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(11/05/03 11:05pm)
Horror is described in the dictionary as an intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear. By that definition, horror is definitely not something viewers feel in today's so-called "horror" films. Maybe in movies like My Boss's Daughter and Rollerball people are often filled with horror but not the type of feeling that horror films are supposed to make us feel.\nIf horror is indeed an intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear, there are few movies that actually fit the bill. And most of them were made a long time ago before new and improved technology was around.\nNo truly scary movie has ever been awarded an Oscar, and since the taste of Halloween is still fresh in our mouths, here are my horror movie awards:
(10/20/03 6:03am)
Madness doesn't even begin to describe the players and crowd Friday night. Only a few hours before the public was released into the gym for Midnight Madness, one could have heard a pin drop on the court.\nBut come 12:01 a.m., Assembly Hall exploded with screaming fans.\n"So many people came here to support us," freshman forward Patrick Ewing Jr. said. "There's nothing like it."\nWhat really got the crowd pumped was the slam-dunk contest. Senior center George Leach, Ewing Jr., senior forward Jason Stewart, junior guard Donald Perry and freshman guard Roderick Wilmont all took their best shots at pleasing a panel of judges from the Student Athletic Board.\nLeach led the group of slam-dunkers with an impressive one-hand dunk, but Ewing Jr. showed him up by hanging from the basket with his arm in the net. \nThe second time around, Leach got a little encouragement from the crowd before attempting his next couple of dunks, but was unsuccessful at making the basket.\nCoach Mike Davis sat and laughed as Ewing got ready for his next dunk.\n"I explained to him before, 'Whatever you do, don't pull your shirt off,'" Davis said, laughing after the event. "And he didn't. They were just having fun."\nNo one was ready for Ewing Jr.'s second dunk. Earlier in the week, senior guard A.J. Moye had said Ewing Jr.'s dunks weren't humanly possible. And in front of almost 14,000 fans, he proved his out-of-this-world abilities.\n"It's a dunk I've been working on for a while," Ewing Jr. said. "One day I just pulled it off and I haven't missed since." He said he doesn't have a name the 360 degree, between-the-legs dunk that brought the entire crowd to its feet.\nAfter Ewing Jr. easily walked away as champion of the slam-dunk contest, the men's team participated in the spot-shot contest and three-point contest.\nAnd then, for the first time since March, the fans got to see the team play some basketball.\nSophomore guard Bracey Wright said it had been way too long since they played in front of a crowd.\n"You're tired of looking at the same people," Wright said. "Playing against each other with no noise or fan support, so it's good to come out."\nThe 15-minute scrimmage was cream versus crimson. The cream started Perry, Ewing Jr., Wright, freshman forward Jessan Gray-Ashley and junior forward Mike Roberts. The crimson team started sophomore forward Sean Kline, sophomore guard Marshall Strickland, Wilmont, junior guard Ryan Tapak and Leach.\nStrickland contributed for the crimson team by hitting two three-point baskets and a free throw.\nWith three minutes to go in the scrimmage, the score was tied 13-13. Field goals from Ewing Jr., Wilmont and Perry helped the cream team take the lead with just a minute to go.\nOnly a few seconds remained when Perry went to the line to shoot two free throws for the cream team. He sunk them both and helped win the game for his team 23-20.\n"It feels good," Wright said of the scrimmage. "You know I'm coming back from the surgery and the rehab and everything. To get out here and get playing, it's a good feeling."\nWith Midnight Madness over, the team is preparing for the tough schedule ahead of them. But slam-dunk champion Ewing Jr. said he just might have something else in the bag.\n"I got a little bit, but I can't tell y'all though," Ewing Jr. said. "It's a surprise for next year."\n-- Contact staff writer Natalie A. Trout at natrout@indiana.edu.
(10/17/03 6:46am)
Even six months after the IU men's basketball team made it to the NCAA Championship in 2002, the magic of it all still lingered in the fans around campus and made for one hyped-up crowd on the night of Midnight Madness.\nWith last season's team losing to the University of Pittsburgh in the second round of the tournament and finishing with a 21-13 record, one might think the excitement would be down for tonight's Midnight Madness.\nBut the players know better.\n"It's Indiana basketball," said senior guard A.J. Moye. "Every year you expect the best, and the best team competes for a national championship."\nMidnight Madness has come a long way since former coach Bob Knight was in charge. Senior center George Leach and Moye both say they remember when it was just a practice at midnight and for the men's team only. \nSince coach Mike Davis has taken over, the women's team is included in the events, including a three-point contest and spot shot contest, all things that Leach said he thinks help make Midnight Madness more pleasing for the fans.\nLeach isn't a contender this year for the slam-dunk contest and said he is leaving it for the younger guys. If he were in the contest however, he said with a laugh that he's pretty sure he'd win.\nMoye said there is no question that freshman forward Patrick Ewing Jr. will win the slam-dunk contest.\n"Patrick Ewing Jr. is a freak," Moye said. "He can do a couple of dunks that I've never seen a human being do. They just aren't humanly possible."\nSophomore guard Roderick Wilmont said he might join the group competing for slam-dunk champion, but that he too thinks Ewing Jr. has something up his sleeve.\nA former winner of the slam-dunk contest and spot shot contest, Moye said he is determined to win the three-point shooting contest. Last year's winner on the men's team was junior guard Ryan Tapak.\nWilmont described the atmosphere at Midnight Madness as crazy. Moye may agree, but as a senior, he said his favorite thing about Midnight Madness is watching the freshmen get their first taste of IU basketball.\n"It's fun to see the younger guys now," Moye said. "I know probably my first Midnight Madness Kirk Haston was probably laughing at me from behind like, 'What is he doing?' I can't wait to see Pat Ewing, (freshman forward Jessan Gray-Ashely), and Wilmont."\nThe doors of Assembly Hall will open to the public at 10:45 p.m. tonight. Admission is one canned food item to benefit the Hoosier Hills Food Bank. \nRaffles for students to enter some shooting contests and sit courtside for the evening will be available to students when they enter Assembly Hall.\nMidnight Madness will wrap up with a 15-minute scrimmage.\nMoye said he knows his role on the team this year is being a leader, and that the fans should be just as excited for this year's team as any other team.\n"I mean look at our team," Moye said. "It might not look like much on paper, but I'm a winner and we all want to win. This kind of team should help for a good atmosphere on Friday"
