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(11/06/00 6:28am)
The hockey team continued its undefeated conference record and home record this weekend with its respective 6-0 and 7-0 wins against Ohio State University Friday and Saturday.\nThe Buckeyes (0-5-1, 0-5-1 Midwest Collegiate Hockey League) hit the ice hard Friday evening, holding the Hoosiers (6-1, 6-0 MCHL) scoreless for more than 12 minutes. But the Hoosiers quickly fired back, as sophomore defenseman Joe Rogers fired a shot past Buckeye goalie Joe Ruehle. It would be all the Hoosiers needed.\nJunior forward Gordy Haggard led the Hoosiers with three points Friday, from an unassisted goal and two assists. Junior defenseman Tim McMahon and junior forward and assistant captain Bryan Grant had two points apiece, and six other Hoosiers each chipped in one point.\nSenior goalie Justin Wojtowicz stopped 16 Buckeye shots, recording his second win and second shutout of the season. Wojtowicz has yet to allow a goal in 108 minutes on the net.\n"We didn't allow any goals," junior forward and captain Dan Hauck said. "You have to be happy with a shutout."\nSaturday mirrored itself after Friday, with the Buckeyes playing the Hoosiers hard early. But only five minutes into the first period, Grant fired a rocket past Buckeye goalie Jeff Senft to give the Hoosiers a permanent lead.\nJunior forward Ed Karasek led the Hoosiers with two goals and an assist, with Grant following close behind with two goals. Freshman defenseman Mike Piotrowski had a goal and an assist, and freshman forward Zach Vietri had two assists. Ten other Hoosiers had one point apiece.\n"A lot of players had goals (this weekend)," Karasek said. "We still have a lot of tough games coming up, though."\nSenior goalie Josh Sears recorded his second win and second shutout of the season, stopping 20 shots against the Buckeyes and raising his save percentage to 95 percent for the season.\n"Our defense wasn't perfect this weekend, but I thought we did a pretty nice job limiting their shots and limiting their scoring opportunities," coach Rich Holdeman said. "That allowed us to get away with two shutouts."\nIn its first ranking of the season, the ACHA ranked IU second in the Division II Southeast conference. Michigan ranked first with six points, and the Hoosiers trailed with 10 points. Miami of Ohio (17 points), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (24 points) and Kentucky (30 points) rounded out the top five.\nThe Hoosiers travel to Mount Pleasant, Mich., this weekend for a two-game series against Central Michigan University (5-2-1, 2-1-1 Michigan Collegiate Hockey Conference).
(11/03/00 9:22am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The term "oversaturation" is about as common among music executives as the word "surrender" was to Napoleon. If the A&R leaders sign one more "nu-metal" (aka Korn) band, the count will be at one more than I can handle. Enter Linkin Park.
(11/03/00 5:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The term "oversaturation" is about as common among music executives as the word "surrender" was to Napoleon. If the A&R leaders sign one more "nu-metal" (aka Korn) band, the count will be at one more than I can handle. Enter Linkin Park.
(11/02/00 4:26am)
Ask the hockey team's captains and first line who the team's rival is, and they'll give a more energetic, unified response than the Three Tenors could ever hope to achieve.\n"Miami."\nJunior captain Dan Hauck and junior assistant captain Brandon Phillips' eyes light up with rage at the mere thought of Miami (Ohio). Assistant captain Bryan Grant, a junior, the most outspoken of the trio, explains:\n"It's has to be Miami," Grant said. "We went 0-4 against Miami last year, and the fourth loss was in the national championship game. If that doesn't make for a rival, I'm not sure what does."\nThe hockey club has made it to the national championship four of the past six seasons. All four times, it walked away empty-handed. \n"That's not good enough," Hauck said.\nBut the team is confident things are going to change this year.\n"We've proven we have the talent to make it to the national tournament and get far," Phillips said. "I think everyone from the team last year is just going to be that much more hungry for it." \nPhillips joined the team's first line just before the national tournament last year, replacing graduating senior Rob Schacht, who was temporarily suspended. The coaching staff felt the line was strong during the tournament and has not considered altering it since.\nSo when the team voted for captain at the beginning of this season, the choice was obvious.\n"The voting was clearly for the guys that have been around," said coach Rich Holdeman. "What the team is doing when it elects captains is just confirming those who are already acting as captains ... the guys that take on leadership just by their presence and what they do."\nAt present, the first line has combined for almost 40 percent of the hockey club's points for the season. Grant has 15 points in five games, and both Phillips and Hauck have 10.\n"A top line of any team's goal is to score," Grant said. "I don't think we'd be playing this game if we didn't enjoy the amount of pressure put on us."\nThe line has proven itself in scoring, but the team feels its captains have more assets than just their offense.\n"They're passionate for the game," said sophomore forward Matt Cohen. "The main thing is, they get everyone pumped up. They make sure everyone is ready beforehand."\nThe captains feel believe their goals are clearly defined -- and that they are capable of obtaining them.\n"We have to go out there and set the example for everybody," Hauck said. "If the guys go out there and see us do what we're supposed to be doing, it's a trickle-down effect, to the guys that don't play and the guys that are dressing. We have to lead by example"
(10/30/00 6:04am)
