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(01/31/02 4:43am)
Sen. John Waterman, D-39th district, has proposed legislation that would prohibit homosexuals from adopting or providing foster care for children in Indiana for the second year in a row.\nSen. Waterman proposed Bill 182 for the current session of the General Assembly in the beginning of January. He filed Bill 144, a similar bill, during the opening week of the 2001 General Assembly. \nIf lawmakers support Waterman's bill, Indiana will become the second state in the nation to ban homosexuals from adopting children. Florida is currently the only state to outlaw gay and lesbian adoption.\nWaterman was unavailable for comment, but in a press release following the adoption bill of 2001, he said that many constituents in his rural district agree with him regarding the immorality of homosexuality.\n"Our society continues to reward degenerative, un-Christian, immoral behavior," Waterman said in the release.\nWaterman said children who grow up raised by homosexual parents are prone to higher stress levels.\n"In our society, children have so many obstacles to face," Waterman said. "I just want to help prevent other impediments that may have a negative impact on these kids lives."\nChild welfare is a major concern for General Assembly members, but other Indiana lawmakers don't share Waterman's point of view.\n"There is absolutely no justification for denying a child from being adopted by loving parents or being placed with caring foster parents," Rep. Mark Kruzan, D-Bloomington, said.\nRep. Peggy Welch, D-Bloomington, agreed. \n"I believe that the decision of where a child should be placed (should) just be based on the recommendations of social workers and the verdict of the judge," Welch said.\nSteve Sanders, Indiana state coordinator of The Human Rights Campaign, works to educate lawmakers about homosexuality. The HRC is the nation's largest gay/lesbian political group. Sanders is also an IU administrative staff member.\nDespite Waterman's efforts, hundreds of thousands of homosexuals are raising children in America, Sanders said. The most important question is whether or not children's needs are filled. Kruzan agreed that child welfare is the central issue.\n"There are bad people of all sexual orientations," Kruzan said. "Our goal should be to ensure the good people who wish to provide children with a good home are able to do so."\nAndrew Wilson, a third-year graduate student at IU and the President of Allys, a group for straight allies to the IU Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community, said that homosexuals can make good parents.\n"Contrary to popular belief, there is no evidence that homosexuals make worse or better parents than heterosexuals," Wilson said.\nRegardless of the controversy surrounding Bill 182, it might not even make it to committee this year because the General Assembly is running out of time for this session, said Amanda Hillard Beam, Waterman's press secretary.
(01/15/02 5:35am)
When Jenn Christy graduated from IU last spring, the IU women's swimming team lost their most accomplished swimmer of all-time in terms of awards and records. Christy is the school record holder in the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle and was a ten time All-American during her career as a Hoosier.\nHeading into this year, head coach Dorsey Tierney knew it wouldn't be easy to fill the role in the sprint events left by Christy's departure. But after swimming behind Christy last year and participating with Christy on the IU free relay teams, junior Anne Williams has stepped up for the Hoosiers.\n"Anne has put herself in a real nice position at this point," Tierney said. "I think Anne probably of anyone sticks out in my mind as really raising her level of performance."\nTierney says Williams will have to continue to improve, but that her confidence will help her to keep swimming well.\n"Anne is consistently one of the best workout performers and she has been for the last three years," Tierney said. "She has a nice steady balance now and that is nice to see. We want to build on that and hopefully continue to get a little bit better.\nWilliams holds the third fastest times in school history in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard freestyle, but she will look to better those times as the Hoosiers head into the spring championship meets. She posted a personal season best time in the 100-yard freestyle against Ohio State last weekend. But most of all, Williams was pleased to break the 52-second mark in a regular season dual meet.\n"I have been trying to break 52 (seconds) for a long time in season," Williams said. "It is a good barrier for me to finally overcome, and I am happy for that."\nSenior teammate Susan Woessner, who races with Williams in the sprint events and on relays, has been impressed with what Williams has done this season.\n"Anne has been phenomenal this year," Woessner said. "She is a constant who we always know will pull through on the relays, she really gets up for relay swims. In training, she is an amazingly hard worker. We are training partners and she always brings her best to the pool and pushes me."\nWilliams, a native of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., where she attended Seaholm High School, was a 1999 Michigan State Champion in the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle. She was a four time high school All-American and was an All-Big Ten selection and Honorable Mention All-American last year.\nWilliams said she swam in middle school because her friends did it, but that she didn't begin swimming year-round until her junior year of high school. Even with a late start on swimming full-time, Williams drew the attention of schools such as Oakland (Mich.), Arizona State and Michigan State. But Williams selected IU in part due to Tierney.\n"Dorsey (Tierney) was the main reason that I even started looking at IU," Williams said. "I had heard really good things about her when she was an assistant coach at SMU (Southern Methodist University). Some of my swimming friends told me she was the coach at IU and that I should check it out. I came on a recruiting trip here and I liked everything about the campus and the team."\nAfter her collegiate career is over, Williams says she might continue swimming, depending on her development in the next year and a half. Williams says she would like to go to graduate school and study either computers or math if she doesn't remain in swimming. She was an Academic All-Big Ten selection last year and is currently a math education major.
(12/10/01 4:53am)
September\nSept. 10: Former IU Alumni Association president Jerry Tardy died following a long battle with cancer. Known as "Uncle Jerry," Tardy served as president of the IU Varsity Club and the IU Foundation. A 1962 IU graduate, Tardy began working for the University in 1968 and helped raise $5.2 million to construct the Virgil T. DeVault Alumni Center. He also helped sign a contract with 20th Century Fox studios for the movie "Breaking Away," based on the annual Little 500 race.\nSept. 10: Regarding the one-year \nanniversary of the Bob Knight firing, IU President Myles Brand says "The University has moved on, I've moved on."\nSept. 11: In the most devastating attack on U.S. soil to date, terrorists toppled two of the World Trade Center's five towers in the heart of downtown Manhattan; caused substantial damage on the Pentagon in Washington; and took down a plane in Pennsylvania. \nSept. 25: 38-year-old NBA legend Michael Jordan announced his intent to return to professional basketball with the Washington Wizards. \nOctober\nOct. 1: Four unregistered solicitors were banned from campus after illegally soliciting student information through fake credit card applications. The IU Police Department was dispatched to the Indiana Memorial Union after students reported the solicitors. \nOct. 2: The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a $345 spending bill that would raise military salaries and increase federal spending for President George W. Bush's missile defense program. \nOct. 4: Dean of Students Richard McKaig formally expelled Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity from campus after a sophomore pledge was hospitalized with a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit, making the chapter the fifth expelled within the last 18 months. The chapter unsuccessfully appealed the board's unanimous two-year expulsion to the greek judicial board, and members of the chapter were forced to move out of the house at 1012 E. Third St. \nOct. 4: Men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley gains 500th career victory.\nOct. 7: The U.S. and Britain launched the first in a series of missile attacks against Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan under campaign "Enduring Freedom." Bin Laden responded with a videotaped statement calling United States officials "full of fear."\nOct. 8: Voicing protest to U.S. bombings of Afghanistan, a group of self-described "peace campers" created a tent city in Dunn Meadow, a section of campus designated for expression of free speech. Maintained by members of Students for a Nonviolent Solution, the tent city is still intact. \nOct. 9: Alpha Omicron Pi sorority canceled all planned events for Homecoming one week after a chapter member reported an alleged rape at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. There were no witnesses to the incident. \nOct. 10: Former Ohio State University Provost Sharon Brehm was formally installed as Chancellor of the Bloomington campus in a ceremony at the IU Auditorium. \nOct. 12: About $1,300 was stolen from the IU Student Association offices. The money was \ndesignated for the Red Cross and other relief charities.