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(01/26/07 5:00am)
IU students and Bloomington residents used to have to travel to major metropolitan areas to attend a film festival. But since 2004, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater has been home to the PRIDE Film Festival. \nThis year's PRIDE Film Festival, which will screen more than 30 films celebrating the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, will feature the increasingly popular PRIDE Dance Party, and two directors' panel discussions will be added to the festival as well.\nThis event puts Bloomington on the map when it comes to GLBT film festivals, said Mary L. Gray, chairwoman of the fourth annual PRIDE Film Festival's steering committee.\n"We really are becoming our own little Sundance in the cornfields out here," Gray said.\n The PRIDE Film Festival draws thousands of people downtown over the course of the weekend. Nearly 2,000 people attended last year, according to a PRIDE Film Festival press release.\nThe festival is able to bring films that premiere or screen at major film festivals and lesser-known work that's generated by regional and local artists together, Gray said.\n"We have the advantage of being able to not only show what's currently playing at larger festivals," Gray said, "but also the opportunity to take some risks in featuring lesser-known work."\nThis year's steering committee chose a variety of documentary, fiction, feature and short films representative of the GLBT community to show at the festival, said IU doctoral candidate Sarah Sinwell, who's also a steering committee member and co-moderator for the panel discussions. Those films will be in competition for three awards: the Kinsey Prize, the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize. The Kinsey Prize is awarded to a film that pushes the boundaries of sexuality and how it's understood in our culture. The Jury Prize is chosen by the steering committee and the Audience Prize is chosen by the audience. Last year "The Agressives" took home the Kinsey Prize and "100 Percent Women" was awarded both the Jury and Audience prizes, Sinwell said. \nSinwell thought it was interesting that both of last year's winners were documentary films.\n"It's unusual, I think," Sinwell said. "I'm interested to see what kind of films will win this year."\nBut the film screenings won't be the only entertainment for the weekend. The directors' forums, along with other events, will give festival-goers an inside look at the GLBT movie industry.\nSusan Stryker, the writer and director of "Screaming Queens," will join Colin A. Weil, who co-produced "Rock Bottom," as they discuss documentary filmmaking and the development of their films during the first of two directors' panel discussions. The second panel discussion will feature Indianapolis-based writer and director Catherine Crouch. Crouch will be joined by the producers and director of the film "The Gymnast." The first session is at 5 p.m. today and the second session is at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.\nThe PRIDE Dance Party will also make its return to the festival following the final screening Saturday night. Anyone who purchases a Saturday evening ticket or a Weekend Festival Pass can attend the dance party, which will "take over the entire theater generating a queer space where creativity, acceptance, vitality and the carnivalesque are available to everyone," according to the release.\n"It's really incredible the way they transform the space in the time between the films screened and the party," Sinwell said. \nThe dance party will feature aerialists from the Bloomington High Flyers, a local circus troupe. Complimentary appetizers and desserts will be available from BLU Culinary Arts, Bloomingfoods, Bloomington Cooking School and Tutto Bene Wine Cafe. There will also be a cash bar. More than 400 people are expected to attend the party, where costumes, masks and erotic attire are encouraged, according to the release.\nThe festival has developed within the last four years and the opportunity to screen multimedia work will be a possibility for future festivals, Gray said. The festival began as a class for two students in the IU Master's in Arts Administration Program interning at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in January 2004. Gray was asked to speak at one of the festival's opening nights when she joined IU as a faculty member.\n"From that point on, I was hooked," Gray said.\nAfter two years, it became clear to Gray the festival had become a main event gathering together the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied communities.\n"I joined the steering committee last year with the goal of getting the IU campus more closely involved in this event," Gray said.\nIU student Matt Brunner is planning to attend the festival with some members of the Hoosier Rights Campaign, a student GLBT activist group he founded on campus. The festival will allow people to see films they wouldn't get to see unless they went out looking for them, Brunner said.\n"It provides a place where people can go and watch films that have a GLBT theme," Brunner said.\nIU students have taken part in making the festival happen. Gray said there are more than 10 student volunteers on the steering committee this year.\n"Students should come out to support their peers and see films they won't see anywhere else," Gray said.\nThe festival builds bridges between the campus community and Bloomington, Gray said.\n"It also gives GLBT people and folks who don't necessarily know or understand differences across sexualities and genders some common ground," Gray said.\nGray said she expected the festival to be successful since it began because of the energy of the crowds of people she saw when she first attended.\n"It was clear that this festival offered something unique that's hard to find outside of large cities," Gray said.\nGray said she thinks GLBT people might know that Bloomington is a comfortable place to live, but she said there is an entirely different feeling during the festival.\n"You can walk down Kirkwood Avenue the nights of the festival and see everyone able to hold hands with their dates and soak in the sense of acceptance and celebration that's created by the festival," Gray said.
(01/26/07 1:38am)
IU students and Bloomington residents used to have to travel to major metropolitan areas to attend a film festival. But since 2004, the Buskirk-Chumley Theater has been home to the PRIDE Film Festival. \nThis year's PRIDE Film Festival, which will screen more than 30 films celebrating the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community, will feature the increasingly popular PRIDE Dance Party, and two directors' panel discussions will be added to the festival as well.\nThis event puts Bloomington on the map when it comes to GLBT film festivals, said Mary L. Gray, chairwoman of the fourth annual PRIDE Film Festival's steering committee.\n"We really are becoming our own little Sundance in the cornfields out here," Gray said.\n The PRIDE Film Festival draws thousands of people downtown over the course of the weekend. Nearly 2,000 people attended last year, according to a PRIDE Film Festival press release.\nThe festival is able to bring films that premiere or screen at major film festivals and lesser-known work that's generated by regional and local artists together, Gray said.\n"We have the advantage of being able to not only show what's currently playing at larger festivals," Gray said, "but also the opportunity to take some risks in featuring lesser-known work."\nThis year's steering committee chose a variety of documentary, fiction, feature and short films representative of the GLBT community to show at the festival, said IU doctoral candidate Sarah Sinwell, who's also a steering committee member and co-moderator for the panel discussions. Those films will be in competition for three awards: the Kinsey Prize, the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize. The Kinsey Prize is awarded to a film that pushes the boundaries of sexuality and how it's understood in our culture. The Jury Prize is chosen by the steering committee and the Audience Prize is chosen by the audience. Last year "The Agressives" took home the Kinsey Prize and "100 Percent Women" was awarded both the Jury and Audience prizes, Sinwell said. \nSinwell thought it was interesting that both of last year's winners were documentary films.\n"It's unusual, I think," Sinwell said. "I'm interested to see what kind of films will win this year."\nBut the film screenings won't be the only entertainment for the weekend. The directors' forums, along with other events, will give festival-goers an inside look at the GLBT movie industry.