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'Sticks and Stones'

Sunday, May 11,2008 4:47 p.m.

Maybe your mother got it wrong. When she dried your tears and reassured you that those mean things said at the lunch table were just words, she might have made a mistake. In her defense, your mother didn’t know about Facebook.

Ron Johnson

Journalism school names new student media director

By Kaitlin Shawgo and Kailtin Shawgo · Friday, May 9,2008 6:22 p.m.

The IU School of Journalism announced Friday that Ron Johnson will be the new director of student media starting July 1. Johnson, who has worked as student publications director and adviser to the Kansas State Collegian newspaper, will oversee the Indiana Daily Student, Arbutus yearbook and INside magazine.

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Verdell Jones signs with IU

By Jordan Cohen · Friday, May 9,2008 4:43 p.m.

They aren’t like Michigan’s “Fab Five.” They don’t have the catchy nickname yet. But in less than three weeks, five recruits have signed on to join IU coach Tom Crean and the Indiana Hoosiers for the 2008-09 or 2009-10 seasons.  BLOG:  Basketblog

Rootin fo’ Roots

By Alex Benson · Thursday, May 8,2008 4:17 p.m.

With quality synths, dark beats and darker spits, the Roots get back to what hip-hop and rap originally set out to achieve. Rap used to be about standing up for something real and screaming it from the top of a building. Jewelry, alcohol, drugs, sex and mindless violence have taken hold of mainstream rap these days. Rising Down is a breath of fresh activism ranging from global warming to corruption.

Jim

Fly for a white guy

By Peter Chen · Thursday, May 8,2008 4:09 p.m.

From the first notes on Jim’s radiant opener “Another Day,” you’ll wish you were nodding along to it on your cranked-up car speakers on the first hot day in June. Jamie Lidell, everyone’s favorite British white knob-twiddler-turned-soul-singer, absolutely loads on the sunshine in this song, complete with handclaps and ooh-oohs, doing his best Curtis Mayfield impression in his more traditional follow-up to the spastic Multiply. Is it lampoon? Is it reverence? Who cares?

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The Hoosiers have spoken

Thursday, May 8,2008 2:13 p.m.

Wednesday, the prevailing mood in Bloomington was one of sour defeat. While the rest of the state congratulates itself on the renewed relevance of its votes, Monroe County wanted vastly different for itself. Obama won handily around the Bloomington area, no doubt thanks to the youth movement at the core of his support, but in the end it wasn’t enough.

Def Leppard: Songs From the Sparkle Lounge

An Almost Comeback

By Tyler James Perry · Thursday, May 8,2008 1:17 p.m.

Def Leppard is a popular heavy metal band that formed in the late ‘70s. Songs From The Sparkle Lounge is the band’s tenth studio album and first since their 2002 album X, which had many softer, more pop-laden songs.

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Sidetracked

By Alex Benson · Thursday, May 8,2008 12:49 p.m.

Alex Benson grades this week’s hottest tracks.

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Push away the table and say Damn

By Shannon McEnerney · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:57 a.m.

Aracelis Girmay cooks up and offers a collection of poetry that will leave anyone who reads it thirsty for more of her words and inspiration. Her collection “Teeth” is composed of many poems that have the power to speak universally to everyone if one takes the time to feel her words.

Ted Somerville

Seniors primed for last time on home track before Big Ten tourney

By Jeremy Rosenthal · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

Senior Ryan Smith will be performing triple duty for the IU track-and-field team this weekend – hurdling, sprinting and singing. A member of the Marching Hundred and Big Red Basketball bands, Smith will partner with sophomore hurdler Kayla Smith to sing the National Anthem at the Billy Hayes Invitational.

Brandon Foltz

IU’s ‘getting hit’ king

By Zachary Osterman · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

Some men are born to greatness; others have it hurled toward them at 92 miles per hour. Such is the case with Chris Hervey, left fielder on the IU baseball team.

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Indiana is important

By Georgia Perry · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

As a native Hoosier, it feels great to know that Indiana was so important in this year’s primary elections. I saw a story about Indiana’s primary election on the first page of BBC.com on Monday. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time Indiana has ever been on BBC.com.

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We matter(ed)!

By Nick Wallace · Thursday, May 8,2008 9:55 a.m.

It’s not often Indiana plays an important role in national politics, at least not in a way that bolsters our reputation. True, our state has appeared before the Supreme Court to defend its stringent voter ID requirements and has also come under fire for sponsoring “In God We Trust” license plates, but both of these instances cause large swathes of the nation to see us as infamous rather than noteworthy. Tuesday’s primary gave us a chance to change that.

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