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(02/16/04 5:50am)
Read Center will begin more aggressively patrolling IU's new smoking policy outside residence halls today. The new rules, which were passed by the University last semester, require students to be 30 feet away from buildings before lighting up. Signs have been hung around Read Center informing residents of the rule and warning that "staff will document anyone smoking within 30 feet of doors, walkways, etc ..."\nStill, students who break the rules will receive a verbal warning and no sort of formal reprimand, said Read Residence Manager Doug Yeskie. Yeskie said Read Center had not been able to enforce the policy until this week because it had large, concrete ash urns in place just outside several doors until then.\n"The policy started some time ago," he said. "We had some huge ash urns which sat there and made it pretty difficult to enforce. But those were removed last week by the physical plant." \nYeskie said, in particular, the entrance facing the music school next to the Hoosier Cafe has been a hangout of sorts for smokers because it had one of the urns just several feet from the door. \n"We're just going to warn them of the rule and let them know to move," Yeskie said. "We've had groups within Read that wonder why we don't enforce it. I've walked out that entrance and been met with all that smoke too." \nAlthough the old urns have been removed, new ash trays further from the building have not been installed but have been ordered, Yeskie said. He said he believes the physical plant has received the new ash trays -- called "smoking butlers" -- but are waiting until the ground thaws to install them. The butlers will be an ash tray fixed to the top of a pole, cemented into the ground. \nDave Hurst, manager of campus division for the physical plant, said his department has begun installing ash trays outside various academic buildings but that none have been installed yet outside any residence halls. He said even with the new policy, his department will likely face the same problems picking up after smokers in certain areas. \n"It's not much different than before," Hurst said. "We're always going to have some problem cleaning up. It's just a matter of adapting to the new policy. I think it will be fine, but it will take awhile to adjust."\nAlthough Yeskie said no one will be written up, he said if students continually abuse the rule, disciplinary action could follow.\n"I think that will be a judgement call," he said. "Most of the time, it seems like residents will obey the rules. That will be judgement call. I imagine if someone was really belligerent or if the same person did it five or six times, at some point you have to document that."\nDenver McDaniel, a junior and a resident assistant at Read Center, said he will begin asking smokers to move away and writing people up for smoking today. \n"They just informed us of the policy that we were to start documenting people," McDaniel said. "The policy has been in place since Nov. 1 as far as University Residence Halls are concerned. We've been on this kind of leeway time where the ashtrays were to be rolled away, and we were just supposed to enforce the policy and ask them to move away."\nIn June 2003, a 15-member task force of ten faculty and staff members and five students was created to review IU's smoking policy. The task force made its recommendation and Chancellor Sharon Brehm then amended IU's policy, with the new rule going into effect Sept. 1, 2003. \n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(02/16/04 5:50am)
Indiana Daily Student Editor in Chief Adam VanOsdol was arrested early Saturday morning on charges of driving while intoxicated. \nVanOsdol, 20, was booked into Monroe County Jail at 1:03 a.m. with bond set at $500 surety and $500 cash. He said he was initially pulled over for not having his headlights on.\n"I regret the decisions that led to me getting behind the wheel Friday night," VanOsdol said. "I am ashamed and prepared to deal with the consequences." \nIDS Publisher Dave Adams said VanOsdol did not work at the paper Sunday and will face a tough road to overcome his legal troubles. \n"When I realized the name and the age and that is was Adam, and I just thought I better call him and tell him I'm sorry this happened and make sure he's okay," Adams said. "We talked about the need for him to recuse himself from editor (Sunday) and that we should cover this as aggressively as we would other student leaders involved in similar situations. I think he's learned a very tough lesson, and my guess is all this won't be put behind him as easily as one might think."\nAdams said he's confident VanOsdol will be treated just like any student leader in a similar situation. \n"We have had other staffers -- certainly not as high as editor -- who have appeared on the IUPD blotter or the BPD blotter," he said. "Different staffs treat these different ways, but I think it's important to make sure what we do to other student leaders is also done to our own when they run afoul of the law."\nA BPD shift supervisor did not return phone messages Sunday night.\n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(02/12/04 4:42am)
Hannah Edgerton used to enjoy coming to Bloomington for Christmas and summer vacations to play checkers and listen to the stories from her grandfather, William B. Edgerton. Edgerton, who was a retired professor and former chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, died Sunday at 89 years old, leaving behind stories of a life as a prominent international figure and a personable raconteur among his friends and colleagues. \n"I remember sitting around the dinner table as a little girl feeling really excited about coming to listen to Grandad and these heroic stories," said Hannah Edgerton, who is now a graduate student at IU studying art history and photography. "He used to tell just amazing stories about his experiences traveling around the world and doing relief work in Egypt, Poland and Germany around the time of the second world war."\nShelley Scott, an administrative assistant in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, only met Edgerton three years ago. Still, that was plenty of time to grow fond of his exciting stories. \n"He just had this wonderful little sparkle in his eye," Scott said. "He'd pick up his mail, and he would talk about when he was in Europe dealing with children, that he'd be picked up and detained by authorities for being a spy. And he just had this sweet smile, and he'd say 'They never held me for long!' You could tell what he did. It was reflected in his life."\nBefore coming to IU in 1958, Edgerton was a relief worker for the Society of Friends during World War II. Scott said Edgerton would often talk about that time in his life, when he is credited with discovering evidence of thousands of children forcibly relocated by the Nazis and starting a large-scale program to identify and return them to their families. \nIn 1954, Edgerton, was one of the first Americans to visit the Soviet Union as a member of a delegation of religious members invited by the state department. \nAfter receiving his Ph.D. in Russian Literature from Columbia University, Edgerton taught at Penn State, Michigan and Columbia. Once here, Edgerton founded and became the first president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. \nRonald F. Feldstein, chair of the Slavic Languages and Literatures department, said Edgerton made a number of key contributions to the field at IU. \n"He was a real combination of excellence in many ways," said Feldstein, who met Edgerton in 1976. "He was one of the major people to organize the Russian and Slavic field. He got started right after the war in the late 40s and 50s. He was a pioneer, a real pioneer."\nThere will be a memorial service for Edgerton 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bloomington Friends Meeting House, 3820 E. Moores Pike.
