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Home in B-town

By -Nate Bethea · Wednesday, June 28,2006 8:34 p.m.

I wasn't always a fan of Bloomington. I moved here almost three years ago, but it's taken nearly as long for me to feel at ease. It wasn't that I liked my hometown better -- I'm from Carmel, Indiana -- but I guess there's always a breaking-in period, wherever you live, that makes you feel like a foreigner. It wasn't a political thing. Yes, politics is a big deal to people here -- and sometimes you find yourself in the company of people with opinions that would make El Ché say, "whoa, dude, take it easy." Other times, you find yourself the one person in the room who has an opinion about something besides beer and sluts.

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Disney Dissent

By Abra Oliver and Michelle Manchir · Wednesday, June 28,2006 8:34 p.m.

What's your favorite Disney movie? Surely you have one. Finding an American unfamiliar with at least one Disney film is like finding an un-vacuumed carpet near Danny Tanner. (Is it OK that I make "Full House" references?) At any rate, many children are exposed to Disney films as a "positive" or "healthy" medium. But their content, to me -- now enlightened by feminism and more media literate than I was at eight -- only contributes to a limiting dichotomy of gender.

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Pita Problem

By Jordan DeLong · Wednesday, June 28,2006 8:33 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- This city sure has some rude people. I know -- I'm not a great person to gauge this. I'm a nice Midwestern boy who believes that it's rude not to say hello to someone if you two are the only people walking down the sidewalk on a college campus. Not here -- and definitely not downtown. If you smile and say hello, people wonder what the hell is wrong with you. Who is this guy? What does he want from me? Is he a terrorist? Is he a minority?

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Parking and priorities

By IDS staff and Abra Oliver · Wednesday, June 28,2006 8:26 p.m.

As the Indiana Daily Student reported June 22, among other motor vehicle and campus congestion nuisances, President Herbert's Parking Commission is chitchatting about the "appropriateness" of selling A and C parking permits to students. IU Student Body Vice President Andrew Lauck has said that our elected-student body representatives will "disagree with any initiative that would take away permit access to students who need them for their contributions to the University."

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Goodbye ESPN-Plus, Hello DVR

By Steve Slivka · Wednesday, June 28,2006 12 a.m.

June 21, 2006 marked the end of an era. The Big Ten Conference last week reached an agreement with its three main media outlets (ABC/CBS/ESPN) to extend its television contract for football and men's and women's basketball. But, what the conference also agreed upon effectively ends a Big Ten mainstay -- the Phillips 66 Studio Show on ESPN-Plus during halftime and between games featuring Mike Gleason. However, the contract signed last week marked a new era with the creation of the conference's new television channel (and hopefully more commercials featuring Talib Kweli promoting the Big Ten).

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The truth is out there

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Tuesday, June 27,2006 3:02 p.m.

A movie of Al Gore giving a 90-minute PowerPoint presentation doesn't exactly sound like the most exciting thing to do on a Friday night, but "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's global warming awareness doc, is probably the most important and worthwhile film you can see this summer.

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Transgender Navajo searches for safe spot

By David A. Nosko · Tuesday, June 27,2006 1:47 p.m.

IU and Bloomington are often seen as a "safe place" for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Hoosiers but Western culture does not allow any room for the human imagination in terms of gender identity, said former IU gender studies graduate student, anthropology professor and Navajo "Two-Spirit" Wesley Thomas.

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Juneteenth celebrates freedom

By David A. Nosko · Monday, June 26,2006 1:06 p.m.

American history books tell a tale of slavery that begins with manifest destiny and ends with President Lincoln's Jan. 1, 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that "freed" the slaves.

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More cases reported in bank scam

By Trevor brown · Monday, June 26,2006 11:30 a.m.

More cases of the fraudulent e-mail scam targeting IU Credit Union members have been reported this week and the credit union now is aware of several cases where unauthorized ATM charges have been made on member's accounts, said the credit union's Vice President of Management Information Systems Mark Weigle.

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