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In the first 2 1/2 weeks of the semester, police arrested or cited 150 students for various offenses related to alcohol consumption. Their cases are currently making their way through Monroe County's justice system, but students will soon have to face justice from IU as well. According to Part II, Section H 26 of the Code of Student Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities, the University may discipline a student for any violation of Indiana or federal law. Students charged with violating this code will be scheduled a judicial conference where they will face anything from a warning to special judicial sanctions to expulsion from the University. \nAlthough it might seem unfair that students have to face a University judicial board at the same time they face the government's criminal justice system, we here at the editorial board feel such a system is appropriate.\nBy living in this town and going to this school, students accept responsibilities as well as rights. One of those responsibilities is to be a positive member of the community and not engage in conduct that disrupts the academic process. Many of those caught for alcohol violations conducted themselves in a way that was dangerous not only to themselves but also to the University as a whole. Students are here to learn and grow as people, not party animals.\nAdditionally, the goals of the county justice system and the University's system are different. The Monroe County justice system focuses on holding people accountable and using standard guidelines for punishment. The University, on the other hand, seems to handle things on a case-by-case basis. The goal is education, not punishment. We feel that IU wants its students to be successful, and the disciplinary system has been set up with that in mind.\nAs evidence of its commitment to reforming students' behavior, the University has a wide array of possible disciplinary sanctions available. A reprimand, restitution (if damage is involved), participation in a specific type of program and alcohol counseling are all possibilities for those caught drinking. \nRegardless of what sanctions the University decides to hand down, it is important to remember why the system exists in the first place. First and foremost, you are here to get an education. We realize everyone likes to have a good time, but it is important to not let those good times get out of control. If you are intoxicated to the point where you are vomiting or passed out somewhere, clearly the University needs to step in.\nThe bottom line is that students are members of two communities while they are here: IU and Bloomington. Off-campus rambunctiousness reflects poorly on IU and has the potential to put a strain on University-town relations. That is not good for anyone and would erode the experiences all students receive while here.\nSo think before you act. Otherwise you will have to pay the pied piper -- both of them.
LINCOLN, Neb. -- While U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton prepared to speak at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Friday, an associate chemistry professor offered homemade explosives to his students. \nJohn Belot Jr., an associate chemistry professor at UNL, was arrested Monday evening at home and transported to the Lancaster County Jail after he allegedly allowed students to take the explosive devices from his General Chemistry II class Friday morning. \nCapt. Carl Oestmann of UNL Police said Belot was charged with possession of a destructive device and unlawful sale of explosives, both of which are Class IV felonies. He also was charged with storing explosives in violation of safety regulations, a Class III misdemeanor. \nOestmann explained that "giving away" is covered under the unlawful sell of explosives statute. \nBefore the arrest, Belot was suspended from the university with pay. \nChancellor Harvey Perlman said he was concerned after hearing about the situation, especially since it put people at risk of bodily harm and occurred on a day when a major guest, Bolton, was scheduled to visit campus. \n"It's clearly not the kind of thing, at least with the information I currently have, you want to have going on at the university," Perlman said. \nBolton spoke as part of the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday afternoon. \nKelly Bartling, a spokeswoman for the Office of University Communications, said the distribution of the explosives and Bolton's visit were only a coincidence, but the ambassador's security officers were notified of the situation. \nBartling said she didn't believe the situation actually affected Bolton's security during the visit. \nAfter the chemistry class ended Friday, some students turned a number of the devices in to University Police, which is now investigating the incident. \nAlison Sandoval, a sophomore secondary education major and a student in Belot's class, said Belot was "acting like his normal self" in class Friday. \n"Personally, the first day I met him the impression I got was, 'This guy is crazy," Sandoval said. "He's just a very high-strung guy ... just all over the place." \nShe said Belot kept getting off topic during his lecture on solutions and talked about some explosives that his student assistant made during the summer. The assistant obtained the necessary supplies using Belot's name, she said. \nSandoval said Belot said that he had detonated one of the devices already and that the explosive produced a small mushroom cloud, "like mini H-bombs." \nBelot sent a student to his office to retrieve a paper bag that contained the explosives, she said. \nWhen the student came back with the bag, Sandoval noticed a corrosive liquid was leaking from one of the corners of the bag. \n"I saw that, and I was like, 'Are you serious?'" she said. \nBelot dismissed class early, Sandoval said, and she left too quickly to see if any students took the devices with them. \nCapt. Oestmann said eight of the explosives have been recovered so far and are now in the possession of the Lincoln Fire Department. \nOestmann wouldn't quantify how many of the devices could still be in the possession of students. But in an e-mail sent to students in Belot's class, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Juan Franco said he believed students took nine of the devices. \nBartling said the explosives are cylinders