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Then-graduate student Misha Mikhaylov, middle, speaks with Doug Bauder and Carol Fischer at the then-named Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Support Services Center.
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Then-graduate student Misha Mikhaylov, middle, speaks with Doug Bauder and Carol Fischer at the then-named Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Support Services Center.
These portraits of Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall hang in the lobby of the Neal Marshall Center. Neal and Marshall were the first black man and woman to graduate from IU.
Full Legal Name: Richard Did The Last Four (OK, Five) Years Really Happen Newkirk\nAge: 23\nDOB: Saturday, really\nSocial Security: Not looking good\nHome Phone: The same one from my childhood. Again.\nAddress: I'm trying to address my insecurities and maturity level before it's too late.\nEducation: BA in journalism from Indiana University (!)\nPosition Applying For: Post-college graduation life\nReason For Applying: I've been in school for 17 years and they won't let me stay any longer.\nExperience: I'd like to think I have a lot, but let's be honest -- I'm starting from scratch here.\nKnowledge/Skills/Abilities -- List any KSAs you have formed over the last 4 (or 5) years: I learned how to cram lots of stuff in a tiny, cinder-block room; I'm adept at making freshmen share their mealpoints; and I also learned some useful career-related skills at college that I don't tell my friends about because they're not as funny.\nPrevious jobs: I worked at the Indiana Daily Student for the last 3 years, where I found a job, which became my career, and met my friends, who became my family. But now I have to leave to be with you, life.\nPhysical Exam\nDo you get any strange feelings?: Yes. You know that feeling after you leave middle school only to realize you're the short kid again, or graduating high school to become a freshman, and you find out you're not nearly as ready for life outside your parents' rules as you thought? Something like that.\nDo you have any heart conditions?: My pulse is racing at the thought of taking you on blindfolded. I might not be "ready," but I think the last 5 years have taught me that I can handle you, life.\nHow are your eyes?: Well, I can remember everything I did wrong in college, so I'm sure my hindsight is 20-20. But I have no clue what path I'll take with you, life, after I enter your ranks. Foresight is bleak.\nEars?: I can hear the fat lady, "Taps" and "Pomp and Circumstance" signaling the end of college. But a little further off sounds the overture and "Reveille," which remind me that the rest of you still awaits me, life. \nAre you scared?: I'd be lying if I said I wasn't, but fear is a motivator. Bring on anything you've got, life.\nWhen can you start?: I'll begin Saturday. There's a reason they call it "commencement"
When you work with the news, your media can sometimes be fickle. On slow news days, we run an entire front page of filler. On other days, like Tuesday's paper, we have to make room for several huge stories at once.\nI knew balance would be a problem when we found out -- in the span of a couple hours -- that a student had died and an arrest had been made in the Jill Behrman case. To add to that, we had been planning a feature on Ashley Crouse, an IU student who was killed a year ago today in a car accident, to run on the anniversary of her last day alive. That story had been in the works for weeks. It was apparent page one would be heavy.\nThe only consideration I had to alleviate the paper was to hold the Ashley Crouse story for one day. That way, it would still run on the anniversary of her death. But I think the story (written to remember Ashley's last day alive and not just her untimely death) added some context for those grieving the passing of Christine Wampler. It showed how those who went through this one year ago are doing today. For those of you mourning, I hope it could at least help put the situation in perspective.\nTo have bumped any of the front page stories inside or to a later day would have belittled that story and belied the true news of the day. It is utterly unfortunate that these events happened at all, especially that they happened at nearly the same time. But they happened, and it's our job to report the news, however grim it might be.\nI know some were confused as to why Crouse's photo ran so large and Wampler's smaller. The rules of newspaper design dictate that the "centerpiece" story is generally a feature with dominant art to draw eyes to the center of the page. Usually, the top story on the page, a hard-hitting news piece, has some sort of art to run, typically about the size of Wampler's photo. In this case, the art is purely utilitarian -- to show readers who didn't know Wampler what she looked like. Crouse's large photo, the last taken of her alive, then brings readers "below the fold" to her story.\nIt is not ideal to have a front page lacking in balance. It would have been great to have had some uplifting stories anchoring Tuesday's sadder news. Unfortunately, too many bad things happened. Just like everyone else, we didn't like the news. But we have an obligation to report it.
