112 items found for your search. If no results were found please broaden your search.
(07/14/14 10:01pm)
Sunday is usually thought of as a day of rest, a tradition that stems from earlier times when almost everyone woke up, attended church, sat down for a family meal and relaxed for the remainder of the day.
(02/25/08 3:37am)
hen I turned 22 in November, I was a little depressed. After 21, I thought I had no more birthdays to look forward to. After all, what exciting things are left to celebrate? I can already drive, buy lottery tickets and drink. Of course, I’m always thankful to have another year of life and health, but 22 represents a new era of adulthood, and it puts me one step closer to those black “Over the hill” party supplies reserved for 40- and 50-year-olds.\nBy now, I’ve ended my aging blues and I’m ready to celebrate another wonderful birthday: 141. The Indiana Daily Student turned 141 Friday, and I couldn’t be happier.\nMany of our readers know the IDS is a proud campus tradition, but many of them don’t know how unique it is. We’ve been documenting the campus, city, state, nation and world since 1867, and we’ve seen some crazy things happen. In fact, most of the top national newspapers haven’t been around for that long. The IDS is older than seven of the nation’s 10 largest newspapers. Business students, you know that Wall Street Journal you have to pick up every day for class? Well, we’ve been around longer – 22 years longer. And to all the political science enthusiasts, did you know that by the time The Washington Post fired up its printing presses, we had already been documenting elections for 10 years? The Los Angeles Times earned an honorary star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2006 for its 125th birthday. That same year, we turned 139. And USA Today, founded in 1982, is an infant in the world of newspapers.\nThe only three of the nation’s 10 largest newspapers that are older than us are The New York Times, the New York Post and the Chicago Tribune.\nWe’re also independent of the University, which is a rarity and a tremendous accomplishment. Other student media outlets across the country aren’t so lucky, and constantly face censorship and termination of funding because of their ties to their respective schools.\nOn behalf of the staff, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the paper’s success throughout the years, especially the readers.\nIn celebration of this momentous event, I want to express how lucky we all are to have the IDS. As a staff, we have the good fortune to cover this University and to ask tough questions without fear of censorship or loss of funding. Readers can get detailed coverage of issues that affect them, invite us to cover their news and express their opinions whenever they like. Alumni have a continuous link to campus through the IDS Web site. The paper is a rich part of IU history, and it has documented generations of the biggest news to hit Bloomington.\nIf you haven’t interacted with the IDS much, I encourage you to start reading, send us a press release, come see us or write a letter to the editor. We’d love to hear from you.\nAnd help us celebrate. After all, 141 never felt \nso good.
(01/25/08 5:26am)
An Ohio judge ruled last November that a politician had no standing to sue Miami University of Ohio for offering domestic-partner benefits -- despite the state's constitutional ban on gay marriage and legal recognition of unmarried couples. \nHowever, the case has raised the question of whether the domestic-partner benefits of a state institution or any public university could be challenged under a state's marriage amendment.\nFor IU, that question is still unanswered. A proposed amendment with one section that explicitly bans gay marriage and a second that some think could take rights such as domestic-partner benefits away from unmarried couples passed during its committee hearing Wednesday afternoon, thus securing a second vote in Indiana's Congress.\nSome IU officials and employees fear the amendment could elicit scrutiny of the University's domestic-partner benefits.\nAnd if benefits were revoked, officials said, they would not only have to worry about the loss of equity among employees, but also the loss of employees themselves.\nThe question\nIU became the sixth school in the Big Ten to offer domestic-partner benefits when the board of trustees voted unanimously for the policy at a Sept. 14, 2001, meeting, according to minutes from the trustee meeting.\nCharlie Nelms, vice president for student development and diversity, said IU received very little criticism when the trustees voted to implement the benefits.\n"I'm confident that as long as we have such controversial issues, we will always have someone challenging them in the courts," Nelms said. "I believe IU would do what it believes is fair and just."\nSteve Sanders, former assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, who led the group that presented the trustees with a proposal for domestic-partner benefits, said he's not sure whether IU's policy could be challenged under the new amendment.\nBut he said the University of Michigan -- where he is now a law student -- faced circumstances similar to Miami University's in 2004 when Michigan passed a marriage amendment.\nThe school's benefits, however, survived.\n"You've got hard-core bigots on the other side who are trying to enforce these amendments and inflict as much damage as possible on ways that gays and lesbians have achieved equality, like domestic-partner benefits," he said. "Proponents say (these amendments are) only about marriage, not about anything else. Then when the thing passes they immediately file lawsuits. ... It's a bait-and-switch, basically."\nIf people challenge IU's benefits, the success of the case will depend on the wording of the marriage amendment, said Lambda Legal attorney James P. Madigan, who defended Miami University and a lesbian couple in the case.\nBecause IU is a public university, Madigan says the argument is "at least credible." However, he said the case would be successful only if the amendment goes beyond marital relations.\nThe section of Indiana's marriage amendment that has caused same-sex couples to worry about losing their rights says: "This Constitution or any other Indiana law may not be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents of marriage be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."\nChris Stovall, senior legal counsel for Alliance Defense Fund -- the firm that represented the plaintiff in the Miami University case -- said because of the amendment's wording, he doesn't think anyone could challenge IU.\nInstead of not allowing the state to grant rights to same-sex couples, the Indiana amendment says the government isn't obligated to provide those rights, Stovall said.\nHowever, Stovall said, the amendment would make it impossible for the courts to rule that same-sex couples deserve the same rights as married couples, like a New Jersey court did earlier this year.\nThe benefits\nThe domestic-partner benefits allow same-sex couples registered with the University to receive medical and dental coverage and life insurance, as well as other perks such as tuition discounts, according to the IU Human Resource Services Web site.\nRegistered couples also receive funeral and sick time off and are covered by applicable Family and Medical Leave provisions.\nLast school year, the University doled out $90.6 million in benefits to employees signed up to receive the packages, said Neil Theobald, vice provost for budget and administration.\nOf the 15,500 employees who elected to receive benefits, 102 were registered same-sex couples. Fifty-five more same-sex couples registered only so they could receive funeral and sick time off, said Susan Brewer, director of the University's Health Care and Welfare Program Services.