three to four inches long and one inch in diameter. Some of them are painted silver and red. \n"The materials are volatile and dangerous, and they could cause severe bodily injury," Bartling said. "And with any sort of homemade explosive like that, you just don't know when it might explode." \nOestmann said the explosives are powerful enough to destroy a hand or an arm. \nAnd because they are homemade and were kept on campus, Oestmann and Bartling said the devices were completely illegal. Neither would comment on whether Belot would face prosecution. \nBelot could not be reached for comment, and chemistry department Chairman Patrick Dussault was out of town Monday. \nBartling said UNL administrators and the police are still trying to figure out what exactly happened during the class, and she wouldn't speculate on Belot's behavior or motivation for giving the explosives to students. Administrators also are looking into whether the chemistry department has more explosives on hand, she said. \nPerlman said to his knowledge, this situation has not happened before at UNL. \n"I don't think one has to do much to alert people that this is not the kind of behavior that is expected of the university," he said, adding that he didn't yet know the full facts of the situation. \nFranco and Perlman both said they were proud of the students who already returned some of the explosives, and they asked the remainder to follow suit. \nStudents who turn the devices over to the university will not be subject to disciplinary action, Franco said. \nOestmann said he was confident the rest of the explosives would be turned over to police sometime today. \n"It's just not a safe situation," Bartling said. "Nobody will get in trouble or anything, we just need to have it back"
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- Rick DiPietro re-signed with the New York Islanders on Tuesday, agreeing to a record 15-year deal that will pay the No. 1 goalie $67.5 million.\nThe Islanders scheduled an afternoon news conference to officially announce the contract that would keep DiPietro in the fold until 2021, when he would be nearly 40.\n"We've been working at it all summer," DiPietro's agent Paul Krepelka told The Associated Press.\nThe deal, first reported by Newsday, is the longest in NHL history, topping the 10-year, $87.5 million contract the Islanders gave enigmatic center Alexei Yashin in 2001.\nThat was one of the contracts that sent NHL salaries soaring and led to the salary cap in the collective bargaining agreement that ended the lockout last year. It also saddled New York with a player who is nearly impossible to move and who takes up a big chunk of the team's $44 million maximum payroll.\n"With a long-term deal, you're speculating what you'll be worth and what you'll be making," DiPietro said. "I don't think that player salaries are going to go up that much more. I mean, how much higher can they go?"\nDiPietro's deal is believed to be second only in length in North American sports to the 25-year pact Magic Johnson signed with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1981.\n"Clubs are free to make their own decisions within the confines laid out in the collective bargaining agreement and other applicable league rules," NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said. "Some decisions turn out well, others not so well.\n"Time will tell whether this will be a good decision or a bad one for the Islanders."\nThe contract is guaranteed, and DiPietro will be paid in full should he retire because of injury. If he ends his career otherwise before the deal expires, he would forfeit the remaining dollars, Krepelka said.\n"I take a lot of pride in what I do," DiPietro said. "In order to make this a good deal, I have to perform and we have to win."\nIslanders owner Charles Wang and new general manager Garth Snow, DiPietro's backup last season, were both involved in the negotiations. Deals from one year to five to 12 were discussed.\nOnce the Islanders set forth the type of cap structure they wanted for DiPietro, the staggering 15-year-deal DiPietro's side offered was agreed to.\n"It's the right timing today," Wang said. "He's a year older, I'm a year older."\nDiPietro was a restricted free agent this summer and couldn't be unrestricted for another two years. The deal will pay him $4.5 million per season, placing him eighth among goalies.\nThe top pick in the 2000 draft was 30-24-5 with a 3.02 goals-against average in 63 games last season with the Islanders, who missed the playoffs after three straight appearances. In four NHL seasons, DiPietro is 58-62-13 with a 2.85 GAA in 143 games.\nIt is the second big contract handed out to a goalie in two days as Nashville re-signed Tomas Vokoun to a four-year extension Monday that will pay him $22.8 million.\nChicago's Nikolai Khabibulin will be the league's highest-paid goalie this season at $6.75 million.\nDiPietro and Wang talked about a 15-year deal last summer after the NHL lockout when DiPietro expressed that he wanted to spend his entire career on Long Island.\nBut hurdles regarding insurance over the course of the contract killed those plans, and DiPietro agreed to a one-year deal worth $2.5 million.\nThose were worked out this time around.\n"Rick's made no secret for a long time that he wanted to be an Islander his whole career," Krepelka said.\nBoth sides were pressed to come to a new agreement quickly as the Islanders open training camp at the end of the week in Nova Scotia. Wang has a policy that players who aren't signed in time for camp won't play during the season.\n"That was a concern," Krepelka said. "The timing did factor into the equation from both sides. Things picked up the last week and a half."\nDiPietro, exactly a week away from his 25th birthday, became the first goalie ever chosen with the No. 1 pick in the NHL draft five years ago, after spending just one year at Boston University.\nWang's direct involvement in these negotiations fell into line with the owner's new front office by committee.\nIt was this type of management structure that led to the firing of Neil Smith, who was let go just weeks after he took the job in the offseason and months before the Islanders were to play a game under him.\nSmith balked at the delegation of authority and the system initiated by Wang and was replaced by Snow -- who retired from his playing career with the Islanders -- on July 18.