\nSusan Stryker, the writer and director of "Screaming Queens," will join Colin A. Weil, who co-produced "Rock Bottom," as they discuss documentary filmmaking and the development of their films during the first of two directors' panel discussions. The second panel discussion will feature Indianapolis-based writer and director Catherine Crouch. Crouch will be joined by the producers and director of the film "The Gymnast." The first session is at 5 p.m. today and the second session is at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.\nThe PRIDE Dance Party will also make its return to the festival following the final screening Saturday night. Anyone who purchases a Saturday evening ticket or a Weekend Festival Pass can attend the dance party, which will "take over the entire theater generating a queer space where creativity, acceptance, vitality and the carnivalesque are available to everyone," according to the release.\n"It's really incredible the way they transform the space in the time between the films screened and the party," Sinwell said. \nThe dance party will feature aerialists from the Bloomington High Flyers, a local circus troupe. Complimentary appetizers and desserts will be available from BLU Culinary Arts, Bloomingfoods, Bloomington Cooking School and Tutto Bene Wine Cafe. There will also be a cash bar. More than 400 people are expected to attend the party, where costumes, masks and erotic attire are encouraged, according to the release.\nThe festival has developed within the last four years and the opportunity to screen multimedia work will be a possibility for future festivals, Gray said. The festival began as a class for two students in the IU Master's in Arts Administration Program interning at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater in January 2004. Gray was asked to speak at one of the festival's opening nights when she joined IU as a faculty member.\n"From that point on, I was hooked," Gray said.\nAfter two years, it became clear to Gray the festival had become a main event gathering together the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied communities.\n"I joined the steering committee last year with the goal of getting the IU campus more closely involved in this event," Gray said.\nIU student Matt Brunner is planning to attend the festival with some members of the Hoosier Rights Campaign, a student GLBT activist group he founded on campus. The festival will allow people to see films they wouldn't get to see unless they went out looking for them, Brunner said.\n"It provides a place where people can go and watch films that have a GLBT theme," Brunner said.\nIU students have taken part in making the festival happen. Gray said there are more than 10 student volunteers on the steering committee this year.\n"Students should come out to support their peers and see films they won't see anywhere else," Gray said.\nThe festival builds bridges between the campus community and Bloomington, Gray said.\n"It also gives GLBT people and folks who don't necessarily know or understand differences across sexualities and genders some common ground," Gray said.\nGray said she expected the festival to be successful since it began because of the energy of the crowds of people she saw when she first attended.\n"It was clear that this festival offered something unique that's hard to find outside of large cities," Gray said.\nGray said she thinks GLBT people might know that Bloomington is a comfortable place to live, but she said there is an entirely different feeling during the festival.\n"You can walk down Kirkwood Avenue the nights of the festival and see everyone able to hold hands with their dates and soak in the sense of acceptance and celebration that's created by the festival," Gray said.
(01/25/07 5:40am)
Wouldn't it be great if classes were cancelled the Monday after the Super Bowl?\nMore than 3,000 students think so, and they've employed Facebook to voice their opinion.\nPhysically gathering in one place to rally support for a cause might become a thing of the past as many students now join Facebook groups to show support, raise awareness and promote change for a wide variety of issues.\nFreshman Zac Foutz created the Facebook group "petition for IU to cancel classes after Super Bowl Sunday!" Foutz said he created the group not thinking it would get much attention, but the group had more than 3,600 members as of press time.\n"Right now, no one thinks it will work," Foutz said, "but with all this support, why not try it?"\nFoutz said he plans to go to Saturday's IU home basketball game with paper petitions to get signatures. He said he feels that petitions are not taken into consideration by college deans unless they are on paper with signatures.\nThe University has no formal policy about petitions because they are not part of formal decision-making processes, said Associate Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims.\n"Petitions are informal expressions of the sentiment of a population, so it doesn't really matter what form they're in," Sims said.\nWhile University officials might not be paying attention to Facebook, others are. Politicians are begining to use Facebook and other sites like it because of the ability to reach large amounts of people quickly.\nMany local candidates took advantage of the site during the 2006 midterm elections\n"Communicating with the 18- to 25-year-old demographic can be difficult," Cam Savage, spokesman for former 9th District Rep. Mike Sodrel, told the Indiana Daily Student in September 2006. "This allows us to talk to people who turn to the Internet before they turn on the radio or TV."\nFacebook's creators have taken special notice of petitions directed toward them.\nRicky Hawkins, a junior at Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., said he created the group "Facebook has gone TOO far" in response to such site changes as the news feed, which was added at the beginning of the fall semester. Hawkins said his group got Facebook officials to listen.\n"We didn't get exactly what we wanted, but we were heard," Hawkins said.\nHawkins said he talked to Facebook officials who informed the group about some alternatives. He felt his group was successful because its purpose was to get Facebook's administrators to listen to their users and\nrespond accordingly.\nFinding time to raise awareness and support for a cause can consume a lot of time, which is a luxury some students don't have.\n"You're always going to have people that want to get involved with an issue but don't have time," said Andrew Warshauer, a senior at the International School of Indiana, a high school in Indianapolis.\nWarshauer's group "Indiana Students to Save Darfur" has allowed him to relay information from larger international groups to students. Spreading information is also the purpose of the group "College Students Calling for The End of the Genocide in Darfur," said group officer Jonathan Zinszer, a freshman at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.\n"If this group has aided in informing people about the injustice in Darfur, then I do view it as a success," Zinszer said.\nZinszer said a woman sent him a message him last week, both for more information on the genocide in Darfur and to ask if there if there was anything more than donating money she could do to support the cause.\nFacebook groups can be anything from fun to informative or even offensive. Either way, they provide a good sense of what students are interested in and what motivates them, said Thomas Brewster Trudgeon, a freshman at the University of California at San Diego who created the group "MAKE THE WEARING OF REALLY REALLY LARGE SUNGLASSES ILLEGAL."\n"That's why I love these Facebook groups, because I love seeing what different students around the world have to say about different topics," Trudgeon said in an e-mail.
(01/23/07 3:39am)
Police say an off-duty Bloomington Police officer witnessed a juvenile brandish a gun while both were driving Friday night on Kirkwood Avenue.\nBPD Officer Jeff Alwine was off-duty while driving his jeep east on Kirkwood Avenue at about 8 p.m., said BPD Sgt. Jeff Canada. The headlights of Alwine's jeep were shining into the back window of the Honda that was in front of him.\nWhile both vehicles were at the stoplight at the corner of Kirkwood Avenue and Walnut Street, the passenger inside the Honda raised what appeared to be a handgun into Alwine's view, Canada said, reading from a police report.\nAlwine notified the Police Department and an officer on-duty pulled the Honda over at 10th Street and Woodlawn Avenue. The on-duty officer discovered the 16-year-old male passenger had a BB gun.\nThe juvenile was charged with intimidation and referred to probation, Canada said.