\nCindy Stone, an administrator in the Department of Gender Studies and a former trustee, was influential in bringing domestic-partner benefits to IU -- partly because she wasn't able to get them when she needed them most.\nIn 1995, Stone's partner of 20 years died from cancer. Stone was granted two hours of bereavement leave -- standard for the death of a friend, she said.\nStone and her partner also had to pay expensive medical bills because her partner, an IU employee of 30 years, quit working when she became ill and lost her medical benefits.\nIf IU had domestic-partner benefits then, Stone's benefits would have covered her partner's medical expenses.\nStone is now able to share her benefits with her current partner of seven years.\n"I think we're doing better, but I don't want to have any of these benefits get eroded because we are a public entity," she said. "It's wrong for domestic-partner benefits to be revisited if this amendment passes."\nThe threat\nIU officials and employees said if the benefits were taken away, it could affect their ability to retain and recruit employees.\nSanders said he knew several deans and department heads who could name faculty IU had lost because it didn't offer the benefits.\nAnd now the benefits are more common among all employers, he said. All Big Ten schools offer some domestic-partner benefits, according to their Web sites.\nMadigan, the attorney who defended Miami University, said he hopes his firm doesn't see an increase in cases challenging domestic-partner benefits as more states adopt marriage amendments.\n"In the long run, (the amendment) will hurt Indiana and IU and their ability to recruit staff and faculty," Madigan said.\nStone said she will continue lobbying to keep the benefits that have meant so much to her.\n"We're always looking over our shoulders to see who's gunning for us," she said. "... We can't ever turn our backs because those benefits could be eroded. We have to keep working"
(01/25/08 5:10am)
About 2,200 people streamed through the IU Auditorium’s doors Saturday night to see country singer Dierks Bentley perform.\nSome donned cowboy hats and boots, others covered their bodies with Bentley fan ware, and groups of female fans came dressed for the bars. Fans came from across several states and from across campus, but they seemed to share one attitude, which was perhaps best summarized by the message on 19-year-old Hannah Wirth’s neon pink poster: “We love Dierks.”\n“He has so much talent because he writes all of his songs, plays the guitar and has an amazing voice. And he’s good looking,” said Wirth, a freshman at Malone College who made the six-hour road trip from Canton, Ohio, to see Bentley perform on her birthday. “I love him live.”\nBentley attracted an array of college students and adults who danced through his two-hour performance, plus opening act Jason Boland and the Stragglers’ performance. And afterward, they begged for an encore. \nBentley’s success at IU could be because he has played at both the Bluebird and Axis, now known as Jake’s. Or it could be attributed to several enthusiastic members of his fan club, who comprised one of the crowd’s loudest contingents.\nJackie Jeffries, a 45-year-old gas station manager from Galion, Ohio, attended her 65th Bentley show when she saw him perform Saturday. She went to her first concert in the fall of 2003 and traveled with fan-club members on their “three shows in three days” campaign this week, which started in Toledo, crossed the Indiana border to Fort Wayne and ended in Bloomington. But Jeffries said this wasn’t her first time following Bentley.\n“In 2004 we did four shows in four days,” said Jeffries, who sported a Bentley T-shirt and a variety of fan pins. “... I just wave. If he sees me, he points. He knows who I am.”\nStill, IU students were able to rival the enthusiasm of his fan club. Junior Jamie Minick brought her friend, Kathryn Herb, a junior at Valparaiso University, and both girls said they want to see him live again.\n“He was very enthusiastic and high-energy,” Minick said. “Just seeing him jumping around having fun and going crazy made me excited.”\nBentley said the audience’s energy fuels his performance.\n“The goal of live shows is to have a spiritual feeling (and let the audience) experience a wide range of emotions,” he said. “... The fun we have on stage goes out to the audience and comes back to us.”\nBentley will be performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this June in Manchester, Tenn.\nBentley said he has tried to capture the unique feeling of a live show on his latest album, “Long Trip Alone.” He said he has tried to write better songs and “thread” the energy of a live show throughout the album.\nRegardless of Bentley’s fan-charming tactics, Union Board Concerts Director Adam Soiref said he was impressed with the singer’s ability to pack in a diverse audience. He said he was happy to see the Union Board was able to bring in someone who attracted fans across the state and country. The concert’s success has shown that country artists could become a valuable addition to the Board's concert lineup, which hasn’t featured a country artist in years, Soiref said.\n“I hope future concert directors will see this show and see that country is a popular genre, and that they’ll continue the trend and book country artists in future,” Soiref said.
(01/25/08 4:56am)
STINESVILLE, Ind. – A butter-colored house with white trim stood proudly, providing warmth from the cold weather Saturday afternoon in Stinesville, Ind. The neatly tied ribbon on the front door signified the house was about to become one of the greatest gifts a family can receive: a home.\nInside, volunteers clad in greek letters and Habitat for Humanity sweatshirts worked quickly to ensure the final details would be ready for the dedication later that afternoon. Mark Cunningham, the new owner of the modest two-bedroom house, scurried from room to room, evaluating the structure with the occasional tap of a big blue pencil he kept tucked behind his ear. \nThough a stroke impaired his ability to speak, his actions spoke louder than words ever could. His grin stretched the entire width of his face as he brushed dust off the backs of volunteers and excitedly guided visitors around his new home. The students who helped build it mirrored his enthusiasm as they admired their work and his happiness.\nFor the first time, the IU Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council collaborated on a massive philanthropy project. Together, all of the greek chapters raised $50,000 and provided hundreds of volunteers to sponsor and build a Habitat for Humanity home, a project they hope to make a tradition.\n“A lot of what greeks do is philanthropic events, but we don’t really do hands-on community service,” said former IFC President Justin Sloan, who began planning the building with former PHA President Brittany Cohen. “We wanted to do something to get people out in the community to … actually feel like they made a difference.”\nSloan said when the council presented the idea to the chapter presidents, everyone was eager to start the project. They agreed that the IFC and the PHA would raise $25,000 each and that chapters would contribute to the fundraising and building efforts. To raise the money, chapters sold T-shirts and solicited donations, current IFC President Mike Piermont said. \nWhen Cohen and Sloan approached Kerry Thomson, director of ministry for Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, about building the home, she said she wasn’t sure they could raise the money and organize the build in time to complete a house during the spring semester. But when she saw that they had a fundraising plan and a commitment from all the chapters to volunteer, she said she became more confident. They finalized the plan in November and began a seven-week build in January.\n“I had no idea how many greeks there are on campus and how many cared enough to come out and build,” Thomson said. “We had hundreds of greeks come out on Fridays and Saturdays to build this house. In my 15 years with Habitat, I’ve never seen as many individuals involved in a certain house.”