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Monroe County Fair Schedule

The Monroe County Fair continues this weekend with concerts, livestock shows, and an auction. Click here for the times and locations of the events.


The Ugly Truth

Not Pretty

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Review of the film "The Ugly Truth."   



The Indiana Daily Student

McKaig a mentor to many

Administrators, students and alumni share their memories of outgoing dean of students.



The Indiana Daily Student

Q&A with the dean

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New administrators and staff are hired, and the old retire. Residence and lecture halls are built or torn down. But for the past 38 years, Dean of Students Dick McKaig has been a fixture at IU.




The Indiana Daily Student

Dick McKaig: Vestige of a Wellsian world

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At his official retirement ceremony in early June, Dick McKaig received a small replica of the Herman B Wells statue and bench that graces the corner of IU’s historic Old Crescent.


The Student's Dean

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But after 38 years, IU’s dean of students will say goodbye Friday to crusty eyelashes from whipped cream from pies in the face.





Small

A man of Opry status

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Jan Masters said she thinks playing at the Monroe County Fair is more stressful than playing at the Grand Ole Opry. Masters, 54, and her husband, Joe Edwards, 75, a Grand Ole Opry veteran of 48 years, travel the country together. Last year, they were on the road for 305 days.





The Indiana Daily Student

Gates: US might speed up troop withdrawal from Iraq

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT – The United States is considering speeding up its withdrawal from Iraq because of the sustained drop in violence there, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday following discussions with his top commanders in the war.


Obama

Obama pitches health care in N.C.

RALEIGH, N.C. – Senators reported progress on legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care Wednesday as President Obama introduced a retooled message asserting his plan would protect Americans and limit insurers’ power.