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Wake up and go to class

Some of my peers are rebels: They attended the first day of their classes and haven’t been back since. On the first day of spring semester, I arrived early to all of my classes and still had trouble finding a seat.

A better way to fight terror

Quagmire: a position or situation that is unpleasant or hazardous; esp. one from which it is difficult to extricate oneself. Guantanamo: a quagmire.

Removing the gag

To commemorate the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade, George W. Bush began his first term by instating a “global gag rule” ending American funding of contraceptive and family-planning services to organizations around the world – organizations that also provided abortions.

Legalization benefits

I’m writing about DJ Funkhouser’s thoughtful column “It’s weed, get over it.”

Wake up and go to class

Some of my peers are rebels: They attended the first day of their classes and haven’t been back since. On the first day of spring semester, I arrived early to all of my classes and still had trouble finding a seat.

Obama the Superman

Barack Obama might as well be Superman. With the ability to overcome racial barriers in a single bound he has single-handedly infused this nation with hope.

White-out can't help Hoosiers shake 9th straight loss

A near sellout crowd all donning the same t-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight-point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak. The Hoosiers (5-13, 0-6) dropped their ninth game in a row, this one against Minnesota 67-63. The competitive game throughout came down to the Golden Gophers’ ability to execute down the stretch; and IU’s inability to.

Gophers ground IU

A near sellout crowd all donning the same t-shirts, a Verdell Jones half-court basket and an early eight point lead weren’t enough to stop IU’s losing streak. The Hoosiers (5-13, 0-6) dropped their ninth game in a row to Minnesota 67-63. The competitive game throughout came down to the Golden Gophers (17-3, 5-3) ability to execute down the stretch; and IU’s inability to.

Despite cuts in universities’ budgets, students still applying

With the economy in a slump, the number of people hoping to obtain a degree in Indiana is on the rise, even with possible further cuts to state funding and hopes from IU officials to reduce the size of the incoming freshman class.

Lilly Library: ‘IU’s hidden treasure’

Though the library was opened in 1960 to display the wide collection of Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr.’s books and manuscripts, it has become a place for students to research and view exhibits and books found nowhere else.

T-shirts call for Hoosiers to ‘never give up’

Every fan in attendance of the men’s basketball game Sunday will receive a free T-shirt in honor of the white out when the Hoosiers (5-12, 0-5) host the Minnesota Gophers (16-3, 4-3).

County food tax raises concern

The Monroe County Council took steps toward expanding the Monroe County Convention Center by introducing a bill last week that could increase the tax on food and beverages in restaurants within Monroe County by 1 percent.

Around IU Sports

Big 1st half pushes IU past Wolverines

After an emotional win against your bitter in-state rival, you can go one of two ways: You can either use the victory as momentum for the next game, or you can have a letdown. Well, at least for Thursday night, the Hoosiers chose the former.

Tubby Smith dodging sophomore slump

After a respectable 20-14 inaugural season at Minnesota last academic year, former Kentucky coach Tubby Smith’s Golden Gophers are off to an impressive 16-3 start and look to be on their way to the NCAA tournament. Smith, along with second-year Michigan coach John Beilein and Iowa second-year man Todd Lickliter, follows a trend of vast improvement among Big Ten coaches in their second seasons.

White-out a part of Glass’ basketball stimulus package

It’s cold, it’s Big Ten season and the IU men’s basketball team is facing a ranked opponent – it must be time for a white-out

Swiss nuclear smuggling suspect claims CIA link

A Swiss man suspected of being involved in the world’s biggest nuclear smuggling ring claims he supplied the CIA with information that led to the breakup of the black market nuclear network led by Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Van hits group of 14 children on Chinatown sidewalk, killing 2

Authorities say a van struck at least five children on a sidewalk in New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, killing two of them.

Victim of Virginia Tech slaying was decapitated

A graduate student from China was decapitated with a kitchen knife in a campus cafe at Virginia Tech by another graduate student who knew her, police said Thursday.

IUSA collaborates, exchanges ideas with other Big 10 schools at conference

Different ways to hold elections and take tests are among the issues IU Student Association President Luke Fields and Vice President Dan Sloat explored at the Association of Big 10 Students conference last weekend, hosted at the University of Illinois. “It was a great opportunity to collaborate with all Big 10 schools,” Fields said.The conference was a brainstorming system in which student leaders discussed similar issues each school faced and how they should deal with these issues, Fields and Sloat said.