\nHowever, Piermont said hundreds more students never got the chance to build because only a certain number could work on the house at once. He said people complained about having to go out in the cold weather, but after they began their work, he didn’t hear another negative word. In fact, he said, several volunteers wanted to work more than once.\nThe thrill of working against a deadline to accomplish an objective attracted volunteers, said Evan Summers, IFC vice president of membership development. He said the atmosphere was like that of an intramural tournament.\n“Houses started to get competitive,” Summers said. “Some were like, ‘Our fraternity hung more dry wall than the other houses.’”\nBut the competition only helped them finish the house on time so Mark Cunningham could move in sooner with his wife, Kim, and his daughter, Amanda.\nIn order to qualify for a Habitat house, families must be living in substandard conditions, and the Cunninghams were living in “an extraordinarily dilapidated trailer,” Thomson said. The Cunninghams also had to have enough income to pay Habitat’s mortgage and they had to work 250 “sweat equity” hours per adult on other builds.\nHowever, it was a very small price to pay. Amanda Cunningham said when her father was laid off from Otis Elevator in 1991 and diagnosed with cancer shortly after, her parents thought they’d never own a new home.\n“We all worked together because it’s something we’ve wanted for a long time,” she said. “I’m almost 23, so it has taken 23 years for my parents to get a house of their own.”\nThe Cunninghams thanked everyone involved at the dedication ceremony, held Saturday at Stinesville Church of the Nazarene across the street from their new home. When IFC and PHA members presented the family with a Bible – a Habitat tradition – and a photo album of the build, Kim Cunningham wiped tears from her eyes while her husband kissed the hands of the PHA executives. \nKim Cunningham’s parents, who gave them the land for the build, presented them with the key to the house and were the first to welcome them to the neighborhood, which Kim Cunningham said was a surprise. Kim Cunningham also made a speech on behalf of the family.\n“I hope when people look at this house, they see not only wood and nails, but the camaraderie and love that made it possible,” she said, as tears rolled down her cheeks.\nAfter the ceremony, she said she would never forget how hard the students worked in the bitter cold weather. She said she couldn’t believe her eyes one day when she arrived to see a group of girls on top of the roof shingling the house in an effort to beat a winter storm. She and her daughter both said the friendships they made with the students were a special part of the build.\n“I can’t say thank you enough to Panhel and IFC. There’s not enough words that Mark and I could say to make them understand what they did here,” Kim Cunningham said. “I know it’s a lot of money to raise, but for what it does for a family, I think that right there is so much more.”\nCohen and Sloan said they were amazed to see the project they started come to fruition so quickly. They said they were glad the new executive boards had continued to pursue the project, which had been their passion since the day they met Amanda Cunningham and toured Habitat homes near Bloomington. \n“Brittany and I told her, ‘We’re going to build your house for you,’” Sloan said. “She immediately started crying, and it made me cry. I thought, ‘We’re about to commit to a really good thing here.’”\nBut this house is only the beginning, Piermont said. He said he wants to challenge the greek community to build at least one house per year, if not per semester, and the students are well on their way to reaching that goal. They’ve already raised money for a fall build, Piermont said, and this summer they will look for corporate sponsors to help fund the projects. They hope to raise more than the required $50,000 so they can also pay to furnish the homes, he said.\n“The main objective isn’t to build a house, get recognition and be done,” Piermont said. “We want to keep this going. … There’s still so much work to be done, and we don’t want people to get complacent.”
(01/25/08 4:31am)
A winter storm ravaging its way through Indiana has threatened travel this weekend for holiday and student commuters, and according to the weather forecast, the situation could get worse. \nAfter a relatively smooth day Saturday, both air and ground transportation officials began to brace for Sunday’s predicted onslaught.\n“We’re just kind of at the mercy of the weather because we’ll have to fight whatever happens,” said Marvin Jenkins, director of public information for the Seymour district of the Indiana Department of Transportation, which includes Bloomington.
(01/23/08 6:59pm)
In my brief career as a journalist, I’ve realized that media are often misunderstood. Journalists frequently take heat from the community simply for doing their job, especially when they have to go against popular attitudes. But it’s not journalists’ job to succumb to social pressure; their job is to report the news of their community as accurately and thoroughly as possible. In fact, as everyone learns in grade school, they have a constitutional right to cover their community. \nTo be quite honest, journalism is not an easy profession, nor does it yield much gratitude or cash. However, those who practice this profession – myself included – take it very seriously and will go to great lengths to protect our right to do so.\nThe Student Alliance for National Security scheduled Meghan O’Sullivan, President Bush’s former deputy national security advisor, to speak Tuesday evening in Whittenberger Auditorium. The group sent a press release a few days before the event, which stated O’Sullivan’s speech would be “free and open to the public,” but it would be “off-the-record for the press.” By accepting this stipulation, we would hinder our ability to thoroughly and accurately cover a public event.\n“Off-the-record” is a request from a source that a journalist can choose to accept or deny. If the journalist denies, the source may then choose what, if any, information to share with the journalist. After our staff consulted with the Student Press Law Center, the Poynter Institute, a lawyer, a media law professor and student media advisers, I called the event’s organizers to tell them that we would cover the event but we wouldn’t accept the stipulation that O’Sullivan’s comments would be off-the-record.\nAfter I spoke with various members of Student Alliance for National Security, the members chose to cancel the event because we refused to not quote the speaker. \nThe IDS encouraged the group to continue to host the event. After all, anyone could attend the event and publicize O’Sullivan’s comments. Someone could’ve brought in a recording device and posted the whole speech online. And I’m sure some students were taking notes for class assignments. So why would the group and the speaker believe the press shouldn’t document the event, especially after they sent a press release and held it publicly?\nThe organizers tried to get the reporter to not take notes in exchange for a brief interview with O’Sullivan after the event, during which she would relay the printable parts of her lecture. But again, that hindered our ability and our legal right to fully cover the public event. After we declined this settlement, the group’s organizers decided to cancel the event.\nI wish the situation wouldn’t have ended this way. O’Sullivan probably had wonderful insight to share, and if I had had the night off, I would’ve loved to go to the event. But sometimes, you have to speak up and go against what’s popular to defend your rights. And in this case, someone took away my staff members’ right and ability to do their job, so I had to fight the battle.