The attorney for Floyd Landis is questioning the accuracy of the positive testosterone tests attributed to the Tour de France winner and asking that doping charges be dismissed.\nIn a letter sent to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, attorney Howard Jacobs disputed the accuracy of the carbon isotope ratio tests performed on Landis' urine sample at a lab in France.\nJacobs also argued the analysis of a different test, the testosterone-epitestosterone analysis, "is replete with fundamental, gross errors," including mismatched sample code numbers. Jacobs said the positive finding on the backup "B" sample came from a sample number not assigned to Landis.\n"It's incredibly sloppy" work, Jacobs said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It has to make you wonder about the accuracy of the work."\nBoth Landis and USADA had representatives at the testing of the "B" sample.\nJacques de Ceaurriz, the head of the French lab that conducted the Landis tests, had no immediate comment, his office said Tuesday.\nUSADA general counsel Travis Tygart said the doping agency couldn't comment on specific cases but noted it is not unusual for athletes and their attorneys to seek dismissal of cases.\n"Our standard process allows all athletes to make a submission to the USADA review board, and those submissions are seriously considered prior to any case going forward," Tygart said.\nA review board is expected to issue a recommendation on Landis' case sometime in the next week. That process could be delayed if USADA responds directly to Jacobs' letter.\nIf the review board recommends sanctions against Landis, he is expected to appeal and ask for an arbitration hearing. Jacobs has said he would seek a public hearing, and USADA has said it would agree to that.\nLandis issued a statement reasserting his innocence.\n"I did not take testosterone or any other performance-enhancing substance, and I'm very happy that the science is confirming my innocence," he said. "I was relieved, but not surprised, when I learned that scientific experts found problems with the test."\nDr. Gary Wadler, a member of World Anti-Doping Agency and a spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine, said Landis' attempt to have the charges dismissed by questioning the science behind the tests wasn't unusual.\n"It's not useful to speculate about the science, until the science has had its day in the hearing process," Wadler said. "Only then do I think we can come to come conclusions. Until then, any assertion is only an assertion"
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Talk to Marvin Harrison's friends, teammates or opponents and they'll tell you everything still looks the same. The crisp patterns, the uncanny fakes, the relentless workouts, even the old-school flip after touchdowns.\nHonestly, Harrison hasn't changed much since coming into the league a decade ago. At 34, an age where many NFL players ponder life after football, Harrison is still in great shape, one of the NFL's most productive receivers and playing like a man 10 years younger.\nHe expects nothing less.\n"You just have to work hard and give 100 percent on every route," the six-time Pro Bowler said. "It's not only making the route look good. It's about making people think you're going to get by them every time."\nHarrison has done more than just gotten by.\nHe routinely outperforms 1996 draft classmates, guys like Keyshawn Johnson, Eric Moulds and Terry Glenn, and has piled up milestones at an unfathomable pace.\nHe needs 64 catches to become the fourth player in league history with 1,000 career receptions. Seven more catches will break Jerry Rice's mark for most receptions in a player's first 11 NFL seasons, and there are still 15 games remaining. He needs five receptions to pass Art Monk for No. 5 all-time. The list of records is so long now, Harrison sometimes struggles to keep track.\nAside from topping the Colts' receiving charts, he holds the NFL's single-season receptions mark (143 in 2002), shares the league record with Rice for most 100-reception seasons (four) and ranks second all-time in 100-yard games (54). Harrison and Peyton Manning also have combined for more completions (792), yards (10,655) and TDs (94) than any tandem in league history.\nBy the end of 2006, Harrison's list is likely to expand again. With 110 TDs and 670 career points, he's on the verge of breaking Lenny Moore's franchise records for touchdowns (113) and scoring among nonkickers (678).\nAnd as he demonstrated in Sunday's 26-21 victory against New York, age -- like the NFL's defensive backs -- hasn't caught up to the Colts' oldest player. He had nine catches for 113 yards, another typical day in Harrison's remarkable world.\nThe key is repetition.\n"The thing about Marvin is I remember talking to Aaron Glenn once, and he said the first 12 yards, everything looks the same," said Manning, the two-time MVP. "He said you can't tell what he's running, so you've got to think he's going deep. That, to me, is the ultimate compliment to a receiver."\nHarrison takes his job seriously. He rarely misses a practice, never seems to tire and is always one of the Colts best-conditioned athletes.\nHe's also old-school.\nRather than wasting energy trading banter, complaining or drawing attention to himself with theatric celebrations, Harrison responds to big plays like another Jim Brown, another Syracuse grad: with professionalism.\nAfter one of his most memorable receptions -- a diving, twisting one-handed grab at Tennessee in 2003 -- Harrison jumped up and simply waved his teammates down the field to run the next play. That's about as demonstrative as Harrison gets.\nThe Colts, including Harrison, insist he's had more impressive catches in practice where he routinely beats defensive backs even when they know what's coming.\nBut what turned the Manning-to-Harrison connection from one of the league's most feared to the greatest ever was the rapport they developed in the late '90s by practicing the same routes over and over.\nManning tells the story how they would sometimes work on only one route during a regular practice day. It's an example he still uses to educate Colts receivers.\n"Reggie (Wayne), to me, made the greatest one-year maturation of anyone I've ever seen," Manning said. "It was like all of a sudden he kind of figures out why (I'm) throwing to Marvin all the time -- it's because Marvin doesn't miss practice. Reggie figures that out and you see what happened."\nWayne did the unthinkable in 2005, wresting the Colts' season receiving title away from Harrison. Wayne finished with 83 catches, one more than Harrison, ending the veteran's six-year reign as the team's receiving leader.\nCoach Tony Dungy considers that more a result of how defenses played Indy than an indication Harrison might be slowing down.\n"I think he's probably the same as he was as a rookie," Dungy said. "You have teams last year that tried to take away the pass, and he still makes 82 catches.\n"I've not been around a guy quite like him, who it means so much to do his job week in and week out," Dungy added. "There are times in practice where he just goes in there with (backup quarterback) Jim Sorgi because he wants to catch more passes."\nAbout the only thing Harrison hasn't done during his first decade in the league is win a Super Bowl. He's hoping that changes as he starts his second decade in the NFL.\nOther than that, Harrison won't change. He still feels young and intends to keep playing as long as it's still fun -- something that should make opposing defensive backs cringe.\n"I'm sure I've learned some different things over the years as far as speed and quickness and hands," he said. "It definitely doesn't feel like 11 years, but I'm enjoying it"
