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(05/13/09 11:52pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Kipp Schutz made a splash in his hometown of Evansville on Tuesday.The sophomore outfielder appeared at the plate in his hometown for the first time in his college career and helped his team to a 10-8 victory in a big way.The road victory marks the last of the Hoosiers’ away games. With Schutz hitting his fifth home run of the season and junior catcher Josh Phegley hitting two homers on the day, the Hoosiers got off to a fast start with three runs in the first inning. The Hoosiers then brought in a run in the next five of eight innings.They completed the day with two runs in the 10th. With runners on the corners and two away, sophomore Jerrud Sabourin hit a double to right center field to give the Hoosiers the lead and the eventual win.“He was throwing me all fastballs,” Sabourin said. “I just put a good swing on it.”Hitting a single and a double, Sabourin led the team with three RBI. He said he hopes this win will help the team ease out of the struggles they had early in the week.“It always feels great to get a game-winning hit like that,” Sabourin said. “It’s always great to get a win in general.”Sabourin, along with Schutz and Phegley, combined to score seven RBI. While Schutz and junior shortstop Jack Dunning each pegged a one-run homer, Phegley went yard twice.With two outs in the first inning, Phegley hit a solo shot to left field. He then repeated with a one-run blast in the top of the fifth, also to left. Phegley has 16 home runs on the season.Despite the team’s offensive efficiency, IU coach Tracy Smith said freshman pitcher Matt Igel was the star of the game.“I thought we swung the bat pretty well,” Smith said. “I was very pleased with the performance of Matt Igel coming in and taking control of the game late. Really today, he was the key to victory.”Along with Igel’s success, the Hoosiers racked up 13 hits. The home team, however, tallied 11 hits on the day.The Evansville Purple Aces touched home plate off smallball plays and Hoosier errors throughout the first five innings. In the sixth, the Aces’ smallball made a dent in the scoreboard.Pitcher Matt Carr gave up four runs alone in the sixth, eight on the day, before Igel was pulled in from the bullpen.But the young freshman and his team proved too strong for the Aces, allowing no runs to the Hoosiers in three of the last four innings of work.Igel earned his first win as a Hoosier, striking out five and allowing only one hit in three and two-thirds innings of work. Closer Chris Squires pitched for his seventh save of the season in the 10th inning.Schutz said the game helps a lot with momentum as the Big Ten Tournament approaches.“It’s a bit of (a) confidence builder, rolling into the Big Ten weekend with four straight wins,” he said. “Hopefully, we can get three in a row against Michigan State.”
(05/13/09 11:36pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With an MBA program ranked 15th and a classroom experience ranked first, another ranking was added to the already tremendous stack for the Kelley School of Business.Out of 150 schools throughout the world, Kelley’s Department of Management and Entrepreneurship was the best in entrepreneurship research, according to rankings developed by researchers at Texas Christian University.“It validates the fact that we have probably the strongest research faculty in the world in entrepreneurship,” said Donald Kuratko, the Jack M. Gill Chair of entrepreneurship.The rankings were based on journal articles published by faculty around the world.“We knew that our productivity in the journals were very, very strong,” Kuratko said.These journals are productive for the business school because of the interaction of faculty, the environment and the support of Kelley graduates, Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Smith said.“We’ve hired some of the top entrepreneurship professors in the world,” Smith said. “We just have a long history of graduating successful entrepreneurs who, in turn, support the school and our students. We have a very special innovative culture that permeates the entire school. We’re never content with how we’re doing.”These journals set Kelley, with double the total number of times published, far in front of the closest competitor. Yet Smith said competitors are not something with which Kelley bothers itself.“We focus on what we can control, and that’s our research productivity and culture,” Smith said. “We’re aware of what other schools are doing, but we don’t focus on where we stand relative to them.”Knowing that parents and prospective students pay attention to rankings, the newest ranking might spark more interest from IU newcomers.“We expect this ranking to help reinforce our global reputation as leaders in this area,” Smith said. “It will continue to help us attract really good students who are interested in studying with faculty who are way out on the front edge of research and knowledge creation in their areas.”Kelley alumni are even finding that their time in entrepreneurship classes helps them. Recent graduate Rob Eisinger said his classes in entrepreneurship had no exact answers.“In the entry level classes, the concepts were much more abstract,” Eisinger said. “We learned to identify where a problem is and how we fix it. In the next class, we learned more case-based and how-does-it-change business strategy.”These concepts, most likely, have been researched by a member of the Kelley entrepreneurship faculty. The faculty, Kuratko said, spends its time equally between teaching its students and researching.“We’re then able to bring that back to the classroom and share that leading-edge research with our students,” Kuratko said. “If you look at our different faculty members, they have different areas of expertise of research that really look at different aspects of the entrepreneurship field.”In the future, Smith said he and his faculty plan to move into emerging technologies of IU’s labs and medical centers, but for now they’re going to enjoy their ranking.“We as faculty are very, very proud of it,” Kuratko said. “We feel that in some ways we’re hoping our students will be able to take pride in that knowing that they’re being taught by some of the best in the world.”
