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Croom accepts Bulldogs' offer

By Alyson Brodsy and Ralph D. Russo · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:11 a.m.

STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State athletic director Larry Templeton hired Sylvester Croom because he believes the longtime NFL assistant can lead the troubled Bulldogs out of the Southeastern Conference cellar. In the process, Mississippi State made SEC history.

Coach teaches more than wrestling

By Colin Burns · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:10 a.m.

History shows that the Big Ten conference has a strong showing of past NCAA wrestling champions. This year, eight teams from the league are ranked in the top 25. Having a head coach that is not only familiar with the wrestling-tough conference but also was once part of it gives the IU wrestling team an added bonus.

All eyes and pressure will be on Adu

By Colin Nowling · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:10 a.m.

How young is too young for professional athletics? It is a question that has been pondered by many over recent decades -- particularly, recent years -- with the Maurice Clarett saga in college football. However, Clarett is five years senior to the latest professional American athlete, that being 14-year-old soccer phenom Freddy Adu, who will remain in the United States and play for Major League Soccer.

IUPD Blotter

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:08 a.m.

Nov. 23 • Non-student Martin Moylan, 18, resident of Des Plaines, Ill., was cited for drunk driving, illegal possession and possession of false identification at the corner of Sixth and Dunn Streets.

Regional universities build on-campus student housing

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:06 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS - Four campuses shared by IU and Purdue University are building apartment-style housing, offering students a place to live on campus at schools that were originally designed only for commuters. Housing for 2,220 students is under construction or planned at campuses in Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Hammond and South Bend. At least two other campuses -- IU Southeast in New Albany and Purdue North Central in Westville -- are considering similar projects.

Purdue takes first close-up photographs of West Nile virus

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Callahan · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:05 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The first high-resolution images of the West Nile virus reveal a tiny microorganism that looks something like a bumpy gum ball. The three-dimensional images obtained by Purdue University researchers give scientists their most detailed look yet at the virus and could help them design drugs to disarm it.

BFC discusses future of technology for IU students

By Brian Janosch · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:04 a.m.

Issues regarding the future expansion of Oncourse as well as IU's recent decision to purchase spam-fighting software were among the topics discussed at Tuesday's Bloomington Faculty Council meeting. Brad Wheeler, associate dean of teaching and learning technologies for University Information Technology Services, gave presentations on both of the internet-related topics. Speaking for the Distributed Education Committee, Wheeler updated the BFC on the current status of Oncourse and how it will evolve over the next couple of years.

Researchers 'visualize' their work with computers

By Ye Zhang · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1:02 a.m.

Sitting in his office at Swain West, Kai Cai, a post-graduate student in the IU Astronomy Department, watches what he calls a "movie" on his computer. On the screen, three red and green discs rotate counter clockwise. To anyone outside his research group, the movie appears to concern only the swirling disks.

IU makes big find in field of small science

By Obaid Khawaja · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 1 a.m.

Scientists at IU are taking conventional scientific theory and turning it on its head. IU scientists have found the metallic element gallium to be the only known substance that does not melt at a lower temperature when it is reduced in size, which goes against what was traditionally thought by science.

IUSA to inform about noise rules

By Mike McElroy · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:59 a.m.

The IU Student Association will give students a wake-up call regarding Bloomington's "Quiet Nights Initiative" starting next week and continuing through January. IUSA will hang fliers from the doors of off-campus student residences in hopes of informing them of their rights and obligations as Bloomington citizens. The campaign is part of an ongoing effort to further student-community relations, IU Student Body President Casey Cox said. "We want to protect students more than anything," Cox said. "I think part of protecting them is educating them about being citizens in the community."

The false language of choice

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:56 a.m.

The recent media attention to the "opt-out revolution" by working women, including the Nov. 20 IDS feature ("Home vs. work: more women embrace choice"), could easily lead one to believe that mothers are leaving the labor force in droves. The data suggest, however, that working mothers are here to stay. Furthermore, the emphasis on women's "choices" belies the paucity of options available to American parents.

Spin, Spin, Spin

By Adam Aasen · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:49 a.m.

