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'Second City' show entertains at IMU

Senior Monika Chhabria made two mistakes Wednesday night at the Indiana Memorial Union's Alumni Hall. First, she chose to sit in the front row of the large auditorium, and second, she wore a bright pink sweater.

Gallery walk features holiday art

Nine art galleries will celebrate the visual arts during the annual Holiday Downtown Art Gallery Walk this evening. The walk will showcase local and regional artwork from galleries within walking distance of each other. The gallery walk takes place four times each year, and this will be the last Downtown Gallery Art Walk for 2004.

Business Briefs

Euro's strength increasingly high VIENNA, Austria -- The euro's growing strength against the dollar is "unwelcome," said European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet as the 12-nation European currency hovered just below a record high.

FDA to review P&G testosterone drug for females

NEW YORK -- A hysterectomy 11 years ago zapped Colleen Christensen's sexual desire. Now 55 years old and married for 33 years, Christensen said she used to worry that a lack of intimacy was draining the fun and closeness from her relationship.

New year brings new styles to auto industry

What attracts people to a nice car? Is it the nice paint job, the cool rims or the fact that it's newly redesigned? Consumers place different values on different features, such as safety, reliability and appearance. But the 2005 auto industry is sure to showcase a car for every consumer's need. An Indiana Daily Student reporter gives her review of selected favorites for the upcoming season.

Local shop brings out the kid in everyone

Freshman Joe Andrews walks down Kirkwood Avenue until he sees something that stops him dead in his tracks. A myriad of colorful puzzles, games and figurines adorning the window of a local store pull him in like a magnet to a refrigerator.

Don't stare for too long

No one gets why depressed people stay depressed for so long. For example, Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor has been a sort of poster boy for angst since 1989, and where is he now, 15 years later? In his studio, working on a new record -- and judging from his Web site, there's still no indication that he's learned how to write a song in a major key.

A jolly little secret

A few weeks ago I admitted to all of you in my column that I was a flip-flopper. Well, today I have another confession. Except this time, it is much more serious and has been a deep, dark secret I have kept for far too long. OK, enough stalling. Here it goes: I am Santa Claus.

Steroids = better column

My name is Rick Newkirk. I am a world-class competitive column writer. So it's official. Some of our favorite athletes have been juicing up. When talk of steroid use was first injected into newspapers and water cooler conversations, I was skeptical, but during Yankee slugger Jason Giambi's grand jury testimony, he proved hitting the gym is no substitute for hitting the needle.

Go Brett!

As a fellow Democrat, I was saddened and disappointed with America's choice to re-elect Bush. To make matters worse, I am from Ohio. I just wanted to say that I enjoyed Brett Warnke's column "Pride Goeth Before Destruction" (Nov. 30).

Delivery for Delp

I'm writing in response to the column "The reality of big labor" (Dec. 1). My question to Edward Delp is this: What makes you think that a lot of pizza drivers really want to be pizza drivers? Have you checked out our economy lately? There are many very hard working people out there waiting tables, delivering pizzas, mopping floors and driving cabs for all the people who are more fortunate in this world to have that better job.

Pell Grant cuts cost students

The U.S. Department of Education is in the throes of a bad idea, and it's going to hit students right where it hurts. Congress will allow the education department to make changes in the formula that determines student financial aid. The reformulation likely will disqualify tens of thousands of students from receiving federal financial aid, including the Pell Grant.

Hoosier players react to unexpected coaching change

While there are typically five stages of grief, there only seems to be two in the Hoosier locker room after the Gerry DiNardo coaching era passed Monday night -- disbelief and acceptance.

Hoosiers come up short against UNC

It was an opportunity to put IU basketball back on the national map -- the North Carolina Tar Heels just wouldn't allow it.

World AIDS Day increases awareness

As the sun set Monday, 200 flames flickered and halos of gold from little candles lit the parapets around Sample Gates. The red ribbon painted with felt tip pens on white paper which held the candles was visible from afar. Down Indiana Avenue, lamps were aglow and fairy lights lit snowflakes hung from street lights. Green and red holly wreaths sparkled, reflecting the holiday season.

DiNardo let go following 3 losing seasons

After a 3-8 season, speculation swirled Tuesday night that IU football coach Gerry DiNardo would be fired. At a press conference Wednesday, the three-year head coach was officially fired when IU athletics director Rick Greenspan confirmed DiNardo had been relieved of his duties as IU's head football coach.

Group's study ranks IU's overseas program No. 9 nationally

Senior Stacy Fogel is readjusting to the cold and snowy winter weather in Bloomington after spending the last holiday season studying at American InterContinental University in London. Fogel was among 1,379 IUB students who received academic credit for studying abroad last school year.

No. 5 Illinois handles No. 1 Wake Forest by 18 points

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- With about 2 1/2 minutes still left in the game, Illinois' rabid "Orange Krush" student section started chanting "WE'RE No. 1! WE'RE No. 1!"

Two men banned from Detroit home games

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Two men were banned from events at The Palace for what the Detroit Pistons say is their involvement in last month's brawl during an NBA game.

The wonders of the holiday sale