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“I don't win a lot of fancy prizes and accolades – probably because I curse too much on Twitter – so this one meant a lot," says
@rgay
, a new Guggenheim Fellowship award winner.
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It was the end of the line tonight for Adriana Harmeyer, the Purdue archivist, West Lafayette resident and 15-game
@jeopardy
champ.
What run, though. Harmeyer ends her reign at No. 11 on the longest winning streaks in Jeopardy history.
That was fun.
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Update: Lafayette, West Lafayette and Tippecanoe schools all on 2-hour delay Tuesday, given the 9:20 pm Monday start for Purdue-UConn in the NCAA national championship game. (Schools already out Monday for the eclipse.)
@BoilerBall
#NCAAMarchMadness
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Sad news today, hearing that Herschel Cook, an owner of Harry’s Chocolate Shop near Purdue since ‘77, died Sunday.
Regulars and former staff filling the front window at Harry’s today. “The man was an icon,” Laine Hastings, manager, says.
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Last pizza, out the door, Bruno’s Pizza, West Lafayette.
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Purdue trustees agreed today to build an additional $11.8M, 8,000-sq-ft terminal at the Purdue Airport, in its ongoing effort to draw the return of commercial passenger service in West Lafayette. Construction aimed to finish in early 2025. Includes $7.5M in state READI funds 1/
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Crowds are out at the Purdue Airport to welcome Purdue basketball after securing spot in the Final Four.
@BoilerBall
#MarchMadness
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West Lafayette on Friday morning will consider changing the name of State Street, between Grant Street and U.S. 231 through Purdue's campus, per a city board of works agenda item.
The name: Mitch Daniels Boulevard.
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Some news: My last day at the J&C is Dec. 1. I took a buyout offer yesterday.
Thanks to everyone who picked up when I called over the past 32 yrs & trusted it would be fair. To all who read/subscribed, as Paul Westerberg said, “I don’t know you, but I knew you were out there.”
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What do Purdue students do when a Daily Wire commentator who says 'transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely' is coming to campus?
Line up a drag show for the same time. 1/
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Purdue will extend its tuition freeze for 13th year in 2025-26 academic year, trustees say today. In-state tuition will stay at $9,992 per year.
Last increase: 2012-13 school year.
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"Let's see a repeat tomorrow night!"
From
@WestLafayettePD
after Saturday night's postgame celebration that shut down State Street just off Purdue's campus for hours. Expecting another go of it after
@boilerball
's National Championship game Monday.
#MarchMadness2024
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First flight of Southern Airways Express out of Purdue Airport. It’s the first commercial service in 20 years here. Ceremonial today. For real, with 4 flights daily to Chicago O’Hare, starting Wednesday.
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Make that No. 14 tonight for Adriana Harmeyer, Purdue archivist, West Lafayette resident and
@Jeopardy
champion.
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Just in: I asked Purdue Prez Mitch Daniels for a review of Purdue's new Boiler Black, what
@PeoplesBrew
calls an approachable beer.
His take: "Don't know how to respond to 'approachable' because I haven't encountered a beer yet I wouldn't approach. But I thought it was great."
A year ago, Mitch Daniels - appointed quality control officer for the new Purdue beer, Boiler Gold - wondered about when he'd get Boiler Black. It took a year, but
@purduemitch
asked,
@PeoplesBrew
delivered. Your first taste: Ross-Ade Stadium, Saturday.
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Also in this morning's edition, dedication day arrives for Abby and Libby Memorial Park, a labor of love near Delphi.
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Purdue trustees extend contract for men's basketball coach Matt Painter through 2029, with base salary for 2024-25 of $4.85M, with performance-based incentives of $1.2M.
Trustees say the contract puts Painter in top 4 in expanded Big Ten. More later at
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Results are in today from Purdue Northwest faculty vote of no confidence for Chancellor Thomas Keon, under fire after using a string of Asian gibberish as a joke during PNW commencement:
87% of faculty responding vote no confidence in Purdue NW Senate survey. 1/
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The answer is: Stop me if you’ve heard this before.
What is Adriana Harmeyer, Purdue archivist & West Lafayette resident, remains
@Jeopardy
champion?
Chalk up win No. 15 today.
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No. 6 for ‘Jeopardy’ champ Adriana Harmeyer, a Purdue archivist from West Lafayette.