(01/26/04 4:29am)
Faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo,. expressed left-wing views too often for the University's College Republicans. The group launched a Web site to file complaints against professors who pressed their political views.\nAngel Rivera, a senior and president of the IU CRs, said IU, and the rest of the country, face a similar problem.\n"I think it is no surprise. Most university professors are liberally leaning," Rivera said. "I congratulate students at the University of Colorado for their efforts. There is a bias in the American education system -- that is a fact. Some people will deny it, but that is a fact. Ask any political science student on campus. That being said, the University should do more to try and have a non-biased academic system."\nAccording to an Associated Press story, the CU CRs are affiliated with conservative activist David Horowitz, who is leading a Colorado push to stop harassment based on political beliefs. \nIU senior Laura Walda, a current member and past vice president of the College Democrats, said she doesn't think professors are actively promoting any sort of political agenda. Still, she said if professors did push ulterior motives, they need to learn to be better educators. \n"If a person is purporting their own political views, then there's a problem not with the person's political stance, but with their teaching ability," Walda said. "It's not left leaning or right leaning, but what they teach in classes. That's the issue people need to look at."\nWalda said she took a human sexuality course with a professor who openly admitted to being liberal in the first session. That, she said, helped prevent students from thinking they were being persuaded better than a tips Web site.\nRivera and Walda both agreed the University of Colorado Web site will bring attention to a matter that needs discussion.\n"Web sites like that coming from both points of view always bring up good discussion," Walda said. "I compare this to the Benton Mural discussion. The only thing that comes of them is discussion. With the Benton Mural controversy, now we have the diversity initiative. That's really great, and it came from controversy."\nRivera and Walda disagreed, however, on the extent of the problem at IU. Rivera said the IU CRs conducted a study that showed all but one of IU's political science professors voted in a recent Democratic primary. But Walda said many Republicans vote in Democratic primaries and vice versa. \nNo matter how pervasive, Rivera said any sort of politically motivated speech is fine, just not in the classroom. \n"You don't have a first amendment right in the work force," he said. "In your private time, you can say what you want. That is one of the most wonderful things about this country. But when the taxpayers of Indiana are paying you to do something, it's different."\nAs for the Web site, Rivera said there are no immediate plans to start one in Bloomington, although it is a possibility.\n"Sure, it's something that could be considered," he said. "Although right now it's not in the works."\n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(01/20/04 6:07am)
Charges have been filed in the assault of an IU Police Department officer outside an IU football game last year. A non-student turned himself in at the Monroe County Sheriff's Department after a warrant was issued stemming from the November incident. \nBenjamin J. Repp, 24, of Noblesville, Ind., was charged with two felonies -- Battery Class C and Battery Class D -- Thursday, before bonding out the next day.\nThe incident occurred after the Old Oaken Bucket football game between IU and Purdue Nov. 22 of last year. IUPD officer Brian Oliger was attempting to break up a fight in the parking lot when he was struck in the back of the head with a beer bottle, causing a one-inch laceration and requiring staples. Pepper spray was used to break up the crowd and Oliger was taken to Bloomington Hospital.\nIUPD Lt. Jerry Minger said Noblesville Police convinced Repp to turn himself in Monroe County, saving much of the hassle of extraditing a suspect from another county. He said it's satisfying to have a suspect in the case. \n"I think that is one of the intermediate goals of the investigation and it was satisfying reaching that plateau when you actually find the person identified as a suspect," he said. "To actually find somebody, get them identified and get them charged and get a probable cause affidavit to have a warrant, it was very satisfying as a goal of the investigation. The final step will be a hearing and the person will be sentenced. That will be a very positive completion."\nAccording to Indiana state law, the Class C charge is issued if the violation "results in serious bodily injury to any other person or if it is committed by means of a deadly weapon" and a Class D charge is specific to causing bodily harm to a law enforcement officer.\nMinger said the actual sentencing will depend on a number of factors.\n"As sentencing goes for different crimes, they have mitigating and aggravating circumstances and then it gets left up to the judge," Minger said. "It's not as easy as saying 'Class C felony, you get this much time.'"\nDean of Students Richard McKaig said he was pleased the suspect wasn't an IU student. \n"Honestly, it is (pleasing)," he said. "In a broader picture though, it's disturbing it would occur at all. I'd like to think it should never happen, so I don't know if I would call it pleasing. But I'm happy it wasn't one of our kids."\nMcKaig said the incident was a wake-up call for the University and will spur some changes next year in University and athletic department tailgating policy.\n"We obviously want to talk on this incident," McKaig said. "The whole atmosphere is an issue that needs more conversation next year to make sure there isn't a repeat."\nMinger said anyone with further information about the case can contact IUPD at 855-4111.\n-- Contact campus editor at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(01/14/04 4:45am)
Before Michael McRobbie, IU wasn't quite the same. The IU vice president for information technology and chief information officer ushered in a new age of campus connectivity, making IU a leader in the field. \nNow he's being recognized for his contributions by Computerworld magazine, which named McRobbie one of its 2004 "Premier 100 Information Technology Leaders" in the first issue of the year. \n"It was backwater before Michael came up," said Dennis Gannon, a professor and chair of the Computer Science department. "He basically managed to just change everything about the way the faculty and the students access information technology, the computer clusters. Basically, he had this vision of making IU a real leader of IT. Not just catching up but jumping way ahead. He did that. It was a remarkable run for the last few years."\nA panel of 10 past winners and Computerworld editors selected McRobbie and the other winners from a pool of 598 candidates. McRobbie found out he had been nominated in October and learned in late 2003 he had been chosen for the list.\nMcRobbie said he credits the entire IT department with the accolade.\n"I'm very flattered and honored personally to receive it," McRobbie said. "I view it as an honor for Indiana University, and I view it as an honor for all the IT staff at IU who I think are frankly the best in the country. This really reflects their achievements. It's a nice kind of independent way of verifying our national standing and how we compete with those top tier organizations."\nBeside McRobbie on the list are IT leaders from such organizations as, Bank One, American Express, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and technology organizations, including Sun Microsystems, Novell, Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks and Palm. Computerworld describes the list as leaders who "use their wit and fortitude to keep their staffs and companies headed in the right direction."