Imagine for a second that Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo got fed up with everyone in his home country calling him "O Gordo" (that's "fat" in Portuguese), promptly retired from soccer and joined the IU men's soccer team as a coach. Wouldn't that be crazy? Wouldn't IU coach Mike Freitag be jumping for joy like a little kid on Christmas morning?\nThat's kind of how IU field hockey coach Amy Robertson is feeling these days after coaxing one of the top strikers in the world, former South African field hockey star Pietie Coetzee, to join her staff this season. And Coetzee isn't even considered big-boned.\nDuring her nine-year career on the South African National Team, Coetzee played in two Olympic Games (2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens), was named South Africa Hockey Association's player of the year twice (1998 and 2002) and was the top goal-scorer at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2003 World Cup in Australia.\nAfter reading her resume, it becomes obvious Coetzee, 27, knows a thing or two about putting the ball in the net. In 196 international contests, she racked up 198 goals. She's like Wayne Gretzky on turf. \nNow her job is to help the Hoosiers play at the same level.\n"To have someone that's current in the game and one of the best strikers in the world is invaluable to our team," Robertson said. "I think this is something that will not only impact us immediately, but for years to come."\nThough Coetzee only arrived in Bloomington last week, junior forward Kate O'Connell said her influence is already being felt in practice. \n"The level of today's practice was so high. I think she is going to help us so much," O'Connell said. "She's an amazing field hockey player. She's the best player in the world."\nSo why would a top national player leave the country where she made her name for Bloomington?\n"I needed a new experience," Coetzee said, "a change of scenery from what I was doing at home. Amy and I have been in contact for the last 10 years or so, and I've always wanted to do it."\nRobertson first met Coetzee at a tournament in Atlanta when the striker was 17 years old. She tried for years to recruit Coetzee as a player but didn't have the pleasure of sharing the sideline with her until last weekend.\n"She's a very calm person, and she sees the game very well," Robertson said. "Having her on the sideline actually gives me a lot of confidence."\nCoetzee said she will draw from her experiences as a player when coaching the Hoosiers this season.\n"I'm much closer to being in the shoes of a player because I only gave up playing internationally last year," she said. "I think like them. I know what they're looking for."\nThe addition of Coetzee is another big boost to a field hockey program on the rise at IU. Last year, the Hoosiers made their first NCAA tournament appearance, reaching the Elite Eight. This year, they've jumped to a 5-1 start and are currently ranked No. 14.\nCoetzee said she has been impressed with the teamwork exhibited by the Hoosiers. "In South Africa, people have a lot more skill as individuals -- much like Brazil in soccer," she said. "They're not as team-oriented."\nCoetzee hopes to bring some of that individual scoring flare to the Hoosiers. \n"What this game has taught me has been immense," she said. "What I am is what hockey has given me."\nNow, it's her turn to give back.
In a year when the debacles of the president and the nation's leading Republicans might have finally caught up to them and might lead to the Democrats finally getting their chance to screw up the House, I find it surprising that the most important race this year might not be a national election. \nThe most important political contest doesn't involve Lieberman, Clinton, Hill or Sodrel. In fact, it has absolutely nothing to do with the House or the Senate. The most important race of the year is in fact a state senate race, and it's taking place in Minnesota. Republican Sen. Paul Koering, the incumbent, faces off against Kevin Goedker in a battle for the Republican nomination.\nWhat's so special about this race? Koering is openly gay. \nI know it sounds strange, but yes, Koering is an openly gay Republican politician. Talk about a minority! He finally came out the closet last year when the state legislature tried to push a floor vote to ban gay marriages, and he was the only Republican helping the Democrats oppose the measure. \nWell, this immediately raised red flags. It just doesn't make sense for a Republican to support gay marriage. According to most Republicans, it's the one thing (outside of immigration issues and people burning the American flag) that's going to destroy American democracy as we know it. So for America-lovin' Republicans, you must stop gay marriage! \nThen it was discovered why he didn't. He's gay. As a result, the local GOP chair called his move "political suicide." All will see if that's true after the primaries Tuesday.\nAccording to a CNN article, Koering said, "There's going to be a lot of people watching to see if the voters can look at my record and say, 'He's doing a good job.' Or will they look at my personal life and say, 'I can't support him because of that'? If that how they're going to vote, I might be out of a job." \nHis opponent said this isn't an issue about his sexuality, but "people of high morals and integrity must rally and support candidates who will work to bring ethics, morals and family values back into government." Spoken like a true Republican.\nIf voters in the state of Minnesota do what Koering is hoping they do, it could possibly begin a shift in the way voters view their candidates. For the first time I can remember, maybe candidates will actually have to campaign on what they did for their constituents and their voting records and not the party line on key issues. For a long time it seems, elections in this country, on both sides of the aisle, have been about who's morally or ethically right and have lost attention on poor public schools, unemployment, poverty in America -- you know, the important stuff. So hopefully the Minnesota voters can start a trend and vote for a candidate for what he is doing in public and not in private.
