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Dancing with an edge

By Claire Blaustein · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:37 a.m.

In the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Room 167, a heated basketball game is being played and the screech of sneakers on polished floors and yelling teammates is audible from the hall. Further down the hall, the ambient noise changes quite a bit. Looking in H169, you see girls donning heels instead of running shoes and boys practicing spins and back steps on the side of the court. It is a meeting of the IU Ballroom Dance Club.

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Monroe County jail may lose insurance

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:35 a.m.

BLOOMINGTON -- Monroe County's liability insurer has threatened to withdraw coverage for the county jail unless the county reduces crowding in the lockup and increases staffing by the year's end. St. Paul Property and Liability Insurance has told county commissioners it will not renew the jail's liability insurance for 2005 if the county fails to come up with detailed plans for changes at the jail. The jail's inmate population has surged from an average of about 175 a day to more than 250 in recent years. The jail is licensed to hold about 190 inmates. Budget overruns for meals and medical care have reduced the amount of money available for staff increases. While officials have discussed building a new jail or expanding the existing one, many favor creating a community corrections center that would house nonviolent offenders while leaving the jail to handle dangerous offenders.

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Another 'Hill' to climb

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:35 a.m.

I just had to pick the computer with the gi-normous screen, huh? Okay, maybe it's not that large. But I feel like I'm Web browsing on a Jumbotron when I try to secretly view BET's "College Hill" homepage. A click on smelly-guy Jabari's picture and I'm linked to last week's recap. It deals with equally infamous cast member Kinda. "Kinda fights the 'ho' label." I'm downright embarrassed to check out this site in public but can't help myself. In fact, I printed off the press release, read through some articles--everything but voted for "Cutest Cast Member." Here I am in the Neal-Marshall Black Cultural Center with a myriad of new books and a myriad of reasons to do something more productive than laugh at the ignorance of "television's first-ever Black dramatic reality show" -- but I'm chuckling nonetheless. A "College Hill" information blurb on BET's Web site describes the show as "Eight college co-eds; a popular Black college campus in the hot Louisiana sun; challenging class work …"

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Solving Racism: Part III

By Jack M. Silverstein and Jack Silverstein · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:34 a.m.

This is the third in a three-part series ow can we take the next step toward true equality? The next step begins with honesty. People have to feel comfortable expressing their racial and social feelings, because without honesty it is nearly impossible to change either the prejudice or the power, be it for individuals or institutions. As we saw during the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a mass shift in individuals' beliefs, backed up by an honest vocalization of those beliefs, can shift a country's popular collective belief. Thus, influencing the power of the major institutions. To take the next step, we, the individuals with little institutional power, have to push the individuals with lots of institutional power to believe what we believe. The upcoming presidential election is a good place to start. Find a candidate who reflects your views on racial and social equality, and vote for him.

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Notre Dame group seeks acceptance

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:34 a.m.

SOUTH BEND -- A fledgling group of gay students at Notre Dame University is seeking recognition as a student organization, despite the failure of similar campaigns over the past two decades. The group Unity in Diversity is intending to create a welcoming atmosphere for gay, lesbian or bisexual students and employees at the Roman Catholic school, said Joe Dickmann, a gay Notre Dame senior from St. Louis. Friday the group will file a request with the Office of Student Activities for recognition as a student organization, Dickmann said. The university has not received the request and had no comment, spokesman Dennis Brown said Wednesday. He said administrators would tell the group of the decision before any comment was made in public.

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Specialty hospital debated by council

By Lindsey Jancek and Lindsay Jancek · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:33 a.m.

A proposed development had Bloomington residents and physicians speaking out at Wednesday night's Committee of the Whole meeting. Controversy over 102 acres of land marked for development, including a for-profit specialty hospital, meant a jam-packed City Hall. Members of the Bloomington City Council met not to vote on legislation, but rather to let the two opposing sides, the Planning Department and Bloomington Hospital, present their case to the council concerning the petiton. The land, off West Tapp Road along Indiana State Road 37, is being proposed to be re-zoned into a mixture of office, commercial, industrial and medical buildings.

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After three bouts with Melanoma, tennis star returns to the courts

By Jeff Fuldauer · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:33 a.m.

For NCAA athletes, finding the time to fit anything in their schedules other than classes and practices can be the ultimate challenge. But for senior Karie Schlukebir, tennis has been her escape as she faces an opponent with much more than a serve-and-volley attack. The Kalamazoo, Mich., native first picked up a racquet when her mother, a tennis instructor, introduced her to the game. As a multisport athlete in high school, it was tennis that sent her to IU. But when she signed as a member of the Cream and Crimson, she had no idea tennis would act as her support group through her most difficult of times.

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Storytelling program not just for kids

By Nellie Summerfield · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:25 a.m.

