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(06/28/12 3:15pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Princess Merida is not a badass. In Pixar’s latest, “Brave,” the animation studio known for movies with strong stories and characters sports a heroine and leading lady — the studio’s first in its 13 films. The trailers promise a strong-willed woman who defies the fate pushed upon her to forge her own path. Throughout the film, however, we see Merida for who she really is: a petulant, selfish teenager. She is only a teenager, after all.When Queen Elinor, Merida’s mother, announces that the first-born sons from their kingdom’s three neighboring clans will fight for her daughter’s hand in marriage, as is tradition, Merida flat-out refuses. The princess goes so far in her defiance that she nearly causes a war between the clans. Not that viewers should worry. All the men in this film are buffoons who spend more time eating and arguing than making any decisions whatsoever.I know this may spoil the plot (it also spoiled any of my hopes in this movie being saved), but the film’s twist comes when Merida wishes to change her mother instead of herself, to find her own destiny. But things get hairy. Something is just missing in this film. It has magic, but it isn’t creative. It has heart, but it isn’t worn on its sleeve. It has a simple message and a simple desire — to show the strengths of the motherdaughter relationship — but it takes unneeded back roads to get there. It’s a Pixar movie, so its animation is beautiful, but Merida is a lacking character. Even with her l aming red hair, she’s forgettable.By Bailey Loosemore
(05/10/12 1:06am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The IU Board of Trustees has approved a $30.3 million increase in the 2012-13 budget, which will go toward merit-based salary increases, additional financial aid and utilities costs. Money used for the increased budget comes from the tuition increase approved by the Board of Trustees in May 2011, along with interest rates and research dollars, said IU Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Neil Theobald.For the 2012-13 academic year, in-state tuition will increase by 3.5 percent and out-of-state tuition by 5.5 percent. Theobald said though tuition is rising, the additional financial aid provided through the budget will keep students’ out-of-pocket costs down.Associate Vice President of University Communications Mark Land said students are paying nearly the same amount as they were five or six years ago. He added that the University has doubled the amount of money put into scholarships and grants during the last few years.“A lot of people are concerned when tuition goes up,” he said. “Tuition is the sticker price, and many, many people don’t pay that.”Theobald said IU President Michael McRobbie’s main focus when allocating the budget is affordability and academic excellence. To continue academic excellence, Theobald said McRobbie wanted to give salary increases to staff members who have not received them in recent years. The 2012-13 budget calls for 1.5 to 2.2 percent increases to IU employees across all eight campuses. “It’s a big University, so we were able to do as much as we could on salaries,” Theobald said. “It’s never as much as we’d like to do. But an average of 2.2 percent demonstrates the president’s commitment to academic excellence and the role our employees playin that.”Along with the budget increase, Theobald said $68 million in one-time funds will be used for deferred maintenance projects across the eight campuses. According to an IU press release, the University’s deferred maintenance backlog is estimated at $600 million.Money for the projects comes from student fees initiated for the 2012-13 academic year. The fees range from $120 to $360 and were decided upon in May 2011 along with tuition increase, Theobald said. IU-Bloomington students will pay a one-time fee of $360. The student fee will raise $25 million of the $68 million across the eight campuses, Theobald said. IU-Bloomington will receive $43.3 million of the maintenance funds, with $13.8 million coming from the student fee. IU is one of three public universities in Indiana to employ the student fee, Theobald said. Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College have already used the fee, he said. “It’s temporary, and our hope is the state starts funding facilities and that fee will go away,” Theobald said. Though the budget will increase by only 1.7 percent, Theobald said the additional funds will be well spent. “It’s lean, but our priorities here are salaries and financial aid, and we were at least able to make some progress in both,” he said.