(10/16/03 4:00am)
The fun used to be on Fridays. \nPeople would leave whatever bar they were at just to be sure they made it to Axis on time to see the Legendary Hot Bod Contest at 12:30 a.m.\nBut some people wouldn't tell their friends if they were going to Axis. \n"People would tell me that they used to go to Axis and then it turned into a really bad crowd," general manager Ken Nickos says. "It just became a place that nobody wanted to go to, except for Hot Bod."\nNickos, Axis' fifth manager in the past five years, was tired of the "bad atmosphere" and wanted to make some changes.\nEven alumnus Heather Walchle of Indianapolis, who graduated last May, remembers that Axis was only popular on Friday nights when she first turned 21.\n"Now I come back to visit on a Thursday and it's not even a question of where we'll go," Walchle says, taking a sip of her nickel beer by the dance floor.\n"Axis never used to have big drink specials and now they do. It draws a crowd."\nFrom building renovations to new drink specials almost every night of the week and the move of Hot Bod to Saturday, Axis is a nightclub that's changing almost everything but it's name.\nA Bit of History\nA few years back, Axis was known to most as Mars. Even the credit card receipts still read "Mars Nightclub." For whatever reason, Nickos says they changed the name to Axis.\nWhen Papa Johns moved in next door, they moved the entrance to where it is now, on the front of the building facing Walnut Street. That's when Nickos says the managers took the club in a whole new direction.\n"Outside of Bullwinkle's, we're the only dance club for students," Nickos says. "The place over the last couple of years has changed directions so many times, it's been hard to keep people coming back and we want to change that."\nA Change of Scenery\nStudent after student walks from one end of the club to the other, their feet sticking to the nasty, sticky carpet drenched in beer and liquor. \n"I don't know who decided it would be a good idea to put carpet in a dance club," Nickos says. "The carpets don't smell all that pleasant and your feet stick to the floor."\nOver the summer, Nickos says they put quite a bit of money into the new hardwood floors beside the bars by the dance floor. Their plan is to put the hardwood flooring around the rest of the club over winter break.\nNickos hopes the new flooring will brighten the place up.\n"That way it won't have such a dark feel," Nickos says. "We want a cleaner atmosphere and (to be) more energetic overall."\nIn August alone, Axis spent almost $25,000 on remodeling and new electronic devices. \nOver the summer, they revamped the sound system and light show and added video screens and big screen televisions.\n"It's not the Axis I remember three years ago," Walchle says, admiring the new scenery.\nBut the changes in scenery don't stop there.\nNickos has plans to take out the stools and tables and put in bench seating along the walls and bigger tables so people don't feel cramped.\nThey also have moved the entrance to where the exit used to be. This allows for customers in wheelchairs to enter and leave the bar more easily. It also helps keep the line outside the club under control.\nDress Code\nNickos remembers the crowd that Hot Bod used to have and remembers that he didn't like it. Girls would tell him that they wouldn't even go to Axis because of the sexual harassment from some of the guys in the club.\n"We switched to a dress code and everywhere that I've ever been we've done one," Nickos says. "My feeling is, is that \n if people want to come out and have a good time, they shouldn't care what they can or can't wear."\nMichael Dabney, doorman and security at Axis for four months, says he's worked for clubs in California and the fact that the Bloomington boys can't wear skullcaps or "wifebeaters" is still a very lenient dress code.\n"We have such a minimal dress code here compared to big cities," Dabney says as he checks IDs. "It's just no cutoff shorts and things like that."\nDabney says some students get mad when he turns them away -- but that it's his job, to help enforce the dress code.\nDress code is important in the event of a fight, Dabney says. Skullcaps and bandannas can too often hide someone's identity.\n"Our dress code isn't strict," Nickos says. "We don't make people tuck in their shirts and if they come in a shirt they can't wear, we've got Axis T-shirts we will give them to put on. It's not like we're sending them away."\nBusting the Myths of Nickel Beers\nThursday nights were never a big thing at Axis, according to Walchle. That is, until late November last year when they started offering nickel beers.\n"Over the course of the spring semester it picked up every week by a few hundred people until the end of the semester we were doing 12 to 1300 people on Thursdays."\nNickos says that number is still rising this year and the popular drink special has become an even bigger deal than Hot Bod.\n"There have been a lot of people here on Thursday nights," Dabney says. "It's made business slow on Fridays because people don't want to come to the same place two nights in a row, but still, Thursdays have been pretty crazy."\nSome people, including general manager Nickos, say they at Axis have heard that the beer for Thursday night's big selling is expired. He says that rumor is ridiculous.\n"Every Wednesday afternoon we get 30 to 50 kegs delivered from Miller and they are brand-new kegs," Nickos says. "We go through all of them every week and anyone is more than welcome to ask about it and we'll show them the dates on the kegs."