(01/07/08 4:56am)
I awoke Sunday morning bleary-eyed, tired from a full Saturday of helping my sorority during women’s recruitment. Despite my fatigue, I was excited to get to the newsroom to put out my first paper as the spring editor-in-chief.\nWhen I arrived at the School of Journalism, I realized that we were missing a key element we needed to put out the paper: electricity. Some people might take this as a bad omen for the semester, but we do not. \nWe’re still just as excited and determined to introduce some exciting changes to you, our readers, and I’d like to be the first to tell you about them. The Indiana Daily Student will have a greater emphasis on multimedia coverage this semester. Starting Tuesday, we will have a daily news podcast called “Hoosier Headlines” available on our Web site. To download it, visit www.idsnews.com and click on the appropriate link. In addition, we’re creating a weekly news wrap-up show, which will be available on our Web site. We’re hoping to get it ready by next week, so stay tuned.\nWe’re also changing the way we do some things internally. Though I won’t bore you with the details of those changes, I want to tell you about one new feature that (I hope) will affect you directly. Starting Friday, I will hold office hours. We welcome visitors any time, but I promise to be in my office (Ernie Pyle Hall 120) from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. every Friday afternoon. I invite you to stop by to chat, offer suggestions or let us know about a story. We’re here to cover you and your news, and we want to make sure we’re doing our job the best we can at all times. This means we need your input.\nOn that note, we’re always looking for people to help us on the business and editorial sides of the paper. You don’t need prior experience to work here, so come check us out. We love to see new faces.\nThose are the big changes for now, but I’m hoping to announce a few more before the end of the semester. \nI’m happy to report that our day without electricity ended happily (we got our power back by about 6 p.m. Sunday), and I’d like to thank everyone at the Physical Plant for helping us out. Additionally, I’d like to extend my sincere apologies to those who were overwhelmed or perhaps left without a computer because of the IDS staff’s temporary presence in one of the Indiana Memorial Union’s computer labs.\nIf there’s anything I can do to help you this semester, please feel free to e-mail me at ccritchi@indiana.edu or stop by the newsroom. The doors are always open and we usually have lights to greet you.
(10/25/07 4:00am)
Band of Horses might have committed one of the most egregious "sellout" sins in recent rock history (licensing last album's monster standout tune "The Funeral" to Wal-Mart for an online ad selling camcorders), and frontman Ben Bridwell might have yelled at a fan for having the temerity to record a shaky cell-phone video of one of the band's performances. But while one might question BoH's adherence to indie's DIY values, the quality of its second and latest album Cease To Begin is more difficult to dispute. \nWhile Cease doesn't quite capture the magic of the best moments on 2006's Everything All The Time, it comes fairly close, and the album only falls short by expending all its best tracks in act one.\nCease opens with an absolutely stunning trifecta of songs. "Is There A Ghost" starts off with a combination of guitar strums and Bridwell's voice, which sounds like it's emanating from the core of the earth. Then, upon reaching the one-minute mark, the song erupts into a hammering torrent of drums and guitars. "Ode to LRC" is a grand anthem with loping guitars and languid vocals -- the signature sound that brought BoH to everyone's attention in the first place. And "No One's Gonna Love You" is a sweet, slow, romantic number that could soundtrack the last dance at an indie-rock prom. But nothing else measures up to this opening -- and for the rest of the album, interesting tunes ("The General Specific," "Islands On The Coast," "Marry Song," "Cigarettes, Wedding Bands") are countered almost tit-for-tat by retreads ("Detlef Schrempf," "Window Blues") or filler ("Lamb On The Lam (In The City)").\nStill, the album has plenty to enjoy. Check it out before any of its tunes end up soundtracking Viagra commercials.
(10/04/07 4:00am)
"Feast of Love" is an appropriate title for a movie that is an entire case study on falling in love, heartbreak, sex and relationships, both new and old. Revolving around five stories of couples falling in and out of love, the film certainly does its best to force the theme down your throat. \nBased on the book by Charles Baxter, the film is set in Portland, Oregon, and interweaves characters and their exploits with love and loss. There is coffee-shop owner Brad Thomas (Greg Kinnear) who becomes accustomed to failed marriages, his employee Oscar (Toby Hemingway) who instantly falls in love with new-girl-in-town Chloe (Alexa Davalos) and Diana (Radha Mitchell) who is in love with a married man. \nProviding the story with balance and insight, Professor Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) is the wise overseer. Freeman is the film's father figure, the (Bruce) Almighty if you will. He narrates his observations through conversations with his wife Esther (Alexander), though we come to realize that he too has experienced great loss. \nDirector Robert Benton, who won an Academy Award for his film "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), takes the audience on an emotional rollercoaster ride. One minute a character is falling madly in love, and in a subsequent scene a different character loses a lifelong love. It's almost too much sentiment to cram into a two hour movie. The film could have benefited from a more in-depth study of any one of the characters, but instead Benton relies heavily on the predictability of love-and-loss romance plots: He who has lost must gain -- which makes for an almost complete lack of internal conflict. The plot may be endearing, but it is too straightforward. Furthermore, some of the dialogue in the more poignant scenes is cheesy and feels forced. \nThe acting, anchored by Academy Award winner Freeman ("Million Dollar Baby"), is the film's saving grace. Relative newcomers Hemingway and Davalos also churn out top notch performances that will certainly guarantee them future work. \n"Feast of Love" may not win many awards, but it's a good film to score points with a lady friend.
(09/13/07 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>I know what Howard Stern felt like just before he went on stage dressed as Fartman.
"All I'm trying to do is be funny, and I end up feeling like an asshole," Stern said in the 1997 movie "Private Parts."
That's how I felt last week as I camped in the Arboretum and asked strangers for hugs.
Day 1
Challenged to make myself famous in one week, I started by scouring Facebook for photos of myself. When I asked a co-worker which photo I should use, she said, "You look like a tool in all of them."