What's black and white and overrated?\nIf you're about to retort, "Hey! I love pandas!" think it through. What have pandas done for you lately?\nI'll wager it's a whole lotta nothin'.\nYou can't be a productive member of society when you spend 12 hours per day eating bamboo. I've tried.\nEveryone's all excited because a baby giant panda was born at the zoo in Atlanta last week. Welcome to the world, baby panda. It's a world where everyone will love you, assuming you survive the high baby panda death rate. \nAccording to the China National Tourist Office, the "giant panda craze" began after 1869 when a French priest named Armand Pierre David thought it would be a good idea to introduce a big, furry raccoon wannabe to the Western world.\nIn preparation for the world's newest raccoon wannabe, CNN.com hosted a "Name that panda" contest. CNN said of the names suggested by readers: "Some are serious, some are silly, but all show originality and thought."\nStop being diplomatic, CNN. "Originality and thought" is merely a code for "incredibly dumb."\nFor example, Linda RyanJames of Oakhurst, N.J., wrote, "I would name the Panda 'Oreo.' Pandas are black and white like Oreos, sweet like Oreos and everyone loves PANDAS AND OREOS."\nSpeak for yourself, Linda.\nWhy do we have to love pandas? Is it because they're endangered? Is it because they're a symbol of racial harmony? If Oreos were endangered, would you love them more?\nZoo Atlanta's baby panda was born to mother Lun Lun and father Yang Yang through artificial insemination. Pandas have the hardest time getting knocked up, scientists are rumored to have said.\nThe zoo pays China $1 million per panda each year. Ouch. I can think of better ways to spend money than $1 million worth of Yang Yang. According to CNN, the money goes toward research, bamboo salvation and creating environments "conducive to breeding."\nWhy doesn't the zoo just save $999,984.44 and buy China a cheap bottle of wine and Barry White's greatest hits?\nAccording to the San Diego Zoo, giant pandas, despite being called "giant," are only about the size of a stick of butter at birth and about a million times less useful. (Well, I added that last part.) \nBelieve me, if you try to use a baby panda to grease up a griddle, you find yourself in some serious trouble.\nUp until 1997, a person convicted of killing a panda could be executed under Chinese law, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Now the penalty for panda poaching is more than 10 years in prison.\nThat's a lot of panda-monium for bears who don't do anything.\nBut baby pandas are so cute, you say.\nYou have low standards. The New York Times reported last January that the "human cuteness detector" is set at a low bar and will find cuteness in anything that remotely resembles a human baby or parts of a human baby, including the young of almost all mammalian species and even "a big round rock stacked on a smaller rock."\nAwww.
The term "alcoholic beverage" means a liquid or solid that contains 0.5 percent or more alcohol by volume, is fit for human consumption and is reasonably likely, or intended, to be used as a beverage. \nIt is a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine, for a minor to knowingly possess an alcoholic beverage, consume it or transport it on a public highway when not accompanied by at least one of his parents or guardians. \nIt is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a fine of up to $1,000, for a person to be in a public place or a place of public resort in a state of intoxication caused by the person's use of alcohol or a controlled substance. \n"Marijuana" means any part of the plant genus Cannabis (whether growing or not); the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant, including hashish and hash oil; or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin. \nIt is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison and up to a $5,000 fine, for a person to knowingly or intentionally possess pure or adulterated marijuana, hash oil or hashish; knowingly or intentionally grow or cultivate marijuana; or, knowing that marijuana is growing on his premises, fail to destroy the marijuana plants. The above constitute possession of marijuana, hash oil or hashish.\nIt is a Class A misdemeanor for a person to knowingly or intentionally manufacture, finance the manufacture of, deliver or finance the delivery of marijuana, hash oil or hashish, pure or adulterated; or possess with intent to manufacture, finance the manufacture of, deliver or finance the delivery of marijuana, hash oil or hashish, pure or adulterated. The above constitute dealing marijuana, hash oil or hashish. The penalties go up as amount and proximity to certain locations (such as schools and public parks) goes up.\n--Compiled by Ed Delp, \ngraduate student studying public affairs
Global war more than bin Laden\nBrian Stewart\nSince the day America was assaulted under open skies, we have, of course, been engaged at war against enemies including, but not restricted to, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. And we have witnessed a patient accumulation of successes -- especially in terms of intelligence-gathering techniques and operations.\nIt is now commonplace to claim that campaign, after originating rather successfully in Afghanistan, has been "diverted" elsewhere. This seems to be self-refuting insofar as the war on terror is global by definition. Osama bin Laden's fleeting liberty is hardly the main obstacle we have encountered. The chief trouble is that so many have so quickly grown war-weary. \nSept. 11 was not a failure of "imagination," as it is often lazily said. It was a failure of will. The enemies of civilization that struck American soil five years ago remain in plain sight and on the move. We should remain clear-eyed and fast behind.
The end of Western civilization is coming, and it's coming to your local grocery store as a green and purple shopping cart. That's right, Barney is invading Meijer.\nThe New Zealand-based Cabco Group recently introduced its "mobile children's entertainment" device to American markets: the TV Kart, a shopping cart with a built-in LCD screen. No longer will your ill-behaved and undisciplined child make a scene in the cereal aisle because you won't buy her Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs. For the low price of $1, you can placate your little hellion with all the Barney, Bob the Builder and Wiggles her little zombified mind can take. The transition from the living room TV to the Escalade's headrest DVD player to the TV Kart will be almost seamless.\nAs tragic as it is that American parents have relinquished child-rearing to the "stupid box," a more sinister reality awaits the society that supports such a sedated life. In "The Closing of the American Mind," Allan Bloom distills thousands of years of Western philosophy into man's struggle between his selfish, brutish nature and his need for society. Bloom writes: "We have the same needs as the beasts, but we also create and must live in social groups for our survival; without society the human race would die out."\nChildhood is when we begin to understand society and our place in it. In the home, with siblings and parents, a child begins the slow learning process through trial and error: It's OK to play Legos with your brother; it's not OK to punch your brother. It's OK to kiss your mother goodnight; it's not OK to announce your hatred for meatloaf at the dinner table as your mother serves you meatloaf.\nAppointing the TV as the all-time babysitter deprives children of valuable lessons in socializing. Our kids' ever-increasing exposure to television can only decrease their opportunities to learn how to live. If the trend continues, we might eventually become a society of reticent misfits, contentedly rotting away before the new opiate of the masses and stalking each other on Facebook.\nI have no children of my own, but I like to think I have some parental experience. My little brother is 12 years younger than me. On many occasions I've been entrusted with his care for days or weeks. Most recently the two of us went on a 10-day backpacking trip in Colorado. There I learned that 9-year-old boys are content to eat Laffy Taffy all day long, to the exclusion of any other nourishment. But because I love my brother, his diet that week was far healthier than a Laffy Taffy binge. \nI'm sure that children are content to watch Barney while Mom shops. For that matter, they're probably content to watch TV all day long. But a loving parent will realize that children are not the wisest arbiters of their own fates.
