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Hoosiers bring age-old martial art to IU campus

By Mike Abrams · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:58 p.m.

Judo has been around for hundreds of years since its development in 17th-century Japan. Now the martial art is entering its 42nd year at IU. The Hoosiers started a judo club in 1964, flourishing in the 1970s under U.S. Olympic coach Dan Phytila and producing numerous national and regional champions.

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Hoosiers prepare for final Big Ten tune-up at Butler

By Jordan Majewski · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:57 p.m.

The IU baseball team travels to Indianapolis to face Butler University today with the momentum of a three-game win streak behind it, after sweeping the University of Hartford. The sweep marked the Hoosiers' first home games of the season.

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IU guy? Try OU instead

By Ryan Phillips · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:55 p.m.

Yesterday was a tough one for me. I never thought it would happen, but I banked my reputation on something and I was sorely disappointed. It makes me sick to my stomach just thinking about it, but I guess I need to be a man and face the facts. So here it goes -- I was wr- ... Wow, this is a lot harder than you'd think. I was not ri- ... OK, OK -- just give me a second here.

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Hoosiers explode into Big Ten season

By Chris Sauer · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:53 p.m.

With just one doubleheader left before the start of the Big Ten schedule, members of the IU softball team feel like they've done everything they can to prepare for it.

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TREASURE!

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:49 p.m.

TREASURE! -- Dora the Explorer (right, kneeling) and her friends investigate the treasure chest that holds all of their party supplies. But just around the corner are the Pirate Piggies with a plan to steal the treasure chest. Dora's Pirate Adventure is showing at the IU Auditorium through tonight.

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How the Internet jumped the shark

By Alyson Brodsy and Derek Kagemann · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:46 p.m.

Do you remember the television show "Punky Brewster?" Have you ever wondered what it would be like if good ol' Punky grew up and became a doctor, only to be forced to come to terms with the death of her old neighbor Betty Johnson?

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Glass slipper

By Alyson Brodsy and Drew Smith · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:44 p.m.

Novelist Jack London once said, "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

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Faking the grade

By Alyson Brodsy and Amanda Dorman · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:42 p.m.

Remember the time you were sitting in algebra class and couldn't quite remember the formula for finding slope? While your teacher checked her e-mail, you ever so graciously tilted your head and glanced over at your neighbor's paper. M equals rise over run. Of course.

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Hell and Parking

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:40 p.m.

It happened last semester. I had to blink a few times. There, off in the distance: the first parking space at the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation building was empty, the spot closest to Seventh Street, a mere hop, skip and a jump away from my Indiana Daily Student office. No one else had it, and no one else would have it. It was mine. All mine.

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CAST AWAY

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:37 p.m.

CAST AWAY -- Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert casts his ballot in the Israeli general election in Jerusalem Tuesday.

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Warlord disappears before trial

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:33 p.m.

ABUJA, Nigeria -- Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor slipped away just after Nigeria reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal, and the White House suggested Tuesday that President Bush might cancel a meeting with Nigeria's leader. The Nigerian government said Taylor vanished Monday night from his villa in the southern city of Calabar, where he had lived in exile since being forced from power under a 2003 peace deal that ended Liberia's civil war.

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Chief of staff resigns position

By Alyson Brodsy and Terence Hunt · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- White House chief of staff Andy Card has resigned and will be replaced by budget director Joshua Bolten, President Bush announced Tuesday amid growing calls for a White House shakeup and Republican concern about Bush's tumbling poll ratings. Though there was no immediate indication of other changes afoot, the White House did not close the door on a broader staff reorganization. White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bolten will have the authority to make personnel shifts if he deems them necessary. He declined to say whether top aides, such as the two current deputy chiefs of staff, Joe Hagin and Karl Rove, would remain in place.

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Council president holds tempo for Monroe County

By Nicky Purser · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:28 p.m.

When Sophia Travis settled in a booth at Roots vegetarian restaurant for an interview, she got straight to her usual business. She ordered her favorite dish: sweet potato fries. Then despite the waitress's doubtful teeters at the odd combination, she ordered the house tea.

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Weekend race hits home for cancer survivor

By Candace A. Smith · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:25 p.m.

The third annual Relay for Life cancer benefit will run Saturday and Sunday with the goal of remembering and honoring those who have lost their lives to cancer and celebrating those who have survived. For some, a walk around the track means supporting a mother or an uncle, but to others the event means much more.

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Projectors reported stolen from 5 buildings

By Audrie Garrison · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:25 p.m.

Faculty and staff members in five different buildings across campus reported projectors missing from classrooms Monday and Tuesday, totaling an estimated loss of about $15,000 or more, said IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from a police report.

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IU United Way campaign exceeds goal

By Savannah Worley · Tuesday, March 28,2006 11:23 p.m.

United Way thermometers across campus, once stuck on empty, are now bursting. The thermometers depict the United Way 2005-06 campaign fundraising goal -- a mark the group exceeded by $22,135. The campaign raised $637,135 this year, exceeding its goal of $615,000, according to its Web site www.indiana.edu/~uwayiub.

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