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Candidates prepare for IUSA race

By Amy Burke · Friday, Feb. 15,2008 12 a.m.

With elections coming up in March, students are starting to form together and create tickets or groups to run for the chance to govern the student body. “It is our sole responsibility for students to be represented on campus,” said current IU Student Association president and junior W.T Wright. “In (IUSA) students get to voice their view on subjects and get behind different people on different issues.”

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Around the World

By AP Reports and Abisalom Omolo · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:54 p.m.

A senior Justice Department official told Congress on Thursday that laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded have eliminated the technique from what is now allowed.

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Bush pushes for surveillance law

By Abisalom Omolo and Deb Riechmann · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:53 p.m.

President Bush, at loggerheads with House Democrats over how closely the government can eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, warned Wednesday that terrorists were planning fresh assaults that would make the Sept. 11 attacks “pale by comparison.”

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Podcast, blog added to Kinsey Web site

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:39 p.m.

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction has added three-minute podcasts to its Web site to appeal to a more modern audience.

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Dining with the Dean

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:37 p.m.

About 120 students and staff attended a luncheon with Dean of Students Dick McKaig Thursday in the Indiana Memorial Union.

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‘Facebook is like a potato chip’

By Ben Phelps · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:33 p.m.

About 25 students crammed into the front room of the Asian Culture Center house at 7 p.m. Wednesday to hear communication and culture Assistant Professor Ilana Gershon speak about her research on the effects of going “Facebook official.”

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Study buddies

By Julia Boriss · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:12 p.m.

Last semester, I uncharacteristically turned in a paper three days early. I was studying in Australia, living on the “party floor” in a dorm in a country already notorious for excessive partying.

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Shortchanged

By Alex Chtchedrina and Alexandra Chtchedrina · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:11 p.m.

If you are going to study abroad in the near future, expect to dip deeper in your pockets than what you’re used to. With the anemic dollar plagued by inflation and the U.S. stock market terrified of a recession, the international exchange rates have not been friendly to U.S. students. And IU students are unfortunately no exception.

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Women’s water polo team sets goals for rookie season

By Kari Friedlander · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:08 p.m.

After graduating six seniors from a team that went 19-14 last year and completed the Hoosiers’ third consecutive undefeated 7-0 season in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Western Division, the IU women’s water polo team is ready to take on a new season.

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Surviving the tank

By Brian Frange and Brian M. Frange · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:07 p.m.

My eyes slowly open to reveal an unfamiliar room. It’s cold, bright and wet. I see the word “Snakes” carved with seemingly malicious intent on the wall. As I gather my bearings, I realize I am in the fabled “drunk tank” of Bloomington’s City Jail.

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Surviving the tank

By Brian Frange and Brian M. Frange · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:07 p.m.

My eyes slowly open to reveal an unfamiliar room. It’s cold, bright and wet. I see the word “Snakes” carved with seemingly malicious intent on the wall. As I gather my bearings, I realize I am in the fabled “drunk tank” of Bloomington’s City Jail.

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The politics of marriage

By Rachel Goldberg · Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 11:05 p.m.

As far as politics go, I happen to be the poster child for liberalism. (I know this because I took a five-question Facebook quiz, and the arrow pointed all the way to the left.) And one of the issues that I am most passionately a proponent for is gay marriage. I am shocked that the rest of the country (save Massachusetts) hasn’t caught up with what seems so obvious to me.

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Books, brains, and breasts

Thursday, Feb. 14,2008 10:46 p.m.

It’s the happy news flash of the year for all those Harvardites who are great on tests, but bad at “scoring.” Now they can do both. Meet Harvard Senior Matthew Di Pasquale, the mastermind behind “Diamond,” a magazine planned for this spring which would be the second nude publication to hit the Harvard community. His inspiration? “I love women,” he said.

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