(05/01/12 9:28pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Police responded to an Occupy Bloomington event Tuesday morning after receiving a complaint at 8:03 a.m. that protesters had erected an Army surplus tent on a city-owned lot near the B-Line Trail between 10th and 11th streets.Approximately 20 occupy protesters gathered in the lot to kick off their May Day celebration, the International Day of Workers Solidarity, said protester Adam Watts. When more than 25 police officers arrived, including officers from the Bloomington Police Department, Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, IU Police Department and Indiana State Police, officers began dismantling the tent. BPD Detective Sergeant John Kovach said officers did not care if the group protested, but they did not want the tent erected. BPD officer Dana Runnebohm carried a pepper ball gun, Kovach said. Once officers dismantled the tent and left it folded on the green grass, they walked toward their squad cars in a group as protesters clapped and cheered.“From Bloomington to Greece, fuck the police,” protesters yelled in unison.Watts said the surplus tent was intended to act as a central meeting location and rain shelter during their day-long May Day festivities. The Really, Really Free Market, which allowed members of the community to obtain or give away free items, was supposed to take place inside the tent, Watts said. But once officers disallowed the structure, they moved the event to a location along the B-Line Trail. As such a “mild and tame event,” Watts said he was surprised it was taken as a serious threat from various law enforcement agencies.“It just shows exactly how terrified the people in control are and how much they are beginning to realize that they are losing their power, that the people are taking the power back,” Watts said. “Although the tent was the official complaint, I think it was much larger than that.”Following the Really, Really Free Market, Occupiers hosted a “teach-in” at Boxcar Books at 408 E. 6th St.Beginning at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Watts said protesters are planning a rally at IU’s Sample Gates, followed by a march to an unknown location at 6 p.m.Between 10 p.m. and midnight, Watts said the group will then convene at IU’s Herman B Wells Library to discuss alternatives to “corporate” universities.“Even though I am a student and not in a trade union, it’s a day of solidarity to show that this is our collective fight, both yours and mine, and I’ve got your back,” Watts said.
(04/26/12 3:26am)
WEEKEND previews this summer's big upcoming movies
(04/21/12 2:49am)
Teter fans watch the last laps of the 2012 women's Little 500 on Friday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
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Delta Gamma supporters cheer as the sorority's team receives the first place trophy at the 2012 women's Little 500 on Friday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
(04/18/12 3:17pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Cutters Coach Jim Kirkham has somewhat of a plan for his riders in the final week before race day, but he doesn’t encourage them to deviate too much from their normal schedule. Here are a few tips for riders’ training in the final days and a breakdown of the Cutters’ last week of riding.MondayExchange day. Since the track is still open, the riders will make sure their exchanges and bikes are still in good order. They’ll do a light day on the bike.TuesdayOff day. The riders will either take an off day or a day of active recovery in which they stretch their legs and get their blood flow going if they want, but not anything to stress their hearts.WednesdayHard day. Wednesday is the last day at the track, so the riders will do last-minute exchanges, make sure all the bolts are tightened on the bikes and make sure the bikes roll the way they want them to. Then they’ll say goodbye to the track.ThursdayLight day. The riders will do maybe an hour on the bike on the road.FridayHard day. Riders will do two hours on the bike with increased efforts.SaturdayRace day. The team will do a road warm-up before the race, about an hour-and-a-half road ride, before heading to the track to warm up the riders’ legs.