The Helene G. Simon Hillel Center is trying to spin its way into history as leaders will attempt to break the Guinness record for most dreidels spun at the same time Sunday. The Center will have to spin 561 dreidels to break the record currently held by the University of Maryland. The event will take place at 1 p.m. in Alumni Hall of the Indiana Memorial Union and will last about 30 minutes. Andy Gitelson, program director at the Hillel Center, said members of the Hillel Center Student Leadership Council, thought of the event as a way to educate people on Hanukkah and raise spirits on campus.

'Coolest rooms' take top awards

By Matt Mattucci · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:49 a.m.

A rubber duck shower curtain drapes across their dorm room window, "My Little Pony" dolls are organized on a desk shelf and Care Bear posters, drawings and dolls are strewn across the room. The L-shaped bunk beds have matching comforters and sheets of rubber duckies and Care Bears. This room is not only the epitome of 1980s cartoons, but hours worth of hard work. "Nobody else has this stuff," said freshman Julia Cuzzupe, grand prize winner of the "Coolest Room Contest," sponsored by Residential Programs and Services. "We spent 10 to 15 hours total on the room, with an additional five hours the night before the judging."

Students prepare for Jewish holiday

By Matt Lahr · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:49 a.m.

As students returned to campus following Thanksgiving break, they were greeted by flickering lights, nativity scenes, Christmas trees and other holiday decorations throughout the area. To some students, such displays carry great religious importance and are an integral part of the holiday season.

Supermarket surrealism

By Bonnie Real · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:47 a.m.

The word "surreal" is one audacious adjective. It will hop right into your unsuspecting lexicon and attach itself to the most inappropriate of nouns. Before you know it, you'll find yourself pairing the word with any experience that ranges from slightly odd to extraordinarily bizarre. You'll find your chocolate milkshake tasting particularly surreal one day, or you'll see an utterly surreal episode of "Suddenly Susan" on TV.

Empty heads and church bingo

By Alyson Brodsy and Jake Rossman · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:44 a.m.

The state of Indiana has never been thought of as America's cradle of ideas. But at IU, we've created a slice of educational heaven. For four or more years, thousands of young adults from all over Indiana, the United States and the world, will call Bloomington their home. Diversity issues aside, more than anywhere else in Indiana, a cosmopolitan gathering shares this small town. Migrating like birds to gain the skills necessary for success in the winters of their futures, they will arrive for a time to nest in houses and dorms. These birds, however, are not seasonal, and most won't be coming back.

Software a 'pure' waste

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:39 a.m.

University Information Technology Services reports that the No. 1 complaint to their offices is about spam, or unwanted junk e-mail. UITS also reported that spam constitutes about 60 percent of messages that enter the University server.

Examining evolution of comic

By Paul Musgrave · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:38 a.m.

Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson was no fan of the newspaper comic strip industry. In a speech at Ohio State University in October 1989, Watterson called comics "simpler and dumber than ever." "The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward," Watterson said. "Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it."

Defense lets up in blowout loss

By Tyler Hoeppner and Tyler V. Hoeppner · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:20 a.m.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- After Saturday's win over Xavier, IU coach Mike Davis said his team was further along defensively than it was offensively. Apparently, he forgot to tell his team that. IU allowed Wake Forest to shoot 50.7 percent from the field, 56.3 percent in the first half, on its way to an embarrassing 100-67 defeat in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge Tuesday, moving IU's record to 2-2 on the season, and Wake Forest's to a perfect 4-0. "Like coach (Davis) said, we need to get a collective fight," senior guard A.J. Moye said. "Not four guys on one possession, three guys on one possession. It's got to be five guys on every possession. And when you get beat 10 possessions in a row, that's what happens. The lead expands. The lead expands, and you're left with that." In the second half, IU had no answer for the Deacons' Eric Williams. The sophomore center scored 14 of his team high 25 in the second half as Wake Forest extended its 22-point halftime lead to as much as 38 points. Moye, sophomore forward Sean Kline, and freshman forward Pat Ewing Jr. guarded Williams most of the game. It didn't help that IU's tallest player, 6-11 senior center George Leach, is out indefinitely with a knee injury.

Pentagon delays plans to acquire tankers

By Alyson Brodsy and Ken Guggenheim · Wednesday, Dec. 3,2003 12:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will delay plans to acquire 100 air refueling tankers from Boeing in light of a scandal at the aerospace giant that has led to the dismissal of two executives and the resignation of Chairman and CEO Phil Condit.