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(09/30/03 6:15am)
IU President Adam Herbert is evaluating the role of IU's eight vice presidents as part of his ongoing plan to restructure the University's administration. \nHerbert has indicated that his plans might include eliminating certain vice-presidential positions or possibly spreading the vice presidents evenly across IU's eight campuses.\nCurrently, seven of the vice presidents are located at IU-Bloomington. One is at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. \nIU's eight vice presidents are: Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, J. Terry Clapacs; Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Judy Palmer; Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sharon Brehm; Vice President for Information Technology and Vice President for Research, Michael McRobbie; Vice President for Public Affairs and Governmental Relations, Bill Stephan; Vice President for Student Development and Diversity, Charlie Nelms; and Vice President for Long Range Planning, Charles Bantz.\nHerbert said having the majority of the vice presidents located in Bloomington weakens the administration. He said the University would function better if the other campuses were represented at a high level.\n"We need to be able to see the big picture, and we aren't doing that," Herbert said.\nHe also said tough questions need to be asked about the roles of the vice presidents.\n"I don't necessarily have a problem with the idea of having several vice presidents," Herbert said. "The question is 'What do they do?' and 'What value do they have?'"\nHerbert said he wants to speak with all the vice presidents at a later date.\nHerbert also said IU needs to examine its financial organization. The University employs 450 financial officers, which makes for a decentralized operation, he said.\nHerbert is an expert in public administration. He has spent his career studying it, after receiving his PhD in the field, and has twice served on the board of the National Academy of Public Administration.\nHe said he welcomes this latest challenge of studying IU's administration.\n"We are one of the most unique universities I have come across in regards to structure," he said.\nLast week Herbert halted IU's planned search for a provost, which was initiated last year. He said none of the IU campuses need one. A provost, which traditionally heads all campus academics, would make a Chancellor unnecessary, he said.\n"We're not structured in a fashion that makes the provost position a reasonable one," he said.\nHerbert and the IU Board of Trustees have not spoken about restructuring to date. Board President Fred Eichhorn said he looks forward to hearing Herbert's ideas.\n-- Contact staff writer Adam Van Osdol at avanosdo@indiana.edu.
(09/25/03 5:45am)
The Indiana Supreme Court upheld a Bloomington city ordinance Tuesday that limits the number of people living in the same house.\nThe ordinance prohibits more than three unrelated residents from living together in parts of the city designated as single-family areas. \nThe Bloomington Planning Department classifies neighborhoods in Bloomington as single-family or multi-family. In multi-family areas, up to five unrelated residents can live together.\nThe ordinance has the biggest effect on students living in the area south of Second Street and east of Walnut Street. The zoning for that area is nearly 90 percent single-family. \nThe district encompassed by Indiana Ave., College Ave., 10th Street and Second Street is zoned mainly as multi-family. \nJunior Brian Gessler lives in a house with three others near Swain Avenue. Gessler said the law is unfair because it takes away students' rights. He and his roommates save money by living together, he said.\n"It splits up utilities and keeps rent down quite a bit," Gessler said.\nTuesday's unanimous ruling ends a seven year legal battle between the City of Bloomington and a local landlord, Peter Dvorak, who was sued by the city in 1996 for over-occupancy on his property. Dvorak claimed the ordinance, enacted in 1986, violated the privileges and immunities clause of the Indiana constitution.\nIn siding with the city, the Supreme Court justices said Dvorak and his attorneys did not convincingly prove that the ordinance was unconstitutional. \nDvorak could not be reached for comment.\nAccording to the Bloomington Department of Housing and Neighborhood Development, over 30 complaints of over-occupancy have been reported in each of the last two years. \nPhil Worthington, a resident of the Garden Hills Neighborhood, said he is relieved the case has been resolved.\nWorthington said he supports the ordinance because it helps reduce noise, trash, traffic and keeps density levels down. \nWorthington said the ordinance is not anti-student. Students dominate the single-family areas anyway, he said.\n"This is a garden variety zoning ordinance," Worthington said. "It exists in thousands of communities across the country that aren't college towns." \nThe Indiana Court of Appeals had ruled in favor of Dvorak in February of 2000.\n-- Contact senior writer Adam VanOsdol at avanosdo@indiana.edu.
(09/22/03 6:35am)
Thousands of Hoosiers gathered at the steps of the Statehouse Friday to remember Gov. Frank O'Bannon as a statesman who never lost his Hoosier touch.\nThe solemn service began at noon and lasted a little more than an hour, celebrating O'Bannon's spirit in speeches by Gov. Joe Kernan and Sen. Evan Bayh.\nKernan, sworn in one week ago, said he'd never forget the twinkle in O'Bannon's smile.\n"You can't fake the twinkle," he said.\nAnd he proposed an answer to that age old Indiana question: What is a Hoosier?\n"I think we all know it's Frank O'Bannon," he said. "He was the prototype of all the good things we aspire to be: friendly to all, hardworking, authentic, not flashy, just steady."\nO'Bannon's greatest legacy, eulogized Bayh, is the kind of man he was. \n"He was always a source of inspiration, encouragement and sound advice," Bayh said.\nHe listed O'Bannon's major accomplishments as setting higher academic standards, providing better health care for the poor and building the White River State Park and State Museum. \nIn the quieter moments of music and prayer, politicians and citizens grieved together.\nDavid Baker's Trio performed an original composition Baker wrote in honor of the governor, and a group of Indianapolis school children played "Back Home Again in Indiana" on ukulele.\nLater, O'Bannon received a 19-gun salute from the Indiana Honor Guard, and 24 white doves were released into the gray sky.\n"This was the perfect public end to the tragedy," said U.S. Congressman Mike Pence. "It reflected O'Bannon's charm. He was a very good man, and you couldn't help but be fond of him."\nWhen the service ended, the governor's widow, Judy, led her family as they filed into the Statehouse. At the top of the steps, she paused to look back at the crowd, which stretched far back into Government Way. She took out her digital camera, snapped a picture, and gave a thumbs up -- a touching finale from a woman who gave the state so much strength during the past two weeks. \n"Judy has just been the rock of Gibraltar," Baker said. "My prayers are with her."\nIU trustee Steve Ferguson said Hoosiers needed the service to begin moving forward.\n"It's been unreal up until now," Ferguson said. "This helped bring a little closure."\nSpeaker of the Indiana House Pat Bauer said the service was "uplifting."\n"It was the most moving ceremony I've experienced in my 33 years here," he said. "It embodied (O'Bannon's) mortal life and his spirit and how it soared."\n-- Contact senior writer Adam VanOsdol at avanosdo@indiana.edu.
