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Rent 'Closer' for film, not features

By Rob O'Connor and Robert O'Connor · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:31 a.m.

"Closer" is easily director Mike Nichols' best film since he won an Oscar for "The Graduate." And it is a surprisingly good first feature-length effort by writer Patrick Marber, who also wrote the play that this film is based on. All four of the main actors do a wonderful job. In fact, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen each nabbed a Golden Globe for their work on this film. It is an original love story with tons of lust, betrayal and sex to keep you interested, balanced out by touching dialogue that makes you actually care about the main characters. Overall, this is one of the best films that came out in 2004.

'Love scene' conjures awkwardness for actors

By Josh Kastrinsky · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:30 a.m.

Five people, a microphone and a camera are packed into a softly lit bedroom on Stull Avenue. Candles illuminate the three actors on or around the bed as the camera captures their every move. Somewhere above the din of the densely packed room, the house's tenants observe the scene from a distance. One of them asks if it is a mature movie.

M.I.A. breaks out with Brit beats

By John Barnett · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:29 a.m.

Maya Arulpragasam (aka M.I.A.), the Sri Lankan-born Londoner who survived the guerilla warfare and social strife of her home country before moving abroad to pursue careers in music and art, has been recording her own beats and rhymes prodigiously for the past several of her 27 years. Her first two singles, "Galang" and "Sunshowers," infrequently haunted college radio in the fall of 2004, and a full-length LP was promised to be in the works. With several delayed release dates and one lengthy legal battle over a beat sample behind her, M.I.A. finally debuted Arular.

Logo announced to represent MAYO

By Elizabeth A. Wepler and Elizabeth Wepler · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:29 a.m.

Just as the local Musical Arts Youth Orchestra tuned its instruments before a concert Sunday evening, Julia Copeland, its founder and president, announced an unveiling in the lobby during intermission. As a crowd of people gathered in the tiny lobby of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, there was a buzz about the organization's soon-to-been-unveiled logo. The first-place design in the logo contest would become MAYO's new identity.

The Bravery drop bold debut

By Chris Wisner and compiled by Chris Wisner · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:28 a.m.

I remember walking into the local Best Buy, doing my rounds and looking for stuff to buy over spring break. When I walked up to the register, an old friend working there came over and asked if I had ever heard of a band called the Bravery, to which I kindly replied "No." He then rushed over to a counter and handed me what would be the Unconditional EP that came free with my purchase. I popped in the CD as soon as I returned home and by the middle of the first track I knew I would find myself purchasing the debut full-length the day it hit shelves.

If you can't trust a boy scout…

By Amy Obermeyer · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:25 a.m.

For a columnist, finding irony in governmental policies, corporate actions or international relations can be wonderful, or at best a self-writing column. Unfortunately, the same situation is often tragic from a citizen's point-of-view.

Everybody sells out sometimes

By Warren Christopher Freiberg · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:24 a.m.

So last week I got a tattoo, which, in itself, isn't too unusual. Lots of people get tattoos in college. The difference, though, is that this tattoo will probably end up in a video game at some point in the future. That's because I joined a small but ever-growing legion of people willing to sell off small portions of their body in the name of advertising.

Homeland scare-curity

By Joanna Borns · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:22 a.m.

Dear Department of Homeland Security, My boyfriend is afraid of commitment. What should I do? -- Suzie Dear Suzie, Remind your boyfriend that safety comes in numbers. In case of a chemical terrorist threat, you'll want to seal off a room with tape and plastic. This will go much faster with two people.

Theses for all, for cheap

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:21 a.m.

We all know school's expensive. In addition to tuition and living expenses, there's the cost of paper and other supplies. For graduate students finishing their dissertations, those costs are not negligible, and the University is doing something about it. That might seem like a boring topic, but to IU's graduate students, hundreds of dollars is not a boring issue.

Iraq to name president Wednesday

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:19 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein will watch from his Baghdad jail cell as Iraq's newly elected parliament chooses a new president Wednesday, the next step in building Iraq's first democratically elected government in 50 years, Iraqi officials said.

Plans revealed for pope's burial in grotto

By Alyson Brodsy and Victor L. Simpson · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:19 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Before he died Saturday at age 84, Pope John Paul II made his wish known "to be buried in the ground" and not placed in an above-ground tomb, Archbishop Piero Marini said Tuesday. John Paul will be buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor after his beatification.

Daylight-saving provisions ruled illegal

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Smith · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:11 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Provisions of a bill that would allow some counties to opt out of statewide observance of daylight-saving time are illegal, the federal government said Tuesday. Gov. Mitch Daniels sought a legal opinion Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which regulates time zones.

IU Art of Living Club helps students relax

By Mark Casey · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:04 a.m.

As finals approach, stress levels on campus rise. Beginning Thursday, the IU Art of Living Club will offer a six-session class to help educate people about how to breathe correctly and control themselves in stressful situations. Senior Daniel Moss said the club was interested in presenting the course because it is relevant to how students perform in their everyday lives.

Spring changes attitudes, causes distractions

By Colleen Corley · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:02 a.m.

It happens every year. When the sun shines, sitting in a classroom sounds like an impossible task. Students arrive late, toting snacks and drinks and wearing smaller, shrunken versions of their winter wardrobe. It seems the day spring arrives, the rules of classroom behavior go out the window. "It just becomes a lot more loose," said sophomore Clay Cook.

Former IU-B chancellor to discuss censorship, privacy

By Ryne Shadday · Wednesday, April 6,2005 12:01 a.m.

A former IU-Bloomington chancellor will return to campus Thursday to speak with the Bloomington chapter of the American Association of University Professors on academic freedom and homeland security. Robert O'Neil, who is now a law professor at the University of Virginia, plans to discuss how American universities have had to adapt after the Sept. 11 attacks.

UNC survives Illinois charge

By Alyson Brodsy and Eddie Pells · Tuesday, April 5,2005 1:48 a.m.

ST. LOUIS - Of course, there was no way it was going to be easy. North Carolina did it, though, and now it's time to stop asking Roy Williams that doggone question.

Female student reports rape at McNutt dorm

By Lori Geller · Tuesday, April 5,2005 1:48 a.m.

An 18-year-old female student reported being assaulted and raped by a 19-year-old male Sunday in McNutt Quad.

Old stones, new face

By Katie Schoenbaechler and Katie Shoenbaechler · Tuesday, April 5,2005 1:48 a.m.

Now that the Main Library is to be known as the Herman B Wells Library, plans to begin renovations will get underway, pending funding from the state.

Pope carried to St. Peter's

By Alyson Brodsy and William J. Kole · Tuesday, April 5,2005 1:48 a.m.

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II's body was carried solemnly on a crimson platform to St. Peter's Basilica, past a sea of more than 100,000 pilgrims who waited for hours Monday under a blistering sun for a glimpse of the late pontiff before his funeral and entombment.

Dissertation submission goes digital

By Andrea Opperman · Tuesday, April 5,2005 1:13 a.m.

Graduate students finishing their dissertations only to be slapped with mounting printing fees have an alternative this year. Electronically submitted files, now in use at IU for the second consecutive semester, are changing the way Ph.D. and master's students turn in their theses.