\nMcRobbie, who is also a professor of computer science, informatics and philosophy and an adjunct professor of cognitive science and information science, said three IT developments he's headed likely clinched the award for him and IU. \nMcRobbie credited IU's optical networking and the life cycle funding program at IU, which ensures no computer on campus is older than three years and keeps technology up to date. He also said IU's unique licensing agreement with Microsoft was a big step.\n"The Microsoft deal is enormous savings over what we were paying before, and everyone has immediate access to the latest programs," Gannon said. "People around here treat it like freeware. Believe me, it's not like that anywhere else."\nMcRobbie has also turned IU into a hub for international networks, with a center for the Internet2 and networks that reach as far as Europe, South America, Russia and the Pacific region. \nDean of Informatics Mike Dunn met McRobbie when McRobbie worked at the Institute of Advanced Study at the Australian National University in 1975. Dunn said he's been impressed with McRobbie ever since and he deserves the recognition.\n"I was extremely pleased but not surprised," Dunn said. "Everywhere I go in my travels people tell me not that he's in the top 100, but that he's number one among university CIOs. I've been told that at places like Carnegie Mellon, which is often regarded as the top technical university in country."\nMcRobbie said being on the list is something all of IU can be proud of. \n"(I thought) it was flattering and a great honor," he said. "Computerworld is probably the major IT trade out there. It's certainly widely read, and it's regarded as being quite authoritative in the IT profession. But one person doesn't accomplish it."\n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(01/13/04 5:59am)
For years, IU professors would gather at lunch to talk with Economics Professor Nicolas Spulber about any number of topics. They would have conversations on everything from current events to literature to politics and history to music.\nOn Jan. 2, Spulber died of prostate cancer, leaving behind a legacy of respect among his peers. Economics Professor Michael Kaganovich, who joined Spulber's lunchtime discussion groups several times a week, said Spulber had a unique perspective on any topic.\n"Nick was the center of attention of those lunch groups that evolved over time," he said. "We would meet in an IU cafeteria, or earlier we met in the Tudor room. There were a number of people involved and many people joined in once in a while. It was always a very intellectually stimulating exchange, be it politics, university life, economics, music, mathematics. He was this intellectual inspiration. It certainly went far beyond economics. He had this intellectual presence that is already missed greatly."\nPart of the reason for that presence was due to Spulber's unique life experience. Coming to the IU Economics Department in 1954, he had already lived a pair of lives, according to Spulber's friend and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Matei Calinescu.\nSpulber began as a journalist in his native Romania after graduating from the University of Bucharest in 1934. He worked for four years there and then moved to France during World War II where he joined the French resistance. After the war, he became a French citizen and worked again as a journalist. Spulber moved to the U.S. in 1948, and six years later, after attending MIT, he came to IU.\n"He actually had three lives," Calinescu said. "His first life was Romanian-educated journalist. Then he had a French life. Then from '48 on, he became an American and pursued a career in economics. These three lives explain perhaps his versatility."\nSpulber lectured at IU until 1980, developing into an expert on the Soviet and post-Soviet economy. Following his retirement, Spulber didn't relax. He continued to go to work every day in Wylie Hall until late 2003 and published six of his 20 books after his retirement. His latest, "Russia's Economic Transitions," came out last year. \nDistinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics Robert Campbell said Spulber's work was his driving force. \n"(That was) just his nature, a part of his life," Campbell said. "He never gave up that part of his life. He retired, but that didn't change what he was about, what he wanted to do. Other people retire and say they've had it -- 'I can now do something else.' Nick was not that way. He still wanted to learn about and write about anything he didn't know."\nAs Spulber became sicker last year, he had to stop dining in the groups across campus and would instead meet with professors and friends in his home. Although physically weak, Spulber was still the same center of discussion as ever, Kaganovich said.\n"Two of us had lunches almost daily," he said. "But it was the same. Until the very end, he was an inspiration. Maybe that is the most striking thing -- he became very sick last August physically, so he was unable to continue working. Many colleagues would visit him at home and the conversations were just like in the past. You wouldn't even think this was a person who was suffering or was weak. His intellect did not decline even until his last day."\n-- Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(01/09/04 6:08am)
The IU School of Optometry lost one of its first members over winter break. \nMerrill J. Allen, who co-founded the school in 1952 and also held patents for a number of inventions, died Dec. 28 at 85.\nAllen's research focused on visual training and therapy and is credited with inventing more highly-placed brake lights and daytime headlights on cars. He wrote extensively on vision and highway safety, publishing more than 236 research papers and two textbooks.\nIU Professor of Optometry Dr. David A. Goss met Allen as a graduate student in 1976 and again when he joined the faculty in 1992. Goss said Allen was constantly developing new ideas and inventions. \n"He was a real gadgeteer, you might say," Goss said. "He made a lot of gadgets mostly for use in vision training or vision therapy, to encourage the use of the two eyes together. He was a very hard worker. He'd be at school all day and if you ever went back in evening he was there then too."\nGoss said Allen's impact on the field of optometry at IU is significant. \n"He would have taught hundreds of optometrists," Goss said. "I know a lot of people saw him as inspiration to enter the field."\nOne of those people is Dr. Mary Van Hoy, who now works at the Indiana Vision Improvement Center in Indianapolis after meeting Allen as a student in 1968. Van Hoy said she remembers most Allen's enthusiasm for his work and the people he taught. \n"He was very dedicated to students, very personable, not distant at all," Van Hoy said. "I think he's kind of an icon. He won every award there was in optometry and was dedicated to the profession. And not just in the books, he was a real people person."\nAllen, who was born in San Antonio, Tex., went to school at Ohio State and later worked for the National Research Council in World War II. During his career, he received the Apollo Award from the American Optometric Association's in 1973, the highest honor in optometry, Goss said.\nMerrill Allen's son, Jim Allen, said he is reminded of his father's contributions in everyday life.\n"Every time you see a headlight on in the daytime on a vehicle, that is the result of research Dad did," he said. "And every time you come up to a railroad crossing and notice how bright red the lights are, that is the result of his research."\nSteven Hitzeman, director of clinics at the IU School of Optometry, worked beside Allen as a student in the mid- 70s. Hitzeman said his fondest memory was he and Allen working together to help a visually impaired child in one of their projects. \n"He was a classic academic," Hitzeman said. "He would immerse himself in a project. I wouldn't call him absent-minded, but he was sometimes so engrossed in a project he would forget basic things that he would need, like going to dinner or a faculty meeting. \n"But it was because his mind was so active. He was always trying to invent something or make things better," he said. "He was a special person. He gave everything he could to everything he was doing."\nMemorial contributions can be made in Allen's name to the Alzheimer's Association of Greater Indiana in Indianapolis or the Hospice of Bloomington. \n-- The Associated Press contributed to this report. Contact campus editor Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(12/02/03 5:43am)