For the fliers that were supposed to make me famous, I settled for a picture of me wearing a Grateful Dead T-shirt and holding a can of refried beans. They read "Help this 'no talent ass-clown' become a celebrity in one week. Look for Michael Reschke to be doing ridiculous things around campus and Bloomington to gain celebrity status in seven days. Join the Facebook group: 'Indiana University's Most Famous Person.'"
I printed more than a 100 fliers and went to work plastering my mug around campus. I put my face inside bathroom stalls, in bus shelters and on the doors of the main library. They were gone by the next morning. I was pissed because I spent so much time decorating the campus, but I smiled when I thought of the person who had to take down all those fliers.
Day 2
I spent about an hour stapling and taping my fliers to telephone poles and light posts before I turned myself into a walking billboard Monday, Sept. 3. I tied two poster boards together and wrote "No Talent Ass-Clown" on the front, and the back said something about Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan. I put this makeshift sandwich board on, grabbed more fliers and headed out with my personal paparazzi. I felt sick to my stomach at first, but once I got in the "no-talent-ass-clown" zone I was good. Most of the individuals I approached took a flier and told me they would join my Facebook group except when I went to People's Park.
"Don't take my fucking picture," one guy said.
He probably didn't have a Facebook account anyway.
I headed to the Bluebird for karaoke later that night. I sang "You Shook me all night long" by AC/DC and tried to look like guitarist Angus Young. I wore a Kangol hat, a black tie and a white button-down shirt tucked into a pair of shorts I bought long before I gained my freshman 30. I can only imagine what people thought of me.
Karaoke started later than I expected so I had plenty of time to drown the butterflies in my stomach. I left a stack of my fliers on a table while I went to the bathroom. When I came back someone had turned them facedown. I turned them over and a girl at a table next to mine asked me what I was doing. I explained and she ranted about me wasting paper.
"I know," I said. "I'm going to environmentalist hell."
I tried to get her to join my group, but she didn't appreciate my cause or my joke. My paparazzi took pictures of our discussion, and when she saw this, she made him delete the photos. I could tell my popularity was shooting through the roof.
When it came time for my moment in the spotlight, I gave it all I had and pretended no one else was in the room. I stumbled over lines I didn't know and sung the ones I knew too loud. It was fun.
Day 3
The next day in class my instructor asked if anyone had any stories from the weekend. I told the class I was trying to make myself famous, but no one laughed. No one said anything. Tough crowd.
I went to the Student Recreational Sports Center to work out that evening and as I was leaving an employee asked me, "Hey aren't you that guy … with the Facebook group?" I had officially become "that guy" by Tuesday.
Later that night, I gathered an air mattress, two pillows, a sleeping bag and tent. I carried my stuff to the Arboretum (the grassy area west of the Herman B Wells Library) and set up camp. People walked past, not even paying attention.
It took a while for me to fall asleep that night. I had weird dreams when I finally fell asleep. The sprinklers woke me up around 6 a.m.
Day 4
Around 7 a.m., I ran to the library to pee and grab a newspaper. I heard a girl say, "Oh my God, there's a tent right there," just as I laid back down to sleep until about 8:45 a.m.
I woke up during Arboretum rush hour, put on my sandwich board and handed out more fliers.
I had to come up with a new stunt for the next day. I decided to make a YouTube video similar to the Dave Matthews Band video for "Everyday," in which a guy walks around asking strangers for hugs.
Day 5
I e-mailed administrators to schedule hugs, but Chancellor Ken Gros Louis was the only one who agreed to hug me. For my video, he pretended to give me the advice I needed to get hugs from people. Thank you, chancellor.
Later that night, I was eating a stromboli with a friend at Nick's when someone I'd hugged while filming my video came over and asked me for a hug. He and a friend came over to talk about what I was doing. I finally had some fans.
My friend and I walked to Upstairs Pub after Nick's. A stranger stopped to ask if I was the guy on the fliers. He said he was a building manager at the Indiana Memorial Union, and after I explained what I was doing, he said I could put my fliers all over the Union. Where was this guy when my fliers were taken down Sunday night?
Days 6 and 7
I spent some time at Upstairs by myself Friday night. It felt good to blend into a crowd instead of fighting to be the center of attention. I go to a school with more than 30,000 students and I only got 292 people to join my Facebook group by the end of the week. I guess passing out fliers, camping in weird places and making a music video won't make you famous. Maybe I should have married a backup dancer, shaved my head and fed my child Coca-Cola in a baby bottle.
(09/04/07 4:14am)
You swim through a pool of multicolored Jell-O water, fighting the gooey resistance. Then you sprint up the side of a candy mountain, dodging pink gum bubbles blown from the mouth of a mysterious man etched in stone.
(08/31/07 4:26am)
American tennis has gotten a big boost this week as John Isner and Donald Young, two future stars (hopefully), have made significant noise at the U.S. Open. \nIsner, 22, and Young, 18, are both through to the third round where they will meet formidable opponents. Young will take on Feliciano Lopez, a veteran who he could beat if the stars and his strokes align just right.\nIsner isn’t so lucky. He’ll face Roger Federer, the world’s No. 1-ranked male since February 2004. Statistically, Isner has almost no chance of beating Federer. In fact, Federer hasn’t lost a match to an American since the summer of 2003, when Andy Roddick beat him at a Masters Series event in Montreal. What’s even worse is that no top American player has a winning record against him – or is even remotely close. \nAndre Agassi had the most luck. He went 3-8 against the Swiss before he retired at last year’s Open. Michael Chang, also retired, has the second best record against him, with one win and four losses. And at 1-13, Roddick rounds out the top three. Mardy Fish and James Blake, along with the soon-to-retire Justin Gimelstob and Todd Martin, now retired, have never won a match against him. Federer even got the better of my beloved Pete Sampras the only time they played, at Wimbledon in 2001. So combined, America’s brightest stars have gone 5-39 against Federer during his nine-year career. That’s depressing.\nThe United States Tennis Association has done everything it can to promote American tennis, from revamping neighborhood programs to turning the U.S. Open into the most-attended sports event in the country according to www.usopen.org (yes, it beats out the Super Bowl!). But it can’t seem to produce anything to compete with Roger Federer. I can’t blame the USTA, though, because neither can any other country – aside from Spain, the home of Federer’s most successful foil, Rafael Nadal.\nAfter all my sobering statistics, I wish I had a solution to propose. They could hire someone to corner Federer in a dark alley, but we all saw what happened to Tonya Harding (though it is rather ridiculous that Federer has been injury-free given the amount of tennis he plays and the level at which he plays it).\nThe only legal thing I can think of is sending in the Williams sisters. This might sound untraditional, but hear me out. Venus matches him in height and is close to his weight. She has a powerful serve and consistent strokes. And Serena might be shorter, but I’m pretty sure she could beat him in an arm wrestling contest (have you seen her biceps?!). \nThe Williams sisters taking on Federer could be like a rematch of the 1973 Billie Jean King v. Bobby Riggs match, a true tennis battle of the sexes. Even if they couldn’t replicate Billie Jean’s win, it would draw a crowd, and they might come closer than any American man has lately.