Many of you might have heard about one of our mistakes.\nEmployees from the IU Motor Pool cleaned out a rental car just before spring break and reported to the IU Police Department that they had found marijuana paraphernalia. The car was last rented out to the Indiana Daily Student.\nWhen we were told of this, we were thrust in an unusual situation -- how to report on news about ourselves. To remove ourselves from the situation, we tried to think about ourselves as a different but comparable University entity -- like the IU Student Association -- and tried to think of the staffer who drove the car as a different but comparable organization representative -- like an IUSA dorm representative. This scenario would help us to objectively report on the issue.\nWhen our police beat reporter, Audrie Garrison, called IUPD, as she does every day, she was unaware of the situation. We wanted to make sure she reported on the case as she would any other. When she talked to the police, they told her of their investigation, and she came to me with the information. \nWe told her to proceed with her story. If IUPD would have told us that a car IUSA last rented was found to have had drug paraphernalia, we would have contacted an IUSA representative, most likely its president. So Audrie interviewed me, and I told her our stance -- we were aware of the situation, and we would deal with it appropriately when a police report was filed.\nUltimately, IUPD chose not to file a report on our staffer. Now we were only left with how to handle any punishment.\nAfter discussing the matter with advisers -- the IDS managing editors, Kevin Dwire and Gavin Lesnick, and our director, Dave Adams -- we decided not to release the staffer in favor of a less harsh -- but probative -- penalty. We all feel this decision was the most appropriate action given the circumstances.\nThe IDS is a "real" newspaper, but it's also a learning lab. We work at the paper to learn from our mistakes, whether that means a botched story or a drug paraphernalia investigation. We want the staffer to know the situation will be dealt with much more severely the next time this happens, but with our faith in members of our newspaper family, we believe it will not happen again. \nOn behalf of the IDS, I apologize for this incident. Please have faith that we can learn from our mistakes.
If you take a look at today's front page, you'll see a photo of an Ann Coulter protester holding up his middle finger. I want you to know the decision to run the photo was not arrived at impulsively.\nWhen the photographer, Aaron Bernstein, arrived with his cache of pictures, several of the audience shots stood out, including the one we ultimately decided to run. As per our code of ethics, we had an impromptu newsroom discussion to determine if the news value of the photo was profound enough to warrant its publication, considering some might be offended by its content.\nWe decided that the photo, showing the protester surrounded by many audience members clapping, was indicative of the sentiments of both Coulter dissenters and Coulter supporters. Also, the man's reaction is representative of a larger issue -- Coulter simply would not be paid the large amounts she receives to speak at universities if she didn't elicit such emotional responses. The protester is the reason Coulter was here Thursday night.\nWe ultimately chose the photo instead of another, which showed a man protesting alone, devoid of the context of Coulter's many supporters. We felt that photo would have depicted an audience 100 percent full of protesters, and that simply was not the case.\nAs always, let us know what you think. E-mail us at letters@indiana.edu or me personally at renewkir@indiana.edu.
Davis announced that he will officially resign at the end of this season, receiving an $800,000 contract buy-out from the University.
The other day, a concerned reader called to tell me he thought a story we ran was biased and "belonged on the Opinion page." He thought a piece we did on the president's State of the Union address was neither objective nor complete. He had every right to call me and complain, and I commend him for doing so. \nI started to explain that the story was written late -- around 11 p.m. -- and with our midnight deadline approaching, those late stories tend to get quick and cursory edits before zipping it to "backshop" where it is placed on the page. My editorial mumbo-jumbo didn't matter to him, just as it doesn't and shouldn't matter to readers.\nAt the time, I was in a rush, between classes and dealing with two other personnel issues, and I did something I regret still: I told him I had better things to do than to listen to his gripes. \nMy retort, of course, was way off-base, and if I had his name and phone number, I'd call and apologize personally. Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- is more important than reader feedback, and I should have used my time on the phone to listen more closely and learn from this reader's complaints. \nI make mistakes sometimes, and this instance was a big one. We are in business because people read the paper. Your comments are more important than any petty personnel issues I might have, any personal issues I might be facing and -- yes -- any class I might have to worry about.\nSo besides an apology, this is a call-out to readers to call your editors and tell them what you think about the paper. Call the Sports editors (Matt Mattucci and Eamonn Brennan) and tell them what you want to see in the paper. Call the Nation & World editor (Trevor Brown) and tell him what national stories should be localized and how you think we should do that. And call me and tell me if you think a story we ran was subjective and incomplete. \nWe don't know exactly what you want unless you tell us. Write us (letters@indiana.edu), call us (855-0760) or send us some snail mail (940 E. Seventh St., Bloomington, IN 47405). \nAnd to the man who called in, thank you.