Names of fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, friends and colleagues and even complete strangers were read at the Trinity Episcopal Church last night. Each of them was a victim of the AIDS pandemic, and students and members of the community gathered to pay their respects on World AIDS Day.\nBloomington resident Daniel Soto, co-founder of the Latino AIDS prevention group HOLA, lit a large candle at the front of the church to start the naming ceremony.\n"I have so many friends who've died of AIDS in the last 20 years," Soto said. "We've lost so many talented people. This (was) to remember the people who have died from AIDS and to remember there is always work and education to be done."\nPeople came up one by one to light smaller candles from Soto's flame and to read the names of AIDS victims. \nFor some, it was a loved one.\nFor others, it was whole groups of children in Africa. \nFor Bloomington resident Sharon Hayden, it was her son, Jerry Hayden Jr., who died in 1999 from the disease.\n"I was just trying to stop from crying," Hayden said afterward. "This was actually the first time I got through it without breaking down and crying really, really hard."\nThe event began with a letter from Bloomington Mayor John Fernandez pledging Dec. 1 as World AIDS Day in Bloomington before the names were read. After that, four volunteers offered reflections on their experiences with AIDS.\nNurse Deborah Phelps spoke about her visit to South Africa in early November with 35 colleagues. There, she said she learned about a drastically undermanned medical system for a population a quarter of which is infected with the virus.\nIU graduate student and Community AIDS Action Group member David Granger talked about his friend Kent, who died from AIDS, and how forthcoming the community was to his sickness. Granger said his friend was still paid and still received medical benefits even after he couldn't work; volunteers donated their time and a doctor donated her services, all for free. He urged people to deal with AIDS patients in the same way.\n"You can make one or two or many people's lives better," he said.\nSenior Kunal Desai, co-director of Outreach Kenya Development Volunteers, talked about his time in Kenya with a mother who contracted AIDS. He said the woman was positive and optimistic about her future and spoke more about her children than her sickness.\n"If there's anything I've learned working with AIDS in Africa," Desai said. "It's that the human spirit is strong and defiant in the face of adversity and suffering ... She didn't cry that night, but I left in tears."\nRev. Mary Ann Macklin talked about her sister-in-law who lived amid AIDS in Cameroon and her brother who died from it while in Kenya. She said the most important way to fight the disease is to promote stopping it.\n"We cannot be silent," Macklin said. "We cannot let isolation, discrimination and stigma be the power. Because love is so much more powerful than that."\nThe IU Chapter of the Student Global AIDS Campaign co-sponsored the event along with CAAG, IU Health and Wellness and the Bloomington Hospital and Health Care System. \nSGAC co-founder and president Manika Bhateja, a senior, said she was pleased with the ceremony. \n"It makes me happy that people are beginning to really understand the crisis," Bhateja said. "They're beginning to be more open, to share their feelings. It's not about having a lot of people there, it's about having people who are passionate about the cause, who want to make a difference, who want to see a difference. We are making a difference in people's lives."\n -- Contact staff reporter Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/24/03 6:24am)
For eight senior Hoosier football players, Saturday's 24-16 loss to Purdue marked not only the end of a season but also the end of their careers. Those eight donned the cream and crimson one last time on Senior Day at Memorial Stadium and nearly came away with an upset victory, despite IU's being a heavy underdog to the No. 16 ranked Boilermakers.\n"It's disappointing, but I know how hard we played. I know how hard we fought," senior safety Joe Gonzalez said. "Losing is never fun, especially the bucket game, but no better way to go out than to go out with a fight."\nMuch of IU's relatively small senior class -- Gonzalez, wideout Glenn Johnson, cornerback Duane Stone, defensive tackle Courtney Young, running back Brian Lewis, kicker Adam Braucher and safeties Matt Calvert and Matt Foss -- contributed to the Hoosier effort.\nJohnson led the team in receiving with 51 yards on four catches, Stone returned a lateral for 14 yards and Gonzalez had four tackles, including one for a loss.\nIU coach Gerry DiNardo said he thanked his seniors for what they brought to the program.\n"After the game, I thanked them for their two years," DiNardo said. "Coaching changes are always a hard thing, and it's hardest on the older guys. I told them when we do go to postseason in the future, they will be part of the reason why."\nIU loses two of its biggest defensive leaders in Gonzalez and Stone. Gonzalez was one of IU's two captains and Stone started every game for IU this season, picking off a pass and defending six more.\nGonzalez, who had four tackles Saturday, said after the game, moving on is an emotional transition.\n"It goes by fast," he said. "It's kind of funny how this place grows on you. When you're a freshman, you can't wait for things to speed up because you're kind of lost. When you're a sophomore, junior, this place starts to feel like home a little bit. And when you're a senior, you'd do anything in your power to stay one more year if you could."\nStone did get in on one last big play for IU. In the fourth quarter, he helped set up a field goal when freshman Cedric Henry picked off a pass from Purdue quarterback Kyle Orton and lateralled it to Stone before being tackled. He picked the ball off the ground and returned it 14 yards, setting up IU's last field goal.\nStone said he's confident moving on because of how well the freshman class has played this year. Henry had a fumble recovery and the interception, and freshman running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis led the way offensively, totaling 163 yards on the ground and one touchdown. \n"I know Ced is going to step up, Ben is going to step up," Stone said. "And more than just them, they just had their opportunities today. This team is headed in the right direction."\nGreen-Ellis said he would have liked to win the game for the seniors, but the freshman class is ready to assume the leadership the football team is losing. \n"For the seniors, this was their last game, and you want to go out with a win and a bowl game," Green-Ellis said. "Neither one of those happened today, so we just have to try harder for next year's seniors. Our freshman class, we'll be OK. Now we're veterans. We've got to go out and play like it next year."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/21/03 5:42am)