(05/11/09 12:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three words define a baseball game: win, loss or rain. The Hoosiers’ games were defined by win and rain after IU (25-24, 14-6) swept its rain-delayed doubleheader against Northwestern and picked up a win during a third game Sunday.IU snatched a pair of wins Saturday with the help of junior pitchers Eric Arnett and Matt Bashore. The 3-2 and 5-2 victories were byproducts of the team’s improved hitting and pitching.IU, just two-and-a-half games out of first prior to the doubleheader, faced the Wildcats, who had three conference wins in 16 matchups. Northwestern still held the lead through seven innings of the first game despite its disadvantage on paper.Arnett improved his undefeated streak in the Big Ten to 7-0 after allowing just five hits. Arnett pitched a complete game and garnered eight strikeouts. After a team loss to Purdue, Arnett was able to help his teammates turn around the mind-set.“We just had to regroup and know that wasn’t our best baseball,” Arnett said. “We have to control our own destiny.”Game 1But the whole game wasn’t perfect for the Hoosiers.Arnett opened the game with a walk, a single, and a pair of wild pitches, forcing a run with no outs. Arnett tightened his pitches, following up with three Ks – two swinging and one looking – leaving a runner stranded.Seven innings of hitless baseball proceeded from both sides of the mound before Arnett gave up a pair of walks to the Wildcats’ Trevor Stevens, who knocked in a run to give Northwestern a two-run edge with the bases loaded and no outs.Northwestern’s third baseman stepped up to the plate next, hitting the ball to third base where IU freshman Vince Gonzalez tagged up and threw home to junior catcher Josh Phegley for an unusual 5-2 double play.“This team has confidence,” IU coach Tracy Smith said. “Whether they’re up or down, they play at a steady place. We know we have good players. They struck balls well. They just didn’t fall.”But the Hoosiers battled back with three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.Two singles plus a walk by Phegley left the bases at capacity with no outs to begin the inning.Freshman Alex Dickerson and sophomore Kipp Schutz contributed with consecutive RBI groundouts to tie the score at Sembower Field. With Phegley on third, junior Evan Crawford delivered an infield single, beating the throw to first, which allowed Phegley to score and put the team ahead for the first time and the eventual win.“We got off to a slow start and then kind of got nervous at the end of the first game,” Arnett said. “Then we got that big eighth inning with three runs, and we were able to keep the momentum into the second game.”Game 2During round two of the doubleheader, Bashore did not disappoint Hoosier fans, striking out 10 and driving Northwestern to strand nine.The Hoosiers scored two runs in the third off Phegley’s 14th homer of the year. Bashore kept the Wildcats from scoring through five innings but gave up two runs on four hits.Picking off a runner in a lead-off double in the eighth, Phegley used his arm instead of his bat to help his team.IU took the lead in the eighth again when it scored three runs off three hits. A leadoff single and a sac bunt placed two on with one out when Crawford came to the plate to deliver a game-changing double. Gonzalez contributed a run-scoring single for the Hoosiers’ last score.“I just tried to have good at-bats, and whenever I was on I tried to get in scoring position for somebody to hit me in,” Crawford said. “We just played a whole bunch of baseball. We didn’t get ahead in the first two games until the bottom of the eighth inning.”Game 3The Hoosiers finished the weekend by beating Northwestern 11-2 on Sunday.During the Hoosiers’ second at-bat, sophomore Jerrud Sabourin hit a triple and ran in for the first run of the game after Phegley grounded out to third.“We got our runs early in the last game,” Crawford said. “The first two games, we kind of waited until late in the game to score. The third game, we came off strong offensively.”IU scored once again in the second and twice in the fourth, but the most action came during the fifth inning. Although the Wildcats posted two runs on the scoreboard, they would see no more purple jerseys cross the plate.Sabourin again used his bat to get on base, later leading to a run off a left-field single from Schutz. With the bases full and one away, junior Tyler Rogers sent one to the center field wall, scoring the final runs of the inning.Two innings later, Rogers singled, knocking in another run, bringing his total RBI to five on the day, 27 on the season.The win completed a trifecta of victories for the cream and crimson.“I don’t know if it was because of finals that we came out lethargic the first couple games,” Smith said. “We just played with more energy today.”
