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Students form golf league in search of competition

By Alex Wall · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:29 p.m.

Golfers looking to find a place to compete can come to the call-out meeting for the Student Golf League at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Kelley School of Business, room 732. The meeting is open to all interested students.

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Purdue crashes Indiana Invitational

By Ari Shifron · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:28 p.m.

It’s called the Indiana Invitational, making it appropriate that a team from the state of Indiana would win the tournament. However it wasn’t the Hoosiers that won, but in-state rival Purdue.

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Iraq war commander calls for halt to US troop reductions

By Abisalom Omolo and Anne Flaherty · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:19 p.m.

The U.S. general commanding the Iraq war called Tuesday for an open-ended suspension of U.S. troop withdrawals this summer, reflecting concern about a recent flare-up in violence and leaving open the possibility that few, if any, additional troops will be brought home before President Bush leaves office in January.

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Irrelevant no more

By Thomas Wachtel · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:09 p.m.

Dave Matthews. Bill Clinton. Kal Penn. Chelsea Clinton. Jeremy Piven. Sean Astin. All are celebrities of varying levels of fame, and all are surrogates for either Sen. Hillary Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama. And in the past week and a half, all six have made visits to Bloomington.

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Politics of hope

By Tristan Reitz · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:06 p.m.

Last month, Sen. John McCain raised $15 million. Sen. Barack Obama, however, raised more than $40 million. I’ll let that sink in for just a second. That’s $40 million ... in a month.

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Vonnegut, remembered

By Jennifer Miller · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:06 p.m.

Something close to my heart is taking place this Friday. Well, two things, actually – I really can’t wait to see Yung Joc in concert at Sigma Alpha Mu. But the other semi-momentous occasion going on in the world is the one-year anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut’s death.

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Political idols?

By Nathan Dixon · Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:05 p.m.

I don’t suppose seeing Bill Clinton should have been that big of a deal. Sure, the guy is an ex-president, but I had seen plenty of other big-name politicians speak, including Sen. Barack Obama. Is an ex-president really as exciting as a future president?

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Keep your laws off my Facebook

Tuesday, April 8,2008 11:04 p.m.

Various children’s advocacy organizations in the United Kingdom are calling for a ban on employers looking at prospective employees’ Facebook pages, citing data protection laws. According to a story in the Daily Mail, studies found that one in five employers check the Internet and social networking sites for information on prospective employees. And for these organizations, that’s just too much.

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Tunes for the drunk and sober

By Teri Rosenbaum · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10:39 p.m.

It’s almost as if people have this all-known consensus that local bands that play at bars, in general, are bad, and therefore these people feel the need to clarify when they say that said local band is “actually pretty good.”

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L350 class to do community service

By Nick Cusack · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10:05 p.m.

One IU class is reaching beyond the classroom and giving back to the community. Students taking environmental biology L350 are required to complete 15 hours of service learning by participating in one of three projects. One class project involves teaching Fairview Elementary School students how to garden.

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RPS libraries to make room for new materials

By Amanda Bridgman · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10:01 p.m.

Students had the opportunity to buy books, videos and CDs for a dollar or less Tuesday. The Residential Programs and Services annual libraries’ book and media sale offered videos, CDs, hardback and paperback books to students for cheap outside of the Teter Academic Support Center from noon to 6 p.m. Shawn Wilson, the RPS libraries manager, said the sale helps support RPS libraries.

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Students, faculty to ‘bike to Uganda

By Joanna Barnett · Tuesday, April 8,2008 10 p.m.

Racers practicing for the Little 500 won’t be the only ones mounting Schwinn bicycles this week. In addition to the 300 competitors in the Little 500, students and faculty will get the chance to take part in a campus-wide fundraising event to “ride” 7,710 miles for impoverished children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Around the state

Tuesday, April 8,2008 9:19 p.m.

GARY – Airport officials say they will continue to solicit passenger air service despite the grounding of Skybus Airlines flights and comments by the Chicago mayor that the facility’s future lies in cargo transport.

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