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Who was Emerson Keller Elkins?

By Carrie Ritchie · Friday, June 30,2006 6:14 p.m.

Emerson Keller Elkins was an IU junior who worked as a hotel page at the Indiana Memorial Union when he created his time capsule in January 1939.

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Protect your bank account

By Ab D. Phillip · Friday, June 30,2006 6:06 p.m.

The IUCU.org web site has been duplicated in an attempt to gain and use personal financial information of credit union members.

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Trustees hear life sciences update

By Zack Teibloom · Friday, June 30,2006 6:04 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- At a full day of board of trustees meetings Tuesday -- one of which was called to announce the members of the search committee for IU's next president -- a "broad overview" and future goals for life sciences was discussed. Current IU President Adam Herbert said Assembly Hall and Memorial Stadium need major repairs and the mission differentiation project was updated.

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Incumbent Breckenridge loses trustee seat

By Zack Teibloom · Friday, June 30,2006 4:17 p.m.

When Phil Eskew Jr. wakes up Saturday morning, he'll begin his term as the newest member of the IU board of trustees. In a surprising upset of incumbent trustee Cora Breckenridge, Eskew won the seat, receiving more than 9,000 of the 31,650 votes cast by IU alumni.

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Search for next IU president begins

By Zack Teibloom · Friday, June 30,2006 4:17 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The search for the next president of IU is now underway, with the announcement of the 12-member search and faculty committees Tuesday afternoon at a special board of trustees meeting at IU-Purdue University-Indianapolis.

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Miss IU. Miss Indiana. Miss America?

By Trevor brown · Thursday, June 29,2006 3:28 p.m.

Just two days after being awarded her new title, IU graduate student Betsy Uschkrat stood outside the Sample Gates, her new sparkling crown replacing the old one she won just months ago as Miss IU. But now, instead of being the pageantfs representative from a campus of almost 40,000, she will be now representing a state of more than six million.

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Coroner says Wampler died naturally

By Carrie Ritchie · Thursday, June 29,2006 2:43 p.m.

Junior Christine Wampler, 21, died of natural causes in April while attending a formal hosted by the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, also known as the Skulls, according to a Louisville, Ky., coroner's office report. Her official cause of death was myocarditis, presumed to be of a viral etiology, said Louisville Deputy Coroner Robert Fraction, reading from the report. Myocarditis is a condition in which the heart muscle becomes inflamed and weakened, causing symptoms of heart failure that may resemble a heart attack, according to MedlinePlus, an online medical encyclopedia.

Original version of horror classic

By C. Warner Sills and Ash Cartwright · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

Horror movies featuring creepy children are not exactly uncommon, we have "The Bad Seed," "Children of The Damned," "The Exorcist," "Children of the Corn" and Dakota Fanning Playing "Hide and Seek" with Robert DeNiro, to name a few.

The truth is out there

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

A movie of Al Gore giving a 90-minute PowerPoint presentation doesn't exactly sound like the most exciting thing to do on a Friday night, but "An Inconvenient Truth," Gore's global warming awareness doc, is probably the most important and worthwhile film you can see this summer.

The great white Russian hope

By Joanna Borns · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

Terms like "folk," "anti-folk" and "singer-songwriter" often send people running to their bomb shelters because they're usually code words for self indulgent, un-listenable music that only five other people besides the artist truly "get."

Black sings the blues

By C. Warner Sills and Ty Schrock · Thursday, June 29,2006 12 a.m.

With each successive album that Frank Black puts out, his music sounds less and less like the band that made him famous, and that's actually a good thing.

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