(01/19/07 12:43pm)
Forget the Old Oaken Bucket. There's a new trophy in the IU-Purdue rivalry, and Isaac Stone Simonelli made it his mission to bring the prize to Bloomington.\nThe IU pool team will travel to West Lafayette on Saturday to try to bring the "Old Oaken Cue" to Bloomington. In a competition that started last year, the winning team of the Hoosier-Boilermaker pool tournament claims the stick for one year and gets the privilege of painting their team's colors and the victory date on the cue, forever marking their victory.\nPurdue leads the rivalry 1-0.\nIU will bring eight players to challenge Purdue in a round-robin style tournament. The IU team hopes to paint its cream and crimson stripes and this year's date above Purdue's gold and black stripes to avenge last year's loss.\nThe two teams will compete in games of "nine ball" and "straight pool" to 35 points, said Simonelli, an IU junior and pool team president. In "nine ball" players hit the numbered balls in ascending order and the team that hits the number nine ball in wins.\n"It's made for people who can play good position and really run tables," Simonelli said.\nIn "straight pool" players hit any ball in until they miss or until 14 balls have made it into pocket. Then the balls are re-racked and the ball not hit in a pocket is left outside the rack. Then players break and try to hit the outside ball into a pocket. Straight pool is a popular game among professionals, but they usually play to 150 points Simonelli said. Each team shoots until it misses.\n"If you make one mistake your opponent could run out 35 balls without you getting another shot," Simonelli said.\nThe team began as a club in 2003 when it was founded by IU alumni John Frank and Seth Garrison. The pool team comprises players from the pool club.\n"It started because Seth and I were playing everyday and we wanted free table time," Frank said.\nThe two used Facebook and Dan Cheeseman, who was an IU billiards instructor at the time, to spread the word. Frank and Garrison first went through Recreational Sports to formally organize the club but didn't stay with them for more than six months, Frank said.\n"We decided to break off and make our own club through the student union like the bowling team had done," Frank said.\nGarrison and Frank got jobs at the Back Alley in the Indiana Memorial Union and talked to Corbin Smythe who was in charge of the budget for the IMU. Smythe paid for the team's entry fees and transportation to the team's first tournament at the University of Michigan, where the team continues to compete annually. \n"Smythe was extremely supportive," Frank said. "He's the reason we became an actual team."\nBrent Smith is an IU alumnus who joined the team after finding out about it in his billiards class. Smith became president of the pool club his senior year.\n"I'm extremely happy with the way Isaac and the other guys have taken it over and improved upon what we started," Smith said. "I hope they keep it up.
(01/18/07 5:00am)
IU's reputation as a party school has historically caused University officials to cringe, and students to work even harder to uphold it.\nHowever, defending the party title can be costly to many undergraduates who opt to enter the bar scene early with fake IDs. \nPossessing a fake ID is a Class C infraction and is punishable by up to $500 in fines, said Indiana Excise Police officer R. McDonald. The demand for fake IDs has also created an onslaught of students who choose to chance the law by creating the IDs. Making fake IDs is a Class D felony, punishable by up to $1,000 in fines and up to a year in jail, McDonald said. \nIndiana State Police Cpl. and Bloomington District Duty Officer Eric Dunn said he has seen many fake IDs in his career but admits several offenders slip through the cracks.\n"There's a lot more out there than what's caught, oh yes," Dunn said.\nBut for those who do get caught, the consequences are not pleasant.\nAmanda, a junior, recently had her fake ID taken away while outside of Kilroy's Sports Bar. She said the bouncer at the door denied her and then warned her that excise police were lurking about. \n"I started walking away and out of nowhere this guy tapped me on the shoulder and asked me for my ID," Amanda said. \nAmanda showed the officer her real ID, which said she was 20 years old. The officer asked her why she would try to use that ID to get into a bar, talked to the bouncer and asked her if she was going to stop lying to him, she said. The officer took Amanda's fake ID and asked her to blow into a Breathalyzer, she said. \n"I blew a .04," Amanda said. "I had like one drink an hour before." \nAmanda got a $400 ticket, probation for a year and has to take an alcohol class. \n"My birthday is in like seven days, too," Amanda said.\nOthers have been lucky to narrowly escape trouble. Rachel, also a junior, found this out one night when one of her friends convinced her to try to go to a bar before she turned 21. \n"She was like 'Come to (a bar) with me, you don't even have to have a fake,'" Rachel said. \nRachel used her Victoria's Secret credit card as an ID and it worked. Once inside, the women couldn't find the people they were looking for so they walked over to Upstairs. \nWhen they arrived, Rachel's friend told her they were checking for IDs, she said. This caught the bouncer's attention and he asked the women for their IDs.\n"I was like 'We forgot something' and started to pull her away," she said. "The guy followed us and asked for our IDs again, but we walked away, got in the car and left."\nNervous behavior, like Rachel's, often calls more attention to offenders, said John, a junior and former bouncer for Kilroy's on Kirkwood. John said he has seen several acts of stupidity regarding fake IDs, adding that some of the most common excuses from people he questioned about the picture on their IDs were that they had either "lost a lot of weight" or "hit a growth spurt." \n"A lot of times someone would come with one of my friend's IDs and I'd be like 'I know this person' and have to turn them away," John said. \nThe "pass back" is a favorite technique for younger, underage women, John said. He said a group of women would come up and two would go in while the rest waited for one of the first two to pass her ID back through the gates. \n"It's pretty obvious," John said. \nJohn said he usually worked with another bouncer, and between the two of them, they would turn away about 25 people a night for fake IDs. \nThere are certain things bouncers and police look for when trying to spot fake IDs. Sometimes one of the corners isn't the same as the rest, and some are just made out of crappy material, John said. \n"A lot of times people cannot verbally match up the information printed on there," Dunn said. \nNate, a junior, said he has experienced this kind of questioning regarding his fake ID before. \n"Some places give a crap and have asked me to spell my last name backwards or tell them my street address," Nate said. \nThere are some places where Nate won't use his fake ID, such as liquor stores and Nick's English Hut. \n"They have a history of being tough to get into with a fake," Nate said. \nNate said though the process of using the fake ID is sometimes nerve-wracking, his ID has always worked for him so far. \nThe success stories like Nate's and underage students' desire to socialize fuels the market place for fake ID-makers. Making fake IDs can be extremely profitable, but it also has its drawbacks, said IU alumnus Adam, who used to make fake IDs. \n"I started making fake IDs because like every other college student I was broke," Adam said. \nAdam learned how to make fake IDs from someone else but said that he could have looked at the many Web sites that offer instructions. \n"It's not difficult to figure out or to get really good at," Adam said. \nAdam spent about $1,000 to get the supplies he needed for his operation. Adam also encountered other outside costs. His cell phone bill, which was normally about $50 a month, shot up to between $150 and $300 during the months he was making fake IDs. \nAdam also became extremely paranoid about the police during the time he was making fake IDs. \n"Every time I heard sirens I was reaching for that 'format hard drive' button," Adam said. \nAdam began making IDs just for people he knew personally, but word soon spread from his friends to their friends and so on. \n"Once it got to the point where people I didn't know would call, that was enough," Adam said. \nAlong with random phone calls, Adam was spending all his free time making fake IDs. \n"It consumed my life," Adam said. "I wanted nothing to do with it anymore." \nEven though he made between $7,000 and $8,000, Adam said he would not do it again because of what he knows now. \n"It's not something I would recommend to anyone," Adam said, "unless you like someone you don't know screaming at you because someone took away their fake ID because they were stupid"
(01/18/07 12:51am)
