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IDS turns 140

By Kacie Foster and Stephen Graham · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Some years ago, Indiana Daily Student editors started scrawling a message on the drawer of Ernie Pyle’s desk on their last night in the newsroom. “Remember freedom also means responsibility,” wrote summer 1996 editor in chief Reid Cox. One editor in chief left her mark in red felt-tip: “To the dream, nightmare, & reality known as the IDS. Love always, Marijke Rowland, EIC spring ’97.” The desk used by the World War II reporter during his time at the IDS has been a fixture in the newsroom for almost a century of the paper’s 140-year history. Ernie Pyle’s old rolltop is just one example of the long and colorful tradition of this newspaper.

Get back with the Police already

By Chris Green , Nick Mills and Nicholas Mills · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

There are many sides to Sting. There's the proto-punk Sting of The Police. There's the tough guy Sting who played in "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." There's the solo pop Sting of recent. And now we have Renaissance Sting. Sting jumps in the time machine and takes the works of 17th-century composer John Dowland and puts a new spin on them. Songs from the Labyrinth is Elizabethan music for the 21st century.

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Class combines outdoor adventure with classroom instruction

By Joe Jasinski · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

For the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, as well as its Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies, this academic year represents a milestone: 60 years since its establishment at IU. Since its founding in 1946, the school has offered classes, programs and organizations that allow students to live by its motto that a “sound body provides for a sound mind.”

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Cigarette break

By Jennifer Miller · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

With presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s new pledge to quit smoking plastering headlines, he has more than his political career on the line.

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Tibbs, Hess opinion failures amusing

By Aparna Venkatraman and Mark A. Price · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The recent column by Mr. Hess on the subject of gay adoption (“Fathers and mothers,” Feb. 1) wasn’t half as interesting as the responses. That’s either a reflection of an ill-considered approach to a nuanced topic or a simply a cry for better opinion writing. In the case of the column in question, I’d chose the latter.

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Company gives chance to fake your own horrific death

By Alicia Spateo · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

CHARLESTON, Ill. – What’s your favorite scary movie? For roommates Derek Clem and Scott Aigner, the answer was written in the fake blood and man-made intestines staining their clothes – their movie. Clem and Aigner, both Eastern Illinois University graduate students, received the chance to star in their own personally designed horror-slasher scene, making fake death a reality at Eastern’s Tarble Arts Center in Charleston.

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African Languages Club to host daylong festival with food, music, dance

By Chelsea Merta · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

After only one semester, the IU African Languages Club boasts 71 members. Students and faculty members holding an interest in African languages responded enthusiastically to the formation of the club, which on Feb. 27 will hold its first event, the Africana Festival. The Africana Festival – a daylong festival featuring dancing, music and food from Africa at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, 275 N. Jordan Ave. – will be held Tuesday, Feb. 27.

The Monroe County Historical Center Museum exhibit features tons of cinematic artifacts from the silent era to modern times. Photo by Ronni Moore

Monroe County boasts its Hollywood connections

By Kristi Oloffson · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

The Oscars might feature movie stars who seem to live in a distant world, but Bloomington and Monroe County have so many connections to Hollywood that a local history museum decided to feature them in an exhibit.

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DOW CEO should be prohibited from speaking

By Aparna Venkatraman and Suresh Marru · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

When I was looking at the Kelley Business Conference, I have seen that Andrew Liveris, CEO of Dow Chemical Co., is being invited to talk on Energy and Environment. While I got enthusiastic about the conference outcome, as many leading industrialists will be speaking on their perspectives of energy and environment, I was also annoyed to see that CEO of Dow Chemical will also speak on issues the company never really cared to account for. You might be well aware that Union Carbide (now fully owned by Dow Chemical) was responsible for the world’s worst chemical disaster and killed 22,000 humans, and still many thousands of people are struggling with the aftermath of chemical poisoning in ground water.

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Offensive humor can be found at IU

By Aparna Venkatraman and JP Summerlot · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

After reading the editorial titled “No joke” (Feb. 15) about a not-so-funny editorial piece on rape at Central Connecticut State University, I wanted to let you know you don’t have to go that far away to find inappropriate humor. Just turn on IUSTV (or be forced to watch it while waiting for movies to come on Hoosier Cinema on one of the televisions stationed around campus). Tasteless jokes and vague attempts at humor abound on shows such as “F’N Democracy.” I don’t think they’ve tried to be humourous about rape victims, but they have covered victims of molestation. Other topics that are fair game include jokes about people selling their family to play the stock market, making enough money to own slaves and things being “blacker than Flava Flav.” You really should force yourself to watch an episode sometime. I’m sure you’ll find it to be equally lowbrow and to be the bane of those forced to watch it.

