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Video game center opens

By Paul Mattingly · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:59 p.m.

Looking at the $20 billion video game industry, creating a center where people can play some of the most popular games seemed like a pretty good idea to video game center founder Zack Johnson.

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Politically artistic

By Dae Woo Son · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:58 p.m.

During the 12 days of the 24th annual ArtsWeek, a Bloomington winter arts festival, a motley crew of visual artists, musicians, photographers, dancers, journalists, lawyers and academics will explore this year’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” said Sherry Knighton-Schwandt, coordinator of ArtsWeek.

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SPEA goes green

By Mark Wilson · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 11:47 p.m.

The field of sustainable development is now available as a concentration to current and prospective students in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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Short of Elysium

By Jacob Levin · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:52 p.m.

It had become kind of sad. Sometimes on my way home from class I would stop for a minute and gaze longingly into The Bluebird on Walnut Street. The smell that wafted out of the open doors, a bouquet of stale beer, puke and solvent – it was beginning to smell like opportunity. Things went on in there, I mused – glorious, wonderful things. But this was last semester, and I wasn’t 21 yet.

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Hard to say ‘I’m sorry’

By Johnathan P. Rossing and Jonathan P. Rossing · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:51 p.m.

"I’m sorry” isn’t an easy thing to say, particularly when it’s decades overdue. This month, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd historically and boldly apologized for a “great stain” on Australia’s “soul”:

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Culture shock

By Peter Chen · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:48 p.m.

When a school massacre takes place like the one at Northern Illinois University, it’s easy to jump to conclusions

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Athletics Department needs shake up

By Abra Oliver · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:46 p.m.

Bad news. Bad news. And yet, more bad news. It seems this is all we’ve heard coming out of the Athletics Department lately, especially since the investigations into IU coach Kelvin Sampson’s alleged recruiting violations. It seems unlikely that Sampson will remain unpunished tomorrow, and that’s the way it should be. IU must hold its students, faculty and family to a higher standard.

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Boiler beatdown: IU defeats Purdue 77-68

By Michael Sanserino · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 9:24 p.m.

Despite an ESPN.com story that reported IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson “likely” will be suspended and then fired at the end of the University’s week-long investigation into recruiting violations, freshman guard Eric Gordon said it had not crossed his mind whether IU’s 77-68 win against Purdue would be his coach’s last game.  VIDEO:  IU-Purdue post-game  SLIDESHOW:  IU vs. Purdue  PODCAST:  That's What He Said  BLOG:  Basketblog

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Herbie's got the funk

By Nathan Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 4:17 p.m.

Jazz veteran Herbie Hancock thanked the Academy for, "courageously breaking the mold,” a little more than a week ago as he blocked the undeserving Amy Winehouse from getting her greasy, cocaine-covered fingers on the Album of the Year award.

Goldfrapp branches out

By Amanda Lowry · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 3:39 p.m.

For its fourth studio album Seventh Tree, electronic duo Goldfrapp has abandoned the dance focus that characterized its last two albums, 2003’s Black Cherry and 2005’s Supernature, and turned to introverted electronica and orchestrations.

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Students, faculty react to Castro’s resignation

By Chelsea Merta · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 2:38 a.m.

With the resignation of Cuban President Fidel Castro and the end of his 49-year-old regime, IU students and faculty members spoke about the 81-year-old leader with mixed reactions.  PODCAST:  Hoosier Headlines

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Country star to perform at Bluebird

By Meredith Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:17 a.m.

Musician Phil Vassar will take over a local club come Thursday night. Vassar will bring his first-ever acoustic tour to Bloomington at 9 p.m. Thursday at The Bluebird.

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Fencing club prepares for tournament

By Adam Long · Wednesday, Feb. 20,2008 1:16 a.m.

The average student at IU has limited knowledge about the ancient sport of fencing. While it has been a pastime for centuries in countries like France and Russia, the same level of mainstream interest in fencing has never quite materialized in the U.S.

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