\nAnother rumor Nickos had heard was that the nickel beers were illegal to sell. He busted that rumor quickly.\n"The only thing you can't do is give beer or liquor away," Nickos says. "And we don't do that."\nAxis has teamed up with Dominos this year and perhaps brought a bit of color to the club. Instead of clear, flimsy plastic cups for the nickel beers, red, green and blue plastic cups with handles are seen in everyone's hands. To get a cup, customers pay one dollar and then have unlimited nickel beers for their cup. They can even bring it back each week.\n"Those cups cost us a small fortune and keg prices went up," Nickos says. "It was either raise cover charge or charge a dollar for plastic cups that people can bring back all the time."\nNot Just a Dance Club Anymore\nNo, the dance floor won't be hopping with crazy light shows and a DJ, and students don't have to wear their "clubbin'" clothes to Axis on a Monday or Tuesday night. But business at Axis has been picking up on the first two nights of the school week.\nMondays and Tuesdays started out with 100 people or so, Nickos says, but the crowd has been picking up. The big screen televisions and video screens are perfect for Monday Night Football and with their good rapport with Dominos, free pizza is always a possibility, Nickos says.\n"And on Tuesdays we offer a cash prize for karaoke," Nickos says. "I really hope that picks up."\nNickos also hopes that with the dance floor being blocked off on Mondays, people will look at Axis in a different light, seeing the awesome drink specials and realizing it's a great place to watch the game.\nWalchle thinks nickel beers have brought in an entire new clientele to Axis and that the changes in scenery will be a good move for the nightclub.\n"Some people aren't the club or dancing type and Axis never had any great drink specials that everyone knew about," Walchle said. "Now all that has changed"
(10/16/03 4:00am)
Ludacris went all out with the chicken and beer theme for his newest album. The CD is wrapped in plastic that resembles a dirty South tub of chicken. \nThe actual CD jacket lists the songs under "Nutrition Facts." \nThe cover of Chicken-N-Beer is the ATL rapper himself putting salt on a woman's leg that he's rarin' and ready to take a big ol' bite out of. Chicken legs and beer bottles surround the sexiest and most stacked female chicken there's ever been. \nBut the fun ends there. \nLuda rocked the entire world with Word of Mouf in 2001. With hot singles like "Move," "Rollout," "Saturday" and "Area Codes," it's a wonder his latest doesn't have nearly the potential it should. He even made his fans "Act a Fool" this summer with no problem at all.\nChicken-N-Beer's first single, "Stand Up" has sweet, traditional Luda flava. His unmistakable voice and accent help make the song a serious hit -- right now.\nMeanwhile, some of the best elements of a Ludacris album are the skits, but this one lacks in anything really funny. Word of Mouf had listeners rolling on the ground laughing at the skits that involved white people doing his greatest hits and Luda graduating as Valedic"whore"ian of his class, all while talking on his cell phone at the Texa"hoe."\nChicken-N-Beer tries to be funny in a skit called "T Baggin'." 'Nuff said there.\n"P-Poppin'" (use your imagination for the first P) is about the strip clubs in the ATL. "Summersaults, cartwheels/ slide on down that pole," he raps in the song. It features Shawnna and Lil' Fate. \n"Hoes in My Room" is probably the funniest song on the album and features Snoop Dogg. "Who let these hoes in my room?" Luda asks Snoop throughout the song, which features melodies resembling a smooth R&B song or elevator music.\nBut the beats just aren't there this time. While "Stand Up" leaves crowds dancing and has a sweet hook and "Hoes in My Room" leaves listeners laughing, the rest of the album isn't anything spectacular. No other songs have a good hook. Murphy Lee would clearly ask, "Wat da hook gon be?" for almost every song on the album.\nLudacris says on his Web site that he's grown up in the last two years. If growing up means producing a lower quality album, this southern rapper needs to lose the maturity quick.
(10/15/03 10:40pm)
Ludacris went all out with the chicken and beer theme for his newest album. The CD is wrapped in plastic that resembles a dirty South tub of chicken. \nThe actual CD jacket lists the songs under "Nutrition Facts." \nThe cover of Chicken-N-Beer is the ATL rapper himself putting salt on a woman's leg that he's rarin' and ready to take a big ol' bite out of. Chicken legs and beer bottles surround the sexiest and most stacked female chicken there's ever been. \nBut the fun ends there. \nLuda rocked the entire world with Word of Mouf in 2001. With hot singles like "Move," "Rollout," "Saturday" and "Area Codes," it's a wonder his latest doesn't have nearly the potential it should. He even made his fans "Act a Fool" this summer with no problem at all.\nChicken-N-Beer's first single, "Stand Up" has sweet, traditional Luda flava. His unmistakable voice and accent help make the song a serious hit -- right now.\nMeanwhile, some of the best elements of a Ludacris album are the skits, but this one lacks in anything really funny. Word of Mouf had listeners rolling on the ground laughing at the skits that involved white people doing his greatest hits and Luda graduating as Valedic"whore"ian of his class, all while talking on his cell phone at the Texa"hoe."\nChicken-N-Beer tries to be funny in a skit called "T Baggin'." 'Nuff said there.\n"P-Poppin'" (use your imagination for the first P) is about the strip clubs in the ATL. "Summersaults, cartwheels/ slide on down that pole," he raps in the song. It features Shawnna and Lil' Fate. \n"Hoes in My Room" is probably the funniest song on the album and features Snoop Dogg. "Who let these hoes in my room?" Luda asks Snoop throughout the song, which features melodies resembling a smooth R&B song or elevator music.\nBut the beats just aren't there this time. While "Stand Up" leaves crowds dancing and has a sweet hook and "Hoes in My Room" leaves listeners laughing, the rest of the album isn't anything spectacular. No other songs have a good hook. Murphy Lee would clearly ask, "Wat da hook gon be?" for almost every song on the album.\nLudacris says on his Web site that he's grown up in the last two years. If growing up means producing a lower quality album, this southern rapper needs to lose the maturity quick.