(09/15/03 6:03am)
Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon, who died Saturday after suffering a massive stroke one week ago, will be remembered this week at ceremonies in the Statehouse and his hometown of Corydon, Ind.\nO'Bannon's portrait and personal items will be on display in the rotunda of the Statehouse Thursday. The public is invited to file past and write a message in a memorial book.\nOn Friday, an interfaith service will take place on the same Statehouse steps where O'Bannon was inaugurated in 1997. In Corydon, services are being planned for Saturday and Sunday. \nO'Bannon, 73, died at Northwestern Memorial Hospital at 11:33 a.m. Saturday, with his wife by his side. He had shown steady signs of improvement at the Chicago hospital where he was being treated. But late Friday night, his health deteriorated. The swelling in his brain increased, which in turn caused his blood pressure and heart rate to drop.\nEfforts to stabilize the governor, including additional medication and the draining of spinal fluids, were unsuccessful, doctors said Saturday.\nAfter a personal discussion with the attending physicians, the governor's wife, Judy, asked that life support for her husband be discontinued, a wish O'Bannon himself had expressed in his living will. \nThe doctors then withdrew medications that had been used to maintain the governor's blood pressure.\nFifteen minutes later, O'Bannon died.\nNews of the governor's death stunned Hoosiers across the state, many of whom had thought O'Bannon would pull through after surviving the crucial 48 hours following his brain surgery. \n"A lot of people were very hopeful," said Mary Dieter, O'Bannon's press secretary. "The doctors had warned us all along that strokes are totally unpredictable, so although we were shocked, perhaps we should not have been. When you care about someone, you tend to latch onto the best news, and I suspect that's what a lot of Hoosiers did." \nThough he had remained stable for much of the week, in the end, O'Bannon's stroke was just too severe, said Dr. William Peruzzi, chief neuroscientist at NMH. Nearly the entire right side of O'Bannon's brain was damaged by the stroke. \n"There really wasn't anything else we could have done," Peruzzi said at a press conference. \nO'Bannon's body will be cremated and his ashes buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Corydon.\nSaturday night, Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan was sworn in as Indiana's 48th governor in the chambers of the Indiana Supreme Court. \nWith his left hand resting on a family Bible, Kernan took the oath of office from Supreme Court Justice Theodore Boehm. Kernan vowed to lead Indiana "to the best of my skill and ability, so help me God." \nStanding solemnly in front of a Statehouse audience, the new governor reflected on his friendship with O'Bannon. He spoke on the trade mission to Europe they took together in 1990, the day in 1996 when O'Bannon asked him to be his running mate and the events that have thrust him into the role of Indiana's executive. \n"(O'Bannon) lived his life to the fullest in the service of the people of the state of Indiana," Kernan said. "I have lost my governor and my friend. So too has every Hoosier lost their governor and their friend."\nKernan will serve out the rest of O'Bannon's term, which lasts until December 2004.\nO'Bannon dedicated the last 35 years of his life to serving Indiana. He spent seven years as governor, eight as lieutenant governor and 18 years as a state senator from Corydon, Ind. \nHe received a bachelor's degree in government in 1952 from IU. After serving two years in the Air Force, he returned to Bloomington to earn his law degree in 1957.\n-- Contact senior writer Adam VanOsdol at avanosdo@indiana.edu.
(09/05/03 6:20am)
As a freshman, Joshua Becker was sure he'd never join a fraternity. To him, being greek meant only obnoxious partying and smug elitism.\nWhen fraternity recruitment began, though, Becker agreed to give it a chance. He toured the houses, learned about the greek traditions and hung out with brothers.\nToday, Becker is the president of Alpha Tau Omega and a big advocate of the greek community. \n"When I started out, I was strongly against it," Becker said. "I didn't want to go greek, but I took the approach that I would just try it, and I went through the rush process. I'm not going to say everyone's going to like it, but it's one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever done." \nThis year's fraternity recruitment kicks off at 5 p.m. tonight in Dunn Meadow, and for hundreds of young men, it will be their first look at greek life at IU.\nAll 22 chapters will be present, and interested rushees are required to come and register.\nThe event lasts until 9 p.m. Saturday, attendance is also required at formal chapter presentations from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Ballantine Hall. Sunday, buses will take groups of guys out to visit the actual houses. \nThe recruitment process will be markedly different this weekend than in years past, in an effort to inject it with more fairness and accountability.\nThe biggest change is the site selection for the Saturday chapter presentations. In previous years, house tours lasted two days, and presentations tended to focus more than anything else on the house size. \nSigma Chi president Scott Boruff said the selection of Ballantine Hall for chapter presentations will force the fraternities to sell their genuine values and traditions instead of their real estate.\n"In the past, all you had to do was show off your house," Boruff said. "This forces the frats to take a more critical look at themselves and their ideals and let that sell itself."\nThe new process also includes a more active role for the recruitment counselors. Last year, only 45 percent of the young men who initially signed up for recruitment followed through and signed with a house. To boost that number, each counselor will more closely track their group this year than before.\n"It's the ultimate turnover we wanted to control a little better," said Phi Sigma Kappa President Michael Palm. \nThe changes were created at the initiative of Interfraternity Council recruitment chair Brian Moak, who spent last year seeking advice from Dean of Students Richard McKaig and studying how the process is conducted at other universities.\nMoak hopes the changes will lend a new atmosphere of seriousness to recruitment that will carry over into the year. \n"I'd seen that the process needed to be revamped," he said. "We're working on keeping a solid image. If we start off on the right foot, hopefully we'll be able to keep it going."\nThe young men who show up at tonight's kick-off probably won't notice the differences, said Becker. The things that attracted him to fraternity life four years ago remain the same. \n"I live with 80 guys I'm best friends with," he said. "It's something special to be a part of."\nPalm advises unsure rushees to choose the house that best fits their personality. \n"Find the guys you are most comfortable with, the ones you see yourself being friends with," he said. "Rush people like you, not people you want to be."\nHe said going greek has kept him an active member of the IU community. \n"Whether tailgating with alumni or cheering on your Little 500 team, going greek means staying involved all four years of college. It's about meeting the right guys and ensuring a mutual friendship," he said. "How we go about that has just changed a little bit this year."\n-- Contact senior writer Adam VanOsdol at avanosdo@indiana.edu.
