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The debt of life

By Tyler Chernesky · Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 6:56 p.m.

Declined. At first, I didn’t believe it. “Could you try again?” I asked, but the answer came back unchanged. There I stood, in the checkout line at Target, ashamed.

Lafree makes a false experience argument

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 6:55 p.m.

Let me preface my letter by pointing out that I haven’t seen or heard anybody compare Barack Obama to Ronald Reagan, so I think the question is rather pointless. But since Krista Lafree exploits the fact that some chump on some Web site makes the comparison as an excuse to write a bitter, vapid attack on Obama’s qualifications, let me address her argument.

Bottled up energy

By Jordan Zaslow · Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 6:54 p.m.

I’m sitting at my laptop staring at three empty cups of coffee standing proudly at the edge of my desk and mocking me for my dependency. I’ve heard caffeine is a drug, and I’m sad to report I’ve recently become an addict. I wake up every morning – only a few hours after I went to sleep – and the anticipation of the climb to the caffeine high is my motivation for opening my eyes. My parents tell me to get more sleep, my friends tell me to better manage my time, and my agenda tells me to suck it up. I have no choice – and I’m not the only one.

Shallow debates

By Abby Schwimmer · Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 6:52 p.m.

Let the games begin. It’s election season again, which means it’s time for presidential debates chock-full of grammatical errors and bad personal hygiene and often lacking in the information department.

It is good to hire relevant speakers

Sunday, Oct. 5,2008 6:51 p.m.

It’s public knowledge that former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards had an extramarital affair while he was running for president in the 2008 Democratic primaries. However, that is not why IU is paying him $35,000 to speak in November. IU’s Union Board hired Edwards to speak Nov.11 about America’s economic and political future. As a man who was almost vice president, he might have something relevant to say. Some might be dismayed that IU is financially supporting a speech by Edwards, not least of all because of his lack of fidelity. But the University is simply doing its part as an academic institution.By having Edwards speak, IU acknowledges Edward’s might have a unique political understanding. In no way is IU supporting his questionable licentious actions.In truth, IU is fostering academic discourse about Edwards and his speech. The Union Board should be lauded for not pandering to people who are upset by Edwards’ actions.

2 men arrested for break-ins in library parking lot

By IDS staff · Saturday, Oct. 4,2008 5:09 p.m.

IU police arrested two men outside the Wells Library Friday night in connection with the break-in of four vehicles.

IU wide receiver Andrew Means barely misses a catch during the first half of a game verses Minnesota in the Metrodome in Minneapolis. IU lost 16-7.

Ineffective offense dooms Hoosiers on the road at Minnesota

Saturday, Oct. 4,2008 12:10 p.m.

MINNEAPOLIS - Converting on only one of 10 third downs and only recording a single score, the IU football team’s offense puttered to a 16-7 defeat on the road at Minnesota. Marcus Thigpen was the lone star for the Hoosiers, who for the second straight game scored a touchdown of more than 77 yards. This score came courtesy of a Ben Chappell loft, which found Thigpen wide open for a 77-yard touchdown reception.But unfortunately for the Hoosiers, Thigpen’s reception was the only time they would force the scoreboard technician to punch any buttons in the frame for their scoring

Congress approves bailout bill

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 2:18 p.m.

WASHINGTON – With the economy on the brink and elections looming, Congress approved an unprecedented $700 billion government bailout of the battered financial industry on Friday and sent it to President Bush for his certain signature.

Step out of the box with flamboyant fashion

By Bryan Payton · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 2:04 p.m.

Baggy jeans: check. Tall white T-shirt: check. XXL hoodie: check. Scuffed sneakers: check. If this is the process you find yourself going through each morning when you wake up, I urge you to change up your wardrobe routine. As young men, we often get much too used to the same ol’ thing, whether it’s clothing or the two-step.

Jake’s to host MTV casting

By Katrina Loh · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:55 a.m.

Jake’s Nightclub and Bar will open its doors on Saturday to people hoping to have their lives taped 24 hours a day and broadcast on national TV. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., there will be an open casting call for the 22nd season of the MTV reality show, “The Real World.”

