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Class promotes political awareness

By Dion Hazelbaker · Monday, April 21,2008 10:55 p.m.

Politics have now expanded to the classroom. The C223 Business and Communications class is promoting voter awareness for the 2008 election through a class project that has set up a mock election coupled with an informative Web site.

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Le dernier cri: Too skinny?

Monday, April 21,2008 10:31 p.m.

The French Parliament recently passed a bill that bans the promotion of anorexia online. The law will make it illegal for anyone to promote extreme thinness. While I am normally behind almost anything that the French do or say, this one has left me completely confused.

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Monroe County to give away seedlings today

By Alexandra R. Moses · Monday, April 21,2008 10:19 p.m.

Since 1970, people have celebrated April 22 as Earth Day. This year, the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District will celebrate by handing out tree seedlings at its Central Recycling and Reuse Facility.

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Student brandishes knife at officers

By Ben Phelps · Monday, April 21,2008 10:15 p.m.

Bloomington police arrested two IU students Saturday morning at an apartment in the Varsity Villas after one answered the door brandishing a knife at officers.

Brandon Curry, 5, looks through a prism Saturday morning at WonderLab. WonderLab featured events on kaleidoscopes and light to teach children about the science of each and to give them the chance to see the science in action.

Children learn about light at WonderLab

By Mark Wilson · Monday, April 21,2008 10:13 p.m.

Bloomington children had the opportunity to participate in several light-related activities Saturday, including guiding a laser through a mirror maze, shining a flashlight through water and observing the subsequent distortion and examining the effects of shining a light through a prism.

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Free cheese

By Scott Leadingham · Monday, April 21,2008 9:34 p.m.

There’s been a lot of squawking lately about the recent IU Student Association election. Take, for example, the following conversation

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Gesundheit!

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Monday, April 21,2008 9:33 p.m.

SAN JOSÉ, COSTA RICA – Around the world, particularly here in Central America and other developing regions of the world, it’s become

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Bloody transgressions

By Cheryl Thomas · Monday, April 21,2008 9:32 p.m.

It could have been. Today, in Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall at Yale, a large cube was going to hang from the ceiling, bound in plastic sheeting

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Education improvements welcome

By Abra Oliver · Monday, April 21,2008 9:29 p.m.

Last week, Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels announced a proposal to make higher education more accessible to lower-income Hoosier families. Meeting with officials from Indiana colleges and universities, Daniels said he wants the state to provide $6,000 to students pursuing higher education from families that make less than $54,000 annually. That figure is the median income in Indiana, meaning that the funding could potentially provide many middle- and lower-income students with access to valuable education and skills training.

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Vincennes guard set to sign with IU

By Jordan Cohen · Monday, April 21,2008 3:14 p.m.

After a visit to IU, Vincennes University sophomore Devan Dumes has made up his mind. On Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., the 6-foot-2 guard will sign his letter of intent to play for IU at the Wheeler-Dowe Boys and Girls Club in Indianapolis.

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Author speaks about importance of sign language

By Nicole Palmer · Monday, April 21,2008 10:33 a.m.

Schaller, author of “A Man without Words,” gave a lecture titled “Languagelessness, the Critical Period and Adult Language Acquisition: Ildefonso’s Story” Friday at the Speech and Hearing Building.

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Students react to Indiana earthquake

Monday, April 21,2008 1:05 a.m.

While people as far south as Atlanta felt Friday's earthquake, some at IU did not even stir when the 5.2 magnitude quake hit at 5:30 a.m. Others first thought the motion was because of laundry or construction.

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Miss Gay IU crowned at IU Auditorium

By Dion Hazelbaker · Monday, April 21,2008 12:59 a.m.

Drag queen contestants performed a variety of pageant activities Friday night at the IU Auditorium in hopes of attaining the Miss Gay IU title. Contestants’ musical performances ranged from Britney Spears to Avenue Q. The pageant winner and new Miss Gay IU is Britney Taylor.

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