(04/17/03 5:49am)
IU students who download music and movies from the Internet are increasingly being threatened in record numbers by the entertainment industry. Since the beginning of April, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Artists of America have sent 261 notices to IU complaining of possible copyright violations. \nWith the month only half over, IT Policy Officer Mark Bruhn said the surge in reports shows that the entertainment industry is determined to stop illegal filesharing through programs like Kazaa.\nOn April 15 alone, the University received 61 different complaints. \n"The entertainment industry is paying attention to what students are doing and are serious about this," Bruhn said.\nAgents from the MPAA and RIAA constantly patrol the Internet. When those agents observe that a copyrighted file has been traded by a user on IU's accounts, those agents notify Bruhn by e-mail, identifying the user by a number only. Bruhn matches that number to a name and then contacts the user personally by e-mail.\nThe user is told to prove they have a copyright for the file, or else they should delete it. If the user does not respond to the e-mail, his or her name is given to the Dean of Student's Office.\nIf IU receives a second notification about the same user, his or her name is automatically given to the Dean. That user will also have his or her network access suspended. \nDuring March, the policy office turned over the names of 25 students to the Dean of Student's Office. Those students are being punished through the normal judicial process for misuse of University technology accounts.\n"As it is, we give students identified as sharing illegal materials one opportunity to respond and tell us that they deleted all of the illegal files that they possess," Bruhn said. "If they do that quickly, then the case is closed. But, they don't get a second chance."\nFreshman Joie Meffert, who lives in Collins, received an e-mail from IU asking her to delete files. She thought it was junk mail and ignored it. A month later, without warning, the Internet access in her dorm room was cut off.\n"They said it was because I hadn't responded to their e-mail," Meffert said. "After that, I deleted all my files from Kazaa."\nMeffert also had to go through a judicial conference with the Office of Student Ethics. She was told that if she was caught sharing illegal files again, she could be suspended from the University.\n"I'm not sure how I stand on copyright issues, but for now I have to comply because it's the law," she said.\nTwo weeks ago, the RIAA actually sued two college students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for operating a file-sharing system like Napster at www.chewplastic.com. Similar suits were also filed against students at Princeton University and Michigan Technological University.\nThe suit asks for a whopping $150,000 in damages for each song. \nThe IT Policy Office has distributed fliers to all University housing residents warning of the legal risks of filesharing. The flier, titled "Are you legal?," gives students tips on avoiding copyright law infringement. They include:\n• disabling outbound filesharing\n• ensuring you have explicit permission from the copyright holder to share the files\n• learning about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law which regulates how copyright violations are to be handled. \nIU does not monitor the downloading activity of its users, out of respect for privacy rights. However, when the entertainment industry notifies IU of a violation, the University is required under DMCA to investigate. Once notified, if IU knowingly allows a user to continue to trade files illegally, it can be sued.\n"We can't and won't let the actions of a small number of students increase the chances that Indiana University will be subject to penalty because they are using our network for their illegal activities," Bruhn said.\nHe said IU has no plans to shut off Kazaa or other peer-to-peer programs. \nMeffert, who had about 200 music files on her computer, said it's a good thing the University stands between her and the entertainment industry. \n"The good thing is the University is intervening in this," she said. "Otherwise I could be sued"
(04/04/03 5:36am)
A group of 200 students marched across campus Thursday at noon to protest the war in Iraq.\nShouting "This is what democracy looks like," and holding signs with anti-war slogans, students from the Citizens Opposed to the War in Iraq started from Dunn Meadow, wound past Ballantine Hall and the Union and ended at the Sample Gates.\nThe most important message from the march was that dissent is in fact patriotic, COWI member Daniel Mark said.\nHe said people who are anti-war are afraid to express it because they don't want to be seen as against U.S. soldiers. \n"The best way to support troops is to ask that they come home immediately and alive," he said.\nMark said he hopes the protest opened eyes to the peace movement. \n"The important thing is we let people know this movement is still alive," he said.\nSophomore Sam Lawrence, another member of COWI, said he wants people to know that anti-war does not equate with anti-American. \n"We want to let students know it's okay to be pro-peace," Lawrence said.\nA small group of students protesting the protest marched alongside, carrying pro-Bush signs.