IU's reputation as a party school has historically caused University officials to cringe, and students to work even harder to uphold it.\nHowever, defending the party title can be costly to many undergraduates who opt to enter the bar scene early with fake IDs. \nPossessing a fake ID is a Class C infraction and is punishable by up to $500 in fines, said Indiana Excise Police officer R. McDonald. The demand for fake IDs has also created an onslaught of students who choose to chance the law by creating the IDs. Making fake IDs is a Class D felony, punishable by up to $1,000 in fines and up to a year in jail, McDonald said. \nIndiana State Police Cpl. and Bloomington District Duty Officer Eric Dunn said he has seen many fake IDs in his career but admits several offenders slip through the cracks.\n"There's a lot more out there than what's caught, oh yes," Dunn said.\nBut for those who do get caught, the consequences are not pleasant.\nAmanda, a junior, recently had her fake ID taken away while outside of Kilroy's Sports Bar. She said the bouncer at the door denied her and then warned her that excise police were lurking about. \n"I started walking away and out of nowhere this guy tapped me on the shoulder and asked me for my ID," Amanda said. \nAmanda showed the officer her real ID, which said she was 20 years old. The officer asked her why she would try to use that ID to get into a bar, talked to the bouncer and asked her if she was going to stop lying to him, she said. The officer took Amanda's fake ID and asked her to blow into a Breathalyzer, she said. \n"I blew a .04," Amanda said. "I had like one drink an hour before." \nAmanda got a $400 ticket, probation for a year and has to take an alcohol class. \n"My birthday is in like seven days, too," Amanda said.\nOthers have been lucky to narrowly escape trouble. Rachel, also a junior, found this out one night when one of her friends convinced her to try to go to a bar before she turned 21. \n"She was like 'Come to (a bar) with me, you don't even have to have a fake,'" Rachel said. \nRachel used her Victoria's Secret credit card as an ID and it worked. Once inside, the women couldn't find the people they were looking for so they walked over to Upstairs. \nWhen they arrived, Rachel's friend told her they were checking for IDs, she said. This caught the bouncer's attention and he asked the women for their IDs.\n"I was like 'We forgot something' and started to pull her away," she said. "The guy followed us and asked for our IDs again, but we walked away, got in the car and left."\nNervous behavior, like Rachel's, often calls more attention to offenders, said John, a junior and former bouncer for Kilroy's on Kirkwood. John said he has seen several acts of stupidity regarding fake IDs, adding that some of the most common excuses from people he questioned about the picture on their IDs were that they had either "lost a lot of weight" or "hit a growth spurt." \n"A lot of times someone would come with one of my friend's IDs and I'd be like 'I know this person' and have to turn them away," John said. \nThe "pass back" is a favorite technique for younger, underage women, John said. He said a group of women would come up and two would go in while the rest waited for one of the first two to pass her ID back through the gates. \n"It's pretty obvious," John said. \nJohn said he usually worked with another bouncer, and between the two of them, they would turn away about 25 people a night for fake IDs. \nThere are certain things bouncers and police look for when trying to spot fake IDs. Sometimes one of the corners isn't the same as the rest, and some are just made out of crappy material, John said. \n"A lot of times people cannot verbally match up the information printed on there," Dunn said. \nNate, a junior, said he has experienced this kind of questioning regarding his fake ID before. \n"Some places give a crap and have asked me to spell my last name backwards or tell them my street address," Nate said. \nThere are some places where Nate won't use his fake ID, such as liquor stores and Nick's English Hut. \n"They have a history of being tough to get into with a fake," Nate said. \nNate said though the process of using the fake ID is sometimes nerve-wracking, his ID has always worked for him so far. \nThe success stories like Nate's and underage students' desire to socialize fuels the market place for fake ID-makers. Making fake IDs can be extremely profitable, but it also has its drawbacks, said IU alumnus Adam, who used to make fake IDs. \n"I started making fake IDs because like every other college student I was broke," Adam said. \nAdam learned how to make fake IDs from someone else but said that he could have looked at the many Web sites that offer instructions. \n"It's not difficult to figure out or to get really good at," Adam said. \nAdam spent about $1,000 to get the supplies he needed for his operation. Adam also encountered other outside costs. His cell phone bill, which was normally about $50 a month, shot up to between $150 and $300 during the months he was making fake IDs. \nAdam also became extremely paranoid about the police during the time he was making fake IDs. \n"Every time I heard sirens I was reaching for that 'format hard drive' button," Adam said. \nAdam began making IDs just for people he knew personally, but word soon spread from his friends to their friends and so on. \n"Once it got to the point where people I didn't know would call, that was enough," Adam said. \nAlong with random phone calls, Adam was spending all his free time making fake IDs. \n"It consumed my life," Adam said. "I wanted nothing to do with it anymore." \nEven though he made between $7,000 and $8,000, Adam said he would not do it again because of what he knows now. \n"It's not something I would recommend to anyone," Adam said, "unless you like someone you don't know screaming at you because someone took away their fake ID because they were stupid"
(01/17/07 4:39am)
Typically, musicians begin their careers at very young ages but rarely get to perform at a prestigious venue like Carnegie Hall in New York .\nIU alumnus Jonathan Ng is not your typical musician. \nNg will have his Carnegie Hall debut concert conducting Antonio Vivaldi's "Gloria (RV589) in D major" this May. He will be accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble and will be conducting a choir of 170 voices. The choir will be made up of Ng's own Catalina Choral Ensemble and other southern Arizona choral groups. Ng has lived in Arizona since he received his doctorate in conducting from IU in 2003.\n"I have not been trained since a young age, so it's really weird to decide to do music after college," Ng said.\nHe began his musical career taking voice and conducting lessons his first year of college at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and was inspired to pursue music while attending Kowloon City Baptist Church in Hong Kong. It was at this church of more than 15,000 members that Ng began conducting and singing.\nAfter receiving his undergraduate degree in music education, Ng taught for a couple of years before pursuing a master's degree in conducting at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J.. During his time at Westminster, Ng participated at the Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. He also performed with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.\nNg came to IU and received a grant that paid for him to travel as a visiting scholar to England and France, where he visited the British Library and Oxford University's Bodleian Library.\nWith help from mentors Thomas Dunn and Jan Harrington in IU's choral conducting department, Ng completed his dissertation on the study of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Sancta Civitas" (The Holy City).\n"They had a profound influence on my career and education," Ng said of his mentors.\nNg won the International Student Award in 2000 and 2003 while studying at IU.\nSince then, he has been performing all over the world. Last summer he traveled to Europe to participate in Mozart's 250th anniversary program. He performed as a tenor solo in concerts in Vienna, Austria, and Prague and Brno, Czech Republic.\nNg said he gets a feeling of satisfaction from music -- the "international language." \n"I have the privilege to understand a composer's intention," Ng said. "And the privilege to deliver the message through conducting and singing." \nWhen searching for their lifelong goal or career, he said undergraduates need to do what they love instead of worrying about how much money they will make. \n"If you are sincere with what you do, I really believe people will notice it," Ng said. "People can feel it"
(01/16/07 3:53am)
MARTINSVILLE -- A group of concerned citizens met Thursday in the auditorium at Martinsville High School to discuss the privatization of Indiana's highways and the Indianapolis Bypass Toll Road as proposed by Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels. \nThe bypass would be 75 miles of new road that would go around Indianapolis, trailing from Interstate 69 in Pendleton to Interstate 70 in Morgan County.\nMorgan County resident Brenda Buster talked about the negative effects of the proposal, such as the possible emergence of urban sprawl, congestion of local roads and increased response time for emergency vehicles.\nAnother Morgan County resident, Sandra Tokarski, said there are potential problems with the privatization of Indiana's highways.\n"Our highways should remain a public service," she said.\nIf a private toll road is approved, Tokarski said, the corporation contracted to build it would design the highway, collect tolls and be responsible for the road's upkeep for up to 100 years. The road could also be sold to another corporation for the duration of the contract. \nThe citizens were worried that any corporation that is building and running a highway would have total freedom over the cost of tolls and could charge drivers unfair amounts of money to use the road.
