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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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MFA students’ exhibit features traditional and experimental pieces

By Jackie Kochell · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 10 p.m.

A tire swing and urban-inspired prints will be among the works displayed at the School of Fine Arts Gallery, which begins its schedule of student exhibits this spring with the Printmaking and MFA Painting exhibition.From today through Jan. 24, the SoFA Gallery will showcase work from graduate students in the printmaking and painting programs.

Professor Edward Bernstein, co-head of the IU Printmaking Department, surveys "No Danger," an airplane exhibit Monday at the SoFA Gallery. Bernstein, the co-curator, organized the exhibit with Franco Vecchiet of Italy. The exhibit focuses on positive aspects of travel rather than the negative connotations often associated with flying in the post-9/11 world. "No Danger" is open Tuesday through Jan. 24.

“No Danger” highlights paper planes

By Jackie Kochell · Monday, Jan. 12,2009 9:51 p.m.

“No Danger,” a new exhibition at the School of Fine Arts Gallery, challenges negative attitudes toward flight through creative interpretations on a classic childhood toy: the paper airplane.

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