(05/08/09 3:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>From the Sample Gates to Assembly Hall, across the floors of the Herman B Wells Library and through the corridors of the Indiana Memorial Union, the senior class of 2009 has left its mark across campus.Seniors such as Jimmy Morrow, Marcie Klebanow and Jason Jacobs are leaving a legacy at the University to join a family of more than 520,000 alumni.The Hoosiers comprise the third largest alumni network in the world, behind Penn State and the University of Illinois. All graduating seniors from IU’s eight campuses built a story during their time. These three seniors define just a small percentage of the cream and crimson graduating seniors, but their stories define the Hoosier name.Senior remembers Little 500, trips to Gulf CoastSenior Jimmy Morrow came to IU like most freshmen, only having ridden a bike for fun as a kid. After attending his first Little 500, Morrow fell in love with cycling, pedaling his way through the next three years.“It definitely made my college experience,” Morrow said.Although he spends about 15 hours per week training for the “Greatest College Weekend,” Morrow has found time to be involved in Youth Advocating Leadership and Learning, a student organization founded in response to Hurricane Katrina.“I started going on trips my freshman year down to the Gulf Coast region, and ever since then I’ve become more involved,” Morrow said. “Now I’m in charge of helping plan the trips. This summer I’m going to be going on my eighth trip down to the Gulf Coast.”Morrow is also a brother in Sigma Chi fraternity and role model to two biological younger brothers on campus. A campus, he said, offers more than can be put into words.“It’s just a place where you can start to go after your goals, your dreams and accomplish so much,” Morrow said.Soccer coach hopes to use IU philosophiesWhile most teenagers spend their high school years building friendships, senior Marcie Klebanow spent her time on the soccer field – not just playing, but coaching.Klebanow could be described as a visitor-center tour guide or as a member of Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Lambda Delta honors fraternities. But the title that describes Klebanow most is “varsity coach.”Her varsity coaching experience began as a freshman in high school and continued when she became a Hoosier. Klebanow spent her freshman year on the sideline as the IU women’s assistant volunteer coach.She has been working at the youth level for the Cutters travel program in Bloomington. In the past, she had been an assistant for Blomington High School South.She will not leave soccer behind after graduation – an assistant coaching position for a women’s soccer team awaits her. Klebanow said she hopes to apply what she has learned at IU to her own life and future.“Indiana University is a place that you can learn to call your home while furthering your own individual development with a family of 36,000 students,” she said. Klebanow said she looks to one day become a Division I women’s soccer coach, using the philosophies she learned around Bloomington on the grassy soccer fields.Straight No Chaser member reminiscesSenior Jason Jacobs likes it straight, no chaser – his singing style, that is. Jacobs is a member of the 10-person men’s a cappella group Straight No Chaser. “Straight No Chaser is a lifestyle,” Jacobs said. “It’s not just a singing group. It’s like hanging out with 10 of your best friends 24 hours a day.”From auditoriums to sorority houses, Jacobs has traveled to all sorts of places with Straight No Chaser.“My favorite part of my senior year was getting to travel all across the country during finals,” Jacobs said. “While 37,000 other people were in taking finals, I was in Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, Seattle, Indianapolis, you name it.”A music performance major and member of the a cappella group for three years, Jacobs has spent hours in the world of music, but also in the world of a college student.“I’ve gone streaking, danced in Showalter Fountain, participated in four Little 500s successfully, and I was even part of the Quidditch team over at Collins,” Jacobs said.Although Jacobs said he is sad to see his senior year come to a close, he remembers a majority of his moments around what he said is one of the coolest campuses ever.“It’s a place where anybody can really come and find themselves,” Jacobs said.
(05/01/09 3:32am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Laid end-to-end, the number of pages printed on campus in 2008 could stretch from New York to Los Angeles more than six times over.Kristin Hanks, a sustainable computing graduate student at University Information Technology Services, is working to reduce this amount.Hanks said she thought campus printing habits need to change and is launching a “print less, go green” campaign for students to reduce waste from campus printers.“The campaign is not about limiting students’ rights or access to printing. It’s more about raising awareness and letting people know about alternatives and encouraging responsible printing,” Hanks said.Last year, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and student organizations combined to print 91 million pieces of paper, which cost IU-Bloomington $580,000. Only 1.5 percent of those pages were post-consumer recycled paper.And it’s not just students that need to reduce, Hanks said.“We’ll be sending out notes to the faculty members to try to encourage them to change some of their practices, because the burden of change doesn’t fall exclusively on the shoulders of the students,” Hanks said.Between 2006 and 2007, students printed on average 479 pages below the quota, but print totals have been increasing, according to the Sustainable Computing Internship Summary Report, which Hanks wrote.With the Oncourse drop box, professors across campus can help reduce the number of pages printed. The drop box tool allows students to turn in assignments electronically.“It prevents the need for more pages to get printed,” Hanks said. “There are a lot of advantages other than the environmental advantages. Any faculty member who’s had to carry around 50 pounds of paper knows that it would be really nice if they weren’t that heavy.”With Adobe Acrobat Professional – a program included in the Adobe Suite package – highlights, cross-outs and other corrections can be made and saved on the document, so printing is unnecessary.With 650 pages allotted to undergraduate students each semester, personal printers and their expensive ink cartridges are unnecessary, Hanks said. Sophomore Laura Strodtman said she never uses her total allotted paper amount.“I print off class notes and papers mostly,” Strodtman said.Campus printing habits have changed from previous years. Wasted paper was reduced when UITS installed print release stations next to printers in the library. Students must access these stations to make sure the documents they want to print are necessary.To further reduce paper waste, a chart will appear when students check their print quotas. The chart compares printing habits to those of a typical student.“Printing double sided decreases the life span of a printer, so there’s a huge debate on that. But in terms of saving paper, that’s an obvious one,” said McKenzie Beverage, IU Energy Challenge coordinator. “It takes a lot of effort to change student behavior just by promoting something, but if you make it easier for them, of course paper will be conserved.”To encourage students to print less, Hanks proposed taking savings incurred by the student technology center and using it to pay for recycled paper.“Students pay the technology fee, and part of the technology fee goes to paying for their printing,” Hanks said. Ten percent pays for student printing.
