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Free "The Onion"

By Alyson Brodsy and Bryan Schmidt · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:42 p.m.

An important story concerning our government is lost among the jungle of recent news. Don't let the clamor about Supreme Court nominations, hurricanes, earthquakes or the federal investigation into "Plamegate" distract you from something much more important. The Onion is using the presidential seal.

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Antisocial Scientist

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:39 p.m.

Given that today is Halloween, this seems the ideal time to address an oft-overlooked issue affecting the quality of life on campus. IU is insufficiently haunted. Now I'm not saying IU isn't haunted. Nor do I mean to disparage the fine work of those ghosts already calling the University home. The Indiana Memorial Union, for instance, is particularly well supplied. In seeking to provide a wide variety of services for the college community, the IMU not only boasts a Burger King and bowling alley but the spectre of a little boy inhabiting the Tudor Room's creepy Halloween painting. Over the years, ghostly happenings have been witnessed in other parts of the building and, according to legend, it proved so unsettling as to cause a dog to commit suicide by leaping from one of the upper-story windows.

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How to cut a budget

By Alyson Brodsy and Amy Obermeyer · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:37 p.m.

The IU board of trustees announced a probable tuition rate hike more than the expected 4.9 percent. To be blunt, that really sucks for all returning students, but we can't blame the trustees. When a university with a long history receives a little more than one-fortieth of the expected appropriation for maintenance, there's not much else to do. IU is not alone. Federal financial aid funding is facing cuts again by $14.5 billion, and state funding across the country is decreasing alarmingly. Compared to other Big Ten schools, we're lucky tuition rates aren't rising at a greater rate.

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Harriet Miers' judicious withdrawal

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:31 p.m.

We commend Harriet Miers for withdrawing her nomination to the Supreme Court. Ideally, though, she should have realized she wasn't qualified for the highest court in the land long before she "flunked" a simple questionnaire from the Senate Judiciary Committee and was requested to do it over.

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Hundreds arrested in Wisconsin celebration

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:22 p.m.

MADISON, Wis. -- Police used repeated bursts of pepper spray early Sunday to break up a crowd of Halloween celebrants, part of a weekend of revelry in which more than 400 people were arrested. No serious injuries or property damage were reported. Police declared an unlawful assembly early Sunday and used officers on horseback to move chanting and beverage-tossing revelers off State Street. The pepper spray was used after cups filled with beverages and ice were thrown at officers.

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IU senior envisions run for U.S. presidency in 2020

By Gavin Lesnick · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:21 p.m.

Jon Schloesser spends a lot of time Googling the terms "president" and "2020." But Schloesser isn't just fascinated with a presidential campaign more than a decade away. Presuming the next 15 years go according to his plan, the senior education major is staking out the competition. He announced his candidacy for the election -- the first he'll be eligible for -- this summer. Schloesser said his Google searches retrieve about four other Web sites from similar students around the country who have declared their candidacy for the 2020 election. He said the candidates communicate with each other, spurring one another to take stances on various issues. "It's exciting just to compare ideas with other people," Schloesser said. "It's in the back of our minds, like our own little election. If one person on the Web site makes a statement, how are you going to respond?"

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Rowdy with rubbers

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike McElroy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:20 p.m.

"Let's go hand out some condoms!" Junior Cara Berg, president of the group Raising Awareness of Interactions in Sexual Encounters, has just finished prepping her group of 26 volunteers for Friday night's main event. In a moment, they will descend on the Bloomington nightlife to distribute 5,000 condoms at downtown bars and restaurants. The goal is to advocate safe sex and raise awareness of sexual assault.

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Pakistani Student Association raises $4,500 for victims

By Chip Cutter · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:18 p.m.

After a three-day campaign across campus, the Pakistani Student Association said it has raised $4,500 for victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake in South Asia. The money, which was collected at five campus locations Oct. 24 through Wednesday, represents 45 percent of the $10,000 goal the PSA set for the campaign.

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Season's record-setting 13th hurricane hits Nicaragua

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:13 p.m.

PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua -- Hurricane Beta pounded Nicaragua's Caribbean coast with heavy rains and powerful winds Sunday as thousands of people rode out the storm in boarded-up homes or government shelters. The storm came ashore near the remote town of La Barra as a category 2 hurricane with 105-mph winds. But it weakened to a category 1 with 90-mph winds as it moved inland, dumping up to 15 inches of rain, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

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Senate Democratic leader calls for Rove's resignation

By Alyson Brodsy and Nedra Pickler · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:12 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Democratic leader said Sunday presidential adviser Karl Rove should resign because of his role in the exposing of a CIA officer's identity, and a veteran Republican senator said President Bush needs "new blood" in his White House. Rove has not been charged, but the investigation continues in the case that brought the indictment and resignation Friday of I.