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All Lafayette School Corp. students, regardless of families' incomes, will be eligible for free breakfast and lunch during the 2023-24 school year, LSC said today. LSC will be part of federal program aimed at districts w/higher rates qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. 1/
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Crazy scene in downtown Lafayette.
A train car derailment has buckled tracks on the rail bridge south of the downtown bridges and sent a car into the Wabash River. Norfolk Southern personnel on scene. Photos …
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For many Purdue fans, this was the introduction to
@theTylerTrent
. The night
@carmin_jc
stumbled across Tyler Trent and friend Josh Seals camping out, first in line for the Michigan game in 2017.
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‘Hey, man, I’m just here to play music.’
Meet Ian Osterman, the poised Purdue All-American Marching Band member who provided that instantly viral/instantly iconic line in the face of a taunting Tennessee fan at the Music City Bowl.
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I can't believe I missed his obit in December. A lot of people did.
Farewell, Stephen Downey. Farewell, State Street Steve.
#Purdue
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One advantage of being a student newspaper ...
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“At least 14 more women and girls say they were sexually assaulted after...” USA Gymnastics knew/covered for Larry Nassar. More tough reporting by
@IndyMarisaK
&
@starwatchtim
.
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At Purdue for Michael Knowles talk. Long line to get into Purdue Memorial Ballroom.
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Nick Bostic, the Lafayette man who saved a child in a house fire early Monday morning, will be honored by the mayor and police during Aug. 2 National Night Out at the
@Lafayette_BSB
Aviators game. $4 from each ticket will go to a GoFundMe for his bills,
@LafayetteINPD
says 1/
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New: Mitch Daniels will retire as Purdue president at dnd of 2022. New president will be Mung Chiang, engineer dean.
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Meanwhile, no big deal, right?
@Jeopardy
champ Adriana Harmeyer, a Purdue archivist from West Lafayette, wins her fourth straight in Monday's show. 1/
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Just heard from someone who flew from Indy to Phoenix yesterday. Said the flight attendant, after the usual seat belt/floatation devices/8 exits spiel, wanted to know: "Whose House?"
@boilerball
#MarchMadness2024
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So, you think Purdue's freshmen are soft because they walked out on Andy Gross & started an
#AndyGrossIsGross
rant? Maybe the rest of us for soft for not doing it long ago -- and in way more situations like it.
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Introducing your new Indiana Teacher of the Year, East Tipp Middle School’s Sharita Ware.
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Signing the first home run ball at the new Abby and Libby Park near Delphi.
Emotional morning up here for families determined to turn tragedy into an enduring community memorial. I’ll have a story later:
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'A really genuine human being': Purdue's Tyler Trent dies after battling bone cancer. A fine obituary from
@DanaBenbow
.
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Roxane Gay is leaving Purdue.
@rgay
told you that herself a few weeks ago.
The question: Could Purdue have done more to keep the best-selling author of 'Bad Feminist'/more as a star professor?
Better question: Did Purdue even try?
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Today in Delphi: trial set for Jan. 8-26 for Richard Allen, charged with murder in the 2017 killings of teens Abby Williams and Libby German. 1/
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Meanwhile, at Purdue Surplus Store … never forget: 2/23/85, Purdue vs. IU.
Sales: Brisk.
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Look who else made it to Ross-Ade for the Purdue-Ohio State game: It’s Mickey Kor. It wasn’t long ago that the Holocaust survivor was telling a story about how Boilermaker games kept him hanging on. He wore that hat when he told me about it:
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Winning 'Jeopardy' is what she does. Who is Adriana Harmeyer?
The university archivist in Purdue's Special Collections racked up win No. 7 Thursday on
@Jeopardy
. She'll be back on the air to defend again Friday.
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Check your ballots, everyone ... In a heavy day of early voting Saturday, at least three voters in West Lafayette complained that their choices switched on machines at a Pay Less Super Market site. Election officials are scrambling a bit today.
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Man ...
Bruno’s, a West Lafayette and Purdue landmark, is closing this week, as work on a $250M development nears and after search for new home comes up empty ... for now.
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BREAKING; Purdue dumps Papa John's John Schnatter, says it will give back the $8 million he gave to the university in April. Trustees say having Schnatter attached to econ research center a "distraction from center's work."
