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'Cruise Control' to take off this fall

By Holly Davis · Wednesday, July 21,2004 9:20 p.m.

While many IU students are lounging around this summer, 15 volunteers have been working hard to bring a new breed of reality TV show to students this fall. IU Student Television will launch "Cruise Control" during the first week of school. Executive producer Jesse Wallace, a junior majoring in telecommunications, said he joined IUSTV in the fall as a studio director for news. Because IUSTV is expanding, he said he thought it would be "cool to have a show to see what's out there for the students."

Avril Lavigne tackles teendom

By Leslie Benson · Tuesday, July 20,2004 1:38 p.m.

If Buffy the Vampire Slayer gave up on vampires, turned her anger against love and formed a pop-punk band, she'd be Avril Lavigne.

'Butterfly Effect' unpredictable, undeniable

By Leslie Benson · Monday, July 19,2004 10:43 p.m.

Pretty boy Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore's sweetheart and goofball comic relief on "That '70s Show," gains respect as an actor with his role as Evan in "The Butterfly Effect," an edgy, emotional movie examining time travel ...

Police cite 22 minors at local bar

By Daria Kamalipour · Monday, July 19,2004 10:32 a.m.

Twenty-two underage drinkers were issued citations at Uncle Fester's and The Jungle Room early Thursday morning. Excise police and the IU Police Department were at the location to hand out the summonses.

9-11 report to be released Thursday

By Rami Chami · Sunday, July 18,2004 10:10 p.m.

The much-anticipated 9-11 Commission report is due to be released Thursday. The more than 500-page document will call for a major restructuring of the U.S. intelligence community through the creation of a Cabinet-level post which will oversee the nation's 15 intelligence gathering agencies. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and acting CIA Director John McLaughlin have expressed opposition to the creation of the new post, citing the move may further increase layered bureaucracy and detract from reform within the existing agencies.

Bubbles over Bloomington

By Brittany Terwilliger · Sunday, July 18,2004 10:10 p.m.

Bloomington residents of all ages flooded the Frank Southern Ice Arena Friday for the ninth annual Bubblefest, sponsored by Bloomington Parks and Recreation and Wonderlab. For $2, visitors received their own bubble wand and entry into a massive room with approximately 20 bubble stations. Each station explored a different method of bubble creation.

Changing the way we punish

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 18,2004 10:01 p.m.

A new collaborative study by IU's Center for Evaluation and Education Policy and the Indiana Youth Services Association, entitled "Children Left Behind," should serve as an eye-opener for the state and the nation when it comes to our public grade schools. The study found an alarming number of concerns, including an inherent discrepancy between keeping public schools safe and disturbance-free through disciplinary actions while making the best effort to educate all students.

Task force created to research college cost

By Nick Pittman · Sunday, July 18,2004 10:01 p.m.

With the increasing cost of higher education, Indiana students may find themselves continuing to struggle to find ways to pay for college. However, earlier this year, Gov. Joe Kernan took steps to address college affordability by recommending that public colleges and universities hold its tuition increases to no more than 4 percent and created a task force to make recommendations on the rising cost of tuition.

Martha Stewart sentenced to 5 months in jail

By Alyson Brodsy and Matt Apuzzo · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:53 p.m.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- The Danbury Federal Correctional Institution is only about 20 miles from Martha Stewart's home in Connecticut, but it will seem like a world away from her usual lifestyle. If Stewart loses her appeals, she will in all likelihood end up at the low-security prison that is home to 1,300 female inmates.

Indian families mourn school fire deaths

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:52 p.m.

KUMBAKONAM, India -- Parents of the dead went home, silently weeping. Others sat in the sun Saturday outside a hospital, hoping their children will survive burns they suffered in a school fire in southern India that killed 90 children. Many were the first in their families to go to school, escaping generations of illiteracy in this country, where one-third of more than 1 billion people still can't read or write.

Around The State

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:52 p.m.

Jury indicts 37 on charges of dealing drugs in 4 states EVANSVILLE -- A federal grand jury has indicted 37 alleged drug dealers from four states in what authorities have dubbed "Operation Hard Rock." The indictments and subsequent arrests cut off a major supply of cocaine, marijuana and heroin into southern Indiana from Chicago and Nashville, Tenn., Armand McClintock, the top Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Indiana, said during a news conference Friday.