(04/17/12 4:01am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>There’s more than one Kate Upton. There’s the one on the cover of the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, and then there’s the one who’s an IU sophomore in the Jacobs School of Music. Though her biography has been used along with photos of the former, our Kate Upton is shorter than the first, has brown hair and knows little about basketball or why Cody Zeller would ask her on a date. Our Kate Upton goes by Katie.An Indiana Daily Student reporter sat down with Katie to find out a little more about her.IDS Who are you, exactly?KATIE UPTON I’m Katie Upton. I go by Katie instead of Kate. My full name is Katherine Elizabeth Upton, and her name is also Katherine Elizabeth Upton, spelled exactly the same way, so obviously it leads to more confusion. Yeah, but I’m the one that’s from Des Moines, Iowa, and I was born in 1991 instead of ’92. So you’ll find some articles that say she’s from Des Moines, Iowa, and she’s not. She’s from Wisconsin. So, yeah, I’m the horn player as well.IDS So people actually use your biography on the Jacobs School website as hers?UPTON Since I’m a musician, I have my biography available on the Jacobs School of Music website and on my own, so people have taken that biography and put it with her picture instead of mine, actually, on multiple websites. There were two weeks on Wikipedia where my biography was on her Wikipedia page with her picture. My mom got so excited that she printed off like four copies to keep because she thought it was so hilarious. So I think that’s probably where the confusion started, was probably with Wikipedia.IDS How have you been mixed up with her besides the biography?UPTON I really haven’t. I mean, there have been people that have emailed me asking me on dates and to Little 500 parties. But obviously there’s not any mix-up in person. I’m clearly not Kate Upton. So it just happened because of the biographies, and people have been sending me emails. So that’s pretty much it.IDS She wasn’t really in the public eye until the Sports Illustrated cover, which was just recently. Is that about when it started?UPTON It was a little bit before then because I think I had heard about her a bit before the Sports Illustrated cover thing happened because we share the same name. So a couple of my guy friends who had heard of her before the Sports Illustrated cover were like “this is funny,” so they’d post stuff on my Facebook wall like, “Hey, I know the other Kate Upton.” And so, like, I’d heard about it before, she was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but the cover has certainly made things pick up with odd coincidences like the emails and stuff. That hadn’t ever happened before until after the cover.IDS Cody Zeller tweeted that he was coming back next season because he hadn’t gotten a date with Kate Upton yet. If he asks you on a date, what would you say?UPTON I don’t really follow basketball, so I feel really bad. I know that he’s famous and that he’s really, really good. I mean, free food, I’d go on the date.
(04/12/12 12:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Anyone can start a food cart.All you do is make some food, put it in a cart and sell it to drunk people outside bars. It’s simple.Nick Palmiotto disagrees.“A lot of people have the notion that, ‘Oh, it’s a lot of drunk people who go out there. You’ll make a killing,’” Palmiotto said. “Drunk kids are surprisingly frugal. They go after the best deal.”Palmiotto co-owns Naughty Dog, a local hot dog store on Bloomington’s west side.Shortly after the store opened in 2009, the owners started a food cart to serve hot dogs Thursdays through Saturdays at the corner of Seventh and Walnut streets.They’ve been doing well, Palmiotto said, but the cart doesn’t take in enough revenue to stand on its own.“Actually, we had the idea of just doing vending carts, but you have to build a kitchen anyway,” he said. “Commercial equipment is so freaking expensive, but it’s worked out nice for us.”While the food cart industry is on the rise — Entrepreneur.com reports more than 5 million food carts in the United States as of July 2011 — Palmiotto said the Bloomington food cart scene isn’t as large as some think.Palmiotto said most food carts that stand alone without a storefront don’t last long. There are only two places to put them that would get enough foot traffic — on Kirkwood Avenue and at the corner where Naughty Dog is set up — and new food-cart owners are surprised when they don’t make as much money as they thought.“They go out there from midnight to four in the morning, and they’re not making as much as they thought they could,” Palmiotto said. “You can’t ignore the health department, you can’t ignore the city, you have to play by the rules. They just start doing it.”Naughty Dog’s food cart serves as advertising for the store and gets the restaurant’s food closer to campus and east-side residents. But even with the benefit of having a store, Palmiotto said the food cart faces competition from restaurants near the bars that also sell food until 3 or 4 a.m. and maintain high food costs.“What most people think is it’s a gold mine, and it’s really not,” Palmiotto said. “It’s definitely nice. It helps. It’s one more revenue stream that helps, but we couldn’t survive on it, by no means.”
(04/05/12 7:31pm)
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What to do if you think you have been sexually assaulted and information on how to get help.
(04/05/12 3:37pm)
Senior Caroline Shurig and Middle Way House Prevention Programs Coordinator Cierra Thomas-Williams share their stories of sexual assault and helping other survivors. Also, hear audio of their experiences with sexual assault.
(04/05/12 3:19am)
Middle Way House Prevention Programs Coordinator Cierra Thomas-Williams shares her story of sexual assault.