(04/04/03 5:32am)
Anti-spam software installed at IU in March has decreased the amount of junk e-mail in the school's servers by 25 percent. \nThe decrease has already led to major improvements in the e-mail systems, Vice-President for Information Technology Brian Voss said.\nThe software, called Spamhaus, works by relying on a "black list" of notorious spammers. All e-mail now passes through Spamhaus' "black list," and recognized spammers are automatically blocked from the system. \nAccording to the Spamhaus Web site (www.spamhaus.org), spammers send junk mail in two different ways -- half of it directly and half of it through temporary accounts set up by third party service providers, like hotmail.com. Since Spamhaus uses a "black list," it can only block the direct spam. \nVoss said he expects IU will soon make available other ways for users to combat junk mail. Because of the concern for blocking legitimate mail and the First Amendment rights of spammers, Voss said IU has acted conservatively in selecting Spamhaus.\n"We decided to err on the side of caution," Voss said. "We are working on increasing the tools in our arsenal."\nThe list is updated every hour, based on information gathered from as far away as South Africa. It is a free service.\n"This certainly does not block all the spam out there," Voss said. "But it certainly made a dent in the amount of spam we are receiving."\nMost people agree Spamhaus is a big step forward.\nDuring the first three months of 2003, the volume of spam exploded. Of the over one billion e-mails sent and received each day, 60 percent of it was junk. \nThe spam overloaded campus servers, and in some cases delayed e-mail delivery for several days at a time.\nFor professors and students accustomed to e-mail communication, the delays forced homework and assignments to be rescheduled.\nMany anti-spam programs are now available for purchase. Business professor George Marakas installed the popular Spam Assassin on his computer, which eliminates spam by moving it out of the user's inbox and into a separate folder. \nHe said Spam Assassin is "low-maintenance" and moves very few legitimate e-mails. \nMarakas said more than half the e-mail he gets is junk. \nFor information about how to reduce junk mail, visit the IU knowledge base at \nwww.kb.indiana.edu
(04/01/03 4:56am)
Late at night on the seventh floor of Campus View apartments, I can hear sawing and hammering. I think someone is building something very large in the room above me.\nEvery time I leave the building, I see a fleet of white Residential Programs and Services pickup trucks parked along the curb. A single maintenance person always seems to be taking the trash out. \nI swear that guy takes out the trash 50 times a day. He's got to be a watcher, stationd outside the building to monitor who goes in and out of the building at all times.\nThe University recently announced that Campus View will be the next residence center to be remodeled. Out of all the housing facilities, why Campus View? I bet it's because at least half of my neighbors are international students. Is this "remodeling," or an excuse to install phone taps, miniature cameras and tracking devices on all Internet connections?\nFERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, the legislation that protects student information from the public, does not apply to aliens. \nHani Hasan Hanjour, one of the terrorists who flew a plane into the Pentagon, entered the United States on a student visa. Hanjour, who applied to study English in Oakland, Calif., never attended a single class. The ringleader of the terrorist group, Mohammad Atta, attended flight school in Florida on a student visa. \nThe Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Services, created a database called SEVIS, Student and Exchange Visitor Information Service, to track student visas. \nAll colleges in the United States are now required to use the database. Each student visa issued is tracked through the program, and if a student doesn't show up to college, the BCIS will now be able to find out. \nIf an international student drops a class, it is registered on SEVIS, and the student may be deported.\nNow, if terrorists do enter the United States on a student visa, they will have to go to class at the same time they are pursuing terror. A potential terrorist, on a student visa, might right now be going to class at IU during the day, while he or she plots death and destruction at night. \nThe FBI has increased its presence around Bloomington since Sept. 11. Agents are flying surveillance planes over the town and keeping an eye on midnight coffee shops where machines of communication like faxes and e-mail are located. \nThe other day when I got on an elevator in Campus View going down, I rode with a tall woman and her two screeching kids. The woman smiled at me and said, "I hope you don't mind that my kids are so noisy."\nBut she didn't fool me. I could tell she was an undercover FBI agent, cleverly using her innocent kids to disarm strangers. \nOn Monday, RPS director Bob Weith told an IDS reporter asking about FBI agents in the residence halls to call University Council. The council office said they would not comment about the agent's presence. And FBI agent Doug Garrison, who has handled all the publicity surrounding the agents, did not return a phone call from Indianapolis.\nOn Feb. 11, Robert S. Mueller, head of the FBI, publicly warned of terrorist attacks against colleges. The war in Iraq has caused the Department of Homeland Security's alert system to rise to orange, meaning a terrorist threat is high.\nThe administration needs to address the terrorist threat because students are growing paranoid. Some think the presence of FBI agents is more than routine monitoring. Many think their presence suggests the existence of a local threat.
(03/05/03 6:53am)
A complaint will be filed today against the Crimson ticket by the president of the Willkie Residence Center and Willkie residents, charging that members of the ticket were campaigning unescorted on Willkie floors during quiet hours. \nWillkie President Jackie Pirnat said she received phone calls at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday morning from residents who complained that Peter Kurinsky, a Crimson candidate running for Willkie Senator, was disturbing them while they were studying.\nPirnat said she approached the candidate and asked him if he was a Willkie resident. Pirnat said he replied that he was. Then she asked him if he had received permission from the Willkie residence manager to campaign. He said no.\n"That's when I said, you need to leave," Pirnat said.\nKurinsky said he was knocking on doors when he was asked to leave. He said he left shortly thereafter. \nTwo Crimson affiliates were also campaigning in the South Tower. Pirnat did not know their names. \n"After midnight, if you are not escorted in by a guest, you should not be in the building," Pirnat said. "They were disturbing residents, and that is not what we want them to be doing."\nKurinsky said he was accompanied by a Willkie resident and did not know he needed permission from the residence manager to campaign in the building.\n"I hadn't heard anything prior to being notified by the (Willkie) president that you need permission from a manager," he said. "I had no intention to bother people." \nCrimson presidential candidate Casey Cox said his party is trying its best to be sensitive to the residence halls.\n"We're doing the best we can to be considerate and not to bother any people," he said. "I know a lot of tickets are out at night."\nHe said his party has acted respectfully.\n"If we were asked to leave any place, we immediately left, as far as I know," he said. "We apologize to any residents we may have inconvenienced."\nAny violation of the residence hall policies is also a violation of the election code, Elections Coordinator Leah Silverthorn said. \nIf the elections commission finds the complaint to be true, Crimson will have to pay a $134 fine.\nThe fine is equal to five percent of Crimson's $2,680 campaign spending limit, which is based on the number of candidates on the party ticket. \nCrimson will have 24 hours to reply to the complaint.\nIf the complaint proceeds, it will be heard and voted on by the elections commission. The Crimson ticket may appeal that ruling to the IUSA Supreme Court. \nCopies of the complaint will also be submitted to the Supreme Court and Director of Student Activities Jim Gibson, according to IUSA guidelines.\nCrimson was also booted Tuesday from an area outside Ballantine Hall where party candidates was offering students root beer out of a keg.