Three days after a victory against Ball State, IU head coach Terry Hoeppner announced he will take a temporary leave of absence to undergo surgery to remove a possible recurrent brain tumor. \n"I took (a scan) last Friday morning," Hoeppner said at a press conference Tuesday night. "There's been some change in the area." \nIt is possible that the "change" might be a tumor, but scar tissue on the right side of his brain from a previous surgery is also among the possibilities, he said. Hoeppner experienced headaches while attending a Pittsburgh Steelers game in Cleveland on Dec. 24, 2005 before undergoing neurological tests that revealed a tumor on the right side of his brain. He underwent surgery three days later on Dec. 27.\nDr. Marshall Poor, who will perform the procedure, remains optimistic about the coach's potential recovery time. \n"I would anticipate a return to work in two to four weeks," Poor said in a statement.\nPoor will perform the surgery beginning at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. It will be an outpatient procedure at Bloomington Hospital, where the past surgery took place. \nHow he responds to the surgery in the first 24 to 48 hours will determine what kind of role the second-year coach will play during his absence in trying to assist interim head coach Bill Lynch, Hoeppner said. \nLynch will take over the head coaching duties in Hoeppner's absence. He has previous head coaching experience, including stops at Butler (1985-90), Ball State (1995-2002) and DePauw (2004), before joining the IU staff as assistant coach and offensive coordinator in 2005. \nHe will take over the reigns and try to continue IU's two-game season opening win streak, while trying to limit the possible effects of Hoeppner not being around the team. \n"(Hoeppner) didn't want this to be an excuse or distraction," Lynch said. "That's our challenge. From a football standpoint, we're going to follow coach's lead." \nHoeppner had the opportunity to announce his surgery to the media earlier in the day at his weekly press conference but chose to withhold the information until he could address his team. \nHe held a team meeting before practice and announced the new development to his players. Hoeppner attended practice and everything went on as usual. \n"It was a shock to me and a shock to the team," senior defensive end Kenny Kendal said after the press conference. "We went out and had our best practice, our best Tuesday practice."\nPlayers stressed that Hoeppner's absence will not be a distraction to the team as it moves forward with the season. \nThe Hoosiers play Southern Illinois University this weekend and the University of Connecticut on Sept. 23 before opening conference play with Wisconsin at home.\nHoeppner hopes to return for the Wisconsin game and finish the season from there.\n"We don't look at it as anything but he'll be gone two weeks," senior safety Will Meyers said. "We'll carry on without him"
NASHVILLE, Ind. -- Many of those who live near a rural Brown County inn have gone to court in their effort to end the music festivals and other large gatherings it has held.\nThe owner of the Story Inn has responded that he and his family feel threatened by those with grudges against him and that many of those involved in the dispute will oppose him no matter what he does at the business he has owned since 1999.\nThe lawsuit filed in the Brown County courts is the latest step in the fight, which saw county officials in January approve new limits on outdoor music at the inn.\nMercedes Phillips, who has lived and raised horses near the Story Inn for 16 years, said the residents suing inn owner Rick Hofstetter simply want to maintain their rural lifestyles.\nThe inn is the only employer in the small community just south of Brown County State Park, some 20 miles east of Bloomington.\nHofstetter has asked that the case be moved to another county.\n"This is literally a blood feud, punctuated by gunfire and threats of violence," Hofstetter, a lawyer, wrote in his motion for change of venue. "If this nasty, vitriolic litigation is to proceed, then at least it should proceed in neutral territory"
INDIANAPOLIS -- Nearly half of Indiana residents do not believe the war in Iraq was worth the cost, according to a new statewide poll.\nThe poll results released Monday by Indianapolis television station WISH found that 49 percent of Hoosiers did not support the Iraq war, while 41 percent supported it and 10 percent were undecided.\nThat split, however, was much closer in two southern Indiana congressional districts that are among the closest watched in the nation.\nThe poll results for the 9th District, which includes Bloomington, where Republican Rep. Mike Sodrel faces former Democratic Rep. Baron Hill, showed 46 percent opposed the war, while 43 percent supported it, with 11 percent undecided.\nIn the 8th District, where Republican Rep. John Hostettler faces Democrat Brad Ellsworth, the poll found a 45 percent to 45 percent split on support for the war, with 10 percent undecided.\nStatewide, the poll found a wide gap in views about the war based on gender and political affiliation:\n--A majority (51 percent) of women opposed the war, with 36 percent supporting. Among men, 47 percent opposed the war, with 46 percent against it.\n--Those who said they were Republicans supported the war by a 65 percent to 27 percent margin. Among Democrats, 76 percent were against the war, with 13 percent supporting. Those who said they were independents or of other political parties opposed the war 53 percent to 35 percent.\nHoosiers showed no consensus on whether American troops should be withdrawn from Iraq, with 39 percent saying keep the troop levels steady, 33 percent backing a start to troop withdrawal, 11 percent wanting immediate troop withdrawal and 9 percent supporting an increase in U.S. military force.\nThe telephone poll of 800 likely voters was conducted Sept. 5-8 by Maryland-based Research 2000. The poll has a statewide sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The sampling error for individual congressional districts is plus or minus 5 percentage points.