(03/02/07 5:00am)
This Saturday the IU Auditorium will open its doors to something it hasn’t seen in a while: a country act.\nThe Union Board is bringing Dierks Bentley to the auditorium for a 7:30 p.m. show to add a new flavor to its spring events line-up.\n“It’s been a long time since we’ve had a country artist, if ever, so we decided it would be good for Union Board to bring (one) to IU,” said Adam Soiref, UB concerts director. \nThe last country performer to come to IU was Willie Nelson in December 2004. The IU Auditorium brought him as part of their season, Auditorium Director Doug Booher said.\nSoiref also said students have been requesting a country artist.\nThe concert committee finally decided on Bentley after hosting several group discussions and asking students who they want to see, Soiref said. He said Bentley was a good choice because of his new album, “Long Trip Alone,” and plethora of chart-topping singles, beginning with the 2003 hit “What Was I Thinkin’.” Bentley’s style of music is a blend of country and rock, which Soiref said he thinks will appeal to a larger group of students.\nBentley’s opening act, Jason Boland, also has a “high-energy” music style. Boland said he classifies his music as “neo honky tonk,” a blend of steel guitar and fiddle two-step music that isn’t often heard on the radio today. \nBoland and his band, The Stragglers, are touring on their own to promote their new album, “The Bourbon Legend,” but occasionally meet up with Bentley. He said they’ve played several universities before and are particularly looking forward to play at IU because of the school’s party reputation.\n“Usually any time college kids are blowing off steam, it creates a really great mood,” he said.\nBut Soiref has been concerned that students might choose to “blow off steam” at Assembly Hall instead, since the concert will compete with IU’s last home basketball game for an audience. The Hoosiers take on Penn State at 8 p.m. Saturday. Soiref said the date was “that or nothing” since it was most convenient for Bentley, who’s playing in Fort Wayne this evening.\n“It’s always hard to compete with IU basketball, especially on this campus,” he said. “I think it gives another opportunity for students to see some entertainment, even though it is going up against final home game. Hopefully students will still come out and enjoy a good concert.”\nFrom the looks of tickets sales, it seems that students will be doing just that. Soiref said Wednesday evening that they had sold tickets for about 2,000 of the auditorium’s 3,200 seats and will continue to sell tickets until the start of the show. Tickets are $25 for students and $35 for non-students.\nJunior Colleen McConahay, who said she’s been a fan of Bentley since high school, gave up her basketball tickets to see the concert with a group of friends. \n“My friend Gina was like, ‘I just saw on the Web site that he’s coming to Bloomington, so we have to go!’” she said. “Not many country singers come to Bloomington. I was surprised.”\nMcConahay said she based part of her decision on the fact that the team has been playing well at home and she expects IU to win. But most of all, she said she’s excited to see Bentley perform live.\n“(I’m most excited) to see him in person,” she said. “Artists always change (songs) up a bit when they perform live and I like to hear that.”
(11/27/06 5:22am)
Though Democrats captured Indiana's House of Representatives on election day, gay rights activists shouldn't count on making up any lost ground just yet.\nSoon-to-be House Speaker Patrick Bauer, D-South Bend, announced before the elections that he would allow SJR07, the proposed amendment to the state constitution that would explicitly ban gay marriage, to be heard again in 2007. Bauer said in a statement that he wants to bring the legislation to the floor to ensure its defeat because he said Indiana already has a statute that defines marriage, making further legislation redundant.\nHowever, many expect the amendment, which passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming approval in 2005, to be passed again by both the House and Senate and placed on the 2008 ballot, when voters will decide its fate.\nRep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington, voted for the resolution in 2005 and said she plans to vote for it again in 2007.\n"I anticipate it will pass the same way it passed in the 2005," she said.\nAnd Welch isn't an anomaly. She is one of several Democrats who supported the amendment in 2005. The legislation passed the House by a vote of 72-23 in a term where Republican representatives outnumbered Democratic representatives by a margin of only 52-48. The amendment passed the Senate by a vote of 42-8.\n"During the last (hearing), the vote was fairly substantive in favor of (the amendment)," said John Schorg, director of media relations for the Indiana House Democrats. "I think that's indicative of the general mood of the body."\nIf the referendum makes it to the ballot, there's a good chance the people of Indiana will pass it, too, said Judy Failer, assistant professor of political science at IU.\nFailer's prediction is partially based on the fact that eight states had amendments banning gay marriage on the ballot this fall. Of those, seven states' electorates voted to pass the amendment.
