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Healthy glow?

By Alyson Brodsy and Michelle Manchir · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:21 p.m.

I undressed and climbed into a coffin-shaped vestibule full of cancer-causing light with an angry bee with an enormous stinger painted on the side. I'm not describing my experience as a prisoner of war. All I did was "go tanning."

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In loving memory

By Alyson Brodsy and Grace Low · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:20 p.m.

On this, the anniversary of Sept. 11, I am embittered by continued reports of human rights violations excused as a response to that atrocity which has become most close to the patriotic heart. It can be agreed upon by all that the loss of life that day was monstrous, and the blow to our confidence and sense of security was terrifying. No American with sense can argue that we should just let these things go or brush it off as an isolated incident carried out by a small group of extremists. As the suicide bombers and al-Zarqawis of the world show us, there are many sick, desperate people who enjoy making statements by massacring the innocent. As the Geneva Convention has set forth, such people must be brought to justice. However, to do so with lies, cover-ups, tortures and terror is certainly not the correct way to go about it. To utilize such methods makes our administration no better than any other terrorist organization.

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Hostilities exist

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Stewart · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:19 p.m.

The engulfing fires had not been put out in lower Manhattan before I was introduced to the charge that Sept. 11 was a revenge assault for America's "indefensible" imperialism -- imperialism that some of us proceeded to defend with great vigor. Already classmates were opposed to a muscular counterstrike; I'll never forget lunch the next day, when some inquired about what made barbarism so intolerable. I replied, instinctively, but with great composure: It was nothing so intolerable that civilized firepower would not put right. For my trouble, I was branded a "warmonger." This memory surged to the top of my thoughts when I dined out this summer with some old friends. In the midst of superior political conversation, a man from the next table leaned over to ask, without the customary apology for eavesdropping, "Why are there so many of you warmongers?" When I first heard this witless sneer years before, I was slightly dumbfounded. But this time, to my delighted astonishment, I didn't mind the appellation. Given this obviously pejorative throwaway remark, the man could plainly not see the need for anything but "peace-at-any-price," so I undertook to inform him. "Well, sir, as warmongers like us never tire of explaining, we're in a war."

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Open (Face)book?

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:18 p.m.

Last week, Facebook, the popular social networking site, revamped its page, creating a pseudo-news feed of what everyone's friends are doing. Instead of common things like who was having a birthday that week, it displayed everything from a new comment a friend made on another friend's page to when relationships were broken off and so on. Not only did it list every minor detail, it also displayed the exact time this action took place -- kind of like a news ticker, only even worse than corporate news (if you can imagine that).

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Robbery, gun violence rose last year while overall crime reached 32-year low

By Alyson Brodsy and Michael J. Sniffen · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:15 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- Americans were robbed and victimized by gun violence at greater rates last year than the year before, even though overall violent and property crime reached a 32-year low, the Justice Department said Sunday. Experts said these increases buttress reports from the FBI and many mayors and police chiefs that violent crime is beginning to rise after a long decline. Bush administration officials expressed concern but stressed that it was too soon to tell if a new upward trend in violence had begun.

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Around the Campus

Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:11 p.m.

See what's going on around campus.

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LAPD investigating USC credit union e-mail scam

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:09 p.m.

LOS ANGELES -- While the Los Angeles Police Department investigated 16 identity theft crimes that occurred between Aug. 4 and Sept. 5 using student, faculty and staff accounts at the University of Southern California Credit Union, at least 1,000 fraudulent e-mails were sent to Credit Union customers in August.

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Camp Kesem looking for interested student volunteers

By Zachary Osterman · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:08 p.m.

The harsh reality of cancer respects no age boundaries. Its painful effects reach everyone it touches, and children are no exception. In order to provide support to children dealing with the effects of cancer, a committed group of IU students has been working to provide a cost-free camp held one week each summer for children whose parents have or had cancer.

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In the pool

By Alyson Brodsy and Georgia Perry · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:08 p.m.

In the pool -- A dog frolics with one of the many tennis balls floating Sunday at the Bryan Park pool during "Drool in the Pool," an event sponsored by White River Co-op and Bloomington City Parks and Recreation.

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State focuses on suicide prevention

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:06 p.m.

MUNCIE — Suicide is the second leading cause of injury death in Indiana after traffic accidents, and state officials are encouraging Hoosiers to learn how to prevent it.

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Student admits rape claim was fabricated

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:06 p.m.

An 18-year-old IU freshman might face criminal charges for falsifying reports of two separate assaults of which she claimed to have recently been the victim, police said Friday.

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Leadership conference draws black student leaders

By Whitney Mitchell · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:06 p.m.

Black student leaders from various campus organizations devoted their Saturday to a hands-on day of activities at the fifth annual Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Student Leadership Retreat. The conference was tailored to address the "growing need" for black students to serve in leadership positions.

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Students help kids at WonderLab learn

By Kristi Oloffson · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:06 p.m.

WonderLab's Fourth Annual Honey Harvest Weekend attracted several Bloomington families Saturday and Sunday, which included everything from tasting honey to trying on a beekeeper's suit and IU students played a major part in running the special program.

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BCBG, Perry Ellis christen New York Fashion Week runways

By Alyson Brodsy and Samantha Critchell · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 11:01 p.m.

NEW YORK -- New York Fashion Week opened with more substance than style Friday. Instead of Kenneth Cole leading the seasonal previews as he usually does with his celebrity-packed show, menswear brands John Bartlett and Perry Ellis were the first to present their spring 2007 clothes in quiet, almost subdued runway shows, followed by BCBG Max Azria, which dotted its front row with starlets, including Carmen Electra and Kelly Rowland.

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MEMORIAL

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Sept. 10,2006 10:56 p.m.

MEMORIAL -- Daniel Kerry, from left, Megan Gott, Douglas Bunn, Jason Moodie, bottom middle, Jon DuBois, behind Moodie, and Anthony Pearce, are shown with some of the glass orbs they created, Sept. 7, in Bellevue, Wash. About a dozen of Moodie's art class students at Sammamish High School created nearly 1,000 glass orbs to be floated during the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York.

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