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Workshop of wonder

By Tom Edwards · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:53 p.m.

IU professor of String Technology Tom Sparks was 14 when he took apart his mother’s 18th century violin with a kitchen knife. He wanted to know how it worked, and naturally tried to find out for himself.

Director helps dancers find the rhythm

By Ashlyn McNeal · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:53 p.m.

After 30 years of teaching on IU’s campus, Iris Rosa is full of energy, enthusiasm and concern for her students.

Doug Lansky takes audience around the world in 60 minutes

By Lauren Younis · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:53 p.m.

Eat the local food, drink the local water and don’t worry about the dysentery that you’ll probably acquire – it’s not that bad.

Jive Records moves up release date of Britney Spears’ new ‘Blackout’

By AP Reports · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:50 p.m.

NEW YORK – Britney Spears’ “Blackout” is coming sooner than expected.

IU junior expands computer business

By Anna Newell · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:12 p.m.

For junior Noam Siegel, starting his own business is not a dream for his future but one he is living right now. Siegel, creator of the computer repair company NE Computing Services, started repairing computers his freshman year of high school. His growing business now offers the same services to IU students.

IUSA to hold symposium on student government

By Kyle Doehla · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 10:11 p.m.

The IU Student Association will be holding a symposium on the “Future of Student Governance” this Saturday at the Indiana Memorial Union, which will focus on and discuss how effective the student organization performs as a whole.

New book spotlights 300 letters addressed to Hitler

By David Rising · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 9:59 p.m.

BERLIN – At first glance, the letter carefully printed in a child’s hand seems innocuous, nothing more than the expression of a young crush: “I love you so much. Write me – please. Many greetings. Your Gina.”

Around the arts

By IDS staff · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 9:58 p.m.

Union Board presents ‘Sicko’ When: 8 and 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday Where: Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union More information: This is Michael Moore’s latest documentary, which compares the American health care industry to other nations’. Showings are free for IU students and $2 for non-students.

Gary protesters rally for firing of cops who left bodies at crash scene

By Associated Press and Alexandra R. Moses · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 9:33 p.m.

GARY– About 20 protesters rallied outside City Hall, calling for police officers to be fired for leaving two teenagers who died in a car crash behind for several hours until a family member found them.

FEMA denies aid to storm-battered towns

By Associated Press and Alexandra R. Moses · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 9:33 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – State officials say they’ll appeal a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deny federal aid for northwest Indiana residents whose homes were damaged by flooding in August.

Police hope DNA solves woman’s disappearance

By Associated Press and Alexandra R. Moses · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 9:30 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS – A DNA test may determine if a missing Indianapolis woman was the victim of a man who has confessed to killing six women in four states.

IUSA to hold symposium on Congress problems

By Kyle Doehla · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 8:50 p.m.

The IU Student Association will be holding a “Symposium on the Future of Student Governance” this Saturday at the Indiana Memorial Union, which will focus on and discuss how effective the student organization performs as a whole.

Pressure China on Darfur

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:33 p.m.

Over the past three years at Indiana University, Students Taking Action Now: Darfur or STAND, has been working hard to educate students about the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and bring about effective legislative action to aid civilians in the region.

Stop eating at the Tudor Room

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:32 p.m.

I am writing in response to the article on the Tudor Room’s new policy for tipping. Before becoming a professor, I worked in the food service industry for 15 years; waiting tables, catering parties, organizing formal wine tasting parties and even consulting on general operations of other restaurants.

Columnists aren’t Leninists

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:32 p.m.

Right-wing columnists are abundant in college newspapers (I can attest to the situation at Ohio State, where I graduated), but most of their time is spent complaining about the “lack of freedom” in college.

Crossing Jordan

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:31 p.m.

I am writing to express my strong concern about the traffic on the IU campus. Many examples might be given in this regard, but the one that I have in mind is the pedestrian crossing on Jordan Avenue and Seventh Street by the Jordan stream, close to the exit from the parking garage. Many drivers act as if this pedestrian crossing were not there.

Awan’s column right on the money

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:30 p.m.

I wanted to commend columnist Ayesha Awan for her column on Wednesday, “Facebook Activism?” She is absolutely right. If someone cares about an issue, be it Barack Obama’s presidential campaign or the right to habeas corpus, it is not enough to join a Facebook group espousing this belief. In the age of the Internet, it is all too common that people believe their Facebook profiles speak for them enough.

IU smoking ban ‘not workable’

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:29 p.m.

The proposed campus-wide smoking ban which will take effect in January is an unworkable and lamentable idea. Certainly, there is reason to be concerned for the health of the student body, and it is understandable why the campus has banned smoking within 30 feet of buildings.

Dugdale’s article nothing but self-hatred

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:28 p.m.

Colin Dugdale’s article that appeared in INside magazine should in fact have been published in the Opinion section of the IDS, as it was a thinly-veiled diatribe bashing a minority of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community.

As IU workers suffer, so does IU

Wednesday, Oct. 10,2007 7:27 p.m.

It is regrettable that the IDS did not cover the Labor Studies Brown Bag presentation called Outsourcing Jobs at IU on Thursday, Sept. 27. As vice president of the Communications Workers of America Local 4730, I believe that the IDS missed a forum addressing one of the most pressing issues on campus.

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