(10/15/03 9:51pm)
The fun used to be on Fridays. \nPeople would leave whatever bar they were at just to be sure they made it to Axis on time to see the Legendary Hot Bod Contest at 12:30 a.m.\nBut some people wouldn't tell their friends if they were going to Axis. \n"People would tell me that they used to go to Axis and then it turned into a really bad crowd," general manager Ken Nickos says. "It just became a place that nobody wanted to go to, except for Hot Bod."\nNickos, Axis' fifth manager in the past five years, was tired of the "bad atmosphere" and wanted to make some changes.\nEven alumnus Heather Walchle of Indianapolis, who graduated last May, remembers that Axis was only popular on Friday nights when she first turned 21.\n"Now I come back to visit on a Thursday and it's not even a question of where we'll go," Walchle says, taking a sip of her nickel beer by the dance floor.\n"Axis never used to have big drink specials and now they do. It draws a crowd."\nFrom building renovations to new drink specials almost every night of the week and the move of Hot Bod to Saturday, Axis is a nightclub that's changing almost everything but it's name.\nA Bit of History\nA few years back, Axis was known to most as Mars. Even the credit card receipts still read "Mars Nightclub." For whatever reason, Nickos says they changed the name to Axis.\nWhen Papa Johns moved in next door, they moved the entrance to where it is now, on the front of the building facing Walnut Street. That's when Nickos says the managers took the club in a whole new direction.\n"Outside of Bullwinkle's, we're the only dance club for students," Nickos says. "The place over the last couple of years has changed directions so many times, it's been hard to keep people coming back and we want to change that."\nA Change of Scenery\nStudent after student walks from one end of the club to the other, their feet sticking to the nasty, sticky carpet drenched in beer and liquor. \n"I don't know who decided it would be a good idea to put carpet in a dance club," Nickos says. "The carpets don't smell all that pleasant and your feet stick to the floor."\nOver the summer, Nickos says they put quite a bit of money into the new hardwood floors beside the bars by the dance floor. Their plan is to put the hardwood flooring around the rest of the club over winter break.\nNickos hopes the new flooring will brighten the place up.\n"That way it won't have such a dark feel," Nickos says. "We want a cleaner atmosphere and (to be) more energetic overall."\nIn August alone, Axis spent almost $25,000 on remodeling and new electronic devices. \nOver the summer, they revamped the sound system and light show and added video screens and big screen televisions.\n"It's not the Axis I remember three years ago," Walchle says, admiring the new scenery.\nBut the changes in scenery don't stop there.\nNickos has plans to take out the stools and tables and put in bench seating along the walls and bigger tables so people don't feel cramped.\nThey also have moved the entrance to where the exit used to be. This allows for customers in wheelchairs to enter and leave the bar more easily. It also helps keep the line outside the club under control.\nDress Code\nNickos remembers the crowd that Hot Bod used to have and remembers that he didn't like it. Girls would tell him that they wouldn't even go to Axis because of the sexual harassment from some of the guys in the club.\n"We switched to a dress code and everywhere that I've ever been we've done one," Nickos says. "My feeling is, is that \n if people want to come out and have a good time, they shouldn't care what they can or can't wear."\nMichael Dabney, doorman and security at Axis for four months, says he's worked for clubs in California and the fact that the Bloomington boys can't wear skullcaps or "wifebeaters" is still a very lenient dress code.\n"We have such a minimal dress code here compared to big cities," Dabney says as he checks IDs. "It's just no cutoff shorts and things like that."\nDabney says some students get mad when he turns them away -- but that it's his job, to help enforce the dress code.\nDress code is important in the event of a fight, Dabney says. Skullcaps and bandannas can too often hide someone's identity.\n"Our dress code isn't strict," Nickos says. "We don't make people tuck in their shirts and if they come in a shirt they can't wear, we've got Axis T-shirts we will give them to put on. It's not like we're sending them away."\nBusting the Myths of Nickel Beers\nThursday nights were never a big thing at Axis, according to Walchle. That is, until late November last year when they started offering nickel beers.\n"Over the course of the spring semester it picked up every week by a few hundred people until the end of the semester we were doing 12 to 1300 people on Thursdays."\nNickos says that number is still rising this year and the popular drink special has become an even bigger deal than Hot Bod.\n"There have been a lot of people here on Thursday nights," Dabney says. "It's made business slow on Fridays because people don't want to come to the same place two nights in a row, but still, Thursdays have been pretty crazy."\nSome people, including general manager Nickos, say they at Axis have heard that the beer for Thursday night's big selling is expired. He says that rumor is ridiculous.\n"Every Wednesday afternoon we get 30 to 50 kegs delivered from Miller and they are brand-new kegs," Nickos says. "We go through all of them every week and anyone is more than welcome to ask about it and we'll show them the dates on the kegs."\nAnother rumor Nickos had heard was that the nickel beers were illegal to sell. He busted that rumor quickly.\n"The only thing you can't do is give beer or liquor away," Nickos says. "And we don't do that."\nAxis has teamed up with Dominos this year and perhaps brought a bit of color to the club. Instead of clear, flimsy plastic cups for the nickel beers, red, green and blue plastic cups with handles are seen in everyone's hands. To get a cup, customers pay one dollar and then have unlimited nickel beers for their cup. They can even bring it back each week.\n"Those cups cost us a small fortune and keg prices went up," Nickos says. "It was either raise cover charge or charge a dollar for plastic cups that people can bring back all the time."\nNot Just a Dance Club Anymore\nNo, the dance floor won't be hopping with crazy light shows and a DJ, and students don't have to wear their "clubbin'" clothes to Axis on a Monday or Tuesday night. But business at Axis has been picking up on the first two nights of the school week.\nMondays and Tuesdays started out with 100 people or so, Nickos says, but the crowd has been picking up. The big screen televisions and video screens are perfect for Monday Night Football and with their good rapport with Dominos, free pizza is always a possibility, Nickos says.\n"And on Tuesdays we offer a cash prize for karaoke," Nickos says. "I really hope that picks up."\nNickos also hopes that with the dance floor being blocked off on Mondays, people will look at Axis in a different light, seeing the awesome drink specials and realizing it's a great place to watch the game.\nWalchle thinks nickel beers have brought in an entire new clientele to Axis and that the changes in scenery will be a good move for the nightclub.\n"Some people aren't the club or dancing type and Axis never had any great drink specials that everyone knew about," Walchle said. "Now all that has changed"
(10/10/03 7:24am)
