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Summer of sacrifice

By Brian Buckey · Sunday, June 15,2008 9:35 p.m.

19-year-old IU swimmer Kate Zubkova already knows more about the Olympic Games than a typical teenager.

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Old sound clashes with ‘newgrass’ at Bean Blossom

By Michael Zennie · Sunday, June 15,2008 7:49 p.m.

For Tommy Brown, the leader of the seven-piece bluegrass act Tommy Brown & County Line Grass, there’s really only one way to play bluegrass – the old time way. The way Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers played it when they brought the genre to the fore in the ’40s and ’50s.

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Camp S.O.U.L. culminates with performance

By Kelly Cochran · Sunday, June 15,2008 7:48 p.m.

Camp S.O.U.L, sponsored by IU’s Office of Community and Schools Partnerships, brought together underrepresented high school students from around Indiana to participate in a five-day camp, which ended in the performance. The sixth annual summer music program focused on the historical, theoretical and performance dimensions of African American music and culture, according to a press release.

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Performing with injuries separates good from great

By Ben Homrig · Sunday, June 15,2008 7:34 p.m.

Before the doldrums of summer sports hit me square in the face some time in the next month, I have forced myself to be glued to coverage of the NBA Finals, the race for the Triple Crown and the U.S. Open these past couple weeks.

NCAA Hearing

University, Sampson present case to NCAA

By Chris Engel · Sunday, June 15,2008 7:31 p.m.

The University and former men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson presented their cases to the NCAA Committee on Infractions last Friday and Saturday at Seattle’s Hotel Deca.

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‘Matching the Promise’ raises $60M

By Kaitlin Shawgo and Kailtin Shawgo · Sunday, June 15,2008 7:15 p.m.

IU has raised more than $60 million for graduate fellowships through the University’s “Matching the Promise” campaign, a three-fold increase in funds since the campaign’s inception, said Kent Dove, IU senior vice president for development.

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Gotta love gas (and travel)

By Erich Reinhard · Sunday, June 15,2008 4:41 p.m.

In a political season like this, things are said to change rapidly. But here’s an example of what hasn’t changed in this historic year thus far: my ambivalent attitude towards the New York Times. While sifting through a June 9 article on how gas prices affect citizens across the country’s various regions, one line caught my eye.

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Balancing Gitmo

By Nathan Dixon · Sunday, June 15,2008 4:39 p.m.

Some of them have been held for as long as six years without charge, but the Supreme Court decided last Thursday that detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay could indeed appeal their detention in U.S. Federal courts.

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Words to the wise

By Erin Chapman · Sunday, June 15,2008 4:38 p.m.

Orientation is now in full swing, and the new batch of freshmen, red backpacks in tow, are descending in droves upon Bloomington. The fresh crop of frosh have not only made finding a computer at the Wells Library more difficult, they have ushered in a wave of nostalgia that I just can’t kick.

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Annoyed by noise

By Julia Boriss · Sunday, June 15,2008 4:37 p.m.

Last week my Dad was lying in his hospital bed recovering from open-heart surgery and watching the CBS evening news with the sound turned off. “Katie Couric is bad for my stress,” he eventually groaned and changed the channel to Soul Train.

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