Hostage crisis changes Philippines policy

By Alyson Brodsy and Paul Alexander · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:51 p.m.

MANILA, Philippines -- Two weeks ago, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was one of Washington's best friends. Angelo dela Cruz was toiling in anonymity 5,000 miles away, starting a dangerous drive into Iraq with a truckload of fuel. Then, with a rattle of gunfire, Iraqi insurgents hijacked both their lives, setting off a chain of events that has left Arroyo isolated and criticized by her closest allies even as dela Cruz, a poor father of eight, has emerged as an unlikely national icon.

Arafat rejects prime minister's resignation

By Alyson Brodsy and Lara Sukhtian · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:51 p.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Militants sacked and burned Palestinian government offices Sunday, the latest sign of growing anger over Yasser Arafat's decision to reach into his old guard and choose a loyalist relative as new security chief.

Canadian leader to select cabinet

By Sheeba Madan · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:50 p.m.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin will talk to opposition leaders this month to plan the course for the country's new minority government. The prime minister is expected to announce his cabinet appointments Tuesday. Led by Paul Martin, the Liberal Party formed a minority government in Canada after the results of general elections were announced June 29. This is the first minority administration in Canada in the last 25 years.

GOP candidate Daniels not writing off black vote

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:47 p.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Mitch Daniels is courting Indiana's black vote in his campaign for governor. Daniels' advertising airs on radio stations targeted to black listeners, and he makes campaign appearances at black churches. His latest television ad shows him with black students at an urban school that he helped found. All that might be expected if Daniels were a Democrat, but he isn't. Daniels -- formerly an Eli Lilly executive and budget director for President Bush -- is a Republican facing incumbent Gov. Joe Kernan, a Democrat.

County election heats up

By Amber Kerezman · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:47 p.m.

In the midst of the highly contested campaigns for November's presidential election, Monroe County voters are being subjected to a similar campaign locally. The race for Monroe County Commissioner brings 33-year-old Democratic rookie Mike Englert into the political picture, vying to unseat Republican incumbent Joyce Poling. As a first-time campaigner, Englert faces an uphill battle against the District 2 Commissioner, Poling, who has held the seat for 12 years.

New program to aid students with disabilities

By Joetta Hinton · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:41 p.m.

A program developed in the spring of 2003 to aid students with disabilities in reading will be available for students this fall. Last year, IU's Adaptive Learning Technology Center partnered with Bookshare.org, an online service with a library of pre-scanned books. According to University Information Technology Services there are a number of schools who have started using this program to better benefit students with disabilities in reading, such as visual impairments, dyslexia and learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder.

IU, Harmony Center to improve education

By Benjames Derrick and Benjamin Derrick · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:39 p.m.

IU's School of Education is teaming up with Harmony Education Center to help preschool through 12th grade students across America achieve a better education. "This (collaboration) is the clearinghouse for school reform," said School of Education Dean Geraldo M. Gonzalez. "It provides new and different training for initiating innovative processes."

Taking a stand

By Alyson Brodsy and Brian Adkins · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:37 p.m.

In his continuing effort to be all things to all voters, Sen. John Kerry recently tried to take both sides of the issue of abortion. In a July 4 interview in the Dubuque, Iowa, Telegraph Herald, Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, communicated his personal view that life begins at conception, but then said he does not want to force his religious beliefs onto others, so he supports a woman's right to choose. While this view may look OK on the surface, after further review, it is extremely flawed.

The mislabeled senator

By Alyson Brodsy and Tony Sams · Sunday, July 18,2004 9:36 p.m.

Each year, the National Journal, a non-partisan, weekly publication covering politics, policy and government, publishes an arbitrary list of the most conservative and liberal congressmen and senators. This year, the list is on citation overload. Much has been said and will continue to be said through the election about Sen. John Kerry's placement on the Journal's recent rankings as the most liberal senator in the U.S. Senate. What no one is saying, though, is how negligently this statistic has been cited.