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Detroit woman found dead in Bloomington

By Jessica Halverson · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 1:10 a.m.

Bloomington police are investigating the killing of a Detroit woman who was found dead in a West Side house Sunday evening. Police identified the woman as Shantay D. Elliott, 23. Police arrived at 911 N. Blair Ave. at about 9 p.m. Sunday. According to police reports, they were responding to a call from a family member to check on Elliott, from whom the relative hadn't heard in two or three days.

Brand writes letter to Nike

By Mary Sullivan · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 1:08 a.m.

Responding to a call to action from the Workers Rights Consortium, IU President Myles Brand wrote a letter to Nike Feb. 5, expressing concern that it might have violated its workers' rights at a Mexico factory. The independent labor rights monitoring group announced Jan. 25 that Kukdong International, a subcontractor for Nike, was violating fair labor practices. Kukdong produced logo apparel for many universities, including IU.

Spartans get their revenge

By Heater A. Dinich and Heather A. Dinich · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 1:04 a.m.

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Junior center Kirk Haston is the leading scorer in the Big Ten and the Hoosiers' go-to man. He's interim head coach Mike Davis' choice for Big Ten Player of the Year and one of the top post players in the conference. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo recruited Haston and called him the most improved player this season. But it takes more than one man to defeat No. 5 Michigan State, especially when he's playing with four fouls and held scoreless for the last 19 minutes of regulation.

Team signs 4 state player-of-the-year recruits

By Sarah Trotto · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:34 a.m.

Four high school seniors -- all players of the year in their respective states -- have signed letters of intent with the IU men's soccer team, coach Jerry Yeagley said.

Center's play hurts Hoosiers

By David Uchiyama · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:33 a.m.

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State freshman center Zach Randolph won the Class 4-A IHSAA state championship at Marion High School last year, but his friend, IU freshman forward Jared Jeffries, won the Mr. Basketball award. Apparently, that didn't sit well with Randolph. He banged, bruised and muscled his way to 14 points against Jeffries and the Hoosiers in Michigan State's 66-57 victory Tuesday.

Hoosiers survive Wildcat comeback

By Ira Klapper · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:29 a.m.

Tuesday's baseball game started the home season off with a bang for IU. On the first pitch of the first inning, redshirt freshman Mark Calkins drove a home run over the center field fence. "I just saw a good pitch and hit it well," Calkins said. "I wasn't trying to hit a home run. I was just trying to get on base."

When sports, death mix

By Alex Hickey · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:27 a.m.

People turn to sports to escape the trappings of everyday life. They tune in for drama that is not contrived or scripted. They tune in to see, as the old ABC Sports catch-line says, "the joy of victory and the agony of defeat."

Former standouts going pro

By Ryan Gunterman · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:24 a.m.

When women's soccer player Wendy Dillinger graduated from IU in 1998, she played in soccer leagues across the country and competed in Europe, but the hope of a professional soccer league in the U.S. was a distant hope. With the formation of the Women's United Soccer Association, Dillinger's hope is becoming a reality.

Congresswoman highlights health policies, black issues

By Kara Salge · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:13 a.m.

Julia Carson knew there was something wrong when she was running for the Indiana General Assembly. She had all the symptoms. It was her heart.

Sorority sponsors lecture about drunken driving

By Katie Mackey · Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:11 a.m.

One bad decision changed Mark Sterner's life forever. While on spring break with his best friends in Sanibel Island, Fla., during his senior year of college, Sterner changed the lives of countless people with one act of drunken driving. Sterner, who was charged with the deaths of three college fraternity brothers while drunk driving in 1994, spoke to the greek community at 8 p.m. Monday in Assembly Hall.

Around the Arts

Wednesday, Feb. 21,2001 12:07 a.m.

Classic filmmaker Stanley Kramer dies at age 87 Producer-director Stanley Kramer, whose nearly three dozen films included such classics as "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," "Judgment at Nuremberg" and "Inherit the Wind," died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills. He was 87 and had been ill with pneumonia.

Fuel, Buckcherry play powerfully

By Jason Gaddis · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 11:56 p.m.

\"Now this is an official rock and roll show," said Fuel lead singer Brett Scallions as he held up a bra. But to say that the show began there, during the three-song encore, would be incorrect. Fuel powered through an hour and a half, start to finish, with pure rock and roll Sunday at the Egyptian Room of the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis.

Commission gets arts council on track

By Joseph S. Pete · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 11:55 p.m.

Last September, Mayor John Fernandez appointed a study commission to help the Bloomington Area Arts Council out of its mounting debt. Renovation of the long-vacant Buskirk-Chumley Theater had put the council $1.1 million in the hole. Now, five months later, the study commission has finished its work, and the arts council is in better financial shape.

Recital features student violinist

By Kailash V. Murthi · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 11:52 p.m.

Demonstrating her dedication to music, senior and violinist Ju-young Kim performed last night at Recital Hall. "I started playing the violin at the age of 5 when my mother took me to a violin shop," Kim said. "At first I was uncomfortable with it, but then I started getting used to it and fell in love with the violin."

If you could fix these things, I'd vote for you

By James Boyd · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 11:28 p.m.

Well, the polls are just hours from closing, and it appears as though I'll lose my third straight run at the IU Student Association presidency. It's not much of a disappointment, though, considering I wasn't even running. Nevertheless, if I were president, I'd try my best to get some things done. This campus is plagued with many problems that even the IUSA can't tackle, but here are some issues that are worth fighting for.

Greek Generations

By Alyson Brodsy and Mike Reed · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 11:18 p.m.

The greek system at IU after the Great Depression reflected the attitudes and beliefs of the time: conservative, modest, with an emphasis on conformity. Fraternities and sororities played a bigger part in the university than they do now. Each era in the greek system has had its own particular beliefs, fashions and ideals, each different from one another. The contrast with today is especially marked, say some greeks, including sophomore Sarah Iba, president of Alpha Chi Omega.

Make the most of college

By Matt Csanyi · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 10:49 p.m.

I have a confession to make: I am not ready to leave college. I am the guy in the bar who's had a bit too much to drink and is not ready to leave at closing time. Myles Brand is the bouncer, clumsily trying to shove me in the back of the cab headed for the real world as I'm yelling there's no way I could've had that many drinks. Taverns prohibit people too young to drink; colleges prohibit young people overstaying their welcome and turning into old people. And so, as that one rock group said, "I believe it's time for me to fly."

Why I am on the opinion page

By Mark A. Price · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 10:47 p.m.

If opinion consisted solely of unique perspective, that would be the reason I'm here. For in no other way do I make any great effort to be contemporary. In fact, this column is relentlessly self-referential, a full-on blast of what I think.

Censorship should not be tolerated

Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 10:44 p.m.

According to Renee Cox, Jesus is a black, naked woman, and when she went to the last supper, she was flanked by 12 black apostles. At least, that is what her photograph "Yo' Mama's Last Supper," now being shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, conveys. Cox, a Catholic herself, has inspired plenty of controversy with her piece, especially now that New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani wants to take away her freedom to exhibit it, and the people's right to see it.

'Billy Elliot' sleeper hit of the year

By Kate Lewis · Tuesday, Feb. 20,2001 3:10 p.m.

Who would have thought a movie about a boy's love for ballet would turn out to be one of the best films of the year. The British sleeper hit "Billy Elliot" does just that.