IU coaches and players were confident they would sweep the University of Kentucky in the teams' home-and-home series this weekend.\nAnd as IU expected, the Hoosiers crushed the Wildcats both nights, defeating Kentucky 11-5 Friday at the Frank Southern Center, 1965 S. Henderson Ave., and 7-1 Saturday at the Lexington Ice Arena.\n"I think that we handled ourselves pretty well this weekend," sophomore forward Matt Cohen said. "We kept our composure."\nThe Hoosiers (4-1, 4-0 Midwest Collegiate Hockey League) got off to a slow start Friday. Kentucky (5-2-1, 2-2 MCHL) jumped out to a 1-0 lead when forward Aaron Shephenson scored off a Kentucky breakaway at 3:10 in the first period.\nBut that was all the advantage the Wildcats would have, as IU bounced back to end the period with four quick goals.\nCohen and junior forward Bryan Grant each had two goals and two assists for IU Friday. Sophomore defenseman Joe Rogers had a goal and two assists for three points. Six other Hoosiers had two points apiece, and three Hoosiers had a point each for the evening.\n"Kentucky is always a tough team, and they're real physical," Grant said. "But you can't be disappointed with two wins in a weekend."\nSophomore goalie Charley Pulley manned the net until almost midway through the second period, allowing three goals and chalking up eight saves. He was then replaced by senior Josh Sears, who allowed two goals and stopped 14 shots in 28:30.\nSaturday started much the same as Friday, with Kentucky jumping out to a 1-0 lead. But IU senior goalie Chad Whitlock, in his first appearance this season, made 16 saves and held the Wildcats scoreless for the rest of the game. IU skated to an easy 7-1 win in Lexington.\n"We were expecting to get into a pretty close game, but we knew that we would come out on top because of the previous game," Cohen said. "We're just a better team than they are."\nCohen became the first Hoosier to record a hat trick this season, after he offered a slapshot from the red line to give his team its winning goal near the end of the first period. He then scored twice near the end of the game. \nJunior forward Brandon Phillips had the team's first goal and later contributed two assists. Junior forward and team captain Dan Hauck and sophomore forward Bobby Ravensberg contributed two points each, and seven other Hoosiers had a point apiece. IU was four for six Saturday in scoring on the power play and eight for eight on the penalty kill.\n"Our special teams Saturday night were just great," general manager and assistant coach Alex Kyrias said. "You do that every game, and you're going to win a lot of games"
(10/27/00 5:57am)
The hockey team faces off against the University of Kentucky in a split series this weekend. The Hoosiers welcome the Wildcats to the Frank Southern Center, 1965 S. Henderson St., for the team's first home game of the season at 7:30 p.m. Friday. Kentucky hosts IU at the Lexington Ice Center Saturday.\nThe Hoosiers enter the game with a 2-1 season record, a 2-0 conference mark and a lot of confidence.\n"Every time we play them it's a good game," senior goalie Justin Wojtowicz said. "A home-and-home series is competitive. It's a lot of fun to go down there and beat them in front of their home crowd."\nDespite being mauled 8-0 in its Oct. 19 season opener at Eastern Michigan University, the Hoosiers bounced back and have not allowed a goal since the end of the Eastern Michigan match, a streak of 112:23. The team is also 33-4 in its last three seasons at home. The Hoosiers hope to maintain the shutout streak and home-ice advantage against the undefeated Wildcats.\n"They always play hard, and they're pretty physical," coach Rich Holdeman said. "We like to try to get on them and play well against them up here, set the tone for the game that goes back to Lexington."\nThe Wildcats enter the weekend 5-0-1, tying Division II Penn State on the road. Kentucky has outscored its opponents 24-13 this season, including 16-1 in its two-game home series last weekend with DePaul University.\n"It's really a crazy environment.," Holdeman said. "They're hard to play in Lexington, not only because they have great fan support but because the game is at a bizarre hour."\nAll Kentucky home games begin at midnight, and Saturday's battle is no exception.\n"It's after the bars close in Kentucky," assistant coach and general manager Alex Kyrias said. "Back when I played, I was backing up once down there and got a can of chew thrown at me. Every year it's something different.\n"They talk up a good game, but year after year we manage (to win)"
(10/26/00 7:38am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Indianapolis' Burn it Down is now unarguably the biggest "local" band happening in the state. The band is doing its first full U.S. tour this fall with metal giants In Flames and plans to tour Europe and Japan next year.
(10/26/00 7:30am)
After more than three years of intense friendship, dedication and sacrifice, Burn it Down is standing on the brink of a new world. With the release of its debut full-length CD, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, this Indianapolis quartet has risen above its status as one of the city's better hardcore bands. The band now stands at the edge of the unknown.\nAfter forming in early 1997, the band came into its own and began building a local name, even opening an Indianapolis show for Metallica. The release of its 1998 EP Eat Sleep Mate Defend and its split CD with Chicago's Racetraitor quickly helped establish the band as one of Indianapolis' rising stars.\n"From the beginning, we took opportunities to support national bands when they came through," says vocalist Ryan Downey. "We flyered the heck out of this town. But we also sent our earlier recordings out to a lot of labels, a lot of distributors."\nEven as the band extensively began touring the East Coast, the home base for all things hardcore, feelings started to change internally for Burn it Down. The band reacquired former bassist Jason McCash in 1998, solidifying its still-present lineup of McCash, Downey, guitarist John Zeps and drummer Brian "Bob" Fouts.\nA different approach to the music shined through as Burn it Down began 2000. The band did short tours with some of the biggest names in the underground hardcore scene, including ZAO, the Dillinger Escape Plan and the August co-headlining tour of In Flames and Earth Crisis.\nIn between, it filled its time with small local gigs, often opening for touring national acts at the Emerson Theater in Indianapolis, which McCash owned at the time. At these shows, the band began debuting some of the songs which would eventually appear on Let the Dead Bury the Dead.\n"You have 'The Ghost Untied,' which is kind of the long epic trance song," says Downey. "Then you have songs like 'Do Your Worst' or 'Ten Percent of the Law,' which are real aggressive, straightforward hardcore noisecore songs. But there's a sound, a style and a vibe that's consistent through all those songs; that's the thread that provides some continuity and holds it all together."\nGone was the straight, one-sided hardcore approach to music, replaced by a sense of melody and harmony usually not associated with this brutally harsh genre of music. The band still carried the ability to crush its audience, which was evident in both the old and new material. It was replaced by a curious breed of music never before heard.