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Board selects new IDS spring editor-in-chief

By Sara Amato · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 10:57 p.m.

The IU Student Media Board announced Friday that senior Carrie Ritchie will be the spring 2008 editor-in-chief of the Indiana Daily Student. “I think (Ritchie) is an excellent candidate,” Interim Director of IU Student Media Nancy Comiskey said. “It’s hard to imagine someone who will be better.”

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Diwali celebrates ‘good over evil’

By Chelsea Merta · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 10:56 p.m.

“Diwali Mubarak!” Guests to the Mathers Museum of World Cultures were instantly welcomed Friday night by Education Curator Deeksha Nagar. A huge banner that read “Diwali Mubarak!” hung overhead, inviting visitors to experience one of the largest holidays in the Hindu religion, Diwali, the festival of lights.

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Bloomington to host national softball championship

By Vicky Nasteva · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 10:55 p.m.

Bloomington’s economy will get a boost come 2009 when the city hosts the Amateur Softball Association of America national championship tournaments. The city secured the bid for the competitions last week at the ASA annual council meeting in Louisville, Ky.

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Umphrey’s McGee jams

By Sarah Brubeck · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 9:54 p.m.

The packed audience Friday night at the IU Auditorium was on its feet screaming well before the Umphrey’s McGee concert began.

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Band pays tribute to Hoagy Charmichael

By Kevin Pozzi · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 9:54 p.m.

Under a high ceiling lined with white Christmas lights, the Al Cobine Big Band gave guests a chance to swing dance the night away at “Stardust Melodies” – a tribute to Bloomington’s own jazz musician, Hoagy Carmichael.

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Potpourri of Arts’ a cultural collaboration of music, dance

By Chelsea Merta · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 9:53 p.m.

The word “potpourri” usually implies a diverse mixture of various objects, which have an underlying theme in common. “Potpourri” is typically thought of as a collaboration of flower petals, pine cones and other scented aspects of nature, but Saturday night saw a “potpourri” that transcended the sense of smell.

Bay Bridge Ship

Oil spill

Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 9:47 p.m.

Erin Brodie from the Marine Mammal Center chases after an oil-coated bird she was trying to rescue at Rodeo Beach on Thursday in San Francisco.

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Paramilitary group renounces violence

By Shawn Pogatchnik · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 9:46 p.m.

The major Northern Ireland Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, announced Sunday it was formally renouncing violence, but a commander said the group would not surrender its weapons to international disarmament officials.

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Oil addiction

By Abby Schwimmer and Ab Schwimmer · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 7:45 p.m.

As a fairly healthy 20-year-old, I never really thought I would have to worry about having a heart attack for at least another 30 years or so. But last week, when I crossed 10th Street and saw “$3.15” emblazoned across the sign at the Citgo, I almost had a massive coronary.

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Tune out, drop out

By Brian J. McFillen · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 7:41 p.m.

As usual, your generation is poised to let everyone down. A recent report by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation has concluded that the Millennial Generation (people born after 1985) is disinterested in national, partisan politics, but is just gagging to get involved with local civic initiatives. The survey of 386 students at 12 campuses, in 47 focus groups found that unlike Generation X – my own generation, surveyed by the Kettering Foundation in 1993 (and given a much better name) – you Millennials are “neither cynical nor highly individualistic” and “seek ways to engage politically,” if not in polarized, party-politics terms.

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Ashley Olsen-Armstrong?

By Mike Abrams · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 7:39 p.m.

What would happen if you went out with a 6-year-old? Five to 10 years in prison. A 15-year age gap between a couple just seems absurd … unless you’re in Hollywood. The continuing trend with the stars seems to be dating young. But it’s not a completely new idea. A few pioneers have paved a path for the new souls trying to rejuvenate their inner child by dating 15 years younger.

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From City Hall to Assembly Hall

Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 7:37 p.m.

Students are apathetic. Students just don’t give a damn. Students are not active enough in their communities. Yeah, we know – we’ve heard it before. And we’re hearing it again, after last Tuesday’s less than impressive student turnout for Bloomington’s municipal elections. Wait, there were elections? Yep. And the results are in: We’ve kept the same mayor, and our city government is dominated by the Dems … no thanks to you.

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IUDM tops $1M goal

By Lindsey Alexander · Sunday, Nov. 11,2007 5:30 p.m.

There were just as many tears as laughs Sunday morning as IU Dance Marathon raised more than $1 million for Riley Children’s Hospital, with students, volunteers, patients and parents dancing to a tune of $1,041,197.20.

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