(03/05/03 5:46am)
A team of IU students competing in the ninth Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl finished second in the nation over the weekend. Over 40 collegiate teams competed in the tournament in Charlotte, N.C.\nIU's team, sponsored by the Poynter Center for Ethics, won $1,000 for its second place finish. The U.S. Naval Academy took home first place honors.\nEach team was asked to settle a hypothetical ethics scenario in debate format, with topics ranging from how to treat patients who have accepted organ transplants from executed Chinese prisoners to the Indonesian military's human rights record.\n"We were thrilled," member Valerie Aquila said. "It was really exciting."\nAquila said the tournament tested her ability to weigh moral judgments on "some very complicated issues."\nIU's six-member team began preparing for the competition in January. The students received a package of 16 scenarios before the tournament that the judges would question them on. Aquila said she and her teammates spent close to six hours a week in preparation.\nThe tournament lasts six rounds, with two teams facing off during each round. The judges announce the topic, and then the first team gives a prepared ten minute presentation on how it would respond ethically to the dilemma. The presentation is followed by a five minute rebuttal from the opposing team. Then the first team is allowed a response. Last, a panel of judges asks the first team questions.\nThen the teams switch roles and are scored.\nIU's team went undefeated until the last round.\n"It was extremely exciting," Summer Johnson, a philosophy and bio-ethics major, said. "Everything seemed to be going our way." \nThis year is the third year in a row the team has competed.\n"They are a tremendously gifted group," coach Mark Wilson said. \nThe competition gives students experience with deep reflection on ethical issues and in the development of interpersonal relationships under tense conditions, he said. \nGlenda Murray, an adviser from the Poynter Center, said the competition places students in scenarios where they are forced to make hyper-rational, quick decisions.\n"We were very pleased for them to come in second," she said.\nThe majority of the teammates are philosophy and religious studies majors, Aquila said.
(02/14/03 5:29am)
Before Lionel Richie said "Hello," before Sade sang "Sweetest Taboo," and before Common saw "The Light," there was Emily Dickinson. \nLovers used to call on poets to express their true feelings. Now they call on pop.\nUsing their own collection and a CD burner, smitten romantics can take their most intimate songs and turn them into one perfect Valentine's Day mix CD. The mixes are cheap, easy and very personal.\nWith file-sharing programs like Kazaa, finding that perfect song to sum up your feelings is even easier. \n"(Mix CDs) can be a great way to show someone how you feel about them," Residence Hall Association President Ilia Smith said. \nIU rock and roll professor Glenn Gass, who created a mix CD to play during his wedding, said he can think of no better way for people to express themselves.\n"Music can speak for you in the best way," Gass said. "It's more than 'I like these songs.' It's 'here's what I'm feeling inside. Here's what I care about. Here's what I love.'"\nThe songs that each person chooses should reflect the type of relationship they are in, Gass said.\nAt his wedding in 1991, Gass and his wife agreed that the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" would play during the actual ceremony. \n"It's the ultimate ode to love," Gass said.\nFor Adriana Guerrero, treasurer of IU Latinos Unidos, the song "Dos Gardenias," by the Cuban group Buena Vista Social Club, best expresses her notions of romance. The song's lyrics, "Te quiero, te adoro, mi vida," translate to "I want you, I love you, my life." \n"Everybody wants to hear that line sometime in their life," Guerrero said. \nSome people choose songs that say what they are feeling. Others choose them for nostalgia.\nSmith said she selected Gigi D'Agostino's "L'Amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You)" because it always reminds her of "an amazing first date I had with a really awesome guy."\nFew people today would recognize a Dickinson verse. \n"Vanquished my soul will know, by but a simple arrow, sped by an archer's bow," she wrote helplessly.\nBut most know the Beatles or Marvin Gaye by heart. \n"People use to look to poets to express what they were feeling," Gass said. "Music has taken the place of that"
(02/14/03 5:04am)