\nCombining the sensibilities of pop vocals, the menacing approach of metal, the passion of ambient instrumental music and the directness and rhythm of hardcore punk, Burn it Down created a strong and unopposed force in terms of storytelling, captivation and advocating its message throughout the hardcore community, especially for a non-East Coast band. \n"We all grew up on late '80s thrash Bay Area bands like Dark Angel, Death Angel, Metallica and Slayer," says Downey. "We all only got more into hardcore with the whole DIY ethic of doing your own shows, picking up your band by its boot straps and going out to this whole network, this community."\n"With the new album, we're playing for ourselves and not worrying about what the hardcore community is going to think," says Zeps.\nSurprisingly, the hardcore community embraced Burn it Down's new approach with even more vigor than its old. A scene normally known for rejecting anything too commerical or too far-removed from its own status quo, Burn it Down watched as its popularity, coupled with a renewed touring schedule, soared to what many would have considered unimaginable heights.\nNow the band stands at its new threshold. It will shortly begin touring in support of the new album, opening its first full U.S. tour this fall, again with In Flames and this time with Shadows Fall, one of the biggest hardcore metal success stories of 2000, opening.\n"It's exciting to have the experience of (being a national act)," says Downey. "I'm excited to start fresh."\n"The rewards we're going to reap are going to be way more beneficial than otherwise," says Zeps. "We're the type of band that's never going to be satisfied."\nMaintaining such a tough touring schedule and attempting to sufficiently promote its new album has proven to be one of the toughest challenges for Burn it Down. All of the members lead very busy lives.\nDowney is a staff writer at Metal Maniacs magazine and a frequent contributor to NUVO, in addition to running his own underground hardcore publication, Superhero. Fouts works at a record store in addition to playing in his side project, 6015. Although McCash is no longer owner of the Emerson, he is married with two small children. And in addition to being married, Zeps owns a Tracks record store on the north side of Indianapolis.\n"The band can't be stagnant," says Zeps. "If the band is stagnant, then it will fizzle."\nDespite its commitments and obligations, the band claims it is well-versed in time management and that promoting the album is not a forgotten goal. It hopes to tour as widely as Europe and Japan in 2001.\nBut, at the end of the day, the primary question remains. Is Burn it Down simply a hardcore act with a wide variety of influences, or has it officially evolved into a new creature, a multi-influenced musical unit, open to various forms of expression but never bound by one?\nIn music, as in life, often the primary question is actually the one which least elicits an answer. \nBurn it Down plans to continue until it cannot reasonably function any longer, or, as Zeps says, "until the drummer starts writing the guitar riffs." Until then, perhaps the answer is best left unspoken.
(10/26/00 4:56am)
Charlie Pulley is the only transfer goalie for the hockey team, fighting for playing time against three seasoned Hoosier veterans. He is the only sophomore competing against three seniors. He also started the Hoosiers' first game this season.\nPulley transferred to IU in August. A native of Carmel, Ind., he started playing hockey at an early age for an in-house team before joining a traveling team at age 12.\n"I made the team as a right defenseman," Pulley said. "They didn't have a goaltender, so I volunteered myself to go out there and learn trial by fire."\nPulley later manned the net for two seasons at Park Tudor High School near Indianapolis, bringing home two state championships with future Hoosiers Bryan Grant and Brandon Phillips, both now juniors. He then completed high school in Cleveland, where he played Junior B and, eventually, Junior A national hockey leagues.\nThe August after completing high school in Cleveland, Pulley was faced with a decision: either play another year of Junior A hockey or choose a college.\n"I decided I just didn't want to play Junior A again," Pulley said. "Junior A is fun when you want to play, but once you get past that point, when you stick it out another year, you're going to wear out."\nPulley called Bob Zion, who had recently accepted a job as the Eastern Michigan University hockey coach. Zion suggested Pulley enroll at Eastern Michigan.\n"My first visit to the campus was the day I showed up to go to class," Pulley said. "I didn't have a place to live. I met two kids at a picnic, showed up, knocked on their door and stayed on their couch for the first five weeks."\nPulley became the starting goalie for Eastern Michigan. In his rookie season, Pulley helped the Eagles compile a 27-11-3 record, which included a trip to the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division I finals, where Penn State snuck past the Eagles in overtime.\nAlthough Pulley was comfortable with the Eastern Michigan hockey team, he said the campus environment left little to be desired.\n"I enjoyed the hockey from the beginning, but I knew that, in going to school, it wasn't what I was looking for," Pulley said. "I did the best I could there for the year, then in the summer re-evaluated what I wanted to do."\nPulley said a variety of factors influenced his decision to come to Bloomington, but hockey wasn't necessarily one of them.\n"I was looking for a good college that was in-state," Pulley said. "I was pretty happy with IU because I'd been down here. The business school, which is something I want to do, was top-notch. Having that resource available in-state made my decision pretty easy."\nAlthough it was surprised by his decision, the IU hockey team was happy to welcome Pulley to try out.\n"We don't do a lot of active recruiting, and we certainly don't recruit other teams' players," coach Rich Holdeman said. "It was a pleasant surprise having a guy of his caliber wanting to show up down here."\nWhile the hockey team welcomed Pulley to join its lineup, his addition to the squad did create a unique problem.\n"It's very difficult because we have four (goalies) that are all good enough to play for our team," Holdeman said. "We know that it's going to be impossible to keep everyone happy."\nBut the goalies aren't too upset with the situation.\n"It definitely makes us work a lot harder," senior goalie Justin Wojtowicz said. "I have to go and work as hard as I can because there are three other goalies there working as hard as they can.\n"Charlie's a great goalie. I like working with him a lot in practice. Our last road trip, all four of us even roomed together."\nPulley said he feels he made the right decision in transferring to IU, even if he has to wait his turn for playing time.\n"I decided before I tried out that if I didn't make the team and it was the year I had to sit out a lot, just participating (in the IU hockey program) would be better than doing something else," Pulley said. "Regardless of the playing time"