When you pick up a paper, the first thing you see is the front page, what we call "P1." It contains the day's most important news and is generally arranged with the most relevant story at the top and the most visual story in the middle, called a centerpiece. This evolution is widely accepted to be the best way to present you the most important news in a way that is easiest on the eyes.\nTypically, research shows the next page you flip to is the first page of the second section, known to us as the "front." The "front schedule" at the IDS is fairly set: ArtsExtra is Thursday, Sports runs Monday and Friday and Health & Science and Business alternate for Tuesday's slot. Until this semester, "Features" ran on Wednesday. Features are typically longer stories with a more laid-back feel to them. In my opinion, the Features section has existed solely to place stories that could have fit in other sections but were a little longer. This semester, we're changing it up.\nWe will still run features stories, but they will be handled by the other desk editors and will run as centerpieces more often. In Wednesday's "front" slot, we're giving the Opinion page its due respect. \nMany newspapers across the country run Opinion fronts, often called "Forum" or "Editorial." The new front will give our Opinion editors, Cordell Eddings and Tony Sams, a chance to show off their creativity in evaluating current social issues that matter to you. We'll pit columnists against one another to debate current topics, bring visuals to our staff editorials and just add some color to a page many of you read before the others. \nToday is the first day of our Opinion front, so turn to page 9 and see our analysis of the major race-related issues of the past year. \nAnd tell us what you think. The point of this column is to provide transparency, or allow you more insight into how our paper is run. The best way for you to have more influence on the paper is to write us and let us know how you feel. We try to be open-minded, so give us your best shot.
Today the School of Public and Environmental Affairs is hosting a Hurricane Katrina teach-in discussion, incorporating several diverse panelists in all areas of the disaster. \nWhy?\nBecause it's a natural thing for SPEA to do.\n"When Hurricane Katrina hit, people walked around thinking, 'What can I do?'" said SPEA director of marketing and communications Debra Kent. "It just seemed natural for us to pull this together."\nTitled "Hurricane Katrina: The SPEA Perspective," the informal teach-in will feature at least seven faculty panelists, said Kent, who organized the discussion. Panelists will provide insight on several different issues involving the disaster, including public policy, homeland security, public health, hydrology, wetlands preservation, city management and forestry. \nThe teach-in begins at 5:30 p.m. today in the SPEA atrium.\n"I hope to avoid all the incriminating and finger-pointing and blame games we will see in the press," said Bill McGregor, a SPEA professor and panelist focusing on operations management during major disasters.\nSPEA professor and panelist Matt Auer said the panel will "set the stage" for an open discussion. Auer will provide his expertise on hydrology, the study of the effects of water on the earth's surface. The public as a whole perpetuated a flooding myth, Auer said. He said most people went to bed Aug. 29 thinking New Orleans had skirted a potential disaster, not realizing that much more flooding can occur in the hours after a major storm moves through an area.\nHe also said the issue of race has been ineffectively illustrated by the media.\n"It's always more complicated than the media presents," Auer said. "The richness of that culture is not being presented."\nOrville Powell, a panelist focusing on city management during disasters, said he dealt with two hurricanes while acting as city manager in North Carolina. He said the federal government's response to the disaster is "unbelievably poor."\nThe SPEA professor said he's had to rearrange a class syllabus to spend time on Katrina.\nLouisiana marshland is suffering from silt depletion caused by the levees along the Mississippi River, said panelist Chris Craft. He said the marshland is a critical stretch of land that can help mitigate storm destruction -- but added that the Mississippi River delta is a "poster-child of wetland loss." \nThe panel is nothing if not diverse, and McGregor said hurricane relief is a long process that requires analysis on many different levels.\n"This is a disaster that requires we throw everything we have at it," he said.
Welcome Week -- the first few days of the year set to acclimate freshmen to the perils and pearls of IU life. But when I was a fresh high school graduate in my first week at Arizona State, I got a deeper lesson in life.\nMy brother was in a drunk driving accident and nearly died.\nHis friend was behind the wheel of a loaded Corvette. They had both been drinking. It was merely coincidence that my brother was the passenger and not the offending driver. \nI've never considered driving drunk. Sibling near-deaths will do that to you.\nSo pushing through a mass of freshmen, I snaked my way around a few Indiana Memorial Union corridors Friday to the drunk driving simulator. I waited about a half-hour before I took my seat.\nSome people came and went through the simulator room without a virtual scratch. They left looking confident they could flout the safety of other people and drive drunk without consequence. They should have watched me.\nThe machine was a beast of complicated technology. Everything in the Ford coupe mock-up worked -- including the air conditioning and radio. I was told it cost $2.5 million and took NASA seven years to build. There are 30-some sensors imbedded in the driver's seat, taking the driver's weight and height into account to determine the gender and alcohol tolerance of the would-be offender. Serious equipment, serious reality.\nMy drive started well enough. "You're going 60 in a 25," said the attendant. Nothing unusual there.\nThen I started to "feel" the effects of the booze. As I slowed to a red-light stop, the motion in the simulator was distorted, making me feel nauseated. Every time I made a mistake, I overcorrected for the error, either swerving wildly into the other lane of traffic or screeching to a halt 30 feet before a stop sign. And the police in the simulator don't pull you over. I was in this thing till the end.\nThe end began quickly. My blood alcohol content somewhere around 0.25, I turned left, nearly rammed a Mac truck and the ensuing series of overcorrecting swerves spelled doom for me. A few seconds later my face was planted in the side of a building. I'm dead.\nSo welcome, freshmen. You're going to have a lot of parties to crash. And after that, you're going to have powerful decisions to make. It's a part of IU life.