Heartwarming tales tonight at the Monroe County Public Library will be the perfect start to a Valentine's Day weekend. "Wintertelling," a storytelling and music program, will take place from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The Bloomington Storytellers' Guild and the local singing duo Davis & Devitt will join to present a night full of entertainment co-sponsored by the Adult Services department of the library. The storytelling program is set up to entertain teenagers and adults, not just children.

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Fusion declares candidacy

By Mike McElroy · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:25 a.m.

The IU Student Association election season reached the two-week warning Wednesday night, and another party has entered the race. The Fusion ticket, headed by senior Dan Shapiro, announced its candidacy as the fourth and final party, which promises to fight for students' interests through communication and cooperation with IU's several hundred student groups.

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Interim dean to come from Kelley

By Dan Patrick · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:25 a.m.

The Kelley School of Business is now in the preliminary stages of forming a committee to find a new dean after last month's resignation of Dean Dan Dalton. While Dalton will step down as dean of the business school, he will remain with the University in a teaching capacity.

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'Proof' proves entertaining

By Jenica Schultz · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:24 a.m.

It may be surprising to hear that a play in which most of the main characters are mathematicians is fascinating, funny and highly entertaining, but David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning "Proof" is worthy of the national attention it has received. Although much of the drama in the play revolves around the discovery of a groundbreaking mathematical proof, the production is very much focused on the emotional well-being of its main character, Catherine, played by graduate student Allison Batty.

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Leading designers debut styles

By Mallory Zalkin · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:19 a.m.

NEW YORK CITY -- New York City was the place to see and be seen last week when the world's leading fashion designers premiered their fall 2004 collections. This began Friday, Feb. 6 and will end Friday, Feb. 13. This year, New York Fashion Week was sponsored by Olympus, a leading camera manufacturer, instead of Mercedes--Benz, who is keeping their sponsorship at L.A.'s Fashion Week. The turnover brought with it changes, as coordinators put an emphasis on photographers. This season Olympus introduced Stylus Digital, and the new E-1, the industry's first all-digital SLR camera system. The company gave photographers the chance to test out the camera during the runway shows. The semi-annual week-long extravaganza included exciting shows as well as a star-studded guest list. A-line models, celebrities and socialites congregated at the Bryant Park Tents to enjoy cocktails and get an exclusive view of next season's trends as they hit the runway for the first time.

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Community kitchen hosts local Valentine's show

By Sarah Kanter · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:18 a.m.

Al Cobine will lead his 15-piece big band in serenading Valentine's Day sweethearts tonight at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. The theater has been rented out by Bloomington's Community Kitchen, a local organization which has been feeding Monroe County's hungry since 1983. Proceeds from the benefit concert will largely go to the Community Kitchen, whose funding comes mostly from private donations. The concert is a first as a Community Kitchen fundraising event, due to a generous donation given by Rosanna Lester, marketing director for CFC, Inc., a local real estate developer. Lester won the use of the theater for one night in a raffle contest and donated the night to the Community Kitchen, a nearly $600 value. "Al Cobine is such a legend, the romantic jazz music will be superbly done," said Community Kitchen board member Margaret Radke.

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Another Bruckner success

By Adam Sedia · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12:11 a.m.

The IU School of Music is really shooting to impress the concert-goer by staging its second Bruckner symphony this season. Two Bruckner symphonies in one season make for quite an impressive undertaking worthy of professional orchestras. Those who were impressed by the performance in September ought to have been simply floored by Sunday night's performance. There is only one word that can truly capture the scope of this symphony -- massive. Not only did the performance last a good 80 minutes, but the size of the orchestra and variety of instrumentation was much larger than normal, even for Bruckner. The Austrian-born Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was heavily influenced by his career as a church organist as well as by Wagner's operas when he wrote his nine symphonies. The broadness and heaviness of this 1887 symphony owe much to both influences.

Connick goes classic... again

By Holly Johnson and Holy Johnson · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12 a.m.

It's been a year since Harry Connick Jr. released Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Vol. 1 on the Marsalis Music label, and on his latest offering, Only You, the supper-club crooner sticks to what he does best: covering the great standards of bygone days without really offering any original material. It's not that Connick couldn't one day emerge as a creative songwriter; he just knows what he's good at, and that happens to be wrapping his rich contrabass around the good stuff Sinatra and Noble wrote decades ago.

'Barbershop 2 Soundtrack' is in 'Business'

By -Brandon Tucker · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12 a.m.

Ah, the sequel. So many just don't live up to the hype anymore. So many are aimed at the almighty Benjamins. So many are disappointing. From this perspective, the Barbershop 2: Back in Business Soundtrack is a successful step up from the original.

'Crow' unlikely to 'Murder' Incubus' career

By Jessica Smith · Thursday, Feb. 12,2004 12 a.m.

A rollercoaster ride -- you strap yourself in, hoping for the best ride of your life. Holding your breath, it's a little slow up that first hill. You finally hit the top, let go of all sensible thoughts concerning space or time, the adrenaline kicks in and that crazy rush fills your body. Before you know what happened, you breathlessly reach the end. Amazing.

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