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Online Only: Cotton-candy Christmas

By Abram Hess · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:14 a.m.

Call me Scrooge, but I'm just about sick of smarm. American culture is saturated with hollow happiness and empty smiles. The facade of every advertisement tells us our wealth will make us happy, but only if we use that wealth to buy Product W from heartless Corporation XYZ. The hollow ringing of our spiritual emptiness is most deafening in the first three weeks of December, when we all bustle about, burning our wealth in an annual attempt to make the American Dream come true: Maybe this will be the year that I can finally buy happiness.

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Misspent moolah

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:12 a.m.

My hometown of Memphis, Tenn., is the poster child for wasting money. In the early '90s, we spent $62 million building a pyramid-shaped basketball arena. (It was a play on Memphis, Egypt -- aren't we clever?). Our college and NBA teams used the arena, but apparently, it wasn't good enough. Ten years later, we shelled out another $250 million to build an entirely new complex for our Grizzlies, condemning the Pyramid to years of lonely, debt-ridden, pointy abandonment.

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Justice at home

By Grace Low · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:08 a.m.

A story broke Nov. 29 about the plight of a man in Louisiana. Pedro Parra-Sanchez, a legal immigrant and resident of California who moved to New Orleans to assist in the Katrina recovery efforts, was arrested more than a year ago on charges of battery.

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The 'as if' style

By Brian Stewart · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:08 a.m.

Brothers and sisters: There's something faintly unbecoming about the way in which argument and disputation are currently being conducted.

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Double outsider

By Brian J. McFillen and Brain J. McFillen · Wednesday, Dec. 6,2006 12:04 a.m.

In September, the IDS ran an Opinion front reacting to the findings of Cathy Small, a Northern Arizona University anthropology professor who enrolled as a university freshman to gain insight into her undergraduate students' behavior. During the course of my term as the IDS Opinion editor, I've felt a lot of kinship for Small. I'm a double outsider: a graduate student in a mostly undergraduate organization (though more grad students are involved than you'd think) and a nonjournalist who's working for a newspaper.

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Goody Two-shoes

By Joanna Borns · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:55 p.m.

They were big, black and furry like a pair of yak legs. I immediately got out my camera phone to document the spectacle. It wasn't a Big Foot sighting, but it was pretty darn close. I was staring at a young woman who entered the library wearing colossal, hairy boots that were downright Paleolithic.

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Account-ability

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:53 p.m.

A Nov. 17 IDS article headlined "IUSA leaders defend fee distributions" piqued our interest. We learned that IUSA delegates the responsibility of distributing $350,000 in student-organization funds to a staff of nine board members and one director, known together as the IUSA Assisted Inter-organizational Development Department board. Four of the nine are elected by the student body while the remaining members are appointed by the incoming IUSA administration. We can only hope each new administration will appoint students best equipped for this important position, as opposed to engaging in favoritism.

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Radio active

Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:06 p.m.

There might be people who do, in fact, remember real rock 'n' roll blasting out of their FM radios, but their numbers are dwindling due to the current state of radio. What used to be a powerful forum for the exchange of music and ideas has devolved into an audio assembly line of No. 1 hits. Radio used to be where people could hear a variety of music that they could use as a stepping stone to new musical and, to a degree, ideological horizons.

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IU wrestling set for success again

By Alyson Brodsy and Justin Montrie · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:04 p.m.

The IU wrestling team has been dominating the headlines and creating a national buzz this year. With natural leaders in juniors Max Dean and Brandon Becker, the team has continued the streak of national contention started by two-time national champion in the 125-pound weight class Joe Dubuque.

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Chercher le roommate

By Scott Leadingham · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11:03 p.m.

Ah, the end of the semester. Time for testing, last-minute cramming and long-overdue sleep. Oh, and don't forget, a convenient opportunity to return that keg tap you've had since homecoming.

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A pall of shame

By Kirk Nathanson · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 11 p.m.

Now that Election Day furor has subsided, it's time to look at what issues drove voters to the polls. Six states voted to raise the minimum wage. Others debated gay marriage and abortion. But none were quite as ridiculous as Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst's platform: a "death penalty sentence for a second sexually violent offense against a child under age 14." Like other states' versions of "Jessica's Law," Texas' would also impose tougher penalties for first-time sex offenders and require that they be monitored by GPS tracking for life.

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Senior Wilmont undaunted by recent 'slump'

By Matt Mattucci · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 10:59 p.m.

Don't tell Rod Wilmont that he's in a slump. He'll just smile and laugh it off. The IU senior has scored just four points on 1-of-8 shooting in the last two games. But to Wilmont, that's no reason to discount his shooting and scoring abilities when IU faces Western Illinois University (3-4) at 7 p.m. tonight at Assembly Hall.

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Kinsey Confidential

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 10:53 p.m.

QUESTION: My boyfriend and I mutually masturbate each other. We take turns; I'll do it to him and then he'll to it to me. If we are careful to wipe all the semen off of our hands, his hands especially, is there any way I could get pregnant from this? Or is it just a risk if there would be actual fl uid that got inside me?

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'Fat studies' gaining weight in academia

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Dec. 5,2006 10:53 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- Perceptions about body weight don't stop at the scales anymore. "Fat studies" is a growing interdisciplinary area of study at universities across the country devoted to examining discrimination and stereotypes against the fat body and studying the collective experience of fat people in society.

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