In 1979, a perfect storm of comedic filmmaking commenced to produce "The Jerk." \nSteve Martin, the ultimate funnyman of his era, teamed up with Carl Gottlieb, whose modest writing credentials include the "Jaws" series and "The Bob Newhart Show," and Michael Elias ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show") to create the script of the endearingly stupid Navin R. Johnson (Martin) whose adventures take the viewer seamlessly from laugh to laugh, with a couple cute songs mixed in. Movie and TV legend Carl Reiner directed as Martin and Bernadette Peters, the First Lady of Broadway, played the lead roles.\n"It was never easy for me," Navin begins. "I was born a poor black child."\nWhen Navin bolts his adopted home to "be somebody," he hitches a series of rides -- the discerning eye will catch Rob Reiner as one of Navin's chaperones -- and finds himself in a gas station where he works the pump for owner Harry Hartounian (comedic somebody Jackie Mason) and never forgets to send money back home. He meets a not-so-nice circus lady who promises to give him some other "jobs" and tattoos his name on his rump. After a series of fortunate events -- inventing a gadget called the "Optigrab" and meeting the sugary sweet Marie (Peters), Navin winds up headfirst in the lap of luxury. He is finally somebody.\nMartin's comedic genius is on full throttle the entire film. "The Jerk" is one of the best comedies ever made, and one of my favorite movies. A quote from the movie, "he hates these cans," is on my e-mail signature. If I was just reviewing the film, I would make my five strokes of the pen and there you'd have it -- an A+.\nSo I'm dumbfounded as to why Universal Studios didn't take the DVD re-release more seriously. A gaffe (bad math, sloth?) turned the 25th anniversary edition into a 26th birthday release, and the lack of preparation smacked me in the face when I consumed this DVD. There are no linear notes, no tangible chapter list, no little booklet -- only a flyer advertising other (likely rushed) DVDs. \nAnd the "special" features stink like a rotten mayonnaise sandwich wrapped in cellophane. Original content is sub-sparse, as in the original trailer and that's it. There's a hideous reexamination of Martin's "cat juggling" scene (not funny), a cheesy and annoying ukulele lesson, which ruins Martin and Peters' beautiful rendition of "Tonight you belong to me" (not cute) and some production notes that seem to scroll on for eternity (not enough). Add some Dolby 5.1 sound and there's your DVD, devoid of any valuable content outside the invaluable film itself.\nI would have enjoyed a commentary track by one of the bevy of worthy folks associated with this movie -- Martin, Peters, Reiner, Gottlieb, someone. As an avid fan, I would have liked some more original extras, if not deleted scenes then cast photos from the set. Instead Universal has left me utterly disappointed. The perfect storm of comedy movies was packaged into a disaster.\nI hope the 31st anniversary edition isn't so destructive.
In 1979, a perfect storm of comedic filmmaking commenced to produce "The Jerk." \nSteve Martin, the ultimate funnyman of his era, teamed up with Carl Gottlieb, whose modest writing credentials include the "Jaws" series and "The Bob Newhart Show," and Michael Elias ("The Mary Tyler Moore Show") to create the script of the endearingly stupid Navin R. Johnson (Martin) whose adventures take the viewer seamlessly from laugh to laugh, with a couple cute songs mixed in. Movie and TV legend Carl Reiner directed as Martin and Bernadette Peters, the First Lady of Broadway, played the lead roles.\n"It was never easy for me," Navin begins. "I was born a poor black child."\nWhen Navin bolts his adopted home to "be somebody," he hitches a series of rides -- the discerning eye will catch Rob Reiner as one of Navin's chaperones -- and finds himself in a gas station where he works the pump for owner Harry Hartounian (comedic somebody Jackie Mason) and never forgets to send money back home. He meets a not-so-nice circus lady who promises to give him some other "jobs" and tattoos his name on his rump. After a series of fortunate events -- inventing a gadget called the "Optigrab" and meeting the sugary sweet Marie (Peters), Navin winds up headfirst in the lap of luxury. He is finally somebody.\nMartin's comedic genius is on full throttle the entire film. "The Jerk" is one of the best comedies ever made, and one of my favorite movies. A quote from the movie, "he hates these cans," is on my e-mail signature. If I was just reviewing the film, I would make my five strokes of the pen and there you'd have it -- an A+.\nSo I'm dumbfounded as to why Universal Studios didn't take the DVD re-release more seriously. A gaffe (bad math, sloth?) turned the 25th anniversary edition into a 26th birthday release, and the lack of preparation smacked me in the face when I consumed this DVD. There are no linear notes, no tangible chapter list, no little booklet -- only a flyer advertising other (likely rushed) DVDs. \nAnd the "special" features stink like a rotten mayonnaise sandwich wrapped in cellophane. Original content is sub-sparse, as in the original trailer and that's it. There's a hideous reexamination of Martin's "cat juggling" scene (not funny), a cheesy and annoying ukulele lesson, which ruins Martin and Peters' beautiful rendition of "Tonight you belong to me" (not cute) and some production notes that seem to scroll on for eternity (not enough). Add some Dolby 5.1 sound and there's your DVD, devoid of any valuable content outside the invaluable film itself.\nI would have enjoyed a commentary track by one of the bevy of worthy folks associated with this movie -- Martin, Peters, Reiner, Gottlieb, someone. As an avid fan, I would have liked some more original extras, if not deleted scenes then cast photos from the set. Instead Universal has left me utterly disappointed. The perfect storm of comedy movies was packaged into a disaster.\nI hope the 31st anniversary edition isn't so destructive.
