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Environmental director grilled on BP chemical dumping

By Alexandra R. Moses · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 11:36 p.m.

Indiana’s top environmental official told a legislative panel Wednesday that he wishes his agency had heard months ago the concerns now being raised about the permit allowing a BP PLC oil refinery to dump more pollutants into Lake Michigan.

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Intelligence Report

Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 11:31 p.m.

[ THE FACTS ] The North American Free Trade Agreement has lasted over a decade now, and its three members – Canada, Mexico, and the United States – began discussing the treaty in Quebec on Monday. Trade between them has jumped 10 percent every year since the treaty’s ratification. The countries have addressed criticisms of NAFTA, including unenforced labor laws and environmental destruction.

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ROTC ranks 4th in nationwide program

By Lindsey Alexander · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 11 p.m.

IU’s ROTC showed a complete about-face from past years when it placed fourth out of more than 272 programs from across the country at this year’s Leadership Development and Assessment Course.

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Va. Tech stepping up campus safety

By Ab D. Phillip · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 10:58 p.m.

Virginia Tech recommended monitoring troubled students and increasing security Wednesday in an internal report that didn’t address one of the most troubling questions about the massacre: Should administrators have locked down the campus after the first two deaths?

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Freshmen inducted at IU Auditorium

By Kyle Doehla · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 10:56 p.m.

Thousands of students waited quietly in the IU Auditorium Wednesday afternoon. With many just arriving on campus hours beforehand, they were about to officially welcomed into the IU family.

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Local artist overcomes past through art

By Sara Amato · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 9:38 p.m.

Strokes of bright blue and red watercolors paint the story of Bloomington artist Layla Caplinger’s life. They show her past, her struggles, her journey to artistic freedom. And now, they’ve won her a spot as the featured artist in the Rhythms of the Soul exhibit, now at Bellevue Art Gallery.

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Film festival brings out Bloomington’s dark side

By Brian Hettmansperger · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 9:38 p.m.

A dark carnival crashes and slashes its way into Bloomington tonight. Making camp at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, The Dark Carnival Film Festival will feature more than 40 independent horror movies, a sideshow, a horror rock band and, on Saturday night, a Dance Party Massacre.

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Around the Arts

Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 9:38 p.m.

CultureFest After-Party When: 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. tonight Where: IU Art Museum, 1133 E. Seventh St. More Information: Come to the Thomas T. Solley Atrium for the CultureFest After-Party, welcoming new and returning students with a free coffee-tasting and culture-fusion event featuring art, music and more. Entertainment and coffee samples from around the world will complement an encyclopedic collection of art work. This event is free.

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College finances 101

By Grace Low · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 8:27 p.m.

Save your pennies! The best advice I could possibly give the incoming class of squeaky clean, fresh-faced ex-high schoolers who are about to commence learning independence is to fiercely covet those arbitrary bits of copper. Those tiny percentages of dollars – the remnants of awkward transactions – can truly add up, as anyone who has seen the movie Office Space can attest to. Sadly, I cannot promise that by the end of your time here your pennies will add up to the hundreds of thousands of dollars Peter Gibbons and his friends were able rip off their employer, but counting up that little jar of loose change on your dresser at the end of a semester is sure to yield a surprisingly large amount.

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Sentimental Hoosiers

By Ayesha Awan · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 8:21 p.m.

Columnists tend to fit into categories. I myself probably fall under the “angry liberal woman.” I’ve seen all kinds of columnists, ranging from the “sports pundit” to the “narcissistic neo-con” to the “tree-hugger” to the “religious right-wing dude,” morph into the “sentimental Hoosier”category right around the time they graduate – writing columns about their successes, failures, regrets and hopes for the future. Graduation is two years away for me, but upon arriving back to Bloomington for my junior year at IU, I’ve found my “angry liberal woman” self melting into a “sentimental Hoosier.”

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This old house

By Rachel Fullmer · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 8:18 p.m.

In May, I couldn’t leave Bloomington fast enough. I aimed my car north-northwest and gunned it. Four-and-a-half hours of pedal-to-the-metal and I never once looked back. Spring semester had been stressful and seemed to last at least a whole year and a half. Besides, I had a really cool summer job lined up. What could be more fun and less stressful than spending a summer as a camp counselor in Maine?

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Who evaluates the evaluators?

Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 8:15 p.m.

In a recent speech introducing his leadership team, IU President Michael McRobbie cited IU’s recent drop in the U.S. News and World Report college rankings as a sign of IU’s “static” conditions. At the same time that it frets over its slide from 70th to 75th, IU trumpets its status as a program “to look for” – whatever that means. But what kind of relevance do these rankings really have?

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Recruit Matt Roth commits to IU

By IDS staff and Aaron Beard · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 6:58 p.m.

Matt Roth, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard from Illinois, announced Wednesday he will sign a letter of intent to play for IU in 2008. For more analysis check out the IDS Basketblog.

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Welcome Freshmen

By Trevor brown · Wednesday, Aug. 22,2007 6:25 p.m.

With many freshmen holding a copy of the Indiana Daily Student for the very first time, I would first like to thank you all for picking up our newspaper and welcome you to stay with us for the rest of your career here at IU.

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