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Madeleine Albright to speak at IU on Friday

By IDS staff · Tuesday, Sept. 16,2008 12:41 p.m.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and Ex-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will speak from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. Friday at the Indiana Memorial Union Alumni Hall.

Sodrel talks history at College Republicans call-out

By Ben Phelps · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:55 p.m.

Monday night’s IU College Republican call-out meeting was more like a history class than a political meeting.

Colin Hammermeister, a Munster, Ind. high school football player, helps patch up areas along the Little Calumet on Sunday after the Little Calumet river spilled its banks flooding Munster and Hammond, Ind.

7 killed by flooding, wind damage in Indiana

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:54 p.m.

MUNSTER, Ind. – Heavy rains and strong winds that swept across the Midwest during the weekend caused seven deaths in Indiana and flooded hundreds of homes in the state’s northwestern corner.

Trojan to bring condoms, education to IU

By Zina Kumok · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:53 p.m.

Ribbed. Magnum. Lubricated. Flavored. Her pleasure. Condoms, anyone? Trojan will come to IU from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Dunn Meadow on Wednesday as part of its “Evolve” tour. The company is working to educate students about sexual health and will provide games and activities – an area where it believes IU could improve.

Library reaches 100,000 deliveries

By Nick Cusack · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:52 p.m.

After six years and nearly 100,000 deliveries, IU’s Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility, or ALF, has never lost a book, damaged a book or delivered one late. The library currently holds about 1.8 million books, and 1,500 arrive daily. The library stores them by size, not subject, so the four full-time staff members and seven part-time student workers shelve and retrieve the books using a series of barcodes.

IU alum Mike Roque drills a sheet of OSB (oriented strand board) in order to patch up a roof at the Urban Life Missions camp on Saturday in Biloxi, Miss.

CALLED to the COAST

By Amy Burke · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:50 p.m.

On Thursday, eight members of Y’ALL went down to Biloxi, Miss., to help with hurricane relief efforts. Y’ALL was formed in 2005 when 200 students went to Mississippi to help the relief effort after Hurricane Katrina destroyed or damaged much of the Gulf Coast region. For the students who went to Mississippi with Y’ALL this past weekend, their main job was to get the work camp Urban Life Missions back into shape.

City poverty rate climbs 6.9 percent

By Nicky Purser · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:46 p.m.

Of the 65,929 people living in Bloomington, 41.6 percent of them live in poverty, up from 34.7 percent in 2006, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released in August.

Firefighers block 15th Street near the intersection with Woodburn Avenue after a fallen tree limb brought down several utility lines on Sunday. The remnants of Hurricane Ike pushed north into the midwest over the weekend, bringing high winds and flooding.

Electricity for some out until Saturday

By Deanna Krinn · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:45 p.m.

Some Monroe County residents who lost power when the remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the area this weekend could be without electricity until Saturday. Duke Energy officials blamed the delay on the number of customers effected.

Opening up education

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 11:03 p.m.

Last week, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel issued an advisory opinion saying the state’s colleges and universities aren’t required to verify whether or not the students they admit are in the country legally. Undoubtedly, two questions about this decision have arisen in your mind, and in answer to the first, yes, there are colleges in Arkansas, and some of them are actually very good. Now quit being an elitist Midwesterner and read the rest of the editorial.

Give me the fish

By Justin P. Hill · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:45 p.m.

Liberalism threatens “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” I am constantly amazed at the willingness of individuals to yield so much power to the hands of so few people. Liberalism asks us to put our trust in the government, big government, and those who represent it. Liberals fail to recognize, however, that one of the main reasons America exists today was to escape the political rule of despotic kings and monarchies whose centralized power – big government – controlled everyone.

With a campus this nice, why drive?

By Abby Schwimmer · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:43 p.m.

Everyone knows there are a lot of dumb ways to break the law. There are also a lot of dumb ways to blow money, along with lots of ways to hurt others and the environment. But what if I told you there was a way to do all of the above at once?

Wearing the pant(suit)s

By Erin Chapman · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:41 p.m.

The other week, in preparation for an important interview, my mom offered to buy me a formal outfit. Being the starving college student that I am, I was not going to turn down free clothes, so I agreed to go. Accustomed to campus casual, I was in no way prepared for what lay in store for me: the pantsuit. After two hours of trying on pinstripes and neutral colors, I came away with a not-so-ugly jacket-skirt combo and a newfound understanding of Hillary Clinton.

UN watchdog says Iran blocking arms probe

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:28 p.m.

Iran has steadfastly blocked a U.N. investigation into allegations it tried to make nuclear arms and the probe is now deadlocked, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday.

IU junior and captain of the Ballroom Dancing Team Steve Torres and IU senior and Ballroom Dancing Club vice president Casey Green exhibit the tango to newcomers during the IU Ballroom Dance Club call-out meeting on Sunday night in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. The club meets every Thursday night from 8:30-10:30 in HPER room 171.

Ballroom Dance Club cuts a rug

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:27 p.m.

The Indiana Memorial Union is generally a quiet place on Sunday nights. The usually overcrowded eateries are closed and the phenomenon of strangely-contorted sleeping students on Mezzanine-level couches is on hold until the next morning. The Union is quiet on Sunday nights, unless the IU Ballroom Dance Club is out to bring in new members.

After Ike, Texas survivors clamor for gas, food

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:27 p.m.

Rescuers flew into a hard-to-reach area of the swamped Gulf Coast on Monday and uncovered a devastated landscape: Hurricane Ike had swamped entire subdivision, and emergency crews feared they would find more victims than survivors.

O.J. Simpson arrives at courthouse with a smile

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:24 p.m.

Opening statements have begun in O.J. Simpson’s trial on charges that he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in Las Vegas a year ago.

President Bush makes a statement about the economy as he stands in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 15, 2008.

Bush: Economy strong enough to handle turmoil

By Jennifer Loven · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:23 p.m.

President Bush sympathized Monday with investors and employees of storied but fallen financial institutions, but said federal policy makers will focus their attention on “the health of the financial system as a whole.”

Oil below $100 per barrel for first time in 6 months

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:19 p.m.

Oil prices closed below $100 a barrel for the first time in six months Monday, tumbling more than $5 as the demise of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch fed worries about the U.S. economy and sparked another dramatic sell-off. Crude prices have now given up virtually all their gains for the year, extending a steep, two-month slide from record levels above $147 a barrel.

Stock broker Andrew O'Connor takes a break from his floor position at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday in New York. A stunning reshaping of the Wall Street landscape sent stocks tumbling Monday, but the pullback appeared relatively orderly perhaps because investors were unsurprised by the demise of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and relieved by a takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co.

Finance meltdown pummels Wall Street

Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:16 p.m.

A stunning makeover of the Wall Street landscape sent stocks falling precipitously Monday, with the Dow Jones industrials sliding more than 500 points in their worst point drop since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Investors reacted badly to a shake-up of the financial industry that took out two storied names: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Credit card companies dangle freebies to attract students

By Sam Leffers · Monday, Sept. 15,2008 10:15 p.m.

Credit card companies and financial institutions are descending on campus in hopes of convincing freshmen to sign up for their services. In an effort to tempt students, some are throwing in gifts, such as an iPod, T-shirt or other freebies. Jerry James, a senior finance lecturer in the Kelley School of Business, said students need to look beyond the allure of giveaways.