The IU football team may be long out of bowl contention at 2-9, but that won't matter this weekend. The Hoosiers play host to No. 16 Purdue with the Old Oaken Bucket and bragging rights on the line.\n"Everybody's fired up to play," junior wideout Courtney Roby said. "When you go into the Bucket game, all records are out. Pride is on the line."\nPurdue comes into the game with an impressive array of stats. At 8-3 (5-2 Big Ten), a win for the Boilermakers would tie them for second in the conference and a spot in either the Outback or Capital One Bowl.\nOffensively, the Boiler-makers boast a duo of \n60-catch receivers, to go along with quarterback Kyle Orton, who's thrown for 12 touchdowns and only four interceptions. Wideouts junior Taylor Stubblefield and senior John Standeford have combined for 140 catches for 1608 yards and five touchdowns. IU has 1883 yards and four touchdowns as a team on the year.\n"They're very sound," IU junior linebacker Josh Moore said of the PU offense. "They can run the ball, they can pass the ball. They've got a good quarterback, good wide receivers and a good running back. They're a good team, so we've got to come out and be ready to play."\nThe Hoosiers will combat that offense with a defense that gave up 45 points and 438 yards to Penn State a week ago. There was one bright spot for IU in that game though, as freshman running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis rushed for 203 yards.\nMeanwhile, Purdue is coming off of a 16-13 overtime loss at Ohio State. The Boilermakers blocked a 41-yard field goal to force overtime, but fell in the first extra period. \nStill, IU coach Gerry DiNardo said the Boilermakers will be a challenge.\n"This Purdue team is probably as good as any team we have played all year," he said. "We have a lot of work to do this week."\nSaturday's game will also mark Senior Day, and IU's seven seniors will be recognized in a ceremony prior to kickoff. Senior captain Joe Gonzalez said donning the cream and crimson one last time will be an emotional experience.\n"I've spent my entire career here and it's amazing how long it has been, but at the same time how short," he said. "It just passes by so fast. Playing Purdue will be a big challenge and it will be very special. I know I'll have a lot going through my mind."\nThe Boilermakers lead the all-time series 64-35-6 and have won six of the last seven meetings. IU last won two years ago, when it defeated the Boilermakers 13-7 at a rain-soaked Memorial Stadium.\nFor Roby, Saturday could be the biggest game of the season. \n"Biggest game of the year? Probably so, probably so," he said. "Rivalry games are always intense. Coach DiNardo, he emphasized in practice this week (that this) is a rival. So everything picks up, the intensity picks up. It's a big-time game."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/17/03 8:30pm)
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- IU received the opening kickoff Saturday against Penn State and promptly marched downfield on a 13-play, balanced-scoring drive and an early 7-0 lead.\nEverything went downhill from there.\nThe Nittany Lions, who came into the game winless in the Big Ten, reeled off 52 unanswered points including 31 in the third quarter for a blowout 52-7 victory. That left IU winless on the road for the second time in two seasons, despite a record performance by freshman running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis.\n"They threw some stuff at us we hadn't seen before, so we just came in at halftime and tried to adjust," senior safety Joe Gonzalez said. "We just weren't into it the second half. It was like that wasn't us out there in the third quarter."\nIU couldn't contain the PSU air attack in the first half. With three passing touchdowns, PSU junior quarterback Zack Mills doubled his season total. Mills rolled left and found senior wideout Tony Johnson on the side of the end zone for the first score, and hooked up with Johnson again for five yards over the middle to cap a 96-yard drive with PSU's second touchdown. After scoring 24 points in the first quarter all year, PSU had 14 against IU.\n Mills added another touchdown, a 33-yard play action strike to freshman wideout Maurice Humphrey, to put PSU up by two scores going into the half.\n"On defense, first half, play action really hurt us," IU coach Gerry DiNardo said. "We didn't play very good. I felt okay at halftime. 21-7, I felt like our defense started playing better toward the end."\nDown 14, IU was still in the game when the third quarter began. By the time the period had ended, IU had been blown out. After a PSU field goal, IU went three and out and punted. But PSU senior safety Yaacov Yisrael blocked freshman punter Tyson Beattie's kick and junior safety Andrew Guman returned it 10 yards for a score.\n"I didn't really see anyone coming, it's my job to get the ball off," Beattie said. "They came up through the a-gap, two of them. Apparently, we got it off in under 2.1 (seconds), which is what we're supposed to do, so there must be some broken assignment in there somewhere."\n PSU backup quarterback Michael Robinson helped the Lions score two more touchdowns in the third quarter. First, he outsprinted junior linebacker Josh Moore around the left side for a 10-yard rushing touchdown. Then, on PSU's next possession, Robinson found a wide open Johnson for 30 yards and his third touchdown of the game.\nUp 45-7, the Nittany Lions still weren't done. With 18 seconds left in the quarter, junior IU quarterback Matt LoVecchio threw a pass that linebacker Paul Posluszny intercepted and returned 15 yards for a touchdown.\n"I hate when it gets like that, when it gets ugly," DiNardo said. "We're a better football team than we looked the second half of that game. I hated for it to get away like that, they had the pick for a touchdown and the blocked punt for a touchdown. That interrupts the flow of the game and they get two extra scores."\nThe Hoosiers did start the game on a positive note. Green-Ellis rushed eight times for 45 yards on the first drive and LoVecchio found senior wideout Glenn Johnson on a 12-yard scoring pass. Overall, Green-Ellis rushed 42 times for 203 yards, the fifth-best freshman rushing performance in IU history. He said he was proud of the accomplishment, but would have preferred the win. \n"It means something to me, but not as much as if we had won the game," he said. "On an individual basis it means a lot, but I wish I would've gotten 300 yards and we would have won the game."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/14/03 3:27pm)
When opposing teams kick off to the IU football team, they're sending the ball toward more than student athletes or football players. Waiting to receive it on one side is freshman Lance Bennett, IU's leading returner with 384 yards, who is also a gifted musician who co-penned Will Smith's hit "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)". On the other side is Courtney Clency, who averages 20.8 yards a return and is an accomplished concert pianist. \nSo far, the tandem has been working on the field. Bennett has a long return of 71 yards and Clency has one for 51 yards, helping propel IU to fourth in the Big Ten with a 20.7 kickoff return average.\nOff the field, both returners share a long history of music, even though it's not a topic they regularly discuss, both said.\n"When we talked about Lance coming to join our team that was the talk, that he'd done some work in the music industry," IU assistant coach Gerald Brown said. "And Courtney Clency, he does a little bit of everything. But I think that's one thing that people don't always see is players' talent outside of the game. Those guys are just blessed."\nFor Clency, piano playing was a way of life growing up. His father was a concert pianist who wanted his son to follow in his musical footsteps. \n"My dad did it, and that's what he's been doing his whole life," Clency said. "He was (playing for) his own choirs when he was 12, so I guess it just runs in the family, and my mom and dad wanted me to get started in it."