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Peer pressure might lead to lower income

Most students have taken at least one class just because a friend was taking it or had recommended it. But an academic paper co-authored by Stanford Economics professor Giacomo De Giorgi suggests that these peer-influenced decisions might be diminishing students’ future earnings.


Iggy Pop

Iggy Blows

Album review of Iggy Pop's "Preliminaires."


The Indiana Daily Student

IU alumna named 500 Festival Queen

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Annie Berning, who graduated from IU in May, was named the 2009 500 Festival Queen on May 16. The Festival announced Berning’s selection for the queen at the annual Breakfast at the Brickyard, which all Indiana mayors attended at the Plaza Pavilion in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


The Indiana Daily Student

China’s great censorship wall

BEIJING – In China, lack of access makes all the difference. One very large political party – the Chinese Communist Party – is at the head of the world’s third largest military force and controls the entire country. Dissent is punishable by law, and censorship is rampant. They are very scared of the swine flu and make deliciously cheap takeout food. This is all I knew when I stepped off the plane in Beijing.


Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Sequel comes alive

Review of "Night at the Museum: The Battle of the Smithsonian"


The Indiana Daily Student

The real cultural predators

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As easy as it is to slam NBC for driving up its profit at the expense of honest, respectable journalism, consumers ultimately bought in to the show "To Catch a Predator."


The Indiana Daily Student

Government is not effective behind closed doors

As a person who has been involved with environmental activism in the past, I often feel that there is little hope for concerned citizens to make a difference. Last week didn't help.


The Indiana Daily Student

Super-rich superheroes, unite!

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It’s nice to know our planet’s richest people are finally uniting in an effort to create substantial change, but to be honest, I’ve always found this type of giving a bit comical.


Schools going green

WE SAY The costs of going green outweigh the benefits.It’s frustrating that many of these initiatives, like green schools, aren’t actually economical.










The Indiana Daily Student

Time for Stern, NBA to fix age rule

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Former Indiana Pacers and current Miami Heat forward Jermaine O’Neal had it right when he said 18-year-old men who are old enough to go overseas to fight and die for their country should be allowed to play professional basketball.