\nOct. 15: The threat of anthrax exploded on a national scale as letters sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and an ABC News employee were reported to contain amounts of the hazardous substance. \nOct. 16: A national scare spread to campus as \nhazardous materials teams responded to three reports of anthrax exposure in Wright and Foster Quads. All three substances proved harmless. The federal government \ncontinued to warn Americans of the seriousness of the possibility of \nepidemic, claiming those who fake anthrax scares will face federal \nprosecution.\nOct. 17: The Genocide Awareness Project displays posters and pamphlets inside the Sample Gates.\nOct. 18: President George W. Bush nominates IU board of trustees president James T. Morris to serve as ambassador to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Rome.\nOct. 23: IU trustee John Walda accepts post as new executive director of federal relations for the University. IU President Myles Brand created the new position.\nOct. 25: A Bloomington man faces charges of attempted murder after two sherrif's deputies were shot in a shootout.\nOct. 26: IU Dance Marathon raises more than $400,000 for Riley Hospital for Children. The 36-hour fundraiser took place in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building.\nOct. 26: $2,300 from student basketball season ticket funds were stolen from the IU Athletic ticket office.\nOct. 30: After two unsuccessful attempts by the Eigenmann Resident Association to merge with the Residence Halls Association, Eigenmann Hall residents passed a 183-42 referendum allowing the historically self-governing living unit to merge with RHA. \nNovember\nNov. 4: After only four years in professional baseball, the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the New York Yankees to win the World Series.\nNov. 7: President George W. Bush issued a national freeze on Afghan terrorist Osama bin Laden's financial networks in the first large-scale crackdown on Americans suspected of aiding terrorist efforts. \nNov. 8: The family of Seth Korona, an IU freshman killed following head injuries sustained at a Jan. 27 party at Theta Chi fraternity, announced plans to sue the fraternity's international headquarters, the local chapter and Bloomington Hospital. Korona died Feb. 4 of bleeding to the brain resulting from a skull fracture. The suit was filed in an Indianapolis federal district court Nov. 9. \nNov 8: The Indianapolis Star loses a lawsuit requesting \npublic disclosure of records relating to the investigation \nsurrounding former men's basketball coach Bob Knight. Appeals were anticipated.\nNov. 9: Men's soccer team members are honored with several awards. Coach Jerry Yeagley, coach of the year; Pat Noonan, player of the year; and Mike Ambersley, freshman of the year.\nNov. 11: The men's soccer team emerged the victor in the 11th Big Ten Championship in Madison, Wis., earning Coach Jerry Yeagley his team's ninth Big Ten title. IU (14-3-1) defeated No. 5 seed Michigan and No. 3 seed Michigan State in the tournament's final round.\nNov. 12: American Airlines 587 crashed in residential Queens, N.Y., three minutes following takeoff, killing all 260 passengers and crew on board. The National Transportation Safety Board credits mechanical failure with the plane's demise.\nNov. 13: President George W. Bush signs an order allowing the federal government to use a special military tribunal to indict accused terrorists more quickly and secretly. \nNov. 15: Gov. Frank O'Bannon proposes a state budget that would cut $55 million from IU's share of state subsidies. Indiana Higher Education Commissioner Stan Jones claimed large-scale tuition hikes, program cuts and \nlayoffs will likely result from the proposed plan.\nNov. 16: Former presidential candidate Elizabeth Dole speaks to students at the IU Auditorium. Her speech centers around the tragedies of Sept. 11.\nNov. 16: Former IU vice president for public affairs and government relations Christopher Simpson was revealed to be receiving at least $10,000 a month for acting on consulting basis to the University. Cited as a "transition issue" by IU board of trustees vice president Frederick Eichhorn, Simpson's contract enabled him to be employed by IU during the period in which Bill Stephan took over his position.\nNov. 24: The football team defeated rival Purdue 13-7 at home, claiming the Old Oaken Bucket in front of 36,685 fans at Memorial Stadium. Senior quarterback Antwaan Randle El passed former Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning in total yards.\nNov. 25: Boston-based Advanced Cell Technology announced the first cloning of human cells. The claim, which President George W. Bush deemed "morally wrong," sparked considerable controversy between liberal and conservative factions on Capitol Hill. \nNov. 27: Bloomington Sgt. Russell Brummett was suspended for 60 days by Sheriff Steven Sharp for his participation and assistance in an alleged domestic assault.\nNov. 29: Senior quarterback Antwaan Randle El announced as nation's first-team All-American quarterback by the Football Writers Association of America.\nNov. 28: University administrators announced plans to curb underage drinking on campus by imposing new restrictions on tailgating at athletic events. \nNov. 29: IU President Myles Brand announces the Unviersity will face "painful, real" budget cuts as a result of state budget cuts.\nNov. 27: The IU pom and crimson squads are told they have less than a week to raise about $17,000 to cover costs for a trip to a national cheer and dance competition in Orlando, Fla. IU Athletics director Michael McNeely claimed the team "blewe through" its budget. The team raised most of the $17,000 and planned to attend the competition.\nDecember \nDec. 2: Seven days after a suicide bombing aboard a bus in Haifa, Israel, left 15 dead, a similar terrorist attack in the same city left 29 wounded at a bus stop. \nDec. 2: Vice President of Administration Terry Clapacs says nine or 10 IU Physical Plant employees could lose their jobs.\nDec. 4: In a proposal supported by Athletics Director Michael McNeely and basketball coach Mike Davis, the Bloomington Faculty Council endorsed a resolution placing greater emphasis on IU academics and less on athletics.\nDec. 5: Athletics Director Michael McNeely announced the firing of football coach Cam Cameron. Cameron was fired after a five year stint at IU, having led the Hoosiers to an 18-37 record during his tenure. \nDec. 7: Former men's basketball coach Bob Knight decides to hold his lawsuit against IU until the end of the basketball season.\nDec. 7: An employee of a Goshen, Ind., plant went on a shooting rampage, killing one co-worker and wounding six others before killing himself. \nDec. 9: For the fifth consecutive year, the men's soccer team earns a trip to the College Cup. \nDec. 9: In an attempt to flush out terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, American warplanes began an intense air campaign in eastern Afghanistan.
(11/08/01 5:00am)
A couple of short, stubby candles cast a warm light on Frank Winegar's boyish face. A severe thunderstorm has knocked out the electricity in eastern Bloomington, leaving Winegar and his roommates in a dark living room.\nBut thanks to a glossy photo of a shirtless, grinning Winegar in a popular women's magazine, the fifth-year senior has pointed a national spotlight on himself and his roommates in the local band Kirkwood.\nWinegar, 22, is featured in the November, "All-About Men" issue of Cosmopolitan magazine as Mr. Indiana on the pages containing 51 other mostly 20-something college students, part-time models and construction workers who won a national contest promoting single, "All-American" men.\nWinegar says he entered the contest to promote the band. So far, his scheme seems to be working. Winegar also has used his business savvy to rejuvenate one of the campus' largest fraternities and elevate his academics.\nWith the title, Winegar gets his own Cosmopolitan e-mail address that has been bombarded with letters from women from such places as California, Montana and Canada. The week after the magazine came out, hits on Kirkwood's Web site jumped from 40 hits a week to 140 a day.\n"Around here, if people notice it, they don't say anything, which is fine with me because I didn't do it for an ego boost," Winegar says. "I knew that once I got it I wanted it to be a big plug for the band."\nWinegar's girlfriend of more than a year, sophomore Stephanie Gadient, says she doesn't mind all the attention. Sure, it's sparked some jealousy, but she says she also feels pride because Indiana's hottest guy belongs to her. She met him last fall at a party at his fraternity, Sigma Pi, when she came across his black Labrador puppy, Sophie. \nFrank Winegar's mother, Deborah, saw an advertisement for Cosmopolitan's contest last May and persuaded her son to enter. She snapped photos of 5-foot-11, shirtless Winegar in front of trees in their backyard in South Bend with a disposable camera bought at Wal-Mart.\nGadient and Deborah Winegar co-authored the comment about Frank Winegar being a "kick-ass guy" that appears with the photo. \nWinegar says he was one of few winners to not be in possession of glossy portfolios and business cards at the Los Angeles photo shoot. Despite a poison oak outbreak that swelled his face, Winegar's profile was chosen as one of few single-page displays in the magazine. He says the photo director at the shoot told him he could find work with Abercrombie and Fitch or American Eagle.\nAs for modeling, "I would pursue music first, but it wouldn't hurt on the side," Winegar says.
