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Event to benefit recovering addicts

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:16 a.m.

The local Amethyst House, 645 N. Walnut St., will host a benefit for substance abuse programs at 8 p.m. Saturday in the John Waldron Arts Center, with doors opening at 7 p.m. The evening will provide a beam of hope for those struggling with substance abuse through dance, public speaking and fund-raising.

Pastrick confident in new East Chicago mayoral race

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 1:16 a.m.

Mayor Robert Pastrick said Thursday he was confident he would win next month's special Democratic primary despite a boost his main challenger received when another candidate dropped out.

Back to government class

By Alyson Brodsy and Adam Maksl · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:58 a.m.

I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is more than one political election this November. Now, calm down. I don't want any of you to suffer from a mental overload with this new information. But, I think it is important for you to know.

Tidiest cell on the block

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Newkirk · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:57 a.m.

Hey Martha -- don't drop the loofah. America's hottest 63-year-old billion-dollar house-queen has decided to go to jail to "put this nightmare behind me" and "reclaim my good life." Just one question Martha -- which good life is that?

Atkins Schmatkins

By Alyson Brodsy and Jeff Alstott · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:53 a.m.

The Atkins Diet never seemed like such a big deal to me. Some guy wrote a book, said, "Hey, this works," and some people agreed. Then the South Beach Diet came up. Similar principle, similar response. My mom got on it. Great. Then, ever so slowly, the low carbohydrate movement grew. And grew. And grew! Then I came to realize just how deep this ran. When Fazoli's started advertising how they have low carb pasta, something is wrong.

Take it or leave it

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:50 a.m.

I am writing to address belief in the Almighty. Nothing said here came from my head nor is it in judgment. I offer nothing but the truth, take it or leave it.

Encouraging the vote

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:48 a.m.

We don't need to say registering to vote is important -- it's been drilled into so many heads this election year, and anyone with an ounce of civic duty and access to the world outside his home knows the importance of registering to vote in an election year.

Bush, Kerry tackle national security, trade

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:42 a.m.

National Security : Under what conditions is the United States justified in taking pre-emptive military action against targets in another country?

Gunmen kill 3 soldiers in Gaza

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:39 a.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Palestinian gunmen made their way into a heavily fortified Israeli army post in the Gaza Strip under cover of morning fog Thursday and started shooting, killing three Israeli soldiers in a 45-minute firefight.

Bush says leaving Iraq could foster attacks in U.S.

By Alyson Brodsy and Terence Hunt · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:38 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Denying he has painted too rosy a picture about Iraq, President George W. Bush said Thursday that terrorists could "plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations" if U.S. forces were withdrawn. Bush said he would consider sending more troops if asked, but Iraq's interim leader firmly said they weren't needed.

IUPD investigates possible assault

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:37 a.m.

IU Police Department officers were called to Briscoe Quad early Wednesday morning to investigate a possible sexual assault. Officers arrived at 3:24 a.m. and met with the victim and a resident assistant. The victim refused medical treatment. She then informed officers that she had been in a male acquaintance's room and had passed out due to intoxication. She awoke with no memory of what had happened and the button and zipper on her pants undone.

College Tour 2004 hits IU

By Jorie Slodki · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:36 a.m.

On Thursday, a national tour rolled into town. However, instead of a rock band or skateboard stunts, this tour featured free health care samples and advice to students. College Tour 2004, organized by Universal Consulting Group, is a 10-month RV tour traveling to college campuses and setting up kiosks that feature Johnson & Johnson products. IU is just one of 90 stops on the tour. Radford University graduate Shane King travels with the tour as a representative.

IU Student Television succeeds with new format

By Greg Ingram · Friday, Sept. 24,2004 12:35 a.m.

Silence falls over the IU Student Television studio. News anchor Tia Broz looks straight into the camera and begins to read the teleprompter. "Mayor Mark Kruzan announced the results of a survey ..." "Stop!" one of her directors yells from the control room.

Trustee asked to resign position

By Eric Tash · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 2:07 a.m.

Indiana Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, has called for the resignation of IU Trustee Clarence Boone because of his past affiliation with Planned Parenthood of Northwest Indiana where he was executive director until 1998. "We believe his presence on the board gives undue influence to an organization that operates an abortion clinic just a few blocks from the Bloomington campus," Mike Fichter, Indiana Right to Life's executive director told The Associated Press.

Resolution against I-69 passes

Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 2:07 a.m.

With emphatic pleas from Bloomington residents, business people, farm owners and fellow Hoosiers, the City Council voted 7-1 Wednesday night, in favor of passing a resolution stating its opposition to the construction of Interstate Highway 69 through Bloomington.

Business school earns top rankings

By Lori Geller · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 2:07 a.m.

Once again, the Kelley School of Business has been recognized as one of the top overall programs in the nation. In national rankings of business schools across the country, the Wall Street Journal and the Princeton Review selected the Kelley school, its programs and faculty, for outstanding excellence.

Architects plot paths around student needs, existing trails

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 2:07 a.m.

If the Indiana Memorial Union is perceived as the heart of campus, paved arteries and gravel veins carry IU students, faculty and staff -- the system's oxygen — to cell-like classrooms along the circulatory system of sidewalks. In fact, hundreds of miles of brick, limestone and concrete enable students and faculty numerous paths of travel on and around the capillaries of campus.

Female Palestinian suicide bomber kills 2 in Jerusalem

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 1:39 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian teenager blew herself up at a busy Jerusalem bus station Wednesday, killing two Israeli policemen who stopped her for a security check and wounding 16 bystanders in an attack that evaded Israel's clampdown on the West Bank for the Jewish holidays.

Convention timing gives Bush financial advantage over Kerry advantage

By Alyson Brodsy and Sharon Theimer · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 1:14 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry cut his campaign spending sharply last month in an effort to stretch $75 million in government funding, but he still started September with several million less than President George W. Bush. Bush's financial advantage heading into the campaign's final weeks stems from the GOP's decision to hold its presidential nominating convention a month later than the Democratic gathering.

GLBT parents find 'beacon'

By David A. Nosko · Thursday, Sept. 23,2004 1:14 a.m.

Diversity does not stop at gender, race, ethnicity and culture; diversity also includes the ability of all community members to feel safe and secure in their own neighborhood. Fortunately, the Bloomington Beacon Community Center is soon to open on East Third Street thanks to three rooms of space offered for rent by the Center for University Ministry.