(10/26/00 4:00am)
After more than three years of intense friendship, dedication and sacrifice, Burn it Down is standing on the brink of a new world. With the release of its debut full-length CD, Let the Dead Bury the Dead, this Indianapolis quartet has risen above its status as one of the city's better hardcore bands. The band now stands at the edge of the unknown.\nAfter forming in early 1997, the band came into its own and began building a local name, even opening an Indianapolis show for Metallica. The release of its 1998 EP Eat Sleep Mate Defend and its split CD with Chicago's Racetraitor quickly helped establish the band as one of Indianapolis' rising stars.\n"From the beginning, we took opportunities to support national bands when they came through," says vocalist Ryan Downey. "We flyered the heck out of this town. But we also sent our earlier recordings out to a lot of labels, a lot of distributors."\nEven as the band extensively began touring the East Coast, the home base for all things hardcore, feelings started to change internally for Burn it Down. The band reacquired former bassist Jason McCash in 1998, solidifying its still-present lineup of McCash, Downey, guitarist John Zeps and drummer Brian "Bob" Fouts.\nA different approach to the music shined through as Burn it Down began 2000. The band did short tours with some of the biggest names in the underground hardcore scene, including ZAO, the Dillinger Escape Plan and the August co-headlining tour of In Flames and Earth Crisis.\nIn between, it filled its time with small local gigs, often opening for touring national acts at the Emerson Theater in Indianapolis, which McCash owned at the time. At these shows, the band began debuting some of the songs which would eventually appear on Let the Dead Bury the Dead.\n"You have 'The Ghost Untied,' which is kind of the long epic trance song," says Downey. "Then you have songs like 'Do Your Worst' or 'Ten Percent of the Law,' which are real aggressive, straightforward hardcore noisecore songs. But there's a sound, a style and a vibe that's consistent through all those songs; that's the thread that provides some continuity and holds it all together."\nGone was the straight, one-sided hardcore approach to music, replaced by a sense of melody and harmony usually not associated with this brutally harsh genre of music. The band still carried the ability to crush its audience, which was evident in both the old and new material. It was replaced by a curious breed of music never before heard.\nCombining the sensibilities of pop vocals, the menacing approach of metal, the passion of ambient instrumental music and the directness and rhythm of hardcore punk, Burn it Down created a strong and unopposed force in terms of storytelling, captivation and advocating its message throughout the hardcore community, especially for a non-East Coast band. \n"We all grew up on late '80s thrash Bay Area bands like Dark Angel, Death Angel, Metallica and Slayer," says Downey. "We all only got more into hardcore with the whole DIY ethic of doing your own shows, picking up your band by its boot straps and going out to this whole network, this community."\n"With the new album, we're playing for ourselves and not worrying about what the hardcore community is going to think," says Zeps.\nSurprisingly, the hardcore community embraced Burn it Down's new approach with even more vigor than its old. A scene normally known for rejecting anything too commerical or too far-removed from its own status quo, Burn it Down watched as its popularity, coupled with a renewed touring schedule, soared to what many would have considered unimaginable heights.\nNow the band stands at its new threshold. It will shortly begin touring in support of the new album, opening its first full U.S. tour this fall, again with In Flames and this time with Shadows Fall, one of the biggest hardcore metal success stories of 2000, opening.\n"It's exciting to have the experience of (being a national act)," says Downey. "I'm excited to start fresh."\n"The rewards we're going to reap are going to be way more beneficial than otherwise," says Zeps. "We're the type of band that's never going to be satisfied."\nMaintaining such a tough touring schedule and attempting to sufficiently promote its new album has proven to be one of the toughest challenges for Burn it Down. All of the members lead very busy lives.\nDowney is a staff writer at Metal Maniacs magazine and a frequent contributor to NUVO, in addition to running his own underground hardcore publication, Superhero. Fouts works at a record store in addition to playing in his side project, 6015. Although McCash is no longer owner of the Emerson, he is married with two small children. And in addition to being married, Zeps owns a Tracks record store on the north side of Indianapolis.\n"The band can't be stagnant," says Zeps. "If the band is stagnant, then it will fizzle."\nDespite its commitments and obligations, the band claims it is well-versed in time management and that promoting the album is not a forgotten goal. It hopes to tour as widely as Europe and Japan in 2001.\nBut, at the end of the day, the primary question remains. Is Burn it Down simply a hardcore act with a wide variety of influences, or has it officially evolved into a new creature, a multi-influenced musical unit, open to various forms of expression but never bound by one?\nIn music, as in life, often the primary question is actually the one which least elicits an answer. \nBurn it Down plans to continue until it cannot reasonably function any longer, or, as Zeps says, "until the drummer starts writing the guitar riffs." Until then, perhaps the answer is best left unspoken.
(10/26/00 4:00am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Indianapolis' Burn it Down is now unarguably the biggest "local" band happening in the state. The band is doing its first full U.S. tour this fall with metal giants In Flames and plans to tour Europe and Japan next year.