(11/08/01 4:28am)
A couple of short, stubby candles cast a warm light on Frank Winegar's boyish face. A severe thunderstorm has knocked out the electricity in eastern Bloomington, leaving Winegar and his roommates in a dark living room.\nBut thanks to a glossy photo of a shirtless, grinning Winegar in a popular women's magazine, the fifth-year senior has pointed a national spotlight on himself and his roommates in the local band Kirkwood.\nWinegar, 22, is featured in the November, "All-About Men" issue of Cosmopolitan magazine as Mr. Indiana on the pages containing 51 other mostly 20-something college students, part-time models and construction workers who won a national contest promoting single, "All-American" men.\nWinegar says he entered the contest to promote the band. So far, his scheme seems to be working. Winegar also has used his business savvy to rejuvenate one of the campus' largest fraternities and elevate his academics.\nWith the title, Winegar gets his own Cosmopolitan e-mail address that has been bombarded with letters from women from such places as California, Montana and Canada. The week after the magazine came out, hits on Kirkwood's Web site jumped from 40 hits a week to 140 a day.\n"Around here, if people notice it, they don't say anything, which is fine with me because I didn't do it for an ego boost," Winegar says. "I knew that once I got it I wanted it to be a big plug for the band."\nWinegar's girlfriend of more than a year, sophomore Stephanie Gadient, says she doesn't mind all the attention. Sure, it's sparked some jealousy, but she says she also feels pride because Indiana's hottest guy belongs to her. She met him last fall at a party at his fraternity, Sigma Pi, when she came across his black Labrador puppy, Sophie. \nFrank Winegar's mother, Deborah, saw an advertisement for Cosmopolitan's contest last May and persuaded her son to enter. She snapped photos of 5-foot-11, shirtless Winegar in front of trees in their backyard in South Bend with a disposable camera bought at Wal-Mart.\nGadient and Deborah Winegar co-authored the comment about Frank Winegar being a "kick-ass guy" that appears with the photo. \nWinegar says he was one of few winners to not be in possession of glossy portfolios and business cards at the Los Angeles photo shoot. Despite a poison oak outbreak that swelled his face, Winegar's profile was chosen as one of few single-page displays in the magazine. He says the photo director at the shoot told him he could find work with Abercrombie and Fitch or American Eagle.\nAs for modeling, "I would pursue music first, but it wouldn't hurt on the side," Winegar says.
(11/08/01 4:02am)
Hundreds of firefighters demonstrated in New York City Friday, protesting a decision to cut the number of workers searching for bodies at the World Trade Center site. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani announced that the cuts were made because of worker safety concerns. The Associated Press reported the mayor wants no more than 24 firefighters and 24 police officers at ground zero at any time.\n Firefighters protesting the decision say they are doing so for fear that the recovery effort will turn into a "full-time construction scoop-and-dump operation," according to the Associated Press.\n It is completely understandable why New York firefighters want to spend time helping at ground zero. Their efforts are obviously not about receiving overtime but over concern and respect for the 250 fellow firefighters whose bodies still lie at the site and for the countless other civilian casualties also there. \nBut Giuliani is correct in cutting back the forces working at the site. The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks left the New York City Fire Department severely understaffed. Although 240 training academy graduates received diplomas last week, the Department still needs 100 more to bring its numbers up to what they were before Sept. 11. Although the situation at the World Trade Center site is at the forefront of everyone's minds, particularly in New York City, Giuliani needs to make sure that the Fire Department is prepared to fight other fires. Permitting firefighters to work around the clock by spending off hours helping at ground zero, means they could be fatigued and tired when working a normal shift.\nNobody wants to see the World Trade Center site turn into a "scoop-and-dump" operation. But although life isn't the same, life is going on -- and unfortunately that means New York will face other fires or dangerous situations. While the protester's hearts are in the right place, Giuliani's decision will make the Fire Department more capable of dealing with future situations.\nStaff vote: 10 - 5 - 0\nyes - no - abstain
(11/06/01 6:05am)
The women's soccer team is anchored by talented midfielders. Sophomore Emily Hotz; juniors Lisa Tecklenburg, Kara Bryan, Dana Philp; and seniors Stacey Peterson and Kelly Kram make the position one of the most balanced on the team.\nFor Jessica Laswell, that presented a problem. As a midfielder, it was going to be difficult to see much playing time this season as a freshman. But under the direction of coach Joe Kelley and with a strong work ethic and dedication to the team, the walk-on was able to end the season as a contributing starting player for the Hoosiers.\nLaswell is from Lexington, Ky. She could have attended smaller schools to play college soccer on a scholarship, but after attending some of the soccer camps in Bloomington, she decided IU was where she wanted to play. Her motivation to achieve at IU stemmed from being told by the coach at the University of Kentucky that she wasn't good enough to play there. That sparked a relentless work \nethic for Laswell so she could prove to herself that she could make it at IU. \n"It is so much fun now that I had the opportunity to play and start the last few games of the season," Laswell said. "Not that it wasn't fun when I wasn't playing, but it is so exciting to get back out there and play a lot of minutes like I did in high school."\nLaswell got her first start of the year in the most important game for the Hoosiers this season, facing a must-win situation against Purdue a week-and-a-half ago. She responded by playing strongly all around. \nLaswell saw action in five games this year, including starting the last four. While she didn't tally any points, she helped the Hoosiers go 2-1-1 in the final four games to secure a winning season.\nKelley is happy with the freshman's progression. \n"She has done great," Kelley said. "She has a tremendous attitude, she is fast and we knew she would be a great athlete. She is a hard worker, is out at practice early and stays late. She didn't play much in the beginning, but she worked hard and waited for her chance. She is making the most of her time."\nSophomore Kristin Pimlott has worked closely with Laswell this season. \n"No one expected her to have a significant contribution to the team this year," Pimlott said. "I knew she was a hard worker though, so I'm not surprised she was able to prove herself."\nLaswell is a loose player, and as a freshman, was able to be one of the team's leaders with her relaxed attitude and sense of humor.\n"It was intimidating coming here as a freshman and trying to be so outgoing, but I was always like that," Laswell said. "I was nervous, but I came out of my shell gradually."\nPimlott agreed that Laswell's attitude is a great attribute for the Hoosiers.\n"She gets along with everybody," she said. "Laswell just has so much energy. It's always a good time with her."\nKelley thinks Laswell's best quality is her attitude. \n"She is willing to learn and willing to work hard to learn," Kelley said.\nThe Hoosiers are graduating two vocal leaders at the end of the year in Kram and Butler. Laswell will likely have more of a leadership role next year. \n"She can be a great leader," Kelley said. "I want to see her have the confidence to do that."\nLaswell thinks she could be a positive leader for the team. \n"I was captain for my high school team and it was a great honor," Laswell said. "It would be fun to have that same honor here"
(11/02/01 4:03am)
