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Derrek Lee hits 3rd home run of season, Cubs beat Astros

By Aaron Beard and Rick Gano · Monday, April 7,2008 12:43 a.m.

Derrek Lee found his power stroke quickly this year.

Regular season ends on high note

By Kari Friedlander · Monday, April 7,2008 12:41 a.m.

The trip back to Bloomington could have been a long one for the IU water polo team. However, it turned out to be quite the joy ride.

No. 43 IU hosts only home invitational

By Ari Shifron · Monday, April 7,2008 12:40 a.m.

Now it is their turn.

Hoosiers can’t beat Badgers

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Monday, April 7,2008 12:39 a.m.

Despite grabbing its 15th doubles point of the season, the No. 39 IU men’s tennis team (13-6, 3-3) lost a 4-3 decision to No. 35 Wisconsin Saturday. The Hoosiers also earned a 5-2 victory over Northwestern Sunday.

Perfect Big Ten record falls in Evanston

By Zina Kumok · Monday, April 7,2008 12:38 a.m.

It was a lopsided weekend for the IU women’s tennis team. The No. 28 Hoosiers traveled to Wisconsin, where they defeated the Badgers 7-0, marking their fifth consecutive Big Ten victory.

Tournament ends in 1-0 win, 1-1 tie for IU

By Linnea Coulter · Monday, April 7,2008 12:38 a.m.

The Hoosiers continued their spring winning trend by tallying another victory and another tie in this weekend’s Bucks College Cup Tournament. The Hoosiers tied Oakland 1-1 before outlasting Big Ten rival Michigan in a 1-0 contest later in the day.

Senior’s homer leads to team’s 1st Big Ten win

By Dave Leno · Monday, April 7,2008 12:36 a.m.

A leader always leads by example. Whether it’s her assistance during practice or performance on the field, she knows when to step up at the right time.

Record breaking senior restores IU swimming

By Linnea Coulter · Monday, April 7,2008 12:35 a.m.

From a small town to the big stage, senior Ben Hesen has seen it all.

Author encourages people to ‘lighten up’ about multi-culturalism

By Elvia Malagon · Monday, April 7,2008 12:07 a.m.

Author Cathy Bao Bean wants people to lighten up about being multi-racial. Bean, author of “The Chopsticks-Fork Principle: A Memoir and Manual,” shared her humorous experience of growing up in the United States with a traditional Chinese family Friday in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium in front of about 40 people.

IU students participate in mock trial competition

By Ashley Pettit and Heather Hacker · Monday, April 7,2008 12:06 a.m.

IU’s Phi Alpha Delta traveled to Chicago Thursday and stayed until Saturday to compete against 18 different teams from eight different schools at the John Marshall Law School for the fifth annual national diversity mock trial competition.

Students munch wings for candidate

By Sarah Brubeck · Monday, April 7,2008 12:05 a.m.

Instead of celebrities and free concert tickets, all-you-can-eat wings brought students together Thursday to support presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama.

Sophomores launch Web site for Little 500 events

By Amy Burke · Monday, April 7,2008 12:04 a.m.

Sophomores Russell Markus and Craig Doner wanted to do something different this year for Little 500. With the race nearing, Markus and Doner came up with the idea to create a Web site, www.little500events.com, which features all of the Little 500 concerts and events going on during the week.

IDS, Arbutus select new editors-in-chief

By Amy Burke · Monday, April 7,2008 12:03 a.m.

The Indiana Daily Student publications board chose senior Michael Reschke and junior Audrie Garrison to lead the IDS in the summer and fall , respectively. Junior Lea Wilcox, currently the managing editor of the Arbutus yearbook, was selected as the 2008-09 Arbutus editor-in-chief.

Singing Hoosiers celebrate 58 years

By Gabrijel Gelic · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:55 p.m.

Saturday’s performance at the IU Auditorium celebrated the Singing Hoosiers’ 58th anniversary.

Luminescence Project gives ‘multi- sensory’ show

By Allison Tyra · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:54 p.m.

The IU Luminescence Project’s multi-sensory performance Friday and Saturday in the Musical Arts Center transported the audience into a world where a young black man is lynched by a white mob.

‘Overexaggeration of human emotion’ displayed Friday

By Aaron Risch · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:27 p.m.

Friends, family and art lovers gathered Friday night at the SoFA Gallery to celebrate the last showing of Bachelor of Fine Arts student Joel Hernandez’s photography as an IU student.

Enterprising students bring Southern rapper to IU for Little 5

By Ernest Moore · Sunday, April 6,2008 11:25 p.m.

With most of the performances for Little 500 being hosted by fraternity houses on campus, a few eager and business-oriented students at IU decided to collaborate and bring in a recording artist as well.

State schools’ chief urges districts to consider renewable energy

Sunday, April 6,2008 9:17 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s top schools official is encouraging the state’s school districts to look into renewable energy technologies as a way to cut their energy costs.

Briefs from around the state

Sunday, April 6,2008 9:16 p.m.

FORT WAYNE – Gunfire killed a 19-year-old man early Sunday, the city’s ninth shooting death within a week.

Anti-life

By Justin Hill and Justin P. Hill · Sunday, April 6,2008 7:35 p.m.

Abortion is one of the most abominable procedures our culture tolerates. Just as our country was wrong on slavery, we’re wrong on abortion. It is disgusting to know that a country that prides itself on the motto of “liberty and justice for all” has denied liberty and justice to more than 45 million people – the amount dead since Roe v. Wade passed.

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