According to the IU Ticket Office, today is the last day students can purchase guaranteed seats for the 2003-2004 men's basketball season. And many students are wondering how many games will be included in this year's package. \nAfter the IU men's basketball team made its unexpected run to the Final Four in 2002, more students than in the past rushed out to buy tickets for last year's season. Because of the number of tickets sold, IU was forced to pull some games from the student season ticket packages and divide them up between everyone who paid.\nWhile some students were upset by the change, what they didn't know was that the policy has been around for 25 years.\n"When I was a student, I only got four tickets," Assistant Athletic Director Jeff Fanter said. "It's a policy we've always had. It's just that it hadn't happened in the four years before this last time. No one has experienced this that's here now."\nIU gives its students 7,800 seats per home game. That's more seats than any other school in the Big Ten offers. When more than 7,800 students apply and pay for tickets, action has to be taken in the form of taking games away from the ticket packages. \nThe alternative is that only the first 7,800 students to apply will get the season ticket packages.\nIU Athletic Ticket Office Manager Mike Roberts said the overall system started in the 1974-75 season when it was determined that there was a huge basketball tradition in the making.\n"It was felt by the University leaders and student groups that every student should have the opportunity to see a game," Roberts said.\nSenior Jimmy Meyer said he isn't buying tickets this year because the packages cost $139. He said he felt he couldn't afford it especially since it doesn't even guarantee every game any more. \n"I felt like we got ripped off last year," Meyer said. \nGraduate student Todd Efthimiou and his friends are getting tickets this year but are wondering exactly how many games they are going to get. Efthimiou said while they are supposed to get 12 home games, they'll be upset if their ticket packages cut games like Illinois and Senior Night against Wisconsin.\n"I wouldn't mind if they took a few away from the non-conference games," Efthimiou said. \nThe process of ordering tickets and assigning seat location will remain the same. The online ticket form warns student buyers that an excessive amount of orders would cause some games to be cut from their packages, but adds a refund would be issued.\nAs far as cutting games this year, Roberts said it's too early to tell.\n"We're in the middle of processing the orders," Roberts said. "The bulk of the orders usually come in the last day so as far as whether or not we'll have to cut games out of the packages, we don't know yet"
(10/09/03 4:38pm)
The weather was chilly, but the music and performers were so hot that steam literally rose from their heads.\nSponsored by Kilroy's Sports, Chicago's very own 17th Floor and Kentucky's Nappy Roots gave a concert at Pic-a-chic Farms that Clutch from Nappy Roots said was real "nappy."\nTonight there was a lot of love out there," Clutch said. "We had a lot of fun and even though we were out here on this farm it felt good and free."\nProphet of Nappy Roots also said he enjoyed the atmosphere and crowd that Bloomington brought to the concert.\n"It was our first time here and we came in the right way," Prophet said pointing at the countryside surrounding the stage. "We kept it country."\nThe 17th Floor started their show out with a cover of DMX's "Party Up!" Dressed in all white, the band performed a lot of their usual cover songs and really got the crowd going when they ended with a cover of "Get Low." Almost every hand was up in the crowd of a couple thousand when they got to the chorus. \nEven members of Nappy Roots could be found bobbing their heads to the beats of The 17th Floor.\nGT, drummer for The 17th Floor, said they had never met Nappy Roots before, but they looked forward to opening up for them. The 17th Floor sometimes even does a cover of Nappy Roots' "Awnaw."\nThe 17th Floor said they were excited to announce that their first single, "Hold Up" will be released on the radio airwaves soon, and that their first album is expected to be released in January.\nDanny Rosenberg, a junior with Atlantic Records, said the 17th Floor concert was great.\n"We love the 17th Floor," Rosenberg said. "And anytime you open for Nappy Roots you're going to get noticed and get gigs. This will be real good for them."\nBetween shows, the girls of HoosierLife.com and Doc from Indy's Radio Now 93.1 got the crowd pumped and ready for Nappy Roots and threw out t-shirts to the thousands of screaming fans.\nThe weather got colder as the night went on but Nappy Roots came out with a bang and kept things hot. Each wearing a different shirt and an array of hats, their beats and lyrics got the crowd to raise their hands and voices.\n"The crowd was crazy," Prophet said. "Everybody was just out here partying and having a good time. It's the kind of scene we like."\nNappy Roots didn't forget their inspiration during the concert, and had a special song in memory of some of their favorite people like Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Big Pun, and even for the U.S. soldiers. Earlier this year the group was in Kuwait and performed for the troops.\nNappy Roots hit all the popular singles on Wednesday night like "Roun' The Globe" from their newest album Wooden Leather and "Po Folks" from Watermelon, Chicken and Gritz but saved their first ever single, "Awnaw" for the last song. After performing the album version, they left the crowd with a rock remix of the song.\nThe Grammy nominated group played for a little over an hour and said looked forward to the after party that Atlantic Records was throwing them back in Bloomington Wednesday night after the concert.\nScales said the group likes to play for college crowds so they can reminisce on their own college days. The group likes the fact that college concerts bring people from all over the country.\n"It's a bunch of wholesome kids wanting to have fun," Scales said. "And I can appreciate that"
(10/09/03 4:00am)
Out of Time leaves its viewers on the edge of their seat, but also leaves them confused and disappointed. Though suspenseful, it lacks in both plot and emotion.\nDenzel Washington is outstanding in the film and so is Sanaa Lathan. It's nice to see Lathan (Love and Basketball, Brown Sugar) break her typecast roles in romantic comedies and try something new. She has some surprising scenes and does an amazing job acting.\nIt seemed everyone was excited to see Dean Cain, who played the smart-mouthed Chris Harrison, play the bad guy for once, but the truth is that he's barely even in the movie. His snotty comments and evil eyes are good but needed to be seen more to feel his rivalry with Washington's character.\nIn a movie that lacks some characters that viewers really get attached to, it's no wonder that John Billingsley, as Chae, completely steals the show. Even when things are intense, he cracks a line that leaves everyone laughing. As a sidekick to Washington's character, he's great at keeping viewers in stitches. \nOut of Time is one of those movies viewers really have to see to fully understand the plot. Lots of twists and turns make it exciting, but sometimes the emotion just isn't there. \nBanyan Key, Fla. Chief of Police Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) is at the beginning of a divorce with his beautiful wife Alex (Eva Mendes). One crazy moment leaves Whitlock covering his butt from being charged with murder and being caught in the affair he's having with Chris' wife Anne (Lathaan).\nViewers feel for Whitlock. They don't want him arrested, but yet there's got to be an easier way besides the routes he takes to keep himself looking innocent. And while Whitlock is having a steamy love affair with Anne, we don't really notice the love he still has for his wife. There's a lot of things that aren't noticed in the film, which holds it back a bit from it's true potential.\nNevertheless, Out of Time is entertaining; a lot of Denzel for the ladies and plenty of Eva for the fellas. Despite the breakthrough performances for Lathaan and Mendes, Out of Time might not have been the best movie to do it with. Viewers will however, look forward to each of the ladies' next performances.
(10/09/03 4:00am)
Since June, twice a week my nights have been drama-filled with hook-ups, break-ups, parties and unexpected twists. No, I haven't been partying at the local bars and I don't belong to a sorority. \nFox's "Paradise Hotel" has become an addiction to many on this campus. My roommates and I almost cried when the scandalous last episode aired last Wednesday.\nBut the alliances and gorgeous cast of this reality show bring far more than just entertainment to our lives. I've realized the life lessons that this skanky reality show can teach us.\nFor those of you who have been spending your Mondays and Tuesdays doing homework and whatnot (how dare you?!), check out the Web site www.paradiseonfox.com for a full explanation of the show.