Governor decides to merge State Police, Capital Police\nINDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Frank O'Bannon is placing the Captiol Police, the 60-member force that patrols the Statehouse and state government complex, under the jurisdiction of the Indiana State Police.\nO'Bannon said Thursday the move would create efficiencies and coordination, increase security at the government complex because more officers could patrol at any given time, and provide a career ladder for Capitol Police officers who want to become troopers.\nThe Capitol Police will be renamed the Special Enforcement Section of the State Police, and graduates of the training academy would first join its ranks. Capitol Police are now under the jurisdiction of the Department of Administration.\nSome members of the new section will replace troopers who now patrol the state's riverboat casinos, freeing up more experienced State Police officers for road duty and other assignments. Indiana now has 1,264 troopers.\nNew officers assigned to the casinos would eventually get priority to stay in the communities where they have established their homes, which O'Bannon said should help in recruitment.\nState Police Superintendent Melvin Carraway and Glenn Lawrence, commissioner of the Department of Administration, developed the plan for the merger, O'Bannon said.\nCarraway said the change would improve police services and protection provided to 8,300 workers at the government complex and visitors to its buildings.\n"This is the prudent course of action to take, especially in light of our enormous national and state public safety challenges," Carraway said in a statement.\nThe Indiana Counter-Terrorism and Security Council is reviewing security at the government complex after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington and subsequent events.\nO\'Bannon spokeswoman Mary Dieter said the governor had the legal authority to merge the agencies, but legislation will be sought to solidify the move in state statute.\nDon Cook, executive director of the Indiana State Police Alliance -- an advocacy organization for troopers -- said he did not want to comment until the group had time to review the plan.\n'Puzzling' mother, son deaths rules natural causes\nLEAVENWORTH, Ind. -- Investigators believe a retired police officer might have died suddenly in September, leaving no one to care for his elderly mother in their isolated home where they were not found until weeks after their deaths.\nThe bodies of Terry Donald Delisle, 54, and his mother, Constance Delisle, 81, were discovered Friday when a mail carrier called police after noticing they had not picked up their mail or newspaper in a month.\nInvestigators found no signs of foul play or anything suggesting the deaths were not natural, Crawford County Sheriff Richard Scott said Wednesday.\nAutopsies did not reveal how the deaths came so close together, Deputy Coroner Barry Hubbell said. The state of decomposition in both bodies was very similar, indicating the deaths were not separated by much time, he said.\n"It's a puzzling case," Scott said. "Why would two people be dead at the same time? It's one of those unusual things. It's a sad thing, too -- you've got two people alone and nobody checking on them."\nAuthorities believe Terry Delisle, a retired Louisville, Ky., police officer, might have suffered a heart attack or some other sudden medical complication. He was a diabetic and a smoker, and the autopsy found signs of serious coronary-artery disease.\nHis mother was afflicted by dementia, but little else was known about her medical history, Scott said.\nTheir house is about 200 yards from any other homes, on a rarely used road about 35 miles west of Louisville.\nDelisle had worked as a security guard since retiring from the Louisville Police Department in 1990 after 20 years. He had been hired in May as a guard at a Louisville bank, but in July took a medical leave and had not returned, Scott said.\nThe bodies have gone unclaimed and detectives have been talking with Terry Delisle's former co-workers and friends, trying to find any relatives.\n"We're going to make every attempt to ... find some relative," Scott said. "There's got to be a cousin or an uncle someplace, somewhere."\nDocuments question Ford Explorer design\nINDIANAPOLIS -- An attorney representing people killed or injured in Ford Explorers said Thursday that previously sealed court documents offer evidence that vehicle design problems contributed to the deadly rollovers.\nAdditional documents unsealed by a federal judge claim that U.S. executives at Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. and Ford Motor Co. delayed taking precautionary actions abroad despite evidence of problems with the sport utility vehicle and its tires. Both companies deny these claims.\nThe documents, part of lawsuits against Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, refer to investigations in Venezuela that found problems both with faulty tires and the vehicles\' suspensions.\nMore than 300 personal injury and class-action lawsuits against the two companies have been consolidated here in the U.S. District Court of Southern Indiana.\n\"The significance of the underlying documents is that it\'s clear that the engineers in Venezuela were critical of the stability of the Ford Explorer vehicle, and believed that a problem in the design of the vehicle was contributing to the rollover accidents,\" said Victor Diaz, co-lead counsel for the plaintiff\'s personal injury and wrongful death claims.\nThe primary document in question is one that Ford inadvertently released during the discovery process. A federal judge earlier this month denied Ford\'s request that the document be returned.\nThe 1999 report by Ford engineers in Venezuela who were investigating rollover accidents said the vehicle\'s shock absorbers were too soft for the country\'s terrain, and that the tires were experiencing tread separation.\nThrough the discovery process, Diaz said evidence exists that Ford disregarded these design concerns because it feared a design change in Venezuela would also require a change in U.S. models.\nFord spokesman Ken Zino denied that claim, and says the Venezuelan report was merely an initial report by a junior engineer.\nA separate brief submitted by the plaintiffs and recently unsealed accuses both Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone of disregarding problems with the tires and the Ford Explorer\'s suspension in Venezuela. In the document, Diaz wrote that the two companies \"withheld material information regarding the full extent of the problem, committed egregious errors of judgment\" and \"delayed taking corrective or preventative action.\"\nBridgestone/Firestone spokeswoman Jill Bratina said the company disagrees with the claims and will make that clear as litigation proceeds.\nThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last month says 271 fatalities have been connected to Firestone tire failures.
(10/23/01 3:52am)
Protestors stood outside the IU Bookstore Thursday, supporting IU apparel workers they say work in unsafe conditions at the New Era factory in Derby, N.Y.\nThe national day of action was organized by United Students Against Sweatshops, No Sweat! and Local 4730 of the Communications Workers of America. \n"Would you like to help support the rights of IU apparel workers?" members of No Sweat! asked passers-by outside store. Members held signs and passed out fliers at the event. \nNew Era makes baseball caps for IU and is the official cap-maker for Major League Baseball. \n"The workers of the New Era factory have been on strike for numerous code violations since June 16, 2001," said senior Bennet Baumer. This occured in response to management-imposed wage cuts of 30 to 50 percent, the company's refusal to bargain for a fair contract and because of health and safety violations, according to CWA.\n"There is substantial evidence that New Era is violating Indiana University's Code of Conduct," said senior Nancy Steffan. \nNew Era has denied these allegations.\nIU adopted the code of conduct regarding manufacturing conditions of its apparel when it joined the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent factory-monitoring organization. Dean of Students Richard McKaig, chairman of the sweatshop committee, said the committee would assess the situation and decide what action to take. \nLast year, urged by McKaig's committee, IU President Myles Brand sent a letter to Nike protesting working conditions at factories in Mexico. McKaig emphasized the need for solidarity with other universities to have a larger impact both economically and socially.\n"Any single university doesn't have enough pull in the market," McKaig said.\n"Because the work involves a lot of sewing, bone punctures on the job were extremely common, and New Era has only recently provided equipment that is safe," said graduate student Judi Nitsch. "The company also told employees that they would be risking their worker's compensation if they participated in union demonstrations."\nWRC reported other threats to employees involved in CWA, and evidence that New Era management broke into union property to remove documents pertaining to safety violations.\nIn an August interview in The New York Times, David Koch, chairman of New Era, explained the pressure he has felt from retailers to lower costs to better compete. New Era is the only major hat producer which still operates in the United States, and in order to better compete, the company was forced to obtain some hats from overseas, he said.\nSue Stancu, who works in the IU Music Library, was walking through the Indiana Memorial Union when she stopped to talk to the group. Stancu signed a postcard urging Chris Koch, New Era CEO to negotiate with workers and respond to the alleged violations of the IU Code of Conduct. \n"I'm sympathetic to workers trying to organize unions," Stancu said. "They have had too much trouble in the past."\nBaumer said his group is hoping to educate about the problems faced by New Era employees.\n"We're not calling for a boycott because the workers haven't called for a boycott," Baumer said. "We're focusing on education, trying to let the University know we're here, and to put pressure on New Era to listen to worker demands."\nA representative from New Era could not be reached for comment.