"In My Life" -- Beatles"Baby I Love You" -- The Ronettes"God Only Knows" -- Beach Boys"This Must Be The Place" -- Talking Heads"Blossom" -- James Taylor"She's Got a New Spell" -- Billy Bragg"I Second That Emotion" -- Smokey Robinson & the Miracles"Chances Aren't" -- Johnny Mathis"Emperor of Wyoming" -- Neil Young"Love" -- John Lennon\nGlenn GassRock and roll professor\n"Sweet Melissa" -- Allman Brothers"Carrie" --- Europe"Roxanne" -- Sting"Amanda" -- Boston"Julie" --David Bowie"Michelle" -- The Beatles"Amy" -- Vince Gill"Caroline" -- The Beach Boys"Angie" -- The Rolling Stones"Layla" -- Eric Clapton\nCasey CoxUnity ticket presidential candidate\n"Your Body is a Wonderland" -- John Mayer"Crush" -- Dave Matthews Band"Let's Get It On" -- Marvin Gaye"In My Life" -- The Beatles"Please Forgive Me" -- David Gray"Minute" -- Pat McGee Band"Can't Take My Eyes Off You" -- Lauryn Hill"Dancing Angel" -- Myst"Thank You" -- Led Zeppelin"Wonderful Tonight" -- Eric Clapton\nLaura WaldaAction ticket presidential candidate\n"6 Underground" -- Sneaker Pimps"L'Amour Toujours (I'll Fly With You)" -- Gigi D'Agostino"I Got a Man" -- Postivie K"You Make My Dreams Come True" -- Hall and Oates"The Way you Make Me Feel" -- Michael Jackson"Run To You" -- Bryan Adams"Need You Tonight" -- INXS"Something About You" -- Level 42"Butterflies" -- Michael Jackson"At Last" -- Etta James\nIlia SmithPresident of Residence Halls Association\n"Let's Stay Together" -- Al Green"The Very Thought of You" -- Billie Holiday"Beautiful Woman" -- Toot and the Maytals"Hope" -- The Descendents"Dos Gardenias" -- Buena Vista Social Club"I Forgot To Be Your Lover" -- William Bell"Can't Get You Off My Mind" -- Lenny Kravitz"Omni" -- Five Deez"Like A Tattoo" -- Sade"To Catch A Thief" -- Lovage"As Time Goes By" -- Dooley Wilson\nAdriana GuerreroTreasurer of IU Latinos Unidos\n"My Funny Valentine" -- Frank Sinatra"Waiting On An Angel" -- Ben Harper"Cruising Together" -- Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis"The Luckiest" -- Ben Folds"Unforgettable" -- Nat King Cole"Where Are You Going?" -- Dave Matthews Band"This Years' Love" -- David Gray"Baby I'm Amazed" -- Paul McCartney"Mala Femmina" -- Jerry Vale"I Will Do Anything For Love" -- MeatLoaf\nAaron RadezCrimson ticket presidential candidate\n-- Compiled by Adam VanOsdol
(02/04/03 5:53am)
A construction crew digging at the parking garage on the corner of Sixth and Morton streets ruptured a natural gas line Monday afternoon, forcing the evacuation of area businesses and the Monroe County Justice building.\nThe Bloomington Fire Department said there was little danger posed by the rupture but closed off the surrounding city block while workers scrambled to shut off the pipe. \nThe leaking gas sailed north and drifted into open windows at the Monroe County Justice Building down the street, causing nausea and dizziness to those in the building. Except for the 227 inmates, everyone inside was evacuated and went home early. \nIn the end though, the wind actually did more to control the situation, Vectren Energy Company supervisor Mel Williams said. Monday's stiff breeze quickly dissipated the leaking gas, defusing the potentially explosive situation.\n"Oh, we're glad for the weather," Williams said. "The wind helped more than anything." \nAn hour after the accident, Vectren workers had successfully blocked the leakage. \nFire Department Captain Tim Richards said the city block between Sixth and Seventh streets and Walnut and Morton streets was shut down mainly to keep repair workers safe from traffic. \nThe rupture, which was in a low-pressure line, would have been more worrisome if it had been high pressure, Richards said. \n"It wasn't that bad," Richards said. "It was outdoors, and it was a low pressure line." \nThe rupture disrupted local business for an hour, but owners didn't seem too bothered.\nFirefighters who went around to area businesses to check for gas accumulation forced the employees of Little Zagreb's Pizza to evacuate.\nManager Mark Conlin said he couldn't do prep work as a result. \nAnd owner of the Yellow Cab Company John McNeeley said, "It was an honest mistake."\nAt the nearby law office of Kelley, Belcher and Brown, bookkeeper Deena Anderson was preparing billing statements when she smelled gas coming in from an open window. When firefighters arrived, they told her she didn't have to leave, but she did anyway.\n"They said we weren't in danger," Anderson said. "One of our bosses told us to go home."\nWilliams said he could not comment on the amount of gas that leaked, the cost or whether the pipe was marked.\nBloomington Fire Department Captain Roger Kerr said the pipe was unmarked.\nBy 4 p.m. the Justice Building was unusually silent. The only person who stuck around was security guard Don Bennitt, who kept busy by telling confused people that the building was closed for the day. \nMonroe County resident Charles Bomgardner knocked on the locked door at 4:15 p.m., expecting to pay a small claims fine. \nBennitt told him everyone had gone home.\n"I work the rest of the week," a frustrated Bomgardner said. "It's going to be very difficult for me to come back."\nRuptured gas lines have become a common incident for Bloomington's Fire Department. This is the third since the beginning of the year, Batallian Chief Terry Williams said. \n"Gas is a scary thing," he said.