(10/08/03 11:30pm)
Since June, twice a week my nights have been drama-filled with hook-ups, break-ups, parties and unexpected twists. No, I haven't been partying at the local bars and I don't belong to a sorority. \nFox's "Paradise Hotel" has become an addiction to many on this campus. My roommates and I almost cried when the scandalous last episode aired last Wednesday.\nBut the alliances and gorgeous cast of this reality show bring far more than just entertainment to our lives. I've realized the life lessons that this skanky reality show can teach us.\nFor those of you who have been spending your Mondays and Tuesdays doing homework and whatnot (how dare you?!), check out the Web site www.paradiseonfox.com for a full explanation of the show.
(10/08/03 11:10pm)
Out of Time leaves its viewers on the edge of their seat, but also leaves them confused and disappointed. Though suspenseful, it lacks in both plot and emotion.\nDenzel Washington is outstanding in the film and so is Sanaa Lathan. It's nice to see Lathan (Love and Basketball, Brown Sugar) break her typecast roles in romantic comedies and try something new. She has some surprising scenes and does an amazing job acting.\nIt seemed everyone was excited to see Dean Cain, who played the smart-mouthed Chris Harrison, play the bad guy for once, but the truth is that he's barely even in the movie. His snotty comments and evil eyes are good but needed to be seen more to feel his rivalry with Washington's character.\nIn a movie that lacks some characters that viewers really get attached to, it's no wonder that John Billingsley, as Chae, completely steals the show. Even when things are intense, he cracks a line that leaves everyone laughing. As a sidekick to Washington's character, he's great at keeping viewers in stitches. \nOut of Time is one of those movies viewers really have to see to fully understand the plot. Lots of twists and turns make it exciting, but sometimes the emotion just isn't there. \nBanyan Key, Fla. Chief of Police Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) is at the beginning of a divorce with his beautiful wife Alex (Eva Mendes). One crazy moment leaves Whitlock covering his butt from being charged with murder and being caught in the affair he's having with Chris' wife Anne (Lathaan).\nViewers feel for Whitlock. They don't want him arrested, but yet there's got to be an easier way besides the routes he takes to keep himself looking innocent. And while Whitlock is having a steamy love affair with Anne, we don't really notice the love he still has for his wife. There's a lot of things that aren't noticed in the film, which holds it back a bit from it's true potential.\nNevertheless, Out of Time is entertaining; a lot of Denzel for the ladies and plenty of Eva for the fellas. Despite the breakthrough performances for Lathaan and Mendes, Out of Time might not have been the best movie to do it with. Viewers will however, look forward to each of the ladies' next performances.
(10/02/03 4:00am)
Andre "3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton took rap music to a level that not even the godfathers of rap could ever imagine. It was 1994 when these rap artists busted onto the scene with their debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That title singularly showed the world that these two rappers were not of the norm.\nThese "ATLiens" (the title of their second album) went on to produce funkadelic albums like Aquemini and Stankonia. They continued to rap about things like baby mamas, being so fresh and so clean and bombs over Baghdad. Sadly enough, the tow have split for the album, each taking on their own CD with their own sound and lyrics.\nBig Boi's Speakerboxxx has tight beats and fresh raps. Songs like "Tomb of the Boom" and "Last Call" feature Ludacris and Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz, a good move considering their rising popularity.\nSince the songs Big Boi does on his own are mediocre raps, we see that he may struggle with his part of the CD set. Big Boi minus Andre loses quality, which is sad, considering Andre is refusing to take his album on tour and Big Boi is 'bout it 'bout it.\nMost everyone will agree that Andre's level of strange is way above Big Boi's, but most will also agree that they knew his album would be better than Big Boi's. Andre's The Love Below is a thousand times better than his best buds, even if it has less rapping and features artists like Kelis, Rosario Dawson and even Norah Jones.\n Andre admits in an interview in the October issue of VIBE that he doesn't so much enjoy rapping anymore -- that he'd much rather sing.\nThe Love Below tells a story. It appears Andre has fallen in love, and night after night of one-night stands has finally turned into eternal happiness.\n Songs like "Happy Valentines Day" and "Spread" explore the moments preceding the hook-up. The interlude "Where Are My Panties?" (a typical, comical interlude for a true Outkast album) turns into a beautiful love song called "Prototype" where Andre sings, "I hope that you're the one/ If not, you are the prototype."\nAndre's CD kicks Big Boi's tail. But don't expect a rap album out of it. Big Boi has come up with a pretty good rap album, but Andre has showed that his talents reach far beyond rapping and into a world of songwriting, singing and guitar playing.
(10/02/03 4:00am)
Maybe it's just contributing to the "Keep-R.-Kelly-Out-of-Jail" fund, but the R. in R&B Collection, Volume 1 is a must-have for anyone who's ever lived a memory to an R. Kelly song. And who hasn't danced to an R. Kelly song at a junior high dance or raised their voice at every party last spring when the remix to "Ignition" came on?\nThis album has all the R. Kelly originals like "Bump N' Grind" and "Down Low," just to name a few. \nThe amazing thing about the Chicago producer, writer and singer is the fact that he can come out with songs like "Bump N' Grind" and then turn around and sing the most heartfelt and encouraging of songs like "The World's Greatest." Who would ever imagine that the same guy who sang "Sex Me" in 1993 would go on to sing "I'm Your Angel" with Celine Dion in 1999? \nThe talent he exhibits gives him the bragging rights to walk the earth and say he is the R&B king of our generation. This album reminds us of why we fell in love with the sexy singer in the first place. He can make listeners feel hot, emotional, sad and religious all in one album.
(10/01/03 10:29pm)
Maybe it's just contributing to the "Keep-R.-Kelly-Out-of-Jail" fund, but the R. in R&B Collection, Volume 1 is a must-have for anyone who's ever lived a memory to an R. Kelly song. And who hasn't danced to an R. Kelly song at a junior high dance or raised their voice at every party last spring when the remix to "Ignition" came on?\nThis album has all the R. Kelly originals like "Bump N' Grind" and "Down Low," just to name a few. \nThe amazing thing about the Chicago producer, writer and singer is the fact that he can come out with songs like "Bump N' Grind" and then turn around and sing the most heartfelt and encouraging of songs like "The World's Greatest." Who would ever imagine that the same guy who sang "Sex Me" in 1993 would go on to sing "I'm Your Angel" with Celine Dion in 1999? \nThe talent he exhibits gives him the bragging rights to walk the earth and say he is the R&B king of our generation. This album reminds us of why we fell in love with the sexy singer in the first place. He can make listeners feel hot, emotional, sad and religious all in one album.
