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Students raise funds for Haiti with buffet dinner

Students can still buy $10 tickets for a Haiti benefit dinner, which hopes to raise $5,000. The money will benefit Partners in Health, an organization that has been working in Haiti for more than 20 years to bring medical care to 12 countries worldwide, according to its Web site.


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Women's swimming and diving set to defend Big Ten title

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The IU women’s swimming and diving coaches gave each swimmer a T-shirt with a target on the back during this week’s practice. This is exactly what the No. 14 Hoosiers will have when they step foot in West Lafayette to defend their Big Ten title.


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Women's swimming and diving set to defend Big Ten title

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The IU women’s swimming and diving coaches gave each swimmer a T-shirt with a target on the back during this week’s practice. This is exactly what the No. 14 Hoosiers will have when they step foot in West Lafayette to defend their Big Ten title.


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Race for Sen. Bayh’s seat officially underway

U.S. Senate elections are a complex process that take months to prepare for, and considering U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh’s decision to retire from public office, the whole process has become a conundrum.


MacTaggart

Despite youth, MacTaggart displays veteran skills

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IU freshman Josh MacTaggart doesn’t overpower anyone on the tennis court. His serve is of average velocity compared to his Hoosier teammates, and he rarely surprises anyone with his strength. At first glance, he looks more like a runner or a swimmer than a tennis player.


Basket Ball

Hoosiers make small strides in loss

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The scoreboard might not have shown it — and it was the team’s seventh loss in as many games — but IU took some baby steps in the right direction Tuesday.



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Diversity Committee brings culture to campus

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The IU-Bloomington Diversity Committee gathered Tuesday to discuss the upcoming events on campus for spring, including a Holocaust exhibit and Diversity Day presentations with the theme of Civil Conversation.




Elinor Ostrom Nobel Speech

Auditorium fills for Nobel Lecture speech

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McRobbie told the packed auditorium that Ostrom had received her Nobel Prize in Economics “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons,” and that she was the first woman to have won the prize.




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Students express from the heart in spoken word poetry

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“Spoken word is poetry, but it’s basically a song without music,” said IU alumnus Branden Scott. “Spoken word has more feeling. It’s like giving a speech. Poetry is reading from a book; it’s not emotional. Spoken word is a conversation meant to sway you.”



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Ignore the idiots

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There are some very stupid people in the world. Take, for instance, the missionaries who are currently being held in a Haitian jail for the attempted kidnapping of 33 children abandoned or orphaned in the wake of the earthquake. They claim they had the correct papers and had set up a place in the Dominican Republic to take the children until their relatives could be found or someone could adopt them.