Editor's Note: Indiana Daily Student Senior Writer Rick Newkirk interviewed ESPN "bracketologist" Joe Lunardi via e-mail, asking him five questions about IU's NCAA Tournament fate. Lunardi is a weekly columnist on ESPN.com and regularly contributes to ESPN broadcasts regarding college basketball.
Charlie Nelms sent a University review of The Major Taylor Foundation back to its authors for revisions.\nNelms, IU's vice president for student development and diversity, said in an e-mail message he asked Dean of Students Richard McKaig and IU Vice Chancellor Edwardo Rhodes to prepare a new draft of their review for Nelms' meeting with IU-Bloomington Interim Chancellor Ken Gros Louis next week. Nelms deferred any other comments until after he receives the final report.\nThe University investigation began in November when three former Little 500 riders on Team Major Taylor, in a letter to IU officials, detailed complaints regarding scholarships they said they received to ride in the race. McKaig said the three riders were Julio German, Dante Pryor and Rahsaan Bahati. Chris Scott, another former Team Major Taylor rider, detailed similar complaints in an April 28 Indiana Daily Student article.\nMcKaig said he and Rhodes are finishing the review, which comprises interviews with riders, Major Taylor Foundation board members and Major Taylor Foundation President Courtney Bishop.\nNelms told the officials to tie up loose ends during a May 3 meeting, McKaig said.\nMcKaig said he and Rhodes were going to "get it done quickly."\n"Next week would be a logical time," he said.
Hundreds of people united in the field behind McNutt Quad Sunday to support the state of Israel with the second annual Israelpalooza, sponsored by the Helene G. Simon Hillel Center.\nThe festival was a celebration of Israeli culture as well as a fund-raising opportunity for Magen David Adom, the Israeli Red Cross. Participants were asked to donate $15 to join the festivities. Gary Kenzer, co-executive director of the American MDA, said it is one of the foremost humanitarian organizations in the world.\n"Whenever there is a world disaster outside of Israel," Kenzer said, "we're usually one of the first three countries to respond."\nAmong the estimated 600 people in attendance was Bloomington Mayor Mark Kruzan.\n"Indiana and Israel have some commonalities," Kruzan said. "They are very similar in size and population. Of course, there are huge differences. In Indiana, we wake up every morning and assume we'll get to our destination safely. In Israel, if you go to town, your safety is always in question." \nLast year, Israelpalooza proved significantly beneficial to MDA. Kenzer said Israelpalooza raised $8,000 just before an emergency call for crisis funds came into the MDA offices for $8,000.\nThis year's event kicked off just after noon with a 5K walk around campus. After participants returned, the field was loaded with tables, tents and booths. In one area, dubbed the "Israeli mall," people could buy various types of Israeli merchandise, from a T-shirt to a mezuzah -- a Jewish blessing ornament.\nThe music was the selling point of Israelpalooza, showcasing talent from a cappella groups Straight No Chaser and Ladies First to nationally-known Black Eyed Susan and Ari Hest. Between the headliners, the student group Klezmer Coins played contemporary Jewish songs. Freshman Tracy Koontz said the music brought her to the festivities.\n"It's a nice day to hang out," Koontz said, "but I'm pretty much here for Ari Hest."\nAnother popular location on the field was the hookah tent. Students sat in a circle on blankets taking turns smoking from the community pipes.\nWhile fun was the order of the day, Hillel Center Programs Coordinator Michal Maoz Levy said the need for increased awareness brought Israelpalooza to fruition.\n"We wanted to raise awareness of Israeli culture," Levy said. "Most people know about the conflict, but we wanted to show them there are other facets of Israeli culture, such as our food and our art."\nCelebrators wishing to purchase pieces of Israeli culture had ample opportunities. Near the Israeli mall, shoppers could buy framed Jewish artwork out of a caravan -- a Dodge Caravan.\nThe "Kids' Tent" was a hotspot for the younger set. Along with a bean-bag toss and a "Write your name in Hebrew" station, children were encouraged to "Fish in the Kinneret" -- a small plastic inflatable pool overhauled from "Jews Gone Wild" took the place of the Israeli lake.\nIsraelpalooza Co-Chair Michael Israel said the event was a great learning experience for those not well-versed in Jewish tradition.\n"We're really proud of the work we've done," Israel said. "We hope people can enjoy themselves and get a little knowledge, a little education."\n-- Contact staff writer Rick Newkirk at renewkir@indiana.edu.
