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The learning curve

By Zachary Osterman · Friday, Nov. 30,2007 12:38 a.m.

Assembly Hall certainly isn’t the Virgin Islands, but there’s no place like home. The IU women’s basketball team will play its first game in Bloomington in over two weeks Friday when they take on No. 21 Florida State in the first year of the Big Ten/ACC Women’s Basketball Challenge.

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Time for meaningless off-season awards

By Matt Dollinger · Friday, Nov. 30,2007 12:36 a.m.

What does an award mean these days? Parents have to dedicate entire rooms in their houses for their child athletes’ trophies. In college football, so many organizations dole out petty achievements that anyone who moves a pinky toe at least gets a nomination. The only thing worse than the abundance of meaningless hardware is the sub-par acceptance speeches that usually follow. Austin Starr alone has a realistic chance at winning three awards this off-season.

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Jack resigns as assistant volleyball coach

By Aaron Beard · Friday, Nov. 30,2007 12:33 a.m.

David Jack, husband of IU women’s basketball coach Felisha Legette-Jack, resigned Thursday as IU assistant volleyball coach, according to an IU Department of Athletics press release.

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IU swimming travel to Lexington for meet

By Josh Bagriansky · Friday, Nov. 30,2007 12:30 a.m.

The IU men’s and women’s swimming teams will have a target on their backs Friday. A trip to face off against unranked Kentucky might appear to be an easy task, but the Hoosiers know they can’t afford to lose their focus in Lexington.

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Keeping it real

By Jonathan Hines · Friday, Nov. 30,2007 12:26 a.m.

After six games of watching IU yo-yo between “Stellar Ying” and “Awful Yang” – oftentimes in the same possession – my neck is throbbing with pain. If this team doesn’t settle down into some kind of groove in the coming weeks, I’m putting my masseuse on speed dial.

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Hillel to go after world record for most dreidels spun

By Chelsea Merta · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 11:30 p.m.

In an attempt to break the world record of most dreidels spun at the same time, student president of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center Dena Kranzberg will lead students, faculty and community members in a spiraling challenge. Hillel will sponsor the dreidel spin off at 2 p.m. Sunday in an attempt to “retake” a record IU set three years ago, Kranzberg said.

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Baron Hill to speak about public policy

By Kyle Doehla · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 11:30 p.m.

Congressman Baron Hill will speak Friday at IU to a geography class about science and public policy. During his lecture, “The Role of Science in U.S. Policy Making,” Hill will discuss how scientific data impacts writing and approving new laws, and how scientists can do a better job at communicating with elected officials.

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IUPD continues usual patrols over holiday breaks

By Sarah Hutchins · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 11:29 p.m.

The IU Police Department will continue to work in full force to protect the campus even after students travel home for an upcoming three-week break. IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger said a drop in the number of people on campus is not a reason to scale-back on officers since the same amount of area still needs to be monitored.

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Students, dean discuss changes for IU

By Sara Ko · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 11:27 p.m.

While some came for the free lunch and some to meet new people, all 110 of the students who crowded into the Georgian Room on Wednesday at the Indiana Memorial Union were there to help make IU a better institution.

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Stepfather shopping guide

By Georgia Perry · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 9:07 p.m.

Holiday shopping for just about everyone on Santa’s (read: your) list can be pretty difficult. I, as a faithful public servant, appreciate the fact that “Black Friday” and the subsequent days are very turbulent times for America’s young adult population. We have all been there. We finally complete buying presents for our mothers, siblings, close friends and advisers we need to suck up to. We happily check them all off our lists and prepare to sit back with a nice cup of spiked hot chocolate and relax until Christmas morning.

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Taxi

Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 9:05 p.m.

A line of taxis are parked on a street downtown Rome on Thursday.

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Silent buzz

By Cory Barker · Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 9:05 p.m.

Earlier this week, “Empire” magazine’s Web site displayed a series of eerily placed playing cards that began to reveal themselves slowly. Eventually, the cards were replaced by a brand-new image of Heath Ledger as the Joker in “The Dark Knight.”

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Something wicked this way rings

Thursday, Nov. 29,2007 9:04 p.m.

Montclair State University in New Jersey has a plan to keep students safe – a cell phone plan, that is. All students are required to pay an extra $420 per year for a new wireless device, cleverly named “School Phone.” The fee also includes a plan that provides 50 peak minutes per month, unlimited text messaging and “student-activated” GPS emergency tracking. (It’s unclear how students activate the system, or more importantly, how they deactivate it.)

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