Here's the first take:
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Happening right now: Purdue lands Saab fighter jet plant in West Lafayette, part of $1B west campus plan
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When you take Twin Lakes basketball to state, the whole school district shows up. Pep rally to end Friday.
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Mitch Daniels tells me today he's pondering a US Senate bid, but says no to a governor ‘rerun' as tenure ends as Purdue president.
My interview here:
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Coming to a football game near you:
#Purdue
taps Boiler Gold, its first signature beer. A
@PeoplesBrew
production.
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Lilly 1-105, one of Purdue’s biggest lecture halls, filling up for Black Student Union town hall after video surfaces of a Friday night arrest.
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And we were just up there to see another storm roll in.
Longtime local journalist Dave Bangert received the Sagamore of the Wabash Thursday evening atop the old Journal & Courier building in downtown Lafayette.
Bangert, who left the J&C late last year, was given the award by Sen. Ron Alting and honored by other local officials.
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Rally/vigil marched from West Lafayette to Riehle Plaza in downtown Lafayette after weekend at
#Charolettesville
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Explosion at the Sheila Klinker Factory.
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‘Tyler Trent was grit personified’: Mitch Daniels’
#TylerStrong
farewell at Purdue, in words and video from tonight's candlelight vigil for
@theTylerTrent
on the steps of Hovde Hall.
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If anyone can save us now, it's
@XplodingUnicorn
. We ran through Black Friday, so you didn't have to. His holiday decorating advice: Get a house w/no outdoor outlets.
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This is a bracing comment from Indiana's lieutenant governor, isn't it?
It’s a Democrat voter registration drive masquerading as an immigration policy. 2/2
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Time lapse,
#electionday
: this is what 10:55 am looked like at the Purdue Memorial Union. Around the corner line now.
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Purdue prof: "... disappointing to hear President Mitch Daniels criticize, then appropriate the 'snowflake' meme cum insult as well as the equally cloying antonym, 'grit,' when referring to college-aged students."
Commencement speech fallout, Class of '19
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They felt free to call my players the n-word.... West Side coach's op-ed take on Trump's America.
@JCOnline
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Purdue and IU presidents Mung Chiang and Pam Whitten sign official agreement to dissolve IUPUI o July 1, 2024.
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And the lobbying for two-hour school delays on Tuesday starts ...
The
#NationalChampionship
is SET!
(1)
@BoilerBall
🆚
(1)
@UConnMBB
📆 Monday, April 8
⏰ 9:20 PM ET
📺 TBS
#MFinalFour
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"Purdue University is not and has never been affiliated in any way with Purdue Pharma."
Look for this to be a theme as Purdue continues to distance itself from the embattled maker of Oxycontin.
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Still in play, from this morning ... KKK recruiting fliers found on cars, businesses downtown Lafayette
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Make that win No. 5 tonight for 'Jeopardy' champ Adriana Harmeyer of West Lafayette.
Meanwhile, no big deal, right?
@Jeopardy
champ Adriana Harmeyer, a Purdue archivist from West Lafayette, wins her fourth straight in Monday's show. 1/
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Katie Bouman, a West Lafayette HS grad, had a big hand in first-ever picture of a black hole. Her dad, a Purdue prof in a similar field, said his daughter's work will go a long way in his own research.
"Although, I would say she took a much bigger step."
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Man, the number of people today demanding that I justify Roxane Gay's ask ...
This boiled down to a simple question: Did Purdue think it was worth doing more to keep someone with
@rgay
's profile on faculty? The answers to that aren't hidden in the column
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“When I say I’m internet famous and a real-life nobody, I mean it."
So why am I taking "Bare Minimum" parenting tips from this Indiana dad? My skeptical Q&A w/James Breakwell/
@XplodingUnicorn
on a new book that has helicopter parents breathing into a bag
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Is there a colder spot in a five-county region on a wind chill day than the wind tunnel next to Purdue’s Math Building?
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New thread: Bernie Sanders is at the Tippecanoe County Amphitheater to stump for a $3.5T federal spending bill, selling it to a red Indiana congressional district.
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Take it from
@rgay
, who's been there before:
@TereseMarieM
's "Heart Berries" landing on the
@nytimes
best-seller list, the second from a Purdue author in the past year, is "a huge deal."
