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IU senior forward Kyle Taber grabs a rebound away from Penn State's Stanley Pringle, foreground left, and Jamelle Cornley, right, during the second half Saturday in State College, Pa.. Penn State won 61-58.

Hoosiers drop late lead to Penn State, lose in heartbreaker

By Tom Kirby · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:56 p.m.

Freshman guard Nick Williams’ dejected look after the final buzzer on the floor of the Bryce Jordan Center told the story.

IUSA to conduct clicker voting

By Alyssa Goldman · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:55 p.m.

The IU Student Association is bringing its voting and attendance system into the 21st century.

Members of the step dance group Indiana Revolution kneel during their kung fu-inspired performance in the 25th Annual Statewide Step Show Saturday evening at the IU Auditorium. Eight teams from around the state, including teams from every Phi Beta Sigma chapter in the state, competed for the top prize of $3,000.

IU’s Phi Beta Sigma chapter wins annual Statewide Step Show

By Carrie Schedler · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:54 p.m.

The price – and the steps – were right for IU’s chapter of Phi Beta Sigma at this year’s Statewide Step Show

RPS launches online meal-ordering service

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:52 p.m.

Students can now order food through Residential Programs and Services’ new online program to avoid lines and the hustle and bustle of crowds in the dining halls and food courts.

Funding needed for master plan

By Alex Benson · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:51 p.m.

Of IU’s existing 15.3 million square feet, the IU master plan maps out needs totaling to an increase of 4 million.

Siddarth Maini listens as swimming instructor Stephanie Jenkins instructs him at the Feb. 12 at the Counsilman/Billingsley Aquatic Center. The Student Recreational Sports Center is working to help children and adults who never learned to swim, encouraging them to take lessons.

Adult swimming lessons offered at SRSC

By Sarah Hann · Sunday, March 1,2009 11:49 p.m.

Some students take swim lessons and summers by the pool for granted. However, there are plenty of children who never learn to swim. The Student Recreational Sports Center is trying to change that.

New deadline for US hostage

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:23 p.m.

A suspected separatist group holding an American U.N. worker in Pakistan says it will kill him in four days if its demands are not met.

Remnants of French empire feel economic meltdown pain

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:22 p.m.

Christine Pochot buys croissants in her corner bakery, votes in French elections and is as French as her president – but lives a hemisphere away, on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.

2 NFL players missing in Gulf

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:21 p.m.

Two NFL players are among a group of boaters reported missing off Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Suspected US missiles kill 7 in Pakistan

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

Suspected U.S. missiles killed seven people in a Pakistani Taliban stronghold Sunday, officials said, while an attack on a military convoy and a cleric’s two-week deadline for the creation of Islamic courts rattled peace talks with militants elsewhere in the country’s northwest.

Shu-Mei Chan Evans, Bloomington resident and co-founder of the Bloomington Clay Studio, looks at a piece of Jeremy Kennedy's "4 Cell" Installation Friday evening at the McCalla Building. The exhibit's focus was the artist's obsession with materialism.

Display features destroyed cell phones

By Mallory Jindra · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

The opening reception of Jeremy Kennedy’s exhibition “4 Cell” on Friday night at the Fuller Projects showed off his amusement with cell phones and the way people interact with them.

Calif. case highlights use of mosque informants

Sunday, March 1,2009 10:19 p.m.

The revelation that the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque was explosive news in a Muslim community that has long suspected the government of even broader surveillance.

Panel features alumni literature

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:18 p.m.

A burst of laughter erupted from the audience as one poet and three volunteers performed a piece that demonstrated common annoyances and gibberish transported through cell phones.ArtsWeek’s “The Writer in the World” showcased four published writers and graduates of IU’s MFA Creative Writing Program to read from their works and answer questions. In correlation with ArtsWeek’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” the two poets and two fiction writers read excerpts from their works they believed to be political in some form.

‘Fire in the Garden’ tells story based on notorious case of self-immolation

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:17 p.m.

A spotlight shone on visiting IU theater department professor Ken Weitzman as he told the story of his own son’s birthday and a man, Norman Morrison, who set himself aflame outside of the Pentagon in Washington in 1965.

Broadripple High School senior Gregory Manning II stretches before performing Saturday evening during the IU African American Dance Company 12 Annual Showcase. Members of the company participated in a weekend-long series of dance workshops.

Dance workshop sways minds

By Gordon W. Buchanan · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:15 p.m.

The message of the 12th Annual African American Dance Company Workshop was passing on traditions to future generations, but for participants, it was also a chance to have some fun and express themselves through dance.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., speak to reporters Monday in the East Room of the White House in Washington after President Barack Obama convened the Fiscal Responsibility Summit.

Congress bill pushes to forgo pay raises for members

By Allie Cooper · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:13 p.m.

The move saves taxpayers a projected $2.5 million, according to a statement from Rep. Baron Hill’s office.

IU Jacobs School of Music graduate student Nemanja Ostojic tunes his guitar in his studio Friday afternoon in Merril Hall before teaching a lesson. Ostojic won first place at the Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio, Texas in February.

IU Serbian guitarist wins competitions, teaches

By Amy Burke · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:12 p.m.

For Nemanja Ostojic, the classical guitar is a way of life.Having originally started on the violin at 6 years old, Ostojic decided to switch to classical guitar when he was 10. He said he wanted more strings and switched to guitar to be cool around his friends. Little did he know he would be playing 15 years later on scholarship and winning international competitions all over the world – four in the past year.

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