(10/01/03 10:14pm)
Andre "3000" Benjamin and Antwan "Big Boi" Patton took rap music to a level that not even the godfathers of rap could ever imagine. It was 1994 when these rap artists busted onto the scene with their debut album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. That title singularly showed the world that these two rappers were not of the norm.\nThese "ATLiens" (the title of their second album) went on to produce funkadelic albums like Aquemini and Stankonia. They continued to rap about things like baby mamas, being so fresh and so clean and bombs over Baghdad. Sadly enough, the tow have split for the album, each taking on their own CD with their own sound and lyrics.\nBig Boi's Speakerboxxx has tight beats and fresh raps. Songs like "Tomb of the Boom" and "Last Call" feature Ludacris and Lil' Jon & The Eastside Boyz, a good move considering their rising popularity.\nSince the songs Big Boi does on his own are mediocre raps, we see that he may struggle with his part of the CD set. Big Boi minus Andre loses quality, which is sad, considering Andre is refusing to take his album on tour and Big Boi is 'bout it 'bout it.\nMost everyone will agree that Andre's level of strange is way above Big Boi's, but most will also agree that they knew his album would be better than Big Boi's. Andre's The Love Below is a thousand times better than his best buds, even if it has less rapping and features artists like Kelis, Rosario Dawson and even Norah Jones.\n Andre admits in an interview in the October issue of VIBE that he doesn't so much enjoy rapping anymore -- that he'd much rather sing.\nThe Love Below tells a story. It appears Andre has fallen in love, and night after night of one-night stands has finally turned into eternal happiness.\n Songs like "Happy Valentines Day" and "Spread" explore the moments preceding the hook-up. The interlude "Where Are My Panties?" (a typical, comical interlude for a true Outkast album) turns into a beautiful love song called "Prototype" where Andre sings, "I hope that you're the one/ If not, you are the prototype."\nAndre's CD kicks Big Boi's tail. But don't expect a rap album out of it. Big Boi has come up with a pretty good rap album, but Andre has showed that his talents reach far beyond rapping and into a world of songwriting, singing and guitar playing.
(09/25/03 4:00am)
It's a Friday night. You've got "To the Window to the Wall" stuck in your head and just can't seem to get rid of that undying urge to shake a tail feather. But where is there to go? \nAxis used to be the best place in town to listen to some hip-hop music, but if you haven't noticed, you won't even hear the word "ass" in their music selection anymore. It's bleeped out. And last time I walked into the club, I was listening to New Kids on the Block.\nIs it possible there isn't a crowd in Bloomington that really wants a hip-hop scene? \nA few weeks ago I was dancing the night away to an edited version of "Get Low" and almost cried because of the lack of people doing the motions to the chorus. I missed my summer club scene and realized there just wasn't one here in our little college town. Our options are limited.\nI spent the summer interning at a newspaper in Macon, Ga. I was horrified when the security guards at the local Macon clubs asked to check my purse and patted down the guys to check for weapons. To the others in the group it was routine and so was the $10 cover. (There's one way we have it good here in town, Axis recently lowered their cover on the weekends from $5 to $3.)\nLiz Reed's was great. The dancing was amazing, like from a music video. \n I felt like I was in Sean Paul's basement like in "Get Busy;" the dancing was just as phenomenal as the video. It wasn't just people grinding on each other. It was real hip-hop dancing, something I'm sad to say I've rarely seen in Bloomington, but have heard that people have that same talent.\nA few weeks later our little summer intern crew wanted to check out Club Money's. I was informed that I probably shouldn't go unless I wanted trouble. While my friend Crystyn's advice was to wear a throwback and say "I ain't never scared" if anyone approached me, I passed on the evening of drinking Hennessy and Coke in the V.I.P. room with Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang Twins. \nI'm not sure how clubs in Bloomington would handle a V.I.P. room, but still, what good club doesn't have a V.I.P. room? No wonder more hot rappers and hip-hop artists don't come to the Bloomington clubs. We're a college town for crying out loud -- our glimpse of 50 Cent last year never got past the posters around campus. Unless I've missed something, I don't know of any V.I.P. rooms in our small selection of clubs.\nWhen I finally went, we sat and watched locals rap against each other in true "Juice" fashion. The crowd was crazy and appreciated not only the mainstream rap that blared from the sound system, but what the locals produced as well.\nI know quite a few guys on this campus that I've heard freestyle and they are incredible. Whether they're sitting down, playing PlayStation and letting it flow or freestyling at a party, it's pretty hot stuff. And as far as I know, there's not a popular place in town where they can showcase their talent.\nSure, Bloomington has Axis and Bullwinkle's if you want to dance. But as far as a serious hip-hop scene where students are treated as adults that can actually listen to the bad words in music, there really isn't one. The closest thing we have is when 17th Floor plays at The Bluebird. Yeah, things get a little rough, but nothing life threatening has happened so far. And it could be our only true glimpse of a hip-hop atmosphere without leaving Bloomington.\nWe may have dropped our No. 1 party school status, and I can see why. Our party scene too often caters to a crowd more into head banging than hip-hop dancing, singing than rapping and beer over Hennessy and Coke. \nI know Indiana can never live up to the hip-hop scene in Georgia, but I wish there was at least one club where I could listen to the unedited version of "Damn"
(09/25/03 12:54am)
