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New sport gains popularity

By Linnea Coulter · Wednesday, April 18,2007 12 a.m.

This isn’t your typical recess game, and these aren’t your typical players. In only its second year of existence, the extreme dodgeball intramural season is under way. Consisting of 54 teams this year, the league’s regular season has recently concluded and the players anxiously await next week’s release of the playoff bracket.

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Team finishes 4th at tournament

By Shannon McEnerney · Wednesday, April 18,2007 12 a.m.

At Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., this past weekend, the IU figure skating team entered the National Collegiate Figure Skating competition with one goal in mind: to place better than its fourth-place finish last year.

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The fear of failure

By Adam Geller and Ashley Heishman · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Someone once said, “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Now, how exactly does this work, and how can the biggest mistake in life actually come from not doing anything? Well, this past year I have witnessed over and over again how this fear of failure can be a huge mistake. This fear too often causes people to stop challenging themselves in school and other aspects of their life. It can stop them from taking more demanding classes or pursuing a tougher major. The chance of failure can stop people from learning and growing from challenging opportunities they could have taken. And ultimately, I have seen this fear stop students from reaching their potential, achievements and success. All because there was a chance of failure.

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Experimental dough contains healthy antioxidants

By Ben Homrig · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Although the cocktail of grease, cheese and heavily buttered dough now simmers in the stomachs of students all around campus, they could soon be in for something different. Something healthy. After years of eating traditional pizza, sending carbohydrates through their bodies and raising their cholesterol levels through the roof, student diners may have an alternative in the near future. But it will still be pizza. Chemists from the University of Maryland experimented with baking wheat-based dough at higher temperatures and for a longer amount of time to a produce different pizza than from the kind made with traditional flour-based dough, according to a recent report from Reuters. The result of the experiment was a “healthy” pizza, which contained higher levels of antioxidants than its predecessor.

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Gunman attacks Va. Tech

Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

BLACKSBURG, Va. – A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students.

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Is ‘creepy’ art?

By Ryan Brown · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Lately, the art world has produced works of a very unusual juxtaposition, one that earns the word by mixing familiar childhood images, such as teddy bears, dolls and happy little homes, with completely disturbing themes, such as blood, drowned corpses, slabs of meat and the decapitated head of Abraham Lincoln.

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‘Cheap’ advertising tries to consolidate rental postings for off-campus housing

By Shannon McEnerney · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Last year as a freshman, John Bade lived in the residence halls and noticed a problem when it came to searching for off-campus housing for the following year. There seemed to be a problem between students and off-campus property owners reaching each other, he said. So in July of 2006, Bade decided to start up his own business, www.iuliving.com. He launched the Web site to provide better services for students looking for off-campus apartments and houses, while simultaneously offering a cheap way for property owners to advertise.

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IU looks to avenge early-season loss against Sycamores

By Lee Hurwitz · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

On March 6, the IU baseball team fell to Indiana State, 5-3 in Terre Haute. Today at Sembower Field, the Hoosiers get their shot at revenge. Playing their first of five home games throughout the next month, the Hoosiers are coming off a disappointing weekend against Purdue. The Boilermakers took three of four games to put IU at 14-17 on the season.

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Microsoft sponsors instant messaging for charity

By Erin Riley · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Seventy students from various colleges across the nation are promoting an initiative that raises money for nine of the world’s largest nonprofit companies. The program, called “i’m making a difference,” was created by Microsoft Corp. to boost the usage of its Windows Live Messenger. But it also raises money for a variety of charities, said IU junior and Windows Live Messenger Representative Meg Sturman. The charities are the American Red Cross, the National AIDS Fund, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, ninemillion.org, the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and UNICEF.

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Around the world

By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from flooded homes Monday as a fierce nor’easter drenched the Northeast with record rainfall. Nine deaths were blamed on the huge storm. Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses was knocked out, and refrigerators and trucks floated downstream.

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Duncan’s innocent, so fire Crawford

By Mike Abrams · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

What a disgrace. It makes me sick. Better yet, he makes me sick. His name is Joey Crawford, an NBA official, and he epitomizes everything wrong with the NBA. As you may or may not have realized by my infatuation with the Indiana Pacers, I’ve been to thousands of NBA games in my life thus far. I usually go to a game and look at the officiating crew and figure out who will blow the game, who will call the quick technical foul and who will make the right calls. Let me tell you, the latter of the three is rarely the case.

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Historical house beginning renovation

By Chelsea Merta · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

A historically significant building, the old Kappa Alpha Psi house, is being renovated for the relocation of several IU offices. The building will eventually house the IU Police Department and some parts of the IU Foundation.

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In blow to Iraqi PM, followers of radical cleric quit cabinet

By Abdullah AlShihri · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

BAGHDAD – Cabinet ministers loyal to the radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr resigned on Monday to protest the prime minister’s refusal to set a timetable for an American withdrawal, raising the prospect that the Mahdi Army militia could return to the streets of Baghdad.

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Badgered and bruised: Hoosiers drop another Big Ten doubleheader

By DeAntae Prince · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

The Hoosiers have hit a skid since the Big Ten season started. They have gone 1-7 in conference play and 2-10 since beginning their Big Ten season against Iowa. IU lost two more Big Ten contests yesterday when it was swept in a doubleheader against Wisconsin. The Hoosiers lost 5-3 in their first game, and 7-1 in the second.

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Legislature passes HPV bill

By AP Reports and Alexandra R. Moses · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Under a bill now headed to the governor, schools would give parents information about the link between human papilloma virus and cervical cancer – and information about the availability of an HPV vaccine.

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Patriotic honor

By Brian Stewart · Tuesday, April 17,2007 12 a.m.

Call me a nerd if you will, but I’ve recently been leafing through Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” in which the French political thinker observes that, in America, morals count for a lot, while honor counts for relatively little.

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