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Upcoming events around city still need volunteers

By Whitney Wyckoff · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:29 p.m.

Several charity organizations around Bloomington are in need of volunteers and the Bloomington Volunteer Network is asking college students to donate a little time to the community. Some opportunities around the city only require a few hours of students' time and are offering free gifts as an extra incentive.

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Religious organization hosts global warming discussion

By Roy Maurer · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:27 p.m.

The It's Easy Being Green Festival didn't start off with the blue skies and shining sun pictured in the event's posters. Instead, a massive rain cloud threatened to wash out IU student Carlton Glassford's plans for this first annual concert for vegetarianism and biodiesel awareness.

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Weekend festival brings musical tribute to vegetarianism

By Emily Cohen · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:27 p.m.

The It's Easy Being Green Festival didn't start off with the blue skies and shining sun pictured in the event's posters. Instead, a massive rain cloud threatened to wash out IU student Carlton Glassford's plans for this first annual concert for vegetarianism and biodiesel awareness.

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Lack of donations hurt Hoosier Hills food bank

By Roy Maurer · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:26 p.m.

Hordes of food rise to the ceiling at the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. Distribution trucks sit outside the squat yellow building near the corner of 11th and Fairview. Volunteers and staff are ready for the responsibility each day brings.

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Apathy's toll

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:25 p.m.

A woman bludgeons her pregnant friend, rips the fetus from the womb with scissors, kidnaps her other three children, drowns them and leaves their corpses to rot in the washer and dryer. A man uses MySpace to stalk six high school girls, takes them hostage in their school and proceeds to sexually assault each of them, before shooting one in the head and committing suicide. If these events in the past week haven't stopped you in your tracks and made you question your comfortable niche in the world, then you're either inhuman or numb.

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Postmodernism vs. principle

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:24 p.m.

The renowned essayist Christopher Hitchens delivered a spirited barrage of arrows in the direction of those "easily offended fascists" for whom "everything that is not absolutely compulsory is absolutely forbidden." A solitary clap rang out from Alumni Hall. "A rather tentative beginning to the defense of civilization," Hitchens replied.

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Wtf ppl?

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:23 p.m.

Hi. Hey. Sup? Not too much, you? Not a lot. Thanks to AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, if you will, probably the vast majority of us -- college students, adolescents of the '90s -- have had conversations beginning similarly, if not exactly, to that above.

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The ailing Illini

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 10:22 p.m.

The Daily Illini, an "independent student news agency" for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has recently decided to halt its opinion page's staff editorial until further notice. Sitting with our own editorial board here at the Indiana Daily Student, it was difficult to fathom what went wrong to force a paper much like our own to take such drastic measures. An open forum without an editorial? Unthinkable.

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IU first American university to teach Kurdish dialect

By Christina Stigliani · Sunday, Oct. 1,2006 3:52 p.m.

IU, famed since the early days of the Cold War for its language programs, is now the only university in North America to offer the Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish. "IU has a long tradition of exotic languages, and deans approached about new language courses tend to be sympathetic," said John Walbridge, chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic studies program at IU.

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Congress' defense bill grants more than $2 million to IU

By Chris Freiberg and Warren Christopher Freiberg · Saturday, Sept. 30,2006 9:24 p.m.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed the final version of an appropriations bill earlier this week that will fund two life sciences projects on campus. The bill calls for $1.35 million in funding for the Cyclotron Facility to develop a Free Electron Laser and an additional $1.17 million to go toward the Next Generation Threat Detection research project to be run by the chemistry department.

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Chapters boast all the luxuries of home -- and more

By Kasey Hawrysz · Friday, Sept. 29,2006 7:47 p.m.

Though some people might think all greek houses resemble the pizza box and beer can covered Delta Tau Chi fraternity of "Animal House," chapter houses boast everything from hot tubs to high-tech security. These days, fraternity and sorority houses are trying to attract members with some hidden luxuries students might not even have at home. Relaxation After a long day of studying or a late night of partying, Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members can relax their tense muscles with a quick dip in the fraternity house hot tub. "We study so much that it is good to have a chance to relax," said junior Jonathan Gallagher, the Phi Kappa Psi social chair. "It really loosens up your muscles." The hot tub was installed about three years ago, Gallagher said. The chapter had some extra money one year and just decided to buy it. It was installed in the house's chapter room, where people use it every day, he said.

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Unfit for TV

By Alyson Brodsy and Sarah Shipe · Friday, Sept. 29,2006 12:13 p.m.

Standing on a scale in nothing but a sports bra and spandex shorts, Pam Smith saw the number 252 staring at her. Smith, 25, of Martinsville, Ind., wasn't in the privacy of her own home. She was on national television in NBC's third installment of the popular weight-loss show, "The Biggest Loser."

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Local homeless shelter still has no place to go

By Kristi Oloffson · Friday, Sept. 29,2006 9:24 a.m.

Abrahman Morales comes to the Shalom Community Center every day. It's the only place the homeless man can get a real meal, take a shower and do laundry. It's less than a mile from campus, where the average student spends more money on an education in a semester than Morales will see in years.

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Indiana public universities earn 'F' in affordability

By Sonia Rana · Friday, Sept. 29,2006 12:18 a.m.

Students aren't the only ones getting graded at colleges and universities across the nation. Sept. 7, Measuring Up, a national report card for higher education, gave Indiana's postsecondary education poor grades in a number of categories, including an 'F' in affordability, a grade that has IU administrators bristling.

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