(11/09/06 4:21am)
Legendary sports broadcaster and IU graduate Dick Enberg will participate in a panel discussion at 7 p.m. tonight in the School of Journalism Auditorium.\nThe School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation is sponsoring the panel, titled "A Conversation with Dick Enberg," in honor of its 60th anniversary. The discussion will allow students to hear Enberg's answers to a variety of questions. The questions will be posed by HPER faculty members, HPER Dean David Gallahue and retired local sportswriter Bob Hammel, said Debra Kent, the panel's moderator and HPER director of communications and marketing. Audience members will also be allowed to ask Enberg questions during a special "Q and A" period, Kent said. Enberg will make a brief appearance at a reception \nfollowing the discussion.\nThe School of HPER wanted to bring Enberg to speak because of his broadcasting success and IU roots, Gallahue said. He said students will have the opportunity to see someone who was once in their place and how successful they could become.\n"We have several sports communication majors, and they're going to have the opportunity to rub shoulders with and speak to one of the most renowned broadcasters today," he said. "(Enberg)'s quite a good speaker. He's a professional and a nice guy, too."\nSince calling IU football games while earning his master's and Ph.D. at IU, the CBS commentator has won 14 Emmys and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He has called events for all sports, including NFL football, NBA basketball and professional baseball, golf and tennis, according to CBS' Web site. In his 50-year career, Enberg has called nine Super Bowls, the U.S. Open championships for both golf and tennis, Wimbledon, National and American League baseball playoffs and the Olympics, among other prestigious sports events, according to the site.\nDespite Enberg's fame, Kent said the School of HPER is trying to make the discussion as intimate as possible. To do this, the school rented a couch, loveseat and lamps and bought fresh flowers to make the front of the auditorium look like a living room, Kent said.\n"We wanted the environment to be comfortable," she said.\nGallahue and Kent both said the school was thrilled Enberg could take time from his schedule to speak as part of its 60th anniversary festivities, which will continue throughout year. Enberg will also be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame during his visit to campus and is in Indiana to call this weekend's Indianapolis Colts game, Gallahue said.\n"He's one of our most acclaimed alumni," Kent said. "This school has had a very long relationship with him ... and we are very excited to have him"
(10/31/06 10:31pm)
The FBI and Transportation Security Administration are investigating an IU doctoral student who created a Web site that generated fake Northwest Airlines boarding passes. Informatics graduate student Chris Soghoian reported Friday on his blog that the FBI showed up at his home in Bloomington and demanded he take down the Web site. That same day, Massachusetts Congressman Edward Markey publicly called for his arrest because of the site.\nThe site has since been taken down.\nSoghoian, who is working on a Ph.D. in Informatics with a focus in computer security, said he created the Web site to call attention to a "security hole" in airport regulations, according to his blog at http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com/. However, he never printed or used a fake boarding pass, he wrote in the blog. Soghoian said in an e-mail to the Indiana Daily Student his lawyers are not allowing him to comment to the press at this time. \nMarkey, a Democrat, has since recanted his statement against Soghoian, saying in a different statement Soghoian "intended no harm but, rather, intended to provide a public service by warning that this long-standing loophole could be easily exploited." However, the FBI and TSA are still investigating the case, said FBI Special Agent Wendy Osborne of the bureau's Indianapolis branch. She said the FBI and TSA will present their findings to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of Indiana, but she has no idea when the investigation might conclude.\n"We will not be rushed," she said. "We'll do a complete, thorough investigation and report our findings."\nSoghoian wrote on his blog the FBI came to his home Friday and handed him a written order to take down the Web site. The FBI agents returned and forcibly entered early Saturday morning after discovering Soghoian was not home. Soghoian wrote on his blog he was too afraid to sleep there and had left his house. He wrote he returned the next morning to find "the glass on the front door smashed. ... a rather ransacked home, a search warrant taped to (his) kitchen table, a total absence of computers and various other important things." Though the search warrant is supposed to be officially sealed, Soghoian has attached a copy of it to his blog.\nOsborne wouldn't confirm the time of either visit, only that the FBI had been in contact with Soghoian and that the two organizations were investigating him. \n"The FBI and TSA take potential breaches of security very seriously," she said. "We immediately begin investigation and contact."\nAfter the FBI visits, Soghoian had to search for legal help since the University was "very straightforward about the fact that they won't cover (his) legal bills or protect (him) themselves," he wrote.\nHe created a "legal defense fund" through PayPal -- an online billing agency -- so supporters could donate, and he also created the Facebook group "Keep Chris out of Jail" to raise awareness for his cause, he wrote. The group, as of press time, had more than 560 members from around the world.\nSome of his strongest supporters are on the IU campus. Three of his professors -- Steven Myers, Markus Jakobsson and L. Jean Camp, who is also his adviser -- have all voiced concern about the situation.\nMyers said he was shocked when he heard the FBI had contacted his student because he said the ease of duplicating a boarding pass makes it something anyone can do. \n"Basically, he did what anyone with a photocopier could've done, only fancier," he said, explaining that Soghoian probably scanned a real boarding pass to start the generator.\nSoghoian is not the first to expose the loophole. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., details the same problem on his official Web site.\nCamp also supported her student and said his goal was to help solve a national problem.\n"Chris is a student trying to improve security," she said. "He is not at all malicious, and I don't think he should be punished. Students are here to learn."\nJakobsson said he thinks this will help the government fix the security problem and potentially help the United States become more secure in the future.\n"Now people have to improve airport security," he said. "He's not a criminal, he's a good guy."\nThe 25-year-old has a long list of technical experience, which includes internships with computer giants Apple and IBM, according to his online resume. He's currently a part-time engineering intern with Google's Application Security Group, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., said Barry Schnitt, a Google spokesman.\nSchnitt said in an e-mail that Soghoian's site didn't relate to his work for the company, but he is employed as a part-time engineering intern.\nStill, Myers hopes Soghoian makes it out of the ongoing investigation with the federal government and a "review" the University is conducting without trouble.\n"I think it's very ridiculous," Myers said. "He has no malicious intent. He's not the type to cause problems"
(10/31/06 6:32am)
IU Ph.D. student Chris Soghoian is facing scrutiny from the FBI and the Transportation Security Administration for research he might have been doing for the University. IU is "reviewing" the case to see whether Soghoian's Web site, which generated fake Northwest Airlines boarding passes, has University ties, said IU Director of Media Relations Larry MacIntyre.\nSoghoian, who intends to earn his doctorate in Informatics with a focus in computer security, created the site to point out a "loophole" in airport security but never printed or used a fake boarding pass, according to his blog at http://slightparanoia.blogspot.com.\nNo criminal charges have been filed at this time, but MacIntyre said the University began its investigation Friday afternoon when the site was brought to its attention. Though MacIntyre said he wasn't sure how the University found out about the site, Friday the FBI first visited Soghoian's home and Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., publicly called for Soghoian's arrest. \n"As soon as we knew about (Soghoian's) Web site and the letter on Rep. Markey's Web site calling for Chris' arrest, our University counsel immediately began looking into it to find out what the situation was," he said. \nThe Office of University Counsel would not comment on the situation. \nThough MacIntyre said the site was not hosted on University-owned equipment, Soghoian's three professors have speculated it might have been related to his doctoral research. \nSoghoian's chosen path of study is focused on how Informatics is used in society, and he experiments with identity in travel, according to a Web site Soghoian's adviser, Informatics professor L. Jean Camp, published. However, Camp said she doubted the site was for any particular class. \nMarkus Jakobsson, also a professor in the School of Informatics and instructor of one of Soghoian's information security classes, said Soghoian discussed his research with him before he set up the site. He said Soghoian brought his findings to class last week before the site gained publicity. Jakobsson said Soghoian was simply doing the kind of research graduate students are expected to do but wasn't sure if this specific project was meant to contribute to his doctoral dissertation.\n"These students must define their own research, of course, and he has designed his to deal with airport security," Jakobsson said. "It's normal for Ph.D. students -- they're encouraged to be creative. Any research they do usually goes towards dissertation, but I can't tell whether this goes towards research for the University or his own."\nA link to Soghoian's research is featured on Stop-Phishing.com, the Web site of an IU anti-phishing group that Jakobsson oversees.\nSteven Myers, an Informatics associate professor and an instructor of Soghoian in a security seminar class, said he knew Soghoian as a student and was on his doctoral admissions committee. He said he found Soghoian's fake boarding pass generator online Friday morning and e-mailed it to several students and faculty, including Soghoian, because Myers didn't realize his student had created it at that time. He said he wanted people to see it as an example of an interesting government loophole. Soghoian let Myers know it was his own work, and Myers said after further reviewing the matter, he has begun to believe Soghoian's work might be related to IU.\nThe University has no set time frame to complete the investigation, and there seems to be no obvious verdict, MacIntyre said.\n"... It appears Chris had good intentions but bad judgment," he said.