(04/05/12 3:17am)
Senior Caroline Shurig tells her story of her personal experience with sexual assault.
(04/04/12 4:34am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>An anti-Semitic act of vandalism was found Monday on a poster in the offices of the Robert A. and Sandra B. Borns Jewish Studies Program in Goodbody Hall.The word “Hitler” and a swastika were drawn on the poster in black Magic Marker.While IU police have responded to the incident and have identified two persons of interest, the vandalism highlights a larger issue in Indiana. The state is one of five in the nation that do not have a law regarding hate crimes and cannot sentence offenders for committing such acts.“Indiana is lacking in that sense,” said Rabbi Yehoshua Chincholker, director of the Chabad House Jewish Student Center.The lack of a hate crime statute came into play March 27 when Mark Zacharias pled guilty to criminal mischief for throwing a rock at a glass display case at the Jewish Studies Program office Nov. 30, 2010. He was sentenced to 40 hours of community service.“It really indicates how desperately we need hate crime legislation,” said Rabbi Sue Laikin Silberberg of the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center. “We’re one of the few states that don’t have it.”Zacharias, a former scholarship coordinator for Hutton Honors College, was originally charged with institutional criminal mischief, a Class-D felony. But an official from the Monroe County Prosecutor’s Office said the charge was lowered to criminal mischief, a Class-B felony, because the institutional mischief law defines a school as K-12.Monroe Circuit Judge Teresa Harper sentenced Zacharias to six months probation in addition to the community service. He also had to pay $300 in restitution for a theft case that was dismissed.If Zacharias had been charged with institutional mischief, he could have faced up to a three-year jail sentence.Currently, no one has been charged with the additional acts of vandalism that occurred around the same time as Zacharias’ act.On Nov. 23, 2010, members of the Chabad House Jewish Student Center found a rock thrown through a back window of the center. Four other incidents, including the Jewish Studies Program vandalism, took place in the following week.The incidents shocked IU and Bloomington community members and sparked a campus- and city-wide conversation about hate crimes. But because there is no hate crime statute, whether the community classified the incidents as hate crimes, offenders cannot be charged with committing them.“You can give it a label if you want, but it’s something we cannot and should not tolerate on campus and in our communities,” said Mark Land, associate vice president of University communications. “It’s the same thing with the anti-Semitic graffiti that we saw on campus this week.”IU Police Department Chief Keith Cash said in an email that police believe the two suspects are juveniles and not IU students, but until they have completed interviews with the individuals, the incident remains under investigation.“We’re happy,” Land said. “We’re satisfied that authorities are all taking these things very seriously because we take them very seriously.”Mary Kenney contributed to this article.
(03/26/12 3:59am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Forest all-rookie men’s team makes up its own practice techniques. They don’t take them from anybody.“It’s a pride thing,” junior Zack Clark says.They’ve never done this before, never trained, never competed. Four of the six team members have never even seen the race — they’ll watch a tape of the 2004 race to prepare. But as they sit in the Forest Quad recreational room a few days before Little 500 qualifications, the team is all smiles.They’re ready.“Until we qualify, quals is our race day,” freshman Bo Henderson says.This past year, team captain Neal Ward started a team for the residence center, but it failed to qualify. They were the only team to fault out of quals. When he decided to restart the team this year, two of the original members had switched to other teams, and the fourth member had quit. Ward needed fresh riders.Clark and sophomore Jon Silverthorn, both transfer students, live in Forest and joined the team early in the year. Three freshmen — Henderson, Kyle Swain and Austin Portolese — joined in January.Most of the Forest members have been riding for a couple of years but not competitively. Silverthorn calls them “casual cyclists.”But their rookie status doesn’t phase them. As they hang out and practice, they joke more than they talk seriously.