(10/15/01 4:23am)
After work, Mary Ann Winkle drives to her Tweety Bird-lined home, slaps together a ham sandwich and drives back to campus to turn in a paper and spar in a class debate. She loves her classmates, who describe her as "your typical good student in class." \nWinkle is 61. \n"She acts like she's 20," Michael Hunsaker, a senior, said. Hunsaker works with Winkle and had a geography class with her. "She takes too many notes, in my opinion, but that's good in the long run."\nWinkle reads a lot, too. She is taking six credits this semester to go along with her job at Franklin Hall where she works 40 hours a week with the work study programs and payroll. She has seven books for her history class about American Indians and is currently reading, "The Last of the Mohicans." \nWinkle said she does not watch very much television, just the news. "I have a lot of energy," she said. "I like to stay busy." \nHer notes and diligence were rewarded last spring when she was named one of 15 Chancellor's Scholars, the only representative from the Continuing Studies Department to be honored. She credits her father for her work effort.\n"My dad was actually the hardest worker I've ever known," she said. "He was also probably the most honest."\nJoseph Silnes built race cars in Norway for the Indianapolis 500. A picture of Norway still hangs over Winkle's head in her home library where she studies. The shelves are lined with the Serenity Prayer, biographies of presidents, Power Puff Girls figurines and the Bible. Other trinkets add character to her favorite spot in the house -- pottery her children painted that she glued back together after it broke, stuffed moose and fish and copies of the martial arts book and video written by her oldest son Jason. \n"I just love to have books around me -- it's such a comfort to me," she said. She volunteered in her children's school library for 12 years. \n"She's been very supportive of my brother and I in everything we've done," her son, Jason, said. During the summer, the family would crowd into their one-bedroom cottage on Lake Lemon and water-ski. \nWhen her children were about 10, Winkle decided to compete in a water-skiing tournament against her friend -- and the IU water-skiing team. She practiced on the water each night until the police ordered her to get off. \nHer friend beat her at the competition, but both ladies finished ahead of the entire IU team. As she walked back, she heard another girl say, "Those two old ladies beat us." \n"I'm not a naturally athletic person, I don't think, but I can ski," Winkle said.\n"I think next to me, that's her next love," husband Bill Winkle said. \nWhen her children got older, she decided to go to college. She had always stressed the importance of education to her children.\n"One day I thought, 'Oh my gosh, they're going to be ahead of me pretty soon.' I just wanted to get that degree," she said.\nWinkle earned her associate degree in General Studies and graduated with her oldest son, Jason, in 1997. She also received an Associate Degree in Accounting at Ivy Tech and worked part-time as an accountant. Her love of learning and reading has kept her taking classes, and she hopes to be a librarian someday.\nAfter her children graduated from Indiana University, she and her husband moved to the cottage where they used to ski during the summer. The couple expanded the house to about five times its original size and the whole family helped build the deck and pour eighty tons of rocks around the boat dock in September. \n"This place is kind of a do it yourself project," Mary Ann said. Her family is used to working together, and Winkle has relied on that support a great deal the past few years. \nJason remembers getting a call from his mother one February morning in 1996. She had breast cancer. It had spread to her lymph nodes and was in stage three of four stages. \n"She told me that she wanted me to know but she didn't want me to worry because she was going to beat it," Jason said. "'I need your love and your support to do it,' she told me. \n"I think I about broke down, but I remember knowing that if anyone could beat it, it would be her."\nWinkle called a friend she knew who taught a class about cancer. Her friend warned her it could scare her to death, but she took it anyway. \nHer exercise and sense of humor did not lag, either. She said her doctor told her husband that "I usually have to tell people to be more active when they're going through chemotherapy, and I have to tell your wife to slow down." She also had a tattoo of Tweety Bird put on her chest after her mastectomy. \nWinkle said her family was key to her survival, also. "We just all started doing more together," she said. "It was like they were all trying to protect me."\nFive years later, the cancer is in complete remission. She finished her prescription of tamoxifin in May and is in a clinical trial for another cancer drug that is being tested for its effectiveness in preventing the recurrence of cancer in post-menopause women. \nShe plans to graduate in August and eventually be a librarian. Her gray hair might reveal her six decades of work and battle with cancer, but splotches of blonde still shine and her roots are still dark. \n"She's young at heart," Bill said. "And she just doesn't want to get old"
(10/15/01 4:17am)
Like its theme indicated, the good times rolled through campus Friday evening. The Homecoming parade was filled with music, cars and trucks lined with balloons and people throwing candy. \nAnd in that mess of candy wrappers, popcorn and drum beats, the mission to find senior Shannon Hoffman, the Student Athletic Board Homecoming director, began. It started late Friday afternoon -- with the welcome appearance of the sun -- at the corner of Seventh and Rose Streets while the parade was getting organized. \nThe woman in charge of many of the week's Homecoming events was impossible to find amid the sea of fans, football players and alumni.\nThe workers in the red shirts with the big walkie-talkies were buzzing around trying to keep things in order, but none of them had seen Hoffman. Her roommates had no clue either. Finally, after an hour, some luck: She was said to be at the Sample Gates for the pinnacle of the parade. \nIt's 7 p.m. at the Sample Gates and the parade is wrapping up; Hoffman is at the end guiding in the floats and doing crowd control. The parade ended and the pep rally began with the band playing "The Simpsons" theme song and Hoffman, in the background, seemed pleased and proud of a job well done.\nThe past week has been busy for the Homecoming director. In fact, it has been nonstop.\n"I have spent lots of my time working on the Homecoming events that I have hardly been home," Hoffman said. "My roommates can testify to that because they have hardly seen me in the last two weeks."\nEarlier, Hoffman hustled around campus as the parade, marching down Third Street, began as a misshapen line of various student groups, local organizations and marching band members. \nBut with Hoffman and her fellow members of the SAB and Student Alumni Association pushing and prodding, the line straightened out -- like it always does. \n"Every year always begins with everyone out of line but it all pulls together in the end," said Eric Behrman, director of Alumni Clubs. \nHomecoming preparation began last Friday, and Hoffman was at the forefront of it all. \nHoffman, sporting red SAB attire, was in charge of three areas of the weeklong celebration -- Homecoming king and queen applicants, the pep rally, and helping coordinate and organize the alumni and student associations for the parade. \nHoffman has been involved with SAB since her freshman year. She wanted to become involved in campus activities so the self-described sports fan joined SAB. After an application and interview process, she was named Homecoming director last spring. \nHoffman said she has been preparing for Homecoming since last semester and during the summer. \nThis semester, she has been organizing, e-mailing and meeting with various people and groups to get Homecoming events off the ground. Because SAB is student-run, she and other students have put these events together and made them work. She spent long hours last week working out the details and making sure everything was in order. She felt one of her major achievements was the success of Homecoming king and queen because she was totally in charge of organization and making sure everything ran smoothly. \nMembers of the Homecoming committee praised Hoffman for her committment.\nShannon is great to work with and is well organized," said Brian McCarthy, a sophomore and Homecoming chairperson on the athletic board. "It's a big deal for her and she has put in a lot of time." \nHoffman expressed the importance to get off campus groups involved in Homecoming festivities, and the need to get a diverse number of participants in the parade. \n"The parade was very entertaining, funny and joyful, and I have never seen so many different kinds of people in a parade like this," said Gabriella Villani, a graduate student. \nAt the end of the night, the SAB Homecoming director felt "great relief" and was very happy and pleased with the outcome. For Hoffman, every minute was well spent.\n"I can probably make the most out of even one minute," Hoffman said, "because I don't waste time"
(10/11/01 4:04am)
With a 3-1-1 start in conference play, the women's soccer team is off to a strong start in the Big Ten, and are showing they are ready to compete at the national level.\nAt 6-2-1 (3-1-1) the Hoosiers are currently in fourth place in the Big Ten and ranked No. 23 in the country. Last year, they finished 10th in the conference. \n A reason for this drastic change is the emergence of three seniors, Kelly Kram, Stacey Peterson and Whitney Butler, and the leadership they are providing to a team with 17 underclassmen. \n Kram is one of the team's most noticeable leaders on and off the field. With 11 career goals and 33 career points, Kram has been one of the Hoosiers prominent goal scorers. This year, she was delegated to a more defensive role, and the move has paid off so far. Kram has helped anchor a Hoosiers defense that has permitted only nine goals this season. \n Coach Joe Kelley said Kram "doesn't get the recognition she deserves for being as good as she is." \nKram's biggest addition to the team is the guidance she has provided for so many on the younger players. She has also sacrificed for the good of the team, members said.\n "I prefer offense, but if the team needs me back there defensively that is where I will be," Kram said. \nKram is an exercise science major and has been playing soccer since the age of five. She said she has enjoyed her four years at IU. \n"Playing here at IU has been great. It is extremely important that we do well my last year here, and so far we are off to a great start. This is my last time playing competitively, so a top priority is for myself and the team to play well."\nAfter graduating in May, Kram plans to either go to Chicago or home to St. Louis to work. She does not plan to continue with her soccer career, but she does not rule out of the possibility of still being involved in the sport.