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IU hopes for successful follow-up to '06

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The IU softball team begins its trek to what it hopes is a second-consecutive NCAA tournament bid when it kicks off the 2007 season at the Crowne Plaza Classic in Houston on Friday. The Hoosiers hope to build upon last year's historic campaign in which the Hoosiers earned their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 10 years. Head coach Stacey Phillips said she wants the hunger from last year to remain but was quick to warn that this is a brand new year.


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The Complete Moron's Guide to: Filmmaking

Several venues on and around campus have been offering film festivals recently. We at the arts desk thought you could use some enlightenment on the more interesting terminology used in filmmaking. Because there are so many words that have been adopted into the language of directors and their stars, this will be a two-part series. Check back next Friday for more fun definitions.



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Around the World

An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

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Fool us once ...

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The popular saying goes, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Wise up -- don't be fooled again. U.S. intelligence has laid out so-called "evidence" that Iran is supplying weapons to Shiite insurgents in Iraq.


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Sorry to disappoint

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Well, I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer for all of you out there, but I'm going with another IU loss on Saturday against the Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Mich.



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New RPS social space still adjusting to campus

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Huddled around a table, seven boys intensely watch the IU-Purdue basketball game, their eyes not wavering from the screen. Instead of watching the latest chapter in the heated rivalry of the residence halls, a crowd of about ten people turned out Thursday evening to watch the basketball game in the new Foster-Gresham social space, now officially dubbed, "Hoosier Den."


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Stone Belt prom needs dress, jewelry donations

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Standing in the day room around lunchtime, the talk is all the same. "Are you going to the dance?" "Do you have something to wear?" "Will Ronnie and Betsy win King and Queen?" Everyone knows what it's like to get excited for a dance, but for the clients at Stone Belt Arc, the upcoming Winter Wonderland Formal Dance is a chance to be like everyone else.


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Hoosiers not phased by schedule change

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Facing No. 61 DePaul without junior Thomas Richter and with senior David Bubenicek nursing an injured wrist was not going to be an easy task for the IU men's tennis team. If the No. 63 Hoosiers did not come ready to play, they very well could have seen an 'L.'


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Track hosts Hoosier Hills Invite

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The IU track and field teams have been hurdling past meets all year long and are finally able to see the finish line. They have only one more hurdle before the Big Ten championships, the Hoosier Hills Invite, this weekend. The invite will be hosted by IU Friday afternoon in the Gladstein Fieldhouse, and will serve as a tune-up meet for the Hoosiers' top athletes.


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Wrestlers look to end season with wins

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The IU wrestling team usually ends practice with scrimmages in which coach Duane Goldman simply tells the squad to wrestle. These scrimmages are sometimes sluggish after hours of practice and lifting. There was no such sluggishness this week.


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Men's golf set to open spring season in Mexico

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The IU men's golf team will travel across international borders this weekend to Guadalajara, Mexico for its first match of 2007. The two-day Club de Golf Santa Anita Classic will begin at 8:15 a.m. on Sunday with 36 holes. Monday morning, golfers will tee off at 7:30 a.m. for 18 holes.



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Hoosiers look to rebound after loss to Boilermakers

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No sooner than the No. 24 IU men's basketball team lost to Purdue on the road Thursday were the Hoosiers faced with the prospect of yet another Big Ten road game. Less than 48 hours after their loss in West Lafayette, IU will travel to Ann Arbor, Mich., on Saturday to face Michigan. The game is the second of four remaining road games on IU's schedule. The Hoosiers play three of their next four on the road, including trips to Michigan State (Feb. 24) and Northwestern (Feb. 28).


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Hoosiers look for return to the win column

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After winning its first eight matches of the season, the IU women's tennis team now looks to end its two-match losing streak at home this weekend against a pair of undefeated teams, Wake Forest (4-0) and Kentucky (6-0).




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Student mistakes police car for taxi

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IU student Jordan A. Howard may have fooled those checking IDs at the bars he visited Wednesday night, but he was not able to fool a police officer, whom he flagged down during a drunken walk down a street, according to IU Police Department reports.