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I want my MTV back

By Cory Barker · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:44 p.m.

This Sunday, MTV will air what is arguably its most popular program, the MTV Video Music Awards. Always full of debauchery and unpredictability, MTV is taking it one step further this year by holding the event in the cesspool of sin, Las Vegas. Sadly, with this change MTV is continuing down a path it’s been on for years. And that’s not a good thing.

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Why follow ‘Entourage’?

By Michael Duncan · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:42 p.m.

The season four finale of “Entourage,” which aired on Sunday, epitomizes everything that has gone horribly wrong with this once entertaining show. I started watching “Entourage” at its inception because I liked the mindless release found in predictable progression and quick-witted, easily quotable humor. The half-hour show, loosely based on the life of Mark Wahlberg and his boyhood friends, was more approachable than HBO’s longer, darker dramas such as “The Sopranos” and “Deadwood”. When “Entourage” began its first season, it had a quick-moving, single plot line: “Head On,” a blockbuster hit for promising actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) forces the star and his manager-friend Eric Murphy (played by Kevin Connolly) to find the next project with Vince’s agent Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven). Ari wants to capitalize on Vince’s recent fame to land a studio picture deal, but Eric encourages Vince to look at a small independent film titled: “Queens Boulevard.” This plot worked for “Entourage.”

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Shine a light

By Tristan Reitz · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:40 p.m.

In order to make educated decisions in electing and judging presidents, it is essential that we understand what these leaders did and said, in their official capacity, while in elected office. With this idea in mind, legislators created the Presidential Records Act in 1978, requiring all official presidential correspondence to be recorded for current and future generations to read and study. The act was passed, in part, to combat what many viewed as an increasing trend of presidential secrecy by Nixon administration. But 30 years after the PRA was signed, we continue to see the executive branch demand more rights to communicate and act in secrecy, safely away from the eyes of the public it’s meant to serve.

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Death to Webmail

Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:37 p.m.

At IU, many of us have the privilege (read: frustration) of logging into IU Webmail. Cascades of spam fill our inboxes, while the pitiful inbox limit of 100 megabytes runs out far too quickly with all the e-mail attachments necessary in the life of a college student.

Tracking Amtrak

All aboard

Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:36 p.m.

Amtrak engineer Charles Evans Jr. points to the Arch before crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Missouri on July 9, in Aboard Amtrak's Lincoln Service.

APTOPIX BULGARIA TRADITION FAIR

Faces

Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 10:31 p.m.

Women dressed in Bulgarian national tradition clothes show their faces during the annual international fair of national tradition arts and crafts in the ethnographic village of Etar.

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Jacobs professor rewarded

By IDS staff · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 9:15 p.m.

Jacobs School of Music Professor David Dzubay won first prize in the 2007 Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival/Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition. His winning composition, “Double Black Diamond,” will be performed Nov. 9 at the Indiana State University Music Festival.

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3 IU students named in RIAA lawsuit

By IDS staff and Ab D. Phillip · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 3:58 p.m.

Three IU students were named in a lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America Thursday, according to a press release. The students are accused of copyright infringement stemming from use of peer-to-peer downloading programs on the IU network.

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Man accused of prostituting girlfriend

By Sara Amato · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 1:21 p.m.

A Bloomington man was arrested Friday on allegations of promoting prostitution. A man at College Bookstore filed a theft report with the police claiming he paid $50 to have sex with a woman but never received any sexual service, Canada said, reading from a police report.

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Old dog bite infraction leads to arrest

By Sara Amato · Thursday, Sept. 6,2007 1:19 p.m.

A Bloomington woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon after she was pulled over for a seat belt violation and police discovered a warrant out for her arrest.

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