\nAs for playing the last few years with Peterson and Butler, Kram said it has been great. \n"They are amazing people to play with. They are the two best and most rounded people to be with. They are great girls," Kram said.\nPeterson, also an exercise science major, is a quiet leader. \n"As a senior, you need to be a leader, show by example, and build up your teammates," Peterson said. \nLike Kram, Peterson has been relegated to a more defensive role for the Hoosiers this year. \n"Wherever (Coach) Kelley needs me, that is where I will be. I want to be able to have the best impact on the team and be involved," Peterson said.\nAfter graduating from IU, Peterson is applying to the cardiac rehabilitation program and plans on staying in Bloomington as a graduate student. \nPeterson said she preaches to her younger teammates to be a respectable team, have discipline and play with sportsmanship. \nPeterson also said playing with Kram and Butler is a blessing.\n"They are very supportive, hard working and fun to be with. I get along great with them," she said.\nKelley said he admires Peterson's work ethic.\n"She is an extremely important player for us. She is a hard worker who improves every day," he said. \nButler transferred to IU from Connecticut last year. She is from Ft. Wayne and said she enjoys being closer to home. \n"My time here has gone great," Butler said. "The attitude is great here. I couldn't have asked for anything more. We're doing great."\nButler is a back who is another integral part of the Hoosier defense. Aside from those skills, Butler is one of the more outspoken and friendliest members of the team, teammates said.\n"Leadership is a role that sets a tone," she said. "It is all about work ethic and attitude. You need to have pride and have to want to excel. You have to provide a good example."\nButler is an English education major. She plans to work next fall for Teach for America. She said that she will miss playing soccer here, but hopes to one day coach younger children, or at the high school level.\n"She is a very good defender," Kelley said. "We are counting on her and expect her experience to help."\nAs for her fellow senior teammates, Butler has enjoyed the experience.\n"It's been great playing with them," Butler said. "It's like playing every day with your closest friends. I couldn't have asked for more."\nKelley spoke about the positive impact these three seniors have had. \n"I think how we're doing this year shows how important leadership and experience is. This program has never had such positive leadership to get us through the trials and tribulations." \nKelley said he will miss these seniors next year, and they won't be easily replaced. \n"The type of competitiveness and the desire to succeed that these girls have won't be easy to lose," he said. "Their leadership is beneficial. It shows in how they're playing, and how well the team is doing"
(10/01/01 4:53am)
Anxiety. Stress. Anticipation. These words might pop into the heads of students preparing themselves for the daunting process of searching for internships. \nThe hunt for job experience can be overwhelming, but you don't have to lose sleep over it. In many different departments, the same advice is given: keep your options open, explore as many opportunities as possible and remember that searching is hard work. Hard work that pays. \nIn many majors, possibilities are opening up for students to learn about different companies and potential internship positions they offer. The time is ripe for interested undergraduate and graduate scholars to probe into their field and talk to employers about internships. \nFor many students, the process begins with questions. They should ask themselves what it is they want to do and then ask around for information that could lead to a position. \nNext, students can narrow down their search by "doing informational interviews with professionals, reading materials about specific careers, communicating with alumni, talking with other students in their major, as well as reading through job announcements," said Karen Bazur, career information and internship specialist in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
(09/19/01 4:07am)
A sophomore this year, Karen Dennison has already logged valuable playing experience on her collegiate resume for the women's golf team. Dennison played in 20 rounds, registering a 78.5 stroke average while garnering three top-25 finishes as a true freshman. Now, with the new season opening this weekend in Champaign, Ill., at the Northern Invitational, Dennison looks to begin another successful season. \n"Karen's a great girl," said senior captain Tiffany Fisher. "Besides being a great player, and she has been playing really well these past couple weeks. I think she's really team oriented. Even though she's an underclassman, I think she brings leadership to the team. She's a hard worker and she's got a really positive attitude too."\nDennison began golfing after growing up around the sport in Madison, Ind. \n"When I was little, both my dad and brother played, and I just rode around in the golf cart," \nDennison said. "I would just take a club out every once and a while and swing."\nDennison's golfing aspirations broadened in middle school. There, Dennison began receiving lessons from a local golf pro, while playing for the boys' golf team. \n"They didn't have a junior high girls' team, so I just played with the guys," Dennison said. "I knew all of them, so it was fun. They got a little mad when I'd beat them, but it was fun." \nFollowing her tenure at Madison High School where Dennison was a four time All-Conference selection and a two-time conference champ, she turned her attention to college. Coach Sam Carmichael recruited Dennison heavily, which led to her decision to come to IU.\n"Coach Carmichael has such a reputation in golf and all over the country and he was real interested in me," Dennison said. "I didn't have that many people recruiting me, not that many big schools, and he was the main one. I just knew a couple people on the team and I just liked the school. It was a pretty easy decision."\nUnder Carmichael's coaching, Dennison said she's changed from a power player to a more finesse oriented golfer.\n"Karen came in as a freshman last year and was a nice player and a hard worker," Carmichael said. "We made a few little changes with her game and she just worked hard. She has a great attitude on the golf course. She's really come around and has been just playing excellent this fall."\nDennison posted two scores of 72 and a 74 in qualifying for the top spot going into the Mary Fossum Invitational. After that tournament's cancellation, Dennison will put her stroke to the test at the Northern Invitational this weekend.\n"Karen had a great qualifying round going into the tournament," said junior Cara Stuckey. "Nothing seems to faze her and every part of her game is really solid now, so we're looking to her to lead us and keep on doing what she's been doing."\nWhen she graduates, Dennison, a sports marketing major, hopes to stay in the field of golf, perhaps working for a major golfing company such as Ping, Callaway or Titleist. But, her focus now is on the season. \n"I'm really chipping and putting a lot better, and that's been the difference in my score. That's what I attribute most of my success to," Dennison said. "I'd like to keep my scoring average in the middle 70s and I'd just like to keep consistency through the whole season to help the team out"
(08/31/01 5:45am)
Students will gather 2 p.m. Saturday at Whittenberger Auditorium in remembrance of Helen Sarah Walker, whose life ended abruptly this summer after being struck by a drunk driver. \nWalker -- home for the summer -- was driving to her friend's Texas apartment. \nThe memorial will allow students who were close to Walker an opportunity to honor her life and achievements, said junior Ann Aurbach -- the event organizer and a close friend to Walker. \n"The service provides an opportunity for all friends and people who knew Helen to get together to remember her, to celebrate her life," she said. " "We need some closure to celebrate our time with her." \nWalker was slated to graduate in May with a double major in theater and drama and computer science with a minor in American sign language. She was actively involved in local theater, serving as stage manager for the Bloomington Player's production of "A Chorus Line," technical director for IU's Broadway Cabaret and was the University Players Technical Director, friends said. \nWalker was planning to move to Houston upon graduation to begin working as an assistant stage manager at the William H. Hobby Theatre. \nAurbach said the tone will be joyous, filled with reflection. \n"Rather than a somber service, we want people to laugh," Aurbach said.\nJunior Townsend Teague and graduate Maggie Mae Jacobs will speak to the audience, remembering Walker's impact. Anyone close to Walker or those that just want to show their support are invited to attend, Aurbach said.\nWalker's death came on the heels of summer break where dear friends went their separate ways, leaving a vacant spot in the hearts and minds of her friends, Kevin Mogyoros, a junior, said.\n"The service is difficult for a lot of friends because Helen died over the summer and we weren't able to share in the grieving process," he said. "This allows us to get together and share our individual memories of Helen."\nMogyoros was also involved in organizing the service. He said the mood of the service will be happy and lighthearted because that is how Helen would have wished it. \n"She was always upbeat and always had a smile," he said. "And that is the tone we are trying to foster." \nMogyoros said Walker can best be remembered as a friend. He said vestiges of Walker's hard work can still be felt today. \n"She was so many things to so many people," he said. "She contributed so much to this campus." \nFor Teague, Walker was a tremendous worker. \n"She didn't ask for anything from anybody," he said. "She put in endless, endless work."\nTeague said it's important that Helen be remembered for the volumes of time and effort she devoted to the Theater Department. \n"Theater is an art about people, Teague said. "And Helen is one of the people that make that happen"
(08/30/01 5:14am)