It's a Friday night. You've got "To the Window to the Wall" stuck in your head and just can't seem to get rid of that undying urge to shake a tail feather. But where is there to go? \nAxis used to be the best place in town to listen to some hip-hop music, but if you haven't noticed, you won't even hear the word "ass" in their music selection anymore. It's bleeped out. And last time I walked into the club, I was listening to New Kids on the Block.\nIs it possible there isn't a crowd in Bloomington that really wants a hip-hop scene? \nA few weeks ago I was dancing the night away to an edited version of "Get Low" and almost cried because of the lack of people doing the motions to the chorus. I missed my summer club scene and realized there just wasn't one here in our little college town. Our options are limited.\nI spent the summer interning at a newspaper in Macon, Ga. I was horrified when the security guards at the local Macon clubs asked to check my purse and patted down the guys to check for weapons. To the others in the group it was routine and so was the $10 cover. (There's one way we have it good here in town, Axis recently lowered their cover on the weekends from $5 to $3.)\nLiz Reed's was great. The dancing was amazing, like from a music video. \n I felt like I was in Sean Paul's basement like in "Get Busy;" the dancing was just as phenomenal as the video. It wasn't just people grinding on each other. It was real hip-hop dancing, something I'm sad to say I've rarely seen in Bloomington, but have heard that people have that same talent.\nA few weeks later our little summer intern crew wanted to check out Club Money's. I was informed that I probably shouldn't go unless I wanted trouble. While my friend Crystyn's advice was to wear a throwback and say "I ain't never scared" if anyone approached me, I passed on the evening of drinking Hennessy and Coke in the V.I.P. room with Lil' Jon and the Ying Yang Twins. \nI'm not sure how clubs in Bloomington would handle a V.I.P. room, but still, what good club doesn't have a V.I.P. room? No wonder more hot rappers and hip-hop artists don't come to the Bloomington clubs. We're a college town for crying out loud -- our glimpse of 50 Cent last year never got past the posters around campus. Unless I've missed something, I don't know of any V.I.P. rooms in our small selection of clubs.\nWhen I finally went, we sat and watched locals rap against each other in true "Juice" fashion. The crowd was crazy and appreciated not only the mainstream rap that blared from the sound system, but what the locals produced as well.\nI know quite a few guys on this campus that I've heard freestyle and they are incredible. Whether they're sitting down, playing PlayStation and letting it flow or freestyling at a party, it's pretty hot stuff. And as far as I know, there's not a popular place in town where they can showcase their talent.\nSure, Bloomington has Axis and Bullwinkle's if you want to dance. But as far as a serious hip-hop scene where students are treated as adults that can actually listen to the bad words in music, there really isn't one. The closest thing we have is when 17th Floor plays at The Bluebird. Yeah, things get a little rough, but nothing life threatening has happened so far. And it could be our only true glimpse of a hip-hop atmosphere without leaving Bloomington.\nWe may have dropped our No. 1 party school status, and I can see why. Our party scene too often caters to a crowd more into head banging than hip-hop dancing, singing than rapping and beer over Hennessy and Coke. \nI know Indiana can never live up to the hip-hop scene in Georgia, but I wish there was at least one club where I could listen to the unedited version of "Damn"
(09/22/03 7:18am)
Friday evening at Assembly Hall, one coach, Sam Bell and four athletes, Calbert Cheaney, Collette Goudreau-Murphy, Earl Mitchell and Anthony Thompson, were inducted into the IU Hall of Fame. \nOriginal paintings of the inductees were unveiled at the ceremony as well, which will hang in Assembly Hall.\nAs a cross country and track coach at IU from 1970 to 1998, Bell is no stranger to the hall of fame scene. Inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1992 and U.S. Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 2000, Fischer asked if maybe Bell wondered what took IU so long.\nHe coached teams to 11 indoor Big Ten Championships and eight outdoor Big Ten Championships. He also served as head coach of the U.S. World Cup team in 1979 and coached the U.S. Junior Pan-American team in 1987.\nBasketball player Calbert Cheaney, unable to attend, had his sister Elizabeth Cheaney accept the award on his behalf. Elizabeth said she was honored to represent her brother.\nCheaney is the IU and all-time Big Ten career-scoring leader with 2,613 points and is the only four-time MVP in IU history.\n"IU is one of the finest basketball programs in the country," Elizabeth read from a speech Cheaney had prepared. "Despite all that's happened in the past few years, Indiana will always be No. 1 to me."\nCheaney's mother, Gwendolyn, said it meant a lot to the family to see her son inducted. \n"We always went to his games, and he ended up the No. 1 scorer ever," Gwendolyn said. "I'm so happy to be a part of this tonight." \nCheaney has spent the last 10 years playing in the NBA and will open this season playing for the Golden State Warriors.\nGoudreau-Murphy was a track and cross country great at IU from 1984 to 1988. The five-time All-American in women's cross country said the most memorable moment for her at IU was no individual race that she won, but being a part of the 1988 Indoor Big Ten Championship Team. \nShe also had an emotional moment accepting her award.\n"I would like to dedicate this award in memory of my son James," Goudreau-Murphy said. "He will always occupy the greatest memory of my life."\nPerhaps the most outwardly excited inductee, cross country and track runner Earl Mitchell, said that the moment was way beyond his hopes and dreams.\nA true Hoosier, born in Anderson, he was the first Hoosier to win two cross country titles. In 1943, Mitchell won the Wanamaker mile in a time of 4:08.6, 1.2 seconds off the world record at that time.\n"I was asked by someone tonight when I was happiest, when I won the Wanamaker mile or tonight?" Mitchell said with a grin. "And it has to be tonight because the Wanamaker mile was just another race, and I was too tired to be this happy."\nOne of many people suffering the wrath of Hurricane Isabel was ex IU football player Anthony Thompson. He was in Virginia Beach for a family emergency and didn't make it back for Friday night's ceremony, but did make it in time to be honored at half time of the IU football game Saturday.\nHis wife Lori accepted the award for him.\n"He's been dreaming about this for a long time," Lori said. "He wanted to be here so bad."\nThompson made his mark in IU football history when he won football letters in 1986-89. He finished eighth in Heisman Trophy balloting in 1988 and second in 1989. He is the IU career leader in rushing yards, carries, points and touchdowns.\nThompson is the only athlete in IU history to officially have his jersey retired.\nAfter serving as an assistant football coach at IU for five years, Thompson became the pastor of Lighthouse Church and is also currently the assistant director of the IU Varsity Club.\nThe Varsity Club began recognizing IU's outstanding athletes in 1982. \n"The idea was that we have all these tremendous athletes, and we need to have a Hall of Fame that these athletes could be awarded membership to, to recognize their work." said Varsity Club President Jeff Wells.\nWells said this year's inductees all have the qualities the Varsity Club hope to instill in all the student athletes at IU: character, determination, leadership, dedication and success.\n-- Contact staff writer Natalie A. Trout at natrout@indiana.edu.