(04/30/09 4:04am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Every day after tennis practice, Todd Reed walks around the court, picking up hundreds of lime green balls he never got the chance to hit.With each tennis ball he collects, a family tradition continues.Reed has always had a love for tennis.He played tennis as a child and was a four-year varsity player for North Montgomery High School in Crawfordsville, Ind. Since coming to IU, he has spent hours on the tennis court – not playing, but managing. For the past four years, Reed’s involvement with the men’s tennis team includes filing paperwork, managing equipment and picking up tennis balls. Reed’s older brother, Scott Reed, also spent four years toiling for tennis balls. The brothers began their IU tennis careers in former IU coach Ken Hydinger’s tennis camps. Hydinger, who coached men’s tennis for 22 seasons, said he watched the brothers’ progress during the years.“They cared about things other than themselves,” Hydinger said. “It may not have been beneficial to have every two set of brothers work for us, but it was very beneficial having the Reed family involved in the program.”Scott Reed graduated from IU in 1997 but still remembers the daily happenings of a manager. “Being with the guys day in and day out, you know when their moods would change in a match,” Scott Reed said. “How pumped up they’d get before Big Ten matches was really cool because it’d turn it into more of a team aspect, instead of an individual aspect.”Todd Reed has trained new people to work alongside him, but none have lasted as long as he has.“More than anything, he just cares about his job,” said IU coach Randy Bloemendaal. “I don’t think he thinks he’s an outsider – I think he thinks he’s Hoosier tennis.”IU was exempt from Tuesday’s announcement of the NCAA tournament’s 64-team field, bringing the Hoosiers’ season to a close. Todd Reed’s job as a manager is almost done, but his experiences will outlive the position.“My favorite memory was when we beat Wisconsin this year,” Todd Reed said. “We were kind of the underdogs the entire match. Wisconsin normally comes in here and beats us. It was a big win.”The brothers said managing helped organize their time, but also sped up their four years at IU. Although Scott Reed managed eight years before his younger brother, he said he saw many qualities Todd Reed could pick up from managing.“It’s a great experience,” Scott Reed said. “It gives you something to do with responsibilities, and you’re involved with the athletic program.”Despite being from Indiana where basketball is king, Todd Reed said he would never manage another varsity sport.“I’d still stay with tennis,” he said. “It’s in my roots, and I enjoy being around it.”