You would sooner find senior Tiffany Fisher on the balance beam than on the driving range at the age of 13. It was then that the lone senior on the women's golf team felt burned out from her gymnastic experiences. \nTom Fisher, Tiffany's father, encouraged her to try golf. He put her in three clinics where she began to develop interest and skills for the sport. That experience led to the opportunity for Fisher to caddy for her father at a local club championship in her hometown of Easton, Penn. Her father won the tournament, spurring Fisher's devotion to golf even more.\n"He won and I saw the rewards and all that golf had to offer," Fisher said.\nFisher honed her golf skills, becoming a three time District XI champion at Easton Area High School. A well regarded business school, legendary golf coach Sam Charmichael and an attractive Bloomington campus all contributed to Fisher's decision to attend IU.\nIn previous years, Fisher has posted exceptional scores in several tournaments, including last year's Big Ten Championships. She shot a career low of 205 to finish fifth. Fisher also completed the season with four more top-25 finishes and is the team leader with 92 career rounds played. \nNow the only senior on the team, Fisher looks to continue on a successful career with a decorated and enjoyable last season.\n"I have a lot of mental goals this year, and want to enjoy the process of playing golf since this is my last year of eligibility," Fisher said. "And obviously before I graduate I would love to win a tournament. As for team goals, we really want to win the Big Ten Tournament and hopefully get to nationals." \nFisher attributes her mental strengths and abilities to her childhood days as a gymnast.\n"My mom was my gymnastics coach and it was serious club gymnastics; we practiced six days a week four hours a day," Fisher said. "It really taught me focus, work ethic and a lot dedication, all things that really helped me golf."\nThese traits have also helped Fisher garner the respect of her teammates and the title of captain.\n"She is a good leader, a good friend, and a huge part of connecting the team," freshman Megan Mulhaupt said.\n"I think Tiff is a really good role model for the team," sophomore Ambry Bishop said. "She is always willing to listen to any problems and creates unity for our team. Not only is Tiff a great leader, but she is also a hard worker in everything she does."\nBut Fisher's achievements have not all been racked up on the golf course. She has twice been named an Academic All-Big Ten athlete. As a student in the Kelley School of Business, Fisher plans to major in marketing and operations management and has career aspirations in the sporting world.\n"I hope to stay in the golf or sports industry on the business side and maybe consider being a certified Ladies Professional Golfers Association member," Fisher said.\nWith the completion of her golfing career at Indiana on the horizon, Fisher is approaching this season like no other.\n"I am trying to take a new approach this year, and make sure that I am enjoying every moment since this is my senior year and I probably won't have the opportunity to play much golf again since I will have to get a job"
(07/19/01 12:31am)
My earliest memories are of living in a trailer park in Plymouth, Ind., in 1953. The following year my parents moved to a rented house until, a few years later, they were able to buy one. But my trailer-trash roots are firm.\nNeither of my parents went to college. Both from large families impoverished by the Great Depression, they could only try to realize their dreams of higher education through their children. Education was important to my parents, and they encouraged my interest in reading while tolerating my lack of interest in sports. My mother especially always told me I'd be around nicer people if I went to college.\nMy father was a construction foreman and later worked in his brother's scrap metal business. My mother was a housewife, later a factory worker. I've begun but never completed a college degree; I'm a janitor and dishwasher, which keeps me working-class, but you know, my mom was right: I do meet nice people around a university food service, including my co-workers. My life's not quite what my parents had in mind, but that's how it goes.\nI'm not pretending to be a typical working-class person, whatever that might be. I believe I'm more typical of the person who's the first in his or her family to go to college. One common trait of such people is our alienation both from our working-class background and from the middle-class or professional academic environment into which we've moved. Alienation of that kind is a good thing.\nI'd never heard of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt before he died at Daytona earlier this year; I don't pay attention to auto racing, or any other sport. I did start paying attention rather quickly to some reactions I saw to the outpouring of grief and media attention his death inspired. On a local Usenet newsgroup, for example, the response of several members of the IU community to Earnhardt's death was to jeer that it was of interest only to inbred Kentuckians who show butt crack. "Trailer parks around the nation have lowered their flags to half staff, that's certain," wrote one. "Wow, Nascar fans can read?" queried another.\nObviously some of this stuff was meant as humor, which shows how much higher education enhances wit. But it was expressive of an attitude that I've seen all too often: that working people without university education are an inferior breed, fit only to marry their first cousins and appear on tabloid TV shows. "Low-class" is very commonly used to derogate behavior or opinions that someone dislikes, such as racism or other prejudices. Professionals with graduate degrees, by contrast, are paragons of enlightenment. Right?\nWell, no. Education too often teaches people to find reasons to do things they shouldn't. The war in Vietnam was started and escalated by educated men of good family, not by illiterate West Virginians married to their cousins. It was educated medical men who castrated and sterilized the "unfit" in these United States, in the early twentieth century. Indiana was a leader in this eugenic practice, which inspired German science and politics later on. Ivy League colleges like Yale had quotas to limit the number of Jews they admitted -- and elaborate pseudo-scientific rationales to keep women out altogether.\nOr consider Rush Limbaugh, son of a corporate lawyer, scion of a well-to-do Republican family. The average dittohead (according to a marketing survey done at the peak of Limbaugh's popularity) has at least a bachelor's degree, an annual income of $53,000 and no more than one Mercedes up on blocks in the front yard.\nI am not romanticizing working people: I know very well, from experience, that we can be as narrow and bigoted as university-educated professionals. The great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote to his student Norman Malcolm: "What is the use of studying philosophy if all that it does for you is to enable you to talk with some plausibility about some abstruse questions of logic, etc., and if it does not improve your thinking about the important problems of everyday life, if it does not make you more conscientious. ... You see, I know that it's difficult to think well about 'certainty', 'probability', 'perception', etc. But it is, if possible, still more difficult to think, or try to think, really honestly about your life and other people's lives. And the trouble is that thinking about these things is not thrilling, but often downright nasty. And when it's nasty then it's most important."\nI don't believe these words apply only to philosophy; I'd say they apply to education in general. Or rather, they should, but too often they don't.
(04/04/01 5:08am)
Conflict Resolution Services held a two-hour discussion panel Monday at 7 p.m. in the Oak Room of the Indiana Memorial Union to inform students about diversity on campus as well as discrimination and local resources available to victims. The event was the second installment of the organization's Week Without Violence program.\nThe panel consisted of three representatives from various campus advocacy groups. \nMark Bryson spoke on behalf of the Office of Diversity Education, graduate student Eloiza Domingo represented the Commission on Multicultural Understanding and Doug Bauder participated on behalf of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Student Support Services.\nResolution services member Marissa Codey, a graduate student, helped organize the panel.\n"Our goal throughout the week is to bring the campus and residential communities together to discuss the issues of diversity and discrimination," she said.\nThe workshop began with Bryson, a diversity educator, explaining how and why people develop stereotypes and prejudices.\n"We are only born with two fears -- a fear of falling and a fear of loud noise," he said. "Everything else is learned. When toddlers play together in a park, color doesn't come into play." Bryson said that while growing up, humans receive misinformation about other groups of people from sources such as their families and the media. He said these prejudicial ideas are stored in "mind tapes," which are played in the brain whenever someone sees members of groups they have stereotyped. Eventually the mind tapes "go on automatic" and cause impulsive reactions.\n"That's why we need these workshops," Bryson said. "They can't transform us, but they can inform us. Through awareness, we can check ourselves."\nDomingo, a graduate student employed by the commission, explained the organization's functions.\n"We try to consistently provide diversity programs on campus," she said. "In addition, deans and faculty sit on the board of COMU. If you need information or help regarding multicultural issues quickly, you can contact us and we can help you avoid any red tape."\nDomingo said the commission is trying to combine all IU multicultural resource pamphlets into a single booklet. In the past, the association has intervened with regard to the Ku Klux Klan murals in Woodburn Hall Room 100 and the swastika floor and wall tiles in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation.\n"We produced an eight-minute video to make the students who have classes in Woodburn Hall Room 100 feel less overwhelmed by the murals," she said. "We stated the history of the murals and why IU commissioned them. We also made the point that the KKK is a sad chapter in the history of Indiana, but it must not be forgotten. In terms of the swastikas, we put up a plaque in the HPER to explain that the building was built before World War II and the Nazi regime, and that the swastika was a religious symbol before the Nazis adopted it. These are examples of how COMU tries to promote understanding."\nBauder discussed the objectives of GLBT, for which he serves as commissioner. He said the organization provides counseling and support for homosexual, bisexual and transgendered students, as well as educational tools for students to learn more about these groups.\nBauder said a team of GLBT workers review sexual orientation harassment complaints made to the Student Ethics Office and decides how to rectify the situations.\n"Does harassment stop by reporting it?" he asked. "No. But we can collect enough information to intervene effectively."\nHe asked audience members to pretend they were members of that GLBT team and to create settlements for two complaint scenarios.\nBryson said he hoped those who attended benefited from the discussion. \n"We want people to take what they heard here and apply that knowledge elsewhere," he said.\nThe Resolution Services will continue its Week Without Violence with a discussion panel on school violence at 7 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church, 219 E. Fourth St. \nThursday, a domestic violence discussion and a wrap-up meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. respectively in the City Council Room of the Showers Building.