(10/24/00 5:17am)
Although the Hoosier hockey team was defeated 8-0 in its season opener at Eastern Michigan University Thursday night, it bounced back to trounce Toledo University 12-0 Friday and 7-0 Saturday.\nAssistant coach and general manager Alex Kyrias chalked up Thursday's problems to the Hoosiers' defense.\n"On Friday and Saturday I was happy, defensively," Kyrias said. "Thursday was a little less impressive because of both inexperience and maybe a lack of concentration and desire."\nJunior forward Bryan Grant scored just 22 seconds into IU's battle against Toledo Friday. It turned out to be all the Hoosiers would need.\n"I think everyone was a little bit mad, wanting to win and everything," Kyrias said.\nIn addition to his goal, Grant had four assists, leading the Hoosiers with five points in the game. Junior forward Brandon Phillips and team captain junior forward Dan Hauck each had two goals and two assists for a four-point game. \n"Fortunately, when you get to play with good players, your numbers are going to go up," Grant said. "I just play on a good line."\nFreshman forward Zach Vietri had the first two goals of his career Friday, and sophomore defender Tim McMahon had three assists. Nine other Hoosiers combined for the remaining 12 points. The Hoosiers outshot the Rockets 53-4 Friday, with senior goalie Josh Sears recording a shutout.\nSaturday proved to be a strong game for the Hoosiers. Hauck scored with the help of a five-on-three power play with 2:17 left in the first period to give IU the lift it needed to defeat the Rockets 7-0.\nGrant, once again, scored a goal and four assists for five points Saturday. Hauck, McMahon, Phillips, sophomore forward Matt Cohen and freshman defender Mike Piotrowski each had two points, and five other Hoosiers had one point apiece.\nThe Hoosiers outshot the Rockets 53-18 Saturday as senior goalie Justin Wojtowicz earned his first shutout of the season.\n"I think Toledo is not of the caliber of Eastern Michigan, but it was nice to see some of the new guys get their first goals," Kyrias said.\nThe Hoosiers' season opened Thursday night at Ypsilanti, Mich., without the success the team would have later in the weekend. The Eagles rattled their former goalie, sophomore Charlie Pulley, for three goals in the first 3:17. \n"The game was a little tough in the beginning, but it was our first game, and we picked it up as the game went on," Pulley said. "We had a pretty good second period. It showed we could play with anyone on any level."\nAlthough IU shot even with the Eagles in the second period, Eastern Michigan shutout the Hoosiers 8-0. IU then shutout Toledo all weekend, not allowing a goal in 112:23 minutes.\n"I think Friday and Saturday, giving up 22 shots total, is great," Kyrias said. "But we're not that good yet; the competition will only get better"
(10/23/00 3:24pm)
INDIANAPOLIS -- At a rally for Congresswoman Julia Carson (D-10th) Saturday, President Bill Clinton addressed the need for Democrats to recruit voters.\nBased on the catch phrase, "We tried it their way. We tried it our way. Our way works," Clinton spoke for almost 45 minutes, attacking the Republican platform, from the economy and welfare to crime and education.\nBy contrast, Clinton then explained that the Gore/Lieberman ticket was the way to success for the United States, claiming the Democrats "brought arithmetic back to Washington."\n"Our numbers add up, and theirs don't," Clinton said.\nTaking the podium around 11 a.m., Clinton also took time to address Julia Carson, who he said he considers one of the most effective policy-makers in Washington.\n"She may be an African-American woman, but she reminds me of a redneck judge," Clinton said. "There'll be a room full of self-important people in nice clothes, and she walks in and gets what she wants before they knew what hit them. She's like a Stealth bomber for Indiana."\nClinton closed with his key message -- Indiana Democrats need to hit the streets and recruit the undecided voters of the state and beyond.\n"You all know a lot of people who would never come out to something like this," Clinton said. "But they will vote -- if they think it makes a difference."\nCarson said she was grateful Clinton came to speak for her Saturday.\n"I'll tell you why I came here," Clinton said. "Julia Carson asked me, and I do whatever she asks."\nClinton used the rally as an excuse to solidify the Democratic effort in Indiana, drawing attention to Carson, Gov. Frank O'Bannon and several other Democrats from the state running for re-election.\n"This is another great day in the city of Indianapolis," said mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat who spoke before Clinton.\nBeing a Democratic rally, most attendees supported Clinton and his views.\n"(The rally) is not going to change my vote," said Linda Haas, a sociology professor at IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis. "But it makes me more determined to talk to people."\n"In this case (the 2000 election), the differences between candidates are most contrasting," said IU graduate Adam Gilman. "It's fundamentally important to (talk to people)."\nBut not everyone was convinced by Clinton's message.\n"He gives himself a lot more credit than he deserves," said IUPUI freshman Leon Mallory. "I still haven't decided how I'm voting"
(10/19/00 4:41am)
An experiment almost three years in the making, Drowse has been around Bloomington for a long time. But its growth into recognition as one of the town's established acts has been slow and painful.\n "The problem around here is that you have to know everyone," says Drowse drummer sophomore Alex Schrodt. "It's come to where most people I know who are very competent to set up shows are very frustrated with the clubs around here."\n "This town has so much red tape in it," interjects bassist junior Matt Armstrong. "This is too small a town for this many obstacles."\n "We've got a diverse crowd in this town, but I'm really at a point where I'm getting frustrated," says guitarist/vocalist senior Kevin Mikalof. "You've got to dig and dig and dig to ways to get people to come out to shows."\n Although the band was only been officially playing out for a year, Armstrong, Mikalof and guitarist senior Jeff Swallom had been doing small, unofficial shows with varied drummers (or occasionally without a drummer) and writing songs. When Schrodt enrolled at IU in the fall of 1999, the puzzle was completed.\n The four-piece cut an "official" demo earlier this year, which, Mikalof says, "will never surface again." But the band is currently circulating a new demo tape.\n "All people have to do is ask, and we will happily give them a copy," says Mikalof.\n The band recently received another setback when Swallom, a Drowse founder, decided to take a hiatus from the group. But Drowse has decided to continue on, for the time being, as a three-piece.\n Drowse described its music as guitar rock with indie-rock influences, although it says its influences are much more broad.\n "I don't think we sound like another band in this town, and I don't particulary want to," says Mikalof. "I like some bands around here, but I just want to do what I want to do. I just want to go out there and rock."\n Drowse will rock at 10:30 p.m. tonight at Second Story, opening for Medicated Becky and the Neophytes. Cover is $2.