(04/30/09 2:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Ahmad Popalyar is a Muslim man inspired to tell Americans and Muslims his story about America, Afghanistan and the propaganda behind both.Popalyar, the owner of Stefano’s Ice Cafe in Bloomington, along with his co-worker Delores Bell, wrote his stories of life in Afghanistan – stories they decided needed to be told.Bell told Popalyar he could tell his story and she would write it out for him. Within days, Popalyar agreed. Bell encouraged Popalyar to tell the story of the life he left behind in Afghanistan for his children, who Bell said she believes will one day want to know.“I just got a scratch pad and started writing in longhand what he told me,” Bell said. “I thought it would be eight or 10 pages of very interesting stuff. The more he told me about it, the more I wanted to hear about the situation.”Popalyar’s words became chapters of his and Bell’s co-authored book “The Destruction of Invasion and its Side Effects.” Pages on invasions of the Russians and the Taliban, Afghanistan and America all appear in the book.“He has one thing that I think is just great – that we do not appreciate what we have and the freedom that we have to do whatever we want and go wherever we want to go,” Bell said.Along with Popalyar’s memoirs is an explanation of these freedoms that are misunderstood throughout the Middle East. These misunderstandings, Popalyar said, need to be cleared by a Muslim American spokesman to those living in the Middle East.“They have an obligation to tell the truth about the people of the United States and how they treat other people,” Popalyar said. “They just have so much propaganda against the United States, but none of it is true.”After a year of writing, the book was published and is now available to the public. Sophomore Rohan Bhagwat said the book needed to be written because the idea behind it is powerful.“The perception of the U.S. around the world is incredibly negative, and any small effort to make that perception a more positive one will do the USA a lot of good,” Bhagwat said.Bhagwat’s parents are both from India. He said stories from parents’ countries, like those in Popalyar’s book, need to be preserved.“A lot of things get lost in the American culture that we wouldn’t know about if we didn’t have our parents telling us stories and their past experiences,” he said.Although Popalyar worked for The Herald Times for 14 years in advertising, he never wrote a story about his life in Afghanistan. Popalyar said he is excited to have his first book published, but drumming up old memories was not easy for him.“The entire country was totally destroyed,” he said. “And the people totally lost their family, they lost their land, they lost everything. Some of them don’t have any family at all.”Bell wrote a short story about her life growing up on a farm in the 1930s for her grandchildren and said Popalyar’s story needed to be told.“I cried several times when he was telling me stuff,” she said. “Poor people over there have had nothing but wars and killing. I watched the news all the time and I think how terrible it is, but until you have talked to someone or read what someone who has been there firsthand tells you, you really, really don’t know.”
(04/27/09 3:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Eliminated from the Big Ten Championship tournament in its first match, IU lost to Ohio State with a 4-1 decision.IU was disappointed with dropping the doubles point to the Buckeyes during the regular season, and grabbed the point for an early lead. With the doubles matches tied at 1-1, junior Lindsey Stuckey and sophomore Myriam Sopel won their match 9-8 (7-3).“It was really disappointing that we didn’t win, but Ohio State played really well,” sophomore Charlotte Martin said.Singles play did not sail as smoothly for the Hoosiers. Nearly every IU competitor was beaten in straight sets. Unlike regular season play, once a match is determined, all play stops. Sopel had just picked up a second set win and senior Sigrid Fischer was mid-tiebreaker when play was halted.“They outplayed us, and you have to give them credit for that,” Martin said.No. 5 seed IU went 14-10, 6-4 in regular season play. The Hoosiers await announcement of the 64-team NCAA field, which is set for 5:20 p.m. today on ESPNews.
(04/27/09 3:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With its Big Ten tournament life on the line, IU upset Minnesota, a team it lost to on April 3.IU advanced to the semifinals. The Illini defeated the Hoosiers, ending their stay in the Big Ten Championship tournament.No. 6 IU beat No. 3 Minnesota in a 4-1 game on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Winning the doubles point for the early lead, senior Peter Antons and freshman Maxime Armengaud won, 8-4.“This weekend was pretty good,” freshman Stephen Vogl said. “We lost to Minnesota this year, but we fought our way through everything the time.”No. 106 sophomore Lachlan Ferguson quickly gained a second point for the Hoosiers, dominating No. 58 Ishay Hadash with a 6-1, 6-2 defeat. Freshmen Stephen Vogl and Will Kendall won the final points for the Hoosier win, both in straight sets.IU’s Big Ten Championship road ended Saturday with a 5-0 loss to second-seeded Illinois. The only win of the day came from doubles duo Antons and Armengaud in an 8-5 finish. “We were supposed to play outdoors, but we had to move it indoors,” Vogal said. “That kind of changed our perspective on what we should do, our game plans. That’s still no excuse.”Carrying three ranked singles players, Illinois won the three through six singles places for the decision.“Illinois is a good team,” Vogl said. “If we would have stayed determined the whole match, we probably could have come out on top.”
(04/23/09 3:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The whole season has come down to this: If the Hoosiers pull through with solid matches in the Big Ten Tournament this weekend, they could move onto the NCAA Tournament.But if they stumble, their season could be over.In a conference dominated for the past four years by the team in Ohio’s capital city, IU heads into Big Ten Tournament play as the No. 6 seed. The ranking leaves the team with a first round match; only the top five seeds received a bye into the second round.The Hoosiers (13-13, 5-5) begin the 2009 tournament against a team they dominated this past weekend, Michigan State. Devouring the Spartans 5-2 on Saturday, the Hoosiers are in search of another victory over Michigan State, which lost all Big Ten matches this year.Match play begins at noon today. The winner of the IU-MSU matchup will take on No. 3 Minnesota (17-6, 7-3) on Friday.As the winner of his past four Big Ten matches, the Hoosiers are led by sophomore Lachlan Ferguson.“I just go into all my matches with the belief that I’m as good as any of the guys I’m going to be playing,” Ferguson said.
