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Moon Festival highlights families, friends, food

Junior Yan Jin, the president of the Chinese Student and Scholar Association, said the Moon Festival is similar to Thanksgiving because it celebrates quality time with family and friends. The festival will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Dunn Meadow.

Deans to set sail in Cardboard Boat Regatta, ‘most rooting for’ McKaig

The Council for Advancing Student Leadership’s eighth annual Cardboard Boat Regatta will feature the first-ever Dean’s Challenge Friday, where the three deans will race each other in boats constructed entirely of cardboard and duct tape.

Birch Bayh moves some to tears

Bayh received a 40-second standing ovation at the IU School of Law after he told the story of how seven Yale law students helped bring down President Richard Nixon’s nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Computers real future of business

Ah, Second Life. Thought of as the virtual-reality stomping ground of weirdos and sketchballs everywhere, the infamous Internet-based, 3-D virtual reality program is about to gain a few new residents. Welcome to the neighborhood, Kelley School of Business. Might we interest you in some virtual real estate?

Well worth the Read

I have a class in Briscoe this semester, and I am not impressed. Everyone who lives there seems to wear the same clothes and come from the same state and have the same recurring phone conversations. It makes me feel lucky that I lived in Read my freshman year. Unlike Northeast campus dorms, Read houses a hodge-podge of fascinating individuals, each one unique and a little bit off in his or her own way.

A new plan

It’s a travesty when nine people die each week in Indiana because they can’t afford health care. Such figures highlight the ostensible flaws of the U.S. health system, a system notoriously known as the most expensive in the world.

Corporate welfare

As the stock market plunges down and more and more firms go under, I am quite surprised and amused by the Bush administration’s handling of the crisis in the form of bailouts. Here we have a “small-government” and “fiscally responsible” Republican president pushing for corporate handouts that cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars. Is this not welfare? According to the conservative philosophy, should these businesses not try to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and take personal responsibility for their past actions?

Obama’s death debate

Barack Obama might have rebuffed McCain’s call to delay Friday’s debate but, really, he should be glad he might not have to take the stage. After spending all of May, June and July dodging John McCain’s challenge of town-hall debates, Obama would have had to face all his demons at the debate in Oxford, Miss. Obama has been all over the place on every issue so far ranging from abortion (It’s above his pay grade)  to the Bush tax cuts (He won’t rescind them anymore) , from the unity of Jerualem (“bad word choice”)  to gun rights and many more.

Finnish media report several threatening messages to schools

Finnish media are reporting that several bomb threats and other threatening messages have been sent to students and schools nationwide.

Pakistan chief: Citizens must support terror war

Pakistan’s new president said he was trying to convince his country to support the war against Islamic extremists, after a group that claimed responsibility for the Marriott Hotel bombing threatened more attacks.

Economy shows 7-year high unemployment claim rates

New claims for unemployment benefits jumped last week to their highest level in seven years due to the impact of a slowing economy and Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Presidential Debate

Second of three nationally televised, live debate.

League of Women Voters Fall Candidate Forum

Voter Registration Deadline

Don't forget to register to vote. Story: Deadline approachesStory: Student groups push to register

Vice Presidential Debate

Vice presidential candidates face off in a nationally televised debate.

League of Women Voters Fall Candidate Forum

Candidates for Monroe County Auditor, Coroner, Surveyor, and Treasurer.

Jill Long Thompson Town Hall Meeting

The event is hosted by the Brown County Democratic Central Committee.

Man arrested after police say he kicked, head-bumped officer

A Martinsville man was arrested Wednesday night after police say he head-bumped and kicked a Bloomington officer. Jacob A. Springer, 24, was arrested on suspicion of battery of a police officer, public intoxication and criminal misconduct.

Wonder Lab’s volunteers work many hours, essential to success

WonderLab, a museum of health, science and technology that was recently voted one of the “Top 25 Science Centers in the United States” by Parents magazine, has one of Bloomington’s largest volunteer communities. According to WonderLab’s Web site, 863 individuals volunteered more than 14,000 hours at the museum last year.

Gubernatorial Debate