alternate bizarro dimension, or the First Amendment had been repealed and the government had taken control of the media.

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Folklore educates students about ghosts, hip-hop

Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 6:46 p.m.

The cobbled streets of Fess Avenue are filled with small, quaint houses that resemble small-town America. Some of those houses hold IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, a nationally known program.

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Le Dernier Cri

By Claire Burke · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 4:08 p.m.

High fashion, to me, is an art form. There is so much that goes into it that it is hard for me to think of it any other way. But what happens when high fashion is exploited? The result is what we are now seeing at lower-end stores such as Target and Kohl’s: legitimate, established designers doing collections for mass-market retailers.

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Officials decide not to send e-mail alerting students to shooting

By Natalie Avon · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 1:04 a.m.

After the IU Police Department told campus administrators that the shooting situation around the 1300 block of West Arch Haven Avenue was contained, the decision was made not to send out a mass e-mail alerting students about the shooting, said IU spokesman Kirk White.

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Largest cornhole game to be held today

By Natalie Avon · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 12:55 a.m.

The “World’s Largest Cornhole Tournament,” which will take place from 3 p.m. to about 9:30 p.m. today in Dunn Meadow, is in its first year and hopes to attract up to 32 teams, said Erin Datteri, graduate assistant for the Student Alumni Association.

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NCAA sanction decision will look at past actions

By Michael Sanserino · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 12:52 a.m.

The NCAA Committee on Infractions will take into account a variety of factors, including whether there was a “pattern of behavior,” before it issues its final ruling on impermissible phone calls made by IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff.

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Simon Hall dedicated

By Michael Reschke · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 12:48 a.m.

Simon Hall is not the first contribution the Simon family has made to IU and Bloomington, said Mayor Mark Kruzan Tuesday at the Simon Hall dedication ceremony. “Now you can literally go from Simon Hall to a Simon Mall in a matter of a few minutes,” Kruzan said to a crowd of about 300. Kruzan was one of several who spoke during the ceremony about the benefits Simon Hall will provide for IU and the state’s life sciences initiative.

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IU law student faces weapons charge

By Sara Amato · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2007 12:46 a.m.

Police arrested an IU law student early Tuesday morning after he allegedly fired several shots from his balcony on the west side of town. Jesse M. Sneed, 27, faces preliminary charges of criminal recklessness with a weapon.

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