(01/16/07 3:52am)
The newborn baby boy who was found outside a PromptCare clinic Jan. 5 is now in the custody of the Monroe County Department of Child Services and has been named "Baby Monroe" by that office.\nBaby Monroe has been placed in a licensed foster home, said child-services director Lindsey Smith.\nIt was unclear whether the mother of the baby acted within Indiana's Safe Haven law because she did not give the baby to an emergency medical provider. But Smith said he believes her actions were in accordance with the law.\n"The mother followed the intent of the law," Smith said. "She voluntarily placed the child at a facility where the child could receive immediate attention." The mother left a note with the baby saying she voluntarily surrendered the child and asked that she not be located, Smith said.\nThe Bloomington Police Department has no information about who the mother is, said Capt. Joe Qualters.\n"The case remains under investigation at this time," he said.\nSmith said he has not been informed of any leads in reference to who the mother is. According to the Safe Haven law, there are no requirements to pursue the identity or whereabouts of the mother, Smith said.\nPart of the Safe Haven law, Indiana criminal code 31-34-2.5-1, says that "any person who in good faith voluntarily leaves a child with an emergency medical services provider is not obligated to disclose the parent's name or their name."\n"My interest right now is with concerns of the health and welfare of the child," Smith said.\nThe child's health is excellent, he said. Smith said his office has received an overwhelming interest in this case through phone calls and e-mails from people all over the state. The office has received from 200 to 300 calls from people asking what they could do to provide for the child or what they could do to become foster parents, he said.\nAnyone interested in adopting Baby Monroe should contact Smith's agency at 336-6351 and ask to speak with the child-protective services supervisor.\nBaby Monroe will be named legally once he is adopted, Smith said.\nSmith said he commends the mother for the actions she took.\n"We have heard too many stories throughout the country where young mothers have placed newborn babies in dumpsters or some other place that left the child in harm's way," he said.
(01/12/07 9:03pm)
While many people were happy to see El Niño keep the weather warm enough to stop all the precipitation Bloomington has had this winter from turning to snow, not everyone feels that way. This year's unseasonably warm weather has put many of Bloomington's best winter activities on hold.\nOne person who has missed out on one of his favorite winter activities -- icefishing -- is Bloomington resident Aaron Barrow. Griffy Lake is a hot spot for winter activities when the weather has been cold enough to freeze the water on the lake, Barrow said.\n"It's usually a winter social event at Griffy Lake," Barrow said. "You can find people out there icefishing, playing hockey, walking their dogs or just walking around enjoying the winter."\nMost of the people icefishing on Griffy Lake are after pan fish, such as bluegill and red ear, Barrow said. For many, icefishing is the only type of fishing they do, Barrow said.\n"For a lot of people, that's the only fishing they do because when the water temperature is that low, there's no algae growing in the lake," Barrow said. "The fish don't taste as fishy as they do when they're in warm water."\nThe Department of Natural Resources Web site, www.in.gov/dnr, states that four inches of ice is needed for safe icefishing.\n"I'm not going out on any less than four inches. I prefer five," Barrow said.\nBarrow said he walks about five feet off the bank and drills a hole with his ice auger to see how thick the ice is. Indiana law limits ice fishing holes to a diameter of 12 inches, but it used to be eight inches, Barrow said. Barrow's seven-inch ice auger is well within the law.\n"It pretty much does it all. If I catch anything bigger than seven inches, I'm in trouble," Barrow said. "But I never have."\nIf the ice is thick enough, Barrow will drag his homemade ice sled equipped with a Coleman heater onto the lake. It's an all-wood sled without the metal runners.\n"I can pretty much stay out there no matter how cold it is," Barrow said.\nThe DNR Web site suggests icefishers wear plenty of warm clothes and a life jacket for safety and added warmth. Barrow said he usually packs plenty of food and something warm to drink as well.\nOther equipment needed for icefishing are rods and reels specifically for icefishing, which are simple and inexpensive, Barrow said. The bait normally used is beemoth, white larvae that come in small plastic containers with sawdust and can be purchased at any bait store, such as Buddy Bill's Bait Barn. Fishing licenses are also required and cost $17. They can be purchased almost anywhere, including Wal-Mart.\nBarrow also warns that icefishing can be habit-forming. Once you have the equipment, when fall comes around, you're checking your gear so you'll be ready to go, he said.\n"When everybody else is hoping for warm weather you're hoping for cold weather," Barrow said.\nBarrow is not the only person who enjoys cold Midwestern winters. IU sophomore Jacob Papp said he likes to find big, open parking lots to do donuts, drifting "and all that fun sliding around when it snows."\n"Building snow ramps is the shit, too," Papp said. "Or running out on the lake and seeing how far you can get before the ice starts cracking."\nThe dam at Lake Monroe is where it's at for sledding, Papp said.\nIU sophomore Isaac "Stone" Simonelli agrees that the Lake Monroe dam is the best place for sledding. It's a double hill, Simonelli said.\n"There's a sharp hill, then it cleans out for 30 or 40 feet and then another hill," Simonelli said. "If you get real compact snow, you can hit them both in one go."\nSimonelli also recommends doing the polar plunge into Lake Monroe. It feels good when you get out Simonelli said.\n"It's refreshing," Simonelli said.\nSledding is also a favorite pastime for IU senior Elise Headley.\nHeadley said she hasn't gone sledding in a few years, but she used to go to Bloomington High School North and sled on the hill by the soccer field.\n"But I was younger and it seemed bigger then," Headley said.\nNow Headley and her friends sometimes go to the Frank Southern Ice Arena behind Bloomington High School South off of Henderson Street.\nFrank Southern Ice Arena offers public skating times and during two sessions on Saturday nights, the arena turns out the lights for lunar skating.\nDuring the lunar skate sessions, the arena must adhere to a certain capacity of occupants for safety.\n"There hasn't been a night without cutting people off for a while," said Nicole Montembeualt, Frank Southern Ice Arena supervisor and an IU grad student.\nThe arena also offers stick and puck nights from November to February. People can drop in to a pickup game of hockey, Montembeault said. It's $7, but goalies get in free because players are always looking for more, Montembeault said. \nTimes can be found at the arena's Web site or by calling the ice information hotline at 349-3741. Public skate time is limited because the IU hockey team practices and competes at the arena.\n"The place really fills up and gets pretty rowdy during games," Montembeualt said.\nThe IU figure skating club also practices and competes at the arena.\nStudents looking for more traditional winter recreation activities such as skiing and snowboarding need to merely head south on highway 37 for about 45 minutes to find Paoli Peaks' full-service ski and snowboard resort. The resort offers a variety of terrain designed for any skill level from beginner to expert, said Brandy Ream, director of sales marketing and public relations. Lessons are available any time the resort is open and clothing rental is available on-site.\n"Students should take advantage of our college night specials," Ream said.\nCollege night specials are every Thursday for the rest of the season.\nStudents with a valid ID can purchase a $29 complete package, which includes a ticket, ski or snowboard rental, and a lesson. That package is normally $71, Ream said. Students can also visit the Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Garden, which serves from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.paolipeaks.com.