An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.\nThe last big day of primaries before the November elections also brought Democratic contests for the Senate in Maryland and a House seat in Minnesota. In all, nine states and the District of Columbia voted, with the other states including Delaware, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin.\nRhode Island received the most attention, with a conservative challenger -- Cranston, R.I., Mayor Steve Laffey -- posing a substantial threat to moderate Republican incumbent Lincoln Chafee.\nChafee won support from the Republican establishment, even though he has consistently bucked the Bush administration and the GOP-led Congress on the environment and abortion and was the lone Republican to vote against the use of military force in Iraq.\nBut if he loses the primary, polls show Democratic nominee Sheldon Whitehouse, a former attorney general, would be the likely winner in the fall. With Democrats hopeful they can gain the six seats needed to win control in the Senate, that makes the seat critical.\nPolls a month before the primary showed the two Republicans running even.\nThe House race in Arizona for a seat left open by retiring moderate GOP Rep. Jim Kolbe also has drawn national money and interest. Eleven major-party candidates for the seat that stretches from Tucson to the Mexican border were entered in the party primaries.\nNational GOP leaders angered Republican candidates when they jumped into the race to support state Rep. Steve Huffman, a moderate who in a recent poll was trailing a former state lawmaker, Randy Graf.\nParty officials have expressed concerns Graf might be too conservative to win the seat in November.\nThe two leading Democratic contenders are former state legislator Gabrielle Giffords and former local television anchor Patty Weiss.\nIn Maryland, Democrats decided between Rep. Ben Cardin and Kweisi Mfume, former head of the NAACP, for a Senate candidate to fill Paul Sarbanes' seat. The winner will face GOP Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who -- if he wins -- will be the lone black Republican in the Senate.\nIn Minnesota, Democrats were picking among four candidates for a House seat in a district that includes Minneapolis. The party backed state legislator Keith Ellison, who will be Congress' first Muslim member if he wins. But Ellison found himself in a tough, four-way battle.\nElsewhere:\n--District of Columbia voters choose between city council member Adrian M. Fenty and longtime council Chairwoman Linda W. Cropp in the mayoral primary. In heavily Democratic Washington, the primary is tantamount to the general election.\n--New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer looked to be coasting to a primary win for governor against Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi. Spitzer is expected to easily win in the fall. And one-term Sen. Hillary Clinton faced a long shot anti-war candidate in the primary.\n--Also in New York, the Democratic primary for attorney general pits former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo -- son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo -- against Mark Green, the former New York City public advocate.
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Islamic militants tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and a van rigged with explosives, the Syrian government said. Four people were killed in the brazen attack, including three of the assailants, but no Americans were hurt.\nThere was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. An al-Qaida offshoot group called Jund al-Sham was suspected, Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, told CNN. The radical fundamentalist group has been blamed for several attacks in Syria in recent years, he said.\nSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised Syrian security agents for repelling the attack but added it was too early to know who might have been behind it.\nThe attackers apparently did not breach the high walls surrounding the embassy's white compound in the city's diplomatic neighborhood.\nOne of Syria's anti-terrorism troops was killed and 11 other people were wounded, the official news agency reported. The wounded included a police officer, two Iraqis and seven people employed at nearby technical workshop.\nA Chinese diplomat also was hit in the face by shrapnel and slightly injured while standing on top of a garage at the Chinese Embassy, China's Foreign Ministry said. The diplomat, political counselor Li Hongyu, was in stable condition at a hospital, the ministry said.\nA witness said a Syrian guard outside the U.S. Embassy also was killed, but the government did not immediately confirm that. As at most American embassies worldwide, a local guard force patrols outside the compound's walls while U.S. Marines are mostly responsible for guarding classified documents and fighting off attackers inside the compound.\nWitnesses also said the gunmen tried to throw hand grenades into the embassy compound, shouting "Allahu akbar!" or "God is great!" It was not clear if any of the grenades made it over the walls, which are about 8 feet high.\nThe attack came at a time of high tension between the United States and Syria over the recent Israeli-Hezbollah war in neighboring Lebanon. In Damascus, the sentiment has become increasingly anti-American.\nSyria has seen previous attacks by Islamic militants. In June, Syrian anti-terrorism police fought Islamic militants near the Defense Ministry in a gunbattle that killed five people and wounded four. In 2004, four people were killed in a clash between police and a team of suspected bombers targeting the Canadian Embassy.\nThe Bush administration has been critical of the tight control that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has over its people. Rice, meeting with her Canadian counterpart in Nova Scotia, would not speculate on whether Tuesday's attack might be an indication that the regime's control is slipping.\nWhite House press secretary Tony Snow also expressed gratitude toward Syria.\n"Syrian officials came to aid of the Americans," Snow said. "The U.S. government is grateful for the assistance the Syrians provided in going after the attackers, and once again, that illustrates the importance of Syria being an important ally in the war on terror.\n"It does not mean they are an ally. We are hoping they will become an ally and make the choice of fighting against terrorists," he said, adding that the Bush administration does not know who is responsible for the attack.\nWashington recalled Ambassador Margaret Scobey after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, amid suspicions that Damascus had a role in it. She has not returned since, effectively downgrading U.S. diplomatic representation to the level of charge d'affaires.