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Iraq conflict takes different turn

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven R. Hurst · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 1:06 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents killed three U.S. soldiers with roadside bombs, the military reported Tuesday, and former Iraqi intelligence officers demanding jobs hurled stones and charged American forces guarding occupation headquarters in the capital.

'Beat' photographs go on tour

By Alyson Brodsy and Jennifer Kay · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 12:59 a.m.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Smoking on a fire escape, a railroad brakeman's rule book stuck in his jacket pocket, Jack Kerouac looks as though he just stepped from the pages of "On the Road." The image is seen in a 1953 photograph taken by fellow Beat writer Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg photographed the best minds of the Beat Generation in between bursts of creativity.

IU professor to appear in Monroe court

By Julia Balnford and Julia Blanford · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 2:13 a.m.

Near Eastern Languages & Culture professor Martha P. Vinson will appear in Monroe County court today on charges of criminal recklessness and resisting law enforcement. Judge Elizabeth Mann will preside in the Division IV courtroom.

Candidates crisscross state, allegations follow Schwarzenegger

By Alyson Brodsy and Erica Werner · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 2:12 a.m.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to maintain his momentum amid sexual-misconduct allegations while Gov. Gray Davis pleaded to keep his job Monday as the California recall candidates barnstormed the state in the final hours of the historic campaign.

Wonderlab combines science, sports for kids

By Tim Callahan · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 2:08 a.m.

As they jumped, stretched and learned, local Bloomington children interacted with the IU women's volleyball team Sunday afternoon at WonderLab, 308 W. 4th St., during the museum's "Science of Sport" activity.

IU earns marks in the classroom

By Cory Steger · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:48 a.m.

The NCAA coined the term "student-athlete" for college students who participated in varsity athletics to emphasize the point that they should be students first and athletes second. While this may not always be the case in other sports or at other schools, several of the IU women's soccer team members have received recognition for their work in the classroom. Last year, senior defender Carly Everett was named to the Verizon Academic All-Region team. Everett and senior defender Erin Hesselbach also earned Academic All Big Ten honors, along with senior goalkeeper Shaunna Daugherty, junior midfielder Kim Grodek, senior forward Shelly Gruszka, and senior midfielder Emily Hotz. Gruszka, Daugherty, Hesselbach and Hotz also earned Academic All Big Ten in 2001. Everett said student-athletes need to make sacrifices in order to keep up their studies.

IU study finds students smoking less

By Mallory Simon · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:47 a.m.

A survey by the Indiana Prevention Resource Center at IU found that Indiana adolescents are smoking less and using fewer drugs than in past years. This year's survey of 140,000 Indiana adolescents in grades 6-12 reports a decrease in tobacco usage since last year, continuing the current downward trend of tobacco usage. The exception to this finding was an increase in tobacco usage among sixth grade students.

Meet "new" people today

By Hisato Kawata · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

How are things at school?" your folks ask, wanting to know whether you are doing OK away from home. There are many things you can tell them about your new life on campus.

Students create neighborhood problems

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

An IDS staff editorial, published Wednesday, declared that the "Rental saga continues," and offered its view that "the Bloomington rental restriction is detrimental and unnecessary." This ignores obvious reasons for the important ordinance and therefore merits our response.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

Dan Gelok maintains ("Neither hating nor fearing homosexuals," Jordan River Forum, IDS, Sept. 30) that to settle the question of whether homosexual activity is immoral, one "simply" needs to determine whether it "is in contradiction to Biblical morality."

Saving lives the hard way

By Cameron Thibos · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:44 a.m.

There are more than 40,000 federal and state regulations controlling the average American cheeseburger, according to the book "Keeping the Republic" by IU professor Christine Barbour.

Living wage works

By Alyson Brodsy and Ursula McTaggart · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:43 a.m.

The IDS editorial board warned the city council against "thrusting its fingers into the pie of the Bloomington market" by passing a living wage resolution ("The price of living," Sept. 22).

The new-age nuclear family

By Elisha Sauers · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:43 a.m.

Thanks to the suffragettes and women's rights activists from yesteryear, today's women have greater concerns than tea etiquette and needlepoint. But caught up in the frenzy of equal rights and new-fangled freedoms, did they even stop once to think about the immense burden they would impose upon the future of womankind?

California's Judgment Day

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:42 a.m.

Today the nation waits on pins and needles as the results of the California recall are tabulated and released. This event, this ecstacy of the democratic process, this coming together of the greatest civic minds our country has to offer, will shape the way we understand government forever.

Around The Campus

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:40 a.m.

The Biology and Chemistry departments are hosting a career day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the atrium of Jordan Hall.

Target donates $55,000 to support IU programs

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:37 a.m.

Target Corporation presented a gift of $55,000 Sept. 30 to Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Dalton to support the Center for Education and Research in Retailing, undergraduate scholarships, MBA Fellowships and the Minorities in Business Program. Ha-Keem Abdel-Khaliq, College Relations representative at Target presented the gift at a reception held in the Graduate and Executive Education Center.

BrainOrbit secures future

By Lindsay Kaplan · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:36 a.m.

BrainOrbit, LLC was founded in spring 2002, by then 22-year-old MBA accounting student Justin Greis. The company was founded with the idea of helping clients with small-scale enterprise resource planning, creating CD-ROMs, Web sites, training and small business solutions.

Around The World

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:35 a.m.

GROZNY, Russia -- Chechnya's Kremlin-appointed leader was officially declared the winner Monday in a presidential election, a widely expected outcome after his main challengers withdrew or were removed from balloting condemned by critics as a sham but promoted by Moscow as a step toward peace.

Ballantine Hall chair to be decided

By Jess Huffman · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:34 a.m.

Members of the Ballantine Hall Committee are meeting today to elect a new chairman after former chairman Emanuel J. Mickel resigned from his position after a decade's worth of work. But the question of whom to appoint has been a cause for concern for some members.

Smoking policy hit and miss

By Colin Kearns · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:34 a.m.

One month after a University task force approved a new, on-campus smoking policy, students are still lighting up. But while the cigarette butts on the sidewalks haven't left, some say the number of smokers outside the entrances to campus buildings has decreased since the policy was issued.