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Young Democrats' dilemma

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 8:32 p.m.

Election Day saw turnout among IU voters up 287 percent from 2004, and when the results came in students yelled wildly down Kirkwood Avenue. Obama’s actual Presidency has been less dramatic, and student enthusiasm has predictably suffered.

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More Michael

By IDS · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 8:27 p.m.

Steering a university in a long-term positive direction takes thinking – not in terms of years, but decades. This is exactly what the IU board of trustees did last week by voting unanimously to extend the contract of IU President Michael McRobbie for an additional five years.

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Book, pen, chalk

By John Brown · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 8:26 p.m.

After spending a long time with a book, you get to know its geography: the physical location of each important passage. But this familiarity comes from hunting through page after page to find that one quotation, not by hitting Ctrl+F and doing a keyword search.

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A stimulus package

By Sarah Wilensky · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 8:24 p.m.

Grade inflation might be happening more quickly in the United States than anywhere else, but most of us will be applying for graduate school and jobs in this country and competing with our peers who graduated from similarly grade-inflated institutions.

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Smoke gets in your eyes

By Eric Cox · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 8:23 p.m.

Way back in June, the federal government took a moment away from its stagnation on health care and the economy to sign some legislation of a different kind. The bill the government decided to pump out allowed the FDA to begin regulating the contents of tobacco products, notably their nicotine levels and additional flavorings. Better late than never to jump on the anti-smoking bandwagon, it was supposed.

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IU trumps Pitt, 74-64

By DeAntae Prince · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 7:44 p.m.

NEW YORK – Sophomore guard Verdell Jones  drove with a determined look on his face before turning on his pivot foot to drain a midrange jump shot.

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The Wrap on Rap

By Rachel Goldberg · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 6:35 p.m.

Though rap in the U.S. might have stemmed from a minority urban black culture, today even the Vatican has approved of the genre. Tupac Shakur’s song “Changes” has been included on the Vatican’s official MySpace playlist. Although the music chosen for the playlist varies, “all these artists share the aim to reach the heart of good minded people” the Vatican writes on the page.

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14-year-old sentenced in fatal Brown County attack

Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 6:31 p.m.

NASHVILLE, Ind. – A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for helping his older brother in an attack that killed an 84-year-old man and badly hurt his wife at their rural central Indiana home.

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BoD: "Emo" music

By Cory Barker · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 4:05 p.m.

BoD: Cory Barker looks at who emoted the most in the last 10 years.

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Ostrom's Workshop colleagues watch her Nobel speech

Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 3:22 p.m.

Friends and colleagues gathered this morning at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis on campus to watch co-founder, colleague, and IU professor Elinor Ostrom deliver her Nobel Prize lecture in Stockholm.

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BoD: Technology

By Mike Beam · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 3:04 p.m.

Here they are: The most memorable personal technologies of the aughts. Not all of them were good (Windows Vista, I’m lookin’ at you) but most of them were invented in the last 10 years. Those that weren’t hit their popularity peak during that time. Without further ado and in no particular order:

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Obama drops cautious arts policy

By Brett Zongker · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:40 p.m.

Still far less than arts advocates contend is needed, they have high hopes that President Barack Obama, still in his first year, could transform cultural policy, funding and arts education for years to come.

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Watch Lin Ostrom accept Nobel Prize

Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 7:03 a.m.

Watch the 2009 Nobel Prize Award Ceremony here from 10:30 a.m. to noon (EST) live from Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden.

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$10M fund to bring research to the marketplace

By Bailey Loosemore · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:32 a.m.

IU President Michael McRobbie announced Friday a new $10 million venture capital fund, called the Innovate Indiana Fund, which aims to help in the development of innovations and technologies generated at IU.

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City commemorates 4th-century bishop

By Liza Giambra · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:22 a.m.

Hundreds of people cram into the brick walls of the Basilica of Saint Ambrose as the smoke from the incense billows into the high ceilings of the church.

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Scarred past, hopeful Wednesdays

By Joanna Fearing · Tuesday, Dec. 8,2009 12:20 a.m.

“We want justice,” reads the sign of one of the protesters supporting the South Korean “comfort women’s” protest at the Japanese embassy in Seoul, South Korea.

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