(09/13/06 4:32am)
The IU board of trustees will hold two open forums Friday to give students and the public a chance to voice their opinions on the presidential search. The forums are 9 to 10 a.m. and 3 to 4 p.m. in the Redbud Room in the Indiana Memorial Union. \nTrustee Sue Talbot, chairwoman of the Presidential Search Committee, said in an e-mail that the trustees planned the forums so they could "spread a wide net in listening" to IU students, employees, community members and anyone who could be affected by the hiring of a new president. Talbot said trustees would listen to attendees' perspective on challenges and opportunities the University faces, the priorities of an incoming president, desired characteristics for the new president and any candidate suggestions. She emphasized this would be the time for students to give their input.\n"While we have posed these queries, there will be other indicators that people will want to share with us," Talbot said. "Candidate names usually surface during this time of exploration."\nThough IU Student Association representatives petitioned the trustees for an IUB undergraduate representative on the search committee after trustees gave the only student seat to IU-South Bend graduate student Michael Renfrow, Talbot said this didn't influence their decision to hold the open forums. She said they had already planned to hold the forums since that method proved helpful in their last presidential search.\n"We knew from the beginning that we would conduct these forums -- it was part of the overall plan," she said. "The petition was well represented, but we were already in the scheduling stages for these forums (when we received it)."\nIU Student Association President Betsy Henke said the group is encouraging students to attend the forums so the committee can still hear opinions from IUB undergraduates. She said IUSA members would take the opportunity to tell the committee what they think is important to consider in the search.\n"After speaking with our members and other leaders, the highest priority (for the new president) is someone who's very engaged with students on their own campus," Henke said. "Not just someone with an ability to have students involved as token group members, but someone who really acknowledges and respects the voice of students as an integral part of the University's development."\nThe trustees will hold similar forums on each IU campus. Talbot said the trustees would also be meeting with specific groups of faculty, students and other "stakeholders" at each campus, as well as alumni and interested civic and government \nleaders.\nThose who cannot make either forum can e-mail their input by visiting the search's Web site, www.indiana.edu/~nextpres, which she said would be a "viable contact method" in all stages of the search process.
(09/12/06 3:58am)
Even after watching everyone I cheered for (Andre Agassi, James Blake, Rafael Nadal, Lindsay Davenport and Justine Henin-Hardenne) lose in the U.S. Open, I saw from the men's final that not everyone's tennis dreams were shattered.\nAndy Roddick made it to the final of another major after a two-year dry spell, and I actually rooted for him to win (only because he was up against Roger Federer, who I happen to dislike more). Needless to say, Federer was still an impenetrable roadblock to Roddick's success, as he has been in 10 of their 11 previous meetings. He blazed past Roddick 6-2, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 to become the first man in history to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open back-to-back for three consecutive years. \nThough this means Roddick, currently ranked No. 6, has come a long way since ditching his brother as a coach and hiring Jimmy Connors instead, he still has a long, arduous journey to get back to No. 2 in the world. And as far as I can tell, No. 1 is so far out of his reach, he couldn't hit it with one of his 140-mph serves.\nSo, what can he do to traverse the rocky road that is the tennis top five? Well, whenever he has a problem, he usually hires a new coach rather than blaming himself, so why not stick with this strategy?\nIn fact, I have the perfect candidate in mind -- hire Maria Sharapova, his girlfriend, according to Us Weekly magazine. She's successful, she knows about tennis and she has lots of experience beating the world No. 1, at least on the women's side. And she won her U.S. Open final match this year. I think she would inspire him, and she could probably beat him, too, which would truly make an entertaining match. \nActually, for someone as human resources-conscious as Roddick, this would make a lot of sense -- one person, two roles. And hey, Federer's girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec is his manager, and we all know how well he's doing, right?\nHonestly, I think that if Roddick really is dating Sharapova, she might be the reason for his recent success because it certainly can't be sheer skill, grace or positive attitude. Sure, Connors' coaching might have helped, but history has proven that the guys just play better when they have a tennis-savvy significant other.\nAgassi, for example, married actress Brooke Shields and his ranking plummeted to No. 141 in 1997. Then he divorced her, got back to No. 1, married former women's No. 1 Steffi Graf and was at the top until his retirement last week. Lleyton Hewitt was ranked No. 1 while he was with former women's No. 1 Kim Clijsters, but his ranking fell when he married Australian actress Bec Cartwright and he's still floating outside the top 10. And Mirka, she's a former professional tennis player herself, so I'm sure she gives Roger pep talks every once in a while. Even Connors found his tennis love in ex-fiance and former women's No. 1 Chris Evert. \nI'm not saying dating Sharapova would solve Roddick's numerous problems, but it kind of brings new meaning to the old saying, "Behind every successful man is a good woman." Doesn't it?