St. Louis Fed president speaks on mortgage crisis

By Ben Phelps · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:54 a.m.

Just days after one of the biggest downfalls in the stock market’s history, James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, told an IU crowd that little was known about how the fallout would ultimately affect ordinary people. Bullard, an IU Ph.D. economics graduate of 1990, spoke to about 100 students and faculty Thursday night at Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Disclosure of affair cost Edwards $15K from IU

By Ben Phelps · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:53 a.m.

After Union Board members announced Wednesday that former Sen. John Edwards will speak at IU in November, many in the IU community questioned why he was speaking after admitting to an extramarital affair while his wife battled cancer. Those same discussions took place among Union Board members long before Wednesday’s announcement.

McCain campaign hopes new ads will keep Hoosier state red

By Kristi Oloffson · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:52 a.m.

A recent bout of television spots featuring Republican presidential nominee John McCain have led some to believe the presidential nominee is starting to pay more attention to Indiana. With less than five weeks until the election, the Republican National Committee decided to spend $5 million on the ads in six total states, including Indiana. While Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign has poured millions of dollars into this historically conservative state, Republicans had yet to respond until this week.

Senior Rose Byrne watches the debates with friends Thursday evening at a house on East University Street. Many different groups watched the debates across the city.

Democrats believe debate is a win for Biden

By Sean Morrison · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:50 a.m.

As Sen. Joseph Biden prepared for the debate of his life, his fans prepared to hear him. In a small, cramped room with a creaky wood floor strewn with chairs, they gathered. They met to see a debate. What they got was a performance, as they said Biden sent Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin down a “bridge to nowhere” during Thursday night’s vice-presidential debate.

People watch as Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin debates Joe Biden during a watching party on Thursday night in Woodburn Hall. The party was sponsored by the Student Alliance for National Security.

Palin passes test, Republicans say

By Kristi Oloffson · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:49 a.m.

After Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finished the vice-presidential debate Thursday night, junior Justin Hill, chairman of IU Students for John McCain, relaxed. Palin had passed the test. “I think she had two big goals tonight,” Hill said. “One, that she had to come across as still being Sarah Palin – that she could be herself. That she could connect with Americans.”

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., left, and Republican candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shake hands before the start of a vice presidential debate at Washington University in on Thursday in St. Louis, Mo.

Meet your mates

By JIM KUHNHENN · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:47 a.m.

ST. LOUIS - Under intense scrutiny, Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin stood her ground Thursday night against a vastly more experienced Joe Biden, debating the economy, energy and global warming, then challenging him on Iraq, "especially with your son in the National Guard."PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines

Honoring the wrong man

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:29 a.m.

While I respect differing views on issues, and support freedom of speech, I do find it sad that Indiana University would award Gen. Peter Pace anything. Mind you, the award is funded not from student fees, but private funds. Regardless, this man is the epitome of bigotry and homophobia.

Nice guys finish last

By Rachel Goldberg · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:28 a.m.

Ever since the 1999 song “Nice Guys Finish Last” by Green Day, a pivotal issue was posed to our generation, and we can take it seriously because this is right before Green Day completely sold out. The question hangs in the head of every kind-hearted boy – must they really finish last?

Slander now, secede later

By Shane Springer · Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:26 a.m.

For those of you who watched the presidential debate last Friday, you no doubt witnessed firsthand the “Straight Talk” slandering express that is the McCain campaign. The event was more of a long-running succession of campaign attack ads than it was a debate. A poster child for tax breaks to big oil, McCain once again showed the nation just how out of touch and out of date he is in respect to running this great country of ours.

VP candidates play to strengths

Friday, Oct. 3,2008 12:25 a.m.

Joe Biden managed to not look like a sexist jerk and had a sensitive moment in which he nearly broke out in tears. Sarah Palin stumbled on the word nuclear and said “maverick” close to a thousand times but came off fairly competent. Yes, it looks like most of the pundits got this debate wrong. The candidates played mostly to their strengths – Biden seemed articulate and knowledgeable, Palin seemed folksy and sometimes down to earth.