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IU-Wisconsin

IU falls to Wisconsin, 55-47

The IU women's basketball team tries to rebound tonight against the Big Ten's best defensive team in the Badgers. Follow live by clicking here.


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Freedom of Speech™

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There just isn’t enough respect for our fat cat bankers and HMOs. Those poor, mega-rich people. Finally, they will have the chance, as Baran puts it, to make ads explicitly supporting a candidate because of a policy, instead of implicitly not supporting a policy.


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Education is a virtue

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There is no undertaking that is more important and farseeing than education. The troubled people of our world are not going to wake up one day and decide to stop hurting one another and help make the world a better place for all.


Anti-smoking hospital

Refusal to hire smokers

WE SAY Refusing to hire smokers sends a good message but is the wrong approach.




IU-Illinois Men's Basketball

A quick look at Saturday's IU-Illinois game

The IU and Illinois men’s basketball teams will face off again Saturday at 2 p.m. in Champaign, Ill. The Fighting Illini won the first meeting this year, 66-60.





Obama

Obama looks for spark in State of the Union address

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Declaring “I don’t quit,’” President Barack Obama fought to recharge his embattled presidency with a State of the Union vow to get jobless millions back to work and stand on the side of Americans angry at Wall Street greed and Washington bickering. Defiant despite stinging setbacks, he said he would fight on for ambitious overhauls of health care, energy and education.



Waldron

Waldron lays off paid staff

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The John Waldron Arts Center has hit another hurdle. All paid staff were laid off yesterday, leaving the organization to rely on volunteerism, Executive Director Rob Hanrahan said. Hanrahan has chosen to stay on as a volunteer director without pay.


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IU breaks ground in enzyme research

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For most students the worst consequence of drinking alcohol is a bad headache and maybe a bad – or blank – memory.But for some of the 2,500-plus students of Asian ancestry at IU, alcohol can cause far more serious health problems.Researchers at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis and Stanford University have made an important breakthrough in the treatment of this liver deficiency. They have discovered a molecule, called Alda-1, that can repair the malfunctioning parts of the liver.


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Eitam responds to life in politics, Israel’s goals

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Israeli politician Effie Eitam is no foreigner to war and politics. IU-Bloomington was just one of his stops at college campuses in the U.S.  Here is what he had to say about his life in politics and his take on Israel’s goals.



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Grant creates ESL program to train new educators

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The ESL Professional Communities for Expertise and Leadership Development received $154,000 from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. This grant will prepare minority ESL teachers through on-site workshops, graduate courses, summer institutes and a capstone project in South Bend and East Chicago, Ind. school corporations.


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Virtual health coach helps users get fit

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January is almost over, and it’s that time when New Year’s resolutions get lost in the stack of to-do lists. To avoid this, five IU teams are battling it out in a six-week weight loss challenge, using Vive’s virtual health coach. 


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Zumba invades SRSC

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A new exercise craze has gripped IU. Every Tuesday and Thursday, participants line up to get into the increasingly popular Zumba classes, offered for the first time this spring by Campus Recreational Sports at the SRSC.