(10/19/00 4:00am)
An experiment almost three years in the making, Drowse has been around Bloomington for a long time. But its growth into recognition as one of the town's established acts has been slow and painful.\n "The problem around here is that you have to know everyone," says Drowse drummer sophomore Alex Schrodt. "It's come to where most people I know who are very competent to set up shows are very frustrated with the clubs around here."\n "This town has so much red tape in it," interjects bassist junior Matt Armstrong. "This is too small a town for this many obstacles."\n "We've got a diverse crowd in this town, but I'm really at a point where I'm getting frustrated," says guitarist/vocalist senior Kevin Mikalof. "You've got to dig and dig and dig to ways to get people to come out to shows."\n Although the band was only been officially playing out for a year, Armstrong, Mikalof and guitarist senior Jeff Swallom had been doing small, unofficial shows with varied drummers (or occasionally without a drummer) and writing songs. When Schrodt enrolled at IU in the fall of 1999, the puzzle was completed.\n The four-piece cut an "official" demo earlier this year, which, Mikalof says, "will never surface again." But the band is currently circulating a new demo tape.\n "All people have to do is ask, and we will happily give them a copy," says Mikalof.\n The band recently received another setback when Swallom, a Drowse founder, decided to take a hiatus from the group. But Drowse has decided to continue on, for the time being, as a three-piece.\n Drowse described its music as guitar rock with indie-rock influences, although it says its influences are much more broad.\n "I don't think we sound like another band in this town, and I don't particulary want to," says Mikalof. "I like some bands around here, but I just want to do what I want to do. I just want to go out there and rock."\n Drowse will rock at 10:30 p.m. tonight at Second Story, opening for Medicated Becky and the Neophytes. Cover is $2.
(10/13/00 9:42pm)
The club hockey team is young, relatively inexperienced and facing arguably the toughest schedule in the 32-year history of the program. But as the team prepares to enter the upcoming season, both coaches and players are confident this will be one of the strongest teams the club has ever fielded.\nIn total, only a little more than half of the team's roster wore the cream and crimson last year. But coach Rich Holdeman said the team's youth is made up by its talent and drive.\n"Usually when you have a team as young as we do, with only a couple of seniors on the roster, you get a little nervous about things," Holdeman said. "But I'm confident some of the guys who've been around will step up and be leaders."\nOne of the brightest spots on the Hoosier team is the return of its top offensive line, composed of team captain Dan Hauck and alternate captains Brandon Phillips and Bryan Grant, all juniors.\n"They played together at the end of the year last year and did an outstanding job in the national tournament," Holdeman said.\nGoaltending is also a strong suit.The team returns three experienced seniors in Chad Whitlock, Justin Wojtowicz and Josh Sears, all of whom the coaching staff describes as solid players. \nIn addition, the team has picked up sophomore Charley Pulley, a transfer from Eastern Michigan University. Pulley was a leading goaltender for the EMU Eagles in the 1999-2000 season, chalking up a 10-3-2 record, allowing only 44 goals in just over 968 minutes, averaging out to less than one goal per period and recording two shutouts.\n"We're in a great situation, but (the goalies) may not like it," Holdeman said. "There's going to be a lot of competition for playing time."\n"It's only going to be helping my game, really," Wojtowicz said. "I know that every day I practice, coach is going to be looking at all of us, and I'm going to have to work as hard as I can to show I'm the goalie who's going to play."\nWith a young team and a difficult schedule, the hockey team is looking at a much more difficult season than last year, when the Hoosiers finished 24-6-1.\n"We're going to be tested," Holdeman said. "There's no question about it. But it's the best thing we can do for these guys, get them some better competition and get them playing at a higher level."\n"Our schedule's a lot tougher this year, and that's good," assistant coach Scott Nolting said. "We got tired of blowing teams out 12 or 19-1. This year, we're getting right into it, and they're going to learn quick."\nThe team said they finally feel they're ready to take a shot at the trophy this season.\n"Two out of three years, making it to the national championships and losing, has been heartbreaking," Wojtowicz said. "I hope I can go out with the national championship this year. It would mean everything to me"
(10/12/00 5:37am)
Forget crack -- there's enough excitement in the NHL this year to make my heart explode, and it's completely legal. Besides, hockey doesn't cost a dime.\nTo start, for those uninitiated, the NHL has two new teams this year. Professional hockey returns to Minnesota with the expansion team Minnesota Wild, and Columbus, Ohio, finally gets a shot at the pros with the Columbus Blue Jackets. At press time, their combined record was 0-4, but it's still exciting to get some fresh blood on the ice.\nIn contrast, it seems like some guys can't lose. Patrick Roy has consistently been one of those players since before I even started kindergarten. Now the future Hall of Famer is just two wins shy of tying Terry Sawchuk's mark of 447 wins, the most wins by an NHL goalie ever. With four upcoming Avalanche games in the next week, one of which is against the Washington Capitols and two others against the expansion Blue Jackets, Roy is likely to capture the record before mid-terms.\nRoy is not the only living legend in the headlines this week. With a return almost as anticipated as that of any religious figure, Mark Messier stepped onto the ice in Madison Square Garden wearing a Rangers uniform last night for the first time in four seasons. With Messier's return to an already strong roster, New York's playoff hopes are high.