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Freshman forward Tom Pritchard takes a shot during the Hoosiers 72-66 loss to Michigan Jan. 7 at Assembly Hall.

IU searches for leaders as it preps for Buckeyes

By Tom Kirby · Tuesday, Jan. 13,2009 12:18 a.m.

As the season progresses and losses continue to mount for the Hoosiers, IU coach Tom Crean has often said the main problem with a young team is the lack of a true leader. When things have gone south, as they did against Illinois on Saturday, Crean said the Hoosiers need to find a confident player to help guide the squad out of slumps.Complicating matters even more for Crean is the uncertainty of the status of junior Devan Dumes, one of the more confident shooters on the team. Dumes left the Illinois game with a sprained ankle, and Crean said the team is in wait-and-see mode for Tuesday’s battle against Ohio State.      

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Wild NFL postseason continues

By Geoffrey Miller · Tuesday, Jan. 13,2009 12 a.m.

Did anyone really see this coming? The top three seeds in the NFL’s NFC have been bounced from playoff contention. On the other side, Tennessee’s top spot in the AFC meant nothing as a rookie quarterback downed the Titans to accomplish something no other rookie has done – win two playoff games. Back in the NFC, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb is making phone calls for penalties, and the Arizona Cardinals – yes, the Arizona freakin’ Cardinals – will play host to the NFC title game.

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Ohio: the home of 2 different Hoosiers

By Zachary Osterman · Tuesday, Jan. 13,2009 12 a.m.

Eric Arnett and Tom Pritchard probably could not be more different. Pritchard is the new face of IU basketball, a loyal, late-blooming commit who weathered the storm that was Kelvin Sampson and is now a likely Big Ten Freshman of the Year candidate. He’s a blossoming post presence Tom Crean may rely on for years to come. Arnett won’t even be on the basketball team another week. Brought on in the fall as an extra body in practice, Arnett makes his real living as a pitcher on the IU baseball team, and a rather accomplished one at that. Arnett could dress but not play this year for the Hoosiers, who didn’t want to count another scholarship against their limit. He’ll return to the baseball team following tonight’s game at Ohio State.

Indiana University's Surplus Stores, located at 2931 East 10th St., sells used computer systems, electronic components and furniture to the public.

Auctioning off unwanted items

Monday, Jan. 12,2009 11:47 p.m.

The IU Surplus Store is accepting bids on a large quantity of merchandise in its store until 4 p.m. Thursday.

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IU professor receives natl. book award

By Dillon Bocken · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 11:35 p.m.

IU professor in rhetoric and public culture John Lucaites received three national scholarly awards for his book “No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture and Liberal Democracy,” which he wrote with Northwestern University professor Robert Hariman. The book analyzes the relationships between photography, visual culture and liberal democracy. The the book took nearly nine years to complete.

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Ind. man may have tried to fake plane crash death

Monday, Jan. 12,2009 11:24 p.m.

An Indiana businessman whose financial management companies were under investigation apparently bailed out of his small plane and let it crash in what may have been an elaborate attempt to fake his own death.

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J-school names 2 former editors as new faculty

Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:54 p.m.

The IU School of Journalism announced during winter break two new faculty members.Former foreign correspondent Joe Coleman will serve as the Roy W. Howard Professional in Residence, according to an IU press release. Tim Franklin, former Baltimore Sun editor and senior vice president, serves as the Louis A. Weil Jr. Endowed Chair. 

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NYC judge allows Madoff to remain free

By Larry Neumeister · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:46 p.m.

NEW YORK – A judge allowed disgraced investor Bernard Madoff to remain free on bail Monday, rejecting an attempt by prosecutors to send him to jail for mailing more than $1 million in jewelry to family and friends over the holidays.

Three non-white pieces out of 100 comprise this collage. At the Kelley School of Business, less than 3 percent of the population is black or Hispanic. In an era of global business, this is the face of Kelley.

Minority Report

By Sean Morrison · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:45 p.m.

Last spring, recruiters told the Kelley School: Diversify now, or we will recruit elsewhere.  Now, students are teaming up with a plan to tackle what only some identify as a problem.

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Diagnosing the nation

By Ashley Ames · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:19 p.m.

So the economy has been better. Barack Obama recently said, “If we do not act swiftly and boldly, we could see a much deeper economic downturn that could lead to double-digit unemployment.” And then Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman proclaimed in his New York Times column that this was an understatement and, furthermore, “This looks an awful lot like the beginning of a second Great Depression.” The American people are wearing down and getting frustrated. Grocers have begun placing electronic tags on sirloins to prevent them from being shoplifted. In New York City, where bank robberies have increased by 54 percent this year, five banks were held up in a single day. And by now everyone has heard the abhorrently pitiful story of the death of a Wal-Mart employee at the hands of bargain-desperate Black Friday shoppers.

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New classes, new prospects

By Erin Chapman · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:18 p.m.

Ahh, the new semester. It means the opportunity to reclaim your GPA, the promise of interesting new academic endeavors and, most importantly, a chance to meet new singles. Come on now, you all thought it. All you singles out there aren’t looking forward to new classes or interesting academic endeavors. You’re looking forward to the new crop of dating prospects that changing classes provides. And here at IU Bloomington, with a comfy student body of 31,626 undergraduates, the odds of running into that ex whom you may or may not have ended it on such good terms with are pretty low. In fact, with approximately 5,000 classes offered on the Bloomington campus each year – so around 2,000 in spring semester alone – if you take five classes, the chance of getting stuck in a class with he-or-she-who-must-not-be-named are about one in 100. How’s that for a fresh start?

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Leave me my idealism

By Sanjay Mohanty · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:17 p.m.

I once shadowed a physician who made jokes for the better part of two hours about the numerous ways in which our medical system is broken. The punch lines didn’t make me laugh, and come to think of it, he wasn’t smiling as he delivered them. We spend more time filling out paperwork than talking to patients, he said. These people – exactly who they are was never clear to me – demand the best care possible, thinking money will drop out of the sky, he commented. I hate insurance companies, he muttered. Stay away from primary care, he advised.

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The Voting Rights Act in the 21st century

Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10:15 p.m.

Last Friday, the justices decided to consider whether Congress overstepped its constitutional authority by extending the “preclearance” provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The preclearance provision dictates that nine states – as well as a few counties in other states – must obtain permission from the Justice Department or a federal court before making changes that affect voting. Many cringe at the thought of weakening any aspect of the Voting Rights Act, though ideally we should hope that someday, perhaps when the extension expires in 2031, parts of the act will no longer be necessary. Would the results be so terrible if the Supreme Court did indeed rule the provision unconstitutional?

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