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Gift card exchange

By Allison Tyra · Thursday, Dec. 11,2008 12:01 a.m.

While gift cards are traditionally used at the store from which they were purchased, Landlocked Music will now accept cards from any major chain store that sells media items.

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Britain to withdraw most troops from Iraq by June

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 11:38 p.m.

Britain announced Wednesday it will withdraw all but a handful of its 4,000 soldiers from Iraq next year, ending a mission that was unpopular at home and failed to curb the rise of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in the south.

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Malaysia frees man accused of aiding 9/11 plotters

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 11:37 p.m.

Malaysia has released a former army captain accused of helping the Sept. 11 hijackers and six other suspects who had been held without trial after deciding they no longer pose a threat, officials said Wednesday.

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Secretary of State Rice in Panama for trade talks

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 11:37 p.m.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Panama for meetings aimed at finding ways for the hemisphere’s poor to share in the benefits of free-trade agreements signed by nations of the region.

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Students march for Kashmir awareness

By Carrie Schedler · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:42 p.m.

About 10 students stood at the Sample Gates on Wednesday afternoon, silently holding signs that read “Stop Human Rights Violations in Kashmir” and “Kashmir in Tears.”

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Cheating a problem during finals week

By Morgan Waters · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:39 p.m.

After spending countless hours during dead week preparing for finals, even the most ethically minded students can find themselves glancing at a neighbor’s paper when unsure of an answer.

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Ignoring the law

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:35 p.m.

In “A sting leads to a planned tragedy,” the author attacks Lila Rose for nothing more than trying to help women. Ms. Rose, a UCLA student, went into a Planned Parenthood here in Bloomington posing as a 13-year-old who wanted an abortion and claimed to have a partner who was 31 years old.In actuality, the young lady was 20 years old and an undercover reporter for Live Action Films. The employee of Planned Parenthood advised the undercover reporter to go to Illinois and lie about her age, thus landing the employee a suspension. The IDS has portrayed this woman as a self-righteous journalist only trying to promote her “anti-choice” agenda, but I believe the IDS is the self-righteous party in this case.The editorial staff simply pushes aside the fact that many laws were broken by the employee and claims that Rose is making it harder for women with real problems to get help. The idea that a sting operation to promote the law the employee broke was interfering with everyday operations is absurd. If daily operations consist of breaking the law, then maybe Planned Parenthood should not be allowed to continue offering these services.With Planned Parenthood receiving more than $300 million dollars out of the pockets of taxpayers, it should be held accountable when the law is broken. This kind of operation is no different than a sting at a liquor store for illegal alcohol purchases or a gas station for the sale of cigarettes to minors.In actuality, this case is much worse because lives are at risk. No laws were broken this time because Rose was of age, but it makes one wonder – how many underage women are not being protected by Planned Parenthood?Live Action Films may have a pro-life agenda, but does that mean that they can do no good? It is imperative that we stop looking at things from a liberal or conservative way of thinking and try to see what is best for women in the case of abortion.Whether or not you support abortion, we can all agree that young ladies under the age of 14 should have proper protection, not just the illusion of it.Jacob QuinnIU College Republicans Press Secretary

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Hill not Sodrel

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:32 p.m.

I read with interest the IDS editorial regarding Baron Hill, “A big win for an OK candidate,” on Nov. 10. While I encourage anyone – particularly students – to be watchful and critical of our elected officials, I do believe a more complete perspective should be offered to the recent election of Baron Hill as our Congressman. First, you seem to put Hill, a Blue Dog Democrat, in the same class as Mike Sodrel. Though I do not agree with all of Hill’s positions, it is clear he does not follow the “party line,” whereas Sodrel moved his party’s agenda to the point where our nation’s blood-and-treasure reputation was compromised. At first, I simply did not agree with Congressman Hill’s votes regarding tobacco versus children. However, an expanded perspective comforted me, as Hill:   -Supported expanding health insurance to children whose parents cannot afford it and backed efforts to upgrade and improve school facilities

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Live Action Films gets misleading description

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:30 p.m.

In Elvia Malagon’s article “Local Planned Parenthood suspends employee” published last week and again in her follow-up story published Monday, “Child Services to take no legal action against Planned Parenthood employee,” she refers to Live Action Films as a “human rights organization.”   This is quite a misleading description of a group who, in a recent press release, referred to themselves as a “right to life advocacy group” and, as a quick tour of their Web site would show, have thus far solely dedicated themselves to anti-abortion causes. The AP Stylebook advises reporters to refer to such organizations as “anti-abortion,” and saying “human rights” instead has entirely different connotations. I think Ms. Malagon and the IDS editors might want to avoid this word choice in the future to steer clear of such connotations, which could be taken as promoting a particular agenda. Camille Ward IU junior

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Man arrested for black tar heroin deal

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:30 p.m.

A Bloomington man was arrested Tuesday for dealing black tar heroin to an undercover Bloomington Police Department informant.

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Defining ourselves

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:29 p.m.