\nClency began at 6 years old and has been playing ever since. Growing up, he had to practice an hour each day. Now, between football practice and school work, he said it's hard to find that much time. He is taking a piano class through the music school to make sure his talents don't fade.\n"It's something you have to keep doing so you don't lose it," Clency said.\nClency, a sports marketing major, wants to go to medical school but isn't ruling out the possibility of a musical career down the line.\n"I hope to continue for the rest of my life," he said. "Even if it's not me getting better and better, maybe just to keep me going."\nLike Clency, Bennett has been musically inclined for most of his life. He wrote his first song when he was eight years old, and writes all of the time today. He estimates he's written 100 songs so far. \nBennett carries around a digital tape recorder wherever he goes and stops to record any songwriting inspiration that comes to him. It could come walking down the street or sitting on an airplane, or even on the football field, he said. \n"A lot of times, I hate that, because I forget it," Bennett said. "There's no place for me to bring my recorder on the sidelines."\nBennett's biggest hit was "Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head)," which went to No. 3 on the Billboard charts for Smith. Bennett co-wrote the song with his two brothers, after one of them met the cousin of Smith's executive producer at Morgan State University. The four then got together in Philadelphia to write the verses for the song, and Smith chose which he liked and which he'd use. \n"From there it took off," Bennett said. "It just took off. It was exciting, but I've been doing it since I was eight." \nBennett and his brothers are now working on their own music. Together, this year they formed Third Power Music Group, an independent label Bennett said he hopes will find major distribution.\n"We're working on our own label now, our own music," he said. "As far as writing for other people, I'll do it, but I'm not really pressed to do it. We never started off trying to write for other people, we just met Will and it took off from there."\nEven though they never talk about music, neither Clency nor Bennett would rule out the possibility of co-writing a song together in the future.\n"No, there hasn't been (a song) yet, but there should be," Clency said laughing. "I'll be sure and talk to (Bennett) about that."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/14/03 2:17pm)
Checking out at a food court, waiting for an elevator or even picking up mail may all be exercises in commercialism for students next semester.\nThe Presidents' Council of the IU Residence Hall Association passed a bill sponsored by Residential Programs and Services Wednesday that will place big-screen plasma TVs in popular areas to display advertising, as well as student announcements.\nTen of IU's 11 residence centers supported the bill, even though RPS Executive Director Pat Connor told the board of presidents there has been no determination for what to do with the increased revenues. The televisions will be installed by Sadge Media, a campus advertising agency based in Cincinnati, and IU will receive approximately $30,000.\n"(What to do with the money) has not been determined yet," Connor said. "It will be an additional revenue source. One of the discussions could be in terms of dedicating a percentage to either student programs or scholarships. There are a whole different number of ways we could do that. This is a way, and other universities have done it, to support programs and scholarships through a residence hall setting."\nThe University of Cincinnati already has the Sadge Media TVs on its campus. Connor showed the residence center presidents a loop of ads from UC that included a segment about registering online and ads for several recently released feature films, army recruiting and the campus bookstore.\nFor IU, the TVs could appear as soon as January or February. Connor said it will start with just a handful of units, but the number will grow with time, perhaps even to other areas of campus outside of RPS.\n"We would start small," he said. "It might be as little as two or three, picking spaces we believe will give the best bang for the advertisers' dollar in addition to programs we're trying to promote on campus."\nThe exact locations for the TVs have yet to be determined, but Connor singled out the Gresham Food Court in Foster Quad and the food court in Wright Quad as prime targets. Each location will be able to control the volume of the TV, although permanently muting it likely won't be an option.\nSadge Media will install and replace any vandalized or malfunctioning televisions at no cost to IU. RPS will also have right of refusal over any ads Sadge Media offers, giving IU the chance to avoid conflicts with existing University contracts with Nike and Coca-Cola.\nFreshman Mike Zennie attended the presidents' meeting Wednesday night to protest the bill. He said the increased advertising is a dangerous precedent.\n"This is a terrible thing to accept carte blanche," Zennie said. "When will it end? Are we going to have TVs placed in all of our dorms, which run ads 24/7? This is really not a good precedent to start ... It's not even specified where the money is going."\nAfter nearly an hour of discussion with Connor Wednesday night, all but Collins Living-Learning Center voted in favor of the bill. In addition to the advertising, about 30 percent of the airtime will be dedicated to commercials and announcements for IU events.\nThat, and the possibility of seeing some of the $30,000 for his center, was enough for McNutt Quad president Joe Reid, a sophomore.\n"If they're going to put these in the food areas, it's a good deal," he said. "It will advertise for and bring money in for programs. It will make the student experience better."\nConnor said he knows there will be concerns that the TVs are a sign of overcommercialization, but he said they won't cheapen the campus atmosphere.\n"I don't believe so," he said. "There's a lot of corporate advertising already on this campus. Every day there's advertising in the Union, even though it's a different medium. You can walk across the Arboretum every day and someone is going to try and shove something in your face to join this or join that. I still think this is a personal choice. It's non-invasive; it's just there."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/12/03 6:07am)
For only the second time all year, IU football players could speak Sunday at the team meeting. When IU loses, players aren't allowed to talk, but Saturday's 17-14, come-from-behind victory over the Fighting Illini reinstated player speaking rights and elevated team spirits. \n"It's indescribable right now," junior receiver Courtney Roby said after the game. "I'm lost for words. Everybody played hard and I'm just proud of everybody."\nAll year, IU players and coaches have spoken about the need to overcome adversity. IU began the fourth quarter of Saturday's game with two false start penalties, an offensive pass interference call and a later-negated Illini punt return for a touchdown. They ended it reeling off 10 straight points for the team's first conference victory.\nThat, sophomore tailback Chris Taylor said, is exactly the mentality IU has been after all year. \n"You're going to always have adversity in the game, you just have to learn how to overcome it and that's what we did (Saturday)," Taylor said. "We went out and made that long drive and Matt went through at the end, completed all his passes and made the drive. I'm real proud right now."\nIU travels to Penn State next week, a team that's struggled to a 2-8 record overall, 0-6 in the conference. IU has never beaten the Nittany Lions in eight chances. Still, IU players are hopeful the team won't be silent next Sunday.\n"We have nothing to lose," senior safety Joe Gonzalez said. "You don't quit in anything you do and we're not about to quit here."
