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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University students enrolled in spring semester 2008 will be able to use their student identification cards to vote in Tuesday’s (May 6) Indiana primary, thanks to the university’s Registrar’s Office and the Tippecanoe County clerk. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday voted 6-3 to uphold Indiana’s law, one of the [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University students enrolled in spring semester 2008 will be able to use their student identification cards to vote in Tuesday’s (May 6) Indiana primary, thanks to the university’s Registrar’s Office and the Tippecanoe County clerk. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday voted 6-3 to uphold Indiana’s law, one of the [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University’s School of Veterinary Medicine will offer free eye exams May 12-16 for active working dogs. The exams will be available at the Small Animal Hospital to service dogs for the blind, assistance dogs for the handicapped, police dogs and specially trained search-and-rescue dogs. Dogs must be active “working dogs” [...] Read the full story

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A record number of students have enrolled in classes the past two semesters at the Purdue University College of Technology’s location at Lafayette, officials have reported. Jon Aull, location director for the College of Technology at Indianapolis and Lafayette, said enrollments reached all-time highs in both the fall 2007 and spring [...] Read the full story

WASHINGTON, DC — With its primary on May 6, Indiana’s 2007 population of about 6.3 million includes a higher percentage of the non-Hispanic white-alone population and a lower percentage of Hispanics than the nation as a whole, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics. About 59 percent of Indiana’s voting-age citizens cast a ballot in the [...] Read the full story

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A campaign visit from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will close Riehle Plaza in downtown Lafayette, Indiana on Wednesday afternoon (4/30). To accommodate the Secret Service and the Lafayette Police Department, CityBus is adjusting bus services as follows: The CityBus customer service office at Riehle Plaza will close at 11:00AM. Customers [...] Read the full story