When Jack Killen asked atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and other secularists to go underground and drop our titles, I think he passed over an essential fact of our situation. Aside from “humanist,” most of our titles are bestowed upon us by a normatively religious society. On our own, we can’t stop being nonbelievers any more than a non-stamp-collector can stop being a non-stamp-collector. We will always be atheists to the Christian majority of this country in the same way that they were once atheists in the view of the Hellenist majority who coined the term. I’m even inclined to argue that maintaining these titles allows us some control over their use in the same way that “gay” and “queer” have been claimed by the LGBT community. It’s a powerful thing to point out that Joe the Monotheist’s understanding of atheism bears little or no resemblance to what atheists actually believe or practice. Such normalization and humanization of labels is how the gay-rights movement progressed to the point where gay marriage is on the table at all. When Killen writes that “we must act as champions of reason, science and empirical reality,” I find myself agreeing but wondering whom he might be addressing. The problem seems not to be with us but that reason, science and empirical reality aren’t sexy.

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BMV cracks down on smiles in face of fraud

By Elvia Malagon · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:28 p.m.

Since Nov. 18, all of the BMV locations in Indiana have been using facial recognition software to catch fraud, said Dennis Rosebrough, communications director for the Indiana BMV.

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Dollars for Delilah’s controversy a learning opportunity

Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:27 p.m.

Like many involved in animal rescue, I was dismayed to read last Wednesday’s article about a class fundraising project for Delilah’s. Others have criticized the students for helping a business that sells puppies and kittens. Some particularly harsh comments on idsnews.com were hurtful, instructor Kelly Wilz said, to students “whose only intentions were to have a positive impact on the world around them.” Clearly, the students meant well. They intended, Wilz explained, to raise money “for food, medicine, and care” of animals rescued from the fire. While they cannot, in good faith, redirect the donations to another cause, they will stipulate that they be used only for these expenses. Given the response, I urge Delilah’s to donate to our local animal shelter any money raised to cover costs ultimately reimbursed by insurance or profit. The surviving animals – described as “adopted” on the store’s Web site – have new owners. Wilz’s students weren’t entirely unaware of concerns that have since been raised, but she explained that conversations with the store’s owners left them with “the impression that Delilah’s was different from other pet shops in that they did treat the animals humanely, and ... did not get their animals from (puppy) mills.”

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Ethanol is not the answer

By DJ Funkhouser · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:26 p.m.

Two years ago, Brazil garnered kudos from policy analysts when the country announced that it was officially energy independent. It took a single scare to motivate the Brazilians to get off of foreign oil – the 1973 oil crisis. Over the past three decades, Brazilians have exhausted themselves in developing an alternative to gasoline through ethanol derived from sugarcane. Unfortunately for us, the United States has been slow to learn the importance of energy independence. We often ignore looking outside our borders to see if someone else is doing something better. Now, with ethanol, we’re facing the opposite problem – we’re looking at other countries to see what they’re doing right, but failing to distinguish differences in political economies that permit or inhibit success. For Brazil, sugar-based ethanol solves both problems with oil that Americans are trying to address – the ethanol is green and homegrown. But Brazil got lucky. They did not set out in ’73 to create greener fuels, only to become energy independent. It just so happened that the most viable domestic resource that could be produced to supplement their domestic oil production was the “green” sugarcane. So after finally concluding that we want to become energy independent and studying the nation that did it the best, the United States has decided to take a page from the Brazilian playbook and go after ethanol, only we don’t have sugarcane to make it. So what do we do? Well, we can’t import it (that kind of defeats the whole idea of energy independence). So ... is there something we can use to make domestic ethanol, something that would be plentiful in the United States?

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Sororities valuable, so are other organizations

By Indira Dammu · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:25 p.m.

I’ve never really understood the attraction of joining a sorority. Personally, I can only take women in small doses, and something about greek life seems very claustrophobic. At the same time, I understand that the experience is valuable for some. The immediate connections and feeling of sisterhood is powerful, to be sure. The greek community at IU also does some wonderful philanthropic work, including raising awareness about breast cancer and generating huge funds for Riley Hospital for Children. It helps that many of the greek women I know are passionate, intelligent and committed – quite unlike the ugly stereotypes surrounding them. I shouldn’t be surprised, then, that around 1,600 women braved the cold weather last weekend for 19 Party, the start of formal sorority recruitment. Young women trudged through the snow and visited the 19 sorority houses over a span of two days. The process allows potential new members to interact with sorority representatives and get a feel for each house.

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Portable pieces of art

By Kelsey Ellefson · Wednesday, Dec. 10,2008 10:25 p.m.

Indiana weather. Let’s face it – we are all used to it by now. But I, quite frankly, am getting sick of it. Unprecedented rain, ice storms and snow have all weathered this campus in December alone and we, as students, are left to deal with it. So far this semester, the weather alone has personally claimed three of my notebooks, a textbook and my usual positive disposition to make it to class on time.

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