(04/23/09 3:09am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>A reflection of the season will show two losses to Big Ten teams, Northwestern and Ohio State. The fifth-seeded Hoosiers drew No. 4 seed Ohio State for their first Big Ten Tournament match.After the regular season indoor loss against Ohio State, IU coach Lin Loring said the Hoosiers would have had a better shot against the Buckeyes outdoors.“Overall, they’re more of a power team than we are, so it’s easy to play power tennis indoors,” he said. “It will definitely help us more to play the match outdoors. Right now, according to the weather forecast, we’re going to play outdoors.”The Hoosiers will be given another chance to write a new score against the Buckeyes on Thursday, playing outside, weather permitting.With the match taking place in Madison, Wis., neither IU (14-9, 6-4) nor Ohio State (14-9, 7-3) will carry the home court advantage.Ohio State beat IU 7-0 on April 12 in Columbus, Ohio.“A lot of the matches were close in singles,” Loring said. “We just need to play better in doubles.”The Hoosiers and Buckeyes will compete to play against No. 1 Northwestern, which has not lost a conference match all season.“We don’t have to do a lot of things different,” Loring said. “It just came down to big points in singles. They won them, we didn’t.”
(04/23/09 1:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>This weekend, the jewel of Indiana might not be found in the cornfields or in the kegs of the infamous Little 500 parties, but in a bottle waiting to be uncorked.The seventh annual Wine Weekend launches Friday at the Story Inn, just south of Nashville, Ind., where more than 25 wineries will bring their best to taste and to test. Wine Weekend is one of the largest wine events in the Midwest.To TasteVintage and state-grown grapes create the wines that can be bought on site. None of the wines are reserves, which means there is an extremely small quantity of a wine that is not in enough supply for people to buy. These vintage and state-grown grapes have qualities Hofstetter said are smiled upon.“It’s an opportunity to allow wineries to roll out their very best and make money doing it,” Rick Hofstetter, founder of Wine Weekend, said. “It’s kind of a debutante for the wineries.”With the wineries being housed under tents, rain or shine, the weekend will pour on.With an estimated attendance of more than 5,000, Wine Weekend regular and current employee of Story Inn Miriam Griffith said she believes the increase is due to the word of mouth previous guests have passed on. “They uncorked them for us and sold them to us right there,” Griffith said. “We already had our Story Inn wine glasses to drink out of, so we were able to enjoy some live music and drink some cold wine with good friends with plenty of food around the property.”The array of food spreads begins Friday with “Wine and all that Jazz,” a musical evening hosted by the IU Jazz Ensemble and including a full buffet dinner. The event benefits the Brown County Citizens’ Scholarships and leads into Sunday’s “Hoosier Cuisine Gone Wild,” an event of native Indiana dishes matched with one of the seven gold medalist wines chosen by judges earlier in the weekend.To TestAlthough the weekend is about giving the wineries around Indiana a chance to pour, from the Grigios to the Zinfandels, all the wines are tested with a five-point scale on four simple conditions: color, aroma, taste and finish.“It’s not like sitting back to enjoy wine,” said wine judge Allen Dale Olson. “Judging and assessing wine is a lot different than drinking and consuming.”To test the wines, judges take a sip of wine to let sit in their mouth before spitting out the wine to record their impressions.“You have to concentrate, drink and take notes,” Olson said. “You don’t dare swallow much because you’ll be consuming close to 200 different wines over about a four- hour period.” Regardless of how much is consumed, shuttle service from Story Inn to the Nashville courthouse will take place all day long. While popularity has shown a great increase with each festival, Hofstetter said he was told the idea of having a wine festival would never work.“I was under the influence of wine when I came up with the idea,” he said. “It’s been a stunning success every time we’ve done this, every time.”