Three former riders of the Team Major Taylor Little 500 cycling team are accusing the president of The Major Taylor Foundation of illegal recruiting practices, which prompted a University investigation late last year.\nThe cyclists' complaints stem from alleged promises made by the foundation's President Courtney Bishop. The former riders said Bishop told them he would provide full tuition, room and board in exchange for riding in the Little 500.\nWhen contacted about the allegations, Bishop had no official comment.\nAccording to the IU Student Foundation Little 500 riders manual, illegal recruiting is defined as "making cash payments and/or giving free room and board or other perks to students in exchange for their services as riders."\nOne of the former riders, Julio German, sent an e-mail detailing the recruiting violation allegations to high-level University members -- including IU President Adam Herbert and IU-Bloomington Interim Chancellor Ken Gros Louis -- in November 2004. \nAt the request of Gros Louis and IU Vice President for Student Affairs and Diversity Charlie Nelms, a review was launched to investigate German's allegations. Dean of Students Richard McKaig and IU Vice Chancellor Eduardo Rhodes headed the review board.\nMcKaig said the review, which has not yet been released to the public, found "a lot of miscommunication" and stated the Major Taylor Foundation needs to clarify its promises.\n"We found very little in writing," McKaig said. "I'm sure most students would love to hear they're getting a full ride to IU, but if you don't have it in writing, you don't have much."\nGerman came to IU in fall 2001 as a freshman. He said Bishop asked him to join Team Major Taylor in January 2002 as eligibility issues arose with rider Josh Weir, who was then a freshman. German accepted the offer when he was told by Bishop that he would receive full tuition, room and board in exchange for riding in the Little 500, German said.\n"It was probably one of the biggest mistakes of my life," German said. "I learned about myself, but I also learned about bureaucracy and how someone could abuse and manipulate the system."\nGerman said Bishop never paid the tuition as he promised, and German's bursar bill began to grow. He said Bishop would tell his parents the payments would be made soon, but they never came. German took out student loans to pay his bills, he said, which amounted to $10,000 to $15,000 per year.\n"Courtney agreed to help pay back those loans, but he hasn't," German said.\nGerman also said Bishop made it clear that the cyclists were brought to Bloomington solely to ride in the Little 500.\n"You're only here to ride in the race," German said.\nDante Pryor, another former rider, came to IU in fall 2002 as a freshman. He said Bishop called his family at his home in New York and told them if Dante would join Team Major Taylor, his expenses would be paid.\n"I asked him if I was going to have to pay for anything," said Nina Pryor, Dante's mother. "He said, 'No.'"\nIn a letter by college adviser Sydney Cresap of Pryor's high school, George Westinghouse High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Pryor turned down an offer from Penn State University to attend IU, presumably with a full ride.\n"A man by the name of Courtney Bishop contacted Dante about an opportunity to cycle for an African American Little 500 cycling team ... the young men would attend Indiana University at Bloomington on a full scholarship that he (Mr. Bishop) (sic) would provide," the letter reads.\nBut Dante Pryor said his fall tuition went unpaid until he was unable to register for classes. Bishop then made a partial payment, but Dante Pryor and Bishop soon had a falling out, Pryor said. \nAccording to a letter sent to Pryor by Bishop, Pryor lost his scholarship after he was hit by a car while on a bike ride in New York on Dec. 24, 2002.\n"Because of the inevitable physical therapy and recovery period which you are facing, we feel that you will not be able to prepare in the manner necessary to compete at the elite collegiate 'A' level," the letter, dated Jan. 20, 2003, reads.\nPryor now attends classes at New York University.\nFreshman Chris Scott, another former member of Team Major Taylor, came to IU in fall 2004. He said he was offered a full ride, including room and board, as long as he agreed to ride in the Little 500.\n"I had to ride in Little 5," he said. "That was the main stipulation."\nBut as months went by, Scott's bill was never paid, he said. Finally Bishop made a partial payment on behalf of Scott to the bursar after winter break, Scott said.\nThen in mid-January, Scott quit the team.\n"I didn't want to have to deal with empty promises," he said. Neither German, Pryor nor Scott were given written contracts for their scholarships. All agreements were verbal.\nIUSF Little 500 Race Director Rob Rhamy said if a team is found to be issuing scholarships to cyclists that are contingent upon their participation in the Little 500, they would be subject to penalties at Rhamy's discretion. He said the punishment could range from a time penalty to disqualification.\n"All the students they've brought here are great," Rhamy said. "They've been great for our race. They're great kids. They've done nothing but contribute positively to the race and our quest to diversify the race."\nHe said many riders are unaware of IUSF's recruiting rules.\n"They don't know they're breaking the rules by having a scholarship," he said. \nGerman, a former runner who is transferring to a college in Manhattan where he plans to revive his running career, said he came forward to bring light to a subject that has been "swept under the rug."\n"Courtney Bishop and the Major Taylor Foundation are running this program at the emotional and financial expense of his riders."\n-- Contact Campus Editor Rick Newkirk at renewkir@indiana.edu.
