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Semester at Sea

Column: Delicious Mauritius

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No matter where you might be on the map, there is no break quite like spring break — especially when you’re surrounded by about 500 students who almost have their day escape canceled.



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Union Board prescreens series film

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The Union Board Films Committee has partnered with Universal Pictures to bring a prescreening of “American Reunion” to the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union today.

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IU graduate programs rank high nationally

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U.S. News and World Report released graduate program rankings March 13. Programs such as health, medicine, law and business were ranked highly against their respective competitors.



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UCLA Law dean to speak on value of public law schools

Rachel Moran, dean and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will lecture about the importance of maintaining public law schools in the face of economic trouble at noon today in Maurer School of Law’s Moot Court room.


Observatory

Students to soon see stars at Kirkwood Observatory

Students can turn their eyes to the sky tonight at the opening of the historic Kirkwood Observatory on campus. After closing its doors for the winter, the observatory is now open for its weekly open houses that will run through mid-November. At the open house, visitors will be able to scan the night sky with the observatory’s telescopes and see infrared camera demonstrations. Tonight’s free session begins at 9 p.m., the earliest time that stars will be visible with daylight saving time.





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Hoosiers win first game of home-and-home

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Despite surrendering early unearned runs, freshman left fielder Chris Sujka and junior short stop Michael Basil combined for four hits, a home run, three RBIs and three runs to rally the IU baseball team past Eastern Kentucky, 6-4.


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IU to start Big Ten stretch with match against archrival Purdue

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Ahead of this week’s first Big Ten bouts and fresh off of their Floridian excursion that saw the players brush aside two nonconference foes, the Hoosiers returned to Bloomington with a new look. In addition to sporting a tropical bronze, each player enlisted an unlikely space — his nape — as advertising space for a greater cause: camaraderie.


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4 keys stand out from past contest against Kentucky

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While junior forward Christian Watford’s shot is in the midst of being replayed again and again by various networks this week, here is a look at four key aspects from IU’s 73-72 victory against Kentucky on Dec. 10 that could very well come into play again this Friday.


Synthetic drugs

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels signs harsher synthetic drugs ban

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HB 1196, signed March 15, covers more than 60 chemicals used to create drugs that mimic cocaine and marijuana. Retailers who sell synthetic drugs containing banned compounds could lose their retailer’s licenses for a year, face up to eight years in prison and be fined up to $10,000.


Nature Dude

Brown County naturalist Jim Eagleman has never-ending love for nature

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For Jim Eagleman, trees are like people. They’re the people he sees every day, the people he studies, the people he works with. But even after 34 years as an interpretive naturalist at Brown County State Park, he doesn’t get bored seeing the same trees every day because they are always changing, just like any other living thing.


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Spring break thrifting

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This week is supposed to be warm, so pass on the expensive nights out and the shopping trips. Go outside and play.



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Why we should walk everywhere

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American individualism contributes to and is represented by this car culture. We Americans are famous for large cars, expansive parking lots, drive-through restaurants and muscle cars.