(04/03/01 4:53am)
Within the depths of Bryan Hall, covering five floors and 5,000 square feet, sits the history of IU in boxes, file cabinets and storage bins. \nThis is the University Archives. \nThe University Archives is the largest and most comprehensive source about and for IU. Records include everything from blueprints and news clippings to schedules and scrapbooks.\nIn 1883, a fire destroyed many of the University's administrative records, as well as the science building and the Owen Museum. Undamaged files were moved to a storage facility in Maxwell Hall called the President's File Room. The archives were kept there until 1936, when Bryan Hall was built. Five floors and 14,000 cubic feet were designed for the storage and preservation of archival records.\n"Right now a majority (who use the archives) are administration and staff," said Phillip Bantin, archive director. Bantin said students, researchers and alumni are also among the main groups of people who use the archives. \n"We have a number of students who come in for class work," he said. About 10 to 12 people a day request records.\nSenior Laura Blanford used the archives for a journalism class project about "a new look at old IU." \n"I had to go to the archives for old Indiana Daily Students and bulletins," she said. "I'd heard of the archives before, but our professor recommended it."\nResearchers have used the archives for projects such as the research and development of Crest toothpaste at IU and the role of the University in the Manhattan Project.\nThe archive stacks are closed to the public because of the confidential nature of the records. The public must make requests to the staff, and the staff retrieves the records.\nAmong the items in the archives are a life-mask of William Lowe Bryan, the first touch-tone telephone used in Monroe County, given to former IU president John W. Ryan, and the plane steering wheel from Wendell Willkie's "One World" tour. \nPapers and records from former University Chancellor Herman B Wells' presidency take up almost two floors.\n"There's about 120 file cabinets for Herman Wells," said Bradley Cook, reference specialist and photograph curator. "And then altogether, including his chancellor's papers, we probably have another 500 boxes of his papers." \nThe earliest known record in the archives is an acceptance letter to former IU president Andrew Wylie into the American Antiquarian Society, dated July 16, 1815.\nHolding more than 12 million records, as well as 2 million photographs, the archives has limited space. \nBut the archives is getting help.\nBoth the Main Library, which has been campaigning for more storage space, and the archives have been granted new areas designated for storage. \n"It's very hard to keep up space-wise with the records that are generated," Bantin said. He said 400 to 500 linear feet of records are generated each year. \n"Administrative files and faculty papers are the two big categories of records that come in every year," Bantin said. \nArchive employees are working to develop ways of preserving and protecting electronic records, such as e-mails and electronic financial and student records.\n"We have received funds from a funding agency associated with the National Archives in Washington, D.C. We've had two projects funded by them … to develop strategies at IU for managing electronic records," Bantin said. "We're one of the few institutions of higher education, of colleges and universities in the country, to be seriously working on this issue."\nThe archives is also working on two projects other than the Electronic Records Project. \nOne is a photo database. Workers are cataloging the 2 million photographs onto a photo database, so they can be searched on the Internet. \nThe second project is the Cushman Project. \nCharles Cushman graduated from IU in 1917. He was an amateur photographer who took pictures of the social history of America throughout the 20th century. His photographs -- 18,000 of them -- were given to the archives. The archives is digitizing them and placing them on its Charles Cushman Web site.\nBantin said there are three ways the archives can help students -- understanding the University, helping them with everyday class work and introducing them to primary sources.\nThe archives has two exhibits on public display. One is of the life of late Bloomington Chancellor Herman B Wells, located in the Education Building. The other is an exhibit about African-American firsts at IU, which is in the south lounge of the Indiana Memorial Union.
(03/29/01 4:21am)
About 80 people came together Tuesday night at the Banneker Center to discuss the fault lines that separate blacks from whites in Bloomington. A topic that rarely occurs without debate, the discussion of how the races interact in Bloomington became emotional.\nBut those involved say the discussion moved them toward better understanding.\n"Surprisingly, there is a very nice crowd here tonight, very lively, and racially mixed," said professor Jeffrey Isaac, who moderated the event. "It is not very common to see this here." \nThe crowd was varied by gender and race. Of the attendees, men, women and children from the white, black and Asian communities were represented. \nAs a founding member of Bloomington United, Isaac said he expected the meeting to help generate public discussion about the role of black people in Bloomington. \nThe town meeting stirred up discussion -- much of it heated. Panelists spoke about their experiences as blacks in Bloomington. Paul Norris, IU chief of police, reminisced about how blacks were allowed to work as barbers in the downtown barber shops, but could not cut the hair of black people. \n"Even as a child this disturbed me," he said. "I didn't understand why Mr. Ellis could cut hair downtown, but not mine."\nPatrick Efiom, a social worker for the Monroe County Community School Corporation, said he and his wife found a racial slur spray-painted on their door after moving to Bloomington.\n"Many in the community were ashamed and did not know the words to say after this happened," he said. "But they gave great support."\nLa Verta Terry, a community activist, said she remembered racial tensions she experienced in Bloomington. Terry was the first black teacher to work in the Bloomington school system.\n"Bloomington's state of denial I did not realize until the night the Korean man (late graduate student Won-Joon Yoon) was killed," she said. "This reminded me of the night Martin Luther King was assassinated." \nTerry said she received many phone calls on both occasions -- phone calls of apology. \nWhat started as a simple question and answer segment after the panelists finished transformed to individual testimonies of anger.\nGraduate student Patricia Tucker eagerly expressed her anger.\n"When I came to IU, I wasn't looking to be integrated," she said. "But now that I know how life is on an integrated campus -- I am ready to leave!" \nTucker proceeded with an explanation.\n"The first three times I spoke with white men off campus, I was asked, 'So what brings you to Bloomington?'" she said. "Which I translated into the language of the new Budweiser commercial, 'What are you doing here?' 'What are you doing here?' 'What are you going to do here?'"\nMinutes later the group laughed about the lack of black professionals in Bloomington. The group was not laughing at the issue, but a comical statement made about the fact. \nBut Tucker did not see the humor in it. \n"It's not funny, people!" she yelled.\nAnd the crowd quieted down.\n"I came to Bloomington in 1999, and I was surprised to see that a city with such a large renowned institution as IU had no black tradesmen," Tucker said. "Where are the black policemen and government workers that make up the middle class?"\nThe discussion turned serious.\n"I had been commuting to the police department at IUPUI," said Norris, a longtime Bloomington resident. "It wasn't until IU was forced to hire African-Americans that I began working in here in 1989." \nSeveral others attested to a lack of job opportunities for blacks. Some testified to being the only blacks in their offices. \nThe meeting took a turn to more social issues. \nIt was agreed the issue of community needs to be dealt with -- more so than race. \n"What happened to the block parties we used to have?" mused Mark Bryson of the IU Office of Affirmative Action. "We used to bring out the food and games and just have a great time regardless of race"