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MONDAY, JAN. 28, 2013
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Assembly discusses funding State politicians hope to improve spending for public education
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Nate Ruess stares out into the audience while singing “All the Pretty Girls.” Fun. played at John R. Emens Auditorium on Friday. The band will head to the Grammys on Feb. 10.
‘ALL ALRIGHT’
INDIANAPOLIS — Top Democrats and Republicans in the General Assembly agree that more money is needed to improve Indiana’s education system in the next two years, but how that money will be spent is a point of debate. House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, has said throughout the session that he would like to spend more on education, but he has yet to say how much or where. Rep. Greg Porter, D-Indianapolis, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee and the former chairman of the House Education Committee, has said the state should repay the $300 million cut from public schools during the recession. Education spending is typically at the center of most budget battles in the Statehouse because it accounts for a massive share of the state’s spending. This year is no exception, as lawmakers ponder whether to spend the state’s surplus on more services like education or a $500 million tax cut sought by Gov. Mike Pence.
Whether you were dancing in the aisles, taking photos and videos until your phone’s battery died or pumping your fists during ‘Some Nights,’ Friday night’s concert inside John R. Emens Auditorium was a memorable one.
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STUDENT PROPOSES DURING CONCERT Jacob Van Brunt proposes during Fun.’s “The Gambler” to tie the knot in two-year relationship with Audrey Hays SARCASM AND SMILES Forum Editor Kelly Dickey gives her take on why visits by big names such as Fun. are important for the college experience
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Just realized I’ve performed on the same stage as a Grammy Award-nominated band, where they played the potential Song Of The Year. #BSUfun Jan. 26
MattMessmer10
You know those bands that are boring and aren’t very good live? @OurNameIsFun isn’t one of those #BSUfun Jan. 25
ABOVE: Students pack the auditorium to see Fun. on Friday night at Emens. Tickets for the show sold out one day before the show.
Sraesofsun
Hands down the greatest concert I’ve ever been to. @OurNameIsFun #BSUfun Jan. 25
CaitlinDashiell
The combination of Jack’s Mannequin and Fun songs heard live tonight has rendered me speechless. #ballstatedoingitright #bsuFUN Jan. 25
LEFT: Pianist Andrew Dost plays and sings backup during the Fun. concert Friday. Dost was one of six band members on tour.
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NIGHTCLUB FIRE KILLS HUNDREDS IN BRAZIL Band members may have sparked blaze with flare or firework | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — Flames raced through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing more than 230 people as panicked partygoers gasped for breath in the smoke-filled air, stampeding toward a single exit partially blocked by those already dead. It appeared to be the world’s deadliest nightclub fire in more than a decade. Witnesses said a flare or firework lit by band members may have started the blaze in Santa
Maria, a university city of about 225,000 people. Television images showed smoke pouring out of the Kiss nightclub as shirtless young men who had attended a university party joined firefighters using axes and sledgehammers to pound at windows and walls to free those trapped inside. Guido Pedroso Melo, commander of the city’s fire department, told the O Globo newspaper that firefighters had a hard time getting inside the club because “there was a barrier of bodies blocking the entrance.” Teenagers sprinted from the scene desperately seeking help. Others carried injured and burned friends away in their arms.
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NOTABLE DEADLY NIGHTCLUB FIRES
A fire that swept through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early Sunday and killed more than 230 people appears to be the deadliest in more a decade. Here is a look at some of the biggest nightclub fires in the past century. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1940 A fire ignited the decorative Spanish moss draping the ceiling of the Rhythm Night Club in Natchez, Mississippi, killing 209 people. Hundreds of patrons ran to the only exit. The windows had been boarded shut to keep unwanted guests from sneaking in.
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2000 In China’s worst nightclub disaster in recent years, a fire blamed on a welding accident tore through a disco in the central city of Luoyang in December, killing 309 people.
1977 165 people perished and more than 200 were injured when the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, which touted itself as the Showplace of the Nation, burned to the ground.
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1942 A fire killed 492 people at Boston’s Cocoanut Grove club, the deadliest nightclub blaze in U.S. history. The fire led to the enactment of requirements for sprinkler systems and accessible exits with emergency lights not linked to the regular lighting system.
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1996 A fire at the Ozone Disco Pub in Quezon City, Philippines, killed 162 people, many of them students celebrating the end of the school year.
2004 A December fire killed 194 people at an overcrowded workingclass nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a flare ignited ceiling foam.
2003 A nightclub fire in the U.S. state of Rhode Island killed 100 people after pyrotechnics used as a stage prop by the 1980s rock band Great White set ablaze cheap soundproofing foam on the walls and ceiling.
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A SCRUB IS A GUY WHO THINKS HE’S FLY, AND IS ALSO KNOWN AS A BUSTER.
Students could vote on up to 11 Student Government Association executive board slates this year. Kevin Thurman, SGA elections chair, said at least 11 people have picked up the 53-page election SGA FORUM packet that is required to run for executive board. WHAT Opportunity to Kyle Hayes, 2012 elections learn about the chair, said only two slates SGA election ran in the election last year, process and he believes they were WHERE the only ones to pick up Teachers College election packets. room 102 Executive board slates WHEN are made up of one can7 p.m. Tuesday didate each for president, vice president, treasurer and secretary. Thurman said he doesn’t expect all of the people who picked up packets to run in the election.
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2009 A blaze at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia, broke out in December, when an indoor fireworks display ignited a plastic ceiling decorated with branches, killing 152. DN GRAPHIC
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