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Rice: Without Parks, I wouldn't be here

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:11 p.m.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Hundreds of mourners remembered Rosa Parks Sunday for her defiant act on a city bus that inspired the Civil Rights Movement and helped pave the way for other blacks, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Ghost hunting:

By Laura Jane Hyde · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:05 p.m.

A caravan consisting of 17 members of the Indiana Ghost Trackers drove down a winding road in rural Monroe County searching for a secluded graveyard Oct. 22. They were on a ghost hunt. The Bloomington chapter of Indiana Ghost Trackers is dedicated to tracking and understanding paranormal activity. The members regularly go on ghost hunts and provide investigations, which are free of charge, to individuals who feel their homes or businesss are inhabited by ghosts.

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Ghost hunting:

By Laura Jane Hyde · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:05 p.m.

A caravan consisting of 17 members of the Indiana Ghost Trackers drove down a winding road in rural Monroe County searching for a secluded graveyard Oct. 22. They were on a ghost hunt. The Bloomington chapter of Indiana Ghost Trackers is dedicated to tracking and understanding paranormal activity. The members regularly go on ghost hunts and provide investigations, which are free of charge, to individuals who feel their homes or businesss are inhabited by ghosts.

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Getty Museum accused of purchasing stolen goods

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:05 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- The board of the J. Paul Getty Trust has formed a special committee to investigate claims that its world-renowned museum purchased looted art and its chief executive spent lavishly with tax-exempt funds. The committee announced Saturday will include five members of the board but not the trust's chief executive, Barry Munitz, who pledged "full support for this effort," the Getty said in a statement.

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Statewide anti-war rally features comparisons of Vietnam, Iraq

By Ben Woodson · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:04 p.m.

TERRE HAUTE -- Pfc. Robert Lore was just walking by the End the War rally at the courthouse Saturday in full military dress when someone asked him why the United States is in Iraq. "I'm asking the same question," he said. Immediately, one of the protesters asked him to speak. However, he was unable to because the protest was already running long. He would have been the last of the speakers that included protest organizers from all around the state and military families who used a bullhorn to address the protesters.

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'Frankenstein' to be brought alive at pub

By Meghan Lucas · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:04 p.m.

The days of trick-or-treating might have come and gone for most IU students, but this Halloween season, there's more than scantily clad nurses and candy corn in Bloomington. Out of the eerie shadows of the Irish Lion comes a play of monstrous proportions, filled with murder, intrigue, rage and maybe even a misunderstood creature or two. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein," performed by the Monroe County Civic Theater, takes the stage at 8 p.m. tonight and Tuesday at the Irish Lion. Adapted from Mary Shelley's classic novel, the script of "Frankenstein" is a close adaptation of the literary work. The play closely follows the novel's plotline, veering from the book only in instances where director and playwright Russell McGeesaid he feels the casting and dramatic action need a jolt.

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Rocky Horror comes to Bloomington

By Jamie Ward · Sunday, Oct. 30,2005 11:01 p.m.

Halloween arrived early and hundreds lost their "virginity" Saturday night at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater's screening of the 1970s cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Not having appeared on the big screen in Bloomington in many years, the film's return offered patrons the chance to don their costumes for Halloween while also honoring the traditions of "Rocky Horror" screenings. The event also was a fund-raiser for event sponsor Cardinal Stage Company, a new Bloomington theater group. The group will make its stage debut in January with four performances of Thornton Wilder's classic play, "Our Town," also to be performed at the Buskirk-Chumley. Randy White, a Bloomington resident originally from Canada, acts as the producing artistic director of the company. Having successfully launched a professional theater group in Canada 15 years ago that still continues today, White wants exactly that in Bloomington.

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Trustees might raise tuition rates

By Peter Stevenson · Friday, Oct. 28,2005 1:45 p.m.

Faced with budget problems, IU is likely to consider raising tuition higher than last year's increase, trustees said Tuesday. Increased costs and a shortfall in state funding have already left the University short of money for maintenance and repairs. Trustees said raising tuition would be a viable option to solve the budget problem.

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Indiana will soon become 48th state to adopt DST

By Jamie Ward · Friday, Oct. 28,2005 1:17 a.m.

The times are not a-changin' in Indiana. In the future, Oct. 30, 2005, might be remembered in the state's history as the day the time anomaly ended. Sunday officially marks the end of Hoosier resistance to the observance of daylight-saving time, as states in the Eastern Time zone will move their clocks back an hour, thus aligning themselves with Indiana. When 47 states move their clocks ahead in April, Indiana will join the DST world and "spring ahead" with the rest of the country.

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