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Exclamation points!

!!! formed in the mid-'90s in Sacramento based on the knowledge that they would be playing an all-night house party. More than a decade later, the party is still going strong. Since that fateful night, the band has alternated between club-hopping and label-hopping with each release, starting with GSL, moving to Touch & Go and now finding their rhythm with Warp Records. To answer the question that is on the tip of your tongue, the band's name can be pronounced by using a series of three one-syllable percussive sounds in succession, but "chk, chk, chk" is typically the "name" chosen by most !!! followers.

A hopeful Hoosier

The outgoing Betsy Henke IU Student Association administration will be a hard act to follow. With successes in the area of student representation and administrative effort, it has proved to be far better than recent administrations. In hopes the executive ticket-elect would be capable of following in those footsteps, the editorial board sat down with the incoming Hoosier party to find out its plans for next year.

Seymour man caught after police chase

Sharks deal for Guerin on day of trading deadline

SAN JOSE, Calif. – The San Jose Sharks acquired forward Bill Guerin from the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday, adding another veteran to their young club hours before the NHL trading deadline.

Forgive and forget

Whether it’s a failed biology final, or a regrettable Freudian slip around your significant other, there will come a time when everyone needs a second chance. For no one is that truer than convicted felons who often find it difficult, if not impossible to build a new life for themselves once they’ve been released. As a result of the overwhelming obstacles facing a prisoner’s re-entry into society, many released convicts return to crime, if only to supplement their legal incomes.

Former police officer sentenced 2 years for soliciting sex from teen

Road win, anybody?

We’re going with a win tonight, boys and girls. And why is that, do you ask? Well, seven Big Ten squads have sauntered into Welsh-Ryan Arena this season looking for victory. Six have come away with a win. The only team that lost at Northwestern? The Penn State Nittany Lions, a team that is 1-13 this year in conference.

House rejects cigarette tax increase

The Indiana House rejected legislation Tuesday that would have increased cigarette taxes to fund health care initiatives, something Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels has advocated as a top priority.

Federal advisers recommend government approve, stockpile first ever bird-flu vaccine

WASHINGTON – It’s better than nothing, federal health advisers said Tuesday in urging approval of the first bird-flu vaccine as a stopgap against a potential pandemic until more effective vaccines can be developed.

Intramurals allow soccer play during winter season

Although Woodlawn Field is locked up for the winter, several students across campus have found a way to continue playing their favorite outdoor sport.

UPDATE 6:56 p.m.: Reports: McRobbie to be next IU president

Interim Provost Michael McRobbie will be announced as the University’s next president Thursday afternoon, according to a source with close ties to the search.

Wall Street, Chinese stocks take a tumble

NEW YORK – Stocks plunged Tuesday, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials down more than 220 points as Wall Street joined a global market decline sparked by growing concerns that the U.S. and Chinese economies are cooling and that equities prices have become overinflated.

Former Cubs 3rd baseman denied Hall of Fame again

NEW YORK – The Hall of Fame pitched another shutout. Ron Santo, Jim Kaat, Marvin Miller and all the other candidates were left out Tuesday when the Veterans Committee admitted no new members for the third straight election.

Putin awards cellist Rostropovich for ‘service to the fatherland’

INVERNESS, Calif. – If history hadn’t gotten in the way, Andrew Romanoff could have been the emperor of Russia. But as things turned out, the mustachioed grandnephew of the ill-fated last czar spends his time painting whimsical, folk-art renderings of his unusual upbringing in a dethroned royal family onto “Shrinky Dinks,” the plastic children’s toy that shrinks in the oven.

Herbert might leave by July

Clearing house for his successor and the University’s next leader, IU President Adam Herbert will probably leave office July 1, said trustee Sue Talbot – about a year before his contract is set to expire.

Steffey billboards erected

Hoosier Outdoor Advertising, a Bloomington-based company, has donated billboards to help find missing Purdue student Wade Steffey. The billboards can be seen in Monroe and Tippecanoe counties.

Anthrax scare at University of Missouri-Rolla shuts down campus

ROLLA, Mo. – A distraught graduate student claiming to have a bomb and anthrax sparked a scare early Tuesday that shut down the University of Missouri-Rolla for several hours, officials said.

The spirit of unity

In the spirit of “umoja” a Swahili word for “unity,” more than 150 members of the Bloomington community celebrated life, cultural identity and the deep ancestral roots of people of African descent. A group of multi-ethnic, multi-racial IU students, faculty, staff and Bloomington residents joined together Tuesday to celebrate the Africana Festival at the Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union.

No. 63 Hoosiers set for match with DePaul

Last Thursday, the IU men’s tennis team (8-2) came into its match at No. 33 Kentucky hoping for a big win. It left without one.

House passes bill that would cut gas tax