(01/12/07 5:00am)
While many people were happy to see El Niño keep the weather warm enough to stop all the precipitation Bloomington has had this winter from turning to snow, not everyone feels that way. This year's unseasonably warm weather has put many of Bloomington's best winter activities on hold.\nOne person who has missed out on one of his favorite winter activities -- icefishing -- is Bloomington resident Aaron Barrow. Griffy Lake is a hot spot for winter activities when the weather has been cold enough to freeze the water on the lake, Barrow said.\n"It's usually a winter social event at Griffy Lake," Barrow said. "You can find people out there icefishing, playing hockey, walking their dogs or just walking around enjoying the winter."\nMost of the people icefishing on Griffy Lake are after pan fish, such as bluegill and red ear, Barrow said. For many, icefishing is the only type of fishing they do, Barrow said.\n"For a lot of people, that's the only fishing they do because when the water temperature is that low, there's no algae growing in the lake," Barrow said. "The fish don't taste as fishy as they do when they're in warm water."\nThe Department of Natural Resources Web site, www.in.gov/dnr, states that four inches of ice is needed for safe icefishing.\n"I'm not going out on any less than four inches. I prefer five," Barrow said.\nBarrow said he walks about five feet off the bank and drills a hole with his ice auger to see how thick the ice is. Indiana law limits ice fishing holes to a diameter of 12 inches, but it used to be eight inches, Barrow said. Barrow's seven-inch ice auger is well within the law.\n"It pretty much does it all. If I catch anything bigger than seven inches, I'm in trouble," Barrow said. "But I never have."\nIf the ice is thick enough, Barrow will drag his homemade ice sled equipped with a Coleman heater onto the lake. It's an all-wood sled without the metal runners.\n"I can pretty much stay out there no matter how cold it is," Barrow said.\nThe DNR Web site suggests icefishers wear plenty of warm clothes and a life jacket for safety and added warmth. Barrow said he usually packs plenty of food and something warm to drink as well.\nOther equipment needed for icefishing are rods and reels specifically for icefishing, which are simple and inexpensive, Barrow said. The bait normally used is beemoth, white larvae that come in small plastic containers with sawdust and can be purchased at any bait store, such as Buddy Bill's Bait Barn. Fishing licenses are also required and cost $17. They can be purchased almost anywhere, including Wal-Mart.\nBarrow also warns that icefishing can be habit-forming. Once you have the equipment, when fall comes around, you're checking your gear so you'll be ready to go, he said.\n"When everybody else is hoping for warm weather you're hoping for cold weather," Barrow said.\nBarrow is not the only person who enjoys cold Midwestern winters. IU sophomore Jacob Papp said he likes to find big, open parking lots to do donuts, drifting "and all that fun sliding around when it snows."\n"Building snow ramps is the shit, too," Papp said. "Or running out on the lake and seeing how far you can get before the ice starts cracking."\nThe dam at Lake Monroe is where it's at for sledding, Papp said.\nIU sophomore Isaac "Stone" Simonelli agrees that the Lake Monroe dam is the best place for sledding. It's a double hill, Simonelli said.\n"There's a sharp hill, then it cleans out for 30 or 40 feet and then another hill," Simonelli said. "If you get real compact snow, you can hit them both in one go."\nSimonelli also recommends doing the polar plunge into Lake Monroe. It feels good when you get out Simonelli said.\n"It's refreshing," Simonelli said.\nSledding is also a favorite pastime for IU senior Elise Headley.\nHeadley said she hasn't gone sledding in a few years, but she used to go to Bloomington High School North and sled on the hill by the soccer field.\n"But I was younger and it seemed bigger then," Headley said.\nNow Headley and her friends sometimes go to the Frank Southern Ice Arena behind Bloomington High School South off of Henderson Street.\nFrank Southern Ice Arena offers public skating times and during two sessions on Saturday nights, the arena turns out the lights for lunar skating.\nDuring the lunar skate sessions, the arena must adhere to a certain capacity of occupants for safety.\n"There hasn't been a night without cutting people off for a while," said Nicole Montembeualt, Frank Southern Ice Arena supervisor and an IU grad student.\nThe arena also offers stick and puck nights from November to February. People can drop in to a pickup game of hockey, Montembeault said. It's $7, but goalies get in free because players are always looking for more, Montembeault said. \nTimes can be found at the arena's Web site or by calling the ice information hotline at 349-3741. Public skate time is limited because the IU hockey team practices and competes at the arena.\n"The place really fills up and gets pretty rowdy during games," Montembeualt said.\nThe IU figure skating club also practices and competes at the arena.\nStudents looking for more traditional winter recreation activities such as skiing and snowboarding need to merely head south on highway 37 for about 45 minutes to find Paoli Peaks' full-service ski and snowboard resort. The resort offers a variety of terrain designed for any skill level from beginner to expert, said Brandy Ream, director of sales marketing and public relations. Lessons are available any time the resort is open and clothing rental is available on-site.\n"Students should take advantage of our college night specials," Ream said.\nCollege night specials are every Thursday for the rest of the season.\nStudents with a valid ID can purchase a $29 complete package, which includes a ticket, ski or snowboard rental, and a lesson. That package is normally $71, Ream said. Students can also visit the Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Garden, which serves from 6 to 9 p.m. For more information, visit www.paolipeaks.com.