\nPools of blood lay on the sidewalk outside the U.S. Embassy, near a burned car apparently used by the attackers. A sport utility vehicle with U.S. diplomatic tags had a bullet hole in its windshield, and the windows of nearby guard houses also were shattered.\nThere were conflicting reports of what happened.\nSyrian TV said one car was rigged with explosives but the attackers never detonated them. But one witness said a second car did explode, and TV video showed a burned car.\nThe Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said a fourth attacker now in detention was wounded in what it called a "terrorist attack." The report, carried on state-run television, said anti-terror units brought "the situation under control" and an investigation was under way.\nIn Washington, a State Department spokesman confirmed the attack by "unknown assailants" but had few details. "Local authorities have responded and are on the scene," spokesman Kurtis Cooper said.\nA U.S. Embassy statement said the embassy came under armed attack at 10:10 a.m. and that all embassy personnel were safe. One Syrian guard was injured by gunfire and was hospitalized in a stable condition, the statement said.\nThe embassy's charge d'affaires, Michael Corbin, met with Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Maguid at the scene and spoke by phone with assistant minister of foreign affairs, Ahmed Arnous, according to the statement.\nIt said the Syrian government has pledged full security cooperation.\nAbout 30 Syrian guards usually are posted around the embassy 24 hours a day, Moustapha said.\nState television said four armed attackers "attempted to storm" the embassy, using automatic rifles and hand grenades. Syrian security guards attacked the gunmen, killing three and wounding a fourth, TV said.\nThe attackers came in two cars and parked one that was rigged with explosives in front of the embassy but did not blow it up, state-run TV reported. Explosives experts dismantled the bomb, it said.\nBut a witness told The Associated Press that two gunmen drove up in front of the embassy, got out of their car, shot at the Syrian sentries at the building's entrance and then detonated explosives in the car.\nThe witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the security personnel fired back, and security forces rushed to the scene.\nTelevision showed a delivery van loaded with pipe bombs strapped to large propane gas canisters outside the embassy. Had the bombs detonated, the explosions could have caused massive damage.
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iraq's prime minister made his first official visit to Iran on Tuesday, asking Tehran to prevent al-Qaida militants from slipping across the border to carry out attacks, an Iraqi official said. Iran's president promised to help Iraq establish security.\nThe visit by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reflected the complex relationship between mostly Shiite Iran and Iraq's government, which is dominated by Shiite allies of Tehran. Ties have grown stronger between the two, including new oil cooperation.\nHaidar al-Obadi, a parliament member from al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said "there are al-Qaida members and al-Qaida strongholds in Iran."\nHe said the militants have been "taking advantage of the long border" to smuggle weapons and people into Iraq "most likely without the Iranian government's knowledge."\n"We ask Iran for cooperation in controlling the border to prevent any al-Qaida exploitation of the border," he told The Associated Press in Cairo, speaking in a telephone interview from Baghdad.\nTehran says it has no interest in fomenting instability across the border. Iran says that some al-Qaida operatives might have illegally passed through Iran from Afghanistan months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but it says it has arrested an unknown number of them.\nAl-Qaida's branch in Iraq has carried out some of the most brutal suicide attacks against Iraqi Shiites.\nAl-Maliki, who lived in Iran during part of a long exile from Iraq during the rule of ousted leader Saddam Hussein, received a red-carpet reception at the presidential palace before talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.\nAsked at a joint press conference following their talks about allegations that Iran was interfering in Iraq, al-Maliki said: "There is no obstacle in the way of implementing agreements between Iran and Iraq."\n"All our assistance to the Iraqi people will be to establish complete security in this country," Ahmadinejad said, according to a state-run news agency report of the press conference. "Iran and Iraq enjoy historical relations. These relations go beyond ... neighborly ties. Our relations will remain excellent.\n"We consider Iraq's progress, independence and territorial integrity as our own."\nAhmadinejad also said Iran hoped the United States will leave Iraq soon.\n"This trip will strengthen bilateral relations. Iran and Iraq, as two brotherly neighbors, will stand by each other and unwanted guests (U.S.-led coalition forces) will leave the region," he said.\nAl-Maliki described the talks as "very constructive" and called Iran "a very important country, a good friend and brother."\nSince Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003, Iraq has sought closer ties with Iran and to heal scars left by the 1980-88 war that killed more than 1 million people on both sides.\nAl-Maliki's Shiite-led government has strong ties with mainly Shiite Iran, and they are growing even closer, with Baghdad sealing deals last month for Tehran to provide it with gasoline, kerosene and cooking fuel amid a shortage in Iraq. Al-Maliki spent years in Iran and Syria in exile.\nAn Iraqi economic delegation visited Iran just before al-Maliki to discuss further petroleum deals, including the possibility of Iranian investment in Iraq's fuel sector, said al-Obadi.\nIn July 2005, former Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari made the first visit to Iran by an Iraqi premier since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam.\n--Associated Press Writer Qassem Abdul-Zahra in Cairo contributed to this report.
NEW YORK -- Spring fashion is beginning to take shape in the opening days of New York Fashion Week -- however loose that shape might be.\nFlirty frocks are mostly short with swinging hems. Some designers have gone so far as to describe a few dresses as "sacks" -- and stylists, editors and retailers have also used that word more than once.\nEyelet fabrics embrace the best of the season's lighthearted spirit, while the favorite colors are black and white with pops of brights instead of traditional warm-weather pastels.\nScores of designers, however, have yet to preview their lines before the shows wind up Friday, so there's room for other trends to show up on the catwalks.