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Purdue is developing what it's calling the Ukraine Scholars Initiative, which will invite up to 20 faculty or Ph.D students, and their families, from Ukrainian universities to spend a year at the West Lafayette campus, Purdue President Mitch Daniels announced today.
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New this morning: Purdue continues string of record enrollment, according to a new university student census for fall '23.
On West Lafayette campus: 52,211
That's up 2.6% from fall '22, when Purdue topped 50K for the first time. That's 1,327 additional students on campus. 1/
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West Lafayette Mayor John Dennis signed an order today for mandatory masks in the city. Details coming at
@jconline
.
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"They're not just Boiler shooters, they're Boiler Makers."
Somewhere, puffy Purdue Pete shuddered to
#MakersAll
life.
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Do a search for Katie Bouman, and you'll see just how much the 2007 West Lafayette High School grad is blowing up. Just amazing work, her role in getting that image -- first ever -- of a black hole. Here's our hometown story:
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The best part of the Lafayette Christmas Parade tonight: Santa starts his trek down Main Street.
“Ho! Ho! Ho! Hey! Sheila Klinker!”
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Purdue will be home to the two turkeys from Jasper, Indiana, expected to be pardoned at a White House ceremony Friday will wind up at Purdue’s Department of Animal Sciences, the university announced today. 1/
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What’s Midwest Modern and why does it like downtown Lafayette so much?
A Q&A with
@JoshLipnik
, the guy behind Midwest Modern and all those sweet posts about Lafayette.
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Exchange just now at Purdue, as Sen. Todd Young is speaking during a Presidential Lecture Series talk with head of NSF and President Mung Chiang on chips research.
Students call for action on Palestine, before being asked to let lecture continue. They are escorted out.
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Becky Patty, Libby German's grandma, has been posting "Today is the day" daily on FB during the Delphi murder investigation.
While waiting on times, confirmation, etc., on ISP's update, coming Monday, on the case, she added 3 exclamation points to her post about an hour ago.
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Just old frenemies sharing tips about public restroom situations. It’s
@XplodingUnicorn
in downtown Lafayette. Our Q&A:
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Jim Nantz just said that if that moment with Tiger Woods and his kids at the Masters didn’t bring a tear to my eye, I was a terrible parent (more or less) and now I sit, with dry cheeks, wondering how I went so wrong.
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What a scene at
@PrideLafayette
’s OUTfest last night in downtown Lafayette.
My pictures didn’t make the grade. But great turnout. Great time.
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Small moment during a $4B day at Purdue:
@purdueexponent
reporters delivered a copy of the
@BoilerBall
Final Four edition that came out Monday to
@PurduePresident
Mung Chiang.
*Those are going for a $25 donation to the Exponent. Chiang told me his wasn't for sale.
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As tribute, Cole Ungaro's indoor soccer team played the first 19 minutes of a match Monday night without a goalie. The Faith Christian goalie's number? No. 19. What a story, via
@samueltking
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Big takeaway from the start of the Brohm Era: I hope Purdue gets good fast so we can get A-team announcers fast.
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Play of the game: The importance of being Clev at Lafayette Jeff.
When an assistant coach collapsed before Friday’s varsity football game in Michigan City, Lafayette Jeff’s longtime athletic trainer was on the scene
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Backing
#BernieSanders
: "I believe in sports Hail Marys, why not political Hail Marys?" - Charles Calvin of Laf
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Breakfast Club will never be the same: Big development news for a once-bustling/still open hangout down the block from Purdue.
Next up for Chauncey Hill Mall: 13-story development, public plaza proposed at crest of State Street Hill. Details, in here:
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On a day when the Indiana House moved HB 1077, which would remove the need for gun permits and that police orgs testified against (inc. LPD's police chief),
@GovHolcomb
tells law enforcement in State of the State: "We have your back."
Gets a standing O.
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Purdue trustees also bump pay for women's basketball coach Katie Gearlds for 2024-25 season from $550K to $700K.
AD Mike Bobinski calls it a vote of confidence in Gearlds and where the program is heading.
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Students in STEM fields at Purdue March to Hovde Hall today to protest President Mitch Daniels’ open letter references to “Where are all the men?”
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Some politicians have a sure fire applause line. Sanders comes with sure fire boo line: Mentions tax cuts GOP championed for billionaires. … people who have so much money they don’t know what to do with it, so they’re taking trips to space.
Crowd: Booooooooooooo
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