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Close to 200 IU students were told to delete movie and music files from their computers last month. University Information Technology Services received notifications from the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America saying users of IU's network were illegally distributing copyrighted material. \nIn response, IU sent e-mails to 177 users telling them they should delete the files. If the students refused to comply, they were told they would have their Internet access shut off and would be reported to a judicial board. \nRachel Ward, resident of McNutt Quad, received an e-mail and deleted all of her music files. She used the peer to peer program Limeware to download songs by Avril Lavigne, Tim McGraw and Billy Joel.\n"I was very, very scared. I thought I was going to jail," Ward said. "I erased everything I had and deleted the program."\nUnder the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Internet Service Providers like IU can force their users to stop trading copyrighted material. \n"This isn't something the University came up with," IT Policy Officer Mark Bruhn said. "This is copyright law in the United States."\nBruhn said he expects the RIAA and the MPAA to target individual students in even greater numbers. \n"One-hundred and seventy-seven (students) was pretty high compared to other months," Bruhn said. "But we expect at least that number per month from now on."\nThe RIAA claims to be losing millions of dollars each year as a result of peer to peer software programs like Kazaa and BearShare. Under federal law, copyright holders can now force ISPs like IU to provide the names of users who break the law. \nStudents who continue to download copyrighted material illegally may be open for fines of up to $300,000.\n"The RIAA is leaving open the possibility of doing that to students," IU counsel Beth Cate said. "The risk is certainly there."\nThe RIAA and MPAA have people constantly monitoring the Internet for copyright infringement, Cate said. When they observe someone trading copyrighted material on IU's servers, they notify IU of the violation. Violaters are identified by number, not by name. \nBruhn said most students complied with the e-mail notifications and deleted their files. Some students' access to the Internet was shut off, however.\n"If we don't do that, then the illegal material continues to be served from our network, and the University might incur some legal liability," Bruhn said. \nThree months ago the RIAA sent a letter to all college presidents urging them to clamp down on peer-to-peer trading. IU does not monitor for copyright infringement out of respect for privacy and academic freedom, Cate said.\n"We don't monitor our networks for this kind of stuff," she said. "We just react when people notify us."\nIn the e-mail IU sent out to the alleged copyright infringers, Incident Response Coordinator Tom Jagatic warned users that their identities can be obtained by RIAA and the MPAA under the No Electronic Theft Act of 1997. \nWard said she deleted all her files because she doesn't want to go to jail.\n"I realized it's breaking the law," she said. "Never again"
(01/15/03 5:35am)
IU School of Library and Information Sciences Dean Blaise Cronin announced in a statement Tuesday that he will resign after this semester to take a year-long sabbatical and return as a faculty member.\nDuring Cronin's 12 years as dean, he remade the SLIS into one of the nation's premier information science departments. Over the past few years the SLIS has set new records for enrollment. \n"I was saddened when I heard the news," said Javed Mostafa, associate professor of SLIS. "I think he has been an extremely hard-working dean and has done a significant amount of work for the school. He has placed us on the map as far as recognition."\nBloomington Chancellor Sharon Brehm will appoint an interim dean until a permanent replacement is found.\nCronin is the author and editor of over 300 research articles in the areas of scholarly communication, citation analysis, scientific collaboration and cybermetrics. \nThe resignation of Cronin is the fourth administrative shakeup for IU in the last 12 months. IU is currently seeking a new president, athletic director and dean of the law school. \nDuring Cronin's reign, the SLIS began offering new master's and Ph.D. degrees and a number of modern joint/dual degree programs. \nJust this year, Cronin published the book "Pulp Friction."\nDebora Shaw, associate dean of SLIS said she is pleased Cronin will eventually return to IU.\n"Dean Cronin is an excellent and well-recognized scholar, and I'm pleased that he's going to stay on as a faculty member and be contributing to the field in that way."\nCronin is the esteemed editor of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. \nHe has traveled as a consultant to more than 30 countries, working for such agencies as the World Bank, UNESCO, European Commission, British Council, Her Majesty's Treasury and Hewlett-Packard.\nCronin is the Rudy Professor of Information Science as well as visiting professor of Information Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University, England and also visiting professor in the School of Computing at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. \nFrom 1985-1991 he held the Chair of Information Science at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he was head of the Department of Information Science in the Strathclyde Business School.\nCronin could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
(01/14/03 10:28pm)
An IU employee was rushed to the Bloomington hospital Monday afternoon after an apparent explosion occurred in the basement of the Theatre/Neal-Marshall Education Center. Physical Plant worker Brian Smith, 28, suffered second degree burns on his back after a utility pipe in the building burst.\nTwo other physical plant employees were working in the basement at the time but were not injured. \nThe explosion occurred when either a steam line or hot water line ruptured, said Sgt. Don Schmuhl, IU Police Department.\nThe accident happened around 4 p.m. The IU Office of Risk Management will conduct a full investigation into the exact cause.\nSchmuhl said when he arrived at the building, he noticed a boiler room located in the basement was flooded and thick with steam. \n"We couldn't get down in there," he said. "There was a lot of steam and water."\nMaintenance worker Doris Swearingen helped mop up the mess. \n"(The accident) drenched some supplies and messed up the floor, too," she said. \nA Bloomington Hospital official said Monday that Smith would stay overnight.
