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City helps raise money for hungry, homeless

By Ben Kerns · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 10 p.m.

The Spare Change for Social Change program, part of Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, is a collaborative fundraising project that will provide money for four agencies that deal with issues of homelessness in Lawrence, Monroe and Owen counties: Shalom Community Center, Martha’s House, Stepping Stones and Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard.

Call of Doodie

By Chad Quandt · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 9:12 p.m.

The hype machine for “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2” has gotten to me. Out of fear for my grades, I swore it off until Thanksgiving break. That didn’t stop me from spending time between papers watching webcams of people playing the game.

Fighting hunger

By Sarah Wilensky · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 9:10 p.m.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations recently released predictions that stubbornly high food prices and a year of droughts will cause the number of hungry people in the world to pass the 1 billion mark in 2009.

Baby, it’s (almost) cold outside

By Eric Cox · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 9:09 p.m.

When living at IU, it can be near impossible to anticipate what the weather has in store for us as each new day approaches. Whether we’ll be granted an afternoon of sparkling clear brilliance or a fresh hell of precipitation is all up in the air (pun definitely intended) until the time actually comes.

Middle East prospects are grim

By IDS · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 9:07 p.m.

Given the instability of the political climates in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s easy to be pessimistic about the chances of any legitimate, representative form of democracy enduring in those regions.

Drug war woes

By Rachel Goldberg · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 8:11 p.m.

We tend to forget as a country that our longest and most costly war has been the war on drugs. Many people believe that this is a long-failing battle, and I tend to agree. This year, drug arrests are expected to exceed 1.8 million people, and law enforcement made more arrests for drug abuse violations than any other crime in the past two years.

DJ Blackbeard rocks the boat

By Doug Evans · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 6:10 p.m.

In 1960s Great Britain, back when rock ‘n’ roll truly was rebellious, several broadcasters went out to sea to transmit the music that BBC radio would not even allow for an hour. They were pirates not because they sailed the high seas, but because they broadcasted without a license. Half the country would tune in to listen to the rock.

Stuck in a hut

By Mickey Woods · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 6:06 p.m.

Wyclef Jean wants to get rich or die tryin,’ but he’s no 50 Cent.

Something old, something new

By Alex Rast · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 6:01 p.m.

Switchfoot has produced seven albums in 10 years, and I was starting to think the band’s sound was getting stale. Well, I was wrong. Switchfoot delivers with the new album “Hello Hurricane” because of a diversity in songs that still pull the album together as a whole.

Please fly away

By Thomas Miller · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:58 p.m.

“Halleluiah, Halleluiah” Flyleaf lead singer Lacey Mosley sings during “Beautiful Bride,” deftly anticipating the first words out of my mouth after the band’s newest album “Memento Mori” finished boring me to death.

Better than ever

By Danielle Rindler · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:53 p.m.

Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba has grown up, and it shows.

Consistency rules

By Adam Lukach · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:49 p.m.

Well, no one can accuse Bon Jovi of not being consistent.

@johncmayer: You can do better

By Cory Barker · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:41 p.m.

These days, it is hard to distinguish between John Mayer, the great guitarist and solid lyricist, and John Mayer, the Twittering tool-bag. And though past albums prove there’s significant evidence he’s the former, Mayer’s newest album “Battle Studies” goes a long way in showing he might have been too worried about the latter persona to make a good album this go-around.

Watch the worthiest cut so far

By Megan Clayton · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:35 p.m.

You’d think after three separate releases, I’d be tired of paying to watch “Watchmen.” But you’d be wrong.

Pixar stays on top

By Cory Barker · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:25 p.m.

At this point it’s cliche to say this (and even cliche to say it’s cliche), but Pixar has done it again.

Modern marvel

By John Barnett · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 5:22 p.m.

Pre-release expectations loomed so large over Infinity Ward’s sequel to “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” that anything the developers offered up risked damning amounts of criticism. Leave it to the Ward folks to shut (almost) everyone up right out of the gate. “Modern Warfare 2” takes everything that was spectacular about the first “Warfare” and cranks it to 11.

Will Sheehey signs Letter of Intent to play for IU

Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 3:52 p.m.

IU men's basketball recruit Will Sheehey, No. 131 in the Class of 2010, signed a letter of intent to play hoops for the Hoosiers next year, he confirmed moments ago.

Football game attendance highest since 1992

By Nathan Hart · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 2:41 p.m.

With more than 40,000 tickets already sold for this week’s Old Oaken Bucket game against Purdue, IU will exceed a 40,000 average game attendance for the first time since 1992.

WEEKEND gives thanks

By IDS Weekend Staff · Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 1:18 p.m.

It’s nearly time to give thanks again, but we at WEEKEND aren’t as interested in the “traditional” platitudes people throw out around this time – you know, stuff like family, friends or world peace. Instead, we wanted to discuss the important stuff, like what we’re thankful for in pop culture from the last calendar year.

IU geologist: Moon water discovery 'remarkable'

Tuesday, Nov. 17,2009 12:52 p.m.

An Indiana University geologist who spent years studying lunar soils collected by the Apollo astronauts says NASA's discovery of water on the moon is "remarkable."

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