\nOne team not so up on its luck this season is the Philadelphia Flyers. The team, which arguably had the best line of the 1990s, has lost former captain Eric Lindros to injury and an inevitable trade. Now left wing John LeClair is out for at least a week with a back injury. Those two combined for almost 130 points last season, and Philadelphia's roster doesn't promise any players likely to step up and fill in those points.\nThe way this year is shaping up, it could easily be anyone's Cup in the end. For my preseason pick, I undoubtedly have to go with Colorado. While the Avs have had trouble getting it done with postseasons past, the talent this year is absolutely undeniable. In addition to the previously mentioned Roy, the Avs have another future Hall of Famer in defenseman Ray Bourque, who will be suiting up for his first full season in Colorado after playing for Boston since the Jurassic period.\nThe team also has strong, capable players in linemen Adam Deadmarsh, Peter Forsberg and Shjon Podein and defenseman Adam Foote, who has completely recovered from his injury in the playoffs last year.\nWith the Dallas Stars and Detroit Red Wings also showing their perennially strong lineups, and several other teams on the rise, it is truly an open field for the Cup this year.\nThat is what makes this sport so exciting. Unlike professional baseball, where it's a domination of big-market teams, and professional basketball, where one injury can derail an entire team's season, hockey is a guessing game from draft time until the last buzzer of the Finals.\nAnd even though the jackals at the networks are convinced that Americans only want to watch basketball or football, the popularity of hockey has been growing by leaps and bounds in the United States during the last decade, even with the retirement of some of the greatest players in the game's history.\nRemember, it's a long way until May. There's going to be a lot of exams and papers assigned to universally depress the student body. Next time that's you, just grab a six-pack, a seat on the couch and a copy of Hockey Digest. That is, if you can find a game. God bless ESPN2.
(10/09/00 5:31am)
A Vancouver court Friday found NHL player Marty McSorley guilty of assault with a weapon. This was in response to the Feb. 21 on-ice incident in which McSorley, then a defenseman for the Boston Bruins, delivered a two-handed stick to the head of Vancouver Canucks forward Donald Brashear.\n Key word: on-ice. As in during a friggin' hockey game.\nBruins defenseman Don Sweeney, quoted by national media Friday, best summed up the situation: "It opens up a can of worms."\nMcSorley, well known for being an aggressive defenseman, said he was simply trying to hit Brashear's arm and pick a fight with him. His stick slipped, and he accidentally knocked Brashear in the head. With the exception of the prosecutor and judge, this theory is almost universally accepted.\nWorse things than this happen in hockey games, football games and golf outings all the time. If this type of action is now legally punishable by 18 months of probation, many others are now suspectible to further legal action. This has the potential to spawn countless sports-related lawsuits.\nSo in light of this groundbreaking new legal precedent, I would like to make a few recommendations for people looking to cash in.\nAdewale Ogunleye vs. Northwestern University football. \nFormer IU defensive player Ogunleye was a sure first-round NFL pick for the 2000 draft. He was going to make millions of dollars a year for simply putting on some shoulder pads every Sunday. But in one quick play against Northwestern last October, Ogunleye's dreams of NFL superstardom were permanently dashed when he tore ligaments in his knee Oct. 9, 1999.\nThis seems like a good opportunity for the former Hoosier to cash in. With the new legal precedent, Northwestern University's football team is responsible not only for dashing Ogunleye's dreams but also for ripping the heart from the Hoosier team, which is most certainly why the Hoosiers didn't make a bowl game last year.\nIn that case, maybe our University can sue someone else for once.\nThe city of Boston vs. Bill Buckner. \nUnder our new legal precedent, the emotional damage inflicted by Buckner on the city after his 1986 World Series blunder is definitely worthy of legal attention. I'm sure that records will show that, after the Red Sox lost the '86 Series, many die-hard Boston fans slipped into a state of serious depression, especially having to live with the thought that another team from New York had embarrassed them.\nThis class-action suit will surely rob Buckner of the small livelihood he lives off today, but the emotional needs for punitive damages for the good people of Boston is far more important.\nIDS columnist Brett Wallace vs. all Major League Baseball teams. \nThese bringers of pain never show me any mercy. Year after year, my faith in humanity wanes as my beloved Chicago Cubs are beaten, routed, publicly humiliated and thoroughly trounced. It's enough to have me screaming "Wait 'till next year!" in the middle of April.\nWhile I intend to file separate lawsuits against San Diego, San Francisco and Atlanta for dashing playoffs dreams within my lifetime, the rest of the league is nonetheless responsible for my mental state as well. After all, what team hasn't once humiliated the Cubs in the past 20 years, either on the field or through a quick trade or free agent acquisition? Lawyers would be hard-pressed to find even one.\nSo I guess maybe the McSorley thing isn't as bad as I thought. When I first heard that the charges stuck, the first word that jumped to my head was "un-American." (Nevermind it was the decision of a Canadian court). But now that I've seen the unlimited possibilities of our new legal precedent, this is surely the most American thing to happen to sports in years.\nAnd to all opponents of the Chicago Cubs, get those checkbooks ready.
