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Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt opens up about his songwriting

NEW YORK -- Stephin Merritt usually has a song cycling through his head

In-Vaden Purdue

Six hundred and 19 days ago, Purdue fans suffered another defeat to in-state rival IU. On May 6, 2003, then-Indianapolis Pike High School superstar Robert Vaden reneged on his oral commitment to play for Gene Keady and the Boilermakers, only to choose their neighbors two hours south. Saturday will be the first time Vaden faces the West Lafayette crowd -- a group that once hailed him -- as the Hoosiers face Purdue at noon in Mackey Arena.

Former black radical now praises King's vision

Visiting Professor of Education Alvin O'Chambliss came of age in the 1960s as a college student at Jackson State University in Mississippi.

Disbanded fraternity regroups

Four years ago Theta Chi fraternity was disbanded after a brush with alcohol and the death of a potential member.

Forum educates IU on tsunami's deeper impact

Panelists stressed the need to maintain focus, attention and aid to nations and people devastated by the Indian Ocean tsunami, even as months pass and media attention diminishes at a forum in the Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union Thursday evening.

Campus groups match concern with action, donations

Following an IU-held forum on the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia last month, 20 student and community groups held an information session and fund-raising drive Thursday night in the Solarium of the Indiana Memorial Union to solicit donations for the victims of the natural disaster.

The legacy lives on

It's a simple word, but a word that started a revolution. When Rosa Parks said "no," refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. city bus, she attracted nationwide notoriety as well as the attention of the young Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. King organized a yearlong bus boycott that nearly bankrupted the bus company and spurred a movement that changed the country.

Top 25 teams to watch this weekend

Saturday's games:

Moss' playoff mooning triggers 10,000 punishment from league

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Randy Moss trudged out to his truck in the subzero cold, with a huge, black hooded sweat shirt covering almost his entire face.

Colts converting out-of-state students into die-hard fans

Somewhere in IU graduate Max Semenick's Bloomington house there is a monkey locked in a trunk.

A stay of execution

Steve Alford, Rick Majerus, heck what about Isaiah Thomas?

Wrestlers head to Virginia to test unbeaten record

Four highly ranked teams will be among the competition for IU this weekend as the wrestling team travels to Hampton, Virginia.

Pell Grant cuts to decrease student aid

Freshman Alyssa Reed received a $1,300 Pell Grant by simply filling out her annual FAFSA form. Just like that. Under a new reconfiguration of the Pell formula slipped into a congressional bill two days before Christmas and passed into law shortly thereafter, Reed's grant now could decrease. Just like that.

Reaching out

Since the Dec. 26 catastrophe in southeast Asia, thousands of people have opened up their hearts and wallets to tsunami disaster relief funds. But as the tremendous outpour of support continues to come in large sums of money, officials fear history might be repeating itself.

Forum to address tsunami's impact, ways to donate

Although students might feel far removed from the tsunami's impact, it has sparked a longing in the IU community to comprehend the disaster.

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White House halts 2-year search for WMDs in Iraq

WASHINGTON -- The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has quietly concluded without any evidence of the banned weapons that President Bush cited as justification for going to war, the White House said Wednesday. Democrats said Bush owes the country an explanation of why he was so wrong.

Illustrator finds true calling in drawing animals

Lexington, Ill. -- If he never sold another one of his pieces, Ben Mehl would live life happy. That's how much the 29-year-old Lexington native loves his true calling.

Jackie O's paper wedding dress on exhibit

Chicago -- When John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in September 1953, the nation was enchanted by the wedding, the couple and the young bride's off-the-shoulder gown. Now two artists have used paper to replicate the wedding dress in connection with an exhibit of her clothing, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," currently at Chicago's Field Museum.

Book examines how simplicity can lead to momentous change

NEW YORK -- Malcolm Gladwell, whose best seller "The Tipping Point" explored how minor events can lead to momentous changes, got the idea for his next project simply by letting his hair grow long.