“It’s good to have serious and fun,” Clark says. “When we get on the track, we’re all serious. I put my game face on, usually. Want to see it?” His face goes still, his mouth a hard, straight line. He cracks after a few seconds.While the team hasn’t been training together that long, having fun has brought them closer.“We might be rookies, but we’re family,” Clark says. “Have you ever seen that movie ‘Up’? We’re like that. We’re very empathetic to each other. Like, when he got hurt” — he points to Swain, who broke his elbow in practice while exchanging with Ward — “we made Neal feel bad to make him feel better.”On Saturday, as the team waits on the field, it’s a different story. Clark’s game face is permanently on. The team is quieter than it was a few days earlier.Clark, Silverthorn, Portolese and Henderson stretch, readying themselves for quals. Ward stands next to them. While he’s the team captain, he says the four other members are better at exchanges than he is: He’s not sad he has to sit out.In a whirlwind few minutes, the team is herded from one station to the next — team photos, warm-ups, a quick pep talk, then onto the track.Henderson, the shortest of the four, is up first.As he rounds the third corner of his slow lap, a women’s rider mistakenly warms up on the track in front of him.“Get that girl off the track,” Silverthorn says, waving at her teammates.She exits just as Henderson rounds the last corner, speeding into his single lap.Clark steps onto the track. Because he, Silverthorn and Portolese can all ride the same bike height, he takes a bike to switch out.The exchange, which they’ve been practicing for months, goes off without a hitch, and Clark speeds around the track. As he exchanges with Silverthorn, however, Clark falls.On the sideline, Portolese and Henderson pause, watching as time slows down. Clark sits where he fell on the track, holding his right arm. His game face deflates as he stares down at the track. The team’s coach, Don Meyer, approaches him as Clark begins to stand. Meyer holds out his hand to Clark, who’s still holding his upper right arm.“Don’t touch me,” Clark says, throwing his helmet on the track with his left hand.In the stands, a woman yells, “Yeah, Forest! That’s an all-freshman team.”The race continues, and in no time, Silverthorn and Portolese have finished their laps and are back on the sideline looking for Clark.As Clark’s teammates stand around him, an emergency medical technician wraps gauze around Clark’s arm and back to keep his arm from moving. Henderson holds their white time card — 2:29.78. Good enough for 13th at the time they finished, 20th at the end of the day.“Head on over to the emergency room, dude,” the EMT says after wrapping Clark’s arm.“First, we’ve got to get a picture of this sexy guy,” Silverthorn says, putting his hand on Clark’s left shoulder and walking toward the time board.It’s bittersweet for the team, but they did it. As they stand under the board, smiling for the camera, they have the biggest prize they could get.They’re moving on to the next race day.
(03/25/12 11:42pm)
An EMT uses gauze to wrap junior Zack Clark's arm to his side after Clark fell during the Forest Cycling team's Little 500 qualification Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Forest placed 20th in quals.
(03/25/12 11:41pm)
An EMT checks junior Zack Clark's vision after Clark fell during the Forest Cycling team's Little 500 qualification Saturday in Bill Armstrong Stadium.
(03/25/12 11:41pm)
An EMT checks junior Zack Clark's vision after Clark fell during the Forest Cycling team's Little 500 qualification Saturday in Bill Armstrong Stadium.
(03/22/12 1:57am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“Nowheresville” is right: In the Ting Tings’ second album, “Sounds from Nowheresville,” the English duo doesn’t quite know where in the music industry it wants to be.The album opens with “Silence,” a bass-heavy song with ghostly vocals, before moving to fun, nonsensical pop with “Guggenheim” and then turning to a dark plea in “Help.” The album scatters about with no direct connection between the tracks.And it seems the success of the duo’s first album, “We Started Nothing,” has frontwoman Katie White confused about her new image. In “Nothing,” White engaged us with sassy lyrics and a no-bullshit persona.In “Nowheresville,” she mixes that persona with the need for attention: “You love everybody else / Everybody else / Wish I was everybody else,” she sings in closing track “In Your Life.”Still, the album isn’t a complete loss. Middle tracks “Hang it up,” “Give it Back” and “Guggenheim” live up to the catchy melodies the Ting Tings are known for. Have fun with the first half, but go ahead and skip the second.