(04/22/09 2:10am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Tucked in the back corner of the west wing of the Indiana Memorial Union is a studio awaiting photography lovers, clay-seekers and everyone in between.Union Studios, located directly behind the Back Alley, is open to anyone interested in pottery or photography classes.“We have students, past students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members,” said Adam Svoboda, Union Studio’s pottery instructor. “We’re always looking for new members and students.”Freshman Sean Arata said he wants to sign up now that he knows about the classes.“The Union seems like one of those places on campus that everybody should go to,” Arata said. “I’ve always wanted to take classes in it.”Two photography and three pottery classes are available. The six-week classes are for beginners or those interested in brushing up on skills.For 10-year member Libby Gwynn, the studio is the only place in town she said she can visit day, night or even on the weekends to work on her pottery.“I actually did ceramics when I was younger, in college, so I’ve kind of kept it up off and on over the years,” Gwynn said. “It’s good to take a class every so often just to get your skills back and maybe learn some new techniques or decoration styles.”The classes take place in the evening once a week. Svoboda said the studios are a relaxing way for students to take part in an extracurricular activity.“It’s all recreational, so it’s not for a grade,” Svoboda said. “It’s not for a credit.”In the beginning pottery course, students learn the basics of sculpting pottery and free form. Creating ceramics like bowls and mugs, the students learn hand-built and wheel-thrown methods. The intermediate courses are more involved, with different textures and glazes.The class supplies a blazer and clay.There’s no need to worry about self-taught photography books. The beginner’s photography class teaches newcomers everything from F-stops to filters.Once a storage room, the darkroom was pieced together with some dividers and enlargers from the other darkrooms that shut down on campus. Located down the hall from the class, the darkroom allows for the old techniques of film to be practiced.“Frankly, people get tired of being in front of a computer screen 24/7,” said Union Studios photography instructor David Derkacy. “It’s just so easy for it to say ‘error, disk unreadable,’ and it’s gone forever, whereas this, all you have to do is develop it.”With glosine envelopes that keep the film strips preserved indefinitely, a negative can be seen only with a ray of light or an enlarger. The best part, Derkacy said, is that film never changes, unlike the continual updates of digital cameras.“Enlargers haven’t changed for 50 years because it’s just a lens and a light bulb,” he said. “If digital came first, people would flock to film. Instant gratification is what drives digital, but then you lose the craftsmanship by seeing what they get, then thinking things through.”
(04/20/09 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In the last two Big Ten match of the season, sophomore Lachlan Ferguson picked up his third and fourth straight win. Yet, the Hoosiers won only one match.Collecting another Big Ten win, No. 53 IU beat Michigan State, 5-2 on Saturday. The No. 76 doubles tandem of sophomore Santiago Gruter and Jeremy Langer took down more than the No. 79 doubles team.Winning the doubles point with their 8-6 match, Gruter and Langer also helped the Hoosiers score, winning in singles in straight sets.Freshman Will Kendall and No. 114 sophomore Lachlan Ferguson also beat their Spartans in straight sets.“We lost the last two matches that were on,” Ferguson said. “It’s always hard to win away from but it would have been better if we could have gotten the 7-0 result.”Ferguson’s success continued over to Sunday’s match when the Hoosiers took on No. 48 Michigan. The Hoosier’s lost 6-1 to the Wolverines.Senior Peter Antons and freshman Maxime Armengaud picked up their second win of the weekend, but it was not enough for the doubles point.Ferguson downed his fifth ranked opponent, for his sixth Big Ten win, beating No. 94 Jason Jung, 7-5 6-4.“I just go into all my matches with the belief that I’m as good as any of the guys I’m going to be playing,” Ferguson said. “The more ranked players that I’ve beat the more strong that belief becomes for myself which has a huge impact, especially late in the match.”
(04/20/09 3:13am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After a solid four match Big Ten win streak, IU (14-9, 6-4) dropped two consecutively before beating Michigan State to end the regular season with a win.No. 43 IU started off its final home weekend with a loss to No. 18 Michigan, 5-2.IU’s recurring season theme of dropping the doubles point happened against the Wolverines, with only sophomores Maria Guerreiro and Katya Zapadalova able to win their match.Sophomore Myriam Sopel was able to win the first point for the Hoosiers, downing her opponent in two sets. Junior Lindsey Stuckey picked up the other point, with a three set win.“We did a good job in doubles and almost got the doubles point,” Fischer said. “In singles they were kind of overpowering us in some positions.”On Sunday, the Hoosiers earned a victory 5-2 over Michigan.The cream and crimson not only picked up the doubles point against the Spartans, but swept the matches.Senior Alba Berdala’s final match in Bloomington was a 6-1, 6-0 win. Senior Sigrid Fischer finished her Hoosier home record with a blanking of the third set. Wins also came from Sopel and fellow sophomore Charlotte Martin.“This morning I thought I really want to win,” Fischer said. “I went into the matches pumped for doubles and I wanted to win singles. It was awesome I won both.”
(04/17/09 4:17am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>With three seniors and only two Big Ten matches, No. 43 IU will take on the state of Michigan to end its season.No. 18 Michigan and Michigan State will compete against IU at 11 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, respectively, at the IU Varsity Tennis Center. Seniors Alba Berdala, Sigrid Fischer and Stephanie Heller hope to end their season with a pair of wins. The seniors and their Hoosier squad are looking to rebound after a 7-0 decision in favor of Ohio State on April 12.“Senior weekend is the kind of day that everyone always thinks about, but you see it so far away,” Berdala said. “I always wanted the day to come, but at the same time, I’m sad that everything is almost over.”Saturday’s matchup between the Hoosiers (13-8, 5-3) and the Wolverines (13-5, 7-1) marks the 44th meeting between the conference teams. The Hoosiers have the all-time advantage, leading the series, 29-14.“A win against Michigan would be huge for our rankings,” Berdala said.IU beat Michigan twice last season, with a regular season decision of 7-0 and a Big Ten Tournament semifinals win, 4-2.On Sunday, IU will take on Michigan State.The Spartans have only won a single Big Ten match this season. The matchup between the Spartans and the Hoosiers will be both teams’ final regular season match.“It’s my last match, so if I play as good as I can, that’s the best feeling,” Berdala said. “Because, no matter what, if I give all I have, I’ll be happy.”