(01/11/07 5:30am)
"Who's Got Jungle Fever?"\nThat was the title of the discussion session on interracial dating held Tuesday night in the Forest Quad formal lounge. Fraternity Phi Beta Sigma sponsored the discussion, and two of its members, Tafor Bonu and secretary Andre D. White, both juniors, mediated the discussion.\nThe session went as expected, said junior Brandon Libunao, a Phi Beta Sigma fraternity member.\n"It was kind of what we thought," Libunao said. "A lot of minorities showed up."\nA more diverse audience, with opinions from people in interracial relationships, would have brought in more views, Walker said.\n"Because the organization sponsoring this discussion is considered an African-American fraternity, people saw it as only being for African-Americans," Walker said.\nIf Phi Beta Sigma had collaborated with one of the fraternities on Jordan Avenue, the discussion group could have been more diverse, Walker said.\nWhite said he was pleased with the program.\n"It went pretty well. We had good participation and heard a lot of different views," White said. "It was a successful program."\nThe discussion covered various aspects of interracial dating, such as how attitudes about it have changed over time. Some people at the discussion suggested that interracial dating is more accepted than in the past;. One attendee, who said she has seen more interracial couples in Bloomington than Indianapolis, said it had only become more acceptable in certain places.\n"If Bloomington has more interracial couples than Indianapolis, is IU better at being more diverse?" White asked the group.\nJunior Brandon Libunao, a Phi Beta Sigma fraternity member, said IU is not diverse.\n"People clique together and eat lunch together," Libunao said.\nOne woman at the discussion agreed that IU is not diverse. She said IU markets diversity to get people here, but once you arrive on campus you see the focus of IU's diversity is mostly on the GLBT community rather than all minority groups.\n"I don't think IU is as diverse as it claims to be," said sophomore Zahra Ayoubi, a Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority member. "It pisses off a lot of people because they're fake about it."\nBlacks, American Indians, Asians and Hispanics made up about 10.3 percent of IU-Bloomington's 37,958 students in fall 2005, according to the IU Factbook.\nThe title of the discussion referred to Spike Lee's 1991 film "Jungle Fever," which starred Wesley Snipes playing a married man who has an affair with his Italian secretary. This example of interracial dating as portrayed by Hollywood spurred comments about the media's influence on people's conceptions of race.\nWhite said the media plays a big role in how people view other people.\n"African people are sometimes intimidated by African-Americans because when they watch American television, all they hear about are gangs," said Bonu, who is from Africa.\nOne person at the discussion said attitudes would change if the media stopped portraying race the way it does. Because ideas about race are passed down from parents to children, racism is a continuing cycle, graduate student George Walker said.\n"Who is more to blame for issues, family or media?" White asked the group.\nSeveral group members responded that both are to blame for negative attitudes about race and interracial dating. White said a large part of the blame can be placed on families.\n"Ideas and views come from parents," White said. "You ask yourself, 'If I do this, will my parents be mad?"
(01/11/07 4:38am)
Bloomington Police are still searching for two suspects in an armed robbery of the Scholars Inn Bakehouse, 3002 E. Third St.\nPolice received the call at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday, BPD Capt. Joe Qualters said, reading from a police report. \nAfter closing for the night, two male employees and one female employee exited through the back door of the building, Qualters said. The two male employees were a few steps ahead of the female, a 21-year-old IU student, when the two robbery suspects ran up to her from behind a trash bin in the southwest corner of the parking lot.\nThe first suspect was armed with a silver and black semi-automatic handgun. Both suspects' faces were covered by masks.\nThe suspect with the handgun demanded the woman hand over her purse. The purse contained the business' night deposits of an undisclosed amount of money. The other suspect seemed to be watching the area, but both men fled on foot, Qualters said.\nAnyone with information should call the Bloomington Police Department at 339-4477.
(01/10/07 3:44am)
IBM will install a second supercomputer on the IU campus that will be owned and used by both IU and Purdue University.\nIU is already home to "Big Red," one of the fastest supercomputers owned by a university.\nWhen the state first considered outsourcing services, companies that applied had to say what they would do for the economic development of the state, said Brad Wheeler, IU's chief information officer. When IBM and partners turned in their proposal they said they would help drive Indiana's life-sciences economy with advanced supercomputing, Wheeler said.\n"Once the state made its decision, we worked with Purdue, Eli Lilly and WellPoint," Wheeler said. "The best bet was to double the size of Big Red, which is being used very heavily right now."\nPurdue and IU have been collaborating quite a bit on high-performance computing, said Steve Tally, media-relations manager for information technology at Purdue.\n"We very much value our relationship with IU," Tally said. "Together, the two universities have made quite a mark for the state of Indiana in high-performance computing."\nPurdue is a land-grant university, focused on assisting people of the state, Tally said. One of the ways Purdue does this is through its extension offices, located in every county in the state. The extensions connect Indiana businesses and industries with Purdue researchers and engineers to solve problems, Tally said.\n"The IBM computer will let us do more of that type of economic development and technical assistance," he said.\nOne project directly tied to the new supercomputer that Purdue is interested in involves local weather modeling to help farmers in the state make better decisions about spring planting.\n"People don't think about that as a major economic development role," Tally said, "but if we can improve the information available for agriculture, our researchers estimate an economic benefit of more than $100 million."\nWheeler added the computer will also be available to Indiana companies for meritorious scientific research.\nThe machine is expected to arrive in late February, but won't be commissioned for use until March, Wheeler said. IBM will provide support and maintenance for three years and send three computational scientists to help the state of Indiana's researchers make use of the machine.\n"Many researchers are still learning how to adapt their research to take advantage of the supercomputer power," Wheeler said.\nIBM will also establish a $2 million technology design center on the IU-Purdue University Indianapolis campus. The center will conduct research on advanced uses of cell processors, "the same processor that's used in the Sony PlayStation 3," Wheeler said.\nCell processors have advanced graphics capabilities and are useful in medical imaging and research, he said.\n"One of the key points here is that IU researchers will be rubbing shoulders with IBM's best researchers on the cell processor," Wheeler said.\nThe partnership will help IU and Purdue to jointly pursue more grants, Tally added.\nEven though IU's and Purdue's men's basketball teams face off tonight as rivals, Tally said everyone should know the two universities' various collaborations are actively benefiting Indiana.\n"People should be aware of that and be proud of it," he said.
