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Geoffrey Miller

IU baseball coach to face old squad

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After being swept in a four-game series at Ohio State this weekend, the IU baseball team will play at Miami University of Ohio today with a home field of sorts. Today’s game will be the first time IU coach Tracy Smith returns to the school he attended as a student and served as the head coach at for nine years before coming to IU for the 2006 season. Tonight’s game is scheduled for 7 p.m.


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Diverse COMUnity

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Last Monday, April 16, the Commission on Multicultural Understanding awarded its annual awards to an undergraduate student, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, Bloomington community member and one campus program. These awards recognize and honor “individuals who actively support, participate in, or encourage the exploration of cultural diversity in and around the IU campus.” Additionally, the commission tries to recognize individual volunteers in their efforts rather than people whose job it is to provide services that emphasize diversity and inclusion.


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Ex-Pacer Mitchell wins NBA coach of the year honor

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Former Indiana Pacers player Sam Mitchell was honored as the NBA coach of the year Tuesday after leading the Toronto Raptors to a franchise-record-tying 47 victories and their first Atlantic Division title. “It’s a great honor,” Mitchell said. “It floors you. You’re thankful. Words just can’t express it.”


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The last broadcast

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A month ago, I wrote about how a decision by the Library of Congress’ Copyright Royalty Board was threatening to wipe out Internet radio. In the five weeks since, things have only gotten worse. After losing an April 17 appeal to the board, starting May 15, Web broadcasters will immediately have to pay 0.08 cents in royalties for every song they played in 2006, then 0.11 cents for every song in 2007, followed by annual hikes up to 0.19 cents per song by 2010 – this will raise their operating costs by thousands and thousands of dollars, immediately bankrupting many stations. Furthermore, broadcasters will have to pay an extra $500 for every channel they have, and even non-profit stations such as National Public Radio will face higher costs.

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Two IU games to be shown on TV in 2007

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The IU football team will get two prime time games in 2007, the Big Ten Network announced Tuesday. The network, which will launch in August, released its five-game prime time football schedule, featuring the Hoosiers’ season opener against Indiana State Sep. 1 and the Oct. 13 game at Michigan State.


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Sustainability task force to monitor on-campus environmental issues

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A Sustainability Task Force on campus will address current environmental issues in order to preserve and conserve resources for a healthy, happy future for the IU campus. IU recently created the Sustainability Task Force as a way to develop a plan for improving the University’s environmental role in the challenges of reducing energy use, increasing recycling and other environmental issues.


Pete Stuttgen

Pulitzer Prize-winner Halberstam killed in car accident

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Faculty members at the IU School of Journalism reacted with sadness and disappointment to the news of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam’s death on Monday. Halberstam, 73, was killed in a car accident Monday morning near San Francisco, The Associated Press reported. He spoke March 19 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., as part of the IU School of Journalism’s speaker series.


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Stretch yourself

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So this week I was thinking back to my first yoga class. It was a little rough. First, there was trying to find the room in the rat maze they call the Wildermuth Intramural Center. Then there was making sure I wasn’t the only guy in the class. And finally, trying to learn the stuff but not be “that guy,” that so many of my friends warned me about. (I was supposed to try, but not too hard. Be good, but not too good, etc.)


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Fasten your seat belts

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Did you know that, as it stands now, if you’re older than 16, Indiana law doesn’t require you to wear a seat belt if you’re riding in a car’s backseat, in an SUV or in a pickup truck?





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Little 5 weekend arrests double from ’06

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Driving through town Sunday, the pounds of litter scattered through yards suggested that many students had a good weekend. In fact, local police officials report that some had too much fun.


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Around the world

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The trust funds for Social Security and Medicare will last a year longer than previously estimated, trustees said Monday. That means 2041 for the Social Security trust fund to be exhausted and 2019 for Medicare. In their annual report on the financial health of the government’s two biggest benefit programs, the trustees said that slight reductions in projected benefits and slightly higher tax collections had extended the dates that the trust funds are projected to be depleted.


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Power of one

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They say that hindsight is 20/20. In light of the recent massacre at Virginia Tech, it seems this is becoming the case more and more in society. The numbers are overwhelming, to say the very least: 33 dead, leaving a campus of 26,370 students reeling from the loss of their classmates and from the guilt that comes with the feeling that they should have been able to do something or should have seen the warning signs.



IU sophomores Jessica Kirsh and Kristen Cain compete in the annual Pudding Wrestling Tournament Friday afternoon at Terra Trace Apartments. The tournament ended later in the day when the pool was torn.

Pudding wrestling: the dirty side of Little 500

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The rays from the afternoon sun were drying the pudding that covered IU junior Josh Falcon’s body and hair. The scent of warm chocolate and sweat surrounded him after the third annual pudding wrestling competition held Friday at Terra Trace Apartments. “You don’t live college until you have been smacked in the face with pudding,” Falcon said.