(04/17/09 4:14am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>After winning their final home match on April 12, the Hoosiers will spend the last weekend of the regular season taking on Michigan State and Michigan on the road.IU competes against Michigan State at noon Saturday in East Lansing, Mich. Competition continues at noon Sunday against Michigan.Michigan State might have a ranked doubles team, but the Spartans have only one win against a ranked opponent this season. Unable to win in its last 10 showings, Michigan State has yet to win a Big Ten match in 2009.Moving from East Lansing to Ann Arbor, Mich., IU will take on the Wolverines. Although Michigan holds the all-time series advantage, 50-14, IU stole the 2008 meeting with a 5-2 win.Both teams carry a ranked doubles team. IU sophomore Santiago Gruter and freshman Jeremy Langer combine to make the No. 76 doubles team.Another important meeting will occur in a duel of the sophomores as IU’s No. 114 Lachlan Ferguson matches up against Michigan’s No. 94 Jason Jung.
(04/13/09 3:58am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Opening their road trip with a 6-1 win against Penn State, the Hoosiers (13-8, 5-3) closed the weekend losing 7-0 to No. 43 Ohio State.With eight of 20 matches this season decided by a 4-3 score, the Hoosiers said their struggles were related to losing the doubles point.However, No. 38 IU won the doubles point against the Nittany Lions on Friday.Smooth sailing continued for the Hoosiers as they won two singles matches before dropping a match. Senior Alba Berdala, junior Lindsey Stuckey and sophomores Myriam Sopel and Charlotte Martin all won in straight sets to solidify the match. Sophomore Katya Zapadalova pushed her match three sets for the win.Yet the Hoosiers were not able to break down the Buckeyes on Sunday. IU was unable to pick up a single match in nine played.“We were very, very close to winning four of the first sets,” IU coach Lin Loring said.Senior Sigrid Fischer lost the match in three sets. Both Berdala and Martin pushed their matches to a first-set tiebreak before eventually losing.“If Alba and Charlotte had won the first sets, it could have been a very different match because that would have kind of turned the momentum for us,” Loring said.
(04/13/09 3:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Dominated by Ohio State on Friday, the IU men’s tennis team came from behind to beat Penn State on Sunday.IU (12-12, 4-4) ended its home record 10-4. With the Buckeyes bringing a No. 3-ranked doubles team and five ranked singles players, IU stood little chance against No. 3 Ohio State. The cream and crimson lost all matches across the board.“The match against Ohio State was good to kind of see where we’re at,” sophomore Lachlan Ferguson said.Sunday’s matchup against Penn State went better for the Hoosiers. Losing the doubles point, freshman Maxime Armengaud grabbed his match in straight sets. Fellow freshmen Stephen Vogl and Jeremy Langer both fought from behind to win in three sets.“It’s always impressive when you see a young guy come through and fight from behind, especially under the pressure of a Big Ten match when a team’s down or behind,” Ferguson said.Ferguson solidified the win for the Hoosiers, winning his third set, 6-2.“I didn’t officially know because (IU) coach (Randy Bloemendaal) never really brings it up, and I didn’t ask,” Ferguson said. “But judging by the reaction and support of the fans and the guys of the team, I had a fair idea that my match was going to be a decider.”
(04/10/09 4:15am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Three straight Big Ten losses is a rut the Hoosiers are determined to get out of.The No. 53 Hoosiers look to clean their slate against No. 3 Ohio State and No. 61 Penn State this weekend at home.Senior Peter Antons said that although losing Big Ten matches is difficult to accept, the team realizes its mentality needs to change.“We just need to go out there with a sense of urgency and look at all these matches just as opportunities,” Antons said. “We just need to believe that we can win these matches.”The Hoosiers will compete in their last home match of the season.IU (11-11, 3-3) begins its weekend competition against Ohio State (23-1, 6-0). The Buckeyes bring two top 10, nationally ranked players to Bloomington. Ohio State has defeated 15 ranked opponents this year. The Buckeyes have also won the last seven matchups between the two “You can’t really look at numbers,” Antons said. “Numbers only mean so much. It’s more of a mental thing.”The cream and crimson continue play Sunday against the Nittany Lions, who have wins against only two ranked opponents. IU leads the all-time series 11-8. Yet, Penn State has managed to walk away with the last two matches.“It’s going to be our last match at home,” he said, “and hopefully the guys will be all pumped up and wanting to kick some ass.”