While Father Dan Atkins drilled along during St. Paul Catholic Center's business meeting Tuesday afternoon, a fellow cleric's cell phone interrupted discussions.\nHe suddenly had a premonition.\n"I looked over and said, 'Habemus Papam.'"\nHe was right. They had a new pope.\nAnd while the world celebrated the election of the Catholic Church's 265th pope, Bloomington theologians wondered about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. They wondered what's on his mind. They wondered what's in his future. And they wondered what's in a name.\n"What interests me is the name he took," said IU religious studies professor Mary Jo Weaver. "Generally when a pope takes a name, he's telling you something."\nThe last Holy See named Benedict was Benedict XV, a progressive pontiff by all accounts who reigned from 1914 to 1922. Benedict XV made Joan of Arc a saint, a bold peace offering to the French government, which at the time was opposed to the Roman Catholic Church.\nHe also tried to negotiate an end to World War I with the Papal Peace proposal of 1917, but was unsuccessful.\n"Benedict XV was pope right after a really contentious and difficult time," Weaver said, adding that the pope called for a halt between traditionalist and conservative Catholics. She said a similar dynamic permeates the ranking clerics today.\nIt is odd, Weaver said, that "Benedict" was chosen by a man as conservative as Ratzinger.\n"If they could have possibly picked someone more conservative than John Paul II, they have," said IU sociology professor of religion Melissa Wilde. "I think they're trying to stake their claim that the Church is a conservative Church."\nAs Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith since 1981, Ratzinger has been the Vatican's head disciplinarian in charge of reprimanding dissenters.\n"Those are very, very, very different positions," Atkins said. "One is to guard the purity of the faith, and the other puts you in the position of helping the whole world to hold hands with each other."\nWilde said Ratzinger's role as "God's Rottweiler" made him the voice of \nconservatism in the Church.\n"This is not the warm and fuzzy face of the Vatican," Wilde said. "He's well-known as being a tough guy."\nWeaver said she is concerned about Ratzinger's stance on homosexuals -- which Wilde describes as "love the sinner, not the sin, at best" -- and women's roles in the Church.\n"I think it's appalling, unjust and ridiculous," she said. "A lot of people will go into raptures of joy, but a lot of people will go into despair."\nBenedict XVI is Rome's first German pope in 482 years. (16th century Pope Adrian VI was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, which was considered a part of Germany at that time.) Still, his selection marks the domination of European first-world countrymen in the holiest seat.\nOf those slighted for the papacy were Honduras' Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Francis Arinze of Nigeria and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino of Cuba. Wilde said she was not surprised the Cardinals selected a conservative pope but was disappointed they didn't pick one of the third-world candidates. The Church is, after all, more than 2 billion people strong and present in nearly every poor country on Earth.\n"The Church is the third world," she said.\nBecause Benedict XVI is the oldest elected pontiff in 275 years, he is seen by many as a "transitional pope."\nBut when John XXIII became pope in 1958, the 77-year-old was considered by many to be a temporary holder of a permanent position.\nThen he convened the Second Vatican Council, which was the first gathering of all the world's bishops in nearly a century.\nWeaver said the story of John XXIII shows it can be tough to predict what Benedict XVI might do. \n"You can't say he's just there keeping the seat hot," she said. "Sometimes these guys do surprising things."\nAtkins, the St. Paul's pastor whose business meeting was interrupted by a phone call and a Latin phrase, said he plans to "give him a chance."\n"There are a lot of things I don't know," Atkins said. "There's one thing I believe, and that is that the pope that we have is the pope that God has given to us by the guidance of the Holy Spirit."\nAfter Father Atkins' clerical group learned the good news, some of them gathered around a television to watch the Vatican share her newest ambassador with the rest of the world.\n"Then it was back to business," he said.\n-- Contact Senior Writer Rick Newkirk at renewkir@indiana.edu.