(01/09/07 5:46am)
Louis E. Ingelhart, a retired Ball State University journalism professor known as the "godfather of college publications" and for championing students' First Amendment rights, has died at the age of 86.\nIngelhart passed away Sunday at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie, friends and colleagues said. \n"To me, Dr. Ingelhart was the true heart and soul of this department," said Ball State journalism department Chairwoman Marilyn Weaver. "He was the center of the whole program, and his death is a terrible loss for us." \nA native of Grand Junction, Colo., Ingelhart joined what was then the Ball State Teachers College in 1953. He led the school's Center of Journalism and later the Department of Journalism from 1968 to 1979, when he stepped down, but he continued as director of student publications. He retired from Ball State in 1983. \nIn 1981, Ingelhart helped form the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C., and was named to its national executive board. He was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in April 1982. \nIngelhart and IU Student Media Director Dave Adams were at the only high school journalism case brought before the U.S. Supreme Court, Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, in 1986. The court ruled in a 5-3 decision that school principals could exercise some control or censorship over school-sponsored student expression such as school newspapers, Adams said. Adams worked with Ingelhart at College Media Advisers Inc. and the Society for Collegiate Journalists. \n"He was very passionate about the First Amendment and giving voice to student journalists," Adams said. \nInglehart wrote a dozen academic books and commentaries on students and their free speech, according to a self-penned obituary. \n"What's honorable about him is that he did a lot of research after he retired," said Jack Dvorak, director of IU's High School Journalism Institute. "He was very productive up until his death." \nDvorak knew Ingelhart for about 30 years. The two were professional colleagues in the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. \nBall State journalism professor Mark Popovich said Ingelhart testified at trials over freedom of the press and congressional hearings on First Amendment issues.\n"He was a true champion for students and their First Amendment rights," said Popovich, who succeeded Ingelhart as journalism chairman in 1979. \nVisitation for Ingelhart will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Meeks Mortuary, 415 E. Washington St., Muncie. The funeral service begins at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hazelwood Christian Church, 1400 W. University Ave., Muncie. \n--The Associated Press contributed to this report.
(01/09/07 1:52am)
A Bloomington resident was allegedly raped late Saturday night, police said.\nThe complainant, a 19-year-old female, reported being approached by three men at Suburban Lanes bowling alley, 2634 N. Walnut St. She told police the men offered her a ride home and she accepted, Bloomington Police Capt. Joe Qualters said, reading from a police report. The complainant was allegedly forced by the men to drink alcoholic beverages by the men while in the car and prior to leaving the bowling alley. Once in the car, she was taken to the parking lot of an elementary school on the west side of Bloomington, the report said. The woman told police each of the men had sexual contact with her.\nShe said she was then taken to a second location and assaulted again, then pushed out of the vehicle, according to the report. The woman walked to the nearest house and called 911.\nThe victim was taken to Bloomington Hospital where a sexual assault kit was completed, and the case is still under investigation, Qualters said.\nPolice would not release descriptions of the attackers.
(01/08/07 3:39am)
Students who use the IU Campus Bus Service's Midnight Special will see a change in the way the service operates after this week.\nFlagging down the bus for stops and rides from residences into downtown and campus will no longer be allowed after 1 a.m.\nThe Midnight Special is a late-night service that provides rides for students on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. during the school year, according to an IU news release. Any student who shows his or her student ID can ride on one of the buses to anywhere on campus or downtown Bloomington. The buses take students home as long as they live within the city limits.\nBut beginning Jan. 18, students will no longer be able to flag down the buses to be picked up after 1 a.m.\n"With flag stops, we had people chasing buses down the street trying to get on," said Kent McDaniel, assistant director of IU Transportation Services. "That's not a situation we want to have."\nMcDaniel said the service will operate using the same system as last semester this Thursday, Friday and Saturday to give everyone time to understand the new rules.\nThe buses will also no longer pick up students for trips into town after 1 a.m. A reason for the change, McDaniel said, is that about halfway through the night the buses are usually taking home people from campus and downtown.\n"It makes no sense for the buses to drop people off at their residences and then drive way out of the way to bring more people in," he said.\nThe buses haven't been able to stay on schedule, he said, causing the fixed-route structure to fall apart.\nThe Campus Bus Service and the IU Student Association worked together to tweak the Midnight Special's new hours and service. \nIUSA Vice President Andrew Lauck said student complaints sparked the change. Complaints about the bus system, such as late buses, are among the top issues IUSA hears, he said.\n"The current Midnight Special system is a nightmare," he said. "There is no reliability."\nLauck said a group of IUSA members outlined a list of problems with the current system, and IUSA's chief of operations, Phil Smith, took the list to the Campus Bus Service. \n"Students pay for this service through their transportation fee," Lauck said, "and they should be able to use it."\nSome of the designated stops have nearby signs with a picture of a moon and say "midnight," but others do not. McDaniel said IU Transportation Services wants to post more signs downtown and hopes to have them up by the time the service starts.\n"We hope these changes will provide people with a little more safe and reliable service," McDaniel said.\nTo view the bus routes, visit www.iubus.indiana.edu and click on the Midnight Special tab.
(01/08/07 3:26am)
Police have no suspects in an attempted sexual battery case. The complainant, a Bloomington resident, arrived at her home in the 3400 block of South Sare Road at about 5:15 a.m. Saturday, Bloomington Police Department Sgt. Mick Williams said, reading from a police report. She drove into her garage and got out of her car before the door had completely closed. As she stepped out of her vehicle a black man slid under the garage door, Williams said.\nThe woman described the suspect as a 6-foot man, average build, with a scar from the front to the back of his scalp. She also said he was wearing a red cast and believed the suspect to be heavily intoxicated at the time, Williams said.\nThe suspect tried to make conversation with the woman and at one point tried to kiss her. The complainant eventually convinced the suspect to leave. Police searched the area but failed to locate the suspect, Williams said.
(01/08/07 3:20am)
Bloomington police have not yet identified the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a PromptCare clinic. \nThe baby, who was found with a handwritten note, is receiving treatment at Bloomington Hospital.\nA call came in to the Bloomington Police Department at about 7:30 p.m. Friday in reference to a newborn baby found outside, BPD Sgt. Mick Williams said, reading from a police report. A member of the cleaning staff at the PromptCare clinic, 3443 W. Third St., was coming in to work and saw what appeared to be a bundle of towels outside. The employee then realized a baby boy was wrapped in the towels.\nThe baby was taken into the clinic and handed over to medical staff before being transferred to Bloomington Hospital. \nThe baby is now under the care of child-protective services. The child was treated for "minor health issues related to being born outside a medical facility," Williams said. The umbilical cord was still attached when the child was found. There has been no contact between the mother of the child and police.\nThe note left with the baby was written in the first person, Williams said. It read, "I was just born this morning. I'm better off without my mother. I'm hungry. Please feed me and take care of me," Williams said.\nPolice are hoping to make contact with the mother but have no information at this point, William said. The primary concerns of the police are for the well-being of the child and the mother, he said. \nThe Safe Haven law allows a person to hand over a child to a medical facility, police or fire station without facing legal repercussions, Williams said. \nHe said he did not know if the mother's actions were within the Safe Haven law, because she did not hand the baby to anyone.