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Between 17,000 and 18,000 copies of The Indiana Daily Student are printed each day and delivered to a multitude of locations in and around IU and Bloomington. While that might be how a large portion of our readers get our news, it's not the only way -- and it's not the whole picture of everything the newsroom produces.



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Drug paraphernalia found in IU Motor Pool rental car

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An IU transportation employee found drug paraphernalia with remnants of marijuana Monday in an IU rental car that had last been issued to the Indiana Daily Student, said IU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from a police report.


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Blooming IU's beauty

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Dec. 15, 1936, is the date heading a letter addressed to IU-Bloomington from one very famous landscape design company, the Olmsted brothers, outlining plans to beautify IU's campus. The brothers, John Charles and Frederick Law Jr., inherited the nation's premier landscape architecture company from their late and legendary father, Frederick Law Olmsted, in 1903. Their letter was a list. Page after page details the renovations the company was planning to undertake upon the University.

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Trust your mechanic

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My car took a dump last month. I was driving around town, delivering sandwiches to sleepy undergraduates and foreign students who pretend to not understand the concept of tipping, when I ran over a curb.



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Targeting Roe

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In the most restrictive abortion measure to pass a state legislature since Roe vs. Wade, South Dakota approved a bill March 6 that would ban almost all abortions. Emblematic of the "Alito way" -- that is dismantling Roe bit by bit -- the proposed law would ban abortions in almost every case, even pregnancies that are a result of incest or rape. The only exception? Cases that involve saving the mother's life.


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A walk down memory lane

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On Monday, the Indiana Daily Student reported a "year in a review" of the IU Student Association's Vote for Pedro administration. Led by IUSA President Alex Shortle, during the course of one year there were three major accomplishments: implementing the universal transportation program, in which students pay an increased transportation fee and receive access to riding campus buses; developing the student readership program, which for $2 per student, made copies of The New York Times and USA Today available to the student body; and removing the controversial $30 athletics fee, with only some minor damage to the luxuries students have at IU sports events.


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Bush expected to sign Patriot Act after House approval

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WASHINGTON -- The House renewed the USA Patriot Act in a cliffhanger vote Tuesday night, extending a centerpiece of the war on terrorism at President Bush's urging after months of political combat over the balance between privacy rights and the pursuit of potential terrorists.


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Profs: South Dakota bill unlikely to overturn Roe

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When the governor of South Dakota signed a bill Monday banning almost all abortions, he started the country down a road that could possibly lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the end of abortion in many states, including Indiana.


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COLLEGE DRIVERS COLLIDE

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COLLEGE DRIVERS COLLIDE -- A car accident Monday evening involving two IU students resulted in severe injuries to one. At the intersection of College Mall Road and Second Street, Micalah Miller, 20, and Joshua Freeman, 17, collided as Miller turned northwest onto College Mall. Reports say both vehicles were traveling at about 30 miles per hour. Bloomington Hospital treated Freeman after the accident for injuries to his right knee, head, neck and back.


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'Tennis in the Park' to improve courts, programs

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Every year, tennis players look forward to spring, which brings the bright, contrasting greens of the courts and fresh yellow ball fuzz floating through the air as the rhythmic thuds and pings of rallies echo across the park. But this spring, Bloomington tennis enthusiasts have something else to get excited about.



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Young talent

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Young talent -- Phylip Woelmer, a student at Binford Elementary School, searches for his artwork with his mother after a reception for Youth Art Month at the IU Art Museum Saturday afternoon.


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IU alumnus making music videos in Hollywood

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In the spring of 2004, Brent Woodall walked away from IU with a degree in fine arts and stepped into what many college students nervously refer to as "the real world." Two years later, he is well on the way to living his dream of directing and producing music videos.


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Computer games ate my brain

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It's rare to watch television without seeing an advertisement for Game Tap anymore. For a monthly fee, subscribers can access the hundreds of classic games stored within Game Tap's "game vault." It's a service honed for casual computer gamers who don't have the time or inclination to obtain software by way of emulator programs or tedious Internet searches. Still, for all of Game Tap's target demographic, there are plenty of free alternatives for online entertainment.



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BREAKING DOWN BROKEBACK

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Though the Oscar buzz for "Brokeback Mountain" may have fizzled, IU professors and researchers have weighed in about the meaning of the movie in light of some critics' eagerness to write it off as just a "gay cowboy" movie. Though the film starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger had been slated by many as the "it" movie of this year's awards season, it went into the Oscars as a favorite for best picture, but lost that as well as best actor and best supporting actor. It did come away with three Oscars - best director, best adapted screenplay and best score.


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IU's Labor Studies could close

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Senior Tyler Helmond will be graduating in May with a degree from IU Bloomington's Division of Labor Studies, and he could be the last person to do so. The very department where Helmond has been an undergraduate teaching assistant for the past two years faces potential closure on all of IU's six campuses - including Bloomington. Helmond said he e-mailed President Adam Herbert last week opposing the school's closing. He added that it seems illogical to close a program that was founded at IU in the 1940s and continues to serve a vital interest. "I would suggest that the faculty in the Kinsey Institute begin to polish their resumes if this is how we keep things 'red hot' at IU," Helmond said in an e-mail.


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2 tickets vie to lead dorms

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Walking down the street to class, students might have noticed sidewalks chalked with promotions and flyers for one or both of the tickets campaigning for the Residence Hall Association elections. RHA is the student government body for the approximately 9,000 students who live in the residence halls. RHA is holding its elections for the 2006-2007 officers Wednesday, and the two running tickets -- Griffin and Spark -- have been advertising around campus.