IU Police Department officers handed out 19 arrests and 23 citations this weekend, a tall drop from the last four years. IUPD made 125 arrests and wrote 76 citations during Little 500 weekend last year.\nIf last year's charges were a can of beer, this year's total would only amount to two-and-a-half ounces. \nThe mostly alcohol-related cases were counted from 6 a.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Sunday. \nIUPD officer Ian Lovan said unusual occurrences are the norm during Little 500 weekend.\n"I can't even remember all the stuff that happened," Lovan said. "There was a guy in a dress running down the street. I thought that was pretty weird."\nLovan was on the scene when one person was charged with public intoxication after falling out of a trash can Friday night outside Kilroy's on Kirkwood, according to the IUPD arrest log.\nOf the 42 total charges, 10 were simultaneous illegal consumption citations issued at Teter Quad Friday night. \n"All in all there weren't any incidents that got out of hand," said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger.\nAbout 30 additional arrests were made Thursday night, but the numbers were still low, Minger said.\n"I was actually kind of shocked the numbers were as low as they were," Minger said. "There was a greater potential for higher numbers."\nMinger said nicer weather traditionally translates into more people outside and consequently more arrests. The high temperature for the weekend was 79 degrees Fahrenheit with no precipitation.\nIUPD Sgt. Don Schmuhl said there might have been fewer out-of-towners in Bloomington this year. \n"Perhaps the word is getting around that this is not the place to come to drink if you're underage," Schmuhl said.\nMinger offered several reasons to the low arrest numbers. IUPD received fewer noise complaints, resulting in fewer runs to house parties. He also said the media has been more "community conscious" this year, leading to an environment where people know what the police are cracking down on. \n"Do we know there's going to be drinking? Absolutely," Minger said. "But what we always hope for is that the community in general is starting to maybe take our words a little more seriously."\n-- Contact Senior Writer Rick Newkirk at renewkir@indiana.edu.
It began as a small gathering Tuesday night, about 100 greek students arranged jaggedly along the entrance to the Alpha Xi Delta sorority. \nBut like a magnetic wave, it grew larger and larger as it moved toward Kappa Kappa Gamma, the home of Ashley Crouse, who died in a car crash early Tuesday morning. \nSeveral people make a crowd. A few dozen is a line. One hundred Greek students is a good start. More than a thousand is nothing short of a parade. \nIt was a mourner's parade.\nIt budged a few minutes after 6 p.m. and rolled slowly down Jordan Avenue, from sidewalk to sidewalk, absorbing dozens of new supporters along the way. With a police escort, it moved past Pi Kappa Phi. About 20 young men watched it pass while they waited to file-in at the end. \nBetween Sigma Pi and Kappa Sigma, it stopped a campus bus, "B to Stadium Pad." The driver had no choice but to wait.\nIts parts, mostly somber members of fraternities and sororities bearing their letters, held flowers and arrangements of flowers. They held tissues and boxes of tissues. And they held each other, sometimes creating bands of six or seven friends joined at the arms.\n"I think it shows the spirit of fraternalism," said IU Interfraternity Council President Jason Growe. "It's a shame we only saw it in a situation like this, but I think Ashley would be happy."\nIt moved on past Alpha Epsilon Phi. About 50 young women wearing black and green sweatshirts watched it pass while they waited to file-in at the end.\nSome in the wave held their cell phones in the air to get little photos of the undulating wave of people.\nStray students, apparently unaware of mourning walk for Crouse, stopped on the sidewalks or turned their heads two or three times in wonderment. \nBy the time it made it to Third Street, it spanned entirely across the road and stretched back past the Musical Arts Center.\nJunior Dave Dawson, of Phi Kappa Sigma, said he's never seen anything like it. \n"I think it's amazing," Dawson said. "A lot of times people think negatively of the greek community. In reality it's just a group of people who can come together and show our support."\nBy the time it reached the Kappa house, 6:42 p.m., Crouse's home and the site of her crash, her mourner's parade reached past the intersection of Jordan Avenue and Third Street, more than three full blocks.\nThe members of Kappa were waiting on the terrace in front of their house. When the procession arrived, they bowed their heads and said a prayer, then thanked everyone for coming. \nBut save a few who left, everyone stayed on the lawn of the Kappa house or across Third Street in front of the greenhouse. \nApparently, they weren't ready to let go.\nFreshman Lauren Berman, of Alpha Gamma Delta, said the walk was "overwhelming."\n"God forbid, if something like this happened to our house, I know they would support us," she said.\nMost of those still on the lawn either cried or consoled someone who was crying. Many bands of people, joined arm-in-arm, emerged in the crowd.\nSophomore Rachel Modiano, also of Alpha Gamma Delta, said she played soccer with Crouse for five years at Carmel High School.\n"Ashley would have loved this," she said. "I think she would have wanted everyone here to not mourn her death but celebrate her life."\nAt 7:30 p.m., the Kappa women went back inside their house. Those on the terrace waited to file-in at the end.\nDawson, the Phi Kappa Sigma member who made the 1.9 mile walk from Alpha Xi Delta to Kappa Kappa Gamma, also went to high school with Crouse.\n"She was very well-liked," Dawson said. "The fact that a few thousand people showed up goes to show that."\n-- Contact Senior Writer Rick Newkirk at renewkir@indiana.edu.