Knight asks judge to reconsider lawsuit\nFormer IU basketball coach Bob Knight has asked the judge who threw out his breach-of-contract lawsuit against IU to change his mind.\nRussell Yates, Knight's attorney, contended in a motion filed Wednesday that Monroe Circuit Judge Kenneth Todd erred when he dismissed the lawsuit last month without a trial.\nKnight "maintains that the accusations against him that served as the basis for his termination were unfounded," the lawsuit said.\nIf Knight had been given the due-process rights he was entitled to under his contract, he might not have been fired, the lawsuit said.
'Sex and the City' author to speak\nUnion Board will present, "An Evening with Candace Bushnell," in the IU Auditorium Tuesday. Bushnell is the author of "Sex and the City." The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and is free to students, faculty and staff, but a ticket is required to enter the event. Tickets are available at the IU Auditorium box office.
Scholar to discuss issues in imperial China Tuesday\nThe Institute for Advanced Study will present the lecture, "The Genesis of a Children's Game: Cricket Fights in Imperial China." Ping-chen Hsiung, the event's speaker, is a senior researcher in the Modern History Institute of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, and a renowned scholar in the areas of the history of childhood, family relations, and pediatrics in late-imperial and modern China. Recently, she has been working on the history of gynecology, the treatment of male sexual dysfunction, and sexuality in premodern China. The lecture is scheduled for 4 p.m. Tuesday at Woodburn Hall 111. For more information call 855-1513 or log on to www.indiana.edu/~ias.
Speaker to relate personal experience with sexism\nKrassimira Daskalova, a professor of philosophy and social sciences at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, Bulgaria, will discuss gender issues at a lecture presented by the Institute for Advanced Study. Her lecture, "Reading against the Grain: Representations of Women in Bulgarian History Textbooks," will show how in the interplay between women's "presence" and "absence" one can discover the development of a sexist vision of the Bulgarian women's past. After the fall of communism, all Bulgarian history textbooks were re-written in order for the pre-modern, "the bourgeois," and "the communist" pasts to be re-conceptualized. But even in these new versions of history, women are still "those who have no right to history." The lecture is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday at Jordan Hall A106. For more information call 855-1513 or log on to www.indiana.edu/~ias.
Annual women's conference to focus on 'mind and body'\nThe 2003 Women in the Workplace Conference will be held at 8:30 a.m. Friday at the Chapman's Restaurant and Banquet Center. The annual conference presents an opportunity for female staff members to build work-related skills, gather information, and network with other working women in the Bloomington and South Central Indiana community. This year's conference theme is "Mind & Body: Taking Care of Your Whole Self." A variety of speakers will touch on the following topics: Balancing life roles, healthy eating, menopause, surviving breast cancer, self defense, and yoga in the office. For more information contact Kasey Drew at kdrew@indiana.edu.