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Hess column fails to notice poor straight relationships

By Aparna Venkatraman and Christine McGinley · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

In response to Abram Hess’ “Fathers and mothers” (Feb. 1), I can tell you that I, along with my two siblings, am the proud child of my two fathers: one biological and the other not. They are, in my mind, equal to one another in terms of the meaning of “father.” I do not know what bad things you think may occur toward a child of gay parents, but let me tell you this: I am a happy, well-adjusted graduate student here at IU, and I can say basically the same about both of my siblings. We all three adore our dads, and within their household we were brought up in a loving and caring environment that focused on family togetherness. If you were, in fact, to look for any problems in my past they would be the product of my birth mother’s second husband and his abuse, and my birth mother’s third husband and his suicide. These heterosexual relationships have caused much turmoil in my life, and the one place I had to run was the loving home of my two fathers. I have in fact started a group on Facebook for children of gays and lesbians in support of gay rights. Many people within this forum can give you a similar account.

Another master class from the master

By John Barnett , Abdullah AlShihri and Brian Murphy · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Based on the 2002 Hong Kong cops n' robbers caper, "Infernal Affairs," Martin Scorsese's taut, unnerving "The Departed" is not only his best work since "Goodfellas" (count me among the hundreds to toss off that little nugget), it's the best American film in years. On the surface, there's the story of two men living their lives undercover -- one in the Boston mob and another in the city's police department. Dig even half an inch deeper, though, and it's a parable of modern manhood rooted firmly in the haywire society in which we live. Transcending the source material with an assurance and level of craftsmanship rarely gifted to audiences, Scorsese, screenwriter William Monahan and an impressive stable of actors create a film that, despite an overly symbolic parting shot, is as near to perfection as modern cinema gets.

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Asian Culture Center program responds to instances of harassment

By Natalie Avon · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

A group of female students waits on the curb for a campus bus to pick them up. A car drives past and the passengers yell embarrassing and demeaning remarks at the women. Before they have a chance to respond and refute “How much do you ladies cost?,” the car is long gone, as is the group’s hope of an explanation. The women are Asian and therefore prime targets of ridicule and degradation that many minority students face.

Smoking crack in the girls bathroom

By Chris Wisner · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

When Oscar nominations were handed out a few weeks ago, I was surprised to see Ryan Gosling come out with a nomination for "Half Nelson," a film many friends had praised and recommended to me but I'd still not seen. Thankfully, the DVD release fixed all that. Gosling is junior high teacher Dan Dunne, a man with his own methods of teaching history outside the school's policies and when outside of the school, faces a mean addiction to cocaine. When Dunne finally decides to hit the crack pipe in the bathroom of the girl's basketball team he coaches, one of his players, Drey (Shareeka Epps), misses her ride home and just happens to find Dunne strung-out in the stall. From that day on, the line between teacher and student are blurred by this no-longer-secret addiction Dunne has been hiding for who knows how long.

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Darker side of Dow

By Aparna Venkatraman · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Browsing through the pages of the Kelley school Web site, the conference on energy and environment evoked my interest and I was shocked to see that the panel of distinguished speakers included a person from Dow chemicals. I am sure that people at IU (thanks to protests by the Association for India’s Development) know about the “dark side” of Dow and all the trouble they have caused at places like Michigan, Vietnam and India. I strongly feel that a company with such utter disregard for the environment has no role to play in a conference that would discuss the possibilities of a healthy future! Also, the school should ensure that they do a thorough background check on the company before inviting them to conferences/career fairs etc. Let the credibility and reputation of the school not get affected due to association with companies with a tainted past!

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Habitat for Humanity relocates downtown

By Alberto D. Morales · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County is renovating the Campbell House, 213 E. Kirkwood Ave., to be used as its new relocated offices. First Christian Church is leasing the Campbell House next door.

Lennon doc goes beyond the music

By Zack Teibloom and Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

I really wish John was still alive. Not only because he's one of the best songwriters of all time but also for all the love and peace he would be spreading in the world. After acing the Beatles class, watching the seven-disc Beatles anthology and reading a Lennon biography, I thought I knew the full story of John's life, but I learned lots of new information from this well-put together documentary that puts music on the backburner and focuses on his drive for peace in the '70s. A quote from Yoko on the back of the DVD reads, "Of all the documentaries that have been made about John, this is the one he would have loved." She's right. The documentary focuses on the part of John's life that he was most proud of: his post-Beatles years, where he spent his time obsessed with Yoko and writing protest songs for peace.

No 'Letdown' from Swift

By Craig Shank and Whitney Biber · Thursday, Feb. 22,2007 12 a.m.

Bloomington's own Secretly Canadian has released yet another gem. Having found countless needles in the haystack of the vast musical landscape, the label has managed to procure a collection of artists who are capable of piercing your perceptions and altering the way you understand music. Richard Swift's latest effort, Dressed up for the Letdown, is the label's latest release that is destined to make its way from 2nd Street and into your iPod.

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