(12/12/02 5:47am)
IU's Presidential Search Committee, meeting for the first time Wednesday, declared that it would not limit its search to the academic world.\nCommittee members said they would consider hiring business and government officials to lead IU.\n"It's going to arch an eyebrow, but we need to drop the net broadly," said member Sarah Barker, who spoke to the committee via telephone. "It's better we see what's really out there."\nIn the past, IU has hired presidents from both camps. Herman B Wells was originally a banker, and more recently, President Myles Brand holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. \nThe issue has already split the committee in two. \nDean Kumble Subbaswamy said he wants an academic to lead IU. He said it's unlikely IU will find a non-academician as good as Wells. \n"We would love to have the next Herman B Wells walk in," he said. "But for every Herman B Wells, there are 100 failures."\nExecutive consultant Jerry Baker, hired by the University to assist in the search, said it would indeed be a risk for IU to hire a non-academician. \nHe said more and more universities are hiring business and government officials to lead their institutions. Recently Harvard and three Florida schools selected former government officials to lead their institutions.\nCommittee chairman Steve Ferguson said faculty support will still be the critical issue when deciding who gets the job. No president can survive without backing from the academics, he said.\nThe 17 members on the presidential search committee represent students, faculty, staff and trustees. \nTrustee Sue Talbot said she will sell the IU presidency as the "crown jewel of a career." She said it will be the committee's job to persuade the candidates to accept the IU presidency. \nThe first meeting of the Search Committee is also the last to be open to the public. The remaining meetings will be kept private to preserve the confidentiality of the search, Ferguson said.\n"If the names get out, you probably lose that candidate," Ferguson said. \nHe said only the name of the finalist will be released to the public.\nBob Eno said the search committee should push IU's unique campus structure when trying to sell the presidency. \n"There is no system that resembles IU," he said. "It's complex and enormously challenging, and that could be the biggest selling point."\nMembers also want to see someone who will continue to carry out the current agenda, be a spokesperson for undergraduate education and can lobby the legislature for money. They agreed they want a leader IU can be proud of, someone with uncommon people skills and someone with a distinct vision for aligning IU's eight campus system.\n"We're a very diverse group, and in some cases, we don't know each other," Ferguson said. "We've got to do that and look for a common ground"
(12/10/02 5:26am)
IU President Myles Brand will speak in the state capital today at a conference trumpeting IU's leadership in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. \nThe conference, called the IU Economic Development Workshop, will showcase IU's high-profile research achievements: the School of Informatics, the Emerging Technology Center, the Proteomics Consortium and Information Technology. \nSpeakers at the conference will include ambassadors from both state government and the private sector. Brand will participate in a discussion on economic roles with Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan and David Goodrich, President of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership.\nOther speakers throughout the day include Craig Brater, Dean of the IU School of Medicine, Mark Long, President of the IU Advanced Research and Technology Institute and John Hurrell, President of the Proteomics Consortium.\nIU spokeswoman Angela Lindauer said the University projects highlighted at the conference are breathing new life into Indiana's sputtering economy.\n"We are changing the economy of Indiana," Lindauer said. "These items can assist in changing the traditional Indiana economy into more hi-tech and medical (areas)."\nThe conference comes less than a month before the 2003 Indiana General Assembly convenes. Director of State Relations Don Weaver said he hopes the conference will send a message to state legislators that IU is a key part of Indiana's economic future. \n"We need to make sure that the state is aware of the investment needed for long term building of the state's economy," Weaver said. "We feel like we are a basic driver, an engine, for the economy's development." \nThe shortcomings of Indiana's manufacturing-heavy economy have become apparent over the past two years. During the national recession, no state lost more jobs than Indiana. \nWeaver said IU's life-sciences projects are moving the economy away from its reliance on manufacturing. \n"There will always be manufacturing in Indiana, but we are hopeful we can change the economy to more information knowledge," Weaver said. \nLast week Gov. Frank O'Bannon enlisted IU's help in revitalizing the state's economy. On Dec. 4 he unveiled his Energize Indiana plan to create thousands of new high-tech job in Indiana. The stimulus package includes close to $200 million for universities.\nBill Stephan, spokesman for Brand, said IU's research projects are contributing to a "brain gain" in Indiana. Research conducted at places like the School of Informatics may one day result in new business opportunities for the state, which translates into jobs, he said. \n"(This activity) spurs a growth sector of the state's economy, which is very important as the state is going through some difficult economic times," Stephen said. \nGerald Bepko, who will take over IU on Jan. 1, 2003 as interim president, will give closing comments at 4:15 p.m.
(12/05/02 5:15am)
IU's student entrepreneurs have a new friend. \nAlong the banks of the White River Canal in Indianapolis stands IU's $4 million dollar Emerging Technology Center, a building that will house IU students and faculty working in the biotechnology industry.\nThe ETC tenants will be specially selected by IU and will pay low rent and benefit from networking opportunities and access to IU resources.\nThe building, which will open in February or March, is the University's latest contribution to the state's nascent life-sciences economy. \n"This facility has been needed for a while, and we're getting an excellent response," President of the Advanced Research and Technology Institute Mark Long said. "Business is booming."\nJulie Meeks, faculty member of the School of Nursing, will be the ETC's first tenant when the building opens next year. Her company, the Haelen Group, a health insurance consultant business, will operate out of the ETC office space. \nMeeks has spent the past seven years researching and developing a product called One Care Street which helps health insurance providers monitor high-risk patients. She is finally ready to launch the program, as she moves into the ETC. \nThe building will give her company great networking potential, she said.\n"We're growing like crazy," Meeks said. "I think the opportunity is terrific."\nBecause the building is owned by IU, if Meeks needs advice about Information Technology, she can call UITS. If she needs advice about marketing, the Kelley School of Business is there to help. \nMeeks envisions working closely with IU business students. \n"If we have a strategic business problem, I can ask for a team of business students," she said. "I get bright people, and they get experience working in a real environment."\nLong said that's one of the ETC's biggest advantages. It will provide students with internship opportunities, employment and valuable experience. \nD. Craig Brater, dean of the IU Medical School, said the ETC is a "business incubator," meaning it will be a stepping stone for transforming research ideas into marketable commercial products. \n"To find out if they have commercial (viability), these ideas have to go in this incubator stage, where they are taken out of the research context," Brater said. \nThe ETC will also house Medical Care and Outcomes, a pharmaceutical company, as well as the Indiana Proteomics Consortium, a three-way collaboration between IU, Purdue and Eli Lilly. Other companies are currently being considered for inclusion. \nAt Friday's board of trustees meeting in Indianapolis, Long will give a presentation about the role of research and technology at IU. He has lots of good news to share.\n"There is a tremendous research community here," he said. "When you look at the states around Indiana, we are catching right up with them."\nIn addition to the business incubator, Long plans to report that IU's Proton Radiotherapy Institute opens April 1. The facility, located north of Memorial Stadium, will provide treatment for patients with head and neck tumors. Along with Los Angeles and Boston, Bloomington is one of only three cities in the nation with such an institution.\nLong will also report that the ARTI, which handles the intellectual property for IU, recorded a record number of new inventions and patents last year. \nOne of the most unusual inventions was a cat food that cleans cat's teeth, developed by Dr. George Stookey of the Dental School. IU professors also patented new treatments for stroke and premalignant cancer cells.