(10/05/00 4:00am)
Three shows in three days. An estrogen-powered festival with local bands and touring regional acts. Country, electronica, opera, folk, hardcore and rock -- lots of rock. Certainly enough to name a festival after.\nBloomington's own Chix Rock festival kicks off tonight and continues through Saturday. While the festival is certainly an opportunity for some of Indiana's most talented ladies to flex their creative muscles, it is also an event centered around nurturing -- a community of care.\nProfits from the event will go to benefit the Middle Way House, Rhino's Youth Program and United Food Pantries -- programs aimed at people whose home lives are less than idealistic.\n"The American family has changed, so the community has to kind of take the place of it now," says Bloomington resident and festival organizer Amy Kincaid. "You gotta take care of the kids, you gotta repair the damaged family unit. It's kind of a weird thing, but I feel this is part of that, where before you had the familial backup, which you don't have now. You gotta turn to other sources. I don't have money to give, but I have time, so that's the currency I'm dealing with."\nWhat initially began as Kincaid's quest to find an inexpensive way to kill time this summer has culminated in a festival featuring 23 bands from across the state and the region, spanning all influences and all genres of music.\n"I started out by myself," says Kincaid, who is also the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of ChuckMarten, a half-female quartet scheduled to play both Friday and Saturday. "It was kind of a spontaneous thing. At first I didn't know what I was really doing. It was all kind of by the seat of my pants." \nAs commitment to the festival became more serious and word began to spread, bands began pounding down the doors, asking to play. Kincaid says while some were drawn by the temptation of an all-female festival, others simply wanted to help the cause. And what was originally planned to be a small showcase for a dozen bands quickly grew.\nFestival sponsor WIUS, which held a preview concert and radio interview last Friday, says it tries to be supportive of any and all efforts at building the local music scene and the Chix Rock festival is no exception.\n"The station has a relationship with the local scene where we support them and, as a result, we hope we get support from them," says WIUS program director junior Erik Johnson. "We both gain from it.\n"WIUS is here to promote independent music, and there's nothing more independent than what these people are doing."\nWhile the artists playing at the Chix Rock festival are all female or female-fronted, that is where the similarities end. While the festival does not boast a clear headlin act, good nominations include Chicago hardcore punk standouts Mary Tyler Morphine, Washington, D.C.'s Polyplush Cats and Fort Wayne's the Beautys, which features former Bloomingtonian and Smears member Chica Baby.\nThe festival also mixes up the influences. Ann McWilliams is most easily classified as country; IU opera singer Mary Black is playing right before Indianapolis electronica act FUZZ. For every one of folk singer Emily Wells' soft vocal lines, the hardcore front women of Perfect Nothing and Mary Tyler Morphine will counter with their harsh yet passionate voices.\n"Some of the static I got was 'You can't mix it up like that because the crowds don't like this mixed together,'" says Kincaid. "But that's what's cool. You don't get to see that too often."\nOverall, Kincaid says, performers and attendees are likewise excited about the show, and she is confident it will be a success.\n"It's just a chance for everyone to come out and see the girls," she says.\nFor a complete list of bands and venues, see the concert calendar, page 14.
(10/05/00 2:39am)
Three shows in three days. An estrogen-powered festival with local bands and touring regional acts. Country, electronica, opera, folk, hardcore and rock -- lots of rock. Certainly enough to name a festival after.\nBloomington's own Chix Rock festival kicks off tonight and continues through Saturday. While the festival is certainly an opportunity for some of Indiana's most talented ladies to flex their creative muscles, it is also an event centered around nurturing -- a community of care.\nProfits from the event will go to benefit the Middle Way House, Rhino's Youth Program and United Food Pantries -- programs aimed at people whose home lives are less than idealistic.\n"The American family has changed, so the community has to kind of take the place of it now," says Bloomington resident and festival organizer Amy Kincaid. "You gotta take care of the kids, you gotta repair the damaged family unit. It's kind of a weird thing, but I feel this is part of that, where before you had the familial backup, which you don't have now. You gotta turn to other sources. I don't have money to give, but I have time, so that's the currency I'm dealing with."\nWhat initially began as Kincaid's quest to find an inexpensive way to kill time this summer has culminated in a festival featuring 23 bands from across the state and the region, spanning all influences and all genres of music.\n"I started out by myself," says Kincaid, who is also the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of ChuckMarten, a half-female quartet scheduled to play both Friday and Saturday. "It was kind of a spontaneous thing. At first I didn't know what I was really doing. It was all kind of by the seat of my pants." \nAs commitment to the festival became more serious and word began to spread, bands began pounding down the doors, asking to play. Kincaid says while some were drawn by the temptation of an all-female festival, others simply wanted to help the cause. And what was originally planned to be a small showcase for a dozen bands quickly grew.\nFestival sponsor WIUS, which held a preview concert and radio interview last Friday, says it tries to be supportive of any and all efforts at building the local music scene and the Chix Rock festival is no exception.\n"The station has a relationship with the local scene where we support them and, as a result, we hope we get support from them," says WIUS program director junior Erik Johnson. "We both gain from it.\n"WIUS is here to promote independent music, and there's nothing more independent than what these people are doing."\nWhile the artists playing at the Chix Rock festival are all female or female-fronted, that is where the similarities end. While the festival does not boast a clear headlin act, good nominations include Chicago hardcore punk standouts Mary Tyler Morphine, Washington, D.C.'s Polyplush Cats and Fort Wayne's the Beautys, which features former Bloomingtonian and Smears member Chica Baby.\nThe festival also mixes up the influences. Ann McWilliams is most easily classified as country; IU opera singer Mary Black is playing right before Indianapolis electronica act FUZZ. For every one of folk singer Emily Wells' soft vocal lines, the hardcore front women of Perfect Nothing and Mary Tyler Morphine will counter with their harsh yet passionate voices.\n"Some of the static I got was 'You can't mix it up like that because the crowds don't like this mixed together,'" says Kincaid. "But that's what's cool. You don't get to see that too often."\nOverall, Kincaid says, performers and attendees are likewise excited about the show, and she is confident it will be a success.\n"It's just a chance for everyone to come out and see the girls," she says.\nFor a complete list of bands and venues, see the concert calendar, page 14.