Check Friday's edition of the Exponent for a 14-page special section
covering Grand Prix weekend
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This is the last regular edition of the Exponent.
We will publish three special publications next week:
Semester in Review, Literary and Sports in Review Monday through Wednesday
respectively.
We begin summer editions of Monday, Wednesday and Friday on
May 16.
Innovative corn crop offers growers complete control
Researchers are growing corn where the sun don’t shine.
The crop is inside a mine.
A partnership between Purdue scientists and an Indiana company produced the growth chamber, housed in a 60-acre limestone mine in southern Indiana. Electric lamps provide the corn with all the light it needs.
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Roughly 125 people appeared in front of a Tippecanoe County Supreme Court judge Thursday to plead guilty or not guilty of drinking violations during Grand Prix weekend at Purdue.
Jon Phillips, deputy prosecutor for Tippecanoe County, said drinking violations included public intoxication, minor possession or consumption and furnishing alcohol to minors.
During the hearings that began at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, violators were either offered a diversion or a plea agreement.
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Richard Thomas got an offer to compose the score for the Purdue Theater production of "His Occupation," and he didn’t have too many side projects at the time so he asked himself, "Why not?"
Then he got offers to do some work for an international conference in Toronto and then found out about another national conference. Two good opportunities. Why not?
"You know how God works is God always goes, ‘I’ll offer you this thing right here.’ And you go ‘OK, I’ll take that,’ because I don’t have a whole lot going on right now and you know, its not the ideal thing I’d like to do, but it’s something. And you get offered something a little bit more and you go ‘Oh well, I can do a little bit more.’"
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At the beginning of the fall football season, Purdue had a considerable lead well before halftime, prompting my friends and me to rarely stay past halftime. The game against Ball State was especially dull, so, naturally, we decide to leave and fulfill one of our goals of the year – to tailgate with some random alumni on Slayter Hill.
What's funny is that most of them actually seemed to find some sort of excitement in the game, so it was necessary to walk to Purdue West, pick up a cheap Styrofoam cooler and a six-pack, then walk around the Intramural fields. We met so many random people – fans passed out on the ground and people who had life-sized mannequins of Amelia Earhart. What a way to start the year. [MORE]
Rule changes allow Purdue to play 13th football game in 2006
The Purdue football team will play 13 games during the 2006 season.
The Boilers have a tentative deal with Indiana State University that will bring the Sycamores to Ross-Ade Stadium for the first home game of the year on Sept. 2, 2006.
"Coach (Joe) Tiller and I thought that if we could bring someone from the state in that it would be a good thing," athletics director Morgan Burke said.
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