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Culture spread through food

By Lee Cleary · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:20 a.m.

The room is set up similar to a cooking show, with a chef up front and chairs set up for the audience to observe. Moving quickly, she makes Mandalay, tossing brown noodles, chicken, vegetables into one skillet and tofu and bamboo shoots into another.

Jordan River Forum

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:17 a.m.

Memo to Patrice Worthy: leave the journalism to the journalists and the designing to the design students. Forgive me, but I fail to see the connection between your conclusion that "people in New York assume fashion is for the 30-and-over crowd" and the sentences that follow, which outline your contempt for networking in your Sept. 19 article, "Selling youth to old people."

Living together,learning apart

By J.P. Benitez and JP Benitez · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:10 a.m.

I suppose this'll make Eric Rasmusen shiver in his combat boots. Harvey Milk High School, our nation's first state-accredited and tax-payer funded school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, wants to ball up. According to the New York Daily News Monday, the school is petitioning to field teams in the Public Schools Athletic League as soon as September 2004 ... begging us to think.

Unionizing the graduates

By Brian McFillen · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:08 a.m.

This Friday, graduate students from the sociology department invited me and my political science colleagues to an Oct. 2 meeting at the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research. According to the flyer sent to the sociology departmental list-serv, its coordinators "have been discussing the idea of forming a graduate employee organization since this spring" because "as employees we lack a strong voice in the decisions that affect our wages, benefits and working conditions.

A true starving artist

By Elisha Sauers · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:07 a.m.

He hasn't eaten since Sept. 5. Not only does he literally dangle above the River Thames, but his life hangs by a thread as well. Every day, thousands come to watch as an American man suffers from starvation. They stare, not because David Blaine is the victim of a sadistic, ancient torture method; rather, they can't help but gawk at the sheer spectacle.

Same old scapegoat

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Sept. 30,2003 1:04 a.m.

Last February, many of the top people in college sports gathered for the Sportsmanship and Fan Behavioral Summit to discuss an all-too-common occurrence -- rioting among college students. The discussions were long and the results unsurprising. In the end, the NCAA pointed the finger at the usual suspect -- alcohol.

Around The Game

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:55 a.m.

The IU women's golf team posted a fifth place finish at the Lady Northern Invitational in Columbus, Ohio this weekend. The Hoosiers never moved out of the top five and have now placed fifth or better at the Lady Northern in 20 or their 21 tournament appearances.

Cubs win division championship

By Alyson Brodsy and Rick Gano · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:53 a.m.

CHICAGO -- Eric Karros' camcorder has been busy the last month, capturing the experience he says every player should have at least once -- a season in Chicago.

Black tennis pioneer Althea Gibson dies at 76

By Alyson Brodsy and Deepti Hajela · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:52 a.m.

Althea Gibson, a sports pioneer who broke the color barrier in tennis in the 1950s as the first black player to win Wimbledon and the U.S. national title, died Sunday. She was 76.

Hoosiers start conference season with upset

By Brian Janosch · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:51 a.m.

IU has opened the Big Ten portion of its schedule in a fashion not seen since 1997. After upsetting the No. 18-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers on Friday night in straight sets, the team carried their success over to Saturday with another straight-set win over Iowa to push their winning streak to five consecutive matches.

IU loses at home, wins on the road

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:50 a.m.

IU's field hockey team opened their Big Ten schedule in disappointing fashion, falling to 8th-ranked Michigan State 6-0 Friday night at the Mellencamp Pavilion.

Manning erupts for 6 touchdowns

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:48 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Peyton Manning visited his hometown Sunday night and humiliated his dad's old team. Manning became the first NFL quarterback in more than a decade to throw six touchdown passes, leading the Indianapolis Colts past the New Orleans Saints 55-21.

Hoosiers split games during home opener

By Cory Steger · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:45 a.m.

The Hoosiers earned a split in their home opening weekend, picking up their first Big Ten win of the season Friday night against No. 11 Ohio State.

Bad weather cancels game with IU leading

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:44 a.m.

Going into the weekend, the men's soccer team had one win in its past seven matches and was looking for its first Big Ten victory against Penn State. But the IU team (2-3-3, 0-0-1) did not get its wish Friday at Armstrong Stadium.

on the SIDELINES

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:43 a.m.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Michael Schumacher is the U.S. Grand Prix champion again. Now he has to wait two weeks for a chance at a record sixth Formula One title. Schumacher took the lead for good after his final pit stop with 25 laps remaining and pulled away to win the U.S. Grand Prix by 18.2 seconds over pole-sitter Kimi Raikkonen Sunday.

Special teams breakdown and LoVecchio interception spot Wolverines 14-0 lead

By John Rodgers · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:41 a.m.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Two plays were the difference. When the first quarter ended, IU trailed 14-0. But the Hoosiers' defense had shut out Michigan's offense with two drive-stopping interceptions.

Hoosiers pick up first victory of season on home course

By Charlie Cunningham and Charlie Gillingham · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:39 a.m.

The IU men's golf team picked up its first tournament victory of the season at the Hoosier Invitational this weekend. In a tournament that saw the Hoosiers set numerous records, junior Jeff Overton once again led the way for the Hoosiers with his second victory in as many weeks.

Binge drinking linked to genetics

By Chris Jesse · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:39 a.m.

A recent study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism finds that a link exists between binge drinking and an individual's genetics. But Dr. Paolo B. DePetrillo, co-author of the study, said atmosphere and environment are also important factors in binge drinking.

Somehow no one was happy

By Alex Hickey · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:37 a.m.

In all reality, I should be running through the Arboretum naked right now. That's the promise that I made, should IU have beaten the Wolverines at the Big House on Saturday. And if you looked at the faces of any Michigan fan leaving the game, you would have sworn they had just seen the demise of their team.

Students unhappy after peeping cases

By Brandon Morley , Brandon S Morley and Riaz Khan · Monday, Sept. 29,2003 2:34 a.m.

Two IU students who have reported a rash of peeping tom incidents are upset their landlord won't let them out of their lease after police advised they leave their off-campus apartment. Juniors Jami Bennett and Maria Long are living at Lincoln Hill Apartments, 544 S. Lincoln Ave. The two said they have reported a "peeping tom" outside of their living room window seven times since last September.