(11/07/03 3:33pm)
Something has to give. \nSaturday, IU will play host to Illinois in a game between the Big Ten's two bottom dwellers, each in search of its first conference win. IU, loser of six straight, hasn't won a conference game since October of last year.\nDespite being eliminated from bowl contention and facing the final games of a disappointing season, senior safety and captain Joe Gonzalez said there is no shortage of fight in the IU squad.\n"Obviously, we didn't attain the goals we set out for at the beginning of the season, but there's always something to play for," he said. "I'm a fifth-year senior, and I'm not going to go to a bowl game, but there's always something to play for. I play for my teammates, I play for the school, I play for all the guys on this team -- I love every one of them. You play for pride."\nThe Hoosiers will also be playing to avoid last place in the conference. With a loss Saturday, IU would have to win its remaining two games to avoid at least a share of last place for the second year in a row. \nThe Illini enter Saturday's game with only one win (49-22 over Illinois State), and have lost eight in a row since then. The team has been blown out in each of its Big Ten games, the closest being a 38-20 loss to Wisconsin. Still, IU players said they aren't preparing any differently for this game. \n"You look forward to every game, not just because it's Illinois," defensive lineman Jodie Clemons said. "We just want to come out, win a game and get better as a team." \nThe Hoosiers are coming off of a lopsided 55-7 loss at Minnesota in which the Gophers rushed for 435 yards and six touchdowns. But stopping the Illini may be an easier task. The Illini are last in the conference in rushing, with only 102.8 yards per game.\n"As a whole, we have to improve on stopping the run," Clemons said. "We didn't stop the run (against Minnesota). They barely threw the ball. We have to improve on that against Illinois."\nThe Hoosiers will have the benefit of a healthier team than last week. Junior quarterback Matt LoVecchio, who was kept out of the Minnesota game at the last minute with a concussion, practiced all week. Gonzalez and junior offensive lineman Chris Jahnke, who were carted off the field against the Gophers, and junior linebacker Josh Moore, who has missed the last two games, are all healthy and expected to play. However, IU will likely be without senior running back Brian Lewis.\nIn his weekly Big Ten press conference, IU coach Gerry DiNardo said he thinks this year's team is better than last year's, despite the worse record. He singled out the improved facilities and the performance of first and second-year players and called the upcoming class of recruits the best of his three years. \n"There's a lot of good things," DiNardo said. "The most difficult thing obviously is going into a late season game and only having one win, being out of bowl contention, keeping a team focused on this year and not next year and all those psychological things that occur to a team that has not won for nine years. Once you get past that, there really are a lot of positives."\nFor Gonzalez, there needs to be at least one more: a win Saturday.\n"Our backs are against the wall," he said. "Our record is not what we'd like, but you can find peace of mind in the fact that all you can do is fight. To me, that's exciting, that's an opportunity, that's what I play the game of football for."\n-- Contact staff reporter Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(11/03/03 6:46am)
MINNEAPOLIS -- IU coach Gerry DiNardo said earlier in the week that quarterback Graeme McFarland wouldn't get an early opportunity Saturday against the Gophers.\nInstead, the freshman backup played the whole game.\nMcFarland subbed for an injured Matt LoVecchio at the last minute, but ultimately netted similar results. The Gophers dominated IU, slicing through the defense while holding back the offense in the 55-7 rout. Minnesota racked up 438 yards rushing and eight touchdowns in its biggest conference win since 1949. \n"We did terrible," junior defensive lineman Jodie Clemons said. "They ran the ball down our throats, and we weren't disciplined in our gaps. You can't win football games like that. We did awful."\nDiNardo learned Friday night his starting quarterback would be unavailable and informed the players, including LoVecchio, the morning of the game. \n"It put us in a bad position because Graeme could have gotten more reps during the week," freshman tailback BenJarvus Green-Ellis said. "But, as a unit, we have to come out and make those adjustments to anything that happens. Today, we just didn't do it."\nThe Gophers feature the top offense in the Big Ten, and it showed Saturday. Minnesota interchanged running backs Laurence Maroney, Marion Barber III and Thomas Tapeh and all three were able to break through the IU defense. Maroney and Barber each had 100-yard days and one touchdown, while Tapeh, a fullback, added 65 yards and a pair of scores. \nU-M also used wide receiver end-arounds, finishing with a 7.0 yards per carry average and scoring six touchdowns on the ground. \n"We had trouble stopping the run on defense and I think that obviously was our biggest problem," DiNardo said. "... I think our inability to stop the run was probably the most critical part of the game that set us back."\nThe U-M defense actually scored the team's first points. Just under a minute into the game, McFarland was blindsided by junior safety Justin Fraley. He fumbled, and sophomore safety John Pawielski scooped up the loose ball and returned it for the score. \nAfter a Barber touchdown in the first quarter, the Gophers scored three more in the second, two on the ground and one on a pass to tight end Ben Utecht. The last was a two-play drive in which Maroney rushed both times for 38 yards, seeming to break past the IU defense with ease. \nThe Hoosiers scored their lone touchdown of the game in the second quarter, when sophomore running back Chris Taylor got into the end zone on a fourth and one play. Taylor rushed 13 times for 36 yards on the drive.\n"That was a pretty long drive," Taylor said. "The line was blocking, and we were moving the ball real well. We got to the goal line and had a triple-out formation with two fullbacks. I got the blocks, and it was wide open. I went in untouched."\nUnfortunately for IU, that was all the scoring the team would do. Minnesota added two more rushing touchdowns in the third quarter and another in the fourth, topping off the score at 55-7. It marked the most lopsided loss of DiNardo's two years, and the worst since IU was beaten 58-0 at Michigan in 2000. \n"We didn't go out and play fundamental football the way we usually play fundamental football," senior cornerback Duane Stone said. "(Saturday) was a bad day for us. We need to go back to the drawing board and play our defense. This wasn't us out there today"
(10/30/03 7:13am)
There will be no quarterback controversy on the IU football team. \nNot this week, anyway. \nWhen asked at his weekly press conference Tuesday if backup quarterback Graeme McFarland might get into a series of downs in IU's game at Minnesota Saturday, coach Gerry DiNardo was clear and direct.\n"No," was all he said.\nDiNardo also said senior quarterback Matt LoVecchio, who left the Ohio State game Saturday feeling dizzy, is fine and isn't showing any lingering effects from the injury.\nThe IU faithful won't get a chance to see how McFarland fares against a starting defense. The freshman subbed for LoVecchio in the closing minutes of the OSU game and was a perfect six-for-six, including a 17-yard touchdown pass to sophomore tailback Chris Taylor on a screen. That touchdown was half as many as the two LoVecchio has thrown all season. \nStill, McFarland said that doesn't mean he should get an opportunity to play.\n"It doesn't mean anything like that," he said. "Ohio State had their second defense in, and the DBs were kind of playing back and prevent. It's not like I went in there in the middle of the game where they had all their starters in. It's an honor to get (a touchdown pass), but it doesn't really mean anything that we've had two and we got one (Saturday)."
(10/30/03 7:12am)
Walking across the Memorial Stadium field on game days brings back memories for Courtney Roby. The junior wide receiver remembers coming to IU regularly when he was seven years old to see his uncle -- former IU wideout Rob Turner -- play on Saturdays.\n"I would come down whenever possible to see him," Roby said. "It was kind of surprising, because I actually have a picture of when I was seven years old, going across the field with my uncle into the locker room. It's kind of shocking how I can see that and, look at me now, I'm actually playing here."\nRoby is doing more than just following in his uncle's footsteps, although he does sometimes call Turner for football advice. Against Ohio State, Roby had six catches for 47 yards, pushing his career total to 1,532 yards. That secured him a space in the IU record books, 10th all time and only 45 yards away from ninth. \nWith a year and a third left, Roby figures to be moving up that list considerably. Teammate and linebacker Josh Moore said Roby is a constant threat for opposing defenses.\n"He's incredible, he's a really good player," he said. "He's fast, he has great hands, he has everything a good receiver needs to compete in the Big Ten, or any conference for that matter. He can hang with the best. He's very tough to defend against, very tough."\nRoby almost wasn't a Hoosier. Leaning toward signing with Michigan State, he went on a last-minute recruiting trip to IU. Once here, the combination of the campus and the then-coaching staff convinced him to reconsider. \nAs a freshman, Roby played in an offense built around senior stars Antwaan Randle-El and Levron Williams. He had only 11 catches on the year but did start three games. \nWith the next season came a new coaching staff and a new scheme that emphasized the passing game. Given the opportunity, Roby delivered. He caught 59 balls and tied for third in the conference with 86.6 receiving yards per game.\n"I was very happy when coach (Gerry) DiNardo and coach (Al) Borges brought the West Coast offense, because the opportunities were there," Roby said. "I've just tried to take advantage of it. I'm still trying to take advantage of it now."\nRoby's breakout season wasn't without flaws. The receiver's catch total could have been even greater, were it not for dropped balls, a problem that seemed to plague him much of the year.\nOver the winter and spring, IU wide receivers coach Brian McNeely developed a hand-eye coordination program for all his receivers. Three times a week, Roby would catch more than 300 balls a day.\nThe difference has been noticeable.\n"I've come very far, very far," Roby said. "I can't remember any dropped balls I've had so far. At the end of the season, I look back on things I've messed up on and try to improve and that was one of them last year."\nThere is one more thing Roby's photograph may remind him of. At seven years old, he began playing football and for the first time he dreamed of one day playing in the NFL. McNeely said he needs to improve, but with his talent, anything is possible. \n"Staying healthy, continuing to pay attention to detail, continue to improve on his route running and obviously, catch every ball that comes his way," McNeely said. "I think as he continues to do those things, his potential is somewhat unlimited. He has the physical tools to be one of the top players in the league."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
(10/27/03 5:42am)
Through three quarters of play Saturday, IU was outgained in yards by the Buckeyes more than nine times over, 461 to 51.\nWhile the Hoosier offense was going against the top defense in the Big Ten and one of the best in the country, the IU defense faced a Buckeye squad that ranked 10th in the conference in both pass and run offense. \nThe Hoosiers couldn't stop either.\nOSU gained 603 yards on the day, the most at home since IU gave up 606 to Kentucky six years ago.\n"We didn't come to play, that's all I have to say," junior safety Herana-Daze Jones said. "We're trying to rebuild our program, so we're going to take some bumps on the way. This was just one of them ... (OSU) had a good day on offense. They were on the field the whole time."\nThe Buckeyes asserted their offensive dominance from the opening drive of the game. OSU running back Lydell Ross had little trouble getting through the IU defensive line, racking up 67 yards and a touchdown on six carries.\nRoss had 100 yards rushing by the end of the quarter, and finished the day with 170 on the ground and 33 through the air.\nIU coach Gerry DiNardo said he was disappointed with the defense's difficulty containing the run, particularly its inability to plug the holes that Ross and OSU exploited.\n"We didn't fit the defense," DiNardo said. "I give Ohio State a lot of credit, but we have played gap defense much better than we played today. There is a player that is supposed to be there, and he wasn't always there. It was disappointing that we didn't play better gap control defense because we have during the season."\nOSU's success against the IU defense wasn't limited to the ground game. OSU freshman wideout Roy Hall beat IU freshman cornerback Cedric Henry for 49-yard play-action reception to set up OSU's second touchdown of the game. The Buckeye passing game was efficient, as OSU senior quarterback Craig Krenzel completed first-down passes on three of the Buckeyes' first four third downs. \nOSU converted five of its 11 third downs and both of its fourth downs, punting only twice in the game. Defensive lineman Jodie Clemons said that was one of IU's breakdowns.\n"We didn't get off of the field on third down," he said. "It's tough to win football games like that."\nThe lone defensive bright spots for IU came on turnovers. IU forced three; two fumble recoveries and an interception by Henry. The fumbles both came inside the IU 10-yard line, and saved a more lop-sided score.\nStill, Krenzel, who finished with 272 yards and a touchdown, said the IU defense has the players to succeed in the future. \n"They've got some talent and they're going to be a solid football team," Krenzel said. "I think the thing that made it most difficult for them today is we ran the ball well and we threw the ball well. Anytime you're faced with an offense that's balanced and can do both, it's a